- Clarify docs about -replicationFactor command-line flag at vmselect
- Clarify description for -replicationFactor and -search.skipSlowReplicas command-line flags
- Fix the logic for returning responses if -search.skipSlowReplicas command-line flag
is enabled. The logic was broken in the 173ccf4333,
so it could return responses only if some of vmstorage nodes return error,
while it should return when query results are successfully collected from more than
(len(storageNodes) - replicationFactor) vmstorage nodes.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1207
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/711
* 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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It is required for periods to be multiplies, but it was not stated clearly in documentation.
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app/vmstorage: clarify the min value for `-retentionPeriod` flag
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(cherry picked from commit 24f34347f1)
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* lib/httpserver: introduce `-http.maxConcurrentRequests` command-line flag
Introduce `-http.maxConcurrentRequests` command-line flag to protect
VM components from resource exhaustion during unexpected spikes of HTTP requests.
By default, the new flag's value is set to 0 which means no limits are applied.
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* lib/httpserver: mention http.maxConcurrentRequests in docs
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Improperly configured -bigMergeConcurrency command-line flag usually leads to uncontrolled
growth of unmerged parts, which, in turn, increases CPU usage and query durations.
So it is better deprecating this flag. In rare cases -smallMergeConcurrency command-line flag
can be used instead for controlling the concurrency of background merges.
- Use flag.Duration instead of flagutil.Duration for -snapshotCreateTimeout,
since the flagutil.Duration is intended mostly for big durations, e.g. days, months and years,
while the -snapshotCreateTimeout is usually smaller than one hour.
- Add links to https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-work-with-snapshots in docs/CHANGELOG.md,
so readers could easily find the corresponding docs when reading the changelog.
- Properly remove all the created directories on unsuccessful attempt to create
snapshot in Storage.CreateSnapshot().
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3551
* lib/{fs,mergeset,storage}: skip `.must-remove.` dirs when creating snapshot (#3858)
* lib/{mergeset,storage}: add timeout configuration for snapshots creation, remove incomplete snapshots from storage
* docs: fix formatting
* app/vmstorage: add metrics to track status of snapshots
* app/vmstorage: use `vm_http_requests_total` metric for snapshot endpoints metrics, rename new flag to make name more clear
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* app/vmstorage: update flag name in docs
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* app/vmstorage: reflect new metrics names change in docs
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* vmselect/promql: check for deadline in `count_values` fn
`count_values` could be very slow during the data processing.
Checking for deadline between iterations supposed to reduce
probability of exceeding `search.maxQueryDuration`.
The change also adds a new trace record, which captures the time
spent in aggregation function. Before that, the trace for aggr funcs
could be confusing since it doesn't account for all the places where
time was spent.
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* wip
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While at it, stop sending requests to unavailable backend for 3 seconds
before the next attempt. This should reduce the amounts of useless work
and the number of useless network packets when the backend is temporarily unavailable.
docs: clarifications between standalone/cluster ingestion endpoints
This is an attempt to make it a bit clearer to the user that the cluster version ingestion URLs are different from the standalone ones. I have also changed the order of the list items to make it a bit clearer and hopefully stop the user simply inferring that `/prometheus/api/v1` is only related to Prometheus data.
The docs/assets folder should be used only for assets specific to docs generation at https://docs.victoriametrics.com, e.g. css, js and images.
All the other assets related to specific docs should be placed in the same folder as the corresponding *.md file.
These assets should have the same name prefix as the corresponding doc file name. This simplifies tracking the lifetime of these assets.
For example, if the doc is removed, it is very easy to remove all assets associated with it with a simple `rm -rf docs/doc-name*` command.
This also simplifies generating correct urls for doc-specific assets from both https://docs.victoriametrics.com
and from https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/docs/ - just refer to the asset name without any directory prefixes.
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
support overriding of `-search.latencyOffset` value via
URL param `latency_offset`.
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3481
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* {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
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