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/vmctl: fix panic `--remote-read-filter-time-start` flag not defined
* app/vmctl: update CHANGELOG.md
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It could happen for low evaluation intervals and irregular
delays during execution that evaluation time would get
a negative offset. This could result into cumulative
discrepancy between the actual time and evaluation time for rules.
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* vmselect: introduce `search.skipSlowReplicas` cmd-line flag
vmselect has two logical conditions during request processing when
`-replicationFactor` cmd-line flag is set:
1. If at least `len(storageNodes) - replicationFactor` responded, it could skip
waiting for the rest of nodes to respond. This could lead to problems described
here https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1207.
2. Mark response as partial if less than `len(storageNodes) - replicationFactor` responded
without an error.
The P1 showed itself error-prone and became the main reason why
`-replicationFactor` wasn't recommended to use at vmselect level.
However, this optimization could be still very useful in situations
when there are slow and fast replicas in cluster.
But P2 remains viable and important conditionless.
Hiding P1 behind the feature-flag `search.skipSlowReplicas`
should make `-replicationFactor` flag usable again. And let users
choose whether they want P1 to be respected.
Related issues
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1207https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/711
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* docs: update changelog
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vmalert: allow disabling of `step` param attached to instant queries
This might be useful for using vmalert with datasources that to not support this param,
unlike VictoriaMetrics.
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4573
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* fix removing storage data dir before restoring from backup
Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
* fix review comment
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* fix review comment
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* fixes after merge with `enterprise-single-node` branch
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- Clarify the scope of the fix at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Handle the case when -search.maxSamplesPerSeries limit is exceeded
in the same way as the -search.maxSamplesPerQuery limit.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4472
The validation was needed for covering corner cases when storage is tested with data from 1970.
This resulted into unexpected search results, as year was parsed incorrectly from the given timestamp.
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The change focuses on rectifying inconsistencies in the navigation behavior of the application
and eliminating issues encountered when manually altering the URL.
The key updates include:
- Refactoring of the routing mechanism to handle all possible routes and their states.
- Enhancement of the React Router usage to ensure a smoother navigation experience.
- Handling application state when the URL is manually changed.
expose `vmauth_user_request_duration_seconds`
and `vmauth_unauthorized_user_request_duration_seconds` summary metrics
for measuring requests latency per user.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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>
* fix: optimize the preparation of data for the graph
* fix: optimize tooltip rendering
* fix: optimize re-rendering of the chart
* vmui: memory leak fix
* lib/storage: creates parts.json on start-up if it not exists.
It fixes migrations from versions below v1.90.0.
Previously parts.json was created only after successful merge.
But if merge was interruped for some reason (OOM or shutdown), parts.json wasn't created and partitions left after interruped merge weren't properly deleted.
Since VM cannot check if it must be removed or not.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4336
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Roman Khavronenko <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Update lib/storage/partition.go
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- Clarify the scope of the fix at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Handle the case when -search.maxSamplesPerSeries limit is exceeded
in the same way as the -search.maxSamplesPerQuery limit.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4472
Properly return the error to user when `-search.maxSamplesPerQuery` limit is exceeded.
Before, user could have received a partial response instead.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
app/vmagent/remotewrite: fix vmagent panic on shutdown
Currently, when vmagent is stopping it first flushes pending series in remote write context and proceeds to stop streaming aggregation. This leads to streaming aggregation being unable to write results into pending timeseries (since it is already nil) and panic.
This can lead to losing some aggregation results being lost almost silently.
The fix is reordering flow to first stop streaming aggregation and flush all pending time series after that.
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit ce7141383d)
* app/vmctl: add verbose output for docker installations or when TTY isn't available
* app/vmctl: fix tests
* app/vmctl: make vmctl interactive if no tty
* app/vmctl: cleanup
* app/vmctl: add comment
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(cherry picked from commit fc5292d8ed)
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: fix nil map assignment
The storage instance with nil map params was created for remote-read purposes.
