lib/promscrape: reduce memory usage when scraping targets with millions of metrics

This should help when scraping /federate endpoints from Prometheus instances,
which scrape millions of metrics. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/federation/
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Aliaksandr Valialkin 2020-09-01 10:55:21 +03:00
parent fe08b1eb26
commit deff8d419a

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@ -230,6 +230,15 @@ func (sw *scrapeWork) scrapeInternal(scrapeTimestamp, realTimestamp int64) error
scrapedSamples.Update(float64(samplesScraped))
for i := range srcRows {
sw.addRowToTimeseries(wc, &srcRows[i], scrapeTimestamp, true)
if len(wc.labels) > 10000 {
// Limit the maximum size of wc.writeRequest.
// This should reduce memory usage when scraping targets with millions of metrics and/or labels.
// For example, when scraping /federate handler from Prometheus - see https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/federation/
startTime := time.Now()
sw.PushData(&wc.writeRequest)
pushDataDuration.UpdateDuration(startTime)
wc.reset()
}
}
if sw.Config.SampleLimit > 0 && len(wc.writeRequest.Timeseries) > sw.Config.SampleLimit {
prompbmarshal.ResetWriteRequest(&wc.writeRequest)
@ -256,7 +265,7 @@ func (sw *scrapeWork) scrapeInternal(scrapeTimestamp, realTimestamp int64) error
return err
}
// leveldWriteRequestCtxPool allows reducing memory usage when writeRequesCtx
// leveledWriteRequestCtxPool allows reducing memory usage when writeRequesCtx
// structs contain mixed number of labels.
//
// Its logic has been copied from leveledbytebufferpool.