[core] Adding http metrics endpoint

common/ecsmetrics/metrics.go

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package ecsmetrics
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	internalmetrics "runtime/metrics"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/AliceO2Group/Control/common/monitoring"
+)
+
+var endRequestChannel chan struct{}
+
+func gather() monitoring.Metric {
+	samples := []internalmetrics.Sample{
+		{Name: "/gc/heap/allocs:bytes"},
+		{Name: "/gc/heap/frees:bytes"},
+		{Name: "/memory/classes/heap/free:bytes"},
+		{Name: "/memory/classes/heap/objects:bytes"},
+		{Name: "/sched/goroutines:goroutines"},
+	}
+
+	// Collect metrics data
+	internalmetrics.Read(samples)
+
+	timestamp := time.Now()
+	metric := monitoring.Metric{Name: "golangmetrics", Timestamp: timestamp.UnixMilli()}
+	metric.AddTag("subsystem", "ecs")
+	for _, sample := range samples {
+		switch sample.Value.Kind() {
+		case internalmetrics.KindUint64:
+			metric.AddValue(sample.Name, sample.Value.Uint64())
+		case internalmetrics.KindFloat64:
+			metric.AddValue(sample.Name, sample.Value.Float64())
+		case internalmetrics.KindFloat64Histogram:
+			fmt.Printf("Error: Histogram is not supported yet for metric [%s]", sample.Name)
+			continue
+
+		default:
+			fmt.Printf("Unsupported kind %v for metric %s\n", sample.Value.Kind(), sample.Name)
+			continue
+		}
+	}
+	return metric
+}
+
+func StartGolangMetrics(period time.Duration) {
+	go func() {
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-endRequestChannel:
+				endRequestChannel <- struct{}{}
+				return
+			default:
+				monitoring.Send(gather())
+				time.Sleep(period)
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+}
+
+func StopGolangMetrics() {
+	endRequestChannel <- struct{}{}
+	<-endRequestChannel
+}

common/monitoring/metric.go

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package monitoring
+
+type (
+	TagsType   map[string]any
+	ValuesType map[string]any
+)
+
+type Metric struct {
+	Name      string     `json:"name"`
+	Values    ValuesType `json:"values"`
+	Tags      TagsType   `json:"tags,omitempty"`
+	Timestamp int64      `json:"timestamp"`
+}
+
+func (metric *Metric) AddTag(tagName string, value any) {
+	if metric.Tags == nil {
+		metric.Tags = make(TagsType)
+	}
+	metric.Tags[tagName] = value
+}
+
+func (metric *Metric) AddValue(valueName string, value any) {
+	if metric.Values == nil {
+		metric.Values = make(ValuesType)
+	}
+	metric.Values[valueName] = value
+}

common/monitoring/monitoring.go

@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+package monitoring
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"time"
+)
+
+var (
+	server  *http.Server
+	metrics []Metric
+	// channel that is used to request end of metrics server, it sends notification when server ended.
+	// It needs to be read!!!
+	endChannel chan struct{}
+
+	// channel used to send metrics into the event loop
+	metricsChannel chan Metric
+
+	// channel for sending notifications to event loop that new http Request to report metrics arrived
+	metricsRequestChannel chan struct{}
+
+	// channel used to send metrics to be reported by http request from event loop
+	metricsToRequest chan []Metric
+)
+
+func initChannels(messageBufferSize int) {
+	endChannel = make(chan struct{})
+	metricsRequestChannel = make(chan struct{})
+	metricsChannel = make(chan Metric, messageBufferSize)
+	metricsToRequest = make(chan []Metric)
+}
+
+func closeChannels() {
+	close(endChannel)
+	close(metricsRequestChannel)
+	close(metricsChannel)
+	close(metricsToRequest)
+}
+
+func eventLoop() {
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-metricsRequestChannel:
+			shallowCopyMetrics := metrics
+			metrics = make([]Metric, 0)
+			metricsToRequest <- shallowCopyMetrics
+
+		case metric := <-metricsChannel:
+			metrics = append(metrics, metric)
+
+		case <-endChannel:
+			endChannel <- struct{}{}
+			return
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func exportMetricsAndReset(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	metricsRequestChannel <- struct{}{}
+	metricsToConvert := <-metricsToRequest
+	if metricsToConvert == nil {
+		metricsToConvert = make([]Metric, 0)
+	}
+	json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(metricsToConvert)
+}
+
+func Send(metric Metric) {
+	metricsChannel <- metric
+}
+
+func handleFunc(endpointName string) {
+	// recover is here to correctly allow multiple Starts and Stops of server
+	defer func() {
+		recover()
+	}()
+
+	http.HandleFunc(endpointName, exportMetricsAndReset)
+}
+
+// \param url In format if url:port to be used together with
+// \param endpoint
+func Start(port uint16, endpointName string, messageBufferSize int) error {
+	if server != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	initChannels(messageBufferSize)
+
+	go eventLoop()
+
+	server := &http.Server{Addr: fmt.Sprintf(":%d", port)}
+	handleFunc(endpointName)
+	return server.ListenAndServe()
+}
+
+func Stop() {
+	if server == nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+	server.Shutdown(ctx)
+
+	endChannel <- struct{}{}
+	<-endChannel
+	server = nil
+}

