Summary:
Ref T4571. When a database goes down briefly, we fall back to replicas.
However, this fallback is slow (not good for users) and keeps sending a lot of traffic to the master (might be bad if the root cause is load-related).
Keep track of recent connections and fully degrade into "severed" mode if we see a sequence of failures over a reasonable period of time. In this mode, we send much less traffic to the master (faster for users; less load for the database).
We do send a little bit of traffic still, and if the master recovers we'll recover back into normal mode seeing several connections in a row succeed.
This is similar to what most load balancers do when pulling web servers in and out of pools.
For now, the specific numbers are:
- We do at most one health check every 3 seconds.
- If 5 checks in a row fail or succeed, we sever or un-sever the database (so it takes about 15 seconds to switch modes).
- If the database is currently marked unhealthy, we reduce timeouts and retries when connecting to it.
Test Plan:
- Configured a bad `master`.
- Browsed around for a bit, initially saw "unrechable master" errors.
- After about 15 seconds, saw "major interruption" errors instead.
- Fixed the config for `master`.
- Browsed around for a while longer.
- After about 15 seconds, things recovered.
- Used "Cluster Databases" console to keep an eye on health checks: it now shows how many recent health checks were good:
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Reviewers: chad
Reviewed By: chad
Maniphest Tasks: T4571
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D15677
Summary: Ref T4571. The configuration option still doesn't do anything, but add a status panel for basic setup monitoring.
Test Plan:
Here's what a good version looks like:
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Also faked most of the errors it can detect and got helpful diagnostic messages like this:
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Reviewers: chad
Reviewed By: chad
Maniphest Tasks: T4571
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D15667
