Fastcapa Counters Output
When running the Fastcapa probe, some basic counters are output to stdout. During normal operation these values are much larger.
------ in ------ --- queued --- ----- out ----- ---- drops ----
[nic] 8 - - -
[rx] 8 0 8 0
[tx] 8 0 8 0
[kaf] 8 1 7 0
-
[nic] + in
: The Ethernet device is reporting that it has seen eight packets. -
[rx] + in
: The receive workers have consumed eight packets from the device. -
[rx] + out
: The receive workers have enqueued 8 packets onto the transmission rings. -
[rx] + drops
: If the transmission rings become full, it prevents receive workers from enqueuing additional packets. The excess packets are dropped. This value never decreases. -
[tx] + in
: The transmission workers consumed 8 packets. -
[tx] + out
: The transmission workers packaged 8 packets into Kafka messages. -
[tx] + drops
: If the Kafka client library accepted fewer packets than expected. This value might change as additional packets are acknowledged by the Kafka client library -
[kaf] + in
: The Kafka client library received 8 packets. -
[kaf] + out
: A total of 7 packets successfully reached Kafka. -
[kaf] + queued
: There is 1 packet within therdkafka
queue