1. Avoid storing the last evaluation results outside of rules, check for
stale time series as soon as possible;
2. remove duplicated template `Clone()`.
This pull request is primarily reducing memory usage when rules produce
large volumes of results, as seen in
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6894.
The CPU time spent on garbage collection remains high and may be
addressed in a separate PR.
This change is made in attempt to reduce memory usage by vmalert when
parsing big instant responses from VM/Prometheus.
In
a5c427bac4
vmalert switched from std json lib to fastjson lib in order to reduce
amount of allocations, as according to highloaded profiles of vmalert
the CPU is mostly spent on GC.
But switching to fastjson resulted into excessive memory usage for cases
when vmalert has to parse long json lines, which usually happens when
instant response contains many `metric` objects.
In this change we do a mixed parsing:
1. Slice of `metric` objects is parsed with std lib to keep mem low
2. Each `metric` object is parsed with fastjson to reduce allocs
The benchmark results are the following:
```
pkg: github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/app/vmalert/datasource
BenchmarkParsePrometheusResponse/Instant_std+fastjson-10 1760 668959 ns/op 280147 B/op 5781 allocs/op
MBs allocated at heap: 493.078392
mallocs: 18655472
BenchmarkParsePrometheusResponse/Instant_fastjson-10 6109 198258 ns/op 172839 B/op 5548 allocs/op
MBs allocated at heap: 1056.384464
mallocs: 34457184
BenchmarkParsePrometheusResponse/Instant_std-10 1287 950987 ns/op 451677 B/op 9619 allocs/op
MBs allocated at heap: 580.802976
mallocs: 13351636
```
The benchmark function code with mem measurement is available here
https://gist.github.com/hagen1778/b9c3ca7f8ca7d6b21aec9777112c5810
The benchmark contains 3 results:
1. Instant_std+fastjson is the implementation in this change
2. Instant_fastjson-10 is the implementation from
a5c427bac4
3. BenchmarkParsePrometheusResponse/Instant_std-10 is implementation
before
a5c427bac4
According to these results, this new implementation is slower than
previous, but faster than before switching to fastjson. It also has
lower number of allocations and roughly the same memory allocation on
heap with GC turned off.
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Other changes:
1. rm BenchmarkMetrics as it doesn't measure anything
2. simplify BenchmarkParsePrometheusResponse into
BenchmarkPromInstantUnmarshal
### 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>
- Rename GetStatDialFunc to NewStatDialFunc, since it returns new function with every call
- NewStatDialFunc isn't related to http in any way, so it must be moved from lib/httputils to lib/netutil
- Simplify the implementation of NewStatDialFunc by removing sync.Map from there.
- Use netutil.NewStatDialFunc at app/vmauth and lib/promscrape/discoveryutils
- Use gauge instead of counter type for *_conns metric
This is a follow-up for d7b5062917
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6299
This makes test code more clear and reduces the number of code lines by 500.
This also simplifies debugging tests. See https://itnext.io/f-tests-as-a-replacement-for-table-driven-tests-in-go-8814a8b19e9e
While at it, consistently use t.Fatal* instead of t.Error* across tests, since t.Error*
requires more boilerplate code, which can result in additional bugs inside tests.
While t.Error* allows writing logging errors for the same, this doesn't simplify fixing
broken tests most of the time.
This is a follow-up for a9525da8a4
'any' type is supported starting from Go1.18. Let's consistently use it
instead of 'interface{}' type across the code base, since `any` is easier to read than 'interface{}'.
* "*.idleConnTimeout" flags must reduce probability of `write: broken
pipe` and `read: connection reset by peer` errors Those errors may occur
if remote server closes TCP socket for connection, while it's still
exist at client.
* single time retries for `write: broken pipe` and `read: connection
reset by peer` must handle a case for incorrectly configured timeouts at
middleware proxies, mitigate minor network issues.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5661
### 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.
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Allocations are reduced by implementing custom json parser via fastjson
lib.
The change also re-uses `promInstant` object in attempt to reduce number
of
allocations when parsing big responses, as usually happens with heavy
recording rules.
```
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
ParsePrometheusResponse/Instant-10 9.65k ± 0% 5.60k ± 0% ~ (p=1.000 n=1+1)
```
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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- 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
c9375cac5e
Descriptions were updated in attempt to make it more clear for readers,
re-phrasing and linking missing docs.
`eval_delay` was added to tests to verify it can be unmarshalled.
`eval_delay` is now applied before timestamp alignment to make it more predictable.
Before, if delay < interval the timestamp won't be aligned.
`eval_delay` and `eval_offset` was added to API output.
`PreviouslySentSeriesToRW` converted to private `previouslySentSeriesToRW`.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* 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
- Make more clear the docs at docs/enterprise.md, so readers could figure out faster
on how to obtain enterprise key and how to pass it to VictoriaMetrics Enterprise components.
- Fix examples at docs/enterprise.md, which were referring to non-existing `-license-file` command-line flag.
The `-licenseFile` command-line flag must be used instead.
- Improve the description of `-license*` command-line flags, so users could understand
faster how to use them.
