Asok Gems and How To Polish Them

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Ceph Admin Socket (`asok`) exposes actionable internals and the talk demonstrates practical tooling: a script enumerates 179 commands across daemons, finds almost half undocumented, and highlights a common set of 25 commands useful everywhere. Examples include config diff visualizations to track runtime overrides and a parser that converts messenger dump into an RTT matrix and the CN top interactive view; all tools live in a companion repo and make the JSON gold immediately usable.

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" chapters (8)

1. 0:00Introduction to admin sockets
2. 1:09What are admin sockets
3. 6:09Mapping the admin socket territory
4. 11:55Polishing admin socket gems
5. 12:19Config diff visualization
6. 14:57Messenger dump insights
7. 18:12Recap and future tools
8. 21:03Q&A and resources

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