Previously entries which were accessed only 1 time weren't cached.
It has been appeared that some rarely executed heavy queries may read indexdb block twice
in a row instead of once. There is no need in caching such a block then.
This change should eliminate cache size spikes for indexdb/dataBlocks when such heavy queries are executed.
Expose -blockcache.missesBeforeCaching command-line flag, which can be used for fine-tuning
the number of cache misses needed before storing the block in the caching.
* app/vmalert: update remote-write process
* automatically retry remote-write requests on closed connections. The change should reduce the amount of logs produced in environments with short-living connections or environments without support of keep-alive on network balancers.
* increment `vmalert_remotewrite_errors_total` metric if all retries to send remote-write request failed. Before, this metric was incremented only if remote-write client's buffer is overloaded.
* increment `vmalert_remotewrite_dropped_rows_total` amd `vmalert_remotewrite_dropped_bytes_total` metrics if remote-write client's buffer is overloaded. Before, these metrics were incremented only after unsuccessful HTTP calls.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Update docs/CHANGELOG.md
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Add `tls_insecure_skip_verify` option on per-user basis which allows to disable TLS verification for all requests to backend on behalf of this user.
See: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5240
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
reduce the number of queries for restoring alerts state on start-up.
The change should speed up the restore process and reduce pressure on `remoteRead.url`.
* vmauth: add browser authorization request for http requests without credentials to a route that is not in the `unauthorized_user` section (when `unauthorized_user` is specified).
* add link to issue in CHANGELOG
* Extend vmauth docs
* wip
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Repeated instant queries with long lookbehind windows, which contain one of the following rollup functions,
are optimized via partial result caching:
- sum_over_time()
- count_over_time()
- avg_over_time()
- increase()
- rate()
The basic idea of optimization is to calculate
rf(m[d] @ t)
as
rf(m[offset] @ t) + rf(m[d] @ (t-offset)) - rf(m[offset] @ (t-d))
where rf(m[d] @ (t-offset)) is cached query result, which was calculated previously
The offset may be in the range of up to 1 hour.
The SECURITY label should be applied only to changes, which fix security issues.
The change at ad839aa492 adds new command-line flags, which can be used
for improving security in some cases. They do not fix any security issues.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5111
The new metric gets increased each time `-search.logQueryMemoryUsage` memory limit
is exceeded by a query. This metric should help to identify expensive and heavy queries
without inspecting the logs.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The new rule for vmalert supposed to detect groups that miss their
evaulations due to slow queries.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The panel `Errors rate to Alertmanager` had `group` label filter
applied to the expression, while the metric `vmalert_alerts_send_errors_total`
doesn't have that label. This resulted into always empty results.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
fix possible missing firing states for alerting rules in replay mode
Before if one firing stage is bigger than single query request range, like rule with a big `for`, alerting rule won't able to be detected as firing.
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
support `Strict-Transport-Security`, `Content-Security-Policy` and `X-Frame-Options`
HTTP headers in all VictoriaMetrics components.
The values for headers can be specified by users via the following flags:
`-http.header.hsts`, `-http.header.csp` and `-http.header.frameOptions`.
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Previously url watchers for pod, service and node objects could be mistakenly closed
when service discovery was set up only for endpoints and endpointslice roles,
since watchers for these roles may start start pod, service and node url watchers
with nil apiWatcher passed to groupWatcher.startWatchersForRole().
Now all the url watchers, which belong to a particular groupWatcher, are stopped at once
when this groupWatcher has no apiWatcher subscribers.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5216
The issue has been introduced in v1.93.5 when addressing https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4850
* do not print redundant error logs when failed to scrape consul or nomad target
prometheus performs the same because it uses consul lib which just drops the error(1806bcb38c/api/api.go (L1134))
- Make sure that invalid/missing TLS CA file or TLS client certificate files at vmagent startup
don't prevent from processing the corresponding scrape targets after the file becomes correct,
without the need to restart vmagent.
