The stats field ST_F_EINT has been added to report internal errors encountered
per proxy, per listener and per server. It appears in the CLI export and on the
HTML stats page.
Now, for the sessions, the maximum times (queue, connect, response, total) are
reported in addition of the averages over the last 1024 connections. These
values are called qtime_max, ctime_max, rtime_max and ttime_max.
This patch is related to #272.
Debug commands will usually mark the fate of the process. We'd rather
have them counted and visible in a core or in stats output than trying
to guess how a flag combination could happen. The counter is only
incremented when the command is about to be issued however, so that
failed attempts are ignored.
Now "show info" and "show stat" can parse "desc" as an output format
modifier that will be passed down the chain to add some descriptions
to the fields depending on the format in use. For now it is not
exploited.
This flag is used to decide to show the check box in front of a proxy
on the HTML stat page. It is always equal to STAT_ADMIN except when the
proxy has no backend capability (i.e. a pure frontend) or has no server,
in which case it's only used to avoid leaving an empty column at the
beginning of the table. Not only this is pretty useless, but it also
causes the columns not to align well when mixing multiple proxies with
or without servers.
Let's simply always use STAT_ADMIN and get rid of this flag.
We used to rely on some config flags defined in uri_auth.h set during
parsing, and another set of STAT_* flags defined in stats.h set at run
time, with a somewhat gray area between the two sets. This is confusing
in the stats code as both are called "flags" in various functions and
it's quite hard to know which one describes what.
This patch cleans this up by replacing all ST_* by a newly assigned
value from the STAT_* set so that we can now use unified flags to
describe both the configuration and the current state. There is no
functional change at all.
It is now possible to format stats counters as floats. But the stats applet does
not use it.
This patch is required by the Prometheus exporter to send the time averages in
seconds. If the promex change is backported, this patch must be backported
first.
It is now possible to export stats using the JSON format from the HTTP stats
page. Like for the CSV export, to export stats in JSON, you must add the option
";json" on the stats URL. It is also possible to dump the JSON schema with the
option ";json-schema". Corresponding Links have been added on the HTML page.
This patch fixes the issue #263.
This adds two extra fields to the stats, one for the current number of idle
connections and one for the configured limit. A tooltip link now appears on
the HTML page to show these values in front of the active connection values.
This should be backported to 2.0 and 1.9 as it's the only way to monitor
the idle connections behaviour.
Many times we've been missing per-process traffic statistics. While it
didn't make sense in multi-process mode, with threads it does. Thus we
now have a counter of bytes emitted by raw_sock, and a freq counter for
these as well. However, freq_ctr are limited to 32 bits, and given that
loads of 300 Gbps have already been reached over a loopback using
splicing, we need to downscale this a bit. Here we're storing 1/32 of
the byte rate, which gives a theorical limit of 128 GB/s or ~1 Tbps,
which is more than enough. Let's have fun re-reading this sentence in
2029 :-) The values can be read in "show info" output on the CLI.
The 'do-resolve' action is an http-request or tcp-request content action
which allows to run DNS resolution at run time in HAProxy.
The name to be resolved can be picked up in the request sent by the
client and the result of the resolution is stored in a variable.
The time the resolution is being performed, the request is on pause.
If the resolution can't provide a suitable result, then the variable
will be empty. It's up to the admin to take decisions based on this
statement (return 503 to prevent loops).
Read carefully the documentation concerning this feature, to ensure your
setup is secure and safe to be used in production.
This patch creates a global counter to track various errors reported by
the action 'do-resolve'.
In the stats applet (in HTX and legacy HTTP), after a response is fully sent to
a client, the request is consumed. It is done at the end, after all the response
was copied into the channel's buffer. But only outgoing data at time the applet
is called are consumed. Then the applet is closed. If a request with a huge body
is sent, an error is triggerred because a SHUTW is catched for an unfinisehd
request.
Now, we consume request data until the end. In fact, we don't try to shutdown
the request's channel for write anymore.
This patch must be backported to 1.9 after some observation period. It should
probably be backported in prior versions too. But honnestly, with refactoring
on the connection layer and the stream interface in 1.9, it is probably safer
to not do so.
The status codes definition (STAT_STATUS_*) and their string representation
stat_status_codes) have been moved in stats files. There is no reason to keep
them in proto_http files.
Sadly we didn't have the cumulated number of connections established to
servers till now, so let's now update it per backend and per-server and
report it in the stats. On the stats page it appears in the tooltip
when hovering over the total sessions count field.
In some situations, especially when dealing with low latency on processors
supporting a variable frequency or when running inside virtual machines,
each time the process waits for an I/O using the poller, the processor
goes back to sleep or is offered to another VM for a long time, and it
causes excessively high latencies.
A solution to this provided by this patch is to enable busy polling using
a global option. When busy polling is enabled, the pollers never sleep and
loop over themselves waiting for an I/O event to happen or for a timeout
to occur. On multi-processor machines it can significantly overheat the
processor but it usually results in much lower latencies.
