// Copyright 2015 The Prometheus Authors // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. package promql import ( "math" "sort" "github.com/prometheus/prometheus/model/labels" ) // Helpers to calculate quantiles. // excludedLabels are the labels to exclude from signature calculation for // quantiles. var excludedLabels = []string{ labels.MetricName, labels.BucketLabel, } type bucket struct { upperBound float64 count float64 } // buckets implements sort.Interface. type buckets []bucket func (b buckets) Len() int { return len(b) } func (b buckets) Swap(i, j int) { b[i], b[j] = b[j], b[i] } func (b buckets) Less(i, j int) bool { return b[i].upperBound < b[j].upperBound } type metricWithBuckets struct { metric labels.Labels buckets buckets } // bucketQuantile calculates the quantile 'q' based on the given buckets. The // buckets will be sorted by upperBound by this function (i.e. no sorting // needed before calling this function). The quantile value is interpolated // assuming a linear distribution within a bucket. However, if the quantile // falls into the highest bucket, the upper bound of the 2nd highest bucket is // returned. A natural lower bound of 0 is assumed if the upper bound of the // lowest bucket is greater 0. In that case, interpolation in the lowest bucket // happens linearly between 0 and the upper bound of the lowest bucket. // However, if the lowest bucket has an upper bound less or equal 0, this upper // bound is returned if the quantile falls into the lowest bucket. // // There are a number of special cases (once we have a way to report errors // happening during evaluations of AST functions, we should report those // explicitly): // // If 'buckets' has 0 observations, NaN is returned. // // If 'buckets' has fewer than 2 elements, NaN is returned. // // If the highest bucket is not +Inf, NaN is returned. // // If q==NaN, NaN is returned. // // If q<0, -Inf is returned. // // If q>1, +Inf is returned. func bucketQuantile(q float64, buckets buckets) float64 { if math.IsNaN(q) { return math.NaN() } if q < 0 { return math.Inf(-1) } if q > 1 { return math.Inf(+1) } sort.Sort(buckets) if !math.IsInf(buckets[len(buckets)-1].upperBound, +1) { return math.NaN() } buckets = coalesceBuckets(buckets) ensureMonotonic(buckets) if len(buckets) < 2 { return math.NaN() } observations := buckets[len(buckets)-1].count if observations == 0 { return math.NaN() } rank := q * observations b := sort.Search(len(buckets)-1, func(i int) bool { return buckets[i].count >= rank }) if b == len(buckets)-1 { return buckets[len(buckets)-2].upperBound } if b == 0 && buckets[0].upperBound <= 0 { return buckets[0].upperBound } var ( bucketStart float64 bucketEnd = buckets[b].upperBound count = buckets[b].count ) if b > 0 { bucketStart = buckets[b-1].upperBound count -= buckets[b-1].count rank -= buckets[b-1].count } return bucketStart + (bucketEnd-bucketStart)*(rank/count) } // coalesceBuckets merges buckets with the same upper bound. // // The input buckets must be sorted. func coalesceBuckets(buckets buckets) buckets { last := buckets[0] i := 0 for _, b := range buckets[1:] { if b.upperBound == last.upperBound { last.count += b.count } else { buckets[i] = last last = b i++ } } buckets[i] = last return buckets[:i+1] } // The assumption that bucket counts increase monotonically with increasing // upperBound may be violated during: // // * Recording rule evaluation of histogram_quantile, especially when rate() // has been applied to the underlying bucket timeseries. // * Evaluation of histogram_quantile computed over federated bucket // timeseries, especially when rate() has been applied. // // This is because scraped data is not made available to rule evaluation or // federation atomically, so some buckets are computed with data from the // most recent scrapes, but the other buckets are missing data from the most // recent scrape. // // Monotonicity is usually guaranteed because if a bucket with upper bound // u1 has count c1, then any bucket with a higher upper bound u > u1 must // have counted all c1 observations and perhaps more, so that c >= c1. // // Randomly interspersed partial sampling breaks that guarantee, and rate() // exacerbates it. Specifically, suppose bucket le=1000 has a count of 10 from // 4 samples but the bucket with le=2000 has a count of 7 from 3 samples. The // monotonicity is broken. It is exacerbated by rate() because under normal // operation, cumulative counting of buckets will cause the bucket counts to // diverge such that small differences from missing samples are not a problem. // rate() removes this divergence.) // // bucketQuantile depends on that monotonicity to do a binary search for the // bucket with the φ-quantile count, so breaking the monotonicity // guarantee causes bucketQuantile() to return undefined (nonsense) results. // // As a somewhat hacky solution until ingestion is atomic per scrape, we // calculate the "envelope" of the histogram buckets, essentially removing // any decreases in the count between successive buckets. func ensureMonotonic(buckets buckets) { max := buckets[0].count for i := 1; i < len(buckets); i++ { switch { case buckets[i].count > max: max = buckets[i].count case buckets[i].count < max: buckets[i].count = max } } } // quantile calculates the given quantile of a vector of samples. // // The Vector will be sorted. // If 'values' has zero elements // If q==NaN, NaN is returned. // If q<0, -Inf is returned. // If q>1, +Inf is returned. func quantile(q float64, values vectorByValueHeap) float64 { if len(values) == 0 || math.IsNaN(q) { return math.NaN() } if q < 0 { return math.Inf(-1) } if q > 1 { return math.Inf(+1) } sort.Sort(values) n := float64(len(values)) // When the quantile lies between two samples, // we use a weighted average of the two samples. rank := q * (n - 1) lowerIndex := math.Max(0, math.Floor(rank)) upperIndex := math.Min(n-1, lowerIndex+1) weight := rank - math.Floor(rank) return values[int(lowerIndex)].V*(1-weight) + values[int(upperIndex)].V*weight }