* metricsql: add support of using keep_metric_names for binary operations
This should help to avoid confusion with queries like one in the issue #3710.
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* wip
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Previously all the newly ingested time series were registered in global `MetricName -> TSID` index.
This index was used during data ingestion for locating the TSID (internal series id)
for the given canonical metric name (the canonical metric name consists of metric name plus all its labels sorted by label names).
The `MetricName -> TSID` index is stored on disk in order to make sure that the data
isn't lost on VictoriaMetrics restart or unclean shutdown.
The lookup in this index is relatively slow, since VictoriaMetrics needs to read the corresponding
data block from disk, unpack it, put the unpacked block into `indexdb/dataBlocks` cache,
and then search for the given `MetricName -> TSID` entry there. So VictoriaMetrics
uses in-memory cache for speeding up the lookup for active time series.
This cache is named `storage/tsid`. If this cache capacity is enough for all the currently ingested
active time series, then VictoriaMetrics works fast, since it doesn't need to read the data from disk.
VictoriaMetrics starts reading data from `MetricName -> TSID` on-disk index in the following cases:
- If `storage/tsid` cache capacity isn't enough for active time series.
Then just increase available memory for VictoriaMetrics or reduce the number of active time series
ingested into VictoriaMetrics.
- If new time series is ingested into VictoriaMetrics. In this case it cannot find
the needed entry in the `storage/tsid` cache, so it needs to consult on-disk `MetricName -> TSID` index,
since it doesn't know that the index has no the corresponding entry too.
This is a typical event under high churn rate, when old time series are constantly substituted
with new time series.
Reading the data from `MetricName -> TSID` index is slow, so inserts, which lead to reading this index,
are counted as slow inserts, and they can be monitored via `vm_slow_row_inserts_total` metric exposed by VictoriaMetrics.
Prior to this commit the `MetricName -> TSID` index was global, e.g. it contained entries sorted by `MetricName`
for all the time series ever ingested into VictoriaMetrics during the configured -retentionPeriod.
This index can become very large under high churn rate and long retention. VictoriaMetrics
caches data from this index in `indexdb/dataBlocks` in-memory cache for speeding up index lookups.
The `indexdb/dataBlocks` cache may occupy significant share of available memory for storing
recently accessed blocks at `MetricName -> TSID` index when searching for newly ingested time series.
This commit switches from global `MetricName -> TSID` index to per-day index. This allows significantly
reducing the amounts of data, which needs to be cached in `indexdb/dataBlocks`, since now VictoriaMetrics
consults only the index for the current day when new time series is ingested into it.
The downside of this change is increased indexdb size on disk for workloads without high churn rate,
e.g. with static time series, which do no change over time, since now VictoriaMetrics needs to store
identical `MetricName -> TSID` entries for static time series for every day.
This change removes an optimization for reducing CPU and disk IO spikes at indexdb rotation,
since it didn't work correctly - see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401 .
At the same time the change fixes the issue, which could result in lost access to time series,
which stop receving new samples during the first hour after indexdb rotation - see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2698
The issue with the increased CPU and disk IO usage during indexdb rotation will be addressed
in a separate commit according to https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401#issuecomment-1553488685
This is a follow-up for 1f28b46ae9
* app/vmctl: fix panic `--remote-read-filter-time-start` flag not defined
* app/vmctl: update CHANGELOG.md
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It could happen for low evaluation intervals and irregular
delays during execution that evaluation time would get
a negative offset. This could result into cumulative
discrepancy between the actual time and evaluation time for rules.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: make `httpAuth.*` flags description less ambiguous
Currently, it may confuse users whether `httpAuth.*` flags are used by HTTP client or server configuration(see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4586 for example).
