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Adds DSD telemetry around raw messages

Open scottopell opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

What does this PR do?

Adds 2 new telemetry options

Motivation

Gain visibility into the ratio of metric samples to metric messages. Aka, the "multivalue" ratio. How many values are packed into a single message.

Also measures the total # of packets which should allow calculating a similar "multimsg" ratio. How many messages are packed into a single packet. (Note that this second one will inherently be flawed when UDP is used because of the extra batching step. Should be accurate for UDS heavy traffic as we do not combine packets/datagrams)

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scottopell avatar Oct 12 '23 19:10 scottopell

Bloop Bleep... Dogbot Here

Regression Detector Results

Run ID: f72e7597-10a9-4a26-b905-a874c14358e5
Baseline: e6cc2fbc9dc897077892f062f131013b8c9ce507
Comparison: 6d4cf92287777ede628bf7c766270bea1d8646a1
Total datadog-agent CPUs: 7

Explanation

A regression test is an integrated performance test for datadog-agent in a repeatable rig, with varying configuration for datadog-agent. What follows is a statistical summary of a brief datadog-agent run for each configuration across SHAs given above. The goal of these tests are to determine quickly if datadog-agent performance is changed and to what degree by a pull request.

Because a target's optimization goal performance in each experiment will vary somewhat each time it is run, we can only estimate mean differences in optimization goal relative to the baseline target. We express these differences as a percentage change relative to the baseline target, denoted "Δ mean %". These estimates are made to a precision that balances accuracy and cost control. We represent this precision as a 90.00% confidence interval denoted "Δ mean % CI": there is a 90.00% chance that the true value of "Δ mean %" is in that interval.

We decide whether a change in performance is a "regression" -- a change worth investigating further -- if both of the following two criteria are true:

  1. The estimated |Δ mean %| ≥ 5.00%. This criterion intends to answer the question "Does the estimated change in mean optimization goal performance have a meaningful impact on your customers?". We assume that when |Δ mean %| < 5.00%, the impact on your customers is not meaningful. We also assume that a performance change in optimization goal is worth investigating whether it is an increase or decrease, so long as the magnitude of the change is sufficiently large.

  2. Zero is not in the 90.00% confidence interval "Δ mean % CI" about "Δ mean %". This statement is equivalent to saying that there is at least a 90.00% chance that the mean difference in optimization goal is not zero. This criterion intends to answer the question, "Is there a statistically significant difference in mean optimization goal performance?". It also means there is no more than a 10.00% chance this criterion reports a statistically significant difference when the true difference in mean optimization goal is zero -- a "false positive". We assume you are willing to accept a 10.00% chance of inaccurately detecting a change in performance when no true difference exists.

The table below, if present, lists those experiments that have experienced a statistically significant change in mean optimization goal performance between baseline and comparison SHAs with 90.00% confidence OR have been detected as newly erratic. Negative values of "Δ mean %" mean that baseline is faster, whereas positive values of "Δ mean %" mean that comparison is faster. Results that do not exhibit more than a ±5.00% change in their mean optimization goal are discarded. An experiment is erratic if its coefficient of variation is greater than 0.1. The abbreviated table will be omitted if no interesting change is observed.

No interesting changes in experiment optimization goals with confidence ≥ 90.00% and |Δ mean %| ≥ 5.00%.

Fine details of change detection per experiment.
experiment goal Δ mean % Δ mean % CI confidence
uds_dogstatsd_to_api ingress throughput +4.88 [+2.75, +7.01] 99.98%
otel_to_otel_logs ingress throughput +0.62 [-0.96, +2.20] 47.90%
trace_agent_msgpack ingress throughput +0.03 [-0.09, +0.15] 33.13%
trace_agent_json ingress throughput +0.00 [-0.13, +0.13] 0.57%
uds_dogstatsd_to_api_nodist_16MiB ingress throughput +0.00 [-0.12, +0.12] 0.34%
uds_dogstatsd_to_api_nodist_100MiB ingress throughput +0.00 [-0.13, +0.13] 0.13%
file_to_blackhole egress throughput +0.00 [-1.38, +1.38] 0.00%
uds_dogstatsd_to_api_nodist_1MiB ingress throughput -0.00 [-0.00, +0.00] 36.01%
uds_dogstatsd_to_api_nodist_64MiB ingress throughput -0.00 [-0.13, +0.13] 2.12%
uds_dogstatsd_to_api_nodist_32MiB ingress throughput -0.00 [-0.13, +0.13] 3.65%
tcp_dd_logs_filter_exclude ingress throughput -0.00 [-0.07, +0.06] 9.02%
tcp_syslog_to_blackhole ingress throughput -0.04 [-0.19, +0.10] 37.33%
uds_dogstatsd_to_api_nodist_200MiB ingress throughput -1.70 [-1.82, -1.59] 100.00%
file_tree egress throughput -2.61 [-4.16, -1.05] 99.41%

pr-commenter[bot] avatar Oct 12 '23 21:10 pr-commenter[bot]

Results from a local run:

curl -s localhost:5000/telemetry | grep dogstatsd__processed && curl -s localhost:5000/telemetry | grep dogstatsd__messages
# HELP dogstatsd__processed Count of service checks/events/metrics processed by dogstatsd
# TYPE dogstatsd__processed counter
dogstatsd__processed{message_type="metrics",origin="",state="error"} 0
dogstatsd__processed{message_type="metrics",origin="",state="ok"} 652640
dogstatsd__processed{message_type="service_checks",origin="",state="ok"} 21189
# HELP dogstatsd__messages Count of raw dogstatsd messages
# TYPE dogstatsd__messages counter
dogstatsd__messages{message_type="metrics"} 454609
dogstatsd__messages{message_type="service_checks"} 21189

scottopell avatar Oct 18 '23 21:10 scottopell