Personally I have been using check_varnish.py to monitor Varnish Cache (and Plus) for a long time. In the past I've also contributed a couple of times in this open source monitoring plugin and described how to use check_varnish and create graphs from Varnish statistics.
As I was implementing a different cache/memory backend, I wanted to compare the Cache Hit Rate before and after the cache changes. The Cache Hit Rate (sometimes also named Cache Hit Ratio) is a very important value telling you how many of your requests are served from the cache. As Arianna Aondio describes it:
The cache hit rate is the percentage of requests that result in cache hits. In Varnish it is evaluated as cache_hit / (cache_hit + cache_miss). The higher the hit rate the more effective your cache is.
However varnishstat does not show this object. It needs to be calculcated manually using the MAIN.cache_hit and MAIN.cache_miss values.
root@varnish:~# varnishstat -n varnish3 -1 | grep MAIN.cache
MAIN.cache_hit 43616371 27.82 Cache hits
MAIN.cache_hit_grace 14902812 9.51 Cache grace hits
MAIN.cache_hitpass 0 0.00 Cache hits for pass.
MAIN.cache_hitmiss 2043449 1.30 Cache hits for miss.
MAIN.cache_miss 32955140 21.02 Cache misses
Using these values and the formula mentioned above this results in:
Cache Hit Rate = cache_hit / (cache_hit + cache_miss)
therefore
0.569616172 = 43616371 / (43616371 + 32955140)
Of course this can be automated. We already have the check_varnish monitoring plugin doing most of the work. It just needs to obtain the values of MAIN.cache_hit and MAIN.cache_miss and apply the formula. VoilĂ , the Cache Hit Rate value is there.
The next version (most likely 1.5) of check_varnish will be able to calculate the Cache Hit Rate by applying the -r or --hitratio parameter to the plugin:
root@varnish:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_varnish.py -n varnish3 -f MAIN.cache_hit,MAIN.cache_miss -r
VARNISH OK - MAIN.cache_hit is 43629247 - MAIN.cache_miss is 32964372 - Cache Hit Rate is 0.57 - | MAIN.cache_hit=43629247;0;0;; MAIN.cache_miss=32964372;0;0;; hitrate=0.57;0;0;;
Requirement for this is that both MAIN.cache_hit and MAIN.cache_miss are mentioned in the fields (-f) list. The plugin will exit with a state unknown in this (human) error is made:
root@varnish:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_varnish.py -n varnish3 -f MAIN.backend_fail -r
VARNISH UNKNOWN - Must use MAIN.cache_hit and MAIN.cache_miss in field list to calculate hit ratio
The pull request with the code changes was sent in today.
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