pmsearch(1) — Linux manual page

PMSEARCH(1)              General Commands Manual              PMSEARCH(1)

NAME         top

       pmsearch - help text and names search for metrics, instances and
       instance domains

SYNOPSIS         top

       pmsearch [-CdinqsStTV?]  [-c config] [-h host] [-p port] [-N
       number] [-O offset] [query | indom]

DESCRIPTION         top

       pmsearch performs full text search queries to find metrics using
       names and help text from metrics, instance domains and instances.

       It makes use of capabilities of the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
       pmproxy(1) service, the Valkey distributed key-value store and
       associated ValkeySearch module.

       Note that in order to use these services, it is mandatory that
       pmproxy is communicating with a Valkey key-value server that has
       the valkey-search.so module loaded.  When configured to do so,
       pmproxy will then automatically index PCP metric names, instance
       names, metric and instance domain help text into the ValkeySearch
       store, from PCP archives that it discovers locally.  Refer to
       pmlogger(1) and pmlogger_daily(1) for further details.

       By default pmsearch communicates with a local key-value server
       however the -h and -p options can be used to specify an alternate
       Valket instance.  If this instance is a node of a Valkey cluster,
       all other instances in the cluster will be discovered and used
       automatically.

OPTIONS         top

       -c config, --config=config
            Specify the config file to use.

       -C, --no-colour
            No highlighting in results text.

       -d, --docid
            Report document ID of each search result.  Documents are
            identified using a unique SHA-1 hash which is always
            displayed in a 40-hexdigit human readable form.

       -h host, --host=host
            Connect to the key-value server at host, rather than the one
            the localhost.

       -i, --info
            Report search engine internal metrics.

       -n, --indom
            Perform an instance domain related entities search

       -N N, --number=N
            Return N, search results at most.

       -O N, --offset=N
            Paginated results from given offset.

       -p port, --port=port
            Connect to the key-value server at port, rather than the
            default 6379.

       -q, --query
            Perform a general text search (default).

       -s, --suggest
            Perform a name suggestion search

       -S, --score
            Report score (rank) of each result.

       -T, --total
            Report total number of of search results.

       -t, --times
            Report elapsed search execution time.

       -V, --version
            Display version number and exit.

       -?, --help
            Display usage message and exit.

EXAMPLES         top

         $ pmsearch kernel idle
         Type: metric
         Name: kernel.all.cpu.idle
         One line: total idle CPU time from /proc/stat for all CPUs

         Type: metric
         Name: kernel.all.idletime
         One line: time the current kernel has been idle since boot

         Type: metric
         Name: kernel.percpu.cpu.idle
         InDom: 60.0
         One line: percpu idle CPU time metric from /proc/stat

PCP ENVIRONMENT         top

       Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameter‐
       ize the file and directory names used by PCP.  On each installa‐
       tion, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these
       variables.  The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an al‐
       ternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).

       For environment variables affecting PCP tools, see
       pmGetOptions(3).

SEE ALSO         top

       PCPIntro(1), pmproxy(1), pmlogger(1) and pmlogger_daily(1).

COLOPHON         top

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Pages that refer to this page: pmsearchinfo(3),  pmsearchsetup(3),  pmsearchtextindom(3),  pmsearchtextquery(3),  pmsearchtextsuggest(3),  pmwebapi(3)

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