Do not store in memory the response from the last scrape per each target if -promscrape.noStaleMarkers option is enabled.
This should reduce memory usage when the scraped targets return large responses.
This allows sending staleness marks and properly calculate scrape_series_added metric in stream parsing mode
at the cost of the increased memory usage, since now the potentially big response is kept
in the lastScrape byte slice per each scrapeWork.
In practice the memory usage increase shouldn't be big, since the response size
is usually much smaller than the parsed metrics from this response after the relabeling,
which usually adds a big pile of target-specific labels per each metric.
These actions simlify metrics filtering. For example,
- action: keep_metrics
regex: 'foo|bar|baz'
would leave only metrics with `foo`, `bar` and `baz` names, while the rest of metrics will be deleted.
The commit also makes possible to split long regexps into multiple lines. For example, the following config is equivalent to the config above:
- action: keep_metrics
regex:
- foo
- bar
- baz
The number of series per target can be limited with the following options:
* Global limit with `-promscrape.maxSeriesPerTarget` command-line option.
* Per-target limit with `max_series: N` option in `scrape_config` section.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1561
This option allows reducing CPU usage a bit when VictoriaMetrics is used
for collecting and processing non-Prometheus data. For example, InfluxDB line protocol, Graphite, OpenTSDB, CSV, etc.
This option can be useful when vmagent consumes too much additional memory
for staleness markers functionality and when staleness markers aren't needed.
* new feature: relabel logging
Use scrape_configs[x].relabel_debug = true to log metric names inkl.
labels before and after relabeling. After relabeling related metrics
get dropped, i.e. not submitted to servers.
* vminsert wants relabel logging, too.
The major change is adding `sort` directive to docs. For those docs which are copied
from internal packages `sort` is added via makefile command. For the rest it is added
manually since they're updated manually as well.
The rest of changes is connected with markdown formatting. For example, changing headers
in some files (`##` => `#`) makes navigation on .github.io to look better. This especially
useful for `changelog` docs.
Table of contents for `vmctl` is dropped, since we already have it autogenerated on .github.io.
No link changes expected. The corresponding PR to `cluster` branch will be made in follow-up PR.
