icingadb/cmd
Alvar Penning 779afd1da3 Enhance HA "Taking over", "Handing over" logging
The reason for a switch in the HA roles was not always directly clear.
This change now introduces additional debug logging, indicating the
reasoning for either taking over or handing over the HA responsibility.

First, some logic was moved from the SQL query selecting active Icinga
DB instances to Go code. This allowed distinguishing between no
available responsible instances and responsible instances with an
expired heartbeat.

As the HA's peer timeout is logically bound to the Redis timeout, it
will now reference this timeout with an additional grace timeout. Doing
so eliminates a race between a handing over and a "forceful" take over.

As the old code indicated a takeover on the fact that no other instance
is active, it will now additionally check if it is already being the
active/responsible node. In this case, the takeover logic - which will
be interrupted at a later point as the node is already responsible - can
be skipped.

Next to the additional logging messages, both the takeover and handover
channel are now transporting a string to communicate the reason instead
of an empty struct{}. By doing so, both the "Taking over" and "Handing
over" log messages are enriched with reason.

This also required a change in the suppressed logging handling of the
HA.realize method, which got its logging enabled through the shouldLog
parameter. Now, there are both recurring events, which might be
suppressed, as well as state changing events, which should be logged.
Therefore, and because the logTicker's functionality was not clear to me
on first glance, I renamed it to routineLogTicker.

While dealing with the code, some function signature documentation were
added, to ease both mine as well as the understanding of future readers.

Additionally, the error handling of the SQL query selecting active
Icinga DB instances was changed slightly to also handle wrapped
sql.ErrNoRows errors.

Closes #688.
2024-04-02 13:23:11 +02:00
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icingadb Enhance HA "Taking over", "Handing over" logging 2024-04-02 13:23:11 +02:00
icingadb-migrate Use types.MakeString() instead of manual initialization (refactor) 2024-03-25 14:52:54 +01:00