mtop

mtop: top for Memcached.

Features

• Display real-time statistics about your memcached servers such as
  • Memory usage/limit
  • Current/max connections
  • Hit ratio
  • Gets/Sets/Evictions
  • Bytes transmitted and received
  • Server CPU usage
• Support for monitoring multiple servers: mtop example1:11211 example2:11211 example3:11211

Install

There are multiple ways to install mtop listed below.

Binaries

TBD

Cargo

mtop along with its dependencies can be downloaded and built from source using the Rust cargo tool. Note that this requires you have a Rust toolchain installed.

To install:

cargo install mtop

To install as a completely static binary (Linux only):

cargo install --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl mtop 

To uninstall:

cargo uninstall mtop

Source

mtop along with its dependencies can be built from the latest sources on Github using the Rust cargo tool. Note that this requires you have Git and a Rust toolchain installed.

Get the sources:

git clone https://github.com/56quarters/mtop.git && cd mtop

Build a binary:

cargo build --release
./target/release/mtop --help

Build a completely static binary (Linux only):

cargo build --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl --release
./target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/mtop --help

These binaries should then be copied on to your $PATH.

Usage

mtop takes one or more Memcached host:port combinations as arguments. Statistics from each of these servers will be collected approximately once a second. A maximum of ten measurements from each server will be kept in memory to use for computations.

If mtop is not able to connect to the servers when starting, it will exit after printing an error message. If mtop is not able to connect to servers or fetch statistics from them after starting, the errors will be logged to a file. The location of this file is /tmp/mtop/mtop.log on Unix-like systems. This log file is truncated every time mtop starts.

Some examples of invoking mtop are given below.

Connecting to a local server

mtop localhost:11211

Connecting to multiple servers

mtop cache01.example.com:11211 cache02.example.com:11211 cache03.example.com:11211

Connecting to a port-forwarded Kubernetes pod

kubectl port-forward --namespace=example memcached-0 11211:11211
mtop localhost:11211

Limitations

No TLS connections

mtop currently only supports plain-text (unencrypted) connections to servers. TLS support may be added in a future version.

No historical data

mtop displays instantaneous statistics or an average over the last 10 seconds (depending on the particular statistic). It does not persist statistics anywhere for historical analysis. If this is something you need, use the memcached_exporter for Prometheus.

License

mtop is available under the terms of the GPL, version 3.

Contribution

Any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you shall be licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.