## Problem
We were rate limiting wake_compute in the wrong place
## Summary of changes
Move wake_compute rate limit to after the permit is acquired. Also makes
a slight refactor on normalize, as it caught my eye
## Problem
Despite making password hashing async, it can still take time away from
the network code.
## Summary of changes
Introduce a custom threadpool, inspired by rayon. Features:
### Fairness
Each task is tagged with it's endpoint ID. The more times we have seen
the endpoint, the more likely we are to skip the task if it comes up in
the queue. This is using a min-count-sketch estimator for the number of
times we have seen the endpoint, resetting it every 1000+ steps.
Since tasks are immediately rescheduled if they do not complete, the
worker could get stuck in a "always work available loop". To combat
this, we check the global queue every 61 steps to ensure all tasks
quickly get a worker assigned to them.
### Balanced
Using crossbeam_deque, like rayon does, we have workstealing out of the
box. I've tested it a fair amount and it seems to balance the workload
accordingly
## Problem
There is no global per-ep rate limiter in proxy.
## Summary of changes
* Return global per-ep rate limiter back.
* Rename weak compute rate limiter (the cli flags were not used
anywhere, so it's safe to rename).
## Problem
Many users have access to ipv6 subnets (eg a /64). That gives them 2^64
addresses to play with
## Summary of changes
Truncate the address to /64 to reduce the attack surface.
Todo:
~~Will NAT64 be an issue here? AFAIU they put the IPv4 address at the
end of the IPv6 address. By truncating we will lose all that detail.~~
It's the same problem as a host sharing IPv6 addresses between clients.
I don't think it's up to us to solve. If a customer is getting DDoSed,
then they likely need to arrange a dedicated IP with us.
## Problem
Actually read redis events.
## Summary of changes
This is revert of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7350 +
fixes.
* Fixed events parsing
* Added timeout after connection failure
* Separated regional and global redis clients.
## Problem
My benchmarks show that prometheus is not very good.
https://github.com/conradludgate/measured
We're already using it in storage_controller and it seems to be working
well.
## Summary of changes
Replace prometheus with my new measured crate in proxy only.
Apologies for the large diff. I tried to keep it as minimal as I could.
The label types add a bit of boiler plate (but reduce the chance we
mistype the labels), and some of our custom metrics like CounterPair and
HLL needed to be rewritten.
## Problem
Proxy doesn't know about existing endpoints.
## Summary of changes
* Added caching of all available endpoints.
* On the high load, use it before going to cplane.
* Report metrics for the outcome.
* For rate limiter and credentials caching don't distinguish between
`-pooled` and not
TODOs:
* Make metrics more meaningful
* Consider integrating it with the endpoint rate limiter
* Test it together with cplane in preview
## Problem
Would be nice to have a bit more info on cold start metrics.
## Summary of changes
* Change connect compute latency to include `cold_start_info`.
* Update `ColdStartInfo` to include HttpPoolHit and WarmCached.
* Several changes to make more use of interned strings
## Problem
https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/9642
## Summary of changes
1. Make `EndpointRateLimiter` generic, renamed as `BucketRateLimiter`
2. Add support for claiming multiple tokens at once
3. Add `AuthRateLimiter` alias.
4. Check `(Endpoint, IP)` pair during authentication, weighted by how
many hashes proxy would be doing.
TODO: handle ipv6 subnets. will do this in a separate PR.
## Problem
I noticed code coverage for auth_quirks was pretty bare
## Summary of changes
Adds 3 happy path unit tests for auth_quirks
* scram
* cleartext (websockets)
* cleartext (password hack)
## Problem
for HTTP/WS/password hack flows we imitate SCRAM to validate passwords.
This code was unnecessarily complicated.
## Summary of changes
Copy in the `pbkdf2` and 'derive keys' steps from the
`postgres_protocol` crate in our `rust-postgres` fork. Derive the
`client_key`, `server_key` and `stored_key` from the password directly.
Use constant time equality to compare the `stored_key` and `server_key`
with the ones we are sent from cplane.
## Problem
Currently cplane communication is a part of the latency monitoring. It
doesn't allow to setup the proper alerting based on proxy latency.
## Summary of changes
Added dimension to exclude cplane latency.
