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Use Birdwatcher

This guide walks you through how to use Birdwatcher to check the state of your Milvus and configure it on the fly.

Start Birdwatcher

Birdwatcher is a command-line tool, you can start it as follows:

./birdwatcher

Then you will be greeted with the following prompt:

Offline >

Connect to etcd

You need to use Birdwatcher to connect to etcd before any other operations.

  • Connect with default settings

    Offline > connect
Milvus(by-dev) >

  • Connect from Birdwatcher in a pod

    If you choose to run Birdwatcher in a Kubernetes pod, you need first obtain the IP address of etcd as follows:

    kubectl get pod my-release-etcd-0 -o 'jsonpath={.status.podIP}'

    Then access the shell of the pod.

    kubectl exec --stdin --tty birdwatcher-7f48547ddc-zcbxj -- /bin/sh

    Finally, use the returned IP address to connect to etcd as follows:

    Offline > connect --etcd ${ETCD_IP_ADDR}:2379
Milvus(by-dev)

  • Connect with a different root path

    If the root path of your Milvus is different from by-dev and you are prompted with an error reporting about an incorrect root path, you can connect to etcd as follows:

    Offline > connect --rootPath my-release
Milvus(my-release) >

    If you do not know the root path of your Milvus, connect to etcd as follows:

    Offline > connect --dry
using dry mode, ignore rootPath and metaPath
Etcd(127.0.0.1:2379) > find-milvus
1 candidates found:
my-release
Etcd(127.0.0.1:2379) > use my-release
Milvus(my-release) >

Check Milvus status

You can use the show commands to check Milvus status.

Milvus(my-release) > show -h
Usage:
   show [command]

Available Commands:
  alias               list alias meta info
  channel-watch       display channel watching info from data coord meta store
  checkpoint          list checkpoint collection vchannels
  collection-history  display collection change history
  collection-loaded   display information of loaded collection from querycoord
  collections         list current available collection from RootCoord
  config-etcd         list configuations set by etcd source
  configurations      iterate all online components and inspect configuration
  current-version     
  database            display Database info from rootcoord meta
  index               
  partition           list partitions of provided collection
  querycoord-channel  display querynode information from querycoord cluster
  querycoord-cluster  display querynode information from querycoord cluster
  querycoord-task     display task information from querycoord
  replica             list current replica information from QueryCoord
  segment             display segment information from data coord meta store
  segment-index       display segment index information
  segment-loaded      display segment information from querycoordv1 meta
  segment-loaded-grpc list segments loaded information
  session             list online milvus components

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for show

Use " show [command] --help" for more information about a command.

List sessions

You can list all etcd sessions as follows:

Milvus(by-dev) > show session
Session:datacoord, ServerID: 3, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:13333
Session:datanode, ServerID: 6, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:21124
Session:indexcoord, ServerID: 4, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:31000
Session:indexnode, ServerID: 5, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:21121
Session:proxy, ServerID: 8, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:19529
Session:querycoord, ServerID: 7, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:19531
Session:querynode, ServerID: 2, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:21123
Session:rootcoord, ServerID: 1, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:53100

In the command output, you can find sessions from all Milvus components to etcd.

Check databases and collections

You can list all databases and collections.

  • List databases

    In the command output, you can find information about every database.

    Milvus(by-dev) > show database
=============================
ID: 1   Name: default
TenantID:        State: DatabaseCreated
--- Total Database(s): 1

  • List collections

    In the command output, you can find detailed information about every collection.

    Milvus(by-dev) > show collections
================================================================================
DBID: 1
Collection ID: 443407225551410746       Collection Name: medium_articles_2020
Collection State: CollectionCreated     Create Time: 2023-08-08 09:27:08
Fields:
- Field ID: 0   Field Name: RowID       Field Type: Int64
- Field ID: 1   Field Name: Timestamp   Field Type: Int64
- Field ID: 100         Field Name: id          Field Type: Int64
        - Primary Key: true, AutoID: false
- Field ID: 101         Field Name: title       Field Type: VarChar
        - Type Param max_length: 512
- Field ID: 102         Field Name: title_vector        Field Type: FloatVector
        - Type Param dim: 768
- Field ID: 103         Field Name: link        Field Type: VarChar
        - Type Param max_length: 512
- Field ID: 104         Field Name: reading_time        Field Type: Int64
- Field ID: 105         Field Name: publication         Field Type: VarChar
        - Type Param max_length: 512
- Field ID: 106         Field Name: claps       Field Type: Int64
- Field ID: 107         Field Name: responses   Field Type: Int64
Enable Dynamic Schema: false
Consistency Level: Bounded
Start position for channel by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0(by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0_443407225551410746v0): [1 0 28 175 133 76 39 6]
--- Total collections:  1        Matched collections:  1
--- Total channel: 1     Healthy collections: 1
================================================================================

  • View a specific collection

    You can view a specific collection by specifying its ID.