common/monitoring/monitoring_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+package monitoring
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestSimpleStartStop(t *testing.T) {
+	go Start(1234, "/random", 100)
+	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 100)
+	Stop()
+}
+
+func TestStartMultipleStop(t *testing.T) {
+	go Start(1234, "/random", 100)
+	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 100)
+	Stop()
+	Stop()
+}
+
+func cleaningUpAfterTest() {
+	endChannel <- struct{}{}
+	<-endChannel
+	closeChannels()
+	metrics = make([]Metric, 0)
+}
+
+func initTest() {
+	// we need message channel to block so we don't end to quickly
+	initChannels(0)
+	go eventLoop()
+}
+
+// decorator function that properly inits and cleans after higher level test of Monitoring package
+func testFunction(t *testing.T, testToRun func(*testing.T)) {
+	initTest()
+	testToRun(t)
+	cleaningUpAfterTest()
+}
+
+func TestSendingSingleMetric(t *testing.T) {
+	testFunction(t, func(t *testing.T) {
+		metric := Metric{Name: "test"}
+		Send(metric)
+		if len(metrics) != 1 {
+			t.Error("wrong number of metrics, should be 1")
+		}
+
+		if metrics[0].Name != "test" {
+			t.Errorf("Got wrong name %s in stored metric", metrics[0].Name)
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+func TestExportingMetrics(t *testing.T) {
+	testFunction(t, func(t *testing.T) {
+		metric := Metric{Name: "test"}
+		Send(metric)
+
+		metricsRequestChannel <- struct{}{}
+		metrics := <-metricsToRequest
+
+		if len(metrics) != 1 {
+			t.Errorf("Got wrong amount of metrics %d, expected 1", len(metrics))
+		}
+
+		if metrics[0].Name != "test" {
+			t.Errorf("Got wrong name of metric %s, expected test", metrics[0].Name)
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+func TestHttpRun(t *testing.T) {
+	go Start(12345, "/metrics", 10)
+	defer Stop()
+
+	time.Sleep(time.Second)
+
+	metric := Metric{Name: "test"}
+	metric.Timestamp = 10
+	metric.AddTag("tag1", 42)
+	metric.AddValue("value1", 11)
+	Send(metric)
+
+	response, err := http.Get("http://localhost:12345/metrics")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to GET metrics at port 12345: %v", err)
+	}
+	decoder := json.NewDecoder(response.Body)
+	var receivedMetrics []Metric
+	if err = decoder.Decode(&receivedMetrics); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to decoded Metric: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	receivedMetric := receivedMetrics[0]
+
+	if receivedMetric.Name != "test" {
+		t.Errorf("Got wrong name of metric %s, expected test", receivedMetric.Name)
+	}
+
+	if receivedMetric.Timestamp != 10 {
+		t.Errorf("Got wrong timestamp of metric %d, expected 10", receivedMetric.Timestamp)
+	}
+
+	if len(receivedMetric.Tags) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("Got wrong number of tags %d, expected 1", len(receivedMetric.Tags))
+	}
+
+	if receivedMetric.Tags["tag1"].(float64) != 42 {
+		t.Error("Failed to retreive tags: tag1 with value 42")
+	}
+
+	if len(receivedMetric.Values) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("Got wrong number of values %d, expected 1", len(receivedMetric.Values))
+	}
+
+	if receivedMetric.Values["value1"].(float64) != 11 {
+		t.Error("Failed to retreive tags: value1 with value 11")
+	}
+}
+
+// This benchmark cannot be run for too long as it will fill whole RAM even with
+// results:
+// goos: linux
+// goarch: amd64
+// pkg: github.com/AliceO2Group/Control/common/monitoring
+// cpu: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900H @ 2.50GHz
+// BenchmarkSendingMetrics-16
+//
+// 123365481              192.6 ns/op
+// PASS
+// ok      github.com/AliceO2Group/Control/common/monitoring       44.686s
+func BenchmarkSendingMetrics(b *testing.B) {
+	Start(12345, "/metrics", 100)
+
+	// this goroutine keeps clearing results so RAM does not exhausted
+	go func() {
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-endChannel:
+				endChannel <- struct{}{}
+				break
+			default:
+				if len(metrics) >= 10000000 {
+					metricsRequestChannel <- struct{}{}
+					<-metricsToRequest
+				}
+			}
+			time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+		}
+	}()
+
+	defer Stop()
+
+	metric := Metric{Name: "testname", Timestamp: 12345}
+	metric.AddValue("value", 42)
+	metric.AddTag("tag", 40)
+
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		Send(metric)
+	}
+
+	fmt.Println("")
+}

core/config.go

@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ func setDefaults() error {
 	viper.SetDefault("kafkaEndpoints", []string{"localhost:9092"})
 	viper.SetDefault("enableKafka", true)
 	viper.SetDefault("logAllIL", false)
+	viper.SetDefault("metricsEndpoint", "8086/metrics")
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -198,6 +199,7 @@ func setFlags() error {
 	pflag.StringSlice("kafkaEndpoints", viper.GetStringSlice("kafkaEndpoints"), "List of Kafka endpoints to connect to (default: localhost:9092)")
 	pflag.Bool("enableKafka", viper.GetBool("enableKafka"), "Turn on the kafka messaging")
 	pflag.Bool("logAllIL", viper.GetBool("logAllIL"), "Send all the logs into IL, including Debug and Trace messages")
+	pflag.String("metricsEndpoint", viper.GetString("metricsEndpoint"), "Http endpoint from which metrics can be scraped: [port/endpoint]")
 
 	pflag.Parse()
 	return viper.BindPFlags(pflag.CommandLine)