Add metrics publisher to indexer with S3 endpoint configuration

[ashokbytebytego]

Add Metrics Publisher to gProfiler Indexer

📋 Summary

This PR adds SLI (Service Level Indicator) metrics tracking to the gProfiler indexer service to enable SLO monitoring and error budget tracking. It also adds optional S3 endpoint configuration support for local development with LocalStack.

Type: Feature + Infrastructure Improvement
Impact: Low (opt-in feature, disabled by default)
Need to check Change: Environment variable rename (see Migration Notes)

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🎯 Motivation

Problem

• No visibility into indexer service availability and error rates
• Cannot track SLO compliance or error budget consumption
• Difficult to identify patterns in event processing failures
• Local development requires AWS account (no LocalStack support)

Solution

• Implement Graphite-based metrics publisher for SLI tracking
• Track success/failure metrics at critical points in the event processing pipeline
• Add optional S3 endpoint configuration for LocalStack compatibility
• Enable local testing without AWS credentials

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📝 Changes

1. Indexer Metrics Publisher (Go)

New Files

• src/gprofiler_indexer/metrics_publisher.go (234 lines)
  • Singleton pattern with thread-safe operations
  • Graphite plaintext protocol over TCP
  • Fail-safe design (never blocks application)
  • Error throttling (prevents log spam)
  • Graceful connection handling with retries

Modified Files

• src/gprofiler_indexer/args.go (+21 lines)

  • Added metrics configuration flags:
    • METRICS_ENABLED (bool, default: false)
    • METRICS_AGENT_URL (string, default: tcp://localhost:18126)
    • METRICS_SERVICE_NAME (string, default: gprofiler-indexer)
    • METRICS_SLI_UUID (string, required when enabled)
  • Renamed: S3_ENDPOINT → AWS_ENDPOINT_URL (see Migration Notes)

• src/gprofiler_indexer/main.go (+15 lines)

  • Initialize MetricsPublisher singleton on startup
  • Cleanup with FlushAndClose() on graceful shutdown

• src/gprofiler_indexer/worker.go (+79 lines)

  • Track SLI metrics at critical points:
    • ✅ Success: Event processed completely
    • ❌ Failure: S3 fetch failed, parse failed, SQS delete failed
  • Only tracks SQS events (not local file processing)
  • Pattern: GetMetricsPublisher().SendSLIMetric(...)

2. S3 Endpoint Configuration (Python)

Modified Files

• src/gprofiler-dev/gprofiler_dev/config.py (+3 lines)

  • Added optional S3_ENDPOINT_URL environment variable
  • Defaults to None (uses standard AWS S3 in production)
  • Enables LocalStack/S3-compatible services for testing

• src/gprofiler-dev/gprofiler_dev/s3_profile_dal.py (+4 lines)

  • Pass endpoint_url=config.S3_ENDPOINT_URL to boto3 S3 client/resource
  • When None: uses default AWS S3 endpoints
  • When set: connects to custom endpoint (e.g., LocalStack)

3. Documentation

• LOCAL_TESTING_GUIDE.md (526 lines)

  • Complete end-to-end testing guide
  • 11 verification stages with expected outputs
  • Troubleshooting common issues
  • Success criteria at each stage

• METRICS_PUBLISHER_INDEXER_DOCUMENTATION.md (580+ lines)

  • API documentation with code examples
  • Architecture overview
  • Configuration guide
  • Testing procedures
  • Best practices

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🧪 Testing

Test Environment

• ✅ Docker Compose with LocalStack (S3 + SQS)
• ✅ PostgreSQL + ClickHouse
• ✅ gProfiler agent → webapp → S3 → SQS → indexer → ClickHouse