## Problem
Branch/project and coldStart were not populated to data events.
## Summary of changes
Populate it. Also added logging for the coldstart info.
## Problem
Hard to find error reasons by endpoint for HTTP flow.
## Summary of changes
I want all root spans to have session id and endpoint id. I want all
root spans to be consistent.
## Problem
Not really a problem, just refactoring.
## Summary of changes
Separate authenticate from wake compute.
Do not call wake compute second time if we managed to connect to
postgres or if we got it not from cache.
## Problem
Taking my ideas from https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6283 and
doing a bit less radical changes. smaller commits.
We currently don't report error classifications in proxy as the current
error handling made it hard to do so.
## Summary of changes
1. Add a `ReportableError` trait that all errors will implement. This
provides the error classification functionality.
2. Handle Client requests a strongly typed error
* this error is a `ReportableError` and is logged appropriately
3. The handle client error only has a few possible error types, to
account for the fact that at this point errors should be returned to the
user.
## Problem
The password check logic for the sql-over-http is a bit non-intuitive.
## Summary of changes
1. Perform scram auth using the same logic as for websocket cleartext
password.
2. Split establish connection logic and connection pool.
3. Parallelize param parsing logic with authentication + wake compute.
4. Limit the total number of clients
## Problem
not really any problem, just some drive-by changes
## Summary of changes
1. move wake compute
2. move json processing
3. move handle_try_wake
4. move test backend to api provider
5. reduce wake-compute concerns
6. remove duplicate wake-compute loop
## Problem
Right now if get_role_secret response wasn't cached (e.g. cache already
reached max size) it will send the second (exactly the same request).
## Summary of changes
Avoid needless request.
## Problem
Taking my ideas from https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6283 and
doing a bit less radical changes. smaller commits.
Proxy flow was quite deeply nested, which makes adding more interesting
error handling quite tricky.
## Summary of changes
I recommend reviewing commit by commit.
1. move handshake logic into a separate file
2. move passthrough logic into a separate file
3. no longer accept a closure in CancelMap session logic
4. Remove connect_to_db, copy logic into handle_client
5. flatten auth_and_wake_compute in authenticate
6. record info for link auth
## Problem
http-over-sql allowes host to be in format api.aws.... however it's not
the case for the websocket flow.
## Summary of changes
Relax endpoint check for the ws serverless connections.
## Problem
too many string based IDs. easy to mix up ID types.
## Summary of changes
Add a bunch of `SmolStr` wrappers that provide convenience methods but
are type safe
## Problem
Parsing the IP address at check time is a little wasteful.
## Summary of changes
Parse the IP when we get it from cplane. Adding a `None` variant to
still allow malformed patterns
## Problem
There are a lot of responses with 404 role not found error, which are
not getting cached in proxy.
## Summary of changes
If there was returned an empty secret but with the project_id, store it
in cache.
## Problem
In https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/6283 I did a couple changes
that weren't directly related to the goal of extracting the state
machine, so I'm putting them here
## Summary of changes
- move postgres vs console provider into another enum
- reduce error cases for link auth
- slightly refactor link flow
## Problem
HTTP connection pool was not respecting the PitR options.
## Summary of changes
1. refactor neon_options a bit to allow easier access to cache_key
2. make HTTP not go through `StartupMessageParams`
3. expose SNI processing to replace what was removed in step 2.
## Problem
Current cache doesn't support any updates from the cplane.
## Summary of changes
* Added redis notifier listner.
* Added cache which can be invalidated with the notifier. If the
notifier is not available, it's just a normal ttl cache.
* Updated cplane api.
The motivation behind this organization of the data is the following:
* In the Neon data model there are projects. Projects could have
multiple branches and each branch could have more than one endpoint.
* Also there is one special `main` branch.
* Password reset works per branch.
* Allowed IPs are the same for every branch in the project (except,
maybe, the main one).
* The main branch can be changed to the other branch.
* The endpoint can be moved between branches.
Every event described above requires some special processing on the
porxy (or cplane) side.
The idea of invalidating for the project is that whenever one of the
events above is happening with the project, proxy can invalidate all
entries for the entire project.
This approach also requires some additional API change (returning
project_id inside the auth info).
