wchevreuil commented on a change in pull request #1894:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/1894#discussion_r440052751
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File path: src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/ops_mgt.adoc
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@@ -2629,6 +2629,91 @@ You can use the HBase Shell command `status
'replication'` to monitor the replic
* `status 'replication', 'source'` -- prints the status for each replication
source, sorted by hostname.
* `status 'replication', 'sink'` -- prints the status for each replication
sink, sorted by hostname.
+==== Understanding the output
+
+The command output will vary according to the state of replication. For
example right after a restart
+and if destination peer is not reachable, no replication source threads would
be running,
+so no metrics would get displayed:
+
+----
+hbase01.home:
+SOURCE: PeerID=1
+Normal Queue: 1
+No Reader/Shipper threads runnning yet.
+SINK: TimeStampStarted=1591985197350, Waiting for OPs...
+----
+
+Under normal circumstances, a healthy, active-active replication deployment
would
+show the following:
+
+----
+ hbase01.home:
+ SOURCE: PeerID=1
+ Normal Queue: 1
+ AgeOfLastShippedOp=0, TimeStampOfLastShippedOp=Fri Jun 12 18:49:23
BST 2020, SizeOfLogQueue=1, EditsReadFromLogQueue=1, OpsShippedToTarget=1,
TimeStampOfNextToReplicate=Fri Jun 12 18:49:23 BST 2020, Replication Lag=0
+ SINK: TimeStampStarted=1591983663458, AgeOfLastAppliedOp=0,
TimeStampsOfLastAppliedOp=Fri Jun 12 18:57:18 BST 2020
+----
+
+The definition for each of these metrics is detailed below:
+
+[cols="1,1,1", options="header"]
+|===
+| Type
+| Metric Name
+| Description
+
+| Source
+| AgeOfLastShippedOp
+| How long last successfully shipped edit took to effectively get replicated
on target.
+
+| Source
+| TimeStampOfLastShippedOp
+| The actual date of last successful edit shipment.
+
+| Source
+| `
Review comment:
Yes.
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