app-autoscaler-cli-plugin

Cloud Foundry CLI AutoScaler Plug-in

App-AutoScaler plug-in provides the command line interface to manage App AutoScaler policies, retrieve metrics and scaling event history.

Install plugin

From CF-Community

cf install-plugin -r CF-Community app-autoscaler-plugin

From source code

$ git clone git@github.com:cloudfoundry-incubator/app-autoscaler-cli-plugin.git
$ cd app-autoscaler-cli-plugin
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ source .envrc
$ scripts/build
$ cf install-plugin out/ascli

Uninstall plugin

cf uninstall-plugin AutoScaler

Command List

Command	Description
autoscaling-api, asa	Set or view AutoScaler service API endpoint
autoscaling-policy, asp	Retrieve the scaling policy of an application
attach-autoscaling-policy, aasp	Attach a scaling policy to an application
detach-autoscaling-policy, dasp	Detach the scaling policy from an application
create-autoscaling-credential, casc	Create custom metric credential for an application
delete-autoscaling-credential, dasc	Delete the custom metric credential of an application
autoscaling-metrics, asm	Retrieve the metrics of an application
autoscaling-history, ash	Retrieve the scaling history of an application

Command usage

cf autoscaling-api

Set or view AutoScaler service API endpoint. If the CF API endpoint is https://api.example.com, then typically the autoscaler API endpoint will be https://autoscaler.example.com. Check the manifest when autoscaler is deployed to get the autoscaler service API endpoint.

cf autoscaling-api [URL] [--unset] [--skip-ssl-validation]

ALIAS: asa

OPTIONS:

• --unset: Unset the api endpoint
• --skip-ssl-validation : Skip verification of the API endpoint. Not recommended!

EXAMPLES:

• Set AutoScaler API endpoint, replace DOMAIN with the domain of your Cloud Foundry environment:

$ cf autoscaling-api https://autoscaler.<DOMAIN>
Setting AutoScaler api endpoint to https://autoscaler.<DOMAIN>
OK

• View AutoScaler API endpoint:

$ cf autoscaling-api
Autoscaler api endpoint: https://autoscaler.<DOMAIN>

• Unset AutoScaler API endpoint:

Note you will get a error prompt if the AutoScaler API endpoint is not set when you execute other commands.

$ cf autoscaling-api --unset
Unsetting AutoScaler api endpoint.
OK

$ cf autoscaling-api
No api endpoint set. Use 'cf autoscaling-api' to set an endpoint.

$ cf autoscaling-policy APP_NAME
FAILED
Error: No api endpoint set. Use 'cf autoscaling-api' to set an endpoint.

cf autoscaling-policy

Retrieve the scaling policy of an application, the policy will be displayed in JSON format.

cf autoscaling-policy APP_NAME [--output PATH_TO_FILE]

ALIAS: asp

OPTIONS:

• --output : dump the policy to a file in JSON format

EXAMPLES:

• View scaling policy, replace APP_NAME with the name of your application:

$ cf autoscaling-policy APP_NAME

Showing policy for app APP_NAME...
{
	"instance_min_count": 1,
	"instance_max_count": 5,
	"scaling_rules": [
		{
			"metric_type": "memoryused",
			"breach_duration_secs": 120,
			"threshold": 15,
			"operator": ">=",
			"cool_down_secs": 120,
			"adjustment": "+1"
		},
		{
			"metric_type": "memoryused",
			"breach_duration_secs": 120,
			"threshold": 10,
			"operator": "<",
			"cool_down_secs": 120,
			"adjustment": "-1"
		}
	]
}

• Dump the scaling policy to a file in JSON format:

$ cf asp APP_NAME --output PATH_TO_FILE

Saving policy for app APP_NAME to PATH_TO_FILE...
OK

cf attach-autoscaling-policy

Attach a scaling policy to an application, the policy file must be a JSON file, refer to policy specification for the policy format.

cf attach-autoscaling-policy APP_NAME PATH_TO_POLICY_FILE

ALIAS: aasp

EXAMPLES:

$ cf attach-autoscaling-policy APP_NAME PATH_TO_POLICY_FILE

Attaching policy for app APP_NAME...
OK

cf detach-autoscaling-policy

Detach the scaling policy from an application, the policy will be deleted when detached.

cf detach-autoscaling-policy APP_NAME

ALIAS: dasp

EXAMPLES:

$ cf detach-autoscaling-policy APP_NAME

Detaching policy for app APP_NAME...
OK

cf create-autoscaling-credential

Credential is required when submitting custom metrics to app-autoscaler. If an application is connecting to autoscaler through a service binding approach, the required credential could be found in Cloud Foundry VCAP_SERVICES environment variables. Otherwise, you need to generate the required credential explicitly with this command.

The command will generate autoscaler credential and display it in JSON format. Then you need to set this credential to your application through environment variables or user-provided-service.

Note: Auto-scaler only grants access with the most recent credential, so the newly generated credential will overwritten the old pairs. Please make sure to update the credential setting in your application once you launch the command create-autoscaling-credential.

