Monitor Queries

Monitoring and profiling N1QL queries, query service engines, and corresponding system resources is very important for smoother operational performance and efficiency of the system. In fact, often it is vital for diagnosing and troubleshooting issues such as query performance, resource bottlenecks, and overloading of various services.

Couchbase Server 4.5 introduced system keyspaces to provide various monitoring details and statistics about individual queries and query service. When running on a cluster with multiple query nodes, stats about all queries on all query nodes are collected in these system keyspaces.

For example, this can help identify:

  • The top 10 slow or fast queries running on a particular query engine or the cluster.

  • Resource usage statistics of the query service, or resources used for a particular query.

  • Details about the active, completed, and prepared queries.

  • Find long running queries that are running for more than 2 minutes.

These system keyspaces are like virtual keyspaces that are transient in nature, and are not persisted to disk or permanent storage. Hence, the information in the keyspaces pertains to the current instantiation of the query service. You can access the keyspaces using any of the following:

  • N1QL language (from the cbq shell or Query Workbench)

  • REST API

  • Monitoring SDK

All the power of the N1QL query language can be applied on the keyspaces to obtain various insights.

The following diagnostics are provided:

System Catalogs

Monitoring Catalogs

Security Catalogs

Other
These are only available using REST APIs.

Authentication and Client Privileges

Client applications must be authenticated with sufficient privileges to access system keyspaces.

  • An Administrator user can access all system keyspaces, and can grant or revoke privileges to and from other users.

  • Other non-Administrator users must have explicitly granted privilege called Query System Catalog to access the restricted system keyspaces. For querying details of system keyspaces, see Getting System Information.

  • The following system keyspaces are considered open, that is, all users can access them without any special privileges:

    • system:dual

    • system:datastores

    • system:namespaces

Query Monitoring Settings

The monitoring settings can be set for each query engine (using the REST API) or for each query statement (using the cbq command line tool). Both settings are actually set via REST endpoints: using the Admin REST API (/admin/settings endpoint) and the Query REST API (/query/service endpoint).

The cbq shell and Query Workbench use the Query REST API to set monitoring at the request level. The Query Workbench automatically enables the profiling and timings. It can be disabled using the Preferences option. For more information refer to the Query Workbench section.

Use the following query parameters to enable, disable, and control the monitoring capabilities, and the level of monitoring and profiling details for each query or globally at a query engine level:

  • profile

  • controls

For more details and examples, refer to the Query Settings section.

Enabling Settings for a Query Engine

You can enable profile settings for each query engine. These examples use local host IP address and default port numbers. You need to provide correct credentials, IP address, and port details of your setup.

  1. Get the current query settings:

    $ curl -u Administrator:pword -X GET http://localhost:8093/admin/settings > ./query_settings.json

$ cat  ./query_settings.json
    {"completed-limit":4000,"completed-threshold":1000,"controls":false,"cpuprofile":"","debug":false,"keep-alive-length":16384,"loglevel":"INFO","max-index-api":2,"max-parallelism":1,"memprofile":"","pipeline-batch":16,"pipeline-cap":512,"pretty":true,"profile":"off","request-size-cap":67108864,"scan-cap":512,"servicers":16,"timeout":0}

  2. Set current query settings profile:

    1. To set the query settings saved in a file ./query_settings.json, enter the following query:

      $ curl -u Administrator:pword -XPOST  http://127.0.0.1:8093/admin/settings -d@./query_settings.json

    2. To explicitly specify the settings, enter the following query:

      $ curl -u Administrator:pword  http://127.0.0.1:8093/admin/settings  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"profile": "phases"}'

    3. Verify the settings are changed as specified:

      $ curl -u Administrator:pword -X GET http://localhost:8093/admin/settings
      {"completed-limit":4000,"completed-threshold":1000,"controls":false,"cpuprofile":"","debug":false,"keep-alive-length":16384,"loglevel":"INFO","max-index-api":2,"max-parallelism":1,"memprofile":"","pipeline-batch":16,"pipeline-cap":512,"pretty":true,"profile":"phases","request-size-cap":67108864,"scan-cap":512,"servicers":16,"timeout":0}

Enabling Settings per Session or per Query

You can enable monitoring and profiling settings for each query statement. To set query settings using the cbq shell, use the \SET command:

cbq> \set -profile "timings";
cbq> \set;
 Query Parameters :
 Parameter name : profile
 Value : ["timings"]
 ...

To set query settings using the REST API, specify the parameters in the request body:

$ curl -v http://localhost:8093/query/service -d "profile='timings'&statement=SELECT * FROM default LIMIT 1";

Monitoring and Profiling Details

Couchbase Server 5.0 introduces a collection of detailed query monitoring and profiling information. The profiling and finer query execution timing details can be obtained for any query.

Attribute Profile in Query Response

When profiling is enabled, a query response includes the profile attribute. The attribute details are as follows:

Table 1. Attribute Details
Attribute Example

phaseTimes - Cumulative execution times for various phases involved in the query execution, such as authorize, indexscan, fetch, parse, plan, run, etc.

This value will be dynamic, depending on the documents processed by various phases up to this moment in time.

A new query on system:active_requests will return different values.

 
"phaseTimes": {
  "authorize": "823.631µs",
  "fetch": "656.873µs",
  "indexScan": "29.146543ms",
  "instantiate": "236.221µs",
  "parse": "826.382µs",
  "plan": "11.831101ms",
  "run": "16.892181ms"
}

phaseCounts - Count of documents processed at selective phases involved in the query execution, such as authorize, indexscan, fetch, parse, plan, run, etc.

This value will be dynamic, depending on the documents processed by various phases up to this moment in time.

A new query on system:active_requests will return different values.

