### Describe Your Changes
In most cases histograms are exposed in sorted manner with lower buckets
being first. This means that during scraping buckets with lower bounds
have higher chance of being updated earlier than upper ones.
Previously, values were propagated from upper to lower bounds, which
means that in most cases that would produce results higher than expected
once all buckets will become updated.
Propagating from upper bound effectively limits highest value of
histogram to the value of previous scrape. Once the data will become
consistent in the subsequent evaluation this causes spikes in the
result.
Changing propagation to be from lower to higher buckets reduces value
spikes in most cases due to nature of the original inconsistency.
See: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4580
An example histogram with previous(red) and updated(blue) versions:
This also makes logic of filling nan values with lower buckets values: [1 2 3 nan nan nan] => [1 2 3 3 3 3] obsolete.
Since buckets are now fixed from lower ones to upper this happens in the main loop, so there is no need in a second one.
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Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrii Chubatiuk <andrew.chubatiuk@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6a4bd5049b)
There is a bug here where if you have a single bucket like:
foo{vmrange="4.084e+02...4.642e+02"} 2 123
The expected output is three le encoded buckets like:
foo{le="4.084e+02"} 0 123
foo{le="4.642e+02"} 2 123
foo{le="+Inf"} 2 123
This correctly encodes the start and end of the vmrange.
If however, the input contains the previous bucket, and that bucket is
empty then you only get the end le and +Inf out currently, i.e:
foo{vmrange="7.743e+05...8.799e+05"} 5 123
foo{vmrange="6.813e+05...7.743e+05"} 0 123
results in:
foo{le="8.799e+05"} 5 123
foo{le="+Inf"} 5 123
This causes issues when you go to compute a quantile because this means
that the assumed lower bound of the buckets is 0 and this we interpolate
between 0->end rather than the vmrange start->end as expected.
* vmselect/promql: add alphanumeric sort by label (sort_by_label_numeric)
* vmselect/promql: fix tests, add documentation
* vmselect/promql: update test
* vmselect/promql: update for alphanumeric sorting, fix tests
* vmselect/promql: remove comments
* vmselect/promql: cleanup
* vmselect/promql: avoid memory allocations, update functions descriptions
* vmselect/promql: make linter happy (remove ineffectual assigment)
* vmselect/promql: add test case, fix behavior when strings are equal
* vendor: update github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql from v0.44.1 to v0.45.0
this adds support for sort_by_label_numeric and sort_by_label_numeric_desc functions
* wip
* lib/promscrape: read response body into memory in stream parsing mode before parsing it
This reduces scrape duration for targets returning big responses.
The response body was already read into memory in stream parsing mode before this change,
so this commit shouldn't increase memory usage.
* wip
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
