# Performance Analyzer plugin not parsing

**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/performance-analyzer-plugin-not-parsing/2746
**Category:** Performance Analyzer
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/performance-analyzer-plugin-not-parsing/2746 "2020-05-07T10:43:11Z")
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### Author: ![rnarayananvinoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/96bed5/32.png) [@rnarayananvinoth](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/rnarayananvinoth)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/performance-analyzer-plugin-not-parsing/2746/1 "2020-05-07T10:43:11Z")

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Hi,

I have the opendistro setup using tarballs. I setup the service as mentioned in the site guideline. When I’m running the PA plugin I’m getting the below error message and the service is still running

**[PA:Reader] [Thread-1] ERROR com.amazon.opendistro.elasticsearch.performanceanalyzer.reader.ClusterLevelMetricsReader - Skip parsing. Number of lines: 1.**

Below are my config files:  
**opendistro-performance-analyzer.service**  
[Unit]  
Description=Opendistro for Elasticsearch Performance Analyzer  
PartOf=elastic.service

[Service]  
ExecStart=/path/to/elasticsearch/bin/performance-analyzer-agent-cli  
Restart=on-failure  
User=Delas  
Group=gelastic  
Environment=ES\_HOME=/path/to/elasticsearch  
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/elasticsearch

[Install]  
WantedBy=elastic.service

**performance-analyzer-agent-cli**  
#!/bin/sh

PA\_AGENT\_JAVA\_OPTS=“-Dlog4j.configurationFile=$ES\_HOME/plugins/opendistro\_performance\_analyzer/pa\_config/log4j2.xml   
-Xms64M -Xmx64M -XX:+UseSerialGC -XX:CICompilerCount=1 -XX:-TieredCompilation -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=4096   
-XX:InitialBootClassLoaderMetaspaceSize=30720 -XX:MaxRAM=400m”

ES\_MAIN\_CLASS=“com.amazon.opendistro.elasticsearch.performanceanalyzer.PerformanceAnalyzerApp”   
ES\_ADDITIONAL\_CLASSPATH\_DIRECTORIES=plugins/opendistro\_performance\_analyzer   
ES\_JAVA\_OPTS=$PA\_AGENT\_JAVA\_OPTS   
“`dirname "$0"`”/elasticsearch-cli   
“$@”

**performance-analyzer.properties**

# ======================== Elasticsearch performance analyzer plugin config =========================

# NOTE: this is an example for Linux. Please modify the config accordingly if you are using it under other OS.

# Metrics data location

metrics-location = /dev/shm/performanceanalyzer/

# Metrics deletion interval (minutes) for metrics data.

# Interval should be between 1 to 60.

metrics-deletion-interval = 1

# If set to true, the system cleans up the files behind it. So at any point, we should expect only 2

# metrics-db-file-prefix-path files. If set to false, no files are cleaned up. This can be useful, if you are archiving

# the files and wouldn’t like for them to be cleaned up.

cleanup-metrics-db-files = true

# WebService exposed by App’s port

webservice-listener-port = 9201

# Metric DB File Prefix Path location

metrics-db-file-prefix-path = /tmp/metricsdb\_

https-enabled = true

#Setup the correct path for certificates  
certificate-file-path = /path/to/elasticsearch/cert/cert.pem

private-key-file-path = /path/to/elasticsearch/cert/key.pem

# WebService bind host; default to all interfaces

#webservice-bind-host =

# Plugin Stats Metadata file name, expected to be in the same location

plugin-stats-metadata = plugin-stats-metadata

# Agent Stats Metadata file name, expected to be in the same location

agent-stats-metadata = agent-stats-metadata

Can anyone please help me understand why this would be happening?

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### Author: ![sidnaray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@sidnaray](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/sidnaray)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/performance-analyzer-plugin-not-parsing/2746/2 "2020-07-31T00:40:01Z")

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Hi,

Are you still having issues with this? Which version of Performance Analyzer are you using?

Could you also check that Performance Analyzer is enabled? You can enable it via the following command:

`curl localhost:9200/_opendistro/_performanceanalyzer/cluster/config -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"enabled": true}'`

Lastly, in your **opendistro-performance-analyzer.service** file I notice there are a lot of `/path/to/elasticsearch` lines. I assume you changed these for the sake of this post, but please double check that these paths are pointing to the appropriate locations.

Regards,  
Sid