cephfs-top(8)

CEPHFS-TOP(8) Ceph CEPHFS-TOP(8)

NAME

cephfs-top - Ceph Filesystem Top Utility

SYNOPSIS

cephfs-top [flags]

DESCRIPTION

cephfs-top provides top(1) like functionality for Ceph Filesystem. Various client metrics are displayed and updated in realtime.

Ceph Metadata Servers periodically send client metrics to Ceph Manager. Stats plugin in Ceph Manager provides an interface to fetch these metrics.

OPTIONS

--cluster
Cluster: Ceph cluster to connect. Defaults to ceph.

--id
Id: Client used to connect to Ceph cluster. Defaults to fstop.

--selftest
Perform a selftest. This mode performs a sanity check of stats module.

--conffile [CONFFILE]
Path to cluster configuration file

-d [DELAY], --delay [DELAY]
Refresh interval in seconds (default: 1)

--dump
Dump the metrics to stdout

--dumpfs <fs_name>
Dump the metrics of the given filesystem to stdout

DESCRIPTIONS OF FIELDS

chit
cap hit rate

dlease
dentry lease rate

ofiles
number of opened files

oicaps
number of pinned caps

oinodes
number of opened inodes

rtio
total size of read IOs

wtio
total size of write IOs

raio
average size of read IOs

waio
average size of write IOs

rsp
speed of read IOs compared with the last refresh

wsp
speed of write IOs compared with the last refresh

rlatavg
average read latency

rlatsd
standard deviation (variance) for read latency

wlatavg
average write latency

wlatsd
standard deviation (variance) for write latency

mlatavg
average metadata latency

mlatsd
standard deviation (variance) for metadata latency

AVAILABILITY

cephfs-top is part of Ceph, a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system. Please refer to the Ceph documentation at http://ceph.com/ for more information.

SEE ALSO

ceph(8), ceph-mds(8)

COPYRIGHT

2010-2025, Inktank Storage, Inc. and contributors. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0)

August 1, 2025 dev