During shutdown period of vmalert, remotewrite client retrieve all pending time series from buffer queue, compose them into 1 batch and execute remote write.
This final batch may exceed the limit of -remoteWrite.maxBatchSize, and be rejected by the receiver (gateway, vmcluster or others).
This changes ensures that even during shutdown vmalert won't exceed the max batch size limit for remote write
destination.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6025
It was calculating the number of dropped time series instead of the number of dropped samples.
While at it, drop vmalert_remotewrite_dropped_bytes_total metric, since it was inconsistently calculated -
at one place it was calculating raw protobuf-encoded sample sizes, while at another place it was calculating
the size of snappy-compressed prompbmarshal.WriteRequest protobuf message.
Additionally, this metric has zero practical sense, so just drop it in order to reduce the level of confusion.
* app/vmalert: update remote-write process
* automatically retry remote-write requests on closed connections. The change should reduce the amount of logs produced in environments with short-living connections or environments without support of keep-alive on network balancers.
* increment `vmalert_remotewrite_errors_total` metric if all retries to send remote-write request failed. Before, this metric was incremented only if remote-write client's buffer is overloaded.
* increment `vmalert_remotewrite_dropped_rows_total` amd `vmalert_remotewrite_dropped_bytes_total` metrics if remote-write client's buffer is overloaded. Before, these metrics were incremented only after unsuccessful HTTP calls.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Update docs/CHANGELOG.md
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Co-authored-by: Hui Wang <haley@victoriametrics.com>
- Make sure that invalid/missing TLS CA file or TLS client certificate files at vmagent startup
don't prevent from processing the corresponding scrape targets after the file becomes correct,
without the need to restart vmagent.
Previously scrape targets with invalid TLS CA file or TLS client certificate files
were permanently dropped after the first attempt to initialize them, and they didn't
appear until the next vmagent reload or the next change in other places of the loaded scrape configs.
- Make sure that TLS CA is properly re-loaded from file after it changes without the need to restart vmagent.
Previously the old TLS CA was used until vmagent restart.
- Properly handle errors during http request creation for the second attempt to send data to remote system
at vmagent and vmalert. Previously failed request creation could result in nil pointer dereferencing,
since the returned request is nil on error.
- Add more context to the logged error during AWS sigv4 request signing before sending the data to -remoteWrite.url at vmagent.
Previously it could miss details on the source of the request.
- Do not create a new HTTP client per second when generating OAuth2 token needed to put in Authorization header
of every http request issued by vmagent during service discovery or target scraping.
Re-use the HTTP client instead until the corresponding scrape config changes.
- Cache error at lib/promauth.Config.GetAuthHeader() in the same way as the auth header is cached,
e.g. the error is cached for a second now. This should reduce load on CPU and OAuth2 server
when auth header cannot be obtained because of temporary error.
- Share tls.Config.GetClientCertificate function among multiple scrape targets with the same tls_config.
Cache the loaded certificate and the error for one second. This should significantly reduce CPU load
when scraping big number of targets with the same tls_config.
- Allow loading TLS certificates from HTTP and HTTPs urls by specifying these urls at `tls_config->cert_file` and `tls_config->key_file`.
- Improve test coverage at lib/promauth
- Skip unreachable or invalid files specified at `scrape_config_files` during vmagent startup, since these files may become valid later.
Previously vmagent was exitting in this case.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4959
* fix inconsistent behaviors with prometheus when scraping
1. address https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4959. skip job with wrong syntax in `scrape_configs` with error logs instead of exiting;
2. show error messages on vmagent /targets ui if there are wrong auth configs in `scrape_configs`, previously will print error logs and do scrape without auth header;
3. don't send requests if there are wrong auth configs in:
1. vmagent remoteWrite;
2. vmalert datasource/remoteRead/remoteWrite/notifier.
* add changelogs
* address review comments
* fix ut
The deferred call's arguments are evaluated immediately, but the function call is not executed until the surrounding function returns.
Signed-off-by: Abirdcfly <fp544037857@gmail.com>
* Revert "vmalert: unittest support stale datapoint (#4696)"
This reverts commit 0b44df7ec8.
