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[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) 4. / 5. gggeek/polyfill-pinba ActiveLibrary[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) gggeek/polyfill-pinba ===================== A pure-php implementation of the API exposed by the native Pinba extension 1.1.1(3y ago)212.5k↓23.8%4GPL-2.0PHPPHP ^5.3.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0 Since Dec 3Pushed 3y ago5 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/gggeek/pinba_php)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/gggeek/polyfill-pinba)[ RSS](/packages/gggeek-polyfill-pinba/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (7)Dependencies (3)Versions (8)Used By (0) Polyfill-Pinba ============== [](#polyfill-pinba) Pure-php reimplementation of the "PHP extension for Pinba". See for the original. Requirements ------------ [](#requirements) PHP 5.3 or any later version. A Pinba server to send the data to. Known servers include and . Both are available as Docker Container images for trying out. Installation ------------ [](#installation) ``` composer require gggeek/polyfill-pinba ``` then set up configuration settings `pinba.enabled` and `pinba.server` in `php.ini` as described at [https://github.com/tony2001/pinba\_engine/wiki/PHP-extension#INI\_Directives](https://github.com/tony2001/pinba_engine/wiki/PHP-extension#INI_Directives) That's all. **NB** gathering of metrics and sending them to the server is disabled by default. You *have* to enable it via ini settings, unless you have added explicit calls to the pinba api in your php code. Usage ----- [](#usage) See the API described at [https://github.com/tony2001/pinba\_engine/wiki/PHP-extension](https://github.com/tony2001/pinba_engine/wiki/PHP-extension) A trivial usage example can be found in [doc/sample.php](doc/sample.php). For viewing the gathered metrics, check out , or ### Extensions to the original API [](#extensions-to-the-original-api) #### Pinba::ini\_set [](#pinbaini_set) If the pinba php extension is not enabled in your setup (which is most likely the case, as otherwise you would not be using this package), it is not possible from php code to modify the values for ini options `pinba.enabled` and `pinba.server`. While it is possible to set their value in `php.ini`, if you want to modify their value at runtime you will have instead to use methods `\PinbaPhp\Polyfill\pinba::ini_set($option, $value)`. You should also use corresponding method `\PinbaPhp\Polyfill\pinba::ini_get($option)` to check it. ### ini option `pinba.inhibited` [](#ini-option-pinbainhibited) In case you want to keep your code instrumented with `pinba_timer_add`, `pinba_timer_stop` and similar calls but are not collecting the pinba data anymore, and you want to reduce as much as possible the overhead imposed by this package, please set in `pinba.inhibited=1` `php.ini`. Using `pinba.enabled=0` or `pinba.auto_flush=0` is not recommended in that scenario, as, while they both disable the sending of data, they do not prevent timers to be actually created. Compatibility ------------- [](#compatibility) We strive to implement the same API as Pinba extension ver. 1.1.2. As for the server side, the library is tested for compatibility against both a Pinba server and a Pinba2 one. Features not (yet) supported: - Timers data misses `ru_utime` and `ru_stime` members. This is true also for timers added to `PinbaClient` instances Known issues - which cannot / won't be fixed: - lack in precision in time reporting: the time reported for page execution will be much shorter with any php code than it can be measured with a php extension. We suggest thus not to take the time reported by this package as an absolute value, but rather use it to check macro-issues, such as a page taking 10 seconds to run, or 10 times as much as another page. In the demo file [doc/sample.php](doc/sample.php) we showcase how to make time measurement as precise as possible - impact on system performances: the cpu time and ram used by this implementation (which runs on every page of your site!) are also bigger than the resources used by the php extension. It is up to you to decide if the extra load added to your server by using this package is worth it or not, esp. for heavily loaded production servers - the warnings raised when incorrect data is passed to the pinba php functions are of severity `E_USER_WARNING` instead of `E_WARNING` - in the data reported by `pinba_get_info` and reported to the Pinba server, `doc_size` has always a value of 0. This can be worked around by using an instance of `PinbaClient` and calling `setDocumentSize` - see [doc/measure\_body\_size.php](doc/measure_body_size.php) for an example - in the data reported to the Pinba server, `memory_footprint` has always a fixed value of 0 or is not reported at all. Again, using a `PinbaClient` instance can fix that - but there is no php function available that I know of which can report the equivalent usage of the `mallinfo` C call done by the php extension - ini setting `pinba.resolve_interval` is not supported and most likely never will - the default value reported to the Pina engine for the `schema` field is an empty string, rather than not being set at all. This results in the database table storing a value of '' instead of NULL. At the same time, sending a value of NULL makes the server-side engine re-use the last non-null value from a previous pinba packet, which seems a faulty behaviour - the `pinba_reset` call does delete all exiting timers, unlike what the same function from the php extension does. Again, the upstream behaviour does feel faulty