Merge pull request #11011 from prometheus/beorn7/protobuf

prompb: Modify layout of histograms

documentation/examples/remote_storage/example_write_adapter/server.go

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ func main() {
 
 			for _, hp := range ts.Histograms {
 				h := remote.HistogramProtoToHistogram(hp)
-				fmt.Printf("\tHistogram:  %s\n", (&h).String())
+				fmt.Printf("\tHistogram:  %s\n", h.String())
 			}
 		}
 	})

prompb/types.proto

@@ -86,40 +86,46 @@ message Histogram {
     uint64 zero_count_int     = 6;
     double zero_count_float   = 7;
   }
-  Buckets negative_buckets  = 8;
-  Buckets positive_buckets  = 9;
-  ResetHint reset_hint      = 10;
+  
+  // Negative Buckets.
+  repeated BucketSpan negative_spans =  8;
+  // Use either "negative_deltas" or "negative_counts", the former for
+  // regular histograms with integer counts, the latter for float
+  // histograms.
+  repeated sint64 negative_deltas    =  9; // Count delta of each bucket compared to previous one (or to zero for 1st bucket).
+  repeated double negative_counts    = 10; // Absolute count of each bucket.
+
+  // Positive Buckets.
+  repeated BucketSpan positive_spans = 11;
+  // Use either "positive_deltas" or "positive_counts", the former for
+  // regular histograms with integer counts, the latter for float
+  // histograms.
+  repeated sint64 positive_deltas    = 12; // Count delta of each bucket compared to previous one (or to zero for 1st bucket).
+  repeated double positive_counts    = 13; // Absolute count of each bucket.
+
+  ResetHint reset_hint               = 14;
   // timestamp is in ms format, see model/timestamp/timestamp.go for
   // conversion from time.Time to Prometheus timestamp.
-  int64 timestamp = 11;
+  int64 timestamp = 15;
 } 
 
-// Sparse buckets.
-message Buckets {
-  // A Span is a given number of consecutive buckets at a given
-  // offset. Logically, it would be more straightforward to include
-  // the bucket counts in the Span. However, the protobuf
-  // representation is more compact in the way the data is structured
-  // here (with all the buckets in a single array separate from the
-  // Spans).
-  message Span {
-    sint32 offset = 1; // Gap to previous span, or starting point for 1st span (which can be negative).
-    uint32 length = 2; // Length of consecutive buckets.
-  }
-  repeated Span span = 1;
-  // Only one of "delta" or "count" may be used, the former for regular
-  // histograms with integer counts, the latter for float histograms.
-  repeated sint64 delta = 2; // Count delta of each bucket compared to previous one (or to zero for 1st bucket).
-  repeated double count = 3; // Absolute count of each bucket.
+// A BucketSpan defines a number of consecutive buckets with their
+// offset. Logically, it would be more straightforward to include the
+// bucket counts in the Span. However, the protobuf representation is
+// more compact in the way the data is structured here (with all the
+// buckets in a single array separate from the Spans).
+message BucketSpan {
+  sint32 offset = 1; // Gap to previous span, or starting point for 1st span (which can be negative).
+  uint32 length = 2; // Length of consecutive buckets.
 }
 
 // TimeSeries represents samples and labels for a single time series.
 message TimeSeries {
   // For a timeseries to be valid, and for the samples and exemplars
   // to be ingested by the remote system properly, the labels field is required.
-  repeated Label labels   = 1 [(gogoproto.nullable) = false];
-  repeated Sample samples = 2 [(gogoproto.nullable) = false];
-  repeated Exemplar exemplars = 3 [(gogoproto.nullable) = false];
+  repeated Label labels         = 1 [(gogoproto.nullable) = false];
+  repeated Sample samples       = 2 [(gogoproto.nullable) = false];
+  repeated Exemplar exemplars   = 3 [(gogoproto.nullable) = false];
   repeated Histogram histograms = 4 [(gogoproto.nullable) = false];
 }
 

storage/remote/codec.go

@@ -502,28 +502,24 @@ func exemplarProtoToExemplar(ep prompb.Exemplar) exemplar.Exemplar {
 	}
 }
 
