…specifying `-streamAggr.dedupInterval` or
`-remoteWrite.streamAggr.dedupInterval` command-line flag
[The
documentation](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/stream-aggregation/)
contains conflicting descriptions regarding deduplication for
non-matched series when `-remoteWrite.streamAggr.config` and / or
`-streamAggr.config` are set:
1. Statement below says **all the received data** is deduplicated:
>[vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent/) supports
relabeling, deduplication and stream aggregation for all the received
data, scraped or pushed. Then, the collected data will be forwarded to
specified -remoteWrite.url destinations. The data processing order is
the following:
>1. all the received data is relabeled according to the specified
[-remoteWrite.relabelConfig](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent/#relabeling)
(if it is set)
>2. all the received data is deduplicated according to specified
[-streamAggr.dedupInterval](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/stream-aggregation/#deduplication)
(if it is set to duration bigger than 0)
2. Another statement says the deduplication is performed individually
for the **matching samples**
>The de-deduplication is performed after applying
[relabeling](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent/#relabeling) and
before performing the aggregation. If the -remoteWrite.streamAggr.config
and / or -streamAggr.config is set, then the de-duplication is performed
individually per each [stream aggregation
config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/stream-aggregation/#stream-aggregation-config)
for the matching samples after applying
[input_relabel_configs](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/stream-aggregation/#relabeling).
Considering the following deduplication use cases:
1. To apply deduplication(globally or for specific remoteWrite
destination) for all the received data, scraped or pushed
--- using `-streamAggr.dedupInterval` or
`-remoteWrite.streamAggr.dedupInterval`.
2. To deduplicate and aggregate metrics that match the rule `match`
filters
--- using `-remoteWrite.streamAggr.config` and specifiying
`dedup_interval` option in [stream aggregation
config](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/stream-aggregation/#stream-aggregation-config).
3. To deduplicate all the received data while having `streamAggr.config`
for some metrics
--- no way for a single vmagent now, need to set up two level vmagents
This PR implements case3.
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…eep_metric_names` options in stream aggregation config together
With aggregated data and raw data under the same metric, results would
be confusing.
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### Describe Your Changes
* `sort` param is unused by the current website engine, and was present only for compatibility
with previous website engine. It is time to remove it as it makes no effect
* re-structure guides content into folders to simplify assets management
### Checklist
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- [ ] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
Make `-remoteWrite.streamAggr.ignoreFirstIntervals` of array type so it could
accept multiple values which can be applied to the corresponding`-remoteWrite.url`.
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### Describe Your Changes
Replaced global http links in docs with relative markdown ones
### Checklist
The following checks are **mandatory**:
- [ ] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
### Describe Your Changes
- moved files from root to VictoriaMetrics folder to be able to mount
operator docs and VictoriaMetrics docs independently
- added ability to run website locally
### Checklist
The following checks are **mandatory**:
- [ ] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
- Move the remaining code responsible for stream aggregation initialization from remotewrite.go to streamaggr.go .
This improves code maintainability a bit.
- Properly shut down streamaggr.Aggregators initialized inside remotewrite.CheckStreamAggrConfigs().
This prevents from potential resource leaks.
- Use separate functions for initializing and reloading of global stream aggregation and per-remoteWrite.url stream aggregation.
This makes the code easier to read and maintain. This also fixes INFO and ERROR logs emitted by these functions.
- Add an ability to specify `name` option in every stream aggregation config. This option is used as `name` label
in metrics exposed by stream aggregation at /metrics page. This simplifies investigation of the exposed metrics.
- Add `path` label additionally to `name`, `url` and `position` labels at metrics exposed by streaming aggregation.
This label should simplify investigation of the exposed metrics.
- Remove `match` and `group` labels from metrics exposed by streaming aggregation, since they have little practical applicability:
it is hard to use these labels in query filters and aggregation functions.
- Rename the metric `vm_streamaggr_flushed_samples_total` to less misleading `vm_streamaggr_output_samples_total` .
This metric shows the number of samples generated by the corresponding streaming aggregation rule.
This metric has been added in the commit 861852f262 .
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6462
- Remove the metric `vm_streamaggr_stale_samples_total`, since it is unclear how it can be used in practice.
This metric has been added in the commit 861852f262 .
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6462
- Remove Alias and aggrID fields from streamaggr.Options struct, since these fields aren't related to optional params,
which could modify the behaviour of the constructed streaming aggregator.
Convert the Alias field to regular argument passed to LoadFromFile() function, since this argument is mandatory.
- Pass Options arg to LoadFromFile() function by reference, since this structure is quite big.
