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Refactor Grafana dashboard to use
- Update `synapse_xxx` (server-level) metrics to use
`server_name="$server_name",` instead of `instance="$instance"`
- Add `synapse_server_name_info` metric to map Synapse `server_name`s to
the `instance`s they're hosted on.
- For process level metrics, update to use `xxx * on (instance, job,
index) group_left(server_name)
synapse_server_name_info{server_name="$server_name"}`
All of the changes here are backwards compatible with whatever people
were doing before with their Prometheus/Grafana dashboards.
Previously, the recommendation was to use the `instance` label to group
everything under the same server (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/blob/803e4b4d884b2de4b9e20dc47ffb59a983b8a4b5/docs/metrics-howto.md#L93-L147)
But the `instance` label actually has a special meaning and we're
actually abusing it by using it that way:
> `instance`: The `<host>:<port>` part of the target's URL that was
scraped.
>
> *--
https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/jobs_instances/#automatically-generated-labels-and-time-series*
Since #18592 (Synapse
`v1.139.0`), we now have the `server_name` label to use instead.
---
Additionally, the assumption that a single process is serving a single
server is no longer true with [Synapse Pro for small
hosts](https://docs.element.io/latest/element-server-suite-pro/synapse-pro-for-small-hosts/overview/).
Part of element-hq/synapse-small-hosts#106
### Motivating use case
Although this change also benefits [Synapse Pro for small
hosts](https://docs.element.io/latest/element-server-suite-pro/synapse-pro-for-small-hosts/overview/)
(element-hq/synapse-small-hosts#106), this is
actually spawning from adding Prometheus metrics to our workerized
Docker image (#19324,
#19336) with a more correct
label setup (without `instance`) and wanting the dashboard to be better.
### Testing strategy
1. Make sure your firewall allows the Docker containers to communicate
to the host (`host.docker.internal`) so they can access exposed ports of
other Docker containers. We want to allow Synapse to access the
Prometheus container and Grafana to access to the Prometheus container.
- `sudo ufw allow in on docker0 comment "Allow traffic from the default
Docker network to the host machine (host.docker.internal)"`
- `sudo ufw allow in on br-+ comment "(from Matrix Complement testing)
Allow traffic from custom Docker networks to the host machine
(host.docker.internal)"`
- [Complement firewall
docs](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement/blob/ee6acd9154bbae2d0071a9cb39593c0a5e37268b/README.md#potential-conflict-with-firewall-software)
1. Build the Docker image for Synapse: `docker build -t
matrixdotorg/synapse -f docker/Dockerfile .`
([docs](https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/blob/7a24fafbc376b9bffeb3277b1ad4aa950720c96c/docker/README-testing.md#building-and-running-the-images-manually))
1. Generate config for Synapse:
```
docker run -it --rm \
--mount type=volume,src=synapse-data,dst=/data \
-e SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME=my.docker.synapse.server \
-e SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS=yes \
-e SYNAPSE_ENABLE_METRICS=1 \
matrixdotorg/synapse:latest generate
```
1. Start Synapse:
```
docker run -d --name synapse \
--mount type=volume,src=synapse-data,dst=/data \
-p 8008:8008 \
-p 19090:19090 \
matrixdotorg/synapse:latest
```
1. You should be able to see metrics from Synapse at
http://localhost:19090/_synapse/metrics
1. Create a Prometheus config (`prometheus.yml`)
```yaml
global:
scrape_interval: 15s
scrape_timeout: 15s
evaluation_interval: 15s
scrape_configs:
- job_name: prometheus
scrape_interval: 15s
metrics_path: /_synapse/metrics
scheme: http
static_configs:
- targets:
# This should point to the Synapse metrics listener (we're using
`host.docker.internal` because this is from within the Prometheus
container)
- host.docker.internal:19090
```
1. Start Prometheus (update the volume bind mount to the config you just
saved somewhere):
```
docker run \
--detach \
--name=prometheus \
--add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway \
-p 9090:9090 \
-v
~/Documents/code/random/prometheus-config/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
\
prom/prometheus
```
1. Make sure you're seeing some data in Prometheus. On
http://localhost:9090/query, search for `synapse_build_info`
1. Start [Grafana](https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/grafana)
```
docker run -d --name=grafana --add-host
host.docker.internal:host-gateway -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana
```
1. Visit the Grafana dashboard, http://localhost:3000/ (Credentials:
`admin`/`admin`)
1. **Connections** -> **Data Sources** -> **Add data source** ->
**Prometheus**
- Prometheus server URL: `http://host.docker.internal:9090`
1. Import the Synapse dashboard: `contrib/grafana/synapse.json`
To test workers, you can use the testing strategy from
#19336 (assumes both changes
from this PR and the other PR are combined)server_name label (#19337)1 parent 9b776c6 commit 58f59ff
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