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ZRAM

ZRAM

Plugin: proc.plugin Module: /sys/block/zram

Overview

zRAM, or compressed RAM, is a block device that uses a portion of your system’s RAM as a block device. The data written to this block device is compressed and stored in memory.

The collectors provides information about the operation and the effectiveness of zRAM on your system.

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn’t support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

There is no configuration file.

Options

There are no configuration options.

Examples

There are no configuration examples.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per zram device

Labels:

Label Description
device TBD

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
mem.zram_usage compressed, metadata MiB
mem.zram_savings savings, original MiB
mem.zram_ratio ratio ratio
mem.zram_efficiency percent percentage

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

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