- Document the fix at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Limit the concurrency for sendStaleMarkers() function in order to limit its memory usage
when big number of targets disappear and staleness markers are sent
for all the metrics exposed by these targets.
- Make sure that the writeRequestCtx is returned to the pool
when there is no need to send staleness markers.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3668
* feat: make the step input field global
* fix: correct get step from url
* fix: set minimumSignificantDigits to 1
* app/vmselect/vmui: `make vmui-update`
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
vmselect passes query timeout to vmstorage in seconds.
The commit 20e9598254 treated it as timeout in nanoseconds.
Fix this in order to prevent from the following errors under vmstorage load:
cannot process vmselect request: cannot execute "search_v7": couldn't start executing the request in 0.000 seconds,
since -search.maxConcurrentRequests=... concurrent requests are already executed.
The per-series timestamps are usually shared among series, so it is unsafe modifying them.
The issue has been appeared after the optimization at 2f3ddd4884
* {lib/server, app/}: use `httpAuth.*` flag as fallback for `*AuthKey` if it is not set
* lib/ingestserver/opentsdbhttp: fix opentdb HTTP handler not respecting `httpAuth.*` flags
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
* vmagent: add minimal scrape file exampe for vmagent quick start
Signed-off-by: Artem Navoiev <tenmozes@gmail.com>
* replace example with link to your prometheus.yml in docker
Signed-off-by: Artem Navoiev <tenmozes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Navoiev <tenmozes@gmail.com>
- Use promutils.Labels.GetLabels() instead of comparing promutils.Labels.Labels to nil.
This make the code more consistent with other places.
- Mention the release where the issue has been introduced at docs/CHANGELOG.md.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3624
See the list of configs supported by Prometheus at f88a0a7d83/discovery/nomad/nomad.go (L76-L84)
- Removed "token" option. In can be set either via NOMAD_TOKEN env var or via `bearer_token` config option.
- Removed "scheme" option. It is automatically detected depending on whether the `tls_config` is set.
- Removed "services" and "tags" options, since they aren't supported by Prometheus.
- Added "region" option. If it is missing, then the region is read from NOMAD_REGION env var.
If this var is empty, then it is set to "global" in the same way as Nomad client does.
See 865ee8d37c/api/api.go (L297)
and 865ee8d37c/api/api.go (L555-L556)
- If the "server" option is missing, then it is read from NOMAD_ADDR in the same way
as Nomad client does - see 865ee8d37c/api/api.go (L294-L296)
This is a follow-up for 8aee209c53
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3367
This should reduce memory usage when scraping big number of targets,
since this limits the summary memory usage during concurrent parsing and relabeling
by the number of available CPU cores.
Previously the -maxConcurrentInserts was limiting the number of established client connections,
which write data to VictoriaMetrics. Some of these connections could be idle.
Such connections do not consume big amounts of CPU and RAM, so there is a little sense in limiting
the number of such connections. So now the -maxConcurrentInserts command-line option
limits the number of concurrently executed insert requests, not including idle connections.
It is recommended removing -maxConcurrentInserts command-line option, since the default value
for this option should work good for most cases.
This should prevent from out of memory errors when big number of vmselect
nodes send many concurrent requests to vmstorage
The limit can be controlled at vmstorage via the following command-line flags:
- search.maxConcurrentRequests
- search.maxQueueDuration
See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#resource-usage-limits
- Document the bugfix at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Wait until all the worker goroutines are done in consulWatcher.mustStop()
- Do not log `context canceled` errors when discovering consul serviceNames
- Removed explicit handling of gzipped responses at lib/promscrape/discoveryutils.Client,
since this handling is automatically performed by net/http.Transport.
See DisableCompression option at https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Transport .
- Remove explicit handling of the proxyURL, since it is automatically handled
by net/http.Transport. See Proxy option at https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Transport .
- Expliticly set MaxIdleConnsPerHost, since its default value equals to 2.
