Hi, I'm currently setting up Varnish for a project, and the grace feature together with health checks/probes seems to be a great savior when working with servers that might misbehave. But I'm not really sure I understand how to actually achive that, since the example doesn't really make sense:
https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/vcl-grace.html See the section "Misbehaving servers". There the example does "set beresp.grace = 24h" in vcl_backend_response, and "set req.grace = 10s" in vcl_recv, if the backend is healthy. But since vcl_recv is run before vcl_backend_response, doesn't that mean that the 10s grace value of vcl_recv is overwritten by the 24h value in vcl_backend_response? Also... There is always a risk of some URL's suddenly giving 500-error (or a timeout) all while the probe still returns 200. Is it possible to have Varnish behave more or less as if the backend is sick, but just for those URL? Basically I would like this logic: If a healthy content exists in the cache: 1. Return the cached (and potentially stale) content to the client 2. Increase the ttl and/or grace, to keep the healthy content longer 3. Only do a bg-fetch if a specified time has past since the last attempt (lets say 5s), to avoid hammering the backend If a non-health (ie 500-error) exists in the cache: 1. Return the cached 500-content to the client 2. Only do a bg-fetch if a specified time has past since the last attempt (lets say 5s), to avoid hammering the backend If no content doesn't exists in the cache: 1. Perform a synchronous fetch 2. If the result is a 500-error, cache it with lets say ttl = 5s 3. Otherwise, cache it with a longer ttl 4. Return the result to the client Is this possible with the community edition of Varnish?
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