Activity Tracking

Starting with release 0.12, IRONdb supports tracking of metric activity without the expense of reading all known time series data to find active ranges. The activity of a metric is tracked at a 5 minute granularity. Any ingestion of a metric will mark that 5 minute period that the timestamp falls into as active for that metric. Activity periods are stored in the surrogate database.

This activity tracking also coalesces nearby active ranges. Any activity on a metric within an 8 hour window marks that metric as active for that 8 hour span. For example, if you have a metric that arrived with the timestamp: 2018-07-03T11:00:01:123Z and then nothing else arrived until 2018-07-03T19:00:02:123Z, the metric would be considered inactive in the 8 hour span between these 2 timestamps. If, later, some late data arrives and we see a timestamp at: 2018-07-03T14:00:01:123Z, then the entire 8 hour span is considered active for purposes of querying.

See Searching Tags on how to query activity periods for a given list of metrics.

This activity tracking only applies to data ingested after the upgrade to 0.12 or later. Any data ingested prior to installation of 0.12 will be invisible to the activity tracking code. However, IRONdb also ships with an API to rebuild activity tracking data by reading the actual datapoints for a metric to determine its activity ranges. Since this is an expensive operation it has to be triggered for a list of metrics by an operator.

Rebuilding Activity Data

Do not trigger this API until you have upgraded all IRONdb nodes to 0.12 or later.

URI

• /surrogate/activity_rebuild

Method

POST

Inputs

A JSON document which lists the set of metrics to rebuild activity data for, with the syntax:

[
   {
      "check_uuid":"1fd7c873-0055-4bd3-a16a-2137b111e71a",
      "metric_name":"foo"
   },
   {
      "check_uuid":"1fd7c873-0055-4bd3-a16a-2137b111e71a",
      "metric_name":"bar"
   },
   {
      "check_uuid":"1fd7c873-0055-4bd3-a16a-2137b111e71a",
      "metric_name":"baz|ST[a:b,c:d]"
   }
]

The above will rebuild activity for the 3 metrics listed in the document.