---
name: "Monitoring::Plugin::Performance"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libmonitoring-plugin-perl"
version: "0.40-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Monitoring::Plugin::Performance"
---

# Monitoring::Plugin::Performance(3pm)

class for handling Monitoring::Plugin performance data.

## NAME

Monitoring::Plugin::Performance - class for handling Monitoring::Plugin performance data.

## SYNOPSIS

```
  use Monitoring::Plugin::Performance use_die => 1;
  # Constructor (also accepts a 'threshold' obj instead of warning/critical)
  $p = Monitoring::Plugin::Performance->new(
      label     => 'size',
      value     => $value,
      uom       => "kB",
      warning   => $warning,
      critical  => $critical,
      min       => $min,
      max       => $max,
  );
  # Parser
  @perf = Monitoring::Plugin::Performance->parse_perfstring(
      "/=382MB;15264;15269;; /var=218MB;9443;9448"
  )
  or warn("Failed to parse perfstring");
  # Accessors
  for $p (@perf) {
    printf "label:    %s\n",   $p->label;
    printf "value:    %s\n",   $p->value;
    printf "uom:      %s\n",   $p->uom;
    printf "warning:  %s\n",   $p->warning;
    printf "critical: %s\n",   $p->critical;
    printf "min:      %s\n",   $p->min;
    printf "max:      %s\n",   $p->max;
    # Special accessor returning a threshold obj containing warning/critical
    $threshold = $p->threshold;
  }
  # Perfdata output format i.e. label=value[uom];[warn];[crit];[min];[max]
  print $p->perfoutput;
```

## DESCRIPTION

Monitoring::Plugin class for handling performance data. This is a public interface because it could be used by performance graphing routines, such as nagiostat (http://nagiostat.sourceforge.net), perfparse (http://perfparse.sourceforge.net), nagiosgraph (http://nagiosgraph.sourceforge.net) or NagiosGrapher (http://www.nagiosexchange.org/NagiosGrapher.84.0.html).

Monitoring::Plugin::Performance offers both a parsing interface (via parse\_perfstring), for turning nagios performance output strings into their components, and a composition interface (via new), for turning components into perfdata strings.

## USE'ING THE MODULE

If you are using this module for the purposes of parsing perf data, you will probably want to set use\_die =\> 1 at use time. This forces &Monitoring::Plugin::Functions::plugin\_exit to call *die()* - rather than *exit()* - when an error occurs. This is then trappable by an eval. If you don't set use\_die, then an error in these modules will cause your script to exit

## CLASS METHODS

- Monitoring::Plugin::Performance-\>new(%attributes)

  Instantiates a new Monitoring::Plugin::Performance object with the given attributes.

- Monitoring::Plugin::Performance-\>parse\_perfstring($string)

  Returns an array of Monitoring::Plugin::Performance objects based on the string entered. If there is an error parsing the string - which may consists of several sets of data -  will return an array with all the successfully parsed sets.

  If values are input with commas instead of periods, due to different locale settings, then it will still be parsed, but the commas will be converted to periods.

## OBJECT METHODS (ACCESSORS)

- label, value, uom, warning, critical, min, max

  These all return scalars. min and max are not well supported yet.

- threshold

  Returns a Monitoring::Plugin::Threshold object holding the warning and critical ranges for this performance data (if any).

- rrdlabel

  Returns a string based on 'label' that is suitable for use as dataset name of an RRD i.e. munges label to be 1-19 characters long with only characters \[a-zA-Z0-9\_\].

  This calls `$self`-\>clean\_label and then truncates to 19 characters.

  There is no guarantee that multiple N:P:Performance objects will have unique rrdlabels.

- clean\_label

  Returns a "clean" label for use as a dataset name in RRD, ie, it converts characters that are not \[a-zA-Z0-9\_\] to \_.

  It also converts "/" to "root" and "/{name}" to "{name}".

- perfoutput

  Outputs the data in Monitoring::Plugin perfdata format i.e. label=value\[uom\];\[warn\];\[crit\];\[min\];\[max\].

## SEE ALSO

Monitoring::Plugin, Monitoring::Plugin::Threshold, https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html

## AUTHOR

This code is maintained by the Monitoring Plugin Development Team: see https://monitoring-plugins.org

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2014      by Monitoring Plugin Team Copyright (C) 2006-2014 by Nagios Plugin Development Team

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.