Reorganise request and block metrics

CHANGES.rst

@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ Unreleased
 ==========
 
 synctl no longer starts the main synapse when using ``-a`` option with workers.
-A new worker file should be added with ``worker_app: synapse.app.homeserver``
+A new worker file should be added with ``worker_app: synapse.app.homeserver``.
+
+This release also begins the process of renaming a number of the metrics
+reported to prometheus. See `docs/metrics-howto.rst <docs/metrics-howto.rst#block-and-response-metrics-renamed-for-0-27-0>`_.
 
 
 Changes in synapse v0.26.0 (2018-01-05)

docs/metrics-howto.rst

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ How to monitor Synapse metrics using Prometheus
      metrics_port: 9092
 
    Also ensure that ``enable_metrics`` is set to ``True``.
-  
+
    Restart synapse.
 
 3. Add a prometheus target for synapse.
@@ -28,11 +28,58 @@ How to monitor Synapse metrics using Prometheus
       static_configs:
         - targets: ["my.server.here:9092"]
 
-   If your prometheus is older than 1.5.2, you will need to replace 
+   If your prometheus is older than 1.5.2, you will need to replace
    ``static_configs`` in the above with ``target_groups``.
-   
+
    Restart prometheus.
 
+
+Block and response metrics renamed for 0.27.0
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Synapse 0.27.0 begins the process of rationalising the duplicate ``*:count``
+metrics reported for the resource tracking for code blocks and HTTP requests.
+
+At the same time, the corresponding ``*:total`` metrics are being renamed, as
+the ``:total`` suffix no longer makes sense in the absence of a corresponding
+``:count`` metric.
+
+To enable a graceful migration path, this release just adds new names for the
+metrics being renamed. A future release will remove the old ones.
+
+The following table shows the new metrics, and the old metrics which they are
+replacing.
+
+==================================================== ===================================================
+New name                                             Old name
+==================================================== ===================================================
+synapse_util_metrics_block_count                     synapse_util_metrics_block_timer:count
+synapse_util_metrics_block_count                     synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime:count
+synapse_util_metrics_block_count                     synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime:count
+synapse_util_metrics_block_count                     synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count:count
+synapse_util_metrics_block_count                     synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration:count
+
+synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds              synapse_util_metrics_block_timer:total
+synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds          synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime:total
+synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime_seconds          synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_stime:total
+synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count              synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_count:total
+synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration_seconds   synapse_util_metrics_block_db_txn_duration:total
+
+synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_requests
+synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_response_time:count
+synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime:count
+synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime:count
+synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count:count
+synapse_http_server_response_count                   synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration:count
+
+synapse_http_server_response_time_seconds            synapse_http_server_response_time:total
+synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime_seconds        synapse_http_server_response_ru_utime:total
+synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime_seconds        synapse_http_server_response_ru_stime:total
+synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count            synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_count:total
+synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration_seconds synapse_http_server_response_db_txn_duration:total
+==================================================== ===================================================
+
+
 Standard Metric Names
 ---------------------
 
@@ -42,7 +89,7 @@ have been changed to seconds, from miliseconds.
 
 ================================== =============================
 New name                           Old name
----------------------------------- -----------------------------
+================================== =============================
 process_cpu_user_seconds_total     process_resource_utime / 1000
 process_cpu_system_seconds_total   process_resource_stime / 1000
 process_open_fds (no 'type' label) process_fds
@@ -52,8 +99,8 @@ The python-specific counts of garbage collector performance have been renamed.
 
 =========================== ======================
 New name                    Old name
---------------------------- ----------------------
-python_gc_time              reactor_gc_time      
+=========================== ======================
+python_gc_time              reactor_gc_time
 python_gc_unreachable_total reactor_gc_unreachable
 python_gc_counts            reactor_gc_counts
 =========================== ======================
@@ -62,7 +109,7 @@ The twisted-specific reactor metrics have been renamed.
 
