This commit changes the configuration interface from job configs to scrape
configs. This includes allowing multiple ways of target definition at once
and moving DNS SD to its own config message. DNS SD can now contain multiple
DNS names per configured discovery.
This commit shifts responsibility for maintaining targets from providers and
pools to the target manager. Target groups have a source name that identifies
them for updates.
This adds the population standard deviation and
variance as aggregation functions, useful for
spotting how many standard deviations some samples
are from the mean.
Also, clean up some things in the code (especially introduction of the
chunkLenWithHeader constant to avoid the same expression all over the place).
Benchmark results:
BEFORE
BenchmarkLoadChunksSequentially 5000 283580 ns/op 152143 B/op 312 allocs/op
BenchmarkLoadChunksRandomly 20000 82936 ns/op 39310 B/op 99 allocs/op
BenchmarkLoadChunkDescs 10000 110833 ns/op 15092 B/op 345 allocs/op
AFTER
BenchmarkLoadChunksSequentially 10000 146785 ns/op 152285 B/op 315 allocs/op
BenchmarkLoadChunksRandomly 20000 67598 ns/op 39438 B/op 103 allocs/op
BenchmarkLoadChunkDescs 20000 99631 ns/op 12636 B/op 192 allocs/op
Note that everything is obviously loaded from the page cache (as the
benchmark runs thousands of times with very small series files). In a
real-world scenario, I expect a larger impact, as the disk operations
will more often actually hit the disk. To load ~50 sequential chunks,
this reduces the iops from 100 seeks and 100 reads to 1 seek and 1
read.
The -config.file parameter isn't required or any more special than the
other flags. In order to avoid confusion, this change removes the
special mention again. Instead, the error message if a config file
couldn't be loaded is changed to mention the flag name.
This commit increases the usability by grouping flags based on their
first dot-separated group. Long flag descriptions are broken into lines
printed with indentation.
This commit allows to invoke the rule_checker with a chain of
filepaths as arguments. If no paths are provided it reads from standard
input.
The -rule-file flag remains for backward-compatibility.
On processing errors the return code is now 1. For bad arguments
the return code is now 2.