 
"phaseCounts": {
  "fetch": 16,
  "indexScan": 187
}

phaseOperators - Indicates the number of each kind of query operators involved in different phases of the query processing. For instance, this example, one non covering index path was taken, which involves 1 indexScan and 1 fetch operator.

A join would have probably involved 2 fetches (1 per keyspace)

A union select would have twice as many operator counts (1 per each branch of the union).

This is in essence the count of all the operators in the executionTimings field.

 
"phaseOperators": {
  "authorize": 1,
  "fetch": 1,
  "indexScan": 2
}

executionTimings - The execution details such as kernel and service execution times, number of documents processed at each query operator in each phase, and number of phase switches, for various phases involved in the query execution.

The following statistics are collected for each operator:

 
"executionTimings": {
  …
  [{
    "#operator": "Fetch",
    "#stats": {
      "#itemsIn": 187,
      "#itemsOut": 16,
      "#phaseSwitches": 413,
      "execTime": "128.434µs",
      "kernTime": "15.027879ms",
      "servTime": "1.590934ms",
      "state": "services"
    },
    "keyspace": "travel-sample",
    "namespace": "default"
  },
  {
    "#operator": "IntersectScan",
    "#stats": {
    "#itemsIn": 187,
    "#itemsOut": 187,
    "#phaseSwitches": 749,
    "execTime": "449.944µs",
    "kernTime": "14.625524ms"
    }
  }, …]

#operator

Name of the operator.

#stats

These values will be dynamic, depending on the documents processed by various phases up to this moment in time.

A new query on system:active_requests will return different values.

#itemsIn

Number of input documents to the operator.

#itemsOut

Number of output documents after the operator processing.

#phaseSwitches

Number of switches between executing, waiting for services, or waiting for the goroutine scheduler.

execTime - Time spent executing the operator code inside N1QL query engine.

kernTime - Time spent waiting to be scheduled for CPU time.

servTime - Time spent waiting for another service, such as index or data.

  • For index scan, it is time spent waiting for GSI/indexer

  • For fetch, it is time spent waiting on the KV store

These statistics (kernTime, servTime, and execTime) can be very helpful in troubleshooting query performance issues, such as:

  • A high servTime for a low number of items processed is an indication that the indexer or KV store is stressed.

  • A high kernTime means there is a downstream issue in the query plan or the query server having many requests to process (so the scheduled waiting time will be more for CPU time).

Example 1. Attribute Profile

The cbq engine must be started with authorization, for example:

$ ./cbq  -engine=http://127.0.0.1:8091/ -u Administrator -p pword

Show the statistics collected when the profile is set to phases:

cbq> \set -profile "phases";
cbq> SELECT * FROM `travel-sample` WHERE type = "airline" LIMIT 1;
{
  "requestID": "51da6b92-f978-4083-b3e4-3cccbe91b5ac",
  "signature": {
    "*": "*"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "travel-sample": {
        "callsign": "BEMIDJI",
        "country": "United States",
        "iata": "CH",
        "icao": "BMJ",
        "id": 1442,
        "name": "Bemidji Airlines",
        "type": "airline"
      }
    }
  ],
  "status": "success",
  "metrics": {
    "elapsedTime": "13.967097ms",
    "executionTime": "13.951263ms",
    "resultCount": 1,
    "resultSize": 306
  },
  "profile": {
    "phaseTimes": {
      "authorize": "744.299µs",
      "fetch": "524.3µs",
      "indexScan": "9.087106ms",
      "instantiate": "52.443µs",
      "parse": "271.049µs",
      "plan": "7.450287ms",
      "run": "6.130069ms"
    },
    "phaseCounts": {
      "fetch": 16,
      "indexScan": 187
    },
    "phaseOperators": {
      "authorize": 1,
      "fetch": 1,
      "indexScan": 2
    }
  }
}
Example 2. Attribute Profile

Show the statistics collected when profile is set to timings:

cbq> \set -profile "timings";
cbq> SELECT * FROM `travel-sample` WHERE type = "airline" LIMIT 1;
{
  "requestID": "874a6c27-b514-42c7-b057-caf07067db65",
  "signature": {
    "*": "*"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "travel-sample": {
        "callsign": null,
        "country": "United States",
        "iata": null,
        "icao": "XSR",
        "id": 18257,
        "name": "Executive AirShare",
        "type": "airline"
      }
    }
  ],
  "status": "success",
  "metrics": {
    "elapsedTime": "29.855421ms",
    "executionTime": "29.838097ms",
    "resultCount": 1,
    "resultSize": 304
  },
  "profile": {
    "phaseTimes": {
      "authorize": "823.631µs",
      "fetch": "656.873µs",
      "indexScan": "29.146543ms",
      "instantiate": "236.221µs",
      "parse": "826.382µs",
      "plan": "11.831101ms",
      "run": "16.892181ms"
    },
    "phaseCounts": {
      "fetch": 16,
      "indexScan": 187
    },
    "phaseOperators": {
      "authorize": 1,
      "fetch": 1,
      "indexScan": 2
    },
    "executionTimings": {
      "#operator": "Sequence",
      "#stats": {
        "#phaseSwitches": 2,
        "execTime": "1.079µs",
        "kernTime": "16.889187ms"
      },
      "~children": [
        {
          "#operator": "Authorize",
          "#stats": {
            "#phaseSwitches": 4,
            "execTime": "5.423µs",
            "kernTime": "16.043784ms",
            "servTime": "818.208µs"
          },
          "privileges": {
            "List": [
              {
                "Target": "default:travel-sample",
                "Priv": 1
              },
              {
                "Target": "default:travel-sample",
                "Priv": 7
              }
            ]
          },
          "~child": {
            "#operator": "Sequence",
            "#stats": {
              "#phaseSwitches": 3,
              "execTime": "2.694µs",
              "kernTime": "16.036719ms"
            },
            "~children": [
              {
                "#operator": "Sequence",
                "#stats": {
                  "#phaseSwitches": 2,
                  "execTime": "1.418µs",
                  "kernTime": "16.028217ms"
                },
                "~children": [
                  {
                    "#operator": "IntersectScan",
                    "#stats": {
                      "#itemsIn": 187,
                      "#itemsOut": 187,
                      "#phaseSwitches": 749,
                      "execTime": "449.944µs",
                      "kernTime": "14.625524ms"
                    },
                    "limit": "1",
                    "scans": [
                      {
                        "#operator": "IndexScan",
                        "#stats": {
                          "#phaseSwitches": 3,
                          "execTime": "160.085µs",
                          "kernTime": "14.464239ms"
                        },
                        "index": "def_type",
                        "index_id": "7cc0b964c9b812d2",
                        "keyspace": "travel-sample",
                        "namespace": "default",
                        "spans": [
                          {
                            "Exact": true,
                            "Range": {
                              "High": [
                                "\"airline\""
                              ],
                              "Inclusion": 3,
                              "Low": [
                                "\"airline\""
                              ]
                            }
                          }
                        ],
                        "using": "gsi",
                        "~children": [
                          {
                            "#operator": "IndexScan",
                            "#stats": {
                              "#itemsOut": 187,
                              "#phaseSwitches": 753,
                              "execTime": "164.676µs",
                              "kernTime": "64.172µs",
                              "servTime": "14.228826ms"
                            },
                            "index": "def_type",
                            "index_id": "7cc0b964c9b812d2",
                            "keyspace": "travel-sample",
                            "namespace": "default",
                            "spans": [
                              {
                                "Exact": true,
                                "Range": {
                                  "High": [
                                    "\"airline\""
                                  ],
                                  "Inclusion": 3,
                                  "Low": [
                                    "\"airline\""
                                  ]
                                }
                              }
                            ],
                            "using": "gsi"
                          }
                        ]
                      },
                      {
                        "#operator": "DistinctScan",
                        "#stats": {
                          "#phaseSwitches": 4,
                          "execTime": "15.725µs",
                          "kernTime": "20.232µs",
                          "servTime": "14.597529ms"
                        },
                        "scan": {
                          "#operator": "IndexScan",
                          "#stats": {
                            "#phaseSwitches": 3,
                            "execTime": "113.002µs",
                            "kernTime": "14.486802ms"
                          },
                          "index": "univ_idx2",
                          "index_id": "75533bc1a5efe19e",
                          "keyspace": "travel-sample",
                          "namespace": "default",
                          "spans": [
                            {
                              "Exact": true,
                              "Range": {
                                "High": [
                                  "[\"type\", \"airline\"]"
                                ],
                                "Inclusion": 3,
                                "Low": [
                                  "[\"type\", \"airline\"]"
                                ]
                              }
                            }
                          ],
                          "using": "gsi",
                          "~children": [
                            {
                              "#operator": "IndexScan",
                              "#stats": {
                                "#phaseSwitches": 4,
                                "execTime": "18.384µs",
                                "kernTime": "1.681µs",
                                "servTime": "14.46157ms"
                              },
                              "index": "univ_idx2",
                              "index_id": "75533bc1a5efe19e",
                              "keyspace": "travel-sample",
                              "namespace": "default",
                              "spans": [
                                {
                                  "Exact": true,
                                  "Range": {
                                    "High": [
                                      "[\"type\", \"airline\"]"
                                    ],
                                    "Inclusion": 3,
                                    "Low": [
                                      "[\"type\", \"airline\"]"
                                    ]
                                  }
                                }
                              ],
                              "using": "gsi"
                            }
                          ]
                        }
                      }
                    ]
                  },
                  {
                    "#operator": "Fetch",
                    "#stats": {
                      "#itemsIn": 187,
                      "#itemsOut": 16,
                      "#phaseSwitches": 413,
                      "execTime": "128.434µs",
                      "kernTime": "15.027879ms",
                      "servTime": "1.590934ms",
                      "state": "services"
                    },
                    "keyspace": "travel-sample",
                    "namespace": "default"
                  },
                  {
                    "#operator": "Sequence",
                    "#stats": {
                      "#phaseSwitches": 5,
                      "execTime": "10.29µs",
                      "kernTime": "16.009655ms"
                    },
                    "~children": [
                      {
                        "#operator": "Filter",
                        "#stats": {
                          "#itemsIn": 16,
                          "#itemsOut": 16,
                          "#phaseSwitches": 69,
                          "execTime": "284.572µs",
                          "kernTime": "15.693579ms"
                        },
                        "condition": "((`travel-sample`.`type`) = \"airline\")"
                      },
                      {
                        "#operator": "InitialProject",
                        "#stats": {
                          "#itemsIn": 16,
                          "#itemsOut": 16,
                          "#phaseSwitches": 69,
                          "execTime": "7.202µs",
                          "kernTime": "15.984416ms"
                        },
                        "result_terms": [
                          {
                            "expr": "self",
                            "star": true
                          }
                        ]
                      },
                      {
                        "#operator": "FinalProject",
                        "#stats": {
                          "#itemsIn": 16,
                          "#itemsOut": 16,
                          "#phaseSwitches": 71,
                          "execTime": "24.641µs",
                          "kernTime": "15.980887ms"
                        }
                      }
                    ]
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "#operator": "Limit",
                "#stats": {
                  "#itemsIn": 2,
                  "#itemsOut": 1,
                  "#phaseSwitches": 11,
                  "execTime": "5.884µs",
                  "kernTime": "16.014442ms"
                },
                "expr": "1"
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "#operator": "Stream",
          "#stats": {
            "#itemsIn": 1,
            "#itemsOut": 1,
            "#phaseSwitches": 9,
            "execTime": "1.788µs",
            "kernTime": "16.883589ms"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Attribute Meta in System Keyspaces

(Introduced in Couchbase Server 5.0)

The meta().plan virtual attribute captures the whole query plan, and monitoring stats of various phases and involved query operators. The meta().plan must be explicitly called in the SELECT query projection list.