* Revert "docs: specify min version and limitations for vmalert's unit tests"
This reverts commit a24541bd
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Revert "vmalert: init unit test (#4596)"
This reverts commit da60a68d
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: mention unittest revert in changelog
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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By default, vmalert will make multiple retry attempts with exponential delay.
The total time spent during retry attempts shouldn't exceed `-remoteWrite.retryMaxTime` (default is 30s).
When retry time is exceeded vmalert drops the data dedicated for `-remoteWrite.url`.
Before, vmalert dropped data after 5 retry attempts with 1s delay between attempts (not configurable).
See `-remoteWrite.retryMinInterval` and `-remoteWrite.retryMaxTime` cmd-line flags.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Nikolay <nik@victoriametrics.com>
vmalert: retry all errors except 4XX status codes
Retry all errors except 4XX status codes while pushing via remote-write
to the remote storage. Previously, errors like broken connection could
prevent vmalert from retrying the request.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* app/vmalert: add `remoteWrite.sendTimeout` command-line flag to configure timeout for sending data to `remoteWrite.url`
* vmalert: remove WriteTimeout from clients Cfg
No need to have it as a part of configuration struct:
* the client isn't used by other packages;
* there are no internal tests to check the WriteTimeout.
* vmalert: remove DisablePathAppend from clients Cfg
No need to have it as a part of configuration struct:
* the client isn't used by other packages;
* there are no internal tests to check the DisablePathAppend.
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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>
ioutil.ReadAll is deprecated since Go1.16 - see https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.16#ioutil
VictoriaMetrics requires at least Go1.18, so it is OK to switch from ioutil.ReadAll to io.ReadAll.
This is a follow-up for 02ca2342ab
Other components, such as `vmagent`, mark these flags as sensitive and
hide them from the `/metrics` endpoint by default. This commit adds
similar handling to the `vmalert` component, hiding them by default, to
prevent logging of secrets inappropriately.
Showing of these values is controlled by an additional flag.
Follow up to https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2947
* vmalert: split alert's `Start` field into `ActiveAt` and `Start`
The `ActiveAt` field identifies when alert becomes active for rules
with `for > 0`. Previously, this value was stored in field `Start`.
The field `Start` now identifies the moment alert became `FIRING`.
The split is needed in order to distinguish these two moments
in the API responses for alerts.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: support specific moment of time for rules evaluation
The Querier interface was extended to accept a new argument
used as a timestamp at which evaluation should be made.
It is needed to align rules execution time within the group.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: mark disappeared series as stale
Series generated by alerting rules, which were sent to remote write
now will be marked as stale if they will disappear on the next
evaluation. This would make ALERTS and ALERTS_FOR_TIME series
more precise.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* wip
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: evaluate rules at fixed timestamp
Before, time at which rules were evaluated was calculated
right before rule execution. The change makes sure
that timestamp is calculated only once per evalution round
and all rules are using the same timestamp.
It also updates the logic of resending of already resolved
alert notification.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: allow overridin `alertname` label value if it is present in response
Previously, `alertname` was always equal to the Alerting Rule name. Now,
its value can be overriden if series in response containt the different value
for this label.
The change is needed for improving compatibility with Prometheus.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: align rules evaluation in time
Now, evaluation timestamp for rules evaluates as if
there was no delay in rules evaluation. It means, that
rules will be evaluated at fixed timestamps+group_interval.
This way provides more consistent evaluation results and
improves compatibility with Prometheus,
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: add metric for missed iterations
New metric `vmalert_iteration_missed_total` will show
whether rules evaluation round was missed.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: reduce delay before the initial rule evaluation in group
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: rollback alertname override
According to the spec:
```
The alert name from the alerting rule (HighRequestLatency from the example above) MUST be added to the labels of the alert with the label name as alertname. It MUST override any existing alertname label.
```
https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md#step-3
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: throw err immediately on dedup detection
```
The execution of an alerting rule MUST error out immediately and MUST NOT send any alerts
or add samples to samples receiver if there is more than one alert with the same labels
```
https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md#step-4
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: cleanup
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: use strings builder to reduce allocs
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: allow to disable automatically added path to remote write address via disablePathAppend flag
* docs: update docs to include remoteWrite.disablePathAppend
