Understanding microservice latency

An introduction to Distributed Tracing and Zipkin with a demo using Spring Cloud Sleuth

1. © 2016 Pivotal !1 Understanding microservice latency An introduction to Distributed Tracing and Zipkin Adrian Cole, Pivotal @adrianfcole
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3. @adrianfcole • spring cloud at pivotal • focused on distributed tracing • helped open zipkin
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5. Latency Analysis Microservice and data pipeline architectures are a often a graph of components, distributed across a network. A call graph or data flow can become delayed or fail due to the nature of the operation, components, or edges between them. We want to understand our current architecture and troubleshoot latency problems, in production.
6. Why is POST /things slow? POST /things
7. Troubleshooting latency problems When was the event and how long did it take? Where did this happen? Which event was it? Is it abnormal?
8. When was the event and how long did it take? First log statement was at 15:31:29.103 GMT… last… 15:31:30.530 Server Received:15:31:29:103 POST /things Server Sent:15:31:30:530 Duration: 1427 milliseconds
9. wombats:10.2.3.47:8080 Server log says Client IP was 1.2.3.4 This is a shard in the wombats cluster, listening on 10.2.3.47:8080 Server Received:15:31:29:103 POST /things Server Sent:15:31:30:530 Duration: 1427 milliseconds Where did this happen? peer.ipv4 1.2.3.4
10. wombats:10.2.3.47:8080 Which event was it? The http response header had “request-id: abcd- ffe”? Is that what you mean? Server Received:15:31:29:103 POST /things Server Sent:15:31:30:530 Duration: 1427 milliseconds peer.ipv4 1.2.3.4 http.request-id abcd-ffe
11. wombats:10.2.3.47:8080 Is it abnormal? I’ll check other logs for this request id and see what I can find out. Server Received:15:31:29:103 POST /things Server Sent:15:31:30:530 Duration: 1427 milliseconds Well, average response time for POST /things in the last 2 days is 100ms peer.ipv4 1.2.3.4 http.request-id abcd-ffe
12. wombats:10.2.3.47:8080 Achieving understanding I searched the logs for others in that group.. took about the same time. Server Received:15:31:29:103 POST /things Server Sent:15:31:30:530 Duration: 1427 milliseconds Ok, looks like this client is in the experimental group for HD uploads peer.ipv4 1.2.3.4 http.request-id abcd-ffe http.request.size 15 MiB http.url …&features=HD-uploads
13. POST /things There’s often two sides to the story Client Sent:15:31:28:500 Client Received:15:31:31:000 Duration: 2500 milliseconds Server Received:15:31:29:103 POST /things Server Sent:15:31:30:530 Duration: 1427 milliseconds
14. and not all operations are on the critical path Wire Send Store Async Store Wire Send POST /things POST /things
15. and not all operations are relevant Wire Send Store Async Async Store Failed Wire Send POST /things POST /things KQueueArrayWrapper.kev UnboundedFuturePool-2 SelectorUtil.select LockSupport.parkNan ReferenceQueue.remove
16. It’s getting harder to draw our architecture Polyglot microservice and data flow architectures are increasingly easy to write and deploy.
17. Can we make troubleshooting wizard-free? We no longer need wizards to deploy complex architectures. We shouldn’t need wizards to troubleshoot them, either!
18. Distributed Tracing commoditizes knowledge Distributed tracing systems collect end-to-end latency graphs (traces) in near real-time. You can compare traces to understand why certain requests take longer than others.
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20. Distributed Tracing Vocabulary A Span is an individual operation that took place. A span contains timestamped events and tags. A Trace is an end-to-end latency graph, composed of spans.
21. wombats:10.2.3.47:8080 A Span is an individual operation Server Received POST /things Server Sent Events Tags Operation peer.ipv4 1.2.3.4 http.request-id abcd-ffe http.request.size 15 MiB http.url …&features=HD-uploads
22. Tracing is logging important events Wire Send Store Async Store Wire Send POST /things POST /things
23. Tracers record time, duration and host Wire Send Store Async Store Wire Send POST /things POST /things
24. Tracers cement shape with IDs
25. Tracers cement shape with IDs No parent means this is the root of the trace Each span in a trace has its own ID The parent ID tells you where you are in the call graph
26. Tracers send trace data out of process Tracers propagate IDs in-band, to tell the receiver there’s a trace in progress Completed spans are reported out-of-band, to reduce overhead and allow for batching
27. Tracers usually live in your application Tracers execute in your production apps! They are written to not log too much, and to not cause applications to crash. - propagate structural data in-band, and the rest out-of-band - have instrumentation or sampling policy to manage volume - often include opinionated instrumentation of layers such as HTTP
28. Tracing Systems are Observability Tools Tracing systems collect, process and present data reported by tracers. - aggregate spans into trace trees - provide query and visualization for latency analysis - have retention policy (usually days)
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30. Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
31. Zipkin has pluggable architecture Tracers report spans HTTP or Kafka. Servers collect spans, storing them in MySQL, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch. Users query for traces via Zipkin’s Web UI or Api. services: storage: image: openzipkin/zipkin-cassandra:1.1.5 container_name: cassandra ports: - 9042:9042 server: image: openzipkin/zipkin:1.1.5 environment: - STORAGE_TYPE=cassandra - CASSANDRA_CONTACT_POINTS=cassandra ports: - 9411:9411 depends_on: - storage
32. Zipkin has starter architecture Tracing is new for a lot of folks. For many, the MySQL option is a good start, as it is familiar. services: storage: image: openzipkin/zipkin-mysql:1.1.5 container_name: mysql ports: - 3306:3306 server: image: openzipkin/zipkin:1.1.5 environment: - STORAGE_TYPE=mysql - MYSQL_HOST=mysql ports: - 9411:9411 depends_on: - storage
33. Zipkin can be as simple as a single file $ curl -SL 'https://search.maven.org/remote_content?g=io.zipkin.java&a=zipkin-server&v=LATEST&c=exec' > zipkin.jar $ java -jar zipkin.jar . ____ _ __ _ _ /\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __ __ _ \ \ \ \ ( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \ \\/ ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| | ) ) ) ) ' |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / / =========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/ :: Spring Boot :: (v1.3.5.RELEASE) 2016-06-23 20:17:09.123 INFO 37481 --- [ main] zipkin.server.ZipkinServer : Starting ZipkinServer on acole with PID 37481 —snip— $ curl -s localhost:9411/api/v1/services|jq . [ "zipkin-server" ]
34. Zipkin lives in GitHub Zipkin was created by Twitter in 2012. In 2015, OpenZipkin became the primary fork. OpenZipkin is an org on GitHub. It contains tracers, OpenApi spec, service components and docker images. https://github.com/openzipkin
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36. Two Spring Boot (Java) services collaborate over http. Zipkin will show how long the whole operation took, as well how much time was spent in each service. https://github.com/adriancole/sleuth-webmvc-example Distributed Tracing across Spring Boot apps
37. Web requests in the demo are served by Spring MVC controllers. Tracing of these are automatically performed by Spring Cloud Sleuth. Spring Cloud Sleuth reports to Zipkin via HTTP by depending on spring-cloud-sleuth-zipkin. https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-sleuth/ Spring Cloud Sleuth Java
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39. Wrapping up Start by sending traces directly to a zipkin server. Grow into fanciness as you need it: sampling, streaming, etc Remember you are not alone! @adrianfcole #zipkin gitter.im/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-sleuth gitter.im/openzipkin/zipkin