Related issue:
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/7182
- add a separate index cache for searches which might read through large
amounts of random entries. Primary use-case for this is retention and
downsampling filters, when applying filters background merge needs to
fetch large amount of random entries which pollutes an index cache.
Using different caches allows to reduce effect on memory usage and cache
efficiency of the main cache while still having high cache hit rate. A
separate cache size is 5% of allowed memory.
- reduce size of indexdb/dataBlocks cache in order to free memory for
new sparse cache. Reduced size by 5% and moved this to a separate cache.
- add a separate metricName search which does not cache metric names -
this is needed in order to allow disabling metric name caching when
applying downsampling/retention filters. Applying filters during
background merge accesses random entries, this fills up cache and does
not provide an actual improvement due to random access nature.
Merge performance and memory usage stats before and after the change:
- before
- after
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Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit 837d0d136d)
### Describe Your Changes
Add support for
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6930
Calculate `-search.maxUniqueTimeseries` by
`-search.maxConcurrentRequests` and remaining memory if it's **not set**
or **less equal than 0**.
The remaining memory is affected by `-memory.allowedPercent`,
`-memory.allowedBytes` and cgroup memory limit.
### Checklist
The following checks are **mandatory**:
- [x] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
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Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Roman Khavronenko <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The purpose of this change is to reduce confusion between using
`flag.Duration` and `flagutils.Duration`. The reason is that
`flagutils.Duration` was mistakenly used for cases that required `m`
support. See
ab0d31a7b0
The change in name should clearly indicate the purpose of this data
type.
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.
The following checks are **mandatory**:
- [ ] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
`vm_rows_ignored_total` metric is a metric for users to signalize about
ingestion issues, such as bad timestamp or parsing error.
In commit
a5424e95b3
this metric started to increment each time vmstorage gets NaN. But NaN
is a valid value for Prometheus data model and for Prometheus metrics
exposition format. Exporters from Prometheus ecosystem could expose NaNs
as values for metrics and these values will be delivered to vmstorage
and increment the metric.
Since there is nothing user can do with this, in opposite to parsing
errors or bad timestamps, there is not much sense in incrementing this
metric. So this commit rolls-back `reason="nan_value"` increments.
### 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.
### Checklist
The following checks are **mandatory**:
- [ ] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0d4f4b8f7d)
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
### Describe Your Changes
Add storage metrics that count records that failed to insert:
- `RowsReceivedTotal`: the number of records that have been received by
the storage from the clients
- `RowsAddedTotal`: the number of records that have actually been
persisted. This value must be equal to `RowsReceivedTotal` if all the
records have been valid ones. But it will be smaller otherwise. The
values of the metrics below should provide the insight of why some
records hasn't been added
- `NaNValueRows`: the number of records whose value was `NaN`
- `StaleNaNValueRows`: the number of records whose value was `Stale NaN`
- `InvalidRawMetricNames`: the number of records whose raw metric name
has failed to unmarshal.
The following metrics existed before this PR and are listed here for
completeness:
- `TooSmallTimestampRows`: the number of records whose timestamp is
negative or is older than retention period
- `TooBigTimestampRows`: the number of records whose timestamp is too
far in the future.
- `HourlySeriesLimitRowsDropped`: the number of records that have not
been added because the hourly series limit has been exceeded.
- `DailySeriesLimitRowsDropped`: the number of records that have not
been added because the daily series limit has been exceeded.
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Signed-off-by: Artem Fetishev <wwctrsrx@gmail.com>
The %q formatter may result in incorrectly formatted JSON string if the original string
contains special chars such as \x1b . They must be encoded as \u001b , otherwise the resulting JSON string
cannot be parsed by JSON parsers.
This is a follow-up for c0caa69939
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/victorialogs-datasource/issues/24
It allows to create alert for possible item drops at indexdb. It may
happen, if ingested metric size exceeds max indexdb item size.
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Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit 69d244e6fb)
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/storage: adds metrics for downsampling
vm_downsampling_partitions_scheduled - shows the number of parts, that must be downsampled
vm_downsampling_partitions_scheduled_size_bytes - shows total size in bytes for parts, the must be donwsampled
These two metrics answer the questions - is downsampling running? how many parts scheduled for downsampling and how many of them currently downsampled? Storage space that it occupies.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2612
* wip
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
- Maintain a separate worker pool per each part type (in-memory, file, big and small).
Previously a shared pool was used for merging all the part types.
A single merge worker could merge parts with mixed types at once. For example,
it could merge simultaneously an in-memory part plus a big file part.
Such a merge could take hours for big file part. During the duration of this merge
the in-memory part was pinned in memory and couldn't be persisted to disk
under the configured -inmemoryDataFlushInterval .
Another common issue, which could happen when parts with mixed types are merged,
is uncontrolled growth of in-memory parts or small parts when all the merge workers
were busy with merging big files. Such growth could lead to significant performance
degradataion for queries, since every query needs to check ever growing list of parts.
This could also slow down the registration of new time series, since VictoriaMetrics
searches for the internal series_id in the indexdb for every new time series.
