PowerMax Metrics

Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) for Observability PowerMax Metrics

This section outlines the metrics collected by the Container Storage Modules (CSM) Observability module for PowerMax. The Grafana reference dashboards for PowerMax metrics can be uploaded to your Grafana instance.

Prerequisites

  • Unisphere user credentials must have PERF_MONITOR permissions.
  • Ensure time synchronization for Kubernetes cluster and PowerMax Unisphere by using Network Time Protocol (NTP).

I/O Performance Metrics

Storage system I/O performance metrics (IOPS, bandwidth, latency) are available by default and broken down by storage group and volume.

To disable these metrics, set the performanceMetricsEnabled field under karaviMetricsPowerMax to false in helm/values.yaml.

The following I/O performance metrics are available from the OpenTelemetry collector endpoint. Please see the CSM for Observability for more information on deploying and configuring the OpenTelemetry collector.

Metric Description
powermax_storage_group_read_bw_megabytes_per_second The storage group read bandwidth (MB/s)
powermax_storage_group_write_bw_megabytes_per_second The storage group write bandwidth (MB/s)
powermax_storage_group_read_latency_milliseconds The time (in ms) to complete read operations within PowerMax system by the storage group
powermax_storage_group_write_latency_milliseconds The time (in ms) to complete write operations within PowerMax system by the storage group
powermax_storage_group_read_iops_per_second The number of read operations performed by a storage group (per second)
powermax_storage_group_write_iops_per_second The number of write operations performed by a storage group (per second)
powermax_storage_group_average_io_size_megabytes_per_second The storage group average IO sizes (MB/s)
powermax_volume_read_bw_megabytes_per_second The volume read bandwidth (MB/s)
powermax_volume_write_bw_megabytes_per_second The volume write bandwidth (MB/s)
powermax_volume_read_latency_milliseconds The time (in ms) to complete read operations to a volume
powermax_volume_write_latency_milliseconds The time (in ms) to complete write operations to a volume
powermax_volume_read_iops_per_second The number of read operations performed against a volume (per second)
powermax_volume_write_iops_per_second The number of write operations performed against a volume (per second)

Storage Capacity Metrics

Provides visibility into the total, used, and available capacity for a storage class and associated underlying storage construct.

To disable these metrics, set the capacityMetricsEnabled field under karaviMetricsPowerMax to false in helm/values.yaml.

The following storage capacity metrics are available from the OpenTelemetry collector endpoint. Please see the CSM for Observability for more information on deploying and configuring the OpenTelemetry collector.

Metric Description
powermax_storage_class_total_capacity_gigabytes Total capacity for a given storage class (GB)
powermax_storage_class_used_capacity_gigabytes Total used capacity for a given storage class (GB)
powermax_storage_class_used_capacity_percentage Used capacity of a storage class in percent
powermax_array_total_capacity_gigabytes Total capacity on a given array managed by CSI driver (GB)
powermax_array_used_capacity_gigabytes Total used capacity on a given array managed by CSI driver (GB)
powermax_array_used_capacity_percentage Total used capacity on a given array managed by CSI driver in percent
powermax_storage_group_total_capacity_gigabytes Total capacity for a given storage group (GB)
powermax_storage_group_used_capacity_gigabytes Total used capacity for a given storage group (GB)
powermax_storage_group_used_capacity_percentage Used capacity of a storage group in percent
powermax_srp_total_capacity_gigabytes Total capacity of the storage resource pool in GB managed by CSI driver
powermax_srp_used_capacity_gigabytes Used capacity of a storage resource pool in GB managed by CSI driver
powermax_srp_used_capacity_percentage Used capacity of a storage resource pool in percent
powermax_volume_total_capacity_gigabytes Total capacity of the volume in GB
powermax_volume_used_capacity_gigabytes Used capacity of a volume in GB
powermax_volume_used_capacity_percentage Used capacity of a volume in percent