Random credential pair will be created by default when username and password are not specified by --username and --password option.

cf create-autoscaling-credential APP_NAME [--username USERNAME --password PASSWORD] [--output PATH_TO_FILE]

ALIAS: casc

OPTIONS:

• --username, -u : username of the custom metric credential, random username will be set if not specified
• --password, -p : password of the custom metric credential, random password will be set if not specified
• --output : Dump the credential to a file in JSON format

EXAMPLES:

• Create and view custom credential with user-defined username and password:

$ cf create-autoscaling-credential APP_NAME --username MY_USERNAME --password MY_PASSWORD

Creating custom metric credential for app APP_NAME...
{
	"app_id": "<APP_ID>",
	"username": "MY_USERNAME",
	"password": "MY_PASSWORD",
	"url": "https://autoscalermetrics.<DOMAIN>"
}

• Create random username and password and dump the credential to a file:

$ cf create-autoscaling-credential APP_NAME --output PATH_TO_FILE

Saving new created credential for app APP_NAME to PATH_TO_FILE...
OK

cf delete-autoscaling-credential

Delete the custom metric credential of an application.

cf delete-autoscaling-credential APP_NAME

ALIAS: dasc

EXAMPLES:

$ cf delete-autoscaling-credential APP_NAME

Deleting custom metric credential for app APP_NAME...
OK

cf autoscaling-metrics

Retrieve the aggregated metrics of an application. You can specify the start/end time of the returned query result, and the display order(ascending or descending). The metrics will be shown in a table.

cf autoscaling-metrics APP_NAME METRIC_NAME [--start START_TIME] [--end END_TIME] [--asc] [--output PATH_TO_FILE]

ALIAS: asm

OPTIONS:

• METRIC_NAME : default metrics "memoryused, memoryutil, responsetime, throughput, cpu" or customized name for your own metrics.
• --start : start time of metrics collected with format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+/-HH:mm or yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ, default to very beginning if not specified.
• --end : end time of the metrics collected with format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+/-HH:mm or yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ, default to current time if not speficied.
• --asc : display in ascending order, default to descending order if not specified
• --output : dump the metrics to a file

EXAMPLES:

$ cf autoscaling-metrics APP_NAME memoryused --start 2018-12-27T11:49:00+08:00 --end 2018-12-27T11:52:20+08:00 --asc

Retriving aggregated metrics for app APP_NAME...
Metrics Name     	Value     	Timestamp
memoryused       	62MB      	2018-12-27T11:49:00+08:00
memoryused       	62MB      	2018-12-27T11:49:40+08:00
memoryused       	61MB      	2018-12-27T11:50:20+08:00
memoryused       	62MB      	2018-12-27T11:51:00+08:00
memoryused       	62MB      	2018-12-27T11:51:40+08:00

• Metrics Name: name of the current metric item
• Value: the value of the current metric item with unit
• Timestamp: collect time of the current metric item

cf autoscaling-history

Retrieve the scaling event history of an application. You can specify the start/end time of the returned query result, and the display order(ascending or descending). The scaling event history will be shown in a table.

cf autoscaling-history APP_NAME [--start START_TIME] [--end END_TIME] [--asc] [--output PATH_TO_FILE]

ALIAS: ash

OPTIONS:

• --start : start time of the scaling history with format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+/-HH:mm or yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ, default to very beginning if not specified.
• --end : end time of the scaling history with format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+/-HH:mm or yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ, default to current time if not speficied.
• --asc : display in ascending order, default to descending order if not specified
• --output : dump the scaling history to a file

EXAMPLES:

$ cf autoscaling-history APP_NAME --start 2018-08-16T17:58:53+08:00 --end 2018-08-16T18:01:00+08:00 --asc

Showing history for app APP_NAME...
Scaling Type     	Status        	Instance Changes     	Time                          	Action                                                        	Error
dynamic          	failed        	2->-1                	2018-08-16T17:58:53+08:00     	-1 instance(s) because throughput < 10rps for 120 seconds     	app does not have policy set
dynamic          	succeeded     	2->3                 	2018-08-16T17:59:33+08:00     	+1 instance(s) because memoryused >= 15MB for 120 seconds
scheduled        	succeeded     	3->6                 	2018-08-16T18:00:00+08:00     	3 instance(s) because limited by min instances 6

• Scaling Type: the trigger type of the scaling action, possible scaling types: dynamic and scheduled
  • dynamic: the scaling action is triggered by a dynamic rule (memoryused, memoryutil, responsetime or throughput)
  • scheduled: the scaling action is triggered by a recurring schedule or specific date rule
• Status: the result of the scaling action: succeeded or failed
• Instance Changes: how the instances number get changed (e.g. 1->2 means the application was scaled out from 1 instance to 2)
• Time: the finish time of scaling action, no mater succeeded or failed
• Action: the detail information about why and how the application scaled
• Error: the reason why scaling failed