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: fix a typo
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
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- 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
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: update changelog
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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>
* fix removing storage data dir before restoring from backup
Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
* fix review comment
Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
* fix review comment
Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
* fixes after merge with `enterprise-single-node` branch
Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
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- Clarify the scope of the fix at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Handle the case when -search.maxSamplesPerSeries limit is exceeded
in the same way as the -search.maxSamplesPerQuery limit.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4472
The validation was needed for covering corner cases when storage is tested with data from 1970.
This resulted into unexpected search results, as year was parsed incorrectly from the given timestamp.
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
It is required for periods to be multiplies, but it was not stated clearly in documentation.
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
The change focuses on rectifying inconsistencies in the navigation behavior of the application
and eliminating issues encountered when manually altering the URL.
The key updates include:
- Refactoring of the routing mechanism to handle all possible routes and their states.
- Enhancement of the React Router usage to ensure a smoother navigation experience.
- Handling application state when the URL is manually changed.
Added a line for `probeSelector` and links to objects selectors section to make it easier to find more details about selectors.
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
expose `vmauth_user_request_duration_seconds`
and `vmauth_unauthorized_user_request_duration_seconds` summary metrics
for measuring requests latency per user.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
It is impossible to run OS vmauth with the provided config.
The example of using ip filters should be only a part of docs.
All other examples should work seamlessly with OS version.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: add scroll to the selected element
* docs: scroll to root if element not found
* docs: simplify code
* docs: code cleanup
* docs: fix comments (fix code formatting, check element only inside sidebar container)
By default, vmalert will make multiple retry attempts with exponential delay.
The total time spent during retry attempts shouldn't exceed `-remoteWrite.retryMaxTime` (default is 30s).
When retry time is exceeded vmalert drops the data dedicated for `-remoteWrite.url`.
Before, vmalert dropped data after 5 retry attempts with 1s delay between attempts (not configurable).
See `-remoteWrite.retryMinInterval` and `-remoteWrite.retryMaxTime` cmd-line flags.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Nikolay <nik@victoriametrics.com>
This simplifies routing at auth proxies such as vmauth to vlselect component,
which serves VMUI - just route all the requests, which start with /select/, to vlselect.
If the `Content-Type: application/json` request header isn't set,
then the server can improperly consume the request body when parsing request parameters
vmalert: retry all errors except 4XX status codes
Retry all errors except 4XX status codes while pushing via remote-write
to the remote storage. Previously, errors like broken connection could
prevent vmalert from retrying the request.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* fix: optimize the preparation of data for the graph
* fix: optimize tooltip rendering
* fix: optimize re-rendering of the chart
* vmui: memory leak fix
* lib/storage: creates parts.json on start-up if it not exists.
It fixes migrations from versions below v1.90.0.
Previously parts.json was created only after successful merge.
But if merge was interruped for some reason (OOM or shutdown), parts.json wasn't created and partitions left after interruped merge weren't properly deleted.
Since VM cannot check if it must be removed or not.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4336
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Roman Khavronenko <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Update lib/storage/partition.go
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- Clarify the scope of the fix at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Handle the case when -search.maxSamplesPerSeries limit is exceeded
in the same way as the -search.maxSamplesPerQuery limit.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4472
Properly return the error to user when `-search.maxSamplesPerQuery` limit is exceeded.
Before, user could have received a partial response instead.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
app/vmstorage: clarify the min value for `-retentionPeriod` flag
Co-authored-by: Roman Khavronenko <roman@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit 24f34347f1)
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
app/vmagent/remotewrite: fix vmagent panic on shutdown
Currently, when vmagent is stopping it first flushes pending series in remote write context and proceeds to stop streaming aggregation. This leads to streaming aggregation being unable to write results into pending timeseries (since it is already nil) and panic.
This can lead to losing some aggregation results being lost almost silently.
The fix is reordering flow to first stop streaming aggregation and flush all pending time series after that.
