It has been appeared that VictoriaLogs is frequently used for collecting logs with tens of fields.
For example, standard Kuberntes setup on top of Filebeat generates more than 20 fields per each log.
Such logs are also known as "wide events".
The previous storage format was optimized for logs with a few fields. When at least a single field
was referenced in the query, then the all the meta-information about all the log fields was unpacked
and parsed per each scanned block during the query. This could require a lot of additional disk IO
and CPU time when logs contain many fields. Resolve this issue by providing an (field -> metainfo_offset)
index per each field in every data block. This index allows reading and extracting only the needed
metainfo for fields used in the query. This index is stored in columnsHeaderIndexFilename ( columns_header_index.bin ).
This allows increasing performance for queries over wide events by 10x and more.
Another issue was that the data for bloom filters and field values across all the log fields except of _msg
was intermixed in two files - fieldBloomFilename ( field_bloom.bin ) and fieldValuesFilename ( field_values.bin ).
This could result in huge disk read IO overhead when some small field was referred in the query,
since the Operating System usually reads more data than requested. It reads the data from disk
in at least 4KiB blocks (usually the block size is much bigger in the range 64KiB - 512KiB).
So, if 512-byte bloom filter or values' block is read from the file, then the Operating System
reads up to 512KiB of data from disk, which results in 1000x disk read IO overhead. This overhead isn't visible
for recently accessed data, since this data is usually stored in RAM (aka Operating System page cache),
but this overhead may become very annoying when performing the query over large volumes of data
which isn't present in OS page cache.
The solution for this issue is to split bloom filters and field values across multiple shards.
This reduces the worst-case disk read IO overhead by at least Nx where N is the number of shards,
while the disk read IO overhead is completely removed in best case when the number of columns doesn't exceed N.
Currently the number of shards is 8 - see bloomValuesShardsCount . This solution increases
performance for queries over large volumes of newly ingested data by up to 1000x.
The new storage format is versioned as v1, while the old storage format is version as v0.
It is stored in the partHeader.FormatVersion.
Parts with the old storage format are converted into parts with the new storage format during background merge.
It is possible to force merge by querying /internal/force_merge HTTP endpoint - see https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/#forced-merge .
### Describe Your Changes
Fix `Alert` component to prevent it from overflowing the screen when
displaying long messages.
Related issue: #7207
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- Added functionality to cancel running queries on the Explore Logs and
Query pages.
- The loader was changed from a spinner to a top bar within the block.
This still indicates loading, but solves the issue of the spinner
"flickering," especially during graph dragging.
Related issue: #7097https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/98e59aeb-905b-4b9d-bbb2-688223b22a82
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Empty fields are treated as non-existing fields by VictoriaLogs data model.
So there is no sense in returning empty fields in query results, since they may mislead and confuse users.
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Fixed VictoriaLogs HA examples references in docs
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s.partitions can be changed when new partition is registered or when old partition is dropped.
This could lead to data races and panics when s.partitions slice is accessed by concurrently executed queries.
The fix is to make a copy of the selected partitions under s.partitionsLock before performing the query.
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Create blockResultColumn.forEachDictValue* helper functions for visiting matching
dictionary values. These helper functions should prevent from counting dictionary values
without matching logs in the future.
This is a follow-up for 0c0f013a60
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/7152
encoding.GetUint64s() returns uninitialized slice, which may contain arbitrary values.
So values in this slice must be reset to zero before using it for counting hits in `uniq` and `top` pipes.
This allows executing queries with `stats` pipe, which calculate multiple results with the same functions,
but with different `if (...)` conditions. For example:
_time:5m | count(), count() if (error)
Previously such queries couldn't be executed becasue automatically generated name for the second result
didn't include `if (error)`, so names for both results were identical - `count(*)`.
Now the following queries are equivalents:
_time:5s | sort by (_time)
_time:5s | order by (_time)
This is needed for convenience, since `order by` is commonly used in other query languages such as SQL.
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Marked fluentd in victorialogs roadmap
Added fluentd syslog example setup
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- Show the time range in the tooltip when hovering over staircase
graphs.
- Use bolder lines for staircase graphs.
- Increase the number of steps on the staircase graph to 100.
- Reduce the maximum width of the tooltip to 1/3 of the screen.
- Insert only the label name under the cursor into the query input field
when `Ctrl`-clicking the line legend.
See [this
comment](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6545#issuecomment-2336805237).
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1) Changed table settings from a popup to a modal window to simplify
future functionality additions.
2) Added functionality to save selected columns when data is modified or
the page is reloaded. See #7016.
<details>
<summary>Example screenshots</summary>
<img alt="demo-1" width="600"
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Previously only logs inside the selected time range could be returned by stream_context pipe.