Previously scrape targets with invalid TLS CA file or TLS client certificate files
were permanently dropped after the first attempt to initialize them, and they didn't
appear until the next vmagent reload or the next change in other places of the loaded scrape configs.
- Make sure that TLS CA is properly re-loaded from file after it changes without the need to restart vmagent.
Previously the old TLS CA was used until vmagent restart.
- Properly handle errors during http request creation for the second attempt to send data to remote system
at vmagent and vmalert. Previously failed request creation could result in nil pointer dereferencing,
since the returned request is nil on error.
- Add more context to the logged error during AWS sigv4 request signing before sending the data to -remoteWrite.url at vmagent.
Previously it could miss details on the source of the request.
- Do not create a new HTTP client per second when generating OAuth2 token needed to put in Authorization header
of every http request issued by vmagent during service discovery or target scraping.
Re-use the HTTP client instead until the corresponding scrape config changes.
- Cache error at lib/promauth.Config.GetAuthHeader() in the same way as the auth header is cached,
e.g. the error is cached for a second now. This should reduce load on CPU and OAuth2 server
when auth header cannot be obtained because of temporary error.
- Share tls.Config.GetClientCertificate function among multiple scrape targets with the same tls_config.
Cache the loaded certificate and the error for one second. This should significantly reduce CPU load
when scraping big number of targets with the same tls_config.
- Allow loading TLS certificates from HTTP and HTTPs urls by specifying these urls at `tls_config->cert_file` and `tls_config->key_file`.
- Improve test coverage at lib/promauth
- Skip unreachable or invalid files specified at `scrape_config_files` during vmagent startup, since these files may become valid later.
Previously vmagent was exitting in this case.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4959
c9375cac5e
Descriptions were updated in attempt to make it more clear for readers,
re-phrasing and linking missing docs.
`eval_delay` was added to tests to verify it can be unmarshalled.
`eval_delay` is now applied before timestamp alignment to make it more predictable.
Before, if delay < interval the timestamp won't be aligned.
`eval_delay` and `eval_offset` was added to API output.
`PreviouslySentSeriesToRW` converted to private `previouslySentSeriesToRW`.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Using `min_over_time` should reduce the amount of false positives when
component is running in near-the-threshold state. Now it should trigger
only if all collected samples were above the threshold on 10m interval.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* app/vmselect: limit the number of parallel workers by 32
The change should improve performance and memory usage during query processing
on machines with big number of CPU cores. The number of parallel workers for
query processing is controlled via `-search.maxWorkersPerQuery` command-line flag.
By default, the number of workers is limited by the number of available CPU cores,
but not more than 32. The limit can be increased via `-search.maxWorkersPerQuery`.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* wip
- The `-search.maxWorkersPerQuery` command-line flag doesn't limit resource usage,
so move it from the `resource usage limits` to `troubleshooting` chapter at docs/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.md
- Make more clear the description for the `-search.maxWorkersPerQuery` command-line flag
- Add the description of `-search.maxWorkersPerQuery` to docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md
- Limit the maximum value, which can be passed to `-search.maxWorkersPerQuery`, to GOMAXPROCS,
because bigger values may worsen query performance and increase CPU usage
- Improve the the description of the change at docs/CHANGELOG.md. Mark it as FEATURE instead of BUGFIX,
since it is closer to a feature than to a bugfix.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5087
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* fix inconsistent behaviors with prometheus when scraping
1. address https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4959. skip job with wrong syntax in `scrape_configs` with error logs instead of exiting;
2. show error messages on vmagent /targets ui if there are wrong auth configs in `scrape_configs`, previously will print error logs and do scrape without auth header;
3. don't send requests if there are wrong auth configs in:
1. vmagent remoteWrite;
2. vmalert datasource/remoteRead/remoteWrite/notifier.
* add changelogs
* address review comments
* fix ut
This can be useful in the following queries:
drop_empty_series(temperature <= 30) default 40
This query drops temperature series with all the values bigger than 30 on the selected time range,
while replacing gaps in the remaining series with 40.
