Add Pprof support in Envoy Gateway

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Overview

Envoy Gateway exposes endpoints at localhost:8899/debug/pprof to run Golang profiles to aid in live debugging. The endpoints are equivalent to those found in the http/pprof package. /debug/pprof/ returns an HTML page listing the available profiles.

Goals

  • Add Debug Pprof support to Envoy Gateway control plane.
  • Define an API to allow Envoy Gateway to custom debug server configuration.

The following are the different types of profiles end-user can run:

PROFILEFUNCTION
/debug/pprof/allocsReturns a sampling of all past memory allocations.
/debug/pprof/blockReturns stack traces of goroutines that led to blocking on synchronization primitives.
/debug/pprof/cmdlineReturns the command line that was invoked by the current program.
/debug/pprof/goroutineReturns stack traces of all current goroutines.
/debug/pprof/heapReturns a sampling of memory allocations of live objects.
/debug/pprof/mutexReturns stack traces of goroutines holding contended mutexes.
/debug/pprof/profileReturns pprof-formatted cpu profile. You can specify the duration using the seconds GET parameter. The default duration is 30 seconds.
/debug/pprof/symbolReturns the program counters listed in the request.
/debug/pprof/threadcreateReturns stack traces that led to creation of new OS threads.
/debug/pprof/traceReturns the execution trace in binary form. You can specify the duration using the seconds GET parameter. The default duration is 1 second.

Non Goals

API

  • Add admin field in EnvoyGateway config.
  • Add debug field under admin field.
  • Add enable, port and host under address field.

Here is an example configuration

apiVersion: config.gateway.envoyproxy.io/v1alpha1
gateway:
    controllerName: "gateway.envoyproxy.io/gatewayclass-controller"
kind: EnvoyGateway
provider:
    type: "Kubernetes"
admin:
    debug: true
    address:
        port: 8899
        host: "127.0.0.1"

Last modified December 20, 2024: chore: fix typo (#4958) (2a10d47)