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diff --git a/docs/metrics-howto.md b/docs/metrics-howto.md index 279303a798..d8416b5a5f 100644 --- a/docs/metrics-howto.md +++ b/docs/metrics-howto.md @@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ Synapse 1.2 updates the Prometheus metrics to match the naming convention of the upstream `prometheus_client`. The old names are considered deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Synapse. +**The old names will be disabled by default in Synapse v1.71.0 and removed +altogether in Synapse v1.73.0.** | New Name | Old Name | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | @@ -146,6 +148,13 @@ Synapse. | synapse_federation_client_events_processed_total | synapse_federation_client_events_processed | | synapse_event_processing_loop_count_total | synapse_event_processing_loop_count | | synapse_event_processing_loop_room_count_total | synapse_event_processing_loop_room_count | +| synapse_util_caches_cache_hits | synapse_util_caches_cache:hits | +| synapse_util_caches_cache_size | synapse_util_caches_cache:size | +| synapse_util_caches_cache_evicted_size | synapse_util_caches_cache:evicted_size | +| synapse_util_caches_cache | synapse_util_caches_cache:total | +| synapse_util_caches_response_cache_size | synapse_util_caches_response_cache:size | +| synapse_util_caches_response_cache_hits | synapse_util_caches_response_cache:hits | +| synapse_util_caches_response_cache_evicted_size | synapse_util_caches_response_cache:evicted_size | | synapse_util_metrics_block_count_total | synapse_util_metrics_block_count | | synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds_total | synapse_util_metrics_block_time_seconds | | synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds_total | synapse_util_metrics_block_ru_utime_seconds | @@ -261,7 +270,7 @@ Standard Metric Names As of synapse version 0.18.2, the format of the process-wide metrics has been changed to fit prometheus standard naming conventions. Additionally -the units have been changed to seconds, from miliseconds. +the units have been changed to seconds, from milliseconds. | New name | Old name | | ---------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | diff --git a/docs/upgrade.md b/docs/upgrade.md index c4db19e23d..002ef70059 100644 --- a/docs/upgrade.md +++ b/docs/upgrade.md @@ -100,6 +100,34 @@ vice versa. Once all workers are upgraded to v1.69 (or downgraded to v1.68), receipts replication will resume as normal. + +## Deprecation of legacy Prometheus metric names + +In current versions of Synapse, some Prometheus metrics are emitted under two different names, +with one of the names being older but non-compliant with OpenMetrics and Prometheus conventions +and one of the names being newer but compliant. + +Synapse v1.71.0 will turn the old metric names off *by default*. +For administrators that still rely on them and have not had chance to update their +uses of the metrics, it's possible to specify `enable_legacy_metrics: true` in +the configuration to re-enable them temporarily. + +Synapse v1.73.0 will **remove legacy metric names altogether** and it will no longer +be possible to re-enable them. + +The Grafana dashboard, Prometheus recording rules and Prometheus Consoles included +in the `contrib` directory in the Synapse repository have been updated to no longer +rely on the legacy names. These can be used on a current version of Synapse +because current versions of Synapse emit both old and new names. + +You may need to update your alerting rules or any other rules that depend on +the names of Prometheus metrics. +If you want to test your changes before legacy names are disabled by default, +you may specify `enable_legacy_metrics: false` in your homeserver configuration. + +A list of affected metrics is available on the [Metrics How-to page](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.69/metrics-howto.html?highlight=metrics%20deprecated#renaming-of-metrics--deprecation-of-old-names-in-12). + + # Upgrading to v1.68.0 Two changes announced in the upgrade notes for v1.67.0 have now landed in v1.68.0. diff --git a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md index f46b4932fd..5e40166ff5 100644 --- a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md +++ b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md @@ -2436,6 +2436,31 @@ Example configuration: enable_metrics: true ``` --- +### `enable_legacy_metrics` + +Set to `true` to publish both legacy and non-legacy Prometheus metric names, +or to `false` to only publish non-legacy Prometheus metric names. +Defaults to `true`. Has no effect if `enable_metrics` is `false`. +**In Synapse v1.71.0, this will default to `false` before being removed in Synapse v1.73.0.** + +Legacy metric names include: +- metrics containing colons in the name, such as `synapse_util_caches_response_cache:hits`, because colons are supposed to be reserved for user-defined recording rules; +- counters that don't end with the `_total` suffix, such as `synapse_federation_client_sent_edus`, therefore not adhering to the OpenMetrics standard. + +These legacy metric names are unconventional and not compliant with OpenMetrics standards. +They are included for backwards compatibility. + +Example configuration: +```yaml +enable_legacy_metrics: false +``` + +See https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11106 for context. + +*Since v1.67.0.* + +**Will be removed in v1.73.0.** +--- ### `sentry` Use this option to enable sentry integration. Provide the DSN assigned to you by sentry |