The query without drop_empty_series:
(temperature <= 30) default 40
would leave all the temperature series with all the values bigger than 30 on the selected time range,
and replace all their values with 40. This is not what could be epxected in some cases
like here - https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5071
This reverts commit 3d7a77bf82.
Reason for revert: relative links do not work properly at GitHub code
and at GitHub wiki. For example, the following page contains broken links
before reverting this commit:
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/docs/VictoriaLogs/CHANGELOG.md
It is always better to use absolute links thank relative links, since the page contents
can be copy-n-pasted to other pages, which are located in vastly different directories,
and all the links will remain working.
* fixed error when creating a full backup using the `-origin` flag (#5144)
* Update docs/CHANGELOG.md
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This is a follow-up for f60c08a7bd
Changes:
- Make sure all the urls related to NewRelic protocol start from /newrelic . Previously some urls were started from /api/v1/newrelic
- Remove /api/v1 part from NewRelic urls, since it has no sense
- Remove automatic transformation from CamelCase to snake_case for NewRelic labels and metric names,
since it may complicate the transition from NewRelic to VictoriaMetrics. Preserve all the metric names and label names,
so users could query metrics and labels by the same names which are used in NewRelic.
The automatic transformation from CamelCase to snake_case can be added later as a special action for relabeling rules if needed.
- Properly update per-tenant data ingestion stats at app/vmagent/newrelic/request_handler.go . Previously it was always zero.
- Fix NewRelic urls in vmagent when multitenant data ingestion is enabled. Previously they were mistakenly started from `/`.
- Document NewRelic data ingestion url at docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md
- Remove superflouos memory allocations at lib/protoparser/newrelic
- Improve tests at lib/protoparser/newrelic/*
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3520
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4712
- Make more clear the docs at docs/enterprise.md, so readers could figure out faster
on how to obtain enterprise key and how to pass it to VictoriaMetrics Enterprise components.
- Fix examples at docs/enterprise.md, which were referring to non-existing `-license-file` command-line flag.
The `-licenseFile` command-line flag must be used instead.
- Improve the description of `-license*` command-line flags, so users could understand
faster how to use them.
- Improve the warning message, which is emitted when the deprecated -eula command-line flag is passed,
so the user could figure out how to switch faster to -license* command-line flags.
- Disallow running VictoriaMetrics components with both -license and -licenseFile command-line flags.
- Disallow running VictoriaMetrics components when -licensFile points to an empty file.
- Consistently use the phrase "This flag is available only in Enterprise binaries" across
all the enterprise-specific command-line flags.
- Remove unneeded level of indirection for `noLicenseMessage` and `expiredMessage` string contants
in order to improve code readability and maintainability.
- Remove unneded `return` statements after `logger.Fatalf()` calls, since these calls exit the app and never return.
- Make sure that the info log message about successful license verification is emitted
when the license is verified successfully. Previously the error message could be logged
when the license payload is invalid or if it misses some required features.
- Reduce vertical space usage, so more information is available on the screen without the need to scroll.
- Show information for lines with higher values at the top of the legend under the graph.
This should simplify graph analysis when it contains many lines.
Fix vminsert/vmstorage/vmselect metrics filtering when dashboard is used
to display data from many sub-clusters with unique job names.
Before, only one specific job could have been accounted for component-specific panels,
instead of all available jobs for the component.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
reduce lock contention for heavy aggregation requests
previously lock contetion may happen on machine with big number of CPU due to enabled string interning. sync.Map was a choke point for all aggregation requests.
Now instead of interning, new string is created. It may increase CPU and memory usage for some cases.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5087
* vmalert: add `query_time_alignment` for rule group
1. add `eval_alignment` attribute for group which by default is true. So group rule query stamp will be aligned with interval and propagated to ALERT metrics and the messages for alertmanager;
2. deprecate `datasource.queryTimeAlignment` flag.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5049
Strip sensitive information such as auth headers or passwords from datasource, remote-read,
remote-write or notifier URLs in log messages or UI. This behavior is by default and is controlled via
`-datasource.showURL`, `-remoteRead.showURL`, `remoteWrite.showURL` or `-notifier.showURL` cmd-line flags.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5044
* lib/promscrape: make concurrency control optional
Before, `-maxConcurrentInserts` was limiting all calls to `promscrape.Parse`
function: during ingestion and scraping. This behavior is incorrect.
