Previously the interval between item addition and its conversion to searchable in-memory part
could vary significantly because of too coarse per-second precision. Switch from fasttime.UnixTimestamp()
to time.Now().UnixMilli() for millisecond precision. It is OK to use time.Now() for tracking
the time when buffered items must be converted to searchable in-memory parts, since time.Now()
calls aren't located in hot paths.
Increase the flush interval for converting buffered samples to searchable in-memory parts
from one second to two seconds. This should reduce the number of blocks, which are needed
to be processed during high-frequency alerting queries. This, in turn, should reduce CPU usage.
While at it, hardcode the maximum size of rawRows shard to 8Mb, since this size gives the optimal
data ingestion pefromance according to load tests. This reduces memory usage and CPU usage on systems
with big amounts of RAM under high data ingestion rate.
The pooled rawRowsBlock objects occupies big amounts of memory between flushes,
and the flushes are relatively rare. So it is better to don't use the pool
and to allocate rawRow blocks on demand. This should reduce the average
memory usage between flushes.
The buffer can be quite big under high ingestion rate (e.g. more than 100MB).
This leads to increased memory usage between buffer flushes.
So it is better to re-create the buffer on every flush in order to reduce memory usage
between buffer flushes.
Instead, log a sample of these long items once per 5 seconds into error log,
so users could notice and fix the issue with too long labels or too many labels.
Previously this panic could occur in production when ingesting samples with too long labels.
This allows removing importing unneeded command-line flags into binaries, which import lib/storage,
which, in turn, was importing lib/snapshot in order to use Time, Validate and NewName functions.
This is a follow-up for 83e55456e2
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5738
Entries for the previous dates is usually not used, so there is little sense in keeping them in memory.
This should reduce the size of storage/date_metricID cache, which can be monitored
via vm_cache_entries{type="storage/date_metricID"} metric.
This limit has little sense for these APIs, since:
- Thses APIs frequently result in scanning of all the time series on the given time range.
For example, if extra_filters={datacenter="some_dc"} .
- Users expect these APIs shouldn't hit the -search.maxUniqueTimeseries limit,
which is intended for limiting resource usage at /api/v1/query and /api/v1/query_range requests.
Also limit the concurrency for /api/v1/labels, /api/v1/label/.../values
and /api/v1/series requests in order to limit the maximum memory usage and CPU usage for these API.
This limit shouldn't affect typical use cases for these APIs:
- Grafana dashboard load when dashboard labels should be loaded
- Auto-suggestion list load when editing the query in Grafana or vmui
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5055
- 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
This allows reducing the indexdb/tagFiltersToMetricIDs cache size by 8 on average.
The cache size can be checked via vm_cache_size_bytes{type="indexdb/tagFiltersToMetricIDs"} metric exposed at /metrics page.
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.
The dateMetricIDCache puts recently registered (date, metricID) entries into mutable cache protected by the mutex.
The dateMetricIDCache.Has() checks for the entry in the mutable cache when it isn't found in the immutable cache.
Access to the mutable cache is protected by the mutex. This means this access is slow on systems with many CPU cores.
The mutabe cache was merged into immutable cache every 10 seconds in order to avoid slow access to mutable cache.
This means that ingestion of new time series to VictoriaMetrics could result in significant slowdown for up to 10 seconds
because of bottleneck at the mutex.
Fix this by merging the mutable cache into immutable cache after len(cacheItems) / 2
cache hits under the mutex, e.g. when the entry is found in the mutable cache.
This should automatically adjust intervals between merges depending on the addition rate
for new time series (aka churn rate):
- The interval will be much smaller than 10 seconds under high churn rate.
This should reduce the mutex contention for mutable cache.
- The interval will be bigger than 10 seconds under low churn rate.
This should reduce the uneeded work on merging of mutable cache into immutable cache.
- Clarify the bugfix description at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Simplify the code by accessing prefetchedMetricIDs struct under the lock
instead of using lockless access to immutable struct.
This shouldn't worsen code scalability too much on busy systems with many CPU cores,
since the code executed under the lock is quite small and fast.
This allows removing cloning of prefetchedMetricIDs struct every time
new metric names are pre-fetched. This should reduce load on Go GC,
since the cloning of uin64set.Set struct allocates many new objects.
Before, this cache was limited only by size.
Cache invalidation by time happens with jitter to prevent thundering herd problem.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
This should reduce tail latency during data ingestion.
This shouldn't slow down data ingestion in the worst case, since assisted merges are spread among
distinct addRows/addItems calls after this change.
* lib/storage/partition: add check to ensure parts exist on disk
If part exists in parts.json but is missing on disk there will be a misleading error similar to "unexpected number of substrings in the part name".
This change forces verification of part existence and throws a correct error in case it is missing on disk.
Such issue can be result of https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5005 or disk corruption.
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/storage/partition: use filepath.Join instead of string concatenation
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/storage/partition: add action points for error message
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* all: add a check for missing part in lib/mergeset and lib/logstorage
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Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
* Introduce flagutil.Duration
To avoid conversion bugs
* Fix tests
* Clarify documentation re. month=31 days
* Add fasttime.UnixTime() to obtain time.Time
The goal is to refactor out the last usage of `.Msecs`.
* Use fasttime for time.Now()
* wip
- Remove fasttime.UnixTime(), since it doesn't improve code readability and maintainability
- Run `make docs-sync` for syncing changes from README.md to docs/ folder
- Make lib/flagutil.Duration.Msec private
- Rename msecsPerMonth const to msecsPer31Days in order to be consistent with retention31Days
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Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
