How to Use USR1 Trap for Diagnostics - cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng GitHub Wiki

If your cloud controller is in a bad state (infinite loop, resource spike, etc.), you may wish to do a diagnostic dump to get more information than is available in the CF logs. This data includes stack traces for running threads and other general metrics.

1. SSH into the rogue Cloud Controller’s vm
2. cat /var/vcap/sys/run/cloud_controller_ng/cloud_controller_ng.pid to get the PID of the process
3. kill -USR1 [pid] You will need root access. This will NOT terminate the CC process.
4. The diagnostics directory is likely /var/vcap/data/cloud_controller_ng/diagnostics, but if it is not, look for the diagnostics key in /var/vcap/jobs/cloud_controller_ng/config/cloud_controller_ng.yml
5. In the diagnostics directory, you will find a json file with diagnostic information.