PromQL only requires a much narrower interface than local.Storage in
order to run queries. Narrower interfaces are easier to replace and
test, too.
We could also change the web interface to use local.Querier, except that
we'll probably use appending functions from there in the future.
On Windows, it is not possible to rename or delete a file that is
currerntly open. This change closes the file in dropAndPersistChunks
before it tries to delete it, or rename the temporary file to it.
With a lot of series accessed in a short timeframe (by a query, a
large scrape, checkpointing, ...), there is actually quite a
significant amount of lock contention if something similar is running
at the same time.
In those cases, the number of locks needs to be increased.
On the same front, as our fingerprints don't have a lot of entropy, I
introduced some additional shuffling. With the current state, anly
changes in the least singificant bits of a FP would matter.
But only on DEBUG level.
Also, count and report the two cases of out-of-order timestamps on the
one hand and same timestamp but different value on the other hand
separately.
Before, we checkpointed after every newly detected fingerprint
collision, which is not a problem as long as collisions are
rare. However, with a sufficient number of metrics or particular
nature of the data set, there might be a lot of collisions, all to be
detected upon the first set of scrapes, and then the checkpointing
after each detection will take a quite long time (it's O(n²),
essentially).
Since we are rebuilding the fingerprint mapping during crash recovery,
the previous, very conservative approach didn't even buy us
anything. We only ever read from the checkpoint file after a clean
shutdown, so the only time we need to write the checkpoint file is
during a clean shutdown.
Prometheus is Apache 2 licensed, and most source files have the
appropriate copyright license header, but some were missing it without
apparent reason. Correct that by adding it.
The chunk encoding was hardcoded there because it mostly doesn't
matter what encoding is chosen in that test. Since type 1 is
battle-hardened enough, I'm switching to type 2 here so that we can
catch unexpected problems as a byproduct. My expectation is that the
chunk encoding doesn't matter anyway, as said, but then "unexpected
problems" contains the word "unexpected".
So far, the last sample in a chunk was saved twice. That's required
for adding more samples as we need to know the last sample added to
add more samples without iterating through the whole chunk. However,
once the last sample was added to the chunk before it's full, there is
no need to save it twice. Thus, the very last sample added to a chunk
can _only_ be saved in the header fields for the last sample. The
chunk has to be identifiable as closed, then. This information has
been added to the flags byte.
This improves fuzz testing in two ways:
(1) More realistic time stamps. So far, the most common case in
practice was very rare in the test: Completely regular increases of
the timestamp.
(2) Verify samples by scanning through the whole relevant section of
the series.
For Gorilla-like chunks, this showed two things:
(1) With more regularly increasing time stamps, BenchmarkFuzz is
essentially as fast as with the traditional chunks:
```
BenchmarkFuzzChunkType0-8 2 972514684 ns/op 83426196 B/op 2500044 allocs/op
BenchmarkFuzzChunkType1-8 2 971478001 ns/op 82874660 B/op 2512364 allocs/op
BenchmarkFuzzChunkType2-8 2 999339453 ns/op 76670636 B/op 2366116 allocs/op
```
(2) There was a bug related to when and how the chunk footer is
overwritten to make use for the last sample. This wasn't exposed by
random access as the last sample of a chunk is retrieved from the
values in the header in that case.
This is not a verbatim implementation of the Gorilla encoding. First
of all, it could not, even if we wanted, because Prometheus has a
different chunking model (constant size, not constant time). Second,
this adds a number of changes that improve the encoding in general or
at least for the specific use case of Prometheus (and are partially
only possible in the context of Prometheus). See comments in the code
for details.
It is now also used in label matching, so the name of the metric
changed from `prometheus_local_storage_invalid_preload_requests_total`
to `non_existent_series_matches_total'.
Only return an error where callers are doing something with it except
simply logging and ignoring.
All the errors touched in this commit flag the storage as dirty
anyway, and that fact is logged anyway. So most of what is being
removed here is just log spam.
As discussed earlier, the class of errors that flags the storage as
dirty signals fundamental corruption, no even bubbling up a one-time
warning to the user (e.g. about incomplete results) isn't helping much
because _anything_ happening in the storage has to be doubted from
that point on (and in fact retroactively into the past, too). Flagging
the storage dirty, and alerting on it (plus marking the state in the
web UI) is the only way I can see right now.
As a byproduct, I cleaned up the setDirty method a bit and improved
the logged errors.
WIP: This needs more tests.
It now gets a from and through value, which it may opportunistically
use to optimize the retrieval. With possible future range indices,
this could be used in a very efficient way. This change merely applies
some easy checks, which should nevertheless solve the use case of
heavy rule evaluations on servers with a lot of series churn.
Idea is the following:
- Only archive series that are at least as old as the headChunkTimeout
(which was already extremely unlikely to happen).
- Then maintain a high watermark for the last archival, i.e. no
archived series has a sample more recent than that watermark.
- Any query that doesn't reach to a time before that watermark doesn't
have to touch the archive index at all. (A production server at
Soundcloud with the aforementioned series churn and heavy rule
evaluations spends 50% of its CPU time in archive index
lookups. Since rule evaluations usually only touch very recent
values, most of those lookup should disappear with this change.)
- Federation with a very broad label matcher will profit from this,
too.
As a byproduct, the un-needed MetricForFingerprint method was removed
from the Storage interface.
This finally extracts all the common code of the two chunk iterators
into one. Any future chunk encodings with fast access by index can use
the same iterator by simply providing an indexAccessor. Other future
chunk encodings without fast index access (like Gorilla-style) can
still implement the chunkIterator interface as usual.
For one, remove unneeded methods.
Then, instead of using a channel for all values, use a
bufio.Scanner-like interface. This removes the need for creating a
goroutine and avoids the (unnecessary) locking performed by channel
sending and receiving.
This will make it much easier to write new chunk implementations (like
Gorilla-style encoding).