Such a small value may result in excess tcp connection churn
when more than 2 concurrent requests are processed by lib/promscrape/discoveryutils.Client.
- Do not set explicitly the `Host` request header, since it is automatically set by net/http.Client.
- Backport the bugfix to the recently added nomad_sd_configs - see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3367
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3468
- Remove undocumented `username` and `password` config options from `nomad_sd_config`.
TODO: probably, remove these options from `consul_sd_config` too?
These options exist there for backwards compatibility purposes.
- Add __meta_nomad_service_alloc_id and __meta_nomad_service_job_id meta-labels
These labels contain AllocID and JobID fields for the discovered Nomad services.
- Various typo fixes.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3367
Stress the importance of specifying of all Alertmanager
URLs in vmalert's `-notifier.url` or `notifier.config`
if it runs in cluster mode.
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3547
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Before, if the imported line contained multiple metrics and one
or more of them had an empty values - the whole line was ignored.
Now, only metrics with empty values are ignored, and the rest
of the metrics are accepted successfully.
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3540
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
Allow configuring the default number of stored rule's update states in memory
via global `-rule.updateEntriesLimit` command-line flag or per-rule via rule's
`update_entries_limit` configuration param.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
This simplifies manual usage of the APIs. For example, the following query
would return the results over the 2022 year.
/api/v1/query_range?start=2022&end=2023&step=1d&query=...
This is equivalent to:
/api/v1/query_range?start=2022-01-01T00:00:00Z&end=2023-01-01T00:00:00Z&step=1d&query=...
- Rename `Custom panel` tab to more clear `Query` tab
- Rename `Cardinality` tab to `Explore cardinality`, so it becomes consistent with `Explore metrics` tab
- Move `Dashboards` tab to the end, since it isn't used too much
- Document the feature at docs/CHANGELOG.md.
- Document the metrics explorer at https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#metrics-explorer .
- Properly set `start` and `end` args for the selected time range
when performing the request, which returns metric names.
- Improve queries, so they return lower number of lines and labels.
This should improve metrics' exploration.
- Properly encode label filters and query args before passing them to VictoriaMetrics.
- Various cosmetic fixes.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3386
* vmagent: respect `-usePromCompatibleNaming` if no relabeling is set
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3493
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmagent: upd test
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
* app/vmbackupmanager: add metrics for better observability, include more information to `/api/v1/backups` API call response
* app/vmbackupmanager: drop old metrics before creating new ones
* app/vmbackupmanager: use `_total` postfix for counter metrics
* app/vmbackupmanager: remove `_total` postfix for gauge-like metrics
* app/vmbackupmanager: add `_last_run_failed` metrics for backups and retention
* app/vmbackupmanager: address review feedback
* app/vmbackupmanager: fix metric name
* app/vmbackupmanager: address review feedback, remove background updates of metrics, add restoring state of `_last_run_failed` metric from remote storage
* app/vmbackupmanager: improve performance for backup size calculation
* app/vmbackupmanager: refactor backup and retention runs to deduplicate each run logic
* {app/vmbackupmanager,lib/formatutil}: move HumanizeBytes into lib package
* app/vmbackupmanager: fix creating new metrics instead of reusing existing ones
* lit/formatutil: add comment to make linter happy
* app/vmbackupmanager: address review feedback
Previously too short lookbehind window d for rate(m[d]) could be automatically extended
if it didn't cover at least two raw samples. This was needed in order to guarantee
non-empty results from rate(m[d]) on short time ranges.
Now the lookbehind window isn't extended if it is set explicitly,
since it is expected that the user knows what he is doing.
The lookbehind window continues to be extended when needed if it isn't set explicitly.
For example, in the case of rate(m).
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3483
The issue triggers after the indexdb rotation for time series, which stop receiving new samples.
This results in missing data for such time series in query responses.
