Hello, I have Grafana Tempo in a single binary installation. There are 2 replicas of tempo binary.
And the problem is that I got completely different results when I execute the same search query (by traceid) a couple of times. I tried to put query frontend in front of querier but got the same
here is result #1:
The single binary deployment is generally intended as an easy to operate, but not-scalable solution. There are ways to get the single binary be horizontally scalable, but it won’t work that way by default:
Also, note that for any of the scalable solutions to work you will need to use an object storage backend. Local disk will not work.
I’ve switched to simple-scalable, but still have this issue. And sometimes it even says 404 Not found for the traceid and provides the information on the next query run:
This is difficult to diagnose from here. There are multiple situations that could result in the behavior you’re seeing. Can you provide:
Hello @joeelliott .
There are 2 Tempo PODs in the Kubernetes cluster. Also, there are 2 Query Frontend PODs in front of the Tempo. Tempo PODs configured with -target=scalable-single-binary argument.
I’ve tried configuration without QueryFrontend (ingress->K8service->PODs) but got the same result.
Tempo reads data directly from the Kafka topic.
Here is a configuration
multitenancy_enabled: false
search_enabled: true
compactor:
compaction:
compacted_block_retention: 168h
distributor:
receivers:
kafka:
auth:
tls:
ca_file: /tmp/ca.crt
insecure: true
brokers: kafka-cluster-kafka-bootstrap.kafka.svc.cluster.local:9093
client_id: tempo-ingester
encoding: otlp_proto
group_id: tempo-ingester
message_marking:
after: true
on_error: true
protocol_version: 2.8.0
topic: otlp-tracing
ingester:
{}
server:
http_listen_port: 3100
storage:
trace:
azure:
container-name: tempo
storage-account-key: xxxkeyxx
storage-account-name: azurestorageaccount
backend: azure
cache: memcached
memcached:
addresses: dns+memcached:11211
wal:
encoding: snappy
path: /var/tempo/wal
querier:
frontend_worker:
frontend_address: grafana-tempo-query-frontend-discovery:9095
parallelism: 10
max_concurrent_queries: 10
query_frontend:
query_shards: 30
search:
concurrent_jobs: 300
max_duration: 2h0m0s
Regarding system behavior, it can return 404 or the successful result without any pattern. So you can get a couple 404 in raw and then a successful and then 404 again. To me, it looks like related to which Tempo POD is serving my query. Another case is on the first screenshots: when the same query for the same traceid returns completely different results. Again, looks like the whole trace was divided into two parts, And the query returns only the part which is present on Tempo POD that is servicing the query request. What is interesting, is that over time, it starts to return the correct value (of full, joined trace) all the time. When I’ve decreased the number of Tempo PODs to 1 replica everything works correctly.
We have traces from the Nginx ingress controller, Thanos query, and other systems, and the behavior is the same for all of them.
And there are no errors in the log
For Tempo to work when it’s deployed in a scalable fashion (either as scalable single binaries or as microservices) the components have to be aware of each other.
Right now your queriers are only querying the local ingester b/c that’s the only ingester they know exists. This is why the trace returning is conditionally based on which querier pulled the job. If you waited long enough for that trace to be flushed to your azure backend then i would expect it to return everytime instead of 404ing about half the time.
In order for Tempo components to know that the others exist they rely on propagating a data structure called the ring. There are a few of these and each one coordinates a different set of components:
The easiest and most battle tested way to propagate the ring(s) is to use memberlist. This is a gossip protocol and requires no additional components to be deployed. The memberlist configuration requires a list of IPs or a DNS address that resolves to a set of IPs. Example here:
This docker compose example simply lists DNS names for the 3 different shards. If you had a single DNS entry that resolved to all 3 IPs that would work too.
Hopefully this will resolve your issue. If not, let me know!
hello @joeelliott
I have the same issue again and can’t understand where to look at.
But this time I have Tempo in distributed mode.
here is a full config:
compactor:
compaction:
block_retention: 168h
ring:
kvstore:
store: memberlist
distributor:
receivers:
kafka:
auth:
tls:
ca_file: /tmp/ca.crt
insecure: true
brokers: kafka-cluster-kafka-bootstrap.kafka.svc.cluster.local:9093
client_id: tempo-ingester
encoding: otlp_proto
group_id: tempo-ingester
message_marking:
after: true
on_error: true
protocol_version: 2.8.0
topic: otlp-tracing
ring:
kvstore:
store: memberlist
ingester:
lifecycler:
ring:
kvstore:
store: memberlist
replication_factor: 3
tokens_file_path: /var/tempo/tokens.json
memberlist:
abort_if_cluster_join_fails: false
join_members:
- grafana-tempo-tempo-distributed-gossip-ring
metrics_generator_enabled: false
multitenancy_enabled: false
overrides:
per_tenant_override_config: /conf/overrides.yaml
querier:
frontend_worker:
frontend_address: grafana-tempo-tempo-distributed-query-frontend-discovery:9095
query_frontend:
query_shards: 30
search:
concurrent_jobs: 300
max_duration: 72h0m0s
query_backend_after: 15m0s
query_ingesters_until: 1h0m0s
search_enabled: true
server:
grpc_server_max_recv_msg_size: 4194304
grpc_server_max_send_msg_size: 4194304
http_listen_port: 3100
log_format: json
log_level: info
storage:
trace:
azure:
container-name: tempo
hedge-requests-at: 500ms
hedge-requests-up-to: 2
storage-account-key: gWyUSBYvYhrcCXLB9nmLducMpeZ2TURLP6oqW8UzYW4U4KjHmDKW35ivYjiwp8zwjxnZU+ItnRv0+AStvnM5/A==
storage-account-name: monitoring3dtjuup1ejjx76
backend: azure
blocklist_poll: 5m
cache: memcached
local:
path: /var/tempo/traces
memcached:
addresses: dnssrv+_memcache._tcp.memcached
consistent_hash: true
host: ""
service: dns+memcached:11211
timeout: 500ms
wal:
path: /var/tempo/wal
and here is the result of executing 2 requests:
Could you please advise what might be the reason for such behavior?
looks like all good. it was my browser cache
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