Sampling data at a fixed interval means we can potentially miss data
from events occurring between sampling intervals. For example, say we
sample data every 15 seconds but Unicorn workers get killed after 10
seconds. In this particular case it's possible to miss interesting data
as the sampler will never get to actually submitting data.
To work around this (at least for the most part) the sampling interval
is randomized as following:
1. Take the user specified sampling interval (15 seconds by default)
2. Divide it by 2 (referred to as "half" below)
3. Generate a range (using a step of 0.1) from -"half" to "half"
4. Every time the sampler goes to sleep we'll grab the user provided
interval and add a randomly chosen "adjustment" to it while making
sure we don't pick the same value twice in a row.
For a specified timeout of 15 this means the actual intervals can be
anywhere between 7.5 and 22.5, but never can the same interval be used
twice in a row.
The rationale behind this change is that on dev.gitlab.org I'm sometimes
seeing certain Gitlab::Git/Rugged objects being retained, but only for a
few minutes every 24 hours. Knowing the code of Gitlab and how much
memory it uses/leaks I suspect we're missing data due to workers getting
terminated before the sampler can write its data to InfluxDB.
Where a vew is called from doesn't matter as much. We already know what
action they belong to and this is more than enough information. By
removing the file/line number from the list of tags we should also be
able to reduce the number of series stored in InfluxDB.
This gives a very rough estimate of how much memory is allocated during
a transaction. This only works reliably when using a single-threaded
application server and a Ruby implementation with a GIL as otherwise
memory allocated by other threads might skew the statistics. Sadly
there's no way around this as Ruby doesn't provide a reliable way of
gathering accurate object sizes upon allocation on a per-thread basis.
Optimize LDAP and add a search timeout
Related to #4282
This merge request arranges some things in `access.rb` to facilitate some optimizations in EE (to come later). It also adds a 10 second timeout to all LDAP searches so the entire worker is not blocked if some query doesn't return in a reasonable amount of time. This timeout is configurable per LDAP server.
See merge request !2267
Without this it's impossible to find out what methods/views/queries are
executed by a certain controller or Sidekiq worker. While this will
increase the total number of series it should stay within reasonable
limits due to the amount of "actions" being small enough.
Suppress e-mails on failed builds if allow_failure is set
Every time I push to GitLab, I get > 2 emails saying a spec failed when I don't care about the benchmarks and others that have `allow_failure` set to `true`.
@ayufan mentioned creating a summary e-mail to prevent getting one e-mail per build, but the latter might actually be desirable. For example, I do want to know if Rubocop errors fail right away.
See merge request !2178
Every time I push to GitLab, I get > 2 emails saying a spec failed when
I don't care about benchmarks and other specs that have `allow_failure` set to `true`.
Since filtering by these values is very rare (they're mostly just
displayed as-is) we don't need to waste any index space by saving them
as tags. By storing them as values we also greatly reduce the number of
series in InfluxDB.
This reverts commit 7549102bb7.
Apparently I was wrong about
ActiveSupport::Notifications::Event#duration returning the duration in
seconds, instead it returns it in milliseconds already.
Get "Merge when build succeeds" to work when commits were pushed to MR
target branch while builds were running
The Merge when build succeeds service only merges when the MR is
mergeable (open, not WIP, no conflicts).
When the target branch is updated, all affected MRs have their merge
status set to `unchecked`, and the conflicts check will only happen
when `check_if_can_be_merged` is called, which happens when the MR page
is viewed.
When someone enables the automatic merge, the target branch is updated,
no-one views the MR page again, and the build succeeds, the mergeability
check will fail and the MR will not in fact be merged.
This MR makes sure `check_if_can_be_merged` is always called when MR
mergeability is checked.
See merge request !2304
Define a limited set of filters for SingleLinePipeline
Removes the following filters from its parent GfmPipeline:
- SyntaxHighlightFilter
- UploadLinkFilter
- TableOfContentsFilter
- LabelReferenceFilter
- TaskListFilter
Closes#1697
See merge request !2257
Yorick Peterse
Douwe Maan
Robert Speicher
Jason Lee
Tomasz Maczukin
Drew Blessing
Jeroen Nijhof
Robert Speicher
Stan Hu
Robert Schilling
Dmitriy Zaporozhets