For example, the following query could return up to 10 surrounding logs only for the last 5 minutes,
while most users expect this query should return up to 10 surrounding logs without restrictions on the time range.
_time:5m panic | stream_context before 10
This enables the ability to implement stream context feature at VictoriaLogs web UI: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/7063 .
Reduce memory usage when returning stream context over big log streams with millions of entries.
The new logic scans over all the log messages for the selected log stream, while keeping in memory only
the given number of surrounding logs. Previously all the logs for the given log stream on the selected time range
were loaded in memory before selecting the needed surrounding logs.
This should help https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6730 .
Reduce the scan performance for big log streams by fetching only the requested fields. For example, the following
query should be executed much faster than before if logs contain many fields other than _stream, _msg and _time:
panic | stream_context after 30 | fields _stream, _msg, _time
Use local timezone of the host server in this case. The timezone can be overridden
with TZ environment variable if needed.
While at it, allow using whitespace instead of T as a delimiter between data and time
in the ingested _time field. For example, '2024-09-20 10:20:30' is now accepted
during data ingestion. This is valid ISO8601 format, which is used by some log shippers,
so it should be supported. This format is also known as SQL datetime format.
Also assume local time zone when time without timezone information is passed to querying APIs.
Previously such a time was parsed in UTC timezone. Add `Z` to the end of the time string
if the old behaviour is preferred.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6721
### Describe Your Changes
VictoriaLogs allows logs without `_msg` field or `_msg` field is empty.
This lead to incorrect search result. See:
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6785
This pull request search for non-empty `_msg` field before log entry is
added to `LogRows`.
New counter `vl_rows_dropped_total{reason="msg_not_exist"}` is
introduced.
Example log output:
```
2024-09-23T02:33:19.719Z warn app/vlinsert/insertutils/common_params.go:189 dropping log line without _msg field; [{@timestamp 2024-09-18T13:42:16.600000000Z} {Attributes.array.attribute ["many","values"]} {Attributes.boolean.attribute true} {Attributes.double.attribute 637.704} {Attributes.int.attribute 10} {Attributes.map.attribute.some.map.key some value} {Attributes.string.attribute some string} {Body Example ddddddddddlog record} {Resource.service.name my.service} {Scope.my.scope.attribute some scope attribute} {Scope.name my.library} {Scope.version 1.0.0} {SeverityNumber 10} {SeverityText Information} {SpanId eee19b7ec3c1b174} {TraceFlags 0} {TraceId 5b8efff798038103d269b633813fc60c}]
```
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Previously the original timestamp was used in the copied query, so _time:duration filters
were applied to the original time range: (timestamp-duration ... timestamp]. This resulted
in stopped live tailing, since new logs have timestamps bigger than the original time range.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/7028
This pipe is useful for debugging purposes when the number of processed blocks must be calculated for the given query:
<query> | blocks_count
This helps detecting the root cause of query performance slowdown in cases like https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/7070
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- Use common compose.yaml file for all victorialogs setups to set
version in a single place and override it on demand for each agent and
protocol
- Replaced multiple victorialogs instances in HA setup with single setup
with `deploy.replica` parameter set
- Added fluentd setup
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By default, the `elasticsearchexporter` in OTel Collector puts the log
message under a field other than `_msg` (e.g., `Body`). Without
specifying via an HTTP header, those logs may not be queried correctly.
See also:
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6785.
This pull request updates the example configuration and notes for the
`elasticsearchexporter`.
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Also tried to make it catch "Authorisation" in the future, fixed a lot
of other misspells along the way, but didn't make it catch
"Authorisation" anyway.
- Fix misspelled "Authorization" header name
- Fix misspelled "organization"
- Fix more misspells
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This is needed for avoiding confusion between the `|` operator at `math` pipe and `|` pipe delimiter.
For example, the following query was parsed unexpectedly:
* | math foo / bar | fields x
as
* | math foo / (bar | fields) as x
Substituting `|` with `or` inside `math` pipe fixes this ambiguity.
Previously per-token hashes for per-block bloom filters were re-calculated on every scanned block.
This could be slow when the number of tokens is big or when the number of blocks to scan is big.
Pre-calculate hashes for bloom filters and then use them for searching in bloom filters.
This improves performance by 2.5x for in(...) filters with many values to search inside `in()`.
Previously (f1:foo OR f2:bar) was incorrectly returning `foo` token for `f1` and `bar` token for `f2`.
These tokens were used for checking against bloom filter for every data block, so the data block,
which didn't contain simultaneously `foo` token for `f1` field and `bar` token for `f2` field, was skipped.
This was incorrect, since such a block may contain logs matching the original OR filter.
