This decreases checkpoint size by not checkpointing things
that don't actually need checkpointing.
This is fully compatible with the v2 checkpoint format,
as it makes series appear as though the only chunksdescs
in memory are those that need persisting.
The current description does not accurately describe when the metric is incremented.
Aside from Alertmanger missing from the configuration, `prometheus_notifications_dropped_total` is incremented when errors occur while sending alert notifications to Alertmanager, or because the notifications queue is full, or because the number of notifications to be sent exceeds the queue capacity.
I think calling these cases 'errors' in a generic sense is more useful than the current description.
Add metrics around checkpointing and persistence
* Add a metric to say if checkpointing is happening,
and another to track total checkpoint time and count.
This breaks the existing prometheus_local_storage_checkpoint_duration_seconds
by renaming it to prometheus_local_storage_checkpoint_last_duration_seconds
as the former name is more appropriate for a summary.
* Add metric for last checkpoint size.
* Add metric for series/chunks processed by checkpoints.
For long checkpoints it'd be useful to see how they're progressing.
* Add metric for dirty series
* Add metric for number of chunks persisted per series.
You can get the number of chunks from chunk_ops,
but not the matching number of series. This helps determine
the size of the writes being made.
* Add metric for chunks queued for persistence
Chunks created includes both chunks that'll need persistence
and chunks read in for queries. This only includes chunks created
for persistence.
* Code review comments on new persistence metrics.
These lines exercise an append in
TestScrapeLoopWrapSampleAppender. Arguably, append shouldn't be tested
there in the first place.
Still it's weird why this fails on Travis:
```
--- FAIL: TestScrapeLoopWrapSampleAppender (0.00s)
scrape_test.go:259: Expected count of 1, got 0
scrape_test.go:290: Expected count of 1, got 0
2017/01/07 22:48:26 http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1:50716: read tcp 127.0.0.1:40265->127.0.0.1:50716: read: connection reset by peer
FAIL
FAIL github.com/prometheus/prometheus/retrieval 3.603s
```
Should anybody ever find out why, please revert this commit accordingly.
* Add max concurrent and current queries engine metrics
This commit adds two metrics to the promql/engine: the
number of max concurrent queries, as configured by the flag, and
the number of current queries being served+blocked in the engine.
retreival.Target contains a mutex. It was copied in the Targets()
call. This potentially can wreak a lot of havoc.
It might even have caused the issues reported as #2266 and #2262 .
When a large Prometheus starts up fresh it can take many minutes
to warmup and clear out the index queue. A larger queue means less
blocking, bigger batches and cuts down startup time by ~50%.
The relative links don't work in other pages that render the README (for example https://hub.docker.com/r/prom/prometheus/). As they are (hopefully) not due to change any time soon, I think using absolute links is better.
Right now the /alerts page of Prometheus sorts alerts by severity
(firing, pending, inactive). Once multiple alerts have the same
severity, their order seems to correlate to how they are placed in the
configuration files, but not always. Looking at the code, we make use of
sort.Sort(), which is documented not to provide a stable sort. The
Less() function also only takes the alert state into account.
This change extends the Less() function to provide a lexicographic order
on both the alert state and the name. This means I can finally find the
alerts I'm looking for without using my browser's search feature.
Keeping these around has two problems:
1) Each desc takes 64 bytes, 10 of them is 640B. This is a lot of
overhead on a 1024 byte chunk.
2) It can take well over a week to reach a point where this and thus
Prometheus memory usage as a whole enters steady state. This makes RAM
estimation very hard for users, and makes it difficult to investigate
things like memory fragmentation.
Instead we'll wipe them during each memory series maintenance cycle, and
if a query pulls them in they'll hang around as cache until the next
cycle.
This imposes a hard limit on the number of samples ingested from the
target. This is counted after metric relabelling, to allow dropping of
problemtic metrics.
This is intended as a very blunt tool to prevent overload due to
misbehaving targets that suddenly jump in sample count (e.g. adding
a label containing email addresses).
Add metric to track how often this happens.
Fixes#2137
