[Elastic Agent] Add support for multiple hosts in connection to kibana (

#19628)

* Add ability for multiple hosts to be defined for agents connection to kibana.

* Fix reference.

* Add changelog.

x-pack/elastic-agent/CHANGELOG.asciidoc

@@ -77,3 +77,4 @@
 - Rename input.type logs to logfile {pull}19360[19360]
 - Agent now installs/uninstalls Elastic Endpoint {pull}19248[19248]
 - Agent now downloads Elastic Endpoint {pull}19503[19503]
+- Agent now load balances across multiple Kibana instances {pull}19628[19628]

x-pack/elastic-agent/_meta/config/common.p2.yml.tmpl

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ inputs:
 #     access_token: ""
 #     kibana:
 #       # kibana minimal configuration
-#       host: "localhost:5601"
+#       hosts: ["localhost:5601"]
 #       ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
 
 #       # optional values

x-pack/elastic-agent/_meta/config/common.reference.p2.yml.tmpl

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ inputs:
 #     access_token: ""
 #     kibana:
 #       # kibana minimal configuration
-#       host: "localhost:5601"
+#       hosts: ["localhost:5601"]
 #       ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
 
 #       # optional values

x-pack/elastic-agent/_meta/config/elastic-agent.docker.yml.tmpl

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ inputs:
 #     access_token: ""
 #     kibana:
 #       # kibana minimal configuration
-#       host: "localhost:5601"
+#       hosts: ["localhost:5601"]
 #       ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
 
 #       # optional values

x-pack/elastic-agent/_meta/elastic-agent.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ inputs:
 #     access_token: ""
 #     kibana:
 #       # kibana minimal configuration
-#       host: "localhost:5601"
+#       hosts: ["localhost:5601"]
 #       ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
 
 #       # optional values

x-pack/elastic-agent/elastic-agent.docker.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ inputs:
 #     access_token: ""
 #     kibana:
 #       # kibana minimal configuration
-#       host: "localhost:5601"
+#       hosts: ["localhost:5601"]
 #       ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
 
 #       # optional values

x-pack/elastic-agent/elastic-agent.reference.yml

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ inputs:
 #     access_token: ""
 #     kibana:
 #       # kibana minimal configuration
-#       host: "localhost:5601"
+#       hosts: ["localhost:5601"]
 #       ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
 
 #       # optional values

x-pack/elastic-agent/elastic-agent.yml

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ inputs:
 #     access_token: ""
 #     kibana:
 #       # kibana minimal configuration
-#       host: "localhost:5601"
+#       hosts: ["localhost:5601"]
 #       ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
 
 #       # optional values

x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/kibana/client.go

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
@@ -24,20 +25,19 @@ import (
 const (
 	kibanaPort      = 5601
 	kibanaHTTPSPort = 443
+
+	kibanaRetryOnBadConnTimeout = 5 * time.Minute
 )
 
 type requestFunc func(string, string, url.Values, io.Reader) (*http.Request, error)
 type wrapperFunc func(rt http.RoundTripper) (http.RoundTripper, error)
 
-type clienter interface {
-	Send(
-		method string,
-		path string,
-		params url.Values,
-		headers http.Header,
-		body io.Reader,
-	) (*http.Response, error)
-	Close() error
+type requestClient struct {
+	request    requestFunc
+	client     http.Client
+	lastUsed   time.Time
+	lastErr    error
+	lastErrOcc time.Time
 }
 
 // Client wraps an http.Client and takes care of making the raw calls to kibana, the client should
@@ -46,27 +46,11 @@ type clienter interface {
 // implementations that will take care of the boiler plates.
 type Client struct {
 	log     *logger.Logger
-	request requestFunc
-	client  http.Client
+	lock    sync.Mutex
+	clients []*requestClient
 	config  *Config
 }
 
-// New creates new Kibana API client.
-func New(
-	log *logger.Logger,
-	factory requestFunc,
-	cfg *Config,
-	httpClient http.Client,
-) (*Client, error) {
-	c := &Client{
-		log:     log,
-		request: factory,
-		client:  httpClient,
-		config:  cfg,
-	}
-	return c, nil
-}
-
 // NewConfigFromURL returns a Kibana Config based on a received host.
 func NewConfigFromURL(kURL string) (*Config, error) {
 	u, err := url.Parse(kURL)
@@ -112,29 +96,6 @@ func NewWithRawConfig(log *logger.Logger, config *config.Config, wrapper wrapper
 
 // NewWithConfig takes a Kibana Config and return a client.
 func NewWithConfig(log *logger.Logger, cfg *Config, wrapper wrapperFunc) (*Client, error) {
-	var transport http.RoundTripper
-	transport, err := makeTransport(cfg.Timeout, cfg.TLS)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	if cfg.IsBasicAuth() {
-		// Pass basic auth credentials to all the underlying calls.
-		transport = NewBasicAuthRoundTripper(transport, cfg.Username, cfg.Password)
-	}
-
-	if wrapper != nil {
-		transport, err = wrapper(transport)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "fail to create transport client")
-		}
-	}
-
-	httpClient := http.Client{
-		Transport: transport,
-		Timeout:   cfg.Timeout,
-	}
-
 	// Normalize the URL with the path any spaces configured.
 	var p string
 	if len(cfg.SpaceID) > 0 {
@@ -152,22 +113,53 @@ func NewWithConfig(log *logger.Logger, cfg *Config, wrapper wrapperFunc) (*Clien
 		usedDefaultPort = kibanaHTTPSPort
 	}
 
