metrics: Increase the resolution of histogram metrics #7335
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These metrics are using the default histogram buckets:
```
pub const DEFAULT_BUCKETS: &[f64; 11] = &[
0.005, 0.01, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.5, 5.0, 10.0,
];
```
Which give us a resolution of 5ms, that's good, but there are some subsystems
where we process hundreds or even a few thousands of messages per second like
approval-voting or approval-distribution, so it makes sense to increse the
resoution of the bucket to better understand if the procesisng is in the range
of useconds.
The new bucket ranges will be:
```
[0.0001, 0.0004, 0.0016, 0.0064, 0.0256, 0.1024, 0.4096, 1.6384, 6.5536]
```
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghe <alexandru.gheorghe@parity.io>
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Thanks @alexggh , this is indeed a good idea. Also it might also be worthy, but up to you, to have 2 additional buckets between the last 2: [0.0001, 0.0004, 0.0016, 0.0064, 0.0256, 0.1024, 0.4096, 1.6384, <here>, 6.5536,], just to give more granular info for any very high timings.
yes, makes sense, I won't be able to use the Done! |
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Unfortunately, I ran this PR in versi on subset of nodes and it seems that grafana get's confused on situations where some nodes output a range of buckets and the other another different range: The graphic for a 6h period for versi would look like some data is missing, e.g: The data is there, and the graphic is shown ok if you select a time period when only just a flavor of the buckets have been used, but it will affect the dashboards for the transition period. @sandreim any idea if this is something to be concerned with ? |
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This happens when you aggregate metrics from nodes with different bucket configurations. I expect this to be fine. You should try to query the subset of nodes running your changes and select only the time period when only that bucket configuration is present. That should work. |
Yes, that's exactly what is happening .
Yes, that works. |
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These metrics are using the default histogram buckets:
Which give us a resolution of 5ms, that's good, but there are some subsystems where we process hundreds or even a few thousands of messages per second like approval-voting or approval-distribution, so it makes sense to increse the resoution of the bucket to better understand if the procesisng is in the range of useconds.
The new bucket ranges will be: