Alexey Serbin has posted comments on this change. ( 
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Change subject: KUDU-3791 add metrics for auto-leader-rebalancer
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http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/24694/1//COMMIT_MSG
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http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/24694/1//COMMIT_MSG@13
PS1, Line 13: - auto_leader_rebalancer_moves_scheduled
            : - auto_leader_rebalancer_moves_failed
            : - auto_leader_rebalancer_rounds_completed
            : - auto_leader_rebalancer_global_pass_skipped
If building an automated monitoring/alerting system based on this set of 
metrics, is there a way to put together a simple recipe to spot when the leader 
rebalancing in a multi-master cluster falters up to the point when it needs an 
operator's attention?

A very basic ask is to provide a warning flag that isn't prone to false 
positives and is easy to reason about given multiple master instances.  I guess 
it might be something like 'every run of the rebalancing task yields an 
increment of auto_leader_rebalancer_rounds_completed for a leader master'.   
There is 'auto_leader_rebalancer_rounds_completed' metric, but it's a bit 
cumbersome to reason about not knowing (a) whether automatic leader rebalancing 
is enabled (b) the rebalancing task interval, and whether there are some delays 
because of synchronous RPCs (c) the metric is sourced from multiple masters.

Maybe, it makes sense to add one such metric of 'warning' severity to allow for 
simpler and more robust alerting rules?

What do you think?


http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/24694/1//COMMIT_MSG@18
PS1, Line 18: mirror the counters AutoRebalancerTask already
            : exposes
Yeah, and that is as confusing to me as this one.  I'd expect to see 
information on both the scheduled and the completed moves, so there would be an 
invariant like

  moves_scheduled = moves_completed + moves_failed

That would allow to reason about the progress of the planned moves.


http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/24694/1/src/kudu/master/auto_leader_rebalancer.cc
File src/kudu/master/auto_leader_rebalancer.cc:

http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/24694/1/src/kudu/master/auto_leader_rebalancer.cc@457
PS1, Line 457: an async
             :   // refactor
What's 'async refactor'?


http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/24694/1/src/kudu/master/auto_leader_rebalancer.cc@479
PS1, Line 479: continue;
It seems we are incrementing the counter of failed moves at line 490 when we 
cannot resolve server name into IP address, but we don't care incrementing the 
metric if we cannot find tablet server by its UUID?

I think it would be nice to add a comment to explain why we ignore this 
condition.


http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/24694/1/src/kudu/master/auto_leader_rebalancer.cc@905
PS1, Line 905:       WARN_NOT_OK(RunLeaderRebalancer(),
             :                   Substitute("the master instance isn't 
leader"));
IIUC, this is misleading: RunLeaderRebalancer() might return a non-OK status 
not only when this instance of catalog manager isn't a leader.  If we are 
introducing metrics here, probably it's a good venue to verify that the 
particular status code is what's expected from a non-leader catalog manager.  
If that's something else, it's a good idea to increment an umbrella-type metric 
of 'warning' severity that would mean "leader rebalancing task is failing".  
That could be used for a very basic monitoring of whether leader rebalancer has 
issues.



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