    Milvus(by-dev) > show collection-history --id 443407225551410746
================================================================================
DBID: 1
Collection ID: 443407225551410746       Collection Name: medium_articles_2020
Collection State: CollectionCreated     Create Time: 2023-08-08 09:27:08
Fields:
- Field ID: 0   Field Name: RowID       Field Type: Int64
- Field ID: 1   Field Name: Timestamp   Field Type: Int64
- Field ID: 100         Field Name: id          Field Type: Int64
        - Primary Key: true, AutoID: false
- Field ID: 101         Field Name: title       Field Type: VarChar
        - Type Param max_length: 512
- Field ID: 102         Field Name: title_vector        Field Type: FloatVector
        - Type Param dim: 768
- Field ID: 103         Field Name: link        Field Type: VarChar
        - Type Param max_length: 512
- Field ID: 104         Field Name: reading_time        Field Type: Int64
- Field ID: 105         Field Name: publication         Field Type: VarChar
        - Type Param max_length: 512
- Field ID: 106         Field Name: claps       Field Type: Int64
- Field ID: 107         Field Name: responses   Field Type: Int64
Enable Dynamic Schema: false
Consistency Level: Bounded
Start position for channel by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0(by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0_443407225551410746v0): [1 0 28 175 133 76 39 6]

  • View all loaded collections

    You can have Birdwatcher filter all loaded collections.

    Milvus(by-dev) > show collection-loaded
Version: [>= 2.2.0]     CollectionID: 443407225551410746
ReplicaNumber: 1        LoadStatus: Loaded
--- Collections Loaded: 1

  • List all channel checkpoints of a collection

    You can have Birdwatcher list all checkpoints of a specific collection.

    Milvus(by-dev) > show checkpoint --collection 443407225551410746
vchannel by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0_443407225551410746v0 seek to 2023-08-08 09:36:09.54 +0000 UTC, cp channel: by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0_443407225551410746v0, Source: Channel Checkpoint

Check index details

Run the following command to list all index files in detail.

Milvus(by-dev) > show index
*************2.1.x***************
*************2.2.x***************
==================================================================
Index ID: 443407225551410801    Index Name: _default_idx_102    CollectionID:443407225551410746
Create Time: 2023-08-08 09:27:19.139 +0000      Deleted: false
Index Type: HNSW        Metric Type: L2
Index Params: 
==================================================================

List partitions

Run the following command to list all partitions in a specific collection.

Milvus(by-dev) > show partition --collection 443407225551410746
Parition ID: 443407225551410747 Name: _default  State: PartitionCreated
--- Total Database(s): 1

Check channel status

Run the following command to view channel status

Milvus(by-dev) > show channel-watch
=============================
key: by-dev/meta/channelwatch/6/by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0_443407225551410746v0
Channel Name:by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0_443407225551410746v0         WatchState: WatchSuccess
Channel Watch start from: 2023-08-08 09:27:09 +0000, timeout at: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
Start Position ID: [1 0 28 175 133 76 39 6], time: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
Unflushed segments: []
Flushed segments: []
Dropped segments: []
--- Total Channels: 1

List all replicas and segments

  • List all replicas

    Run the following command to list all replicas and their corresponding collections.

    Milvus(by-dev) > show replica
================================================================================
ReplicaID: 443407225685278721 CollectionID: 443407225551410746 version:>=2.2.0
All Nodes:[2]

  • List all segments

    Run the following command to list all segments and their status

    SegmentID: 443407225551610865 State: Flushed, Row Count:5979
--- Growing: 0, Sealed: 0, Flushed: 1
--- Total Segments: 1, row count: 5979

    Run the following command to list all loaded segments in detail. For Milvus 2.1.x, use show segment-loaded instead.

    Milvus(by-dev) > show segment-loaded-grpc
===========
ServerID 2
Channel by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0_443407225551410746v0, collection: 443407225551410746, version 1691486840680656937
Leader view for channel: by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0_443407225551410746v0
Growing segments number: 0 , ids: []
SegmentID: 443407225551610865 CollectionID: 443407225551410746 Channel: by-dev-rootcoord-dml_0_443407225551410746v0
Sealed segments number: 1

List configurations

You can have Birdwatcher list the current configurations of each Milvus component.

Milvus(by-dev) > show configurations
client nil Session:proxy, ServerID: 8, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:19529
Component rootcoord-1
rootcoord.importtaskexpiration: 900
rootcoord.enableactivestandby: false
rootcoord.importtaskretention: 86400
rootcoord.maxpartitionnum: 4096
rootcoord.dmlchannelnum: 16
rootcoord.minsegmentsizetoenableindex: 1024
rootcoord.port: 53100
rootcoord.address: localhost
rootcoord.maxdatabasenum: 64
Component datacoord-3
...
querynode.gracefulstoptimeout: 30
querynode.cache.enabled: true
querynode.cache.memorylimit: 2147483648
querynode.scheduler.maxreadconcurrentratio: 2

As an alternative, you can visit each Milvus component to find its configuration. The following demonstrates how to list the configuration of the QueryCoord with ID 7.

