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Julius Volz 01f652cb4c Separate storage implementation from interfaces.
This was initially motivated by wanting to distribute the rule checker
tool under `tools/rule_checker`. However, this was not possible without
also distributing the LevelDB dynamic libraries because the tool
transitively depended on Levigo:

rule checker -> query layer -> tiered storage layer -> leveldb

This change separates external storage interfaces from the
implementation (tiered storage, leveldb storage, memory storage) by
putting them into separate packages:

- storage/metric: public, implementation-agnostic interfaces
- storage/metric/tiered: tiered storage implementation, including memory
                         and LevelDB storage.

I initially also considered splitting up the implementation into
separate packages for tiered storage, memory storage, and LevelDB
storage, but these are currently so intertwined that it would be another
major project in itself.

The query layers and most other parts of Prometheus now have notion of
the storage implementation anymore and just use whatever implementation
they get passed in via interfaces.

The rule_checker is now a static binary :)

Change-Id: I793bbf631a8648ca31790e7e772ecf9c2b92f7a0
2014-04-16 13:30:19 +02:00
Julius Volz 740d448983 Use custom timestamp type for sample timestamps and related code.
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
2013-12-03 09:11:28 +01:00
Matt T. Proud 30b1cf80b5 WIP - Snapshot of Moving to Client Model. 2013-06-25 15:52:42 +02:00
Julius Volz 0226d1ac7a Implement alerts dashboard and expression console links. 2013-06-13 22:35:40 +02:00
Julius Volz 74cb676537 Implement Stringer interface for rules and all their children. 2013-06-07 15:54:32 +02:00
Julius Volz 51689d965d Add debug timers to instant and range queries.
This adds timers around several query-relevant code blocks. For now, the
query timer stats are only logged for queries initiated through the UI.
In other cases (rule evaluations), the stats are simply thrown away.

My hope is that this helps us understand where queries spend time,
especially in cases where they sometimes hang for unusual amounts of
time.
2013-06-05 18:32:54 +02:00
Matt T. Proud 8f4c7ece92 Destroy naked returns in half of corpus.
The use of naked return values is frowned upon.  This is the first
of two bulk updates to remove them.
2013-05-16 10:53:25 +03:00
Julius Volz 56324d8ce2 Make AST query storage non-global. 2013-05-07 13:15:10 +02:00
Julius Volz dcf2e82752 Cleanup and idiomaticize rule/expression dot graph output. 2013-04-29 12:57:34 +02:00
Julius Volz 2202cd71c9 Track alerts over time and write out alert timeseries. 2013-04-26 14:35:21 +02:00