Not sure, I have looked at the netdata website and don't see an apm that can do this in that list. It seems this APM for PHP is quite a new thing. Datadog may be possible to install on all servers.
While in here it says it is not that new thing:
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Profiling_PHP
PHP has two types of profiler:
- XHProf is a standard designed for capturing profile traces on live servers. It was originally designed by engineers at Facebook and is suitable for production environments.
- XDebug is well known. and understood, and its trace output is supported by tools like KCachegrind. It is not recommended for production environments.
Tideways (replacement for XHProf):
Tideways is a PHP7-compatible replacement for XHProf, and support for this is built into Moodle. (
Tideways is a large, paid-for service, which helps to identify a range of issues with production servers. Whilst the service itself is a paid-for service, the instrumentation tooling is both Open Source, and free.)
When the XHProf PHP extension is installed, the "Profiling" section is displayed in "Site administration / Development". And when the profiling setting (profilingenabled) is enabled, a new link "Profiling runs" is also displayed in the Development tab. From this section, apart from access to the profiling runs, you can also import .mpr (Moodle profiling) files.
Actively maintained (by tideways, requires PHP7):
Self-hosted XHProf (free & opensource) The original XHProf extension recently found new maintainers and adds PHP 7 & 8 support based on a completely rewritten code-base for less overhead. You can install xhprof PHP Extension by compiling it from its open-source codes or from a package in your...
tideways.com
This XHProf PHP extension fork has outlived its purpose and is archived in favor of the revitalized https://github.com/longxinH/xhprof - tideways/php-xhprof-extension
github.com
Actively maintained (by PHP.net, now requires PHP7 as well):
https://pecl.php.net/package/xhprof (continously updated)
https://github.com/phacility/xhprof (appears these guys are forgot to update)
Hierarchical Profiler
www.php.net
Tideways - Self-hosted XHProf (free & opensource)
We maintain a fork of the original XHProf extension that provides PHP 7 support and a completely rewritten code-base for less overhead.
You can install
tideways_xhprof PHP Extension by compiling it from its open-source codes.
Head over to the Github repository and download the source from there. You can install the extension using these steps:
Bash:
git clone "https://github.com/tideways/php-xhprof-extension.git"
cd php-xhprof-extension
phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install
Load the extension in your php.ini with
Apache config:
extension=tideways_xhprof.so
As for integration of Tideways into your application you can use the low-level API to enable and disable the Profiler, much like XHProf worked:
PHP:
<?php
tideways_xhprof_enable();
// your application code
$data = tideways_xhprof_disable();
file_put_contents(
sys_get_temp_dir() . "/" . uniqid() . ".yourapp.xhprof",
serialize($data)
);
This stores the trace in your temporary directory which the
default UI uses to look for data. Install the xhprof_lib and xhprof_html directories from this repository into your webfolder and navigate to xhprof_html/index.php to see a list of trace.
If you want to use some improved open-source UIs take a look at the following projects:
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XHGui
A graphical interface for XHProf profiling data that can store the results in MongoDB or PDO database.
Application is
profiled and the profiling data is transferred to XHGui, which takes that information, saves it in MongoDB (or PDO database), and provides a convenient GUI for working with it.
System Requirements
XHGui has the following requirements:
- PHP version 7.0 up to 7.3
- If using MongoDB storage, see MongoDB requirements
- If using PDO storage, see PDO requirements
- To profile an application, one of the profiling PHP extensions is required. See Profiling a Web Request or CLI script. The extension is not needed to run XHGui itself.
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So all this sounds cool,but questions are here these:
- How in reality it will integrate with PHP7 + Litespeed + DirectAdmin + MariaDB.
- How can we run this on same production (live) VPS.
- Will the Litespeed won't be broken because of that, will the site speed will not be impacted (at least not less than +30%)?
- Will we actually be able to detect exact slowness of one of 100 websites in server we have. Meaning is the is a way to find botleneck PHP function with this.
- We have PHP 5.6 / PHP 7.4 / PHP 8+JIT on our server.
I actually even created a ticket on XHGui asking is the is a way we can sponsor this as DirectAdmin community, meaning I've self would probably agree to put 1500 USD on this, and I believe at least 5-10 other DirectAdmin users also could do the same.
As of now, we cannot compare with these hi-end and super expensive cloud enviroments like AWS or Azure when it has all this integrated.
And having a
PROFESSIONAL PHP PROFILING WITH GRAPHICAL UI that would give data PER WEBSITE, that would be awesome.
>> @ikkben:
>> Are other sites on that same server fast enough at those slow times for that website?
Yes, they are. And often the issue is with specific users on exact site, i.e. those that has more data and longer story with their profile.