- Improve the warning message, which is emitted when the deprecated -eula command-line flag is passed,
so the user could figure out how to switch faster to -license* command-line flags.
- Disallow running VictoriaMetrics components with both -license and -licenseFile command-line flags.
- Disallow running VictoriaMetrics components when -licensFile points to an empty file.
- Consistently use the phrase "This flag is available only in Enterprise binaries" across
all the enterprise-specific command-line flags.
- Remove unneeded level of indirection for `noLicenseMessage` and `expiredMessage` string contants
in order to improve code readability and maintainability.
- Remove unneded `return` statements after `logger.Fatalf()` calls, since these calls exit the app and never return.
- Make sure that the info log message about successful license verification is emitted
when the license is verified successfully. Previously the error message could be logged
when the license payload is invalid or if it misses some required features.
* vmalert: add `query_time_alignment` for rule group
1. add `eval_alignment` attribute for group which by default is true. So group rule query stamp will be aligned with interval and propagated to ALERT metrics and the messages for alertmanager;
2. deprecate `datasource.queryTimeAlignment` flag.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5049
Strip sensitive information such as auth headers or passwords from datasource, remote-read,
remote-write or notifier URLs in log messages or UI. This behavior is by default and is controlled via
`-datasource.showURL`, `-remoteRead.showURL`, `remoteWrite.showURL` or `-notifier.showURL` cmd-line flags.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5044
Adds `eval_offset` attribute for Groups.
If specified, Group will be evaluated at the exact time offset on the range of [0...evaluationInterval].
The setting might be useful for cron-like rules which must be evaluated at specific moments of time.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3409
Signed-off-by: Haley Wang <pipilong.25@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: correctly re-instantinate HTTP req on retries
Previosly, request retry to datasource re-used existing HTTP request.
But if request object was already partially processed (body was read),
then retry will be unsuccessful.
The change re-instantinates HTTP request object before retry.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: review fix
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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* app/vmalert/datasource/graphite: allow overriding "from" parameter for datasource queries
Fixes construction of URL parameters for graphite render to allow overriding "from" parameter.
See: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4685
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* app/vmalert/datasource/graphite: update flow for building URL parameters
Makes flow of building URL parameters same as Prometheus datasource has:
1) Setting all default values
2) Merging those values with provided `extraParams`
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* Update docs/CHANGELOG.md
Co-authored-by: Roman Khavronenko <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Roman Khavronenko <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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
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
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: properly clone Storage params
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: properly clone Storage params
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: properly clone Storage params
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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app/vmalert: detect alerting rules which don't match any series at all
vmalert starts to understand /query responses which contain object:
```
"stats":{"seriesFetched": "42"}
```
If object is present, vmalert parses it and populates a new field
`SeriesFetched`. This field is then used to populate the new metric
`vmalert_alerting_rules_last_evaluation_series_fetched` and to
display warnings in the vmalert's UI.
If response doesn't contain the new object (Prometheus or
VictoriaMetrics earlier than v1.90), then `SeriesFetched=nil`.
In this case, UI will contain no additional warnings.
And `vmalert_alerting_rules_last_evaluation_series_fetched` will
be set to `-1`. Negative value of the metric will help to compile
correct alerting rule in follow-up.
Thanks for the initial implementation to @Haleygo
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4056
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4039
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: retry datasource requests with EOF or unexpected EOF errors
Retry failed read request on the closed connection one more time.
This may improve rules execution reliability when connection
between vmalert and datasource closes unexpectedly.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: fix old tests
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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* vmalert: speed up state restore procedure on start
Alerts state restore procedure has been changed to become asynchronous.
It doesn't block groups start anymore which significantly improves vmalert's startup time.
Instead, state restore is called by each group in their goroutines after the first rules
evaluation.
While previously state restore attempt was made for all loaded alerting rules,
now it is called only for alerts which became active after the first evaluation.
This reduces the amount of API calls to the configured remote read URL.
This also means that `remoteRead.ignoreRestoreErrors` command-line flag becomes deprecated now
and will have no effect if configured.
See relevant issue https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2608
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* make lint happy
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
Method `metrics()` now pre-allocates slices for labels
and results from query responses. This reduces the number
of allocations on the hot path for instant requests.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The recent change in modifying default value
of `datasource.queryStep` flag resulted in situation
where replay mode was always running queries with
step=`datasource.queryStep`. When it should always
use rule's evaluation interval.
The fix is related not to replay mode only, but
for all Range requests. Now step param is set
individually for each mode.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
- Clarify the description for -datasource.queryStep command-line flag
- Consistently use a single dash in front of -datasource.queryStep command-line flag
- Update -help output at docs/vmalert.md
Change default value for command-line flag `datasource.queryStep` from `0s` to `5m`.
Param `step` is added by vmalert to every rule evaluation request sent to datasource.
Before this change, `step` was equal to group's evaluation interval by default.
Param `step` for instant queries defines how far VM can look back for the last written data point.
The change supposed to improve reliability of the rules evaluation when evaluation interval
is lower than scraping interval.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The change adds an example of `curl` command to the Rule's page.
The command is generated for each recorded state. It is supposed
user can just copy&execute the command to see what was returned
to vmalert.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
