PingCAP Clinic Diagnostic Service (PingCAP Clinic) collects diagnostic data from TiDB clusters that are deployed using TiDB Operator. This document lists the types of data collected and their corresponding parameters.
The diagnostic data collected by PingCAP Clinic is only used for troubleshooting cluster problems.
Clinic Server is a diagnostic service deployed in the cloud. There are two independent services based on different storage locations:
Clinic Server for international users: If you upload the collected data to Clinic Server for international users, the data will be stored in the Amazon S3 set up by PingCAP in AWS US regions. PingCAP strictly controls permissions for data and only allows authorized internal technical support staff to access the data.
Clinic Server for users in the Chinese mainland: If you upload the collected data to Clinic Server for users in the Chinese mainland, the data will be stored in the Amazon S3 set up by PingCAP in AWS China (Beijing) regions. PingCAP strictly controls permissions for data and only allows authorized internal technical support staff to access the data.
TiDB cluster information
Data type
Exported file
Parameter for PingCAP Clinic
Basic information of the cluster, including the cluster ID
cluster.json
The data is collected per run by default.
Detailed information of the cluster
tidbcluster.json
The data is collected per run by default.
TiDB diagnostic data
Data type
Exported file
Parameter for PingCAP Clinic
Real-time configuration
config.json
collectors:config
TiKV diagnostic data
Data type
Exported file
Parameter for PingCAP Clinic
Real-time configuration
config.json
collectors:config
PD diagnostic data
Data type
Exported file
Parameter for PingCAP Clinic
Real-time configuration
config.json
collectors:config
Outputs of the command tiup ctl pd -u http://${pd IP}:${PORT} store
store.json
collectors:config
Outputs of the command tiup ctl pd -u http://${pd IP}:${PORT} config placement-rules show