## Problem
There was a bug in dynamic rate limiter, which exhausted CPU in proxy
and proxy wasn't able to accept any connections.
## Summary of changes
1. `if self.available > 1` -> `if self.available >= 1`
2. remove `timeout_at` to use just timeout
3. remove potential infinite loops which can exhaust CPUs.
## 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
Computes that are healthy can manage many connection attempts at a time.
Unhealthy computes cannot. We initially handled this with a fixed
concurrency limit, but it seems this inhibits pgbench.
## Summary of changes
Support AIMD for connect_to_compute lock to allow varying the
concurrency limit based on compute health
## 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
If a permit cannot be acquired to connect to compute, the cache is
invalidated. This had the observed affect of sending more traffic to
ProxyWakeCompute on cplane.
## Summary of changes
Make sure that permit acquire failures are marked as "should not
invalidate cache".
## Problem
Too many connect_compute attempts can overwhelm postgres, getting the
connections stuck.
## Summary of changes
Limit number of connection attempts that can happen at a given time.
## 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
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
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
* quotes in serialized string
* no status if connection is from local cache
## Summary of changes
* remove quotes
* report warm if connection if from local cache
## Problem
`422 Unprocessable Entity: compute time quota of non-primary branches is
exceeded` being marked as a control plane error.
## Summary of changes
Add the manual checks to make this a user error that should not be
retried.
## Problem
Branch/project and coldStart were not populated to data events.
## Summary of changes
Populate it. Also added logging for the coldstart info.
## Problem
Actually it's good idea to distinguish between cases when it's a cold
start, but we took the compute from the pool
## Summary of changes
Updated to enum.
Nightly has added a bunch of compiler and linter warnings. There is also
two dependencies that fail compilation on latest nightly due to using
the old `stdsimd` feature name. This PR fixes them.
## Problem
Data team cannot distinguish between cold start and not cold start.
## Summary of changes
Report `is_cold_start` to analytics.
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Co-authored-by: Conrad Ludgate <conrad@neon.tech>
## Problem
## Summary of changes
1. Classify further cplane API errors
2. add 'serviceratelimit' and make a few of the timeout errors return
that.
3. a few additional minor changes
## 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
Follow up to #5461
In my memory usage/fragmentation measurements, these metrics came up as
a large source of small allocations. The replacement metric has been in
use for a long time now so I think it's good to finally remove this.
Per-endpoint data is still tracked elsewhere
## Summary of changes
remove the per-client bytes metrics
## 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
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
Currently we store in cache even if the project is undefined. That makes
invalidation impossible.
## Summary of changes
Do not store if project id is empty.
## 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
control plane should be able to return domain names and not just IP
addresses.
## Summary of changes
1. add regression tests
2. use rsplit to split the port from the back, then trim the ipv6
brackets
## 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.
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Co-authored-by: Conrad Ludgate <conrad@neon.tech>
## Problem
A user can perform many database connections at the same instant of time
- these will all cache miss and materialise as requests to the control
plane. #5705
## Summary of changes
I am using a `DashMap` (a sharded `RwLock<HashMap>`) of endpoints ->
semaphores to apply a limiter. If the limiter is enabled (permits > 0),
the semaphore will be retrieved per endpoint and a permit will be
awaited before continuing to call the wake_compute endpoint.
### Important details
This dashmap would grow uncontrollably without maintenance. It's not a
cache so I don't think an LRU-based reclamation makes sense. Instead,
I've made use of the sharding functionality of DashMap to lock a single
shard and clear out unused semaphores periodically.
I ran a test in release, using 128 tokio tasks among 12 threads each
pushing 1000 entries into the map per second, clearing a shard every 2
seconds (64 second epoch with 32 shards). The endpoint names were
sampled from a gamma distribution to make sure some overlap would occur,
and each permit was held for 1ms. The histogram for time to clear each
shard settled between 256-512us without any variance in my testing.
Holding a lock for under a millisecond for 1 of the shards does not
concern me as blocking
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.
