nbdkit-stats-filter(1)

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version 1.48.1 · 12 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ nbdkit-stats-filter ✨

okay bestie, so this one lives in the NBDKIT manual and it's literally the girl who keeps receipts on everything your NBD server does 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

nbdkit-stats-filter — display statistics about operations 📊

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

nbdkit --filter=stats PLUGIN statsfile=FILE
                      [statsappend=true] [statsthreshold=PERCENTILE]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

nbdkit-stats-filter is a filter that displays statistics about NBD operations, such as the number of bytes read and written. Statistics are written to a file once when nbdkit exits. so like, it's not spammy, it just drops the receipts on the way out 🫶

A lighter weight version of this is nbdkit-count-filter(1) — she's the low-cal option, no cap.

🔥 EXAMPLE OUTPUT 🔥

okay so this is what it actually looks like when she's done cooking:

# nbdkit --filter=exitlast --filter=stats memory 25G statsfile=example.txt
# nbd-client localhost /dev/nbd1 && mkfs.ext4 /dev/nbd1 && sync &&
  nbd-client -d /dev/nbd1
[....]
# cat example.txt
total: 191 ops, 21.917545 s, 25.13 GiB, 1.15 GiB/s
read: 136 ops, 0.000230 s, 3.16 MiB, 13.43 GiB/s op, 147.83 KiB/s total
  Request size and alignment breakdown:
    12 bits: 68.4% (93 reqs, 372.00 KiB total)
         12 bit aligned: 100.0% (93)
         13 bit aligned:  72.0% (67)
         14 bit aligned:  55.9% (52)
         15 bit aligned:  48.4% (45)
         16 bit aligned:  43.0% (40)
    14 bits: 10.3% (14 reqs, 296.00 KiB total)
         12 bit aligned: 100.0% (14)
         13 bit aligned:  35.7% (5)
         19 bit aligned:  21.4% (3)
[....]
    other sizes:  3.7% (5 reqs, 3.16 MiB total)

write: 36 ops, 0.125460 s, 132.38 MiB, 1.03 GiB/s op, 6.04 MiB/s total
  Request size and alignment breakdown:
    12 bits: 50.0% (18 reqs, 72.00 KiB total)
         12 bit aligned: 100.0% (18)
         13 bit aligned:  77.8% (14)
         27 bit aligned:  72.2% (13)
         31 bit aligned:  66.7% (12)
         32 bit aligned:  33.3% (6)
         33 bit aligned:  22.2% (4)
         34 bit aligned:  11.1% (2)
    14 bits: 30.6% (11 reqs, 224.00 KiB total)
         12 bit aligned: 100.0% (11)
         27 bit aligned:  90.9% (10)
    25 bits: 11.1% (4 reqs, 128.00 MiB total)
         25 bit aligned: 100.0% (4)
         26 bit aligned:  50.0% (2)
         27 bit aligned:  25.0% (1)
    16 bits:  2.8% (1 reqs, 64.00 KiB total)
         16 bit aligned: 100.0% (1)

trim: 14 ops, 0.002687 s, 25.00 GiB, 9304.06 GiB/s op, 1.14 GiB/s total
  Request size and alignment breakdown:
    31 bits: 85.7% (12 reqs, 24.00 GiB total)
         24 bit aligned: 100.0% (12)
    24 bits:  7.1% (1 reqs, 16.00 MiB total)

flush: 5 ops, 0.000002 s, 0 bytes, 0 bytes/s op, 0 bytes/s total

the way she breaks down alignment like that... iconic 🌈

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

  • statsfile=FILE — the file where we write the stats 💾
this parameter is required — no statsfile, no stats, she's not doing charity work fr fr.
  • statsappend=true — if set then we append to the file instead of replacing it 📎 (so your old receipts survive, cute).
  • statsthreshold=PERCENTILE — if non-zero, track request size and alignment distribution and print histogram 📈

Requests are grouped by the number of bits that are needed to represent the request size (e.g. a request of size 3892 needs will be grouped with all requests of size 2^11=2048 to 2^12-1=4095), and the number of trailing zero bits in the offset.

Histogram output is truncated to PERCENTILE of requests. Default: 95.

🧚 FILES 🧚

  • $filterdir/nbdkit-stats-filter.so — the filter 🫧

Use nbdkit --dump-config to find the location of $filterdir.

⭐ VERSION ⭐

nbdkit-stats-filter first appeared in nbdkit 1.14. so she's been serving since way back, periodt 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

nbdkit(1), nbdkit-filter(3), nbdkit-count-filter(1), nbdkit-log-filter(1).

iykyk, go read the whole friend group 🌸

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Richard W.M. Jones

Nikolaus Rath

Copyright Red Hat

🌈 LICENSE 🌈

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  • Neither the name of Red Hat nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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like yes the legal bit is a whole essay but bestie it's giving required reading, don't skip it 😭

and that's the whole page!! this was nbdkit-1.48.1, dated 2026-08-29 🦋 thanks for reading to the end, you ate that fr fr 💖✨

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