[Gluster-devel] How long should metrics collection on a cluster take?

Wed Jul 25 17:18:21 UTC 2018

I have not put together a list. Perhaps the following will help w/ the
context though...

The "reconcile loop" of the operator will take the cluster CRs and
reconcile them against the actual cluster config. At the 20k foot level,
this amounts to something like determining there should be 8 gluster pods
running, and making the appropriate changes if that doesn't match reality.
In practical terms, the construction of this reconciliation loop can be
thought of as a set (array) of 3-tuples: [{should_act() -> bool, can_act ->
bool, action() -> ok, error}, {..., ..., ...}, ...]

Each capability of the operator would be expressed as one of these tuples.
should_act() : true if the action() should be taken
can_act() : true if the prerequisites for taking the action are met
action() : make the change. Only run if should && can.
(note that I believe should_act() and can_act() should not be separate in
the implementation, for reasons I'll not go into here)

An example action might be "upgrade the container image for pod X". The
associated should_act would be triggered if the "image=" of the pod doesn't
match the desired "image=" in the operator CRs. The can_act evaluation
would be verifying that it's ok to do this... Thinking from the top of my
head:
- All volumes w/ a brick on this pod should be fully healed
- Sufficient cluster nodes should be up such that quorum is not lost when
this node goes down (does this matter?)
- The proposed image is compatible with the current version of the CSI
driver(s), the operator, and other gluster pods
- Probably some other stuff
The action() would update the "image=" in the Deployment to trigger the
rollout

The idea is that queries would be made, both to the kube API and the
gluster cluster to verify the necessary preconditions for an action prior
to that action being invoked. There would obviously be commonality among
the preconditions for various actions, so the results should be fetched
exactly once per reconcile cycle. Also note, 1 cycle == at most 1 action()
due to the action changing the state of the system.

Given that we haven't designed (or even listed) all the potential
action()s, I can't give you a list of everything to query. I guarantee
we'll need to know the up/down status, heal counts, and free capacity for
each brick and node.

-John

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:56 AM Pranith Kumar Karampuri <
pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 8:17 PM, John Strunk <jstrunk at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> To add an additional data point... The operator will need to regularly
>> reconcile the true state of the gluster cluster with the desired state
>> stored in kubernetes. This task will be required frequently (i.e.,
>> operator-framework defaults to every 5s even if there are no config
>> changes).
>> The actual amount of data we will need to query from the cluster is
>> currently TBD and likely significantly affected by Heketi/GD1 vs. GD2
>> choice.
>>
>
> Do we have any partial list of data we will gather? Just want to
> understand what this might entail already...
>
>
>>
>> -John
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 5:45 AM Pranith Kumar Karampuri <
>> pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:10 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
>>> sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:48 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri
>>>> <pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> > hi,
>>>> >       Quite a few commands to monitor gluster at the moment take
>>>> almost a
>>>> > second to give output.
>>>>
>>>> Is this at the (most) minimum recommended cluster size?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, with a single volume with 3 bricks i.e. 3 nodes in cluster.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Some categories of these commands:
>>>> > 1) Any command that needs to do some sort of mount/glfs_init.
>>>> >      Examples: 1) heal info family of commands 2) statfs to find
>>>> > space-availability etc (On my laptop replica 3 volume with all local
>>>> bricks,
>>>> > glfs_init takes 0.3 seconds on average)
>>>> > 2) glusterd commands that need to wait for the previous command to
>>>> unlock.
>>>> > If the previous command is something related to lvm snapshot which
>>>> takes
>>>> > quite a few seconds, it would be even more time consuming.
>>>> >
>>>> > Nowadays container workloads have hundreds of volumes if not
>>>> thousands. If
>>>> > we want to serve any monitoring solution at this scale (I have seen
>>>> > customers use upto 600 volumes at a time, it will only get bigger)
>>>> and lets
>>>> > say collecting metrics per volume takes 2 seconds per volume(Let us
>>>> take the
>>>> > worst example which has all major features enabled like
>>>> > snapshot/geo-rep/quota etc etc), that will mean that it will take 20
>>>> minutes
>>>> > to collect metrics of the cluster with 600 volumes. What are the ways
>>>> in
>>>> > which we can make this number more manageable? I was initially
>>>> thinking may
>>>> > be it is possible to get gd2 to execute commands in parallel on
>>>> different
>>>> > volumes, so potentially we could get this done in ~2 seconds. But
>>>> quite a
>>>> > few of the metrics need a mount or equivalent of a mount(glfs_init) to
>>>> > collect different information like statfs, number of pending heals,
>>>> quota
>>>> > usage etc. This may lead to high memory usage as the size of the
>>>> mounts tend
>>>> > to be high.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure if starting from the "worst example" (it certainly is
>>>> not) is a good place to start from.
>>>
>>>
>>> I didn't understand your statement. Are you saying 600 volumes is a
>>> worst example?
>>>
>>>
>>>> That said, for any environment
>>>> with that number of disposable volumes, what kind of metrics do
>>>> actually make any sense/impact?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Same metrics you track for long running volumes. It is just that the way
>>> the metrics
>>> are interpreted will be different. On a long running volume, you would
>>> look at the metrics
>>> and try to find why is the volume not giving performance as expected in
>>> the last 1 hour. Where as
>>> in this case, you would look at metrics and find the reason why volumes
>>> that were
>>> created and deleted in the last hour didn't give performance as
>>> expected.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > I wanted to seek suggestions from others on how to come to a
>>>> conclusion
>>>> > about which path to take and what problems to solve.
>>>> >
>>>> > I will be happy to raise github issues based on our conclusions on
>>>> this mail
>>>> > thread.
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Pranith
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> <https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay>
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