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit ce7141383d)
* app/vmctl: add verbose output for docker installations or when TTY isn't available
* app/vmctl: fix tests
* app/vmctl: make vmctl interactive if no tty
* app/vmctl: cleanup
* app/vmctl: add comment
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(cherry picked from commit fc5292d8ed)
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
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* vmalert: properly clone Storage params
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: properly clone Storage params
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(cherry picked from commit de94812088)
* app/vmui: fix behavior when changing url in global settings
* app/vmctl: minor fix
* app/vmui: fix behavior when changing url in global settings
(cherry picked from commit 9843ec0e1d)
The purpose of the change is too highlight what HA pair is
and how deduplication needs identical labels to be present
in raw samples.
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4367
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8185c2466c)
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The update should make understanding of multi-tenancy more clear
for influxdb users.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1c3f50f791)
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
This reverts the following commits:
- e0e16a2d36
- 2ce02a7fe6
The reason for revert: the updated logic breaks assumptions made
when fixing https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2698 .
For example, if a time series stop receiving new samples during the first
day after the indexdb rotation, there are chances that the time series
won't be registered in the new indexdb. This is OK until the next indexdb
rotation, since the time series is registered in the previous indexdb,
so it can be found during queries. But the time series will become invisible
for search after the next indexdb rotation, while its data is still there.
There is also incompletely solved issue with the increased CPU and disk IO resource
usage just after the indexdb rotation. There was an attempt to fix it, but it didn't fix
it in full, while introducing the issue mentioned above. See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401
TODO: to find out the solution, which simultaneously solves the following issues:
- increased memory usage for setups high churn rate and long retention (e.g. what the reverted commit does)
- increased CPU and disk IO usage during indexdb rotation ( https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1401 )
- https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2698
- Document the change at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Clarify comments for non-trivial code touched by the commit
- Improve the logic behind maybeCreateIndexes():
- Correctly create per-day indexes if the indexdb rotation is performed during
the first hour or the last hour of the day by UTC.
Previously there was a possibility of missing index entries on that day.
- Increase the duration for creating new indexes in the current indexdb for up to 22 hours
after indexdb rotation. This should reduce the increased resource usage
after indexdb rotation.
It is safe to postpone index creation for the current day until the last hour
of the current day after indexdb rotation by UTC, since the corresponding (date, ...)
entries exist in the previous indexdb.
- Search for TSID by (date, MetricName) in both the current and the previous indexdb.
Previously the search was performed only in the current indexdb. This could lead
to excess creation of per-day indexes for the current day just after indexdb rotation.
- Search for (date, metricID) entries in both the current and the previous indexdb.
Previously the search was performed only in the current indexdb. This could lead
to excess creation of per-day indexes for the current day just after indexdb rotation.
* added backup locking/unlocking against retention policy to vmbackupmanager
Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
* added docs for new commands
Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
* fix review comments
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* feat: improvement of the top queries page
* vmui/docs: enhancements to top queries page
* Apply suggestions from code review
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vmui: change default font size to 14px for better readability
vmui: fix bug with missing text on buttons in safari
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* app/vmui: added Labels with the highest number of unique values
* app/vmui: cleanup
* app/vmui: cleanup
* app/vmui: add table description
* app/vmui: fix comment, updated CHANGELOG.md
* app/vmui: disable links
* app/vmui: added actions to the table, it will show values for selected label with the highest number of series
* app/vmui: fix comment
* vmalert: expand rule groups on anchor click
before, anchor click was only updating the URL.
To expand the group, user had to click on rule's block.
Now, group will toggle automatically.
* vmalert: allow filtering group in web UI
The new filter allows to filter groups and rules within
groups by: errors only or noMatch only.
The filtering supposed to help navigating big numbers of groups/rules.
Filtering is reflected in URL, so can be shared as a link.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Without reset, labels duplicates could have been added during stream aggregation.
Since `ctx.Labels` is reused during processing of many series, each series will
add its labels to the context. Even if the same labels were already addeded on prev
iteration. Now, we reset `ctx.Labels` on each iteration to contain so labels from
different series didn't interfere.