Performances ------------ [](#performances) These results are indicative of the time and memory overhead of executing 1000 function calls in a loop, and instrumenting each execution with a separate timer. As you can see, the execution delay introduced is very small, less than 1 millisecond. The memory overhead is proportional to the number of timers added and the tags attached to each timer. ``` No timing: 0.00001 secs, 0 bytes used Pinba-extension: 0.00072 secs, 280.640 bytes used PHP-Pinba: 0.00062 secs, 412.920 bytes used ``` NB: weirdly enough, the php extension seems to be slightly slower on average than the pure-php implementations. Having taken a cursory look at the C code of the extension, I suspect this is because it executes too many `gettimeofday` calls... In case you want to keep your code instrumented with lots of `pinba_timer_start` calls, and reduce the overhead of using the extension as much as possible (while of course not measuring anything anymore), you can set `pinba.inhibited=1` in php.ini. With that set, this is the overhead you can expect for "timing" 1000 executions of a function call: ``` No timing: 0.00001 secs, 0 bytes used PHPPinba timed: 0.00009 secs, 0 bytes used ``` (tests executed with php 7.4 in an Ubuntu Focal container, running within an Ubuntu Jammy VM with 4 vCPU allocated) Notes ----- [](#notes) Includes code from the Protobuf for PHP lib by Iván -DrSlump- Montes: Other known packages exist implementing the same idea, such as: FAQ --- [](#faq) - **Q:** Can I run the polyfill in conjunction with the pinba php extension? **A:** yes, although I fail to see the reason why you would do that. When doing so, unless taking care to selectively disable either the php extension or this bundle (f.e. via calls to `Pinba::ini_set` in your code), you will get double data reported to the Pinba server Running tests ------------- [](#running-tests) The recommended way to run the library's test suite is via the provided Docker containers and the corresponding Docker Compose configuration. A handy shell script is available that simplifies usage of Docker and Docker Compose. The full sequence of operations is: ``` ./tests/ci/vm.sh build ./tests/ci/vm.sh start ./tests/ci/vm.sh runtests ./tests/ci/vm.sh stop # and, once you have finished all testing related work: ./tests/ci/vm.sh cleanup ``` By default, tests are run using php 7.4 in a Container based on Ubuntu 20 Focal. The data is sent to a container running the original Pinba server - it can also be configured to be sent to a container running the Pinba2 server instead. You can change the version of PHP and Ubuntu in use by setting the environment variables `PHP_VERSION` and `UBUNTU_VERSION`before building the containers. You can switch the target Container used for the testsuite to the one running Pinba2 by setting the environment variables `PINBA_DB_SERVER=pinba2`, `PINBA_SERVER=pinba2` and `PINBA_PORT=3002` before starting the containers. ### Testing tips [](#testing-tips) - to debug the communication between php and the Pinba server, it is possible to use tcpdump within the `php` container: ``` sudo tcpdump udp -w packets.cap ``` once the capture file is saved, it can be analyzed by fe. opening it in Wireshark. To improve the ability of Wireshark of decoding the protobuf-formatted messages, set up its configuration as described at . The `.proto` file describing the messages used by Pinba can be found at As an alternative which does not require Wireshark, it is also possible to save to a file the string resulting from `pinba_get_data()` calls, then decode it using the `protoc` tool - which is included by default in the test container: ``` php myTestFile > test.rawmsg protoc --decode=Pinba.Request tests/pinba.proto < test.rawmsg ``` License ------- [](#license) Use of this software is subject to the terms in the [license](LICENSE) file [![License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a1ac5ac86372fd7c730306834948796a9eec78d565feecc7ab8ba35c23d7972d/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f67676765656b2f706f6c7966696c6c2d70696e62612f6c6963656e7365)](https://packagist.org/packages/gggeek/polyfill-pinba)[![Latest Stable Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/f5651af48bde99fec50787d949b93e49e8a05c4511a81809057119cefee7655e/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f67676765656b2f706f6c7966696c6c2d70696e62612f762f737461626c65)](https://packagist.org/packages/gggeek/polyfill-pinba)[![Total Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/8a511fd0b31aa068f249c22d7344d0634d2266c75e51746936dc2569246143a0/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f67676765656b2f706f6c7966696c6c2d70696e62612f646f776e6c6f616473)](https://packagist.org/packages/gggeek/polyfill-pinba) [![Build Status](https://github.com/gggeek/pinba_php/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/gggeek/pinba_php/actions/workflows/ci.yml)[![Code Coverage](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b5d0f7a1ec491cfdeea831d7f612369a577305769998e5d53c3f876cae50dd28/68747470733a2f2f636f6465636f762e696f2f67682f67676765656b2f70696e62615f7068702f6272616e63682f6d61737465722f67726170682f62616467652e737667)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/gggeek/pinba_php) ### Health Score 33 — LowBetter than 75% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity31 Limited adoption so far Community13 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity56 Maturing project, gaining track record Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 99.2% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. 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