The meta().plan attribute is enabled only for individual requests that are running (active_requests) or completed (completed_requests) when the profile is set to timings (profile ="timings") for each individual request. If at the engine level, the profile is set to off and individual requests have been run with profile ="timings", then the system keyspaces will return the plan only for those requests.

Since there may be a combination of profile settings for all of the requests reported by the system keyspaces, not all requests returned will have a meta().plan attachment.

For the system:prepareds requests, the meta().plan is available at all times since the PREPARE statement is not dependant on the profile setting.

This attribute is enabled for the following system keyspaces:

For a detailed example, see Example 5.

N1QL Cluster Monitoring

Description

Couchbase Server allows you to monitor many aspects of an active cluster: cluster-aware operations, diagnostics, and more system keyspaces features that cover multiple nodes. Functionalities include:

  • Ability to access active / completed / prepared requests across all N1QL nodes from N1QL.

  • Ability to list nodes by type and with status from N1QL.

  • Ability to list system keyspaces from system:keyspaces.

  • Extra fields in system:active_requests and system:completed_requests.

  • Counters to keep track of specific requests, such as cancelled requests.

  • Killing request for CREATE INDEX.

System Keyspaces

  • The system:keyspaces keyspace can be augmented to list system keyspaces with a static map. The small disadvantage of this is that it has to be maintained as new system keyspaces are added.

  • The system:active_requests and system:completed_requests keyspaces can report scan consistency.

  • The system:prepareds keyspace can list min and max execution and service times, as well as average times.

cbq-engine-cbauth

(Introduced in Couchbase Server 5.0)

Cbq-engine-cbauth is a new internal user that the query service uses to allow Query Workbench clients to query across multiple query nodes.

Since Query Workbench can connect to the same node only when cbq-engine is running, Query Workbench cannot do any query-clustered operations.

To get around this block, once the Query Workbench clients connect to a query node, this internal user (cbq-engine-cbauth) will be used to do any further inter-node user verification.

Vitals

The Vitals API provides data about the running state and health of the query engine, such as number of logical cores, active threads, queued threads, CPU utilization, memory usage, network utilization, garbage collection percentage, and so on. This information can be very useful to assess the current workload and performance characteristics of a query engine, and hence load-balance the requests being sent to various query engines.

For field names and meanings, refer to Vitals.

Get System Vitals

$ curl -u Administrator:pword http://localhost:8093/admin/vitals
{
  "uptime":"30h0m10.801209195s",
  "local.time":"2016-02-18 17:39:41.612724694 -0800 PST",
  "version":"1.0.0",
  "total.threads":225,
  "cores":8,
  "gc.num":11607200,
  "gc.pause.time":"1.849506783s",
  "gc.pause.percent":0,
  "memory.usage":10019216,
  "memory.total":5628336088,
  "memory.system":29055224,
  "cpu.user.percent":0,
  "cpu.sys.percent":0,
  "request.completed.count":111,
  "request.active.count":0,
  "request.per.sec.1min":0.0007,
  "request.per.sec.5min":0.0107,
  "request.per.sec.15min":0.0091,
  "request_time.mean":"170.870877ms",
  "request_time.median":"733.364µs",
  "request_time.80percentile":"21.85926ms",
  "request_time.95percentile":"1.274152266s",
  "request_time.99percentile":"1.588775188s",
  "request.prepared.percent":0
}

system:active_requests

This catalog lists all currently executing active requests or queries.

For field names and meanings, refer to Requests. The profile related attributes are described in the section Attribute profile in Query Response.

Get Active Requests

To view active requests with Admin REST API:

$ curl -u Administrator:pword http://localhost:8093/admin/active_requests

To view active requests with N1QL, including the query plan:

SELECT *, meta().plan FROM system:active_requests;

Terminate an Active Request

The DELETE command can be used to terminate an active request, for instance, a non-responding or a long-running query.

To terminate an active request uuid with the Admin REST API:

$ curl -u Administrator:pword -X DELETE http://localhost:8093/admin/active_requests/uuid

To terminate an active request uuid with N1QL:

DELETE FROM system:active_requests WHERE requestId = "uuid";