End-to-End Testing

1. ✅ All services started successfully
2. ✅ LocalStack S3 bucket and SQS queue created
3. ✅ gProfiler agent collected profiles (Java, Python, native)
4. ✅ Webapp uploaded profiles to LocalStack S3
5. ✅ Webapp published SQS messages
6. ✅ Indexer consumed SQS messages
7. ✅ Indexer fetched profiles from S3
8. ✅ Indexer inserted data into ClickHouse
9. ✅ Metrics published to mock Graphite agent
10. ✅ Verified data in ClickHouse (15+ profile samples)

Metrics Testing

# Started mock Graphite listener
nc -l -k 18126

# Observed metrics output:
gprofiler-indexer.sli.test-sli-uuid-indexer-67890.success.event_processing 1 1730318816
gprofiler-indexer.sli.test-sli-uuid-indexer-67890.success.event_processing 1 1730318817

Performance Testing

• No measurable performance degradation
• Metrics publishing: < 5ms per call
• Non-blocking async operations
• Zero impact when disabled

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🔄 Migration Notes

Change: Environment Variable Rename

Changed: S3_ENDPOINT → AWS_ENDPOINT_URL

Who is Affected?

• NOT affected: Standard AWS S3 deployments (99% of cases)

  • Variable defaults to empty/unset
  • AWS SDK uses default endpoints
  • No action required ✅

• Affected: Custom S3 endpoint deployments (rare)

  • MinIO, Ceph, or S3-compatible services
  • Deployments with S3_ENDPOINT explicitly set
  • Action required: Rename environment variable ⚠️

Migration Steps

If you have this in your deployment:

# OLD
export S3_ENDPOINT=https://custom-s3.example.com

# NEW
export AWS_ENDPOINT_URL=https://custom-s3.example.com

Why This Change?

• Standardization: AWS_ENDPOINT_URL matches AWS SDK naming convention
• Clarity: Previous name was misleading (used for all AWS services, not just S3)
• Best Practice: Aligns with AWS ecosystem standards

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🔒 Security Analysis

Credentials

• ✅ No hardcoded credentials
• ✅ Uses environment variables
• ✅ Follows AWS SDK credential chain

Metrics

• ✅ No PII in metrics (only counts and UUIDs)
• ✅ Configurable via environment variables
• ✅ Disabled by default

Network

• ✅ Metrics agent connection is fail-safe (won't crash service)
• ✅ No external dependencies when disabled
• ✅ Uses TCP with connection retry logic

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🎯 Rollout Plan

Phase 1: Deploy to Staging

1. Deploy with METRICS_ENABLED=false (disabled)
2. Verify no regressions
3. Enable metrics: METRICS_ENABLED=true
4. Monitor for 24 hours

Phase 2: Deploy to Production

1. Deploy with METRICS_ENABLED=false (disabled)
2. Verify standard functionality
3. Enable metrics on 10% of indexers
4. Gradually roll out to 100%

Rollback Plan

• Set METRICS_ENABLED=false to disable metrics
• Redeploy previous version if issues arise
• No database migrations (safe to rollback)

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📚 Related Documentation

• Local Testing Guide
• Metrics Publisher Documentation

Testing Verification

# Run end-to-end test
cd deploy
docker-compose --profile with-clickhouse up -d

# Run agent
sudo ./gprofiler --server-host localhost --server-port 8080 \
  --token BuzKxoS1CbzPyJD0o6AEveisxWFoMYIkDznc_vfUBq8 \
  --service-name devapp --perf-mode disabled -d 60

# Verify metrics
nc -l -k 18126  # Should see metrics output

# Verify data in ClickHouse
docker exec -it gprofiler-ps-ch-clickhouse clickhouse-client -q \
  "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM flamedb.samples WHERE ServiceId IN (SELECT id FROM flamedb.services WHERE name = 'devapp')"

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📈 Success Metrics

Pre-Deployment

• All tests pass
• Code review approved
• Documentation complete

Post-Deployment

• No increase in error rates
• Metrics successfully published
• No performance degradation
• SLO dashboard populated with data

[artursarlo]

Please add the /deploy files required to correctly setup the DEV environment

[artursarlo]

You can remove this file. Not really needed.