diff --git a/synapse/metrics/background_process_metrics.py b/synapse/metrics/background_process_metrics.py
index c56f0dd124..714caf84c3 100644
--- a/synapse/metrics/background_process_metrics.py
+++ b/synapse/metrics/background_process_metrics.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
import logging
import threading
from functools import wraps
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Dict, Optional, Set
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Dict, Optional, Set, Union
from prometheus_client.core import REGISTRY, Counter, Gauge
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ def run_as_background_process(desc: str, func, *args, bg_start_span=True, **kwar
_background_process_start_count.labels(desc).inc()
_background_process_in_flight_count.labels(desc).inc()
- with BackgroundProcessLoggingContext("%s-%s" % (desc, count)) as context:
+ with BackgroundProcessLoggingContext(desc, count) as context:
try:
ctx = noop_context_manager()
if bg_start_span:
@@ -243,8 +243,20 @@ class BackgroundProcessLoggingContext(LoggingContext):
__slots__ = ["_proc"]
- def __init__(self, name: str):
- super().__init__(name)
+ def __init__(self, name: str, instance_id: Optional[Union[int, str]] = None):
+ """
+
+ Args:
+ name: The name of the background process. Each distinct `name` gets a
+ separate prometheus time series.
+
+ instance_id: an identifer to add to `name` to distinguish this instance of
+ the named background process in the logs. If this is `None`, one is
+ made up based on id(self).
+ """
+ if instance_id is None:
+ instance_id = id(self)
+ super().__init__("%s-%s" % (name, instance_id))
self._proc = _BackgroundProcess(name, self)
def start(self, rusage: "Optional[resource._RUsage]"):
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