Re: tcp_diag for all network namespaces?

[Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>]

From: dave seddon <dave.seddon.ca@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 11:24:18 -0800
> G'day,
> 
> Short
> Is there a way to extract tcp_diag socket data for all sockets from
> all network name spaces please?

I think there's no such interface.

I remember there was a similar request for TCP BPF iterator,
but now it's difficult because each netns could have its own
TCP hash table for established connections.


> 
> Background
> I've been using tcp_diag to dump out TCP socket performance every
> minute and then stream the data via Kafka and then into a Clickhouse
> database.  This is awesome for socket performance monitoring.
> 
> Kubernetes
> I'd like to adapt this solution to <somehow> allow monitoring of
> kubernetes clusters, so that it would be possible to monitor the
> socket performance of all pods.  Ideally, a single process could open
> a netlink socket into each network namespace, but currently that isn't
> possible.
> 
> Would it be crazy to add a new feature to the kernel to allow dumping
> all sockets from all name spaces?

Iterating netns in userspace is much simpler than in kernel that needs
iterating net_namespace_list under net_rwsem and remembering the last
netns with the refcount bumped.


> 
> Maybe I'm missing some other better option(s)?
> 
> Thanks in advance