How to monitor PR entry and Bucket details in GemFire

Products

• VMware Tanzu Gemfire

Issue/Introduction

GemFire users are familiar with the concept of Partition Region but some people are not familiar with the concept of Buckets in Partition Regions.

This article covers how to monitor PR Entry and Bucket details in GemFire.

Environment

Product Version: 9.10
OS: All

Resolution

GemFire breaks partitioned region data into units of storage known as buckets and stores each bucket in a region hosting member. 

When an entry is created, it is assigned to a bucket. Keys are grouped together in a bucket and always remain there.

When an entry is created, it is assigned to a bucket. Keys are grouped together in a bucket and always remain there. If the configuration allows, the buckets may be moved between members to balance the load.

Knowing the details about these buckets will be helpful when your partition region data are not balanced and you encounter slow performance.

Some information is already available through gfsh or Statistics files but some information is required to write custom codes.

For more information on how to acquire this information, refer to Logging Apache Geode PartitionedRegion Entry Details Per Bucke.