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 a label named "endpoint" is not intuitive and requires explaining to
users that it's really just the Cluster::node value. Change the label to
"node", so that we don't need to do the explaining.
This probably breaks some existing users of the Prometheus metrics, but after
looking more at metrics recently, "endpoint" really is a thorn in my eye.
* topic/christian/telemetry-make-bifs-primary:
Telemetry framework: move BIFs to the primary-bif stage
Minor comment tweaks for init-frameworks-and-bifs.zeek
This stops invoking Telemetry::sync() via a scheduled event and instead
only invokes it on-demand. This makes metric collection network time
independent and lazier, too.
With Prometheus scrape requests being processed on Zeek's main thread
now, we can safely invoke the script layer Telemetry::sync() hook.
Closes#3947
This moves the Telemetry framework's BIF-defined functionalit from the
secondary-BIFs stage to the primary one. That is, this functionality is now
available from the end of init-bare.zeek, not only after the end of
init-frameworks-and-bifs.zeek.
This allows us to use script-layer telemetry in our Zeek's own code that get
pulled in during init-frameworks-and-bifs.
This change splits up the BIF features into functions, constants, and types,
because that's the granularity most workable in Func.cc and NetVar. It also now
defines the Telemetry::MetricsType enum once, not redundantly in BIFs and script
layer.
Due to subtle load ordering issues between the telemetry and cluster frameworks
this pushes the redef stage of Telemetry::metrics_port and address into
base/frameworks/telemetry/options.zeek, which is loaded sufficiently late in
init-frameworks-and-bifs.zeek to sidestep those issues. (When not doing this,
the effect is that the redef in telemetry/main.zeek doesn't yet find the
cluster-provided values, and Zeek does not end up listening on these ports.)
The need to add basic Zeek headers in script_opt/ZAM/ZBody.cc as a side-effect
of this is curious, but looks harmless.
Also includes baseline updates for the usual btests and adds a few doc strings.
With Cluster::Node$metrics_port being optional, there's not really
a need for the extra script. New rule, if a metrics_port is set, the
node will attempt to listen on it.
Users can still redef Telemetry::metrics_port *after*
base/frameworks/telemetry was loaded to change the port defined
in cluster-layout.zeek.
Adds base/frameworks/telemetry with wrappers around telemetry.bif
and updates telemetry/Manager to support collecting metrics from
script land.
Add policy/frameworks/telemetry/log for logging of metrics data
into a new telemetry.log and telemetry_histogram.log and add into
local.zeek by default.
