Bug 1873555 - One critical alert is constantly firing per running VM
Summary: One critical alert is constantly firing per running VM
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Container Native Virtualization (CNV)
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Virtualization
Version: 2.4.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
urgent
high
Target Milestone: ---
: 4.8.0
Assignee: Antonio Cardace
QA Contact: zhe peng
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1899174 1952509 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-08-28 15:31 UTC by Dan Kenigsberg
Modified: 2025-10-03 10:54 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: virt-operator-container-v4.8.0-60 hco-bundle-registry-container-v4.8.0-375
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Last Closed: 2021-07-27 14:20:49 UTC
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Use maxUnavailable instead of minAvailable on pdb (46 bytes, patch)
2020-09-08 09:47 UTC, Daniel Belenky 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Github kubevirt kubevirt pull 5460 0 None open migration: use a temporary PDB when migrating VMIs 2021-05-21 14:28:14 UTC
Github kubevirt kubevirt pull 5699 0 None closed [release-0.41] migration: use a temporary PDB when migrating VMIs 2021-06-07 11:55:32 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 6477821 0 None None None 2021-11-03 13:15:37 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:2920 0 None None None 2021-07-27 14:21:52 UTC

Description Dan Kenigsberg 2020-08-28 15:31:59 UTC 
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.0

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Start a VM; Wait for a while

Actual results:
A critical PodDisruptionBuget alert shows up firing

Expected results:
Silence. Zero alerts.

Additional info:

Almost all VMs have an alert:
$ oc get --no-headers vmis -A |grep Running|wc -l
19
$ oc get --no-headers pdb -A|grep kubevirt|wc -l
18
Comment 1 Daniel Belenky 2020-09-08 09:14:46 UTC 
It happens because for every VMI that wants to be live migrated on eviction, we create a PDB that requires minimum of 2 unavailable pods for that VMI.
2 is to support the original pod and the target pod for the migration. The problem is, that until a migration is required, we only have 1 pod for each VMI.
The solution is probably to set max unavailable to 0 instead. I'll prepare a patch today.
Comment 2 Daniel Belenky 2020-09-08 09:47:40 UTC 
Created attachment 1714064 [details]
Use maxUnavailable instead of minAvailable on pdb
Comment 6 Kedar Bidarkar 2020-11-25 13:17:35 UTC 
*** Bug 1899174 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Antonio Cardace 2021-03-12 13:04:18 UTC 
Discussing the best solution at https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/4136, I'm inclined to follow Roman's idea to merge the PDB controller into the migration one as that's the place where the migration is initiated.
Comment 9 Antonio Cardace 2021-04-15 12:18:12 UTC 
Opened https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/5424 and https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/5460 as proposals to fix this, I think the latter is the best solution.
Comment 10 Patrik Martinsson 2021-04-26 08:03:00 UTC 
*** Bug 1952509 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 sgott 2021-06-07 12:02:08 UTC 
To verify, follow steps to reproduce in description.

Basically the critical alert previously seen will not be observed.
Comment 17 zhe peng 2021-06-09 10:22:19 UTC 
verify with build :
virt-operator-container-v4.8.0-60
hco-bundle-registry-container-v4.8.0-380

step:
create 5 vmi
Wait > 10mins

there is no critical PodDisruptionBuget alert shows up.

do migration for all vmi
wait > 10 mins

no alert shows up

move to verified.
Comment 18 Fabian Deutsch 2021-06-09 10:33:35 UTC 
Great news.
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2021-07-27 14:20:49 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 Virtualization 4.8.0 Images), 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-2021:2920
Comment 22 Deven Phillips 2024-11-05 13:38:37 UTC 
I am still seeing this in recent (OpenShift 4.16.17) versions of KubeVirt.
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