This is a bit tough to explain, but I'll try:
`rate` & friends have a sophisticated extrapolation algorithm.
Usually, we extrapolate the result to the total interval specified in
the range selector. However, if the first sample within the range is
too far away from the beginning of the interval, or if the last sample
within the range is too far away from the end of the interval, we
assume the series has just started half a sampling interval before the
first sample or after the last sample, respectively, and shorten the
extrapolation interval correspondingly. We calculate the sampling
interval by looking at the average time between samples within the
range, and we define "too far away" as "more than 110% of that
sampling interval".
However, if this algorithm leads to an extrapolated starting value
that is negative, we limit the start of the extrapolation interval to
the point where the extrapolated starting value is zero.
At least that was the intention.
What we actually implemented is the following: If extrapolating all
the way to the beginning of the total interval would lead to an
extrapolated negative value, we would only extrapolate to the zero
point as above, even if the algorithm above would have selected a
starting point that is just half a sampling interval before the first
sample and that starting point would not have an extrapolated negative
value. In other word: What was meant as a _limitation_ of the
extrapolation interval yielded a _longer_ extrapolation interval in
this case.
There is an exception to the case just described: If the increase of
the extrapolation interval is more than 110% of the sampling interval,
we suddenly drop back to only extrapolate to half a sampling interval.
This behavior can be nicely seen in the testcounter_zero_cutoff test,
where the rate goes up all the way to 0.7 and then jumps back to 0.6.
This commit changes the behavior to what was (presumably) intended
from the beginning: The extension of the extrapolation interval is
only limited if actually needed to prevent extrapolation to negative
values, but the "limitation" never leads to _more_ extrapolation
anymore.
The difference is subtle, and probably it never bothered anyone.
However, if you calculate a rate of a classic histograms, the old
behavior might create non-monotonic histograms as a result (because of
the jumps you can see nicely in the old version of the
testcounter_zero_cutoff test). With this fix, that doesn't happen
anymore.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
Aggregations discard the metric name, so don't try to
include it in the error message.
Add a test that generates this warning.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
This adds support for the new grammar of `{"metric_name", "l1"="val"}` to promql and some of the exposition formats.
This grammar will also be valid for non-UTF-8 names.
UTF-8 names will not be considered valid unless model.NameValidationScheme is changed.
This does not update the go expfmt parser in text_parse.go, which will be addressed by https://github.com/prometheus/common/issues/554/.
Part of https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/13095
Signed-off-by: Owen Williams <owen.williams@grafana.com>
Fixes#11708.
If a range vector is fixen in time with the @ modifier, it gets still
moved around for different steps in a range query. Since no additional
points are retrieved from the TSDB, this leads to steadily emptying
the range, leading to the weird behavior described in isse #11708.
This only happens for functions listed in `AtModifierUnsafeFunctions`,
and the only of those that takes a range vector is `predict_linear`,
which is the reason why we see it only for this particular function.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
These functions act on the labels only, so don't need to go step by step
over the samples in a range query.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* Reusing points slice from previous series when the slice is under utilized
* Adding comments on the bench test
Signed-off-by: Alan Protasio <alanprot@gmail.com>
The last_over_time retains a histogram sample without making a copy.
This sample is now coming from the buffered iterator used for windowing functions,
and can be reused for reading subsequent samples as the iterator progresses.
I would propose copying the sample in the last_over_time function, similar to
how it is done for rate, sum_over_time and others.
Signed-off-by: Filip Petkovski <filip.petkovsky@gmail.com>
This function is called very frequently when executing PromQL functions,
and we can do it much more efficiently inside Labels.
In the common case that `__name__` comes first in the labels, we simply
re-point to start at the next label, which is nearly free.
`DropMetricName` is now so cheap I removed the cache - benchmarks show
everything still goes faster.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
Optimize histogram iterators
Histogram iterators allocate new objects in the AtHistogram and
AtFloatHistogram methods, which makes calculating rates over long
ranges expensive.
In #13215 we allowed an existing object to be reused
when converting an integer histogram to a float histogram. This commit follows
the same idea and allows injecting an existing object in the AtHistogram and
AtFloatHistogram methods. When the injected value is nil, iterators allocate
new histograms, otherwise they populate and return the injected object.
The commit also adds a CopyTo method to Histogram and FloatHistogram which
is used in the BufferedIterator to overwrite items in the ring instead of making
new copies.
Note that a specialized HPoint pool is needed for all of this to work
(`matrixSelectorHPool`).
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Signed-off-by: Filip Petkovski <filip.petkovsky@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: George Krajcsovits <krajorama@users.noreply.github.com>
Add warnings for histogramRate applied with isCounter not matching counter/gauge histogram
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Signed-off-by: Jeanette Tan <jeanette.tan@grafana.com>
Restore more efficient version of NewPossibleNonCounterInfo annotation
Signed-off-by: Jeanette Tan <jeanette.tan@grafana.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jeanette Tan <jeanette.tan@grafana.com>
Conditions are ANDed inside the same matcher but matchers are ORed
Including unit tests for "promtool tsdb dump".
Refactor some matchers scraping utils.
Signed-off-by: machine424 <ayoubmrini424@gmail.com>
This reverts commit 2ddb3596ef.
Various tests are failing in CI after this change; reverting to free up
other work.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
In https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/13276 we started reusing float histogram objects to reduce allocations in PromQL.
That PR introduces a bug where histogram pointers gets copied to the beginning of the histograms slice,
but are still kept in the end of the slice. When a new histogram is read into the last element,
it can overwrite a previous element because the pointer is the same.
This commit fixes the issue by moving outdated points to the end of the slice
so that we don't end up with duplicate pointers in the same buffer. In other words,
the slice gets rotated so that old objects can get reused.
Signed-off-by: Filip Petkovski <filip.petkovsky@gmail.com>
This commit reduces the memory needed to query native histogram objects
by reusing existing HPoint instances.
Signed-off-by: Filip Petkovski <filip.petkovsky@gmail.com>