The fix is to return common tokens from `OR`-delimted filters only if these tokens exist at EVERY such filter
for the given field name. If some `OR`-delimited filter misses the given field name, then `OR`-delimited filters
do not contain common tokens, which could be used for checking against bloom filter.
While at it, add more tests covering various edge cases for filters delimited by AND and OR.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6554
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6556
Commit adds the following changes:
* Adds support of OpenTelemetry logs for Victoria Logs with protobuf encoded messages
* json encoding is not supported for the following reasons:
- It brings a lot of fragile code, which works inefficiently.
- json encoding is impossible to use with language SDK.
* splits metrics and logs structures at lib/protoparser/opentelemetry/pb package.
* adds docs with examples for opentelemetry logs.
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* updates change log
* adds VL-Debug http header
* updates doc
* extracts only the first value of http headers for VL-Stream-Fields and VL-Ignore-Fields.
It makes behaviour the same as Query string args. And allows to easily configure client applications.
Since most of the client collectors don't support multi value headers.
Signed-off-by: f41gh7 <nik@victoriametrics.com>
* Many collectors don't support forwarding url query params to the remote system. It makes impossible to define stream fields for it. Workaround with proxy between VictoriaLogs and log shipper is too complicated solution.
* This commit adds the following changes:
* Adds fallback to to headers params, if query param is empty for:
_msg_field -> VL-Msg-Field
_stream_fields -> VL-Stream-Fields
_ignore_fields -> VL-Ignore-Fields
_time_field -> VL-Time-Field
* removes deprecations from victorialogs compose files, added more
output format examples for logstash, telegraf, fluent-bit
related issue: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5310
fix#6554
andfilter shouldn't return orfilter field which result in bloomfilter
return false.
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### Describe Your Changes
The anchor to "Other fields" section should be #other-fields (instead of
#other-field)
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### Describe Your Changes
* `sort` param is unused by the current website engine, and was present only for compatibility
with previous website engine. It is time to remove it as it makes no effect
* re-structure guides content into folders to simplify assets management
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### Describe Your Changes
- Adds support for displaying the top 5 log streams in the hits graph,
grouping the remaining streams into an "other" label.
#6545
- Adds options to customize the graph display with bar, line, stepped
line, and points views.
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The changes are based on SEO report and supposed to improve
ranking and indexation by search engines by using prompt and unique titles
and by updating unreachable links.
It also updates links to have a simplified form and replaces relative links with absolute links
according to https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#documentation
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### Describe Your Changes
https://victoriametrics.slack.com/archives/C05UNTPAEDN/p1722833182319299
Sometimes users may use the wrong (lower) version of Grafana when
setting up the VictoriaLogs datasource.
It would be good to document the requirements of Grafana versions to use
VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs datasource.
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* add a toggle button to the "Group" tab that allows users to expand or collapse all groups at once
* introduce the ability to select a key for grouping logs within the "Group" tab
* display the number of entries within each log group.
* move the Markdown toggle to the general settings panel in the upper left corner.
### Describe Your Changes
- replace docs in root README with a link to official documentation
- remove old make commands for documentation
- remove redundant "VictoriaMetrics" from document titles
- merge changelog docs into a section
- rm content of Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.md as it can be included from docs/README
- add basic information to README in the root folder, so it will be useful for github users
- rm `picture` tag from docs/README as it was needed for github only, we don't display VM logo at docs.victoriametrics.com
- update `## documentation` section in docs/README to reflect the changes
- rename DD pictures, as they now belong to docs/README
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### Describe Your Changes
After breadcrumb was added to docs.victoriametrics.com there's no need
to specify parent page name in a title
<img width="1437" alt="Screenshot 2024-07-27 at 10 20 09"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/733f41f4-a727-4f52-a7c0-6019edf1b803">
Also added vmdocs to gitignore to avoid committing it
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Use relative markdown references, removed `{{< ref >}}` shortcodes
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- moved files from root to VictoriaMetrics folder to be able to mount
operator docs and VictoriaMetrics docs independently
- added ability to run website locally
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…ion about Grafana Datasource in quering
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Update Roadmap and Querying documentation for VictoriaLogs
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### Describe Your Changes
Implement spellcheck command:
- add cspell configuration files
- dockerize spellchecking process
- add Makefile targets
This PR adds a standalone `make spellcheck` target to check `docs/*.md` files for spelling
errors. The target process is dockerized to be run in a separate npm environment.
Some `docs/` typo fixes also included.
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Previously the in-memory buffer could remain unflushed for long periods of time under low ingestion rate.
The ingested logs weren't visible for search during this time.
The set of log fields in the found logs may differ from the set of log fields present in the log stream.
So compare only the log fields in the found logs when searching for the matching log entry in the log stream.
While at it, return _stream field in the delimiter log entry, since this field is used by VictoriaLogs Web UI
for grouping logs by log streams.