Examples

Example 3. Get Active
SELECT *, meta().plan FROM system:active_requests;
[
  {
    "active_requests": {
      "clientContextID": "e6e81ad9-09b6-4c98-987a-a80947cbf4cd",
      "elapsedTime": "22.361384ms",
      "executionTime": "22.336681ms",
      "node": "127.0.0.1:8091",
      "phaseCounts": {
        "primaryScan": 1
      },
      "phaseOperators": {
        "authorize": 1,
        "fetch": 1,
        "primaryScan": 1
      },
      "phaseTimes": {
        "authorize": "582.108µs",
        "fetch": "20.525µs",
        "instantiate": "27.358µs",
        "parse": "346.188µs",
        "plan": "31.911µs",
        "primaryScan": "18.043218ms"
      },
      "remoteAddr": "127.0.0.1:65430",
      "requestId": "6b0bff60-7d2c-459b-aafa-942c96c12770",
      "requestTime": "2017-08-08 09:44:07.401941318 -0700 PDT",
      "scanConsistency": "unbounded",
      "state": "running",
      "statement": "SELECT *, meta().plan FROM system:active_requests;",
      "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/ 537.36 (Couchbase Query Workbench (5.0.1-4603-enterprise))",
      "users": "Administrator"
    },
    "plan": { (1)
      "#operator": "Sequence",
      "#stats": {
      "#phaseSwitches": 1,
      "execTime": "1.102µs",
      "kernTime": "22.539451ms",
      "state": "kernel"
    },
    "~children": [
      {
        "#operator": "Authorize",
        "#stats": {
        "#phaseSwitches": 3,
        "execTime": "3.372µs",
        "kernTime": "21.961146ms",
        "servTime": "578.736µs",
        "state": "kernel"
      },
...
    "plan": {
      "#operator": "Sequence",
      "#stats": {
        "#phaseSwitches": 1,
        "execTime": "13.638µs",
        "kernTime": "37.408896ms",
        "state": "kernel"
      },
      "~children": [
        {
          "#operator": "Authorize",
          "#stats": {
            "#phaseSwitches": 3,
            "execTime": "5.219µs",
            "kernTime": "35.954967ms",
            "servTime": "1.460405ms",
            "state": "kernel"
          },
          "privileges": {
            "List": [
              {
                "Priv": 4,
                "Target": "#system:active_requests"
              }
            ]
          },
          "~child": {
            "#operator": "Sequence",
            "#stats": {
              "#phaseSwitches": 1,
              "execTime": "2.273µs",
              "kernTime": "36.083024ms",
              "state": "kernel"
            },
            "~children": [
              {
                "#operator": "PrimaryScan",
                "#stats": {
                  "#itemsOut": 1,
                  "#phaseSwitches": 7,
                  "execTime": "18.137103ms",
                  "kernTime": "4.827µs",
                  "servTime": "16.576598ms"
                },
                "index": "#primary",
                "keyspace": "active_requests",
                "namespace": "#system",
                "using": "system"
              },
              {
                "#operator": "Fetch",
                "#stats": {
                  "#itemsIn": 1,
                  "#phaseSwitches": 7,
                  "execTime": "14.894µs",
                  "kernTime": "34.727264ms",
                  "servTime": "1.407022ms",
                  "state": "services"
                },
                "keyspace": "active_requests",
                "namespace": "#system"
              },
              {
                "#operator": "Sequence",
                "#stats": {
                  "#phaseSwitches": 1,
                  "execTime": "1.913µs",
                  "kernTime": "36.296279ms",
                  "state": "kernel"
                },
                "~children": [
                  {
                    "#operator": "InitialProject",
                    "#stats": {
                      "#phaseSwitches": 1,
                      "execTime": "12.445µs",
                      "kernTime": "36.282886ms",
                      "state": "kernel"
                    },
                    "result_terms": [
                      {
                        "expr": "self",
                        "star": true
                      },
                      {
                        "expr": "(meta(`active_requests`).`plan`)"
                      }
                    ]
                  },
                  {
                    "#operator": "FinalProject",
                    "#stats": {
                      "#phaseSwitches": 1,
                      "execTime": "17.767µs",
                      "kernTime": "36.332512ms",
                      "state": "kernel"
                    }
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "#operator": "Stream",
          "#stats": {
            "#phaseSwitches": 1,
            "execTime": "725ns",
            "kernTime": "37.932713ms",
            "state": "kernel"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
]
1 The plan section contains a tree of operators that combine to execute the N1QL query. The root operator is a Sequence, which itself has a collection of child operators like Authorize, PrimaryScan, Fetch, and possibly even more Sequences.

system:prepareds

This catalog provides data about the known prepared statements and their state in a query engine’s prepared statement cache. For each prepared statement, this catalog provides information such as name, statement, query plan, last use time, number of uses, and so on.

For field names and meanings, refer to Statements.

Get Prepared Statements

To get a list of all known prepared statements, you can use the Admin REST API or a N1QL query:

$ curl -u Administrator:pword http://localhost:8093/admin/prepareds
SELECT * FROM system:prepareds;

To get information about a specific prepared statement example1, you can use the Admin REST API or a N1QL query:

$ curl -u Administrator:pword http://localhost:8093/admin/prepareds/example1
SELECT * FROM system:prepareds WHERE name = "example1";

Delete Prepared Statements

To delete a specific prepared statement p1, you can use the Admin REST API or a N1QL query:

$ curl -u Administrator:pword -X DELETE http://localhost:8093/admin/prepareds/p1
DELETE FROM system:prepareds WHERE name = "p1";

To delete all the known prepared statements, you must use a N1QL query:

DELETE FROM system:prepareds;