This commit should address the https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3502
The issue has been introduced in 2dd93449d8
- Document the change at docs/CHANELOG.md
- Log fatal errors if the -loggerJSONFields contains unexpected values
- Rename -loggerJsonFields to -loggerJSONFields for the sake of consistency naming commonly used in Go
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2348
support overriding of `-search.latencyOffset` value via
URL param `latency_offset`.
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3481
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
This fixes handling of values bigger than 2GiB for the following command-line flags:
- -storage.minFreeDiskSpaceBytes
- -remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL
Blocked small merges may result into big number of small parts, which, in turn,
may result in increased CPU and memory usage during queries, since queries need to inspect
all the existing small parts.
The issue has been introduced in 8189770c50
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3337
Previously only up to 100K results were cached.
This could result in sub-optimal performance when more than 100K unique strings were actually used.
For example, when the relabeling rule was applied to a million of unique Graphite metric names
like in the https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3466
This commit should reduce the long-term CPU usage for https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3466
after all the unique Graphite metrics are registered in the FastStringMatcher.Transform() cache.
It is expected that the number of unique strings, which are passed to FastStringMatcher.Match(),
FastStringTransformer.Transform() and to InternString() during the last 5 minutes,
is limited, so the function results fit memory. Otherwise OOM crash can occur.
This should be the case for typical production workloads.
This should simplify further debugging, since the first thing to start the debugging by query trace
is to know the version of VictoriaMetrics, which produced this trace.
- Document the change at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Run `make docs-sync` for copying app/vmgateway/README.md to docs/vmgateway.md
in order to propagate docs' changes to https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmgateway.html
* vmalert: correctly return error for RW failures
By mistake, in 0989649ad0 the error
for remote write failures weren't return to user.
This change fixes it.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The main purpose of this command-line flag is to increase the lifetime of low-end flash storage
with the limited number of write operations it can perform. Such flash storage is usually
installed on Raspberry PI or similar appliances.
For example, `-inmemoryDataFlushInterval=1h` reduces the frequency of disk write operations
to up to once per hour if the ingested one-hour worth of data fits the limit for in-memory data.
The in-memory data is searchable in the same way as the data stored on disk.
VictoriaMetrics automatically flushes the in-memory data to disk on graceful shutdown via SIGINT signal.
The in-memory data is lost on unclean shutdown (hardware power loss, OOM crash, SIGKILL).
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3337
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>
* 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>
- Return meta-labels for the discovered targets via promutils.Labels
instead of map[string]string. This improves the speed of generating
meta-labels for discovered targets by up to 5x.
- Remove memory allocations in hot paths during ScrapeWork generation.
The ScrapeWork contains scrape settings for a single discovered target.
This improves the service discovery speed by up to 2x.
* flag reference update
there is no flag `-datasource.disablePathAppend` and datasource actually checking for `-remoteRead.disablePathAppend`
* update source for doc as well
* {app/vmstorage,app/vmselect}: add API to get list of existing tenants
* {app/vmstorage,app/vmselect}: add API to get list of existing tenants
* app/vmselect: fix error message
* {app/vmstorage,app/vmselect}: fix error messages
* app/vmselect: change log level for error handling
* wip
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
The default list of alerting rules contains the basic
rules for checking vmalert's health state and is recommended
to use for monitoring vmalert deployments.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* docs/operator: change VMAgentRemoteWriteSettings.MaxDiskUsagePerURL type from int32 to int64
* docs: operator updates api description
Co-authored-by: f41gh7 <nik@victoriametrics.com>
- Remove trailing whitespace at the end of lines
- Remove redundant sentence stating that time series matching the given selector will be deleted.
It should be clear from the surrounding context.
The issue was in the `labels := dst[offset:]` line in the beginning of appendExtraLabels() function.
The `dst` may be re-allocated when adding extra labels to it. In this case the addition of `exported_`
prefix to labels inside `labels` slice become invisible in the returned `dst` labels.
While at it, properly handle some corner cases:
- Add additional `exported_` prefix to clashing metric labels with already existing `exported_` prefix.
