It has been appeared that VictoriaLogs is frequently used for collecting logs with tens of fields.
For example, standard Kuberntes setup on top of Filebeat generates more than 20 fields per each log.
Such logs are also known as "wide events".
The previous storage format was optimized for logs with a few fields. When at least a single field
was referenced in the query, then the all the meta-information about all the log fields was unpacked
and parsed per each scanned block during the query. This could require a lot of additional disk IO
and CPU time when logs contain many fields. Resolve this issue by providing an (field -> metainfo_offset)
index per each field in every data block. This index allows reading and extracting only the needed
metainfo for fields used in the query. This index is stored in columnsHeaderIndexFilename ( columns_header_index.bin ).
This allows increasing performance for queries over wide events by 10x and more.
Another issue was that the data for bloom filters and field values across all the log fields except of _msg
was intermixed in two files - fieldBloomFilename ( field_bloom.bin ) and fieldValuesFilename ( field_values.bin ).
This could result in huge disk read IO overhead when some small field was referred in the query,
since the Operating System usually reads more data than requested. It reads the data from disk
in at least 4KiB blocks (usually the block size is much bigger in the range 64KiB - 512KiB).
So, if 512-byte bloom filter or values' block is read from the file, then the Operating System
reads up to 512KiB of data from disk, which results in 1000x disk read IO overhead. This overhead isn't visible
for recently accessed data, since this data is usually stored in RAM (aka Operating System page cache),
but this overhead may become very annoying when performing the query over large volumes of data
which isn't present in OS page cache.
The solution for this issue is to split bloom filters and field values across multiple shards.
This reduces the worst-case disk read IO overhead by at least Nx where N is the number of shards,
while the disk read IO overhead is completely removed in best case when the number of columns doesn't exceed N.
Currently the number of shards is 8 - see bloomValuesShardsCount . This solution increases
performance for queries over large volumes of newly ingested data by up to 1000x.
The new storage format is versioned as v1, while the old storage format is version as v0.
It is stored in the partHeader.FormatVersion.
Parts with the old storage format are converted into parts with the new storage format during background merge.
It is possible to force merge by querying /internal/force_merge HTTP endpoint - see https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/#forced-merge .
### Describe Your Changes
Fix `Alert` component to prevent it from overflowing the screen when
displaying long messages.
Related issue: #7207
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Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
### Describe Your Changes
- Added functionality to cancel running queries on the Explore Logs and
Query pages.
- The loader was changed from a spinner to a top bar within the block.
This still indicates loading, but solves the issue of the spinner
"flickering," especially during graph dragging.
Related issue: #7097https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/98e59aeb-905b-4b9d-bbb2-688223b22a82
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Empty fields are treated as non-existing fields by VictoriaLogs data model.
So there is no sense in returning empty fields in query results, since they may mislead and confuse users.
### Describe Your Changes
Fixed VictoriaLogs HA examples references in docs
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s.partitions can be changed when new partition is registered or when old partition is dropped.
This could lead to data races and panics when s.partitions slice is accessed by concurrently executed queries.
The fix is to make a copy of the selected partitions under s.partitionsLock before performing the query.
### Describe Your Changes
Please provide a brief description of the changes you made. Be as
specific as possible to help others understand the purpose and impact of
your modifications.
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Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
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Create blockResultColumn.forEachDictValue* helper functions for visiting matching
dictionary values. These helper functions should prevent from counting dictionary values
without matching logs in the future.
This is a follow-up for 0c0f013a60
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/7152
encoding.GetUint64s() returns uninitialized slice, which may contain arbitrary values.
So values in this slice must be reset to zero before using it for counting hits in `uniq` and `top` pipes.
This allows executing queries with `stats` pipe, which calculate multiple results with the same functions,
but with different `if (...)` conditions. For example:
_time:5m | count(), count() if (error)
Previously such queries couldn't be executed becasue automatically generated name for the second result
didn't include `if (error)`, so names for both results were identical - `count(*)`.
Now the following queries are equivalents:
_time:5s | sort by (_time)
_time:5s | order by (_time)
This is needed for convenience, since `order by` is commonly used in other query languages such as SQL.
### Describe Your Changes
Marked fluentd in victorialogs roadmap
Added fluentd syslog example setup
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### Describe Your Changes
- Show the time range in the tooltip when hovering over staircase
graphs.
- Use bolder lines for staircase graphs.
- Increase the number of steps on the staircase graph to 100.
- Reduce the maximum width of the tooltip to 1/3 of the screen.
- Insert only the label name under the cursor into the query input field
when `Ctrl`-clicking the line legend.
See [this
comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6545#issuecomment-2336805237).
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Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
### Describe Your Changes
1) Changed table settings from a popup to a modal window to simplify
future functionality additions.
2) Added functionality to save selected columns when data is modified or
the page is reloaded. See #7016.
<details>
<summary>Example screenshots</summary>
<img alt="demo-1" width="600"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a5d9a910-363c-4931-8b12-18ea8b3d97d8"/>
</details>
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Co-authored-by: Roman Khavronenko <roman@victoriametrics.com>