Examples

Example 4. Get Prepared
PREPARE p1 AS SELECT * FROM default WHERE foo = 42;
{
  "requestID": "87520590-8932-4be8-8d08-6bf4a0aad0d5",
  "signature": "json",
  "results": [
    {
      "encoded_plan": "H4sIAAAAAAAA/6RSXWsUMRT9K+H0pV2CUBGEiA++FAQfFtY3Kd0wc2Y2mknizZ26tYy/XbKuLN0+aSEQcjmcj5z7CKYu9+zvSvQJDrBIfiIcyjUscqF4zQL3iIvTAxt+n5k6wuJXtwuxFya4L09BH2bdZQk/G6pIuA+RI2uj+hSqHuCfvYxUOPQc/BzVHW9YrCXcw71dbpe/Gv9lYi1h8vKw6XyCRUg993C4KH/GsPjGh1p8x5OJ4x88n841pBEOYw1Y7FOdG2q3+xe6c4K1Fx8jI14U9yZEpcCiy6kPGnIr9fJye1TdvtoOOW+vzHvz5vXVMw8fU9Dg41ryV3bNuLDOUe+UMtWDFvelASvjAIuqXuBUZraazp2kE9Nyu7RzBtmo0E84VFzDmLzOwhZ7BYcVFgvlvm1HERYvNOXa+GoqIzs1KzNInswxmfmxo9AMOR+yvcPyOwAA//+dg3Nd3AIAAA==",
      "name": "p1",
      "operator": {
      "#operator": "Sequence",
      "~children": [
        {
          "#operator": "Authorize",
            "privileges": {
              "List": [
                {
                  "Priv": 7,
                  "Target": "default:default"
                }
              ]
            },
            "~child": {
              "#operator": "Sequence",
              "~children": [
                {
                  "#operator": "PrimaryScan",
                  "index": "#primary",
                  "keyspace": "default",
                  "namespace": "default",
                  "using": "gsi"
                },
                {
                  "#operator": "Fetch",
                  "keyspace": "default",
                  "namespace": "default"
                },
                {
                  "#operator": "Parallel",
                  "~child": {
                    "#operator": "Sequence",
                    "~children": [
                      {
                        "#operator": "Filter",
                        "condition": "((`default`.`foo`) = 42)"
                      },
                      {
                        "#operator": "InitialProject",
                        "result_terms": [
                          {
                            "expr": "self",
                            "star": true
                          }
                        ]
                      },
                      {
                        "#operator": "FinalProject"
                      }
                    ]
                  }
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          {
            "#operator": "Stream"
          }
        ]
      },
      "signature": {
        "*": "*"
      },
      "text": "prepare p1 as select * from default where foo = 42;"
    }
  ],
  "status": "success",
  "metrics": {
    "elapsedTime": "34.712303ms",
    "executionTime": "34.68522ms",
    "resultCount": 1,
    "resultSize": 3443
  }
}
SELECT *, meta().plan FROM system:prepareds;
{
  "requestID": "e37ab60b-b616-478f-8cf3-cdc16e39283d",
  "signature": {
    "*": "*",
    "plan": "json"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "plan": {
        "#operator": "Sequence",
        "~children": [
          {
            "#operator": "Authorize",
            "privileges": {
              "List": [
                {
                  "Priv": 7,
                  "Target": "default:default"
                }
              ]
            },
            "~child": {
              "#operator": "Sequence",
              "~children": [
                {
                  "#operator": "PrimaryScan",
                  "index": "#primary",
                  "keyspace": "default",
                  "namespace": "default",
                  "using": "gsi"
                },
                {
                  "#operator": "Fetch",
                  "keyspace": "default",
                  "namespace": "default"
                },
                {
                  "#operator": "Parallel",
                  "~child": {
                    "#operator": "Sequence",
                    "~children": [
                      {
                        "#operator": "Filter",
                        "condition": "((`default`.`foo`) = 42)"
                      },
                      {
                        "#operator": "InitialProject",
                        "result_terms": [
                          {
                            "expr": "self",
                            "star": true
                          }
                        ]
                      },
                      {
                        "#operator": "FinalProject"
                      }
                    ]
                  }
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          {
            "#operator": "Stream"
          }
        ]
      },
      "prepareds": {
        "encoded_plan": "H4sIAAAAAAAA/6RSXWsUMRT9K+H0pV2CUBGEiA++FAQfFtY3Kd0wc2Y2mknizZ26tYy/XbKuLN0+aSEQcjmcj5z7CKYu9+zvSvQJDrBIfiIcyjUscqF4zQL3iIvTAxt+n5k6wuJXtwuxFya4L09BH2bdZQk/G6pIuA+RI2uj+hSqHuCfvYxUOPQc/BzVHW9YrCXcw71dbpe/Gv9lYi1h8vKw6XyCRUg993C4KH/GsPjGh1p8x5OJ4x88n841pBEOYw1Y7FOdG2q3+xe6c4K1Fx8jI14U9yZEpcCiy6kPGnIr9fJye1TdvtoOOW+vzHvz5vXVMw8fU9Dg41ryV3bNuLDOUe+UMtWDFvelASvjAIuqXuBUZraazp2kE9Nyu7RzBtmo0E84VFzDmLzOwhZ7BYcVFgvlvm1HERYvNOXa+GoqIzs1KzNInswxmfmxo9AMOR+yvcPyOwAA//+dg3Nd3AIAAA==",
        "name": "p1",
        "node": "127.0.0.1:8091",
        "statement": "prepare p1 as select * from default where foo = 42;",
        "uses": 0
      }
    }
  ],
  "status": "success",
  "metrics": {
    "elapsedTime": "122.056934ms",
    "executionTime": "122.03689ms",
    "resultCount": 1,
    "resultSize": 3499
  }
}

system:completed_requests

This catalog maintains a list of the most recent completed requests that have run longer than a predefined threshold of time. For each completed request, this catalog maintains information such as requestId, statement text, prepared name (if prepared statement), request time, service time, and so on. This information provides a general insight into the health and performance of the query engine and the cluster.

For field names and meanings, refer to Requests. Note that most field names and meanings match exactly those of system:active_requests.

Request profiling affects the system:completed_requests keyspace in the following ways:

  • When the feature is turned on, completed requests are stored with their execution plan.

  • Profiling information is likely to use 100KB+ per entry.

  • Due to the added overhead of running both profiling and logging, we recommend turning on both of them only when needed. Running only one of them continuously has no noticeable affect on performance.

  • Profiling does not carry any extra cost beyond memory for completed requests, so it’s fine to run it continuously.

Get Completed Requests

To get a list of all logged completed requests using the Admin REST API:

$ curl -u Administrator:pword http://localhost:8093/admin/completed_requests

To get a list of all logged completed requests using N1QL, including the query plan:

SELECT *, meta().plan FROM system:completed_requests;

Purge the Completed Requests

To purge a completed request uuid with the Admin REST API:

$ curl -u Administrator:pword -X DELETE http://localhost:8093/admin/completed_requests/uuid

To purge a completed request uuid with N1QL:

DELETE FROM system:completed_requests WHERE requestId = "uuid";

To purge the completed requests for a given time period, use:

DELETE FROM system:completed_requests WHERE requestTime LIKE "2015-09-09%";

Configure the Completed Requests

You can configure the system:completed_requests keyspace by specifying the parameters through the Admin API settings endpoint.