This also allows passing nil instead of Options when default options are enough.
- Add `name`, `path`, `url` and `position` labels to `vm_streamaggr_dedup_state_size_bytes` and `vm_streamaggr_dedup_state_items_count` metrics,
so they have consistent set of labels comparing to the rest of streaming aggregation metrics.
- Convert aggregator.aggrStates field type from `map[string]aggrState` to `[]aggrOutput`, where `aggrOutput` contains the corresponding
`aggrState` plus all the related metrics (currently only `vm_streamaggr_output_samples_total` metric is exposed with the corresponding
`output` label per each configured output function). This simplifies and speeds up the code responsible for updating per-output
metrics. This is a follow-up for the commit 2eb1bc4f81 .
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6604
- Added missing urls to docs ( https://docs.victoriametrics.com/stream-aggregation/ ) in error messages. These urls help users
figuring out why VictoriaMetrics or vmagent generates the corresponding error messages. The urls were removed for unknown reason
in the commit 2eb1bc4f81 .
- Fix incorrect update for `vm_streamaggr_output_samples_total` metric in flushCtx.appendSeriesWithExtraLabel() function.
While at it, reduce memory usage by limiting the maximum number of samples per flush to 10K.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5467
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6268
- Consistently enumerate stream aggregation outputs in alphabetical order across the source code and docs.
This should simplify future maintenance of the corresponding code and docs.
- Fix the link to `rate_sum()` at `see also` section of `rate_avg()` docs.
- Make more clear the docs for `rate_sum()` and `rate_avg()` outputs.
- Encapsulate output metric suffix inside rateAggrState. This eliminates possible bugs related
to incorrect suffix passing to newRateAggrState().
- Rename rateAggrState.total field to less misleading rateAggrState.increase name, since it calculates
counter increase in the current aggregation window.
- Set rateLastValueState.prevTimestamp on the first sample in time series instead of the second sample.
This makes more clear the code logic.
- Move the code for removing outdated entries at rateAggrState into removeOldEntries() function.
This make the code logic inside rateAggrState.flushState() more clear.
- Do not write output sample with zero value if there are no input series, which could be used
for calculating the rate, e.g. if only a single sample is registered for every input series.
- Do not take into account input series with a single registered sample when calculating rate_avg(),
since this leads to incorrect results.
- Move {rate,total}AggrState.flushState() function to the end of rate.go and total.go files, so they look more similar.
This shuld simplify future mantenance.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6243
We use `vm_streamaggr_flushed_samples_total` to show the number of
produced samples by aggregation rule, previously it was overcounted, and
doesn't account for `output_relabel_configs`.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6462
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Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
### Describe Your Changes
Implement spellcheck command:
- add cspell configuration files
- dockerize spellchecking process
- add Makefile targets
This PR adds a standalone `make spellcheck` target to check `docs/*.md` files for spelling
errors. The target process is dockerized to be run in a separate npm environment.
Some `docs/` typo fixes also included.
### Checklist
The following checks are **mandatory**:
- [x] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
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Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
### Describe Your Changes
docs: fix typos
### Checklist
The following checks are **mandatory**:
- [x] My change adheres [VictoriaMetrics contributing
guidelines](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/contributing/).
Reason for revert:
There are many statsd servers exist:
- https://github.com/statsd/statsd - classical statsd server
- https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/dogstatsd/ - statsd server from DataDog built into DatDog Agent ( https://docs.datadoghq.com/agent/ )
- https://github.com/avito-tech/bioyino - high-performance statsd server
- https://github.com/atlassian/gostatsd - statsd server in Go
- https://github.com/prometheus/statsd_exporter - statsd server, which exposes the aggregated data as Prometheus metrics
These servers can be used for efficient aggregating of statsd data and sending it to VictoriaMetrics
according to https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-send-data-from-graphite-compatible-agents-such-as-statsd (
the https://github.com/prometheus/statsd_exporter can be scraped as usual Prometheus target
according to https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-scrape-prometheus-exporters-such-as-node-exporter ).
Adding support for statsd data ingestion protocol into VictoriaMetrics makes sense only if it provides
significant advantages over the existing statsd servers, while has no significant drawbacks comparing
to existing statsd servers.
The main advantage of statsd server built into VictoriaMetrics and vmagent - getting rid of additional statsd server.
The main drawback is non-trivial and inconvenient streaming aggregation configs, which must be used for the ingested statsd metrics (
see https://docs.victoriametrics.com/stream-aggregation/ ). These configs are incompatible with the configs for standalone statsd servers.
So you need to manually translate configs of the used statsd server to stream aggregation configs when migrating
from standalone statsd server to statsd server built into VictoriaMetrics (or vmagent).
