While we support initializing records via coercion from an expression
list, e.g.,
local x: X = [$x1=1, $x2=2];
this can sometimes obscure the code to readers, e.g., when assigning to
value declared and typed elsewhere. The language runtime has a similar
overhead since instead of just constructing a known type it needs to
check at runtime that the coercion from the expression list is valid;
this can be slower than just writing the readible code in the first
place, see #4559.
With this patch we use explicit construction, e.g.,
local x = X($x1=1, $x2=2);
Using network_time to calculate packet lag will produce wrong results
when there is no packet available but network time does not (yet) fall
back to wall clock.
Adding a metric for the network time value itself should make it
possible to observe it stopping or growing slowly as compared to
realtime when Zeek isn't able to keep up.
Also, modify the telemetry/log.zeek test to include misc/stats and
log at a higher frequency with a more interesting pcap.
While writing documentation about troubleshooting and looking a bit
at the older stats.log, realized we don't have the packet lag metric
exposed as metric/telemetry. Add it.
This is a Zeek instance lagging behind in network time ~6second because
it's very overloaded:
zeek_net_packet_lag_seconds{endpoint=""} 6.169406 1684848998092
This adds a "policy" hook into the logging framework's streams and
filters to replace the existing log filter predicates. The hook
signature is as follows:
hook(rec: any, id: Log::ID, filter: Log::Filter);
The logging manager invokes hooks on each log record. Hooks can veto
log records via a break, and modify them if necessary. Log filters
inherit the stream-level hook, but can override or remove the hook as
needed.
The distribution's existing log streams now come with pre-defined
hooks that users can add handlers to. Their name is standardized as
"log_policy" by convention, with additional suffixes when a module
provides multiple streams. The following adds a handler to the Conn
module's default log policy hook:
hook Conn::log_policy(rec: Conn::Info, id: Log::ID, filter: Log::Filter)
{
if ( some_veto_reason(rec) )
break;
}
By default, this handler will get invoked for any log filter
associated with the Conn::LOG stream.
The existing predicates are deprecated for removal in 4.1 but continue
to work.
- Added test case and adjusted whitespace in merge
* 'stats-logging-fix' of https://github.com/brittanydonowho/zeek:
Fixed stats.zeek to log all data before zeek terminates rather than return too soon
* "bro_is_terminating" is now "zeek_is_terminating"
* "bro_version" is now "zeek_version"
The old function names still exist for now, but are deprecated.