The JSON parameter accepts two new fields: completed-threshold and completed-limit.

completed-threshold

Sets the minimum request duration after which requests are added to the system:completed_requests catalog. The default value is 1000ms. Specify 0 to log all requests and -1 to not log any requests to the keyspace.

To specify a different value, use:

$ curl http://localhost:port/admin/settings -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"completed-threshold":0}' -u user:pword
completed-limit

Sets the number of most recent requests to be tracked in the system:completed_requests catalog. The default value is 4000. Specify 0 to not track any requests and -1 to set no limit.

To specify a different value, use:

$ curl http://localhost:port/admin/settings -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"completed-limit":1000}' -u user:pword

Examples

Example 5. Completed Request

First, we set profile = "timings" and run a long query which takes at least 1000ms (the default value of the completed-threshold query setting) to get registered in the system:completed_requests keyspace:

Query 1
cbq> \set -profile "timings";
cbq> SELECT * FROM `travel-sample` ORDER BY name;

Now, we change the profile setting to "phases" and rerun another long query:

Query 2
cbq> \set -profile "phases";
cbq> SELECT * FROM `travel-sample` ORDER BY title;

Run a query system:completed_requests keyspace with meta().plan.

Query 3
cbq> SELECT meta().plan, * from system:completed_requests;
Result
{
  "requestID": "33ed0271-6f30-48e0-9932-eea97b3d41fa",
  "signature": {
    "*": "*",
    "plan": "json"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "completed_requests": {
        "elapsedTime": "6.404801894s",
        "errorCount": 0,
        "node": "10.17.5.233",
        "phaseCounts": {
          "fetch": 31592,
          "primaryScan": 31592,
          "sort": 31592
        },
        "phaseOperators": {
          "authorize": 1,
          "fetch": 1,
          "primaryScan": 1,
          "sort": 1
        },
        "phaseTimes": {
          "authorize": "576.717µs",
          "fetch": "605.983982ms",
          "instantiate": "625.544µs",
          "parse": "262.266µs",
          "plan": "254.921µs",
          "primaryScan": "64.168512ms",
          "run": "6.402307626s",
          "sort": "432.85835ms"
        },
        "remoteAddr": "192.168.0.109:51540",
        "requestId": "bd0cfa57-2189-4f22-93d5-ddeca3325c3f",
        "resultCount": 31592,
        "resultSize": 107818622,
        "scanConsistency": "unbounded",
        "serviceTime": "6.40478582s",
        "state": "completed",
        "statement": "select * from `travel-sample` order by name;",
        "time": "2017-03-10 20:19:02.495406865 -0800 PST",
        "userAgent": "Go-http-client/1.1",
        "users": "Administrator"
      },
      "plan": { (1)
        "#operator": "Sequence",
        "#stats": {
          "#phaseSwitches": 2,
          "execTime": "849ns",
          "kernTime": "6.402305271s"
        },
        "~children": [
          {
            "#operator": "Authorize",
            "#stats": {
              "#phaseSwitches": 4,
              "execTime": "3.452µs",
              "kernTime": "6.401387075s",
              "servTime": "573.265µs"
            },
            "privileges": {
              "List": [
                {
                  "Priv": 1,
                  "Target": "default:travel-sample"
                },
                {
                  "Priv": 7,
                  "Target": "default:travel-sample"
                }
              ]
            },
            "~child": {
              "#operator": "Sequence",
              "#stats": {
                "#phaseSwitches": 3,
                "execTime": "2.667µs",
                "kernTime": "6.401379511s"
              },
              "~children": [
                {
                  "#operator": "Sequence",
                  "#stats": {
                    "#phaseSwitches": 2,
                    "execTime": "3.757µs",
                    "kernTime": "638.158784ms"
                  },
                  "~children": [
                    {
                      "#operator": "PrimaryScan",
                      "#stats": {
                        "#itemsOut": 31592,
                        "#phaseSwitches": 126371,
                        "execTime": "43.239957ms",
                        "kernTime": "557.221483ms",
                        "servTime": "20.928555ms"
                      },
                      "index": "def_primary",
                      "keyspace": "travel-sample",
                      "namespace": "default",
                      "using": "gsi"
                    },
                    {
                      "#operator": "Fetch",
                      "#stats": {
                        "#itemsIn": 31592,
                        "#itemsOut": 31592,
                        "#phaseSwitches": 126499,
                        "execTime": "37.4027ms",
                        "kernTime": "32.132249ms",
                        "servTime": "568.581282ms"
                      },
                      "keyspace": "travel-sample",
                      "namespace": "default"
                    },
                    {
                      "#operator": "Sequence",
                      "#stats": {
                        "#phaseSwitches": 5,
                        "execTime": "2.14µs",
                        "kernTime": "638.143448ms"
                      },
                      "~children": [
                        {
                          "#operator": "InitialProject",
                          "#stats": {
                            "#itemsIn": 31592,
                            "#itemsOut": 31592,
                            "#phaseSwitches": 126375,
                            "execTime": "3.887302ms",
                            "kernTime": "634.243391ms"
                          },
                          "result_terms": [
                            {
                              "expr": "self",
                              "star": true
                            }
                          ]
                        }
                      ]
                    }
                  ]
                },
                {
                  "#operator": "Order",
                  "#stats": {
                    "#itemsIn": 31592,
                    "#itemsOut": 31592,
                    "#phaseSwitches": 126373,
                    "execTime": "432.85835ms",
                    "kernTime": "5.925425699s"
                  },
                  "sort_terms": [
                    {
                      "expr": "(`travel-sample`.`name`)"
                    }
                  ]
                },
                {
                  "#operator": "FinalProject",
                  "#stats": {
                    "#itemsIn": 31592,
                    "#itemsOut": 31592,
                    "#phaseSwitches": 126375,
                    "execTime": "16.142571ms",
                    "kernTime": "6.385221481s"
                  }
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          {
            "#operator": "Stream",
            "#stats": {
              "#itemsIn": 31592,
              "#itemsOut": 31592,
              "#phaseSwitches": 63191,
              "execTime": "4.397577ms",
              "kernTime": "6.397903458s"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    { (2)
      "completed_requests": {
        "elapsedTime": "6.404801894s",
        "errorCount": 0,
        "node": "192.168.0.109",
        "phaseCounts": {
          "fetch": 31592,
          "primaryScan": 31592,
          "sort": 31592
        },
        "phaseOperators": {
          "authorize": 1,
          "fetch": 1,
          "primaryScan": 1,
          "sort": 1
        },
        "remoteAddr": "192.168.0.109:51540",
        "requestId": "bd0cfa57-2189-4f22-93d5-ddeca3325c3f",
        "requestTime": "2017-03-10T20:19:02.495406865-08:00",
        "resultCount": 31592,
        "resultSize": 107818622,
        "scanConsistency": "unbounded",
        "serviceTime": "6.40478582s",
        "state": "completed",
        "statement": "select * from `travel-sample` order by name;",
        "userAgent": "Go-http-client/1.1",
        "users": "Administrator"
      }
    }
  ],
  "status": "success",
  "metrics": {
    "elapsedTime": "74.124629ms",
    "executionTime": "74.112155ms",
    "resultCount": 4,
    "resultSize": 14608
  },
  "profile": { (3)
    "phaseTimes": {
      "authorize": "551.089µs",
      "fetch": "34.260218ms",
      "instantiate": "20.455µs",
      "parse": "297.811µs",
      "plan": "36.651µs",
      "primaryScan": "35.703598ms",
      "run": "70.693651ms"
    },
    "phaseCounts": {
      "fetch": 4,
      "primaryScan": 4
    },
    "phaseOperators": {
      "authorize": 1,
      "fetch": 1,
      "primaryScan": 1
    }
  }
}