And before change 7a9ae9de0d this map was ignored in ApplyParams.
Now, it started to be used and vmalert panics in runtime.
The fix properly inits map for at `NewVMStorage` and verifies it is not nil
on assignment in `ApplyParams`.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: add to changelog
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* vmalert: properly clone Storage params
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* vmalert: properly clone Storage params
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* vmalert: properly clone Storage params
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(cherry picked from commit de94812088)
* app/vmui: fix behavior when changing url in global settings
* app/vmctl: minor fix
* app/vmui: fix behavior when changing url in global settings
(cherry picked from commit 9843ec0e1d)
This reverts the following commits:
- e0e16a2d36
- 2ce02a7fe6
The reason for revert: the updated logic breaks assumptions made
when fixing https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2698 .
For example, if a time series stop receiving new samples during the first
day after the indexdb rotation, there are chances that the time series
won't be registered in the new indexdb. This is OK until the next indexdb
rotation, since the time series is registered in the previous indexdb,
so it can be found during queries. But the time series will become invisible
for search after the next indexdb rotation, while its data is still there.
There is also incompletely solved issue with the increased CPU and disk IO resource
usage just after the indexdb rotation. There was an attempt to fix it, but it didn't fix
it in full, while introducing the issue mentioned above. See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401
TODO: to find out the solution, which simultaneously solves the following issues:
- increased memory usage for setups high churn rate and long retention (e.g. what the reverted commit does)
- increased CPU and disk IO usage during indexdb rotation ( https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401 )
- https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2698
- Document the change at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Clarify comments for non-trivial code touched by the commit
- Improve the logic behind maybeCreateIndexes():
- Correctly create per-day indexes if the indexdb rotation is performed during
the first hour or the last hour of the day by UTC.
Previously there was a possibility of missing index entries on that day.
- Increase the duration for creating new indexes in the current indexdb for up to 22 hours
after indexdb rotation. This should reduce the increased resource usage
after indexdb rotation.
It is safe to postpone index creation for the current day until the last hour
of the current day after indexdb rotation by UTC, since the corresponding (date, ...)
entries exist in the previous indexdb.
- Search for TSID by (date, MetricName) in both the current and the previous indexdb.
Previously the search was performed only in the current indexdb. This could lead
to excess creation of per-day indexes for the current day just after indexdb rotation.
- Search for (date, metricID) entries in both the current and the previous indexdb.
Previously the search was performed only in the current indexdb. This could lead
to excess creation of per-day indexes for the current day just after indexdb rotation.
* added backup locking/unlocking against retention policy to vmbackupmanager
Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
* added docs for new commands
Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
* fix review comments
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* feat: improvement of the top queries page
* vmui/docs: enhancements to top queries page
* Apply suggestions from code review
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vmui: change default font size to 14px for better readability
vmui: fix bug with missing text on buttons in safari
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* app/vmui: added Labels with the highest number of unique values
* app/vmui: cleanup
* app/vmui: cleanup
* app/vmui: add table description
* app/vmui: fix comment, updated CHANGELOG.md
* app/vmui: disable links
* app/vmui: added actions to the table, it will show values for selected label with the highest number of series
* app/vmui: fix comment
* vmalert: expand rule groups on anchor click
before, anchor click was only updating the URL.
To expand the group, user had to click on rule's block.
Now, group will toggle automatically.
* vmalert: allow filtering group in web UI
The new filter allows to filter groups and rules within
groups by: errors only or noMatch only.
The filtering supposed to help navigating big numbers of groups/rules.
Filtering is reflected in URL, so can be shared as a link.
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Without reset, labels duplicates could have been added during stream aggregation.
Since `ctx.Labels` is reused during processing of many series, each series will
add its labels to the context. Even if the same labels were already addeded on prev
iteration. Now, we reset `ctx.Labels` on each iteration to contain so labels from
different series didn't interfere.
This could have cause exceeding of the limit on number of labels per pushed time series.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4277
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