So far we've been using Go's native time.Time for anything related to sample
timestamps. Since the range of time.Time is much bigger than what we need, this
has created two problems:
- there could be time.Time values which were out of the range/precision of the
time type that we persist to disk, therefore causing incorrectly ordered keys.
One bug caused by this was:
https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/367
It would be good to use a timestamp type that's more closely aligned with
what the underlying storage supports.
- sizeof(time.Time) is 192, while Prometheus should be ok with a single 64-bit
Unix timestamp (possibly even a 32-bit one). Since we store samples in large
numbers, this seriously affects memory usage. Furthermore, copying/working
with the data will be faster if it's smaller.
*MEMORY USAGE RESULTS*
Initial memory usage comparisons for a running Prometheus with 1 timeseries and
100,000 samples show roughly a 13% decrease in total (VIRT) memory usage. In my
tests, this advantage for some reason decreased a bit the more samples the
timeseries had (to 5-7% for millions of samples). This I can't fully explain,
but perhaps garbage collection issues were involved.
*WHEN TO USE THE NEW TIMESTAMP TYPE*
The new clientmodel.Timestamp type should be used whenever time
calculations are either directly or indirectly related to sample
timestamps.
For example:
- the timestamp of a sample itself
- all kinds of watermarks
- anything that may become or is compared to a sample timestamp (like the timestamp
passed into Target.Scrape()).
When to still use time.Time:
- for measuring durations/times not related to sample timestamps, like duration
telemetry exporting, timers that indicate how frequently to execute some
action, etc.
*NOTE ON OPERATOR OPTIMIZATION TESTS*
We don't use operator optimization code anymore, but it still lives in
the code as dead code. It still has tests, but I couldn't get all of them to
pass with the new timestamp format. I commented out the failing cases for now,
but we should probably remove the dead code soon. I just didn't want to do that
in the same change as this.
Change-Id: I821787414b0debe85c9fffaeb57abd453727af0f
This adds search domain support by trying to resolve a name by
appending each search domain configured in /etc/resolv.conf until
the query succeeds (NOERROR) and has at least one answer.
Change-Id: Ibdc5138c5d8cc049e11fab90c3d5243d5a06852c
This reverts commit e3bc6fc9dc, reversing
changes made to 1cf9e5840a.
Conflicts:
retrieval/target_provider.go
Change-Id: Icb6e98fb30419e9e2fe9b686c243702ced372014
This includes required refactorings to enable replacing the http client (for
testing) and moving the NotificationReq type definitions to the "notifications"
package, so that this package doesn't need to depend on "rules" anymore and
that it can instead use a representation of the required data which only
includes the necessary fields.
This commit forces the extraction framework to read the entire response payload
into a buffer before attempting to decode it, for the underlying Protocol Buffer
message readers do not block on partial messages.
If the metrics exported by a process already contain any of a target's
base labels (such as "job" or "instance", but also any manually assigned
target-group label), don't overwrite that label, but instead add a new
label consisting of the original label name prepended with "exporter_".
This is to accomodate intermediate exporter jobs, which might indicate
e.g. the jobs and instances for which they are exporting data.
This commit updates the documentation, Makefiles, formatting, and
code semantics to support the 1.1. runtime, which includes ...
1. ``make advice``,
2. ``make format``, and
3. ``go fix`` on various targets.
This commit employs explicit memory freeing for the in-memory storage
arenas. Secondarily, we take advantage of smaller channel buffer sizes
in the test.
Instead of externally handling timeouts when scraping a target, we set
timeouts on the HTTP connection. This ensures that we don't leak
goroutines on timeouts.
[fixes#181]