-	kibanaURL, err := common.MakeURL(string(cfg.Protocol), p, cfg.Host, usedDefaultPort)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "invalid Kibana endpoint")
+	hosts := cfg.GetHosts()
+	clients := make([]*requestClient, len(hosts))
+	for i, host := range cfg.GetHosts() {
+		var transport http.RoundTripper
+		transport, err := makeTransport(cfg.Timeout, cfg.TLS)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		if cfg.IsBasicAuth() {
+			// Pass basic auth credentials to all the underlying calls.
+			transport = NewBasicAuthRoundTripper(transport, cfg.Username, cfg.Password)
+		}
+
+		if wrapper != nil {
+			transport, err = wrapper(transport)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "fail to create transport client")
+			}
+		}
+
+		httpClient := http.Client{
+			Transport: transport,
+			Timeout:   cfg.Timeout,
+		}
+
+		kibanaURL, err := common.MakeURL(string(cfg.Protocol), p, host, usedDefaultPort)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "invalid Kibana endpoint")
+		}
+		clients[i] = &requestClient{
+			request: prefixRequestFactory(kibanaURL),
+			client:  httpClient,
+		}
 	}
 
-	return New(log, prefixRequestFactory(kibanaURL), cfg, httpClient)
+	return new(log, cfg, clients...)
 }
 
-// Send executes a direct calls agains't the Kibana API, the method will takes cares of cloning
+// Send executes a direct calls against the Kibana API, the method will takes cares of cloning
 // also add necessary headers for Kibana likes: "Content-Type", "Accept", and "kbn-xsrf".
-// No assumptions is done on the response concerning the received format, this will be the responsability
+// No assumptions is done on the response concerning the received format, this will be the responsibility
 // of the implementation to correctly unpack any received data.
 //
 // NOTE:
-// - The caller of this method is free to overrides any values found in the headers.
-// - The magic of unpack kibana errors is not done in the Send method, an helper methods is provided.
+// - The caller of this method is free to override any value found in the headers.
+// - The magic of unpack kibana errors is not done in the Send method, a helper method is provided.
 func (c *Client) Send(
 	ctx context.Context,
 	method, path string,
@@ -176,8 +168,11 @@ func (c *Client) Send(
 	body io.Reader,
 ) (*http.Response, error) {
 	c.log.Debugf("Request method: %s, path: %s", method, path)
+	c.lock.Lock()
+	defer c.lock.Unlock()
+	requester := c.nextRequester()
 
-	req, err := c.request(method, path, params, body)
+	req, err := requester.request(method, path, params, body)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "fail to create HTTP request using method %s to %s", method, path)
 	}
@@ -195,12 +190,79 @@ func (c *Client) Send(
 		}
 	}
 
-	return c.client.Do(req.WithContext(ctx))
+	requester.lastUsed = time.Now().UTC()
+	resp, err := requester.client.Do(req.WithContext(ctx))
+	if err != nil {
+		requester.lastErr = err
+		requester.lastErrOcc = time.Now().UTC()
+	} else {
+		requester.lastErr = nil
+		requester.lastErrOcc = time.Time{}
+	}
+	return resp, err
 }
 
 // URI returns the remote URI.
 func (c *Client) URI() string {
-	return string(c.config.Protocol) + "://" + c.config.Host + "/" + c.config.Path
+	host := c.config.GetHosts()[0]
+	return string(c.config.Protocol) + "://" + host + "/" + c.config.Path
+}
+
+// new creates new Kibana API client.
+func new(
+	log *logger.Logger,
+	cfg *Config,
+	httpClients ...*requestClient,
+) (*Client, error) {
+	c := &Client{
+		log:     log,
+		clients: httpClients,
+		config:  cfg,
+	}
+	return c, nil
+}
+
+// nextRequester returns the requester to use.
+//
+// It excludes clients that have errored in the last 5 minutes.
+func (c *Client) nextRequester() *requestClient {
+	var selected *requestClient
+
+	now := time.Now().UTC()
+	for _, requester := range c.clients {
+		if requester.lastErr != nil && now.Sub(requester.lastErrOcc) > kibanaRetryOnBadConnTimeout {
+			requester.lastErr = nil
+			requester.lastErrOcc = time.Time{}
+		}
+		if requester.lastErr != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		if requester.lastUsed.IsZero() {
+			// never been used, instant winner!
+			selected = requester
+			break
+		}
+		if selected == nil {
+			selected = requester
+			continue
+		}
+		if requester.lastUsed.Before(selected.lastUsed) {
+			selected = requester
+		}
+	}
+	if selected == nil {
+		// all are erroring; select the oldest one that errored
+		for _, requester := range c.clients {
+			if selected == nil {
+				selected = requester
+				continue
+			}
+			if requester.lastErrOcc.Before(selected.lastErrOcc) {
+				selected = requester
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return selected
 }
 
 func prefixRequestFactory(URL string) requestFunc {