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Thought about this more, and option 1 is invalid. Rejecting an entry whose firing set regresses also throws away the legitimate new information in that same entry, so the receiver just goes stale in the other direction. Scratch it. I also oversold the cost of options 2 and 3. Retaining an alert that genuinely resolved delays its next notification rather than losing it: when it fires again, Given that, a better UX might be a feature flag rather than picking for everyone. Something like The guard is receive-side, so a partially upgraded cluster gets partial protection rather than new breakage. That matters since the trigger is usually a rolling restart. Thoughts? |
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dennison <medennison123@gmail.com>
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- Line 289: Update the known-alert tracking in the merge flow so IDs in
next.Entry.MutedAlerts are treated as known, preventing them from being added to
FiringAlerts. Include muted IDs when sizing and populating the known map
alongside FiringAlerts and ResolvedAlerts.
- Line 662: Update the merge-and-broadcast flow around `l.st.merge` so that,
when the merge retains an alert, `l.broadcast` sends the merged state with the
retained alert IDs rather than the original incomplete entry. Reconcile
equal-timestamp entries in `state.merge` so a retained version can update an
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Propagate retained IDs to peers.
When this merge retains an alert, l.broadcast(b) still sends the original entry without that alert. A peer that did not already store the alert accepts the incomplete entry. It cannot later accept a retained version from a snapshot because state.merge rejects equal timestamps. That peer can send a duplicate notification when it subsequently receives the alert. Propagate the merged state and reconcile equal-timestamp entries that arrive in the opposite order.
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Update the merge-and-broadcast flow around `l.st.merge` so that, when the merge
retains an alert, `l.broadcast` sends the merged state with the retained alert
IDs rather than the original incomplete entry. Reconcile equal-timestamp entries
in `state.merge` so a retained version can update an entry received earlier,
while preserving duplicate-notification behavior.
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Yep this is true, good call. Happy to file an issue as it will require broadcasting the merged state rather than the received bytes, plus a reconciliation rule for equal timestamps, which state.merge currently rejects. Worth noting the gap is the restart case from #5685, where the instance has nothing to retain.
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@dennisme Agreed. A restarted instance with no prior notification-log entry has nothing to retain. Broadcasting the merged state and reconciling equal timestamps are both needed to cover that case.
Would you like me to open a follow-up issue linked to #5685 and this thread, with the restart scenario as an acceptance criterion?
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Lets wait to see what the maintainers think, but I personally like that option!
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@dennisme Understood. I’ll wait for maintainer feedback before opening a follow-up issue.
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Signed-off-by: Matthew Dennison <medennison123@gmail.com>
Fixes the duplicate notifications reported in #5685, behind a feature flag defaulting to current behavior.
The defect
state.mergeaccepts an incoming entry purely on timestamp, with no comparison of contents. An instance that knows about fewer alerts in a group writes an entry whoseFiringAlertsomits the rest, and because that entry is newer it replaces the complete entry on its peers. They then see those alerts as new and notify again. The local write path innflog.Logalready guards against a comparable case; merge does not.This is worse than a one-shot duplicate. Each peer's correction is itself newer and incomplete from the other side, so instances with divergent views re-trigger each other. Left running, the acceptance scenario notifies two to three times per second indefinitely:
In production the loop ends when the views converge, for example once Prometheus has finished fanning out to a restarted instance. That bounds the damage by how long divergence lasts, not by anything in the dedup logic.
The change
New feature flag
retain-firing-alerts-on-merge, off by default. When enabled, a merged entry that wins on timestamp carries over any firing alert from the existing entry that it lists as neither firing nor resolved. Those are alerts the sender never knew about. An alert the sender reports as resolved is dropped, so genuine resolution still clears state.Of the options discussed in #5685, this is the third. Rejecting subset regressions also discards the legitimate new information in the same entry. Unioning the sets keeps genuinely resolved alerts listed as firing until the entry expires, and only grows.
Retention applies only on the gossip path. The local write in
nflog.Logrecords what the instance actually notified and stays authoritative for its own view; retaining there would suppress its own first notification for an alert it later learns about. The acceptance test confirms the gossip path alone is sufficient.The cost when enabled is a weaker trigger, not a lost notification. If an alert is retained after genuinely resolving,
needsUpdatefalls through to the repeat interval check rather than returning early, and the alert appears in the body of any notification the group sends meanwhile.I would expect this to follow the
classic-modearc: ship opt-in, bake, promote to default with a flag for the old path.Tests
TestStateMergeFiringAlertsRegressioncovers all three cases at unit level: flag off drops the alert, flag on retains it, and flag on still drops an alert the merged entry reports as resolved.TestClusterNflogMergeRetainsFiringAlertsruns the uneven-distribution scenario across three instances with the flag on and expects exactly the three correct notifications. It needs--cluster.peer-timeout=1sso instances at non-zero cluster positions notify inside the test window. Stable across repeated runs.Verified over a longer horizon: with the flag enabled the same scenario still produces exactly those three notifications after 40 seconds, where the default produces roughly thirty. Retention removes the state regression that drives the loop, so the loop never starts.
There is deliberately no acceptance test for the default path. Because the duplicates never stop, any expected count is a function of the test deadline and would break under CI load. The flag-off behavior is asserted at unit level instead.
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