Derived from the 2026-05-19 ingestion stress-test session. psql-app's unicast_prefix drain rate caps at a few-hundred msg/s under continuous Postgres maintenance (autovacuum on ip_rib + update_global_ip_rib() / update_chg_stats() / update_peer_rib_counts() crons) competing for ip_rib disk I/O. ALTER TABLE ip_rib SET autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor=0.02 -- run more often on smaller chunks. cost_limit kept at its OpenBMP-default 3000 so each run finishes fast; the consumer runs flat out between bursts instead of being throttled continuously. DROP INDEX for four unused/redundant indexes (every INSERT updates every index; these all had 0 scans in ~2h of heavy activity): - ip_rib_hash_id_idx (907 MB) - ip_rib_base_attr_hash_id_idx (558 MB) - ip_rib_prefix_idx (1538 MB, GiST) - ip_rib_origin_as_idx (364 MB) 9 -> 5 indexes; ~3.4 GB freed (6,715 MB -> 3,348 MB). Reduces index write-amplification per UPSERT by ~45% and shortens autovacuum on ip_rib by ~the same. Measurement note: across-cycle 25-min runs were inconclusive on the sustained-rate effect (inflow was near-zero by then -- gobgp stopped -- so the consumer was largely idle). The real test is re-enabling the fleet-wide feed with the consumer-replica + 62 GiB RAM and seeing whether unicast_prefix keeps up. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
OpenBMP docker files
Docker files for OpenBMP.
(Prerequisite) Platform Docker Install
Ignore this step if you already have a current docker install
Note
You should use the latest docker version, documented in this section.
Follow the instructions on https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/
Optionally add a non-root user to run docker as
usermod -aG docker ubuntu
# Logout and log back so the group takes affect.
Optionally configure /etc/default/docker (e.g. for proxy config)
export http_proxy="http://proxy:80/"
export https_proxy="http://proxy:80/"
export no_proxy="127.0.0.1,openbmp.org,/var/run/docker.sock"
Make sure you can run 'docker run hello-world' successfully.
OpenBMP Docker Files
Each docker file contains a readme file, see below:
Using Docker Compose to run everything
Quick start (recommended): copy
.env.exampleto.env, fill it in, and run./setup.sh— it creates the data directories, syncs Grafana provisioning, and generates Authelia secrets. Then:docker compose up -d # BMP collector core docker compose --profile test --profile auth up -d # full stackSee DOCS.md section 4 for details and the manual alternative below.
Install Docker Compose
You will need docker-compose. You can install that via Docker Compose instructions. Docker compose will run everything, including handling restarts of containers.
(1) Mount/Make persistent directories
Create expected directories. You can choose to mount these as well or update the compose file to change them.
Note
If you are using OSX/Mac, then you will need to update your docker preferences to allow
/var/openbmp
Make sure to create the OBMP_DATA_ROOT directory first.
export OBMP_DATA_ROOT=/var/openbmp
sudo mkdir -p $OBMP_DATA_ROOT
Create sub directories
mkdir -p ${OBMP_DATA_ROOT}/config
mkdir -p ${OBMP_DATA_ROOT}/kafka-data
mkdir -p ${OBMP_DATA_ROOT}/zk-data
mkdir -p ${OBMP_DATA_ROOT}/zk-log
mkdir -p ${OBMP_DATA_ROOT}/postgres/data
mkdir -p ${OBMP_DATA_ROOT}/postgres/ts
mkdir -p ${OBMP_DATA_ROOT}/grafana
mkdir -p ${OBMP_DATA_ROOT}/grafana/dashboards
sudo chmod -R 7777 $OBMP_DATA_ROOT
In order to init the DB tables, you must create the file
${OBMP_DATA_ROOT}/config/init_db. This should only be done once or whenever you want to completely wipe out the DB and start over.
Change OBMP_DATA_ROOT=<path> to where you created the directories above. The default is /var/openbmp
OBMP_DATA_ROOT=/var/openbmp docker-compose -p obmp up -d