mc admin scanner trace

Description

The mc admin scanner trace command displays scanner-specific API operations occurring on the target MinIO deployment.

The following example returns a list of API operations related to the scanner on the myminio deployment.

mc admin scanner trace myminio

The command has the following syntax:

mc admin scanner trace ALIAS
                       [--filter-request]            \
                       [--filter-response]           \
                       [--filter-size <value>]       \
                       [--funcname <value>]          \
                       [--node <value>]              \
                       [--path <value>]              \
                       [--response-duration <value>] \
                       [--verbose, -v]
  • Brackets [] indicate optional parameters.
  • Parameters sharing a line are mutually dependent.
  • Parameters separated using the pipe | operator are mutually exclusive.

Copy the example to a text editor and modify as-needed before running the command in the terminal/shell.

Parameters

ALIAS

mc-cmd

Required

The alias of the MinIO deployment for which to display scanner API operations.

--filter-request

mc-cmd

Optional

Trace scanner operations or calls with request size greater than the specified --filter-size value.

Must be used with --filter-size flag.

--filter-response

mc-cmd

Optional

Trace scanner operations or calls with response size greater than the specified --filter-size value.

Must be used with --filter-size flag.

--filter-size

mc-cmd

Optional

Filter output to request sizes or response sizes greater than the specified size.

Must be used with either --filter-request or --filter-response flag.

Valid units include:

SuffixUnit Size
kKB (Kilobyte, 1000 Bytes)
mMB (Megabyte, 1000 Kilobytes)
gGB (Gigabyte, 1000 Megabytes)
tTB (Terrabyte, 1000 Gigabytes)
kiKiB (Kibibyte, 1024 Bites)
miMiB (Mebibyte, 1024 Kibibytes)
giGiB (Gibibyte, 1024 Mebibytes)
tiTiB (Tebibyte, 1024 Gibibytes)
--funcname

mc-cmd

Optional

Returns calls for the entered function name.

--node

mc-cmd

Optional

Returns calls for the specified server.

--path

mc-cmd

Optional

Returns calls for the specified path.

--response-duration

mc-cmd

Optional

Trace calls with response duration greater than the specified value.

--verbose, -v

mc-cmd

Optional

Returns verbose output.

Global Flags

This command supports any of the global flags.

Examples

Monitor all scanner API operations

Use mc admin scanner trace to monitor scanner API operations on the MinIO deployment at the alias myminio:

mc admin scanner trace myminio

Show scanner trace for a specific path

Use mc admin scanner trace to monitor API operations for a the path my-bucket/my-prefix/* on the deployment at the myminio alias:

 mc admin scanner trace --path my-bucket/my-prefix/* myminio

Show scanner API operations for the scanObject function

Monitor scanner activity for the scanObject function on the myminio deployment:

mc admin scanner trace --funcname=scanner.ScanObject myminio

Show scanner operation requests greater than 1MB in size

Use mc admin scanner trace to monitor requests larger than a 1MB on the myminio deployment:

mc admin scanner trace --filter-request --filter-size 1MB myminio

Show scanner operation responses greater than 1MB in size

Use mc admin scanner trace to monitor large response sizes:

 mc admin scanner trace --filter-response --filter-size 1MB myminio

Show scanner operations that last longer than five milliseconds

Use mc admin scanner trace to monitor long operations:

 mc admin scanner trace --response-duration 5ms myminio
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