Service Fabric Process Monitoring

Question

I have hosted microservices and background processes (stateless) on the service fabric cluster of 5 nodes.

The query is specific to the process monitoring - as the single node could have multiple processes running and you get the aggregate monitoring metrics. I would like to get the metrics specific to the processes rather than aggregated. Below is the example - which gives the processes running on each node and % specific to it.

Example 1 Node 1 Process 1 process% 2 Node 1 Process 2 process% 3.Node 2 Process 1 process%

One of the approach to run one process- watcher to monitor these jobs, any other approach or out of box feature to get these details? Thanks much

Answer 1

If the services are running in Exclusive process mode, they map to a single process on each machine: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-hosting-model#exclusive-process-model. In this case using Performance counters if Windows or top on Linux to monitor the process that hosts the service would be an option. To get the process name of a specific instance/replica using this Service Fabric api: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/servicefabric/sfclient-model-codepackageentrypoint

Answer 2

You can collect performance metrics for specific processes and view them in perfmon or export them to Log Analytics or another tool to aggregate all your diagnostics.

The link above shows these two examples for processes in the .NET quickstart app

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