The third issue is graceful shutdown duration, which could be very long when a background
merge is running on in-memory parts plus big file parts. This merge couldn't be interrupted,
since it merges in-memory parts.
A separate pool of merge workers per every part type elegantly resolves both issues:
- In-memory parts are merged to file-based parts in a timely manner, since the maximum
size of in-memory parts is limited.
- Long-running merges for big parts do not block merges for in-memory parts and small parts.
- Graceful shutdown duration is now limited by the time needed for flushing in-memory parts to files.
Merging for file parts is instantly canceled on graceful shutdown now.
- Deprecate -smallMergeConcurrency command-line flag, since the new background merge algorithm
should automatically self-tune according to the number of available CPU cores.
- Deprecate -finalMergeDelay command-line flag, since it wasn't working correctly.
It is better to run forced merge when needed - https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#forced-merge
- Tune the number of shards for pending rows and items before the data goes to in-memory parts
and becomes visible for search. This improves the maximum data ingestion rate and the maximum rate
for registration of new time series. This should reduce the duration of data ingestion slowdown
in VictoriaMetrics cluster on e.g. re-routing events, when some of vmstorage nodes become temporarily
unavailable.
- Prevent from possible "sync: WaitGroup misuse" panic on graceful shutdown.
This is a follow-up for fa566c68a6 .
Thanks @misutoth to for the inspiration at https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5212
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5190
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3790
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3551
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3337
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3425
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3647
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3641
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/648
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/291
The maxFileParts usage has been accidentally removed in fa566c68a6
While at it, add Count suffix to *AssistedMerges counter names in order to make them less misleading.
Previously their names were falsely suggesting that these are gauges, which show the number of concurrently
executed assisted merges.
This should smooth CPU and RAM usage spikes related to these periodic tasks,
by reducing the probability that multiple concurrent periodic tasks are performed at the same time.
Examples:
1) -metricsAuthKey=file:///abs/path/to/file - reads flag value from the given absolute filepath
2) -metricsAuthKey=file://./relative/path/to/file - reads flag value from the given relative filepath
3) -metricsAuthKey=http://some-host/some/path?query_arg=abc - reads flag value from the given url
The flag value is automatically updated when the file contents changes.
* lib/storage: pre-create timeseries before indexDB rotation
during an hour before indexDB rotation start creating records at the next indexDB
it must improve performance during switch for the next indexDB and remove ingestion issues.
Since there is no need for creation new index records for timeseries already ingested into current indexDB
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4563
* lib/storage: further work on indexdb rotation optimization
- Document the change at docs/CHAGNELOG.md
- Move back various caches from indexDB to Storage. This makes the change less intrusive.
The dateMetricIDCache now takes into account indexDB generation, so it stores (date, metricID)
entries for both the current and the next indexDB.
- Consolidate the code responsible for idbNext pre-filling into prefillNextIndexDB() function.
This improves code readability and maintainability a bit.
- Rewrite and simplify the code responsible for calculating the next retention timestamp.
Add various tests for corner cases of this code.
- Remove indexdb pre-filling from RegisterMetricNames() function, since this function is rarely called.
It is OK to add indexdb entries on demand in this function. This simplifies the code.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401
* docs/CHANGELOG.md: refer to https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4563
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Previously all the newly ingested time series were registered in global `MetricName -> TSID` index.
This index was used during data ingestion for locating the TSID (internal series id)
for the given canonical metric name (the canonical metric name consists of metric name plus all its labels sorted by label names).
The `MetricName -> TSID` index is stored on disk in order to make sure that the data
isn't lost on VictoriaMetrics restart or unclean shutdown.
The lookup in this index is relatively slow, since VictoriaMetrics needs to read the corresponding
data block from disk, unpack it, put the unpacked block into `indexdb/dataBlocks` cache,
and then search for the given `MetricName -> TSID` entry there. So VictoriaMetrics
uses in-memory cache for speeding up the lookup for active time series.
This cache is named `storage/tsid`. If this cache capacity is enough for all the currently ingested
active time series, then VictoriaMetrics works fast, since it doesn't need to read the data from disk.
VictoriaMetrics starts reading data from `MetricName -> TSID` on-disk index in the following cases:
- If `storage/tsid` cache capacity isn't enough for active time series.
Then just increase available memory for VictoriaMetrics or reduce the number of active time series
ingested into VictoriaMetrics.
- If new time series is ingested into VictoriaMetrics. In this case it cannot find
the needed entry in the `storage/tsid` cache, so it needs to consult on-disk `MetricName -> TSID` index,
since it doesn't know that the index has no the corresponding entry too.
This is a typical event under high churn rate, when old time series are constantly substituted
with new time series.
Reading the data from `MetricName -> TSID` index is slow, so inserts, which lead to reading this index,
are counted as slow inserts, and they can be monitored via `vm_slow_row_inserts_total` metric exposed by VictoriaMetrics.
