Bug 1957645

Summary: Event "Updated PrometheusRule.monitoring.coreos.com/v1 because it changed" is frequently looped with weird empty {} changes
Product: OpenShift Container Platform Reporter: Xingxing Xia <xxia>
Component: kube-apiserverAssignee: David Eads <deads>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ke Wang <kewang>
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Version: 4.8CC: aos-bugs, mfojtik, xxia
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Description Xingxing Xia 2021-05-06 08:35:11 UTC
Description of problem:
In KAS-O logs, below event is high-frequency looped:
2021-05-06T07:09:03.614448160Z I0506 07:09:03.614391       1 event.go:282] Event(v1.ObjectReference{Kind:"Deployment", Namespace:"openshift-kube-apiserver-operator", Name:"kube-apiserver-operator", UID:"54086850-4a33-4773-96c1-6828b83ba46e", APIVersion:"apps/v1", ResourceVersion:"", FieldPath:""}): type: 'Normal' reason: 'PrometheusRuleUpdated' Updated PrometheusRule.monitoring.coreos.com/v1 because it changed
...<snipped another 12 same events before next second 2021-05-06T07:10>...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.8.0-0.nightly-2021-05-06-003426

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check KAS-O logs

Actual results:
1. Above log is high-frequency looped.
$ grep 'Updated PrometheusRule.monitoring.coreos.com/v1 because it changed' kas-o.log | wc -l                                                                                             
3033

Then changed operatorLogLevel to Debug:
$ oc edit kubeapiserver cluster
...
  operatorLogLevel: Debug
...

Checked KAS-O logs again, found:
2021-05-06T07:48:03.481235292Z I0506 07:48:03.481184       1 monitoring.go:122] PrometheusRule "openshift-kube-apiserver/cpu-utilization" changes: {}
2021-05-06T07:48:03.490663221Z I0506 07:48:03.490596       1 event.go:282] Event(v1.ObjectReference{Kind:"Deployment", Namespace:"openshift-kube-apiserver-operator", Name:"kube-apiserver-operator", UID:"54086850-4a33-4773-96c1-6828b83ba46e", APIVersion:"apps/v1", ResourceVersion:"", FieldPath:""}): type: 'Normal' reason: 'PrometheusRuleUpdated' Updated PrometheusRule.monitoring.coreos.com/v1 because it changed

Each event is preceded by `"openshift-kube-apiserver/cpu-utilization" changes: {}`. That is, actual change is always empty {}, i.e. actually no change at all.

Double checked `oc get PrometheusRule cpu-utilization -n openshift-kube-apiserver --watch`, the output shows one item, then never has new output, i.e. actually no change either.

Repeating `oc get PrometheusRule cpu-utilization -o yaml`, the output never "changes" either between repeated executions.

Expected results:
1. No loop, given cpu-utilization actually has no any "changes".

Additional info:
Related bug: bug 1951705. Seems introduced by that bug.

Comment 2 Ke Wang 2021-05-27 03:57:20 UTC
$ oc get clusterversion
NAME      VERSION                             AVAILABLE   PROGRESSING   SINCE   STATUS
version   4.8.0-0.nightly-2021-05-26-172234   True        False         167m    Cluster version is 4.8.0-0.nightly-2021-05-26-172234

$ oc get po -n openshift-kube-apiserver-operator
NAME                                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-apiserver-operator-5cd5cd7fc5-r9cs5   1/1     Running   2          3h5m

Checked the kube-apiserver-operator log file, 
$ oc logs -n openshift-kube-apiserver-operator kube-apiserver-operator-5cd5cd7fc5-r9cs5 | grep 'Updated PrometheusRule.monitoring.coreos.com/v1 because it changed'

No long seen the message, so move the bug VERIFIED.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2021-07-27 23:06:39 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.2 bug fix and security update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2438