A typical test consisting in injecting traffic over a single connection at
a time over the loopback shows a bump from 4640 to 8540 connections per
second on forwarded connections, indicating a latency reduction of 98
microseconds for each connection, and a bump from 12500 to 21250 for
locally terminated connections (redirects), indicating a reduction of
33 microseconds.
It is only usable with epoll and kqueue because select() and poll()'s
API is not convenient for such usages, and the level of performance they
are used in doesn't benefit from this anyway.
The option, which obviously remains disabled by default, can be turned
on using "busy-polling" in the global section, and turned off later
using "no busy-polling". Its status is reported in "show info" to help
troubleshooting suspicious CPU spikes.
This patch allows a process to properly quit when some jobs are still
active, this feature is handled by the unstoppable_jobs variable, which
must be atomically incremented.
During each new iteration of run_poll_loop() the break condition of the
loop is now (jobs - unstoppable_jobs) == 0.
The unique usage of this at the moment is to handle the socketpair CLI
of a the worker during the stopping of the process. During the soft
stop, we could mark the CLI listener as an unstoppable job and still
handle new connections till every other jobs are stopped.
It's easy to detect when logs on some paths are lost as sendmsg() will
return EAGAIN. This is particularly true when sending to /dev/log, which
often doesn't support a big logging capacity. Let's keep track of these
and report the total number of dropped messages in "show info".
The active peers output indicates both the number of established peers
connections and the number of peers connection attempts. The new counter
"ConnectedPeers" also indicates the number of currently connected peers.
This helps detect that some peers cannot be reached for example. It's
worth mentioning that this value changes over time because unused peers
are often disconnected and reconnected. Most of the time it should be
equal to ActivePeers.
Peers are the last type of activity which can maintain a job present, so
it's important to report that such an entity is still active to explain
why the job count may be higher than zero. Here by "ActivePeers" we report
peers sessions, which include both established connections and outgoing
connection attempts.
When an haproxy process doesn't stop after a reload, it's because it
still has some active "jobs", which mainly are active sessions, listeners,
peers or other specific activities. Sometimes it's difficult to troubleshoot
the cause of these issues (which generally are the result of a bug) only
because some indicators are missing.
This patch add the number of listeners, the number of jobs, and the stopping
status to the output of "show info". This way it becomes a bit easier to try
to narrow down the cause of such an issue should it happen. A typical use
case is to connect to the CLI before reloading, then issuing the "show info"
command to see what happens. In the normal situation, stopping should equal
1, jobs should equal 1 (meaning only the CLI is still active) and listeners
should equal zero.
The patch is so trivial that it could make sense to backport it to 1.8 in
order to help with troubleshooting.
This patch adds a warning if an http-(request|reponse) (add|set)-header
rewrite fails to change the respective header in a request or response.
This usually happens when tune.maxrewrite is not sufficient to hold all
the headers that should be added.
This may be used to output the JSON schema which describes the output of
show info json and show stats json.
The JSON output is without any extra whitespace in order to reduce the
volume of output. For human consumption passing the output through a
pretty printer may be helpful.
e.g.:
$ echo "show schema json" | socat /var/run/haproxy.stat stdio | \
python -m json.tool
The implementation does not generate the schema. Some consideration could
be given to integrating the output of the schema with the output of
typed and json info and stats. In particular the types (u32, s64, etc...)
and tags.
A sample verification of show info json and show stats json using
the schema is as follows. It uses the jsonschema python module:
cat > jschema.py << __EOF__
import json
from jsonschema import validate
from jsonschema.validators import Draft3Validator
with open('schema.txt', 'r') as f:
schema = json.load(f)
Draft3Validator.check_schema(schema)
with open('instance.txt', 'r') as f:
instance = json.load(f)
validate(instance, schema, Draft3Validator)
__EOF__
$ echo "show schema json" | socat /var/run/haproxy.stat stdio > schema.txt
$ echo "show info json" | socat /var/run/haproxy.stat stdio > instance.txt
python ./jschema.py
$ echo "show stats json" | socat /var/run/haproxy.stat stdio > instance.txt
python ./jschema.py
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Add a json parameter to show (info|stat) which will output information
in JSON format. A follow-up patch will add a JSON schema which describes
the format of the JSON output of these commands.
The JSON output is without any extra whitespace in order to reduce the
volume of output. For human consumption passing the output through a
pretty printer may be helpful.
e.g.:
$ echo "show info json" | socat /var/run/haproxy.stat stdio | \
python -m json.tool
STAT_STARTED has bee added in order to track if show output has begun or
not. This is used in order to allow the JSON output routines to only insert
a "," between elements when needed. I would value any feedback on how this
might be done better.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Move the "show info" command to stats.c using the CLI keyword API
to register it on the CLI. The stats_dump_info_to_buffer() function
is now static again. Note, we don't need proto_ssl anymore in cli.c.
proto/dumpstats.h has been split in 4 files:
* proto/cli.h contains protypes for the CLI
* proto/stats.h contains prototypes for the stats
* types/cli.h contains definition for the CLI
* types/stats.h contains definition for the stats