Prior to this commit the `MetricName -> TSID` index was global, e.g. it contained entries sorted by `MetricName`
for all the time series ever ingested into VictoriaMetrics during the configured -retentionPeriod.
This index can become very large under high churn rate and long retention. VictoriaMetrics
caches data from this index in `indexdb/dataBlocks` in-memory cache for speeding up index lookups.
The `indexdb/dataBlocks` cache may occupy significant share of available memory for storing
recently accessed blocks at `MetricName -> TSID` index when searching for newly ingested time series.
This commit switches from global `MetricName -> TSID` index to per-day index. This allows significantly
reducing the amounts of data, which needs to be cached in `indexdb/dataBlocks`, since now VictoriaMetrics
consults only the index for the current day when new time series is ingested into it.
The downside of this change is increased indexdb size on disk for workloads without high churn rate,
e.g. with static time series, which do no change over time, since now VictoriaMetrics needs to store
identical `MetricName -> TSID` entries for static time series for every day.
This change removes an optimization for reducing CPU and disk IO spikes at indexdb rotation,
since it didn't work correctly - see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401 .
At the same time the change fixes the issue, which could result in lost access to time series,
which stop receving new samples during the first hour after indexdb rotation - see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2698
The issue with the increased CPU and disk IO usage during indexdb rotation will be addressed
in a separate commit according to https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401#issuecomment-1553488685
This is a follow-up for 1f28b46ae9
app/vmstorage: clarify the min value for `-retentionPeriod` flag
Co-authored-by: Roman Khavronenko <roman@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit 24f34347f1)
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Callers of OpenStorage() log the returned error and exit.
The error logging and exit can be performed inside MustOpenStorage()
alongside with printing the stack trace for better debuggability.
This simplifies the code at caller side.
Improperly configured -bigMergeConcurrency command-line flag usually leads to uncontrolled
growth of unmerged parts, which, in turn, increases CPU usage and query durations.
So it is better deprecating this flag. In rare cases -smallMergeConcurrency command-line flag
can be used instead for controlling the concurrency of background merges.
- Sync the description for -httpListenAddr.useProxyProtocol command-line flag at vmagent and vmauth,
so it is consistent with the description at vmauth and victoria-metrics
- Add a sample of panic text to docs/CHANGELOG.md, so it could be googled
- Mention the -httpListenAddr.useProxyProtocol command-line flag in the description for the bugfix
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3335
- Use flag.Duration instead of flagutil.Duration for -snapshotCreateTimeout,
since the flagutil.Duration is intended mostly for big durations, e.g. days, months and years,
while the -snapshotCreateTimeout is usually smaller than one hour.
- Add links to https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-work-with-snapshots in docs/CHANGELOG.md,
so readers could easily find the corresponding docs when reading the changelog.
- Properly remove all the created directories on unsuccessful attempt to create
snapshot in Storage.CreateSnapshot().
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3551
* lib/{fs,mergeset,storage}: skip `.must-remove.` dirs when creating snapshot (#3858)
* lib/{mergeset,storage}: add timeout configuration for snapshots creation, remove incomplete snapshots from storage
* docs: fix formatting
* app/vmstorage: add metrics to track status of snapshots
* app/vmstorage: use `vm_http_requests_total` metric for snapshot endpoints metrics, rename new flag to make name more clear
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* app/vmstorage: update flag name in docs
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* app/vmstorage: reflect new metrics names change in docs
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
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Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
* {lib/server, app/}: use `httpAuth.*` flag as fallback for `*AuthKey` if it is not set
* lib/ingestserver/opentsdbhttp: fix opentdb HTTP handler not respecting `httpAuth.*` flags
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
Previously the -maxConcurrentInserts was limiting the number of established client connections,
which write data to VictoriaMetrics. Some of these connections could be idle.
Such connections do not consume big amounts of CPU and RAM, so there is a little sense in limiting
the number of such connections. So now the -maxConcurrentInserts command-line option
limits the number of concurrently executed insert requests, not including idle connections.
It is recommended removing -maxConcurrentInserts command-line option, since the default value
for this option should work good for most cases.
This fixes handling of values bigger than 2GiB for the following command-line flags:
- -storage.minFreeDiskSpaceBytes
- -remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL
Blocked small merges may result into big number of small parts, which, in turn,
may result in increased CPU and memory usage during queries, since queries need to inspect
all the existing small parts.
The issue has been introduced in 8189770c50
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3337
The main purpose of this command-line flag is to increase the lifetime of low-end flash storage
with the limited number of write operations it can perform. Such flash storage is usually
installed on Raspberry PI or similar appliances.
For example, `-inmemoryDataFlushInterval=1h` reduces the frequency of disk write operations
to up to once per hour if the ingested one-hour worth of data fits the limit for in-memory data.
The in-memory data is searchable in the same way as the data stored on disk.
VictoriaMetrics automatically flushes the in-memory data to disk on graceful shutdown via SIGINT signal.
The in-memory data is lost on unclean shutdown (hardware power loss, OOM crash, SIGKILL).
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3337