## Summary of changes
### RequestMonitoring
We want to add an event stream with information on each request for
easier analysis than what we can do with diagnostic logs alone
(https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/8807). This
RequestMonitoring will keep a record of the final state of a request. On
drop it will be pushed into a queue to be uploaded.
Because this context is a bag of data, I don't want this information to
impact logic of request handling. I personally think that weakly typed
data (such as all these options) makes for spaghetti code. I will
however allow for this data to impact rate-limiting and blocking of
requests, as this does not _really_ change how a request is handled.
### Parquet
Each `RequestMonitoring` is flushed into a channel where it is converted
into `RequestData`, which is accumulated into parquet files. Each file
will have a certain number of rows per row group, and several row groups
will eventually fill up the file, which we then upload to S3.
We will also upload smaller files if they take too long to construct.
## Problem
If the user reset password, cache could receive this information only
after `ttl` minutes.
## Summary of changes
Invalidate password on auth failure.
## Problem
Currently if we are getting many consecutive connections to the same
user/ep we will send a lot of traffic to the console.
## Summary of changes
Cache with ttl=4min proxy_get_role_secret response.
Note: this is the temporary hack, notifier listener is WIP.
## Problem
The `src/proxy.rs` file is far too large
## Summary of changes
Creates 3 new files:
```
src/metrics.rs
src/proxy/retry.rs
src/proxy/connect_compute.rs
```
## Problem
In snowflake logs currently there is no information about the protocol,
that the client uses.
## Summary of changes
Propagate the information about the protocol together with the app_name.
In format: `{app_name}/{sql_over_http/tcp/ws}`.
This will give to @stepashka more observability on what our clients are
using.
## Problem
no problem
## Summary of changes
replaces boxstr with arcstr as it's cheaper to clone. mild perf
improvement.
probably should look into other smallstring optimsations tbh, they will
likely be even better. The longest endpoint name I was able to construct
is something like `ep-weathered-wildflower-12345678` which is 32 bytes.
Most string optimisations top out at 23 bytes
## Problem
Per-project IP allowlist:
https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/8116
## Summary of changes
Implemented IP filtering on the proxy side.
To retrieve ip allowlist for all scenarios, added `get_auth_info` call
to the control plane for:
* sql-over-http
* password_hack
* cleartext_hack
Added cache with ttl for sql-over-http path
This might slow down a bit, consider using redis in the future.
---------
Co-authored-by: Conrad Ludgate <conrad@neon.tech>
## Problem
channel binding protects scram from sophisticated MITM attacks where the
attacker is able to produce 'valid' TLS certificates.
## Summary of changes
get the tls-server-end-point channel binding, and verify it is correct
for the SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS authentication flow
## Problem
We don't know the number of users with the different kind of
authentication: ["sni", "endpoint in options" (A and B from
[here](https://neon.tech/docs/connect/connection-errors)),
"password_hack"]
## Summary of changes
Collect metrics by sni kind.
The idea is to pass neon_* prefixed options to control plane. It can be
used by cplane to dynamically create timelines and computes. Such
options also should be excluded from passing to compute. Another issue
is how connection caching is working now, because compute's instance now
depends not only on hostname but probably on such options too I included
them to cache key.
## Problem
In #5539, I moved the connect_to_compute latency to start counting
before authentication - this is because authentication will perform some
calls to the control plane in order to get credentials and to eagerly
wake a compute server. It felt important to include these times in the
latency metric as these are times we should definitely care about
reducing.
What is not interesting to record in this metric is the roundtrip time
during authentication when we wait for the client to respond.
## Summary of changes
Implement a mechanism to pause the latency timer, resuming on drop of
the pause struct. We pause the timer right before we send the
authentication message to the client, and we resume the timer right
after we complete the authentication flow.
## Problem
Our SNI error dashboard features IP addresses but it's not immediately
clear who that is still (#5369)
## Summary of changes
Log some startup params with this error
## Problem
Errors and notices that happen during a pooled connection lifecycle have
no session identifiers
## Summary of changes
Using a watch channel, we set the session ID whenever it changes. This
way we can see the status of a connection for that session
Also, adding a connection id to be able to search the entire connection
lifecycle
