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Heikki Linnakangas 53b6e1a01c vm-monitor: Upgrade axum from 0.6 to 0.7 (#9257)
Because:
- it's nice to be up-to-date,
- we already had axum 0.7 in our dependency tree, so this avoids having
to compile two versions, and
- removes one of the remaining dpendencies to hyper version 0

Also bumps the 'tokio-tungstenite' dependency, to avoid having two
versions in the dependency tree.
2024-10-03 16:49:39 +03:00
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vm-monitor

The vm-monitor (or just monitor) is a core component of the autoscaling system, along with the autoscale-scheduler and the autoscaler-agents. The monitor has two primary roles: 1) notifying agents when immediate upscaling is necessary due to memory conditions and 2) managing Postgres' file cache and a cgroup to carry out upscaling and downscaling decisions.

More on scaling

We scale CPU and memory using NeonVM, our in-house QEMU tool for use with Kubernetes. To control thresholds for receiving memory usage notifications, we start Postgres in the neon-postgres cgroup and set its memory.{max,high}.

Structure

The vm-monitor is loosely comprised of a few systems. These are:

  • the server: this is just a simple axum server that accepts requests and upgrades them to websocket connections. The server only allows one connection at a time. This means that upon receiving a new connection, the server will terminate and old one if it exists.
  • the filecache: a struct that allows communication with the Postgres file cache. On startup, we connect to the filecache and hold on to the connection for the entire monitor lifetime.
  • the cgroup watcher: the CgroupWatcher polls the neon-postgres cgroup's memory usage and sends rolling aggregates to the runner.
  • the runner: the runner marries the filecache and cgroup watcher together, communicating with the agent throught the Dispatcher, and then calling filecache and cgroup watcher functions as needed to upscale and downscale