Bug 1565909 - prevent log record update which causes deletions
Summary: prevent log record update which causes deletions
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: OpenShift Container Platform
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Logging
Version: 3.9.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
: 3.9.z
Assignee: Jeff Cantrill
QA Contact: Anping Li
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1568415
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-11 03:36 UTC by Rich Megginson
Modified: 2021-01-18 05:25 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: logging-fluentd-docker-v3.9.22-2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: The default write operation for fluentd to elasticsearch is index Consequence: Writes can trigger unnecessary 'delete' operations for elasticsearch causing extra load that affects performance Fix: Utilize the 'create' operation Result: Writes to elasticsearch will only create records or skip updates if the records are duplicates reducing the load on the server
Clone Of:
: 1568415 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2018-05-17 06:43:35 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


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Github openshift origin-aggregated-logging pull 1076 0 None None None 2018-04-11 16:29:53 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2018:1566 0 None None None 2018-05-17 06:44:33 UTC

Description Rich Megginson 2018-04-11 03:36:04 UTC
Description of problem:
Now that we've switched to adding a unique id to each record, if we do retry, we update the document with that id.  So we don't get duplicates, but instead, we get a lot of deletions.  A document deletion is an expensive operation.

We must change https://github.com/openshift/origin-aggregated-logging/blob/master/fluentd/configs.d/openshift/output-es-config.conf and https://github.com/openshift/origin-aggregated-logging/blob/master/fluentd/configs.d/openshift/output-es-ops-config.conf to add the parameter `write_operation` to use `create` instead of the default `index`: https://github.com/uken/fluent-plugin-elasticsearch/blob/v0.12/lib/fluent/plugin/out_elasticsearch.rb#L42

We must also have a CI test that can verify
- no duplicates
- no deletions
when the es plugin has to retry.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.10 and backports

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Comment 1 Peter Portante 2018-04-11 03:43:00 UTC
See also https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.0/docs-bulk.html#docs-bulk, which describes in the behavior in the fourth paragraph:

   The possible actions are index, create, delete and update.
   "index" and "create" expect a source on the next line, and
   have the same semantics as the op_type parameter to the
   standard index API (i.e. "create" will fail if a document
   with the same index and type exists already, whereas index
   will add or replace a document as necessary).

Comment 3 openshift-github-bot 2018-04-17 15:34:36 UTC
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/origin-aggregated-logging

https://github.com/openshift/origin-aggregated-logging/commit/f2585e6bc099cfcd3a7b3f2325740bd35cd1e22b
bug 1565909. Modify the default operation to be create to avoid deletions

(cherry picked from commit e5ddcdf665bad46dc4a6310a98e9b76aa00fd404)

https://github.com/openshift/origin-aggregated-logging/commit/b1805d3a6fcf49b9a0e237fa6cfcabf3be823c4c
Merge pull request #1077 from jcantrill/1565909_on_master

bug 1565909. Modify the default operation to be create to avoid delet…

Comment 7 Anping Li 2018-05-08 05:24:42 UTC
Regression pass with the fix with 3.7.27. so move to verified.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-17 06:43:35 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, 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/RHBA-2018:1566

Comment 11 openshift-github-bot 2018-06-20 15:06:15 UTC
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/origin-aggregated-logging

https://github.com/openshift/origin-aggregated-logging/commit/a999f873217b16f539d09410684104aa6dca4015
bug 1565909. Modify the default operation to be create to avoid deletions

(cherry picked from commit e5ddcdf665bad46dc4a6310a98e9b76aa00fd404)

https://github.com/openshift/origin-aggregated-logging/commit/6743a2254d1e09d9a3c30f50dbf4de5b7643afc7
Merge pull request #1087 from openshift-cherrypick-robot/cherry-pick-1077-to-es5.x

[es5.x] bug 1565909. Modify the default operation to be create to avoid delet…


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