Starting from v1.56.0 VM supports `round_digits` which allows to limit
the number of digits after the decimal point in response value. The feature
can be used to reduce entropy of produced by recording rules values
and significantly improve the compression. See more details in link below.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/525
Previously, `startGroup` could exit on restore errors despite the
`remoteRead.ignoreRestoreErrors` flag value. Now vmalert checks the
flag value before deciding whether to return error or just log it.
Alerting rules now can return specific error type ErrStateRestore to indicate
whether restore state procedure failed. Such errors were returned and logged
before as well. But now user can specify whether to just log these errors
(remoteRead.ignoreRestoreErrors=true) or to stop the process
(remoteRead.ignoreRestoreErrors=false). The latter is important when VM isn't
ready yet to serve queries from vmalert and it needs to wait.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1252
* Simplify arguments list for fn `queryDataSource` to improve readbility
* vmalert: adjust `time` param according to rule evaluation interval
With this change, vmalert will start to use rule's evaluation interval
for truncating the `time` param. This is mostly needed to produce consistent
time series with timestamps unaffected by vmalert start time. Now, timestamp
becomes predictable.
Additionally, adjustment is similar to what Grafana does for plotting range graphs.
Hence, recording rule series and recording rule expression plotted in grafana
suppose to become similar in most of cases.
* changes vmalert Querier with per rule querier
it allows to changes some parametrs based on rule setting
for instance - alert type, tenant for cluster version or event endpoint url.
Previously, vmalert used `lastExecTime` timestamp when writing recording rules
to the remote storage. This may be incorrect, if vmalert uses `datasource.lookback` flag,
which means rule's expression will be executed at some moment in the past.
To avoid such situations, vmalert now will use returned timestamp instead of `lastExecTime`.
This should increase block sizes and subsequently increase the maximum possible bandwidth per each connection to remote storage.
This, in turn, should reduce the probability of storing the data in local buffers.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1235
* docs: drop table of contents for `vmctl`
We already have it autogenerated on .github.io, so no need to keep it.
* docs: mention OpenTSDB migration feature for vmctl
* docs: sync docs for `vmalert`
* add more documentation on OpenTSDB migration explaining what chunking means
* more clarification of OpenTSDB aggregations
* break out what a retention string becomes
* add more docs around retention strings
* add example of running program and fix mistake in how hard offsets are handled
* fix formatting
The major change is adding `sort` directive to docs. For those docs which are copied
from internal packages `sort` is added via makefile command. For the rest it is added
manually since they're updated manually as well.
The rest of changes is connected with markdown formatting. For example, changing headers
in some files (`##` => `#`) makes navigation on .github.io to look better. This especially
useful for `changelog` docs.
Table of contents for `vmctl` is dropped, since we already have it autogenerated on .github.io.
No link changes expected. The corresponding PR to `cluster` branch will be made in follow-up PR.