Cmd-line flag `-maxConcurrentInserts` should have effect onl on ingestion.
Since both pipelines use the same `promscrape.Parse` function, we extend it
to make concurrency limiter optional. So caller can decide whether concurrency
should be limited or not.
This commit makes c53b5788b4
obsolete.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Revert "dashboards: move `Concurrent inserts` panel to Troubleshooting section"
This reverts commit c53b5788b4.
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- Move uniqueFields from rows to blockStreamMerger struct.
This allows localizing all the references to uniqueFields inside blockStreamMerger.mustWriteBlock(),
which should improve readability and maintainability of the code.
- Remove logging of the event when blocks cannot be merged because they contain more than maxColumnsPerBlock,
since the provided logging didn't provide the solution for the issue with too many columns.
I couldn't figure out the proper solution, which could be helpful for end user,
so decided to remove the logging until we find the solution.
This commit also contains the following additional changes:
- It truncates field names longer than 128 chars during logs ingestion.
This should prevent from ingesting bogus field names.
This also should prevent from too big columnsHeader blocks,
which could negatively affect search query performance,
since columnsHeader is read on every scan of the corresponding data block.
- It limits the maximum length of const column value to 256.
Longer values are stored in an ordinary columns.
This helps limiting the size of columnsHeader blocks
and improving search query performance by avoiding
reading too long const columns on every scan of the corresponding data block.
- It deduplicates columns with identical names during data ingestion
and background merging. Previously it was possible to pass columns with duplicate names
to block.mustInitFromRows(), and they were stored as is in the block.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4762
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4969
docs: add clarification of the retention filter usage
Updated documentation regarding retention filter usage if duration is set lower than
`-retentionPeriod` flag value.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/promscrape: add metric `vm_promscrape_scrapes_skipped_total`
add metric `vm_promscrape_scrapes_skipped_total`to show whether vmagent skips the scrapes.
This could happen if vmagent is overloaded or target is responding too slow for configured `scrape_interval`.
The follow-up commit should add a corresponding alerting rule and panel to vmagent dashboard.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* deployment/docker: add `TooManyScrapeSkips` alerting rule for vmagent
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* dashboards: add panels `Scrape duration 0.99 quantile` and `Skipped scrapes` to vmagent dashboard
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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* lib/logstorage: prevent from panic during background merge
Fixes panic during background merge when resulting block would contain more columns than maxColumnsPerBlock.
Buffered data will be flushed and replaced by the next block.
See: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4762
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/logstorage: clarify field description and comment
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
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* lib/logstorage: switch to read-only mode when running out of disk space
Added support of `--storage.minFreeDiskSpaceBytes` command-line flag to allow graceful handling of running out of disk space at `--storageDataPath`.
See: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4737
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/logstorage: fix error handling logic during merge
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/logstorage: fix log level
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
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* vmui: update information about tsdb usage in cluster version
* vmui: cleanup
* vmui: add CHANGELOG.md
* vmui: cleanup
* vmui: update logic, move information to the visible place
* app/vmui: remove values fetch, update documentation for cardinality explorer
* app/vmui: update CHANGELOG.md
Moved because this panel is related to both: scraped and ingested data.
Before, it could have give a misleading impression that it is related to ingested metrics only.
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* docker-compose: add vmauth to cluster env
vmauth acts as a balancer and used as an example of how to interconnect
VM components via vmauth.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* docker-compose: add vmauth to cluster env
vmauth acts as a balancer and used as an example of how to interconnect
VM components via vmauth.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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`median_over_time` is handled by predefined WITH template in MetricsQL library which translates it to `quantile_over_time(0.5)`
This makes it impossble to use `median_over_time` as a usual rollup function for `aggr_over_time`.
