inhibit: preserve source-only matches in equal-label index - #5449
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change expands inhibition tests for source-only and equal-label matching, adds garbage collection regressions, and introduces a benchmark with 10,000 same-equal alerts. ChangesInhibition source-alert validation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A refreshed firing source alert can stop inhibiting targets when stale GC processes its older version. This correctness regression should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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I think the intention of the pull request is correct but the implementation is not sufficient to resolve the issue.
A better structure would either:
- index all source fingerprints per equal-label key
- or separately retain an “any source” and “source-only source” candidate.
I think the best would be a hybrid model maybe, something like this:
equal-label key
├── all source members
├── best any-source candidate
└── best source-only candidate
This would not be very efficient for memory but it would be correct when we consider GC.
| func (r *InhibitRule) findEqualSourceAlertFromCache(lset model.LabelSet, excludeTwoSidedMatch bool, now time.Time) (*types.Alert, bool) { | ||
| equalsFP := r.fingerprintEquals(lset) | ||
| for _, alert := range r.scache.List() { | ||
| if alert.ResolvedAt(now) { | ||
| continue | ||
| } | ||
| if r.fingerprintEquals(alert.Labels) != equalsFP { | ||
| continue | ||
| } | ||
| if excludeTwoSidedMatch && r.TargetMatchers.Matches(alert.Labels) { | ||
| continue | ||
| } | ||
| return alert, true | ||
| } | ||
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| return nil, false | ||
| } |
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This scans the whole cache whenever the indexed source is two-sided which is O(number of source alerts), allocates a copy, locks the shared cache mutex, etc.
This is basically skipping the optimisations #4607 introduced.
Also the current benchmark matrix does not cover this case.
| equal, found := r.findEqualSourceAlert(lset, now) | ||
| if found { | ||
| if excludeTwoSidedMatch && r.TargetMatchers.Matches(equal.Labels) { | ||
| return model.Fingerprint(0), false | ||
| equal, found = r.findEqualSourceAlertFromCache(lset, excludeTwoSidedMatch, now) |
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The new method is only called when a source alert is found in cache initially but is disqualified.
The index can be absent while same-equal active sources remain.
gcCallback deletes the whole equal-label key when any alert in that bucket is collected.
So we need a regression test where GC removes a non-indexed same-equal alert while a source-only alert remains active. Ideally the index should remove a specific source fingerprint rather than deleting the bucket.
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Thanks, yes, that was the missing case. I also rechecked #5162/#5174; this now covers the same GC bucket case without scanning the whole source cache. I reworked the index to keep all source alerts for each equal-label key and separately track the best any-source and source-only candidates. I added the GC regression you described, a same-fingerprint refresh regression for the GC callback path, and a same-equal/source-only benchmark case. Checks:
For that benchmark, the previous PR commit with only the benchmark case applied was 172555 ns/op, 83048 B/op, 32 allocs/op by raw geomean over 5 runs. This branch was 6492 ns/op, 1048 B/op, 27 allocs/op. |
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In `@inhibit/index.go`:
- Around line 77-83: Update the sameFingerprint refresh path in the bucket’s
rebuild/representative logic to modify the cached representative pointer
directly when the refreshed alert has an equal or later EndsAt, avoiding
entry.rebuild() under the write lock. Only rebuild when EndsAt moves earlier and
another alert may become representative, and add a benchmark covering repeated
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| if sameFingerprint(entry.any, alert) || sameFingerprint(entry.sourceOnly, alert) { | ||
| entry.alerts[alert.Fingerprint()] = indexedAlert{ | ||
| alert: alert, | ||
| sourceOnly: sourceOnly, | ||
| } | ||
| entry.rebuild() | ||
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Avoid a full rebuild for a non-decreasing representative refresh.
If the cached representative receives a refresh with the same fingerprint and an equal or later EndsAt, this branch scans every alert in the bucket while holding the write lock. A 10,000-alert bucket makes each such refresh O(n) and blocks concurrent lookups.
Update the cached pointer directly when the refreshed alert remains the representative. Rebuild only when its EndsAt moves earlier and another alert can replace it. Add a repeated-refresh benchmark for the selected representative.
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In `@inhibit/index.go` around lines 77 - 83, Update the sameFingerprint refresh
path in the bucket’s rebuild/representative logic to modify the cached
representative pointer directly when the refreshed alert has an equal or later
EndsAt, avoiding entry.rebuild() under the write lock. Only rebuild when EndsAt
moves earlier and another alert may become representative, and add a benchmark
covering repeated refreshes of the selected representative.
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Hmm, from what I can tell the new PR is actually a little bit slower. Test here My test is not super solid: It uses |
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Hi! Thanks for putting this together, and for documenting the issue. Taking a look at the PR, I think it's inevitable that we'll have a small performance regression in order to get correct behavior, but I think that's ok. I do think that there might be a little bit of a less complex indexing scheme that we can use, however. How would you feel about starting with just the reproducing test case as a PR? If you add |
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I took a pass at this based on HRT's internal implementation of the inhibitor, and I think #5542 is a little bit simpler than this approach right now. |
Co-Authored-By: Solomon Jacobs <solomon.jacobs@checkmk.com> Signed-off-by: Sueun Cho <sueun.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Solomon Jacobs <solomonjacobs@protonmail.com>
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In `@inhibit/inhibit_test.go`:
- Line 272: Update gcCallback to avoid deleting the shared index when scache
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| ih := runInhibitor(t, []amcommoncfg.InhibitRule{{Equal: []string{"e"}}}, oldSource, refreshedSource) | ||
| r := ih.rules[0] | ||
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| r.gcCallback([]*alert.Alert{oldSource}) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve the refreshed source fingerprint during stale GC.
store.Alerts.Set replaces alerts by Fingerprint(), so oldSource and refreshedSource share one cache entry and one index value. gcCallback unconditionally deletes that value for oldSource; hasEqual then finds no indexed entry at line 275. Make gcCallback preserve or rebuild the index when scache still contains the refreshed alert.
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In `@inhibit/inhibit_test.go` at line 272, Update gcCallback to avoid deleting the
shared index when scache still contains the refreshed alert for the same
fingerprint; preserve or rebuild that alert’s index so hasEqual can continue
finding it after stale-alert cleanup.
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go test -benchmemgeomean over 5 runs was 172555 ns/op -> 6492 ns/op, 83048 B/op -> 1048 B/op, 32 -> 27 allocs/op.Which user-facing changes does this PR introduce?