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+.. _cephfs-health-messages:
+
+======================
+CephFS health messages
+======================
+
+Cluster health checks
+=====================
+
+The Ceph monitor daemons will generate health messages in response
+to certain states of the file system map structure (and the enclosed MDS maps).
+
+Message: mds rank(s) *ranks* have failed
+Description: One or more MDS ranks are not currently assigned to
+an MDS daemon; the cluster will not recover until a suitable replacement
+daemon starts.
+
+Message: mds rank(s) *ranks* are damaged
+Description: One or more MDS ranks has encountered severe damage to
+its stored metadata, and cannot start again until it is repaired.
+
+Message: mds cluster is degraded
+Description: One or more MDS ranks are not currently up and running, clients
+may pause metadata IO until this situation is resolved. This includes
+ranks being failed or damaged, and additionally includes ranks
+which are running on an MDS but have not yet made it to the *active*
+state (e.g. ranks currently in *replay* state).
+
+Message: mds *names* are laggy
+Description: The named MDS daemons have failed to send beacon messages
+to the monitor for at least ``mds_beacon_grace`` (default 15s), while
+they are supposed to send beacon messages every ``mds_beacon_interval``
+(default 4s). The daemons may have crashed. The Ceph monitor will
+automatically replace laggy daemons with standbys if any are available.
+
+Message: insufficient standby daemons available
+Description: One or more file systems are configured to have a certain number
+of standby daemons available (including daemons in standby-replay) but the
+cluster does not have enough standby daemons. The standby daemons not in replay
+count towards any file system (i.e. they may overlap). This warning can
+configured by setting ``ceph fs set <fs> standby_count_wanted <count>``. Use
+zero for ``count`` to disable.
+
+
+Daemon-reported health checks
+=============================
+
+MDS daemons can identify a variety of unwanted conditions, and
+indicate these to the operator in the output of ``ceph status``.
+These conditions have human readable messages, and additionally
+a unique code starting with ``MDS_``.
+
+.. highlight:: console
+
+``ceph health detail`` shows the details of the conditions. Following
+is a typical health report from a cluster experiencing MDS related
+performance issues::
+
+ $ ceph health detail
+ HEALTH_WARN 1 MDSs report slow metadata IOs; 1 MDSs report slow requests
+ MDS_SLOW_METADATA_IO 1 MDSs report slow metadata IOs
+ mds.fs-01(mds.0): 3 slow metadata IOs are blocked > 30 secs, oldest blocked for 51123 secs
+ MDS_SLOW_REQUEST 1 MDSs report slow requests
+ mds.fs-01(mds.0): 5 slow requests are blocked > 30 secs
+
+Where, for intance, ``MDS_SLOW_REQUEST`` is the unique code representing the
+condition where requests are taking long time to complete. And the following
+description shows its severity and the MDS daemons which are serving these
+slow requests.
+
+This page lists the health checks raised by MDS daemons. For the checks from
+other daemons, please see :ref:`health-checks`.
+
+* ``MDS_TRIM``
+
+ Message
+ "Behind on trimming..."
+ Description
+ CephFS maintains a metadata journal that is divided into
+ *log segments*. The length of journal (in number of segments) is controlled
+ by the setting ``mds_log_max_segments``, and when the number of segments
+ exceeds that setting the MDS starts writing back metadata so that it
+ can remove (trim) the oldest segments. If this writeback is happening
+ too slowly, or a software bug is preventing trimming, then this health
+ message may appear. The threshold for this message to appear is controlled by
+ the config option ``mds_log_warn_factor``, the default is 2.0.
+* ``MDS_HEALTH_CLIENT_LATE_RELEASE``, ``MDS_HEALTH_CLIENT_LATE_RELEASE_MANY``
+
+ Message
+ "Client *name* failing to respond to capability release"
+ Description
+ CephFS clients are issued *capabilities* by the MDS, which
+ are like locks. Sometimes, for example when another client needs access,
+ the MDS will request clients release their capabilities. If the client
+ is unresponsive or buggy, it might fail to do so promptly or fail to do
+ so at all. This message appears if a client has taken longer than
+ ``session_timeout`` (default 60s) to comply.
+* ``MDS_CLIENT_RECALL``, ``MDS_HEALTH_CLIENT_RECALL_MANY``
+
+ Message
+ "Client *name* failing to respond to cache pressure"
+ Description
+ Clients maintain a metadata cache. Items (such as inodes) in the
+ client cache are also pinned in the MDS cache, so when the MDS needs to shrink
+ its cache (to stay within ``mds_cache_memory_limit``), it sends messages to
+ clients to shrink their caches too. If the client is unresponsive or buggy,
+ this can prevent the MDS from properly staying within its cache limits and it
+ may eventually run out of memory and crash. This message appears if a client
+ has failed to release more than
+ ``mds_recall_warning_threshold`` capabilities (decaying with a half-life of
+ ``mds_recall_max_decay_rate``) within the last
+ ``mds_recall_warning_decay_rate`` second.
+* ``MDS_CLIENT_OLDEST_TID``, ``MDS_CLIENT_OLDEST_TID_MANY``
+
+ Message
+ "Client *name* failing to advance its oldest client/flush tid"
+ Description
+ The CephFS client-MDS protocol uses a field called the
+ *oldest tid* to inform the MDS of which client requests are fully
+ complete and may therefore be forgotten about by the MDS. If a buggy
+ client is failing to advance this field, then the MDS may be prevented
+ from properly cleaning up resources used by client requests. This message
+ appears if a client appears to have more than ``max_completed_requests``
+ (default 100000) requests that are complete on the MDS side but haven't
+ yet been accounted for in the client's *oldest tid* value.
+* ``MDS_DAMAGE``
+
+ Message
+ "Metadata damage detected"
+ Description
+ Corrupt or missing metadata was encountered when reading
+ from the metadata pool. This message indicates that the damage was
+ sufficiently isolated for the MDS to continue operating, although
+ client accesses to the damaged subtree will return IO errors. Use
+ the ``damage ls`` admin socket command to get more detail on the damage.
+ This message appears as soon as any damage is encountered.
+* ``MDS_HEALTH_READ_ONLY``
+
+ Message
+ "MDS in read-only mode"
+ Description
+ The MDS has gone into readonly mode and will return EROFS
+ error codes to client operations that attempt to modify any metadata. The
+ MDS will go into readonly mode if it encounters a write error while
+ writing to the metadata pool, or if forced to by an administrator using
+ the *force_readonly* admin socket command.
+* ``MDS_SLOW_REQUEST``
+
+ Message
+ "*N* slow requests are blocked"
+
+ Description
+ One or more client requests have not been completed promptly,
+ indicating that the MDS is either running very slowly, or that the RADOS
+ cluster is not acknowledging journal writes promptly, or that there is a bug.
+ Use the ``ops`` admin socket command to list outstanding metadata operations.
+ This message appears if any client requests have taken longer than
+ ``mds_op_complaint_time`` (default 30s).
+* ``MDS_CACHE_OVERSIZED``
+
+ Message
+ "Too many inodes in cache"
+ Description
+ The MDS is not succeeding in trimming its cache to comply with the
+ limit set by the administrator. If the MDS cache becomes too large, the daemon
+ may exhaust available memory and crash. By default, this message appears if
+ the actual cache size (in memory) is at least 50% greater than
+ ``mds_cache_memory_limit`` (default 1GB). Modify ``mds_health_cache_threshold``
+ to set the warning ratio.