This example shows:

1 meta().plan with all detailed statistics collected for Query 1.
2 Only profile attribute with all phases-related statistics for Query 2.
3 The profile attribute with all phases-related statistics for this query itself (which is querying the system:completed_requests keyspace)

system:my_user_info

This catalog maintains a list of all information of your profile.

To see your current information, use:

SELECT * FROM system:my_user_info;

This will result in a list similar to:

[
  {
    "my_user_info": {
      "domain": "local",
      "id": "root",
      "name": "Root User",
      "password_change_date": "2018-08-17T09:48:27.000Z",
      "roles": [
        {
          "role": "admin"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
]

system:user_info

This catalog maintains a list of all current users in your bucket and their information.

To see the list of all current users, use:

SELECT * FROM system:user_info;

This will result in a list similar to:

[
  {
    "user_info": {
      "domain": "local",
      "id": "root",
      "name": "Root User",
      "password_change_date": "2018-08-17T09:48:27.000Z",
      "roles": [
        {
          "role": "admin"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "user_info": {
      "domain": "ns_server",
      "id": "Administrator",
      "name": "Administrator",
      "roles": [
        {
          "role": "admin"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
]

system:nodes

This catalog shows the datastore topology information. This is separate from the N1QL clustering view, in that N1QL clustering shows a map of the N1QL cluster, as provided by the cluster manager, while system:nodes shows a view of the nodes and services that make up the actual datastore, which may or may not include N1QL nodes.

  • The dichotomy is important in that N1QL could be clustered by one entity (e.g. Zookeeper) and be connected to a clustered datastore (e.g. Couchbase) such that each does not have visibility of the other.

  • Should N1QL be extended to be able to concurrently connect to multiple datastores, each datastore will report its own topology, so that system:nodes offers a complete view of all the storage nodes, whatever those may be.

  • The system:nodes keyspace provides a way to report services advertised by each node as well as services that are actually running. This is datastore dependent.

  • N1QL clustering is still reported by the /admin endpoints.

To see the list of all current node information, use:

SELECT * FROM system:nodes;

This will result in a list similar to:

[
  {
    "nodes": {
      "name": "127.0.0.1:8091",
      "ports": {
        "cbas": 8095,
        "cbasAdmin": 9110,
        "cbasCc": 9111,
        "cbasSSL": 18095,
        "eventingAdminPort": 8096,
        "eventingSSL": 18096,
        "fts": 8094,
        "ftsSSL": 18094,
        "indexAdmin": 9100,
        "indexHttp": 9102,
        "indexHttps": 19102,
        "indexScan": 9101,
        "indexStreamCatchup": 9104,
        "indexStreamInit": 9103,
        "indexStreamMaint": 9105,
        "kv": 11210,
        "kvSSL": 11207,
        "n1ql": 8093,
        "n1qlSSL": 18093
      },
      "services": [
        "cbas",
        "eventing",
        "fts",
        "index",
        "kv",
        "n1ql"
      ]
    }
  }
]

system:applicable_roles

This catalog maintains a list of all applicable roles and grantee of each bucket.

To see the list of all current applicable role information, use:

SELECT * FROM system:applicable_roles;

This will result in a list similar to:

[
  {
    "applicable_roles": {
      "grantee": "anil",
      "role": "replication_admin"
    }
  },
  {
    "applicable_roles": {
      "bucket_name": "travel-sample",
      "grantee": "anil",
      "role": "select"
    }
  },
  {
    "applicable_roles": {
      "bucket_name": "*",
      "grantee": "anil",
      "role": "select"
    }
  }
]

For more examples, take a look at the blog: Optimize N1QL performance using request profiling.