Previously the `quotesEscape` function was escaping only double quotes.
This wasn't enough, since the input string could contain other special chars,
which must be escaped when put inside JSON string. For example, carriage return and line feed chars (\n\r),
backslash char, etc. This led to the following issues, which were improperly fixed:
- https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/890 - this issue
was "fixed" by introducing the `crlfEscape` function, which led to unnecessary
complications in user templates, while not fixing various corner cases
such as backslash chars in the input string.
See 1de15ad490
- https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3139 - this issue
was "fixed" by urlencoding the whole string passed to -external.alert.source
command-line flag. This led to invalid urls, which couldn't be parsed by Grafana.
See 00c838353d
and 4bd0244599
This commit properly encodes the input string passed to `quotesEscape`, so it can be safely embedded inside JSON strings.
This commit deprecates crlfEscape template function and adds the following new template functions:
- strvalue and stripDomain - these functions are supported by Prometheus, so they were added
for compatibility purposes.
- jsonEscape and htmlEscape for converting the input string to valid quoted JSON string
and for html-escaping the input string, so it could be safely embedded as a plaintext
into html.
This commit also documents all supported template functions at https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#template-functions
The deprecated crlfEscape function isn't documented on purpose, since its usefulness is negative in general case.
The message about dropped data still remains at `error` level.
The change supposed to make log message more clear about how
serious it is.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
- Clarify the description for -datasource.queryStep command-line flag
- Consistently use a single dash in front of -datasource.queryStep command-line flag
- Update -help output at docs/vmalert.md
Change default value for command-line flag `datasource.queryStep` from `0s` to `5m`.
Param `step` is added by vmalert to every rule evaluation request sent to datasource.
Before this change, `step` was equal to group's evaluation interval by default.
Param `step` for instant queries defines how far VM can look back for the last written data point.
The change supposed to improve reliability of the rules evaluation when evaluation interval
is lower than scraping interval.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: always re-evaluate Annotations
Previously, Annotations were evaluated only:
1. On alert creating.
2. On alert's value change.
This is premature optimization. It was assumed that since annotations
could contain only text with alert's labels or value - there is no need
in spending resources to re-compile Annotations.
Later, template function `query` was added, which can execute
arbitrary queries and return different results on every evaluation.
So if it was used in annotations, it would be executed only on init
or value change.
Another case when optimization caused an issue - annotations hot reload.
In this case, annotations of the active alert won't change even if Rule's
annotations were changed.
This fix enables Annotations re-evaluation on each iteration to resolve
issues above. It would have some impact on performance, but it is unlikely
it will be noticeable.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: add tp Changelog
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Previously empty series (e.g. series with all NaN samples) were passed to aggregate functions.
Such series must be ingored by all the aggregate functions.
So it is better from consistency PoV filtering out empty series before applying aggregate functions.
- Use getScalar() function for obtaining the expected scalar from phi arg
- Reduce the error message returned to the user when incorrect phi is passed to histogram_quantiles
- Improve the description of this bugfix in the docs/CHANGELOG.md
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3026
* lib/storage: prevent excessive loops when storage is in RO
Returning nil error when storage is in RO mode results
into excessive loops and function calls which could
result into CPU exhaustion. Returning an err instead
will trigger delays in the for loop and save some resources.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* document the change
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
- Use binary search instead of linear scan when locating the run of smallest timestamps
in blocks with intersected time ranges. This should improve performance
when merging blocks with big number of samples
- Skip samples with duplicate timestamps. This should increase query performance
in cluster version of VictoriaMetrics with the enabled replication.
* vmalert: deprecate alert's status link
Deprecate alert's status link `/api/v1/<groupID>/<alertID>/status` in favour of
`api/v1/alerts?group_id=<group_id>&alert_id=<alert_id>"`.
The change was needed for simplifying logic in vmselect for proxying vmalert's requests.
The old alert's status link will be still supported for a few versions but will be removed in the future.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2825
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: fix review comments
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Previously the time series could be put into dateMetricIDCache without
registering in the per-day inverted index if GetOrCreateTSIDByName
finds TSID entry in the global index. This could lead to missing
series in query results.
The issue has been introduced in the commit 55e7afae3a,
which has been included in VictoriaMetrics v1.78.0
* docs: warn about potential issue with read queries for 1.78.0
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: warn about potential issue with read queries for 1.78.0
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Previously SearchMetricNames was returning unmarshaled metric names.
This wasn't great for vmstorage, which should spend additional CPU time
for marshaling the metric names before sending them to vmselect.
While at it, remove possible duplicate metric names, which could occur when
multiple samples for new time series are ingested via concurrent requests.
Also sort the metric names before returning them to the client.
This simplifies debugging of the returned metric names across repeated requests to /api/v1/series
Previously the cache could store 10K unique regexps. When every regexp is huge (e.g. hundreds of kilobytes),
then the total cache size could grow to multiples of gigabytes. Now the cache size is limited by the total length
of all cached regexps. So huge regexps won't result in high memory usage for the cache.
Metrics `vm_partial_results_total` and `vm_requests_total` serving
the similar purpose, but contain inconsistent set of labels.
This change updates `vm_partial_results_total` labels to be consistent
with `vm_requests_total`.
The change breaks backward compatibility with assumption that
`vm_partial_results_total` wasn't widely used, since it is
not documented and absent in the alerts and dashboards.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
