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there are new alerts introduced for odf
health score calculation. This commit adds
runbooks for each of them

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@aruniiird @weirdwiz please do have a look.

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needs some changes

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no mitigation section? please add mitigation steps,

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I am not sure of what mitigation steps should be added here, so I left it empty for now!!
@weirdwiz if you have any suggestions, we can discuss offline.

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Mitigation for this is to either move workloads to other storage systems or (preferred) add more disks.
Ceph is one of the few storage systems that grows IO performance linearly with capacity... so more disks = more performance

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same here, add mitigation steps

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The MTU runbook should mention how to verify jumbo frames work end-to-end

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I am not sure about this, maybe we can work on it once you are back.

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You can find many "Jumbo Frame" test instructions on the internet - for example this one:
https://blah.cloud/networks/test-jumbo-frames-working/

In the end you use ping with a certain icmp size (which different for the different OSs) and you tell the network stack not to fragment the package (but send it whole).

As a mitigation, customers need to ensure the node network interfaces are configured for 9000 bytes AND that all switches in between the nodes also support 9000 bytes on their ports.

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existing runbooks reference shared helper documents like:

  • helpers/podDebug.md
  • helpers/troubleshootCeph.md
  • helpers/gatherLogs.md
  • helpers/networkConnectivity.md

the new runbooks embed all commands inline instead of referencing these. consider using helper links for consistency and maintainability.

ping <node-internal-ip>
```
4. Use mtr or traceroute to analyze path and hops.
5. Verify if the node is under high CPU or network load:
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5. Verify if the node is under high CPU or network load:
5. Verify if the node is under high CPU or network load:
oc debug node/<node>
top -b -n 1 | head -20
sar -u 1 5

sar -n DEV 1 5
```
3. Use Prometheus to graph:
```prompql
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```prompql
```promql

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@weirdwiz updated the PR except for the 2 comments, we can work on them once you are back.


## Impact

* Brief service interruption (e.g., MON restart may cause quorum re-election).
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service interruption sounds worse than it is... unless the MONs cannot agree to a quorum any more, there is no "downtime".
Instead let's put all of the Impact points in relative points... Since Ceph is very resilient, Pod restarts should only have an affect if they happen frequently (more than 10 times in a 5min window).

## Impact

* Brief service interruption (e.g., MON restart may cause quorum re-election).
* OSD restart triggers PG peering and potential recovery.
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Someone who doesn't know Ceph will not understand this :) (even though it is factually correct)

How do you like my proposal:

If OSDs are restarted frequently or do not start up within 5 minutes, the cluster might decide to rebalance the data onto other more reliable disks. If this happens, the cluster will temporarily be slightly less performant.


## Impact

* Increased I/O latency for RBD/CephFS clients.
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RBD and CephFS are Ceph terms. Let's keep it simple and just call them Block, Object and File (all of these would be affected)

## Impact

* Increased I/O latency for RBD/CephFS clients.
* Slower OSD response times, risking heartbeat timeouts.
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I don't think that's true. If the underlying storage is busy, the process should still be able to send heartbeats?!

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Mitigation for this is to either move workloads to other storage systems or (preferred) add more disks.
Ceph is one of the few storage systems that grows IO performance linearly with capacity... so more disks = more performance

5. Review Ceph monitor logs if the node hosts MONs:
```bash
oc logs -l app=rook-ceph-mon -n openshift-storage
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Another step could be to check switch / networking monitoring to see if any ports are too busy

## Diagnosis


1. Identify affected node(s):
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Why do we have this step if we get the node name and IP in step #2 from the alert?


## Mitigation

1. Network tuning: Ensure jumbo frames (MTU ≥ 9000) are enabled end-to-end
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Are you sure Jumbo Frames will help with latency? Why?

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not exactly sure.

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You can find many "Jumbo Frame" test instructions on the internet - for example this one:
https://blah.cloud/networks/test-jumbo-frames-working/

In the end you use ping with a certain icmp size (which different for the different OSs) and you tell the network stack not to fragment the package (but send it whole).

As a mitigation, customers need to ensure the node network interfaces are configured for 9000 bytes AND that all switches in between the nodes also support 9000 bytes on their ports.


## Mitigation

1. Short term: Throttle non-essential traffic on the node.
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how?

there are new alerts introduced for odf
health score calculation. This commit adds
runbooks for each of them

Signed-off-by: yati1998 <ypadia@redhat.com>
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lgtm - small error corrections where I added recommendations. Aside from these I'm good with the PR


* If OSDs are restarted frequently or do not start up within 5 minutes,
the cluster might decide to rebalance the data onto other more reliable
disks.If this happens, the cluster will temporarily be slightly less
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disks.If this happens, the cluster will temporarily be slightly less
disks. If this happens, the cluster will temporarily be slightly less


## Mitigation

* Increase more disks to enhance the performance.
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* Increase more disks to enhance the performance.
* Add more disks to the cluster to enhance the performance.

## Diagnosis

1. From the alert, note the instance (node IP).
2. Confirm the node does not run OSDs:
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If this is an OSD node and triggers the >100ms alert, we're in trouble :P
So I think this check does not provide any value (we're not doing anything with the data we gather with this)

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