- Store scraped metric names in `exported___name__` label if scrape target contains `__name__` label.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3278
Thanks to @jplanckeel for the initial attempt to fix this issue
at https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/3281
Previously the `quotesEscape` function was escaping only double quotes.
This wasn't enough, since the input string could contain other special chars,
which must be escaped when put inside JSON string. For example, carriage return and line feed chars (\n\r),
backslash char, etc. This led to the following issues, which were improperly fixed:
- https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/890 - this issue
was "fixed" by introducing the `crlfEscape` function, which led to unnecessary
complications in user templates, while not fixing various corner cases
such as backslash chars in the input string.
See 1de15ad490
- https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3139 - this issue
was "fixed" by urlencoding the whole string passed to -external.alert.source
command-line flag. This led to invalid urls, which couldn't be parsed by Grafana.
See 00c838353d
and 4bd0244599
This commit properly encodes the input string passed to `quotesEscape`, so it can be safely embedded inside JSON strings.
This commit deprecates crlfEscape template function and adds the following new template functions:
- strvalue and stripDomain - these functions are supported by Prometheus, so they were added
for compatibility purposes.
- jsonEscape and htmlEscape for converting the input string to valid quoted JSON string
and for html-escaping the input string, so it could be safely embedded as a plaintext
into html.
This commit also documents all supported template functions at https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#template-functions
The deprecated crlfEscape function isn't documented on purpose, since its usefulness is negative in general case.
This reverts commit 00c838353d.
Reason for revert: it incorrectly fixes the issue https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3139 .
Now `-external.alert.source=explore?orgId=1&left=...` is converted to the following invalid url, which cannot be handled by Grafana:
https://grafana.example.com/explore%3ForgId%3D1%26left%3D...
The next commit will contain the correct fix of the issue - the `quotesEscape` function must
properly escape the string, so it could be embedded into JSON string. This function must
properly escape \n\r chars too. In this case the `crlfEscape` function becomes unnecessary.
Actually, the next commit makes the `crlfEscape` function deprecated.
The searchTSIDs function was searching for metricIDs matching the the given tag filters
and then was locating the corresponding TSID entries for the found metricIDs.
The TSID entries aren't needed when searching for time series names (aka MetricName),
so this commit removes the uneeded TSID search from the implementation of /api/v1/series API.
This improves perfromance of /api/v1/series calls.
This commit also improves performance a bit for /api/v1/query and /api/v1/query_range calls,
since now these calls cache small metricIDs instead of big TSID entries
in the indexdb/tagFilters cache (now this cache is named indexdb/tagFiltersToMetricIDs)
without the need to compress the saved entries in order to save cache space.
This commit also removes concurrency limiter during searching for matching time series,
which was introduced in 8f16388428, since the concurrency
for all the read queries is already limited with -search.maxConcurrentRequests command-line flag.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/648
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>
* feat: add maximum display series by tabs
* feat: add warning on PredefinedPanels.tsx
* docs/CHANGELOG.md: vmui limit number of plotted series
* docs/CHANGELOG.md: vmui limit number of plotted series
* wip
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
* Multi retention standardization of docs
While reading through the docs the implementation details had different formatting for storageNode. This standardizes them and adds a link to the retention docs.
* Update docs/guides/guide-vmcluster-multiple-retention-setup.md
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@gmail.com>
The default value of `-datasource.queryStep` has changed, so we update
the troubleshooting docs accordingly.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Sort labels explicitly after calling the ParsedConfigs.Apply() when needed.
This reduces CPU usage when performing metric-level relabeling, where labels' sorting isn't needed.
Previously the `__address__` label could contain only `host:port` part of the target url,
while the scheme and metrics path were obtained from `__scheme__` and `__metrics_path__`
labels. Now it is possible to set the full url in `__address__` label.