See: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5034
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
lib/promscrape/discovery/kubernetes: supress context.Cancelled error in logs
It is possible that context.Cancelled will appear after k8s watcher was closed due to reload(see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4850).
Logging an error misinforms user and looks like vmagent discovery will stop working even though this does not affect discovery.
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/backup: fix issue with inconsistent copying of appliedRetention.txt
appliedRetention.txt can be modified in place, so it should be always copied just the same as parts.json
Updates: https://github.com/victoriaMetrics/victoriaMetrics/issues/5005
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: add changelog entry for appliedRetention.txt copying fix
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
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* expose metrics `vmauth_config_last_reload_*` for tracking the state of config reloads, similarly to vmagent/vmalert components.
* do not print logs like `SIGHUP received...` once per configured `-configCheckInterval` cmd-line flag. This log will be printed only if config reload was invoked manually.
* prevent configuration reloading if there were no changes in config. This improves memory usage when `-configCheckInterval` cmd-line flag is configured and config has extensive list of regexp expressions requiring additional memory on parsing.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
- Switch from summary to histogram for vl_http_request_duration_seconds metric.
This allows calculating request duration quantiles across multiple hosts
via histogram_quantile(0.99, sum(vl_http_request_duration_seconds_bucket) by (vmrange)).
- Take into account only successfully processed data ingestion requests
when updating vl_http_request_duration_seconds histogram.
Failed requests are ignored, since they may significantly skew measurements.
- Clarify the description of the change at docs/VictoriaLogs/CHANGELOG.md.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4934
- Move the bugfix description to the correct place in docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Prevent from logging of 'context canceled' errors after the url watcher is stopped,
since these errors are expected and may confuse users.
- Remove unused urlWatcher.refCount field.
- Remove unused urlWatcher.close() method.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4850
* lib/promscrape/discovery/kubernetes: fix leaking api watcher
goroutine which was polling k8s API had no execution control. This leaded to leaking goroutines during config reload.
See: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4850
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/promscrape/discovery/kubernetes: use reference counting for urlWatcher cleanup
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/promscrape/discovery/kubernetes: remove waitgroup sync for goroutines polling API server
This is unnecessary since context will is cancelled and new requests will not be sent. Also, using waitgroup will increase time required to perform reload which might result in missed scrapes.
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/promscrape/discovery/kubernetes: clarify comment
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* Apply suggestions from code review
* lib/promscrape/discovery/kubernetes: address review feedback
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
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* lib/backup: force copying of parts.json
Copying of parts.json is required because `part.key()` comparison can create same key value for files with different contents. This will result in inconsistent backup being created or restored.
See: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5005
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/backup: ensure parts.json is only copied once
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Adding limit on ingestion allows to avoid issues like this one https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4762
Such issues are often caused by misconfigurtion on log persing/ingestion side and preventing such rows from being ingested allows to avoid performance implications created by storing such log rows.
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
This should prevent from emitting too long lines when too long args are passed to logger.* functions.
For example, too long MetricsQL queries or too long data samples.
Adds `eval_offset` attribute for Groups.
If specified, Group will be evaluated at the exact time offset on the range of [0...evaluationInterval].
The setting might be useful for cron-like rules which must be evaluated at specific moments of time.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3409
Signed-off-by: Haley Wang <pipilong.25@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Introduce flagutil.Duration
To avoid conversion bugs
* Fix tests
* Clarify documentation re. month=31 days
* Add fasttime.UnixTime() to obtain time.Time
The goal is to refactor out the last usage of `.Msecs`.
* Use fasttime for time.Now()
* wip
- Remove fasttime.UnixTime(), since it doesn't improve code readability and maintainability
- Run `make docs-sync` for syncing changes from README.md to docs/ folder
- Make lib/flagutil.Duration.Msec private
- Rename msecsPerMonth const to msecsPer31Days in order to be consistent with retention31Days
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