 ==================================== =====================
 New name                             Old name
------------------------------------- ---------------------
+==================================== =====================
 python_twisted_reactor_pending_calls reactor_pending_calls
 python_twisted_reactor_tick_time     reactor_tick_time
 ==================================== =====================

synapse/http/server.py

@@ -42,34 +42,62 @@
 
 metrics = synapse.metrics.get_metrics_for(__name__)
 
-incoming_requests_counter = metrics.register_counter(
-    "requests",
+# total number of responses served, split by method/servlet/tag
+response_count = metrics.register_counter(
+    "response_count",
     labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        # the following are all deprecated aliases for the same metric
+        metrics.name_prefix + x for x in (
+            "_requests",
+            "_response_time:count",
+            "_response_ru_utime:count",
+            "_response_ru_stime:count",
+            "_response_db_txn_count:count",
+            "_response_db_txn_duration:count",
+        )
+    )
 )
+
 outgoing_responses_counter = metrics.register_counter(
     "responses",
     labels=["method", "code"],
 )
 
-response_timer = metrics.register_distribution(
-    "response_time",
-    labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"]
+response_timer = metrics.register_counter(
+    "response_time_seconds",
+    labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        metrics.name_prefix + "_response_time:total",
+    ),
 )
 
-response_ru_utime = metrics.register_distribution(
-    "response_ru_utime", labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"]
+response_ru_utime = metrics.register_counter(
+    "response_ru_utime_seconds", labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        metrics.name_prefix + "_response_ru_utime:total",
+    ),
 )
 
-response_ru_stime = metrics.register_distribution(
-    "response_ru_stime", labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"]
+response_ru_stime = metrics.register_counter(
+    "response_ru_stime_seconds", labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        metrics.name_prefix + "_response_ru_stime:total",
+    ),
 )
 
-response_db_txn_count = metrics.register_distribution(
-    "response_db_txn_count", labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"]
+response_db_txn_count = metrics.register_counter(
+    "response_db_txn_count", labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        metrics.name_prefix + "_response_db_txn_count:total",
+    ),
 )
 
-response_db_txn_duration = metrics.register_distribution(
-    "response_db_txn_duration", labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"]
+response_db_txn_duration = metrics.register_counter(
+    "response_db_txn_duration_seconds", labels=["method", "servlet", "tag"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        metrics.name_prefix + "_response_db_txn_duration:total",
+    ),
 )
 
 
@@ -330,7 +358,7 @@ def stop(self, clock, request):
                 )
                 return
 
-        incoming_requests_counter.inc(request.method, self.name, tag)
+        response_count.inc(request.method, self.name, tag)
 
         response_timer.inc_by(
             clock.time_msec() - self.start, request.method,

synapse/metrics/metric.py

@@ -17,16 +17,33 @@
 from itertools import chain
 
 
-# TODO(paul): I can't believe Python doesn't have one of these
-def map_concat(func, items):
-    # flatten a list-of-lists
-    return list(chain.from_iterable(map(func, items)))
+def flatten(items):
+    """Flatten a list of lists
+
+    Args:
+        items: iterable[iterable[X]]
+
+    Returns:
+        list[X]: flattened list
+    """
+    return list(chain.from_iterable(items))
 
 
 class BaseMetric(object):
+    """Base class for metrics which report a single value per label set
+    """
 
-    def __init__(self, name, labels=[]):
-        self.name = name
+    def __init__(self, name, labels=[], alternative_names=[]):
+        """
+        Args:
+            name (str): principal name for this metric
+            labels (list(str)): names of the labels which will be reported
+                for this metric
+            alternative_names (iterable(str)): list of alternative names for
+                 this metric. This can be useful to provide a migration path
+                when renaming metrics.
+        """
+        self._names = [name] + list(alternative_names)
         self.labels = labels  # OK not to clone as we never write it
 
     def dimension(self):
@@ -36,7 +53,7 @@ def is_scalar(self):
         return not len(self.labels)
 
     def _render_labelvalue(self, value):
-        # TODO: some kind of value escape
+        # TODO: escape backslashes, quotes and newlines
         return '"%s"' % (value)
 
     def _render_key(self, values):
@@ -47,6 +64,36 @@ def _render_key(self, values):
                       for k, v in zip(self.labels, values)])
         )
 
