gosd

gosd is a Go Runtime stats exporter into Stackdriver.

gosd can monitor these stats to better understand the overall health and performance of Go programs.

Monitored Stats

• runtime.NumGoroutine
• runtime.NumCgoCall
• runtime.ReadMemStats

Setting up authentication

To run the library, you must first set up authentication by creating a service account and setting an environment variable.

Create service account with write acccess for Monitoring, download the key and set this environment variable:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="[PATH]"

Note: you may skip this step if you are running your Go application on GCP and it has access to Stackdriver Monitoring API.

Usage

import "github.com/plutov/gosd"

func main() {
	// This goroutine will send stats on your behalf
	go gosd.Run(gosd.Config{
		ProjectID: "PROJECT_ID",
		Logger:    os.Stdout,
		Labels:    map[string]string{"app": "my-web-app"},
	})
}

Stackdriver Metrics

In Stackdriver go to Resources -> Metrics Explorer and find these metrics:

• custom.googleapis.com/gosd/goroutines
• custom.googleapis.com/gosd/cgocalls
• custom.googleapis.com/gosd/mstats/*

Memory Consumption

gosd adds around 5Mi to your program memory usage.

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