-func HistogramProtoToHistogram(hp prompb.Histogram) histogram.Histogram {
-	h := histogram.Histogram{
+// HistogramProtoToHistogram extracts a (normal integer) Histogram from the
+// provided proto message. The caller has to make sure that the proto message
+// represents an interger histogram and not a float histogram.
+func HistogramProtoToHistogram(hp prompb.Histogram) *histogram.Histogram {
+	return &histogram.Histogram{
 		Schema:          hp.Schema,
 		ZeroThreshold:   hp.ZeroThreshold,
 		ZeroCount:       hp.GetZeroCountInt(),
 		Count:           hp.GetCountInt(),
 		Sum:             hp.Sum,
-		PositiveBuckets: hp.PositiveBuckets.GetDelta(),
-		NegativeBuckets: hp.NegativeBuckets.GetDelta(),
+		PositiveSpans:   spansProtoToSpans(hp.GetPositiveSpans()),
+		PositiveBuckets: hp.GetPositiveDeltas(),
+		NegativeSpans:   spansProtoToSpans(hp.GetNegativeSpans()),
+		NegativeBuckets: hp.GetNegativeDeltas(),
 	}
-
-	if hp.PositiveBuckets != nil {
-		h.PositiveSpans = spansProtoToSpans(hp.PositiveBuckets.Span)
-	}
-	if hp.NegativeBuckets != nil {
-		h.NegativeSpans = spansProtoToSpans(hp.NegativeBuckets.Span)
-	}
-
-	return h
 }
 
-func spansProtoToSpans(s []*prompb.Buckets_Span) []histogram.Span {
+func spansProtoToSpans(s []*prompb.BucketSpan) []histogram.Span {
 	spans := make([]histogram.Span, len(s))
 	for i := 0; i < len(s); i++ {
 		spans[i] = histogram.Span{Offset: s[i].Offset, Length: s[i].Length}
@@ -534,27 +530,23 @@ func spansProtoToSpans(s []*prompb.Buckets_Span) []histogram.Span {
 
 func histogramToHistogramProto(timestamp int64, h *histogram.Histogram) prompb.Histogram {
 	return prompb.Histogram{
-		Count:         &prompb.Histogram_CountInt{CountInt: h.Count},
-		Sum:           h.Sum,
-		Schema:        h.Schema,
-		ZeroThreshold: h.ZeroThreshold,
-		ZeroCount:     &prompb.Histogram_ZeroCountInt{ZeroCountInt: h.ZeroCount},
-		NegativeBuckets: &prompb.Buckets{
-			Span:  spansToSpansProto(h.NegativeSpans),
-			Delta: h.NegativeBuckets,
-		},
-		PositiveBuckets: &prompb.Buckets{
-			Span:  spansToSpansProto(h.PositiveSpans),
-			Delta: h.PositiveBuckets,
-		},
-		Timestamp: timestamp,
+		Count:          &prompb.Histogram_CountInt{CountInt: h.Count},
+		Sum:            h.Sum,
+		Schema:         h.Schema,
+		ZeroThreshold:  h.ZeroThreshold,
+		ZeroCount:      &prompb.Histogram_ZeroCountInt{ZeroCountInt: h.ZeroCount},
+		NegativeSpans:  spansToSpansProto(h.NegativeSpans),
+		NegativeDeltas: h.NegativeBuckets,
+		PositiveSpans:  spansToSpansProto(h.PositiveSpans),
+		PositiveDeltas: h.PositiveBuckets,
+		Timestamp:      timestamp,
 	}
 }
 
-func spansToSpansProto(s []histogram.Span) []*prompb.Buckets_Span {
-	spans := make([]*prompb.Buckets_Span, len(s))
+func spansToSpansProto(s []histogram.Span) []*prompb.BucketSpan {
+	spans := make([]*prompb.BucketSpan, len(s))
 	for i := 0; i < len(s); i++ {
-		spans[i] = &prompb.Buckets_Span{Offset: s[i].Offset, Length: s[i].Length}
+		spans[i] = &prompb.BucketSpan{Offset: s[i].Offset, Length: s[i].Length}
 	}
 
 	return spans

storage/remote/write_handler.go

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ func (h *writeHandler) write(ctx context.Context, req *prompb.WriteRequest) (err
 
 		for _, hp := range ts.Histograms {
 			hs := HistogramProtoToHistogram(hp)
-			_, err = app.AppendHistogram(0, labels, hp.Timestamp, &hs)
+			_, err = app.AppendHistogram(0, labels, hp.Timestamp, hs)
 			if err != nil {
 				unwrappedErr := errors.Unwrap(err)
 				// Althogh AppendHistogram does not currently return ErrDuplicateSampleForTimestamp there is

storage/remote/write_handler_test.go

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ func TestRemoteWriteHandler(t *testing.T) {
 
 		for _, hp := range ts.Histograms {
 			h := HistogramProtoToHistogram(hp)
-			require.Equal(t, mockHistogram{labels, hp.Timestamp, &h}, appendable.histograms[k])
+			require.Equal(t, mockHistogram{labels, hp.Timestamp, h}, appendable.histograms[k])
 			k++
 		}
 	}