This could have cause exceeding of the limit on number of labels per pushed time series.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4277
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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>
It appears that 90% usage for anonymous mem usage
is already concerning. So we lowering the threshold to 80%.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
When using `retentionTimezoneOffset` and having local timezone being more than 4 hours different from UTC indexdb retention calculation could return negative value. This caused indexdb rotation to get in loop.
Fix calculation of offset to use `retentionTimezoneOffset` value properly and add test to cover all legit timezone configs.
See:
- https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4207
- https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4206
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Nikolay <nik@victoriametrics.com>
Windows doesn't allow to remove dir with opened files. Usually it's a case for snapshots, hard cannot be removed if file is openned.
With this change, dir will be renamed and properly deleted at the next process start.
It's recommended to restart vmstorage/vmsingle for snapshots deletion completion periodically.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/70
* lib/promscrape/discovery/kubernetes: add common labels to all ports discovered from endpoints
Sets
`__meta_kubernetes_endpoints_name` and `__meta_kubernetes_namespace` labels to all ports of pod.
Prometheus sets those labels to all ports in pod (0ab9553611/discovery/kubernetes/endpoints.go (L267C15-L269)) even if port is not matching any service.
See: #4154
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/promscrape/discovery/kubernetes: fix test for updated discovery logic
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
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Properly return empty slices instead of nil for `/api/v1/rules` and `/api/v1/alerts` API handlers.
This improves compatibility with Grafana.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4221
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Supports using `**` for `-rule` and `-rule.templates`: `dir/**/*.tpl` loads contents of dir and all subdirectories recursively.
See: #4041
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Artem Navoiev <tenmozes@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nikolay <nik@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/promscrape: adds filter for consul_sd_configs:
it allows advanced filtering for consul service discovery requests
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4183
* typo fix
* removes deprecation mentions since it's not relevant
* Update docs/CHANGELOG.md
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Templating of `-external.alert.source` is not expected to have access to the query which was causing runtime error when query function was passed as nil.
See: #4181
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* app/vmagent,lib/persistentqueue: show warning message if `--remoteWrite.maxDiskUsagePerURL` flag lower than 500MB
* app/vmagent,lib/persistentqueue: linter fix
* app/vmagent,lib/persistentqueue: fix comment
* feat: display heatmap in the explore metrics (#4111)
* fix: correct calc step for heatmap
* fix: remove spaces in the result of getDurationFromMilliseconds
* feat: add button "show today" to date picker
* feat: add comparison with the prev day (#3967)
* vmui/docs: add comparison of data to cardinality page
* feat: add WithTemplate page
* app/vmselect/prometheus: enable json mode for expand with expr API
* app/vmselect/prometheus: enable CORS and add content type
* feat: add api for expand with templates
* fix: remove console from useExpandWithExprs
* app/vmselect/prometheus: fix escaping
* vmui: integrate WITH template
* app/vmctl: check content type instead of form param
* fix: add content-type for fetch with-exprs
* fix: add a header to the server's response that allows the "Content-Type" header
* app/vmctl: added comment and cleanup
* app/vmctl: use format query param
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* app/vmctl: add support for the different time format in the native binary protocol
* app/vmctl: update flag description, update CHANGELOG.md
* app/vmctl: add comment to exported function
* 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.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/httpserver: mention http.maxConcurrentRequests in docs
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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- added info about metric `vm_vminsert_metrics_read_total`,
- small doc refactoring
- and added make-command for running docs in docker.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Marshalov <_@marshalov.org>
* 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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This handler will instruct search engines that indexing is not allowed for the content exposed to the internet. This should help to address issues like #4128 when instances are exposed to the internet without authentication.
"How do We Keep Metrics for a Long Time in VictoriaMetrics" article is referenced twice in "Third-party articles and slides about VictoriaMetrics" section
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.