This makes valid the following scrape config, which is frequently used by novice users:
scrape_configs:
- job_name: foo
static_configs:
- targets:
- http://host1/metrics1
- https://host2/metrics2
* Optimize fast path for /api/v1/import when importing numeric values
* Move the docs about the change from features to bugfixes at docs/CHANGELOG.md
* Update tests at lib/protoparser/vmimport
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3161
* app/vmselect: properly work when export import json from `api/v1/{export, import}` API
* app/vmselect: update convert function
* app/vmselect: export null if `math.IsNaN(v)`
* app/vmselect: get float from json
* lib/protoparser: add test
* docs: add change log
* lib/protoparser: make export import api compatible
* Document the addition of Azure blob storage support in vmbackup / vmrestore
* List the supported storage system types at docs/vmrestore.md
* Mention about azblob storage system support at -src and -dst command-line flags
for vmbackup / vmrestore tools.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1029
* Use vm_account_id and vm_project_id labels to be consistent with https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multitenancy-via-labels
* Document the feature that vmalert now exposes vm_account_id and vm_project_id
labels if -clusterMode is set.
* Use literal strings instead of string constants for vm_account_id and vm_project_id.
This improves code readability.
The change is supposed to provide additional flexibility for generating alert's
source link based on label values.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The `docs-sync` command was updated to modify images path
for assets in `docs/` folder. The change allows to refer images from `docs`
without copying them to the root folder.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* app/vminsert: allows parsing tenant id from labels
it should help mitigate issues with vmagent's multiTenant mode, which works incorrectly at heavy load
and it cannot handle more then 100 different tenants.
This functional hidden with flag and do not change vminsert default behaviour
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2970
* Update docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md
Co-authored-by: Roman Khavronenko <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* wip
* app/vminsert/netstorage: clean remaining labels in order to free up GC
* docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md: typo fix
* wip
* wip
Co-authored-by: Roman Khavronenko <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
Allow configuring authorization params per list of targets
in vmalert's notifier config for `static_configs`.
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2690
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Cache `action: replace` results for non-trivial regexs and return them next time
instead of performing CPU-intensive regex replacement.
Optimize also `action: labelmap_all` and `action: replace_all` in the same way.
Previously empty series (e.g. series with all NaN samples) were passed to aggregate functions.
Such series must be ingored by all the aggregate functions.
So it is better from consistency PoV filtering out empty series before applying aggregate functions.
* app/vmselect: ignore empty series for `limit_offset`
VictoriaMetrics doesn't return empty series (with all NaN values) to
the user. But such series are filtered after transform functions.
It means `limit_offset` will account for empty series as well.
For example, let's consider following data set:
```
time series:
foo{label="1"} NaN, NaN, NaN, NaN // empty series
foo{label="2"} 1, 2, 3, 4
foo{label="3"} 4, 3, 2, 1
```
When user requests all series for metric `foo` the empty series
will be filtered out:
```
/query=foo:
foo{label="v2"} 1, 2, 3, 4
foo{label="v3"} 4, 3, 2, 1
```
But `limit_offset(1, 1, foo)` is applied to original series, not filtered yet.
So it will return `foo{label="v2"}` (skips the first in list)
```
/query=limit_offset(1, 1, foo):
foo{label="v2"} 1, 2, 3, 4
```
Expected result would be to apply `limit_offset` to already filtered list,
so in result we receive `foo{label="v3"}`:
```
/query=limit_offset(1, 1, foo):
foo{label="v3"} 4, 3, 2, 1
```
The change does exactly that - filters empty series before applying `limit_offset`.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* app/vmselect: ignore empty series for `limit_offset`
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/{httpserver,netutil}: allow to define min and max TLS version of the http server
* lib/httpserver: added descriptions about tls supported versions
* lib/netutil: check minimal tls version, added supported tls versions to error
* wip
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@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
- Consistently use single dash in front of command-line flags instead of double dashes.
- Add a warning that too small -search.latencyOffset may lead to incomplete query results.
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>
