Commit e449a6c0 authored by Yorick Peterse's avatar Yorick Peterse

Added documentation on how to instrument methods

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# Instrumenting Ruby Code # Instrumenting Ruby Code
GitLab Performance Monitoring allows instrumenting of custom blocks of Ruby GitLab Performance Monitoring allows instrumenting of both methods and custom
code. This can be used to measure the time spent in a specific part of a larger blocks of Ruby code. Method instrumentation is the primary form of
chunk of code. The resulting data is stored as a field in the transaction that instrumentation with block-based instrumentation only being used when we want to
executed the block. drill down to specific regions of code within a method.
To start measuring a block of Ruby code you should use `Gitlab::Metrics.measure` ## Instrumenting Methods
and give it a name:
Instrumenting methods is done by using the `Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation`
module. This module offers a few different methods that can be used to
instrument code:
* `instrument_method`: instruments a single class method.
* `instrument_instance_method`: instruments a single instance method.
* `instrument_class_hierarchy`: given a Class this method will recursively
instrument all sub-classes (both class and instance methods).
* `instrument_methods`: instruments all public class methods of a Module.
* `instrument_instance_methods`: instruments all public instance methods of a
Module.
To remove the need for typing the full `Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation`
namespace you can use the `configure` class method. This method simply yields
the supplied block while passing `Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation` as its
argument. An example:
```
Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation.configure do |conf|
conf.instrument_method(Foo, :bar)
conf.instrument_method(Foo, :baz)
end
```
Using this method is in general preferred over directly calling the various
instrumentation methods.
Method instrumentation should be added in the initializer
`config/initializers/metrics.rb`.
### Examples
Instrumenting a single method:
```
Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation.configure do |conf|
conf.instrument_method(User, :find_by)
end
```
Instrumenting an entire class hierarchy:
```
Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation.configure do |conf|
conf.instrument_class_hierarchy(ActiveRecord::Base)
end
```
Instrumenting all public class methods:
```
Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation.configure do |conf|
conf.instrument_methods(User)
end
```
### Checking Instrumented Methods
The easiest way to check if a method has been instrumented is to check its
source location. For example:
```
method = Rugged::TagCollection.instance_method(:[])
method.source_location
```
If the source location points to `lib/gitlab/metrics/instrumentation.rb` you
know the method has been instrumented.
If you're using Pry you can use the `$` command to display the source code of a
method (along with its source location), this is easier than running the above
Ruby code. In case of the above snippet you'd run the following:
```
$ Rugged::TagCollection#[]
```
This will print out something along the lines of:
```
From: /path/to/your/gitlab/lib/gitlab/metrics/instrumentation.rb @ line 148:
Owner: #<Module:0x0055f0865c6d50>
Visibility: public
Number of lines: 21
def #{name}(#{args_signature})
trans = Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation.transaction
if trans
start = Time.now
retval = super
duration = (Time.now - start) * 1000.0
if duration >= Gitlab::Metrics.method_call_threshold
trans.increment(:method_duration, duration)
trans.add_metric(Gitlab::Metrics::Instrumentation::SERIES,
{ duration: duration },
method: #{label.inspect})
end
retval
else
super
end
end
```
## Instrumenting Ruby Blocks
Measuring blocks of Ruby code is done by calling `Gitlab::Metrics.measure` and
passing it a block. For example:
```ruby ```ruby
Gitlab::Metrics.measure(:foo) do Gitlab::Metrics.measure(:foo) do
...@@ -14,6 +127,10 @@ Gitlab::Metrics.measure(:foo) do ...@@ -14,6 +127,10 @@ Gitlab::Metrics.measure(:foo) do
end end
``` ```
The block is executed and the execution time is stored as a set of fields in the
currently running transaction. If no transaction is present the block is yielded
without measuring anything.
3 values are measured for a block: 3 values are measured for a block:
1. The real time elapsed, stored in NAME_real_time. 1. The real time elapsed, stored in NAME_real_time.
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