This patch changes the RCU/WCU Alternator metrics to use whole units
instead of half units. The change includes the following:
Change the metrics documentation. Keep the RCU counter internally in
half units, but return the actual (whole unit) value.
Change the RCU name to be rcu_half_units_total to indicates that it
counts half units.
Change the WCU to count in whole units instead of half units.
Update the tests accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Amnon Heiman <amnon@scylladb.com>
This patch adds an estimated_histogram for alternator batch item count.
estimated_histogram can be used with values starting from 1 with an
exponential factor of 1.2, which nicely covers values up to 20, but with
only 22 buckets it can reach all the way to 100 (plus infinity).
Aside from the new histograms for get and write batches, a helper
function was added to return the histogram in the metric format without
changing its resolution (which is the metric’s default behaviour).
The histogram will be reported once per node rather than once per shard.
Signed-off-by: Amnon Heiman <amnon@scylladb.com>
This patch add visibility to the WCU metrics. It uses a label 'ops' to
split each of the operations that contribute to WCU into their
operations.
When summing over all ops value the result will be the same.
Introduced `rcu` (Read Capacity Units) and `wcu` (Write Capacity Units)
metrics to the `stats` object for enhanced capacity tracking.
`rcu` and `wcu` provide a simplified way of measuring reads and writes,
respectively, by representing capacity usage in standardized units.
This patch adds these metrics to the existing alternator stats, enabling
monitoring of the total consumed units.
Introduced histogram metrics to track latency for Alternator's get and
write batch operations.
Added counters to record the number of items processed in each batch
operation.
Signed-off-by: Amnon Heiman <amnon@scylladb.com>
Shard-level latencies generate a lot of metrics. This patch reduces the
the number of latencies reported by Alternator while keeping the same
functionality.
On the shard level, summaries will be reported instead of histograms.
On the instance level, an aggregated histogram will be reported.
Summaries, histograms, and counters are marked with skip_when_empty.
Fixes#12230Closesscylladb/scylladb#17581
Instead of lengthy blurbs, switch to single-line, machine-readable
standardized (https://spdx.dev) license identifiers. The Linux kernel
switched long ago, so there is strong precedent.
Three cases are handled: AGPL-only, Apache-only, and dual licensed.
For the latter case, I chose (AGPL-3.0-or-later and Apache-2.0),
reasoning that our changes are extensive enough to apply our license.
The changes we applied mechanically with a script, except to
licenses/README.md.
Closes#9937
This patch moves the alternator latencies histograms to use the time_estimated_histogram.
The changes requires changing the defined type and use the simpler
insertion method.
Signed-off-by: Amnon Heiman <amnon@scylladb.com>
In this patch, we re-implement the three read-modify-write operations -
PutItem, UpdateItem, DeleteItem. All three operations may need to read the
item before writing it to support conditional updates (the "Expected"
parameter) and UpdateItem may also need the previous item's value for
its update expression (e.g., a user may ask to "set a=a+1" or "set a=b").
Before this patch, the implementation of RMW operations simply did a read,
and then a write - without any attempt to protect concurrent operations.
In this patch, Scylla's LWT mechanism (storage_proxy::cas()) is used
instead, to ensure that concurrent update operations are correctly
isolated even if they are conditional. This means that Alternator now
requires the experimental LWT feature to be enabled (and refuses to
boot if it isn't).
The version presented here is configured to always use LWT for *every*
write, regardless of whether it has a condition or not. So it will
will significantly slow down write-only workloads like YCSB. But the code
in this patch actually includes three other modes, which can be chosen by
setting an enum constant in the code. In the future we will want to let the
user configure this mode, globally, per table or per attribute.
Note that read requests are NOT modified, and work exactly as they did
before: i.e., strongly-consistent reads are done using a normal
CL=LOCAL_QUORUM read - not via LWT. I believe this is good enough given
Dynamo's guarantees, and critical for our read performance.
Also note that patch doesn't yet fix the BatchWriteItem operation.
Although BatchWriteItem does not support any RMW operations - just pure
writes - we may still need to do those pure writes using LWT. This
should be fixed in a follow-up patch.
Unfortunately, this patch involves a large amount of code movement and
reorganization, because:
1. The cas operation requires each operation to be made into an object,
with a separate apply() function, forcing a lot of code to move.
2. Moreover, we need to do this for three different operations (PutItem,
UpdateItem, DeleteItem) so to avoid massive code duplication, I had
to move some common code.
3. The cas operation also forced us to change some of the utility functions'
APIs.
The end result is that this patch focuses more on a compact and
understandable *end result* than it does on an easy to understand *patch*,
so reviewers - sorry about that.
All alternator-test/ tests pass with this patch (and also with all of the
different optional modes enabled). However, other than that, I did not yet
do any real isolation tests (are concurrent operations really isolated
correctly? or is LWT just faking it? :-) ), performance tests or stress
tests - and I'll definitely need to do those as well.
Fixes#5054
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
This patch make two chagnes to the alternator stats:
1. It add estimated_histogram for the get, put, update and delete
operation
2. It changes the metrics naming, so the operation will be a label, it
will be easier to handle, perform operation and display in this way.
Signed-off-by: Amnon Heiman <amnon@scylladb.com>
Some underlying operations (e.g. paging) make use of cql_stats
structure from CQL3. As such, cql_stats structure is added
to alternator stats in order to gather and use these statistics.
his patch adds a statistics framework to Alternator: Executor has (for
each shard) a _stats object which contains counters for various events,
and also is in charge of making these counters visible via Scylla's regular
metrics API (http://localhost:9180/metrics).
This patch includes a counter for each of DynamoDB's operation types,
and we increase the ones we support when handled. We also added counters
for total operations and unsupported operations (operation types we don't
yet handle). In the future we can easily add many more counters: Define
the counter in stats.hh, export it in stats.cc, and increment it in
where relevant in executor.cc (or server.cc).
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
