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DOCA Platform Framework (DPF) Documentation v25.4 1

DOCA Telemetry Service

This documentation explains configuration and deployment of DOCA Telemetry service (DTS) as DPU service in DPF.

Main DTS concepts are explained in the official DTS documentation.

While the official documentation provides a more comprehensive overview, DPUService users should consult it for its detailed list of telemetry counters and explanation of user options.

Official DTS documentation explains configuration options.

General note: In the official documentation, all options should be specified in the dts_config.ini file using the key=value format. In DPF the same options should be set via DPUService.yaml as key: value in yaml format.

Default configuration

The default configuration is set to collect sysfs and ethtool counters and expose them via Prometheus endpoint.

DPF configuration

User configuration is organized into the following groups:

  • providers

  • aggregator_providers

  • general

  • fluent

All user options should be set in DPUService under:

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spec: helmChart: values: configMapData:

The following subsections explain each user option groups

Providers:

Available data providers are listed here: DTS providers.

Note: some of the providers are supported only on host and not on DPU.

To enable data providers in DTS service:

1) Set data providers csv-line under spec.helmChart.values.configMapData.providers. E.g.:

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spec: helmChart: values: configMapData: providers: "sysfs,ethtool"

2) Optionally, set aggregator providers csv-line under spec.helmChart.values.configMapData.aggregator_providers.

General options

Except provider names, official documentation explains various options of dts_config.ini file in format of key=value pairs.

To set the these options in DPUService.yaml specify them in key: value pairs under spec.helmChart.configMapData.general.

For instance, DPU service exposes essential general options:

  • Sampling interval options:

    • update: 1000 to set the sample interval in milliseconds.

    • sync-time-limit: 10000 buffer rotation time limit in seconds.

Configure Fluent exporter

Additionally Fluent Bit export files can be set via spec.helmChart.configMapData.fluent.DESTINATION. Available fluent export destinations are:

  • forward

  • kafka

  • influxdb

  • elasticsearch

Default values are exposed for each case in DPUService.yaml. See more details regarding each destination in official documentation.

Start service with:

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kubectl apply -f DPUService.yaml

Check the status of DPU service:

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$ kubectl -n dpf-operator-system exec deploy/dpf-operator-controller-manager -- /dpfctl describe all --show-resources=dpuservice/doca-telemetry-service --show-conditions=all NAME NAMESPACE READY REASON SINCE MESSAGE DPFOperatorConfig/dpfoperatorconfig dpf-operator-system True Success 15h │ ├─ImagePullSecretsReconciled True Success 25d │ ├─SystemComponentsReady True Success 15h │ └─SystemComponentsReconciled True Success 25d └─DPUServices └─DPUService/doca-telemetry-service dpf-operator-system True Success 21d ├─ApplicationPrereqsReconciled True Success 25d ├─ApplicationsReady True Success 21d ├─ApplicationsReconciled True Success 25d └─DPUServiceInterfaceReconciled True Success 25d

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