Milvus(by-dev) > show session
Session:datacoord, ServerID: 3, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:13333
Session:datanode, ServerID: 6, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:21124
Session:indexcoord, ServerID: 4, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:31000
Session:indexnode, ServerID: 5, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:21121
Session:proxy, ServerID: 8, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:19529
Session:querycoord, ServerID: 7, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:19531
Session:querynode, ServerID: 2, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:21123
Session:rootcoord, ServerID: 1, Version: 2.2.11, Address: 10.244.0.8:53100

Milvus(by-dev) > visit querycoord 7
QueryCoord-7(10.244.0.8:19531) > configuration
Key: querycoord.enableactivestandby, Value: false
Key: querycoord.channeltasktimeout, Value: 60000
Key: querycoord.overloadedmemorythresholdpercentage, Value: 90
Key: querycoord.distpullinterval, Value: 500
Key: querycoord.checkinterval, Value: 10000
Key: querycoord.checkhandoffinterval, Value: 5000
Key: querycoord.taskexecutioncap, Value: 256
Key: querycoord.taskmergecap, Value: 8
Key: querycoord.autohandoff, Value: true
Key: querycoord.address, Value: localhost
Key: querycoord.port, Value: 19531
Key: querycoord.memoryusagemaxdifferencepercentage, Value: 30
Key: querycoord.refreshtargetsintervalseconds, Value: 300
Key: querycoord.balanceintervalseconds, Value: 60
Key: querycoord.loadtimeoutseconds, Value: 1800
Key: querycoord.globalrowcountfactor, Value: 0.1
Key: querycoord.scoreunbalancetolerationfactor, Value: 0.05
Key: querycoord.reverseunbalancetolerationfactor, Value: 1.3
Key: querycoord.balancer, Value: ScoreBasedBalancer
Key: querycoord.autobalance, Value: true
Key: querycoord.segmenttasktimeout, Value: 120000

Backup metrics

You can have Birdwatcher back up metrics of all components

Milvus(my-release) > backup
Backing up ... 100%(2452/2451)
backup etcd for prefix  done
http://10.244.0.10:9091/metrics
http://10.244.0.10:9091/metrics
http://10.244.0.10:9091/metrics
http://10.244.0.10:9091/metrics
http://10.244.0.10:9091/metrics
http://10.244.0.10:9091/metrics
http://10.244.0.10:9091/metrics
http://10.244.0.10:9091/metrics
backup for prefix done, stored in file: bw_etcd_ALL.230810-075211.bak.gz

Then you can check the file in the directory where you start Birdwatcher.

Probe collections

You can have Birdwatcher probe the status of loaded collections with specified primary keys or mock queries.

Probe collection with known primary key

In the probe command, you should specify the primary key using the pk flag, and the collection ID using the collection flag.

Milvus(by-dev) > probe pk --pk 110 --collection 442844725212299747
PK 110 found on segment 442844725212299830
Field id, value: &{long_data:<data:110 > }
Field title, value: &{string_data:<data:"Human Resources Datafication" > }
Field title_vector, value: &{dim:768 float_vector:<data:0.022454707 data:0.007861045 data:0.0063843643 data:0.024065714 data:0.013782166 data:0.018483251 data:-0.026526336 ... data:-0.06579628 data:0.00033906146 data:0.030992996 data:-0.028134001 data:-0.01311325 data:0.012471594 > }
Field article_meta, value: &{json_data:<data:"{\"link\":\"https:\\/\\/towardsdatascience.com\\/human-resources-datafication-d44c8f7cb365\",\"reading_time\":6,\"publication\":\"Towards Data Science\",\"claps\":256,\"responses\":0}" > }

Probe all collections with mock queries

You can also have Birdwatcher probe all collections with mock queries.

Milvus(by-dev) > probe query
probing collection 442682158191982314
Found vector field vector(103) with dim[384], indexID: 442682158191990455
failed to generated mock request probing index type IVF_FLAT not supported yet
probing collection 442844725212086932
Found vector field title_vector(102) with dim[768], indexID: 442844725212086936
Shard my-release-rootcoord-dml_1_442844725212086932v0 leader[298] probe with search success.
probing collection 442844725212299747
Found vector field title_vector(102) with dim[768], indexID: 442844725212299751
Shard my-release-rootcoord-dml_4_442844725212299747v0 leader[298] probe with search success.
probing collection 443294505839900248
Found vector field vector(101) with dim[256], indexID: 443294505839900251
Shard my-release-rootcoord-dml_5_443294505839900248v0 leader[298] probe with search success.
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