This msy be useful when ingesting logs from different sources, which store the log message in different fields.
For example, `_msg_field=message,event.data,some_field` will get log message from the first non-empty field:
`message`, `event.data` and `some_field`.
Empty fields are treated as non-existing fields by VictoriaLogs data model.
So there is no sense in returning empty fields in query results, since they may mislead and confuse users.
Use local timezone of the host server in this case. The timezone can be overridden
with TZ environment variable if needed.
While at it, allow using whitespace instead of T as a delimiter between data and time
in the ingested _time field. For example, '2024-09-20 10:20:30' is now accepted
during data ingestion. This is valid ISO8601 format, which is used by some log shippers,
so it should be supported. This format is also known as SQL datetime format.
Also assume local time zone when time without timezone information is passed to querying APIs.
Previously such a time was parsed in UTC timezone. Add `Z` to the end of the time string
if the old behaviour is preferred.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/6721
- Compare the actual free disk space to the value provided via -storage.minFreeDiskSpaceBytes
directly inside the Storage.IsReadOnly(). This should work fast in most cases.
This simplifies the logic at lib/storage.
- Do not take into account -storage.minFreeDiskSpaceBytes during background merges, since
it results in uncontrolled growth of small parts when the free disk space approaches -storage.minFreeDiskSpaceBytes.
The background merge logic uses another mechanism for determining whether there is enough
disk space for the merge - it reserves the needed disk space before the merge
and releases it after the merge. This prevents from out of disk space errors during background merge.
- Properly handle corner cases for flushing in-memory data to disk when the storage
enters read-only mode. This is better than losing the in-memory data.
- Return back Storage.MustAddRows() instead of Storage.AddRows(),
since the only case when AddRows() can return error is when the storage is in read-only mode.
This case must be handled by the caller by calling Storage.IsReadOnly()
before adding rows to the storage.
This simplifies the code a bit, since the caller of Storage.MustAddRows() shouldn't handle
errors returned by Storage.AddRows().
- Properly store parsed logs to Storage if parts of the request contain invalid log lines.
Previously the parsed logs could be lost in this case.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4737
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4945
* 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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Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Nikolay <nik@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
* app/vlinsert/elasticsearch: add a command-line flag to provide ES version
Adds a flag which will allow to change version which will be reported by ES endpoint for compatibility checks performed by external logs shippers(such as filebeat).
See: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4777
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* Document the -elasticsearch.version command-line flag
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4777
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Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
- Parse protobuf if Content-Type isn't set to `application/json` - this behavior is documented at https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/api/#push-log-entries-to-loki
- Properly handle gzip'ped JSON requests. The `gzip` header must be read from `Content-Encoding` instead of `Content-Type` header
- Properly flush all the parsed logs with the explicit call to vlstorage.MustAddRows() at the end of query handler
- Check JSON field types more strictly.
- Allow parsing Loki timestamp as floating-point number. Such a timestamp can be generated by some clients,
which store timestamps in float64 instead of int64.
- Optimize parsing of Loki labels in Prometheus text exposition format.
- Simplify tests.
- Remove lib/slicesutil, since there are no more users for it.
- Update docs with missing info and fix various typos. For example, it should be enough to have `instance` and `job` labels
as stream fields in most Loki setups.
- Allow empty of missing timestamps in the ingested logs.
The current timestamp at VictoriaLogs side is then used for the ingested logs.
This simplifies debugging and testing of the provided HTTP-based data ingestion APIs.
The remaining MAJOR issue, which needs to be addressed: victoria-logs binary size increased from 13MB to 22MB
after adding support for Loki data ingestion protocol at https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4482 .
This is because of shitty protobuf dependencies. They must be replaced with another protobuf implementation
similar to the one used at lib/prompb or lib/prompbmarshal .
