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Benedict Elliott Smith commented on CASSANDRA-20250:
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If I were looking at this today, I would consider just introducing a simple
{{FastThreadLocal}} object with a {{long[]}} with entries for each counter, and
just perform plain increments. We just retrieve that and perform an increment
directly, uncontended and with optimal space overhead. This should not actually
require major refactoring, would be pretty simple to maintain, and much more
efficient.
You could have each thread's counter collection added to a weak reference list,
that is enumerated to produce global numbers, and when the thread is collected
the accumulated data is flushed to a single global entry.
This is something that has been on my backlog for probably 10 years.
> Provide the ability to disable specific metrics collection
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-20250
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-20250
> Project: Apache Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Observability/Metrics
> Reporter: Dmitry Konstantinov
> Priority: Normal
> Attachments: cpu_profile_insert.html
>
>
> Cassandra has a lot of metrics collected, many of them are collected per
> table, so their instance number is multiplied by number of tables. From one
> side it gives a better observability, from another side metrics are not for
> free, there is an overhead associated with them:
> 1) CPU overhead: in case of simple CPU bound load: I already see like 5.5% of
> total CPU spent for metrics in cpu framegraphs for read load and 11% for
> write load.
> Example: [^cpu_profile_insert.html] (search by "codahale" pattern)
> 2) memory overhead: we spend memory for entities used to aggregate metrics
> such as LongAdders and reservoirs + for MBeans (String concatenation within
> object names is a major cause of it, for each table+metric name combination a
> new String is created)
>
> The idea of this ticket is to allow an operator to configure a list of
> disabled metrics in cassandra.yaml, like:
> {code:java}
> disabled_metrics:
> - metric_a
> - metric_b
> {code}
> From implementation point of view I see two possible approaches (which can be
> combined):
> # Generic: when a metric is registering if it is listed in disabled_metrics
> we do not publish it via JMX and provide a noop implementation of metric
> object (such as histogram) for it.
> Logging analogy: log level check within log method
> # Specialized: for some metrics the process of value calculation is not for
> free and introduces an overhead as well, in such cases it would be useful to
> check within specific logic using an API (like: isMetricEnabled) do we need
> to do it. Example of such metric:
> ClientRequestSizeMetrics.recordRowAndColumnCountMetrics
> Logging analogy: an explicit 'if (isDebugEnabled())' condition used when a
> message parameter is expensive.
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