Another important drawback is that it is very easy to shoot yourself in the foot when using built-in statsd server
with the -statsd.disableAggregationEnforcement command-line flag or with improperly configured streaming aggregation.
In this case the ingested statsd metrics will be stored to VictoriaMetrics as is without any aggregation.
This may result in high CPU usage during data ingestion, high disk space usage for storing all the unaggregated
statsd metrics and high CPU usage during querying, since all the unaggregated metrics must be read, unpacked and processed
during querying.
P.S. Built-in statsd server can be added to VictoriaMetrics and vmagent after figuring out more ergonomic
specialized configuration for aggregating of statsd metrics. The main requirements for this configuration:
- easy to write, read and update (ideally it should work out of the box for most cases without additional configuration)
- hard to misconfigure (e.g. hard to shoot yourself in the foot)
It would be great if this configuration will be compatible with the configuration of the most widely used statsd server.
In the mean time it is recommended continue using external statsd server.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6265
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5053
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5052
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/206
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4600
- Clarify docs for `Ignore aggregation intervals on start` feature.
- Make more clear the code dealing with ignoreFirstIntervals at aggregator.runFlusher() functions.
It is better from readability and maintainability PoV using distinct a.flush() calls
for distinct cases instead of merging them into a single a.flush() call.
- Take into account the first incomplete interval when tracking the number of skipped aggregation intervals,
since this behaviour is easier to understand by the end users.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/6137
Added `rate` and `rate_avg` output
Resource usage is the same as for increase output, tested on a benchmark
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Stream aggregation may yield inaccurate results if it processes incomplete data.
This issue can arise when data is sourced from clients that maintain a queue of unsent data, such as Prometheus or vmagent.
If the queue isn't fully cleared within the aggregation interval, only a portion of the time series may be included in that period, leading to distorted calculations.
To mitigate this we add an option to ignore first N aggregation intervals. It is expected, that client queues
will be cleared during the time while aggregation ignores first N intervals and all subsequent aggregations
will be correct.
For example, if `interval: 1m`, then data flush occurs at the end of every minute,
while `interval: 1h` leads to data flush at the end of every hour.
Add `no_align_flush_to_interval` option, which can be used for disabling the alignment.
- Reduce memory usage by up to 5x when de-duplicating samples across big number of time series.
- Reduce memory usage by up to 5x when aggregating across big number of output time series.
- Add lib/promutils.LabelsCompressor, which is going to be used by other VictoriaMetrics components
for reducing memory usage for marshaled []prompbmarshal.Label.
- Add `dedup_interval` option at aggregation config, which allows setting individual
deduplication intervals per each aggregation.
- Add `keep_metric_names` option at aggregation config, which allows keeping the original
metric names in the output samples.
- Add `unique_samples` output, which counts the number of unique sample values.
- Add `increase_prometheus` and `total_prometheus` outputs, which ignore the first sample
per each newly encountered time series.
- Use 64-bit hashes instead of marshaled labels as map keys when calculating `count_series` output.
This makes obsolete https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5579
- Expose various metrics, which may help debugging stream aggregation:
- vm_streamaggr_dedup_state_size_bytes - the size of data structures responsible for deduplication
- vm_streamaggr_dedup_state_items_count - the number of items in the deduplication data structures
- vm_streamaggr_labels_compressor_size_bytes - the size of labels compressor data structures
- vm_streamaggr_labels_compressor_items_count - the number of entries in the labels compressor
- vm_streamaggr_flush_duration_seconds - a histogram, which shows the duration of stream aggregation flushes
- vm_streamaggr_dedup_flush_duration_seconds - a histogram, which shows the duration of deduplication flushes
- vm_streamaggr_flush_timeouts_total - counter for timed out stream aggregation flushes,
which took longer than the configured interval
- vm_streamaggr_dedup_flush_timeouts_total - counter for timed out deduplication flushes,
which took longer than the configured dedup_interval
- Actualize docs/stream-aggregation.md
The memory usage reduction increases CPU usage during stream aggregation by up to 30%.
This commit is based on https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5850
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5898
* port un-synced changed from docs/readme to readme
* consistently use `sh` instead of `console` highlight, as it looks like
a more appropriate syntax highlight
* consistently use `sh` instead of `bash`, as it is shorter
* consistently use `yaml` instead of `yml`
See syntax codes here https://gohugo.io/content-management/syntax-highlighting/
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Sending unfinished aggregate states tend to produce unexpected anomalies with lower values than expected.
The old behavior can be restored by specifying `flush_on_shutdown: true` setting in streaming aggregation config
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