Tilman - done, but apologies for the not very useful link formatting on that tool tip. I'll file a phab bug to improve that. By the way, annotations for the pageview data can be collaboratively edited: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dashiki:PageviewsAnnotations (unlocked for now, we'll limit access if we start having problems).
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks for the update! And BTW kudos also for marking these as annotations in the dashboard at https://vital-signs.wmflabs.org/ (maybe link the incident reports from there as well?)
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Andrew Otto aotto@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
Now that we’ve had a little space to analyze the problem, I wanted to
call
out a recent webrequest data loss issue that we experienced on two
separate
occasions.
We attempted to upgrade to Kafka 0.8.2.1, and it wasn’t until the second attempt that we actually found the problem. Kafka 0.8.2.1 ships with a buggy version of Snappy[1] that causes messages to not be compressed properly. This caused a ~4x increase network and disk I/O around the cluster all at once.
We’ve documented the incidents and the occasions of significant data loss here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150803-Kafka
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150810-Kafka#Co...
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Webrequest
This loss will affect the output of pagecount* and pageview datasets, as well as other webrequest generated statistics. Please consider
statistics
that are generated from webrequest data using the following UTC hours unreliable:
2015-08-03T18:00 - 2015-08-03T23:00 2015-08-10T15:00 - 2015-08-10T21:00 2015-08-11T17:00 - 2015-08-11T18:00
Many apologies for any inconvenience this causes. We’ve learned a lot during this turmoil, and have a lot of ideas on how to hopefully prevent this from happening in the future, and also how to reduce loss and complexity if and when it does. The analytics engineering team will be doing a post mortem on this soon, in which we will document these ideas.
Thanks, -Andrew Otto
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2189
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