+    def _render_for_labels(self, label_values, value):
+        """Render this metric for a single set of labels
+
+        Args:
+            label_values (list[str]): values for each of the labels
+            value: value of the metric at with these labels
+
+        Returns:
+            iterable[str]: rendered metric
+        """
+        rendered_labels = self._render_key(label_values)
+        return (
+            "%s%s %.12g" % (name, rendered_labels, value)
+            for name in self._names
+        )
+
+    def render(self):
+        """Render this metric
+
+        Each metric is rendered as:
+
+            name{label1="val1",label2="val2"} value
+
+        https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/#text-format-details
+
+        Returns:
+            iterable[str]: rendered metrics
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
 
 class CounterMetric(BaseMetric):
     """The simplest kind of metric; one that stores a monotonically-increasing
@@ -62,6 +109,10 @@ class CounterMetric(BaseMetric):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super(CounterMetric, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
+        # dict[list[str]]: value for each set of label values. the keys are the
+        # label values, in the same order as the labels in self.labels.
+        #
+        # (if the metric is a scalar, the (single) key is the empty list).
         self.counts = {}
 
         # Scalar metrics are never empty
@@ -84,11 +135,11 @@ def inc_by(self, incr, *values):
     def inc(self, *values):
         self.inc_by(1, *values)
 
-    def render_item(self, k):
-        return ["%s%s %.12g" % (self.name, self._render_key(k), self.counts[k])]
-
     def render(self):
-        return map_concat(self.render_item, sorted(self.counts.keys()))
+        return flatten(
+            self._render_for_labels(k, self.counts[k])
+            for k in sorted(self.counts.keys())
+        )
 
 
 class CallbackMetric(BaseMetric):
@@ -105,10 +156,12 @@ def render(self):
         value = self.callback()
 
         if self.is_scalar():
-            return ["%s %.12g" % (self.name, value)]
+            return list(self._render_for_labels([], value))
 
-        return ["%s%s %.12g" % (self.name, self._render_key(k), value[k])
-                for k in sorted(value.keys())]
+        return flatten(
+            self._render_for_labels(k, value[k])
+            for k in sorted(value.keys())
+        )
 
 
 class DistributionMetric(object):

synapse/util/metrics.py

@@ -27,25 +27,56 @@
 
 metrics = synapse.metrics.get_metrics_for(__name__)
 
-block_timer = metrics.register_distribution(
-    "block_timer",
-    labels=["block_name"]
+# total number of times we have hit this block
+response_count = metrics.register_counter(
+    "block_count",
+    labels=["block_name"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        # the following are all deprecated aliases for the same metric
+        metrics.name_prefix + x for x in (
+            "_block_timer:count",
+            "_block_ru_utime:count",
+            "_block_ru_stime:count",
+            "_block_db_txn_count:count",
+            "_block_db_txn_duration:count",
+        )
+    )
+)
+
+block_timer = metrics.register_counter(
+    "block_time_seconds",
+    labels=["block_name"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        metrics.name_prefix + "_block_timer:total",
+    ),
 )
 
-block_ru_utime = metrics.register_distribution(
-    "block_ru_utime", labels=["block_name"]
+block_ru_utime = metrics.register_counter(
+    "block_ru_utime_seconds", labels=["block_name"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        metrics.name_prefix + "_block_ru_utime:total",
+    ),
 )
 
-block_ru_stime = metrics.register_distribution(
-    "block_ru_stime", labels=["block_name"]
+block_ru_stime = metrics.register_counter(
+    "block_ru_stime_seconds", labels=["block_name"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        metrics.name_prefix + "_block_ru_stime:total",
+    ),
 )
 
-block_db_txn_count = metrics.register_distribution(
-    "block_db_txn_count", labels=["block_name"]
+block_db_txn_count = metrics.register_counter(
+    "block_db_txn_count", labels=["block_name"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        metrics.name_prefix + "_block_db_txn_count:total",
+    ),
 )
 
-block_db_txn_duration = metrics.register_distribution(
-    "block_db_txn_duration", labels=["block_name"]
+block_db_txn_duration = metrics.register_counter(
+    "block_db_txn_duration_seconds", labels=["block_name"],
+    alternative_names=(
+        metrics.name_prefix + "_block_db_txn_count:total",
+    ),
 )