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Deploys run on working days in office hours (an evening hotfix now and then), release tags carry the day of the
deploy, and every page in a packet is the page the starting repo sends: its labels, its title and the rota it
reached come from `then.py`, as they were before this week's queue."""
from __future__ import annotations
import datetime as dt
from . import evidence as ev
from . import then, variety
from .items import Ticket
from .people import by_trait, crew
from .prose_svc import _key, _pd_rows, _thread, ack, alert_ref, header, numbered, page_row, paged_team, person
from .vocab import and_list
from .xscen import http_series, ip, pod_name, pods, rs_hash
def _deploy_line(clock, m, svc, ver, msg) -> str:
t = clock.local(m).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
off = round(clock.off * 60)
return f"{t}{'+' if off >= 0 else '-'}{abs(off) // 60:02d}:{abs(off) % 60:02d} rollouts {svc} {ver} {msg}"
def _clock(w, day: dt.date, hhmm: str) -> ev.Clock:
return ev.Clock(day.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"), hhmm, w.company.utc_offset, w.company.tz_label)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- H05
def h05(item, w, rng) -> Ticket:
s = w.svc(item.p["svc"])
key, inc = _key(w, rng), item.p["inc"]
alert = item.p["alert"]
team = paged_team(w, s.name)
p = crew(w, rng, team, 3)
lab = then.labels(w, alert, s.name)
days = [d for d, _, _ in item.p["canaries"]]
n_canary = len(days)
deploys, pd, slack, clocks, canaries = [], [], [], [], []
for k, (day, hhmm, late) in enumerate(item.p["canaries"]):
clock = _clock(w, day, hhmm)
rs = rs_hash(rng)
canary = pod_name(rng, f"{s.name}-canary", rs)
ver = w.cal.version(day, 1 + (k % 2 if not late else 2))
deploys += [_deploy_line(clock, 0, s.name, ver, f"canary 1/{s.pods} started ({canary}, weight 1%)"
+ (" hotfix" if late else "")),
_deploy_line(clock, 25, s.name, ver, "canary promoted")]
row = page_row(w, rng, clock, 11, lab, 15)
if row is not None:
pd.append(row)
slack += [f"{clock.local(11):%a %H:%M} {then.title(w, lab, receiver_prefix='slack-')}",
f"{clock.local(26):%a %H:%M} {then.title(w, lab, 'resolved', receiver_prefix='slack-')}"]
clocks.append(clock)
canaries.append(canary)
n = 40
last = clocks[-1]
stable = pods(rng, s.name, 2)
raws = http_series(rng, w, s.name, n, [s.rps * 1.3] * (n + 1), [0.002] * (n + 1), 2, pod_names=stable,
post=rng.uniform(0.1, 0.3))
raws += http_series(rng, w, s.name, n, [0.25] * (n + 1), [0.4] * (n + 1), 1, pod_names=canaries[-1:]) # FA-7
path = f"incidents/{inc}"
files = {f"{path}/deploys.log": "\n".join(deploys) + "\n",
f"{path}/pagerduty-incidents.csv": ev.pagerduty_csv(_pd_rows(rng, w, clocks[0], pd)),
f"{path}/slack-alerts.txt": "\n".join(slack) + "\n",
f"{path}/query-range/{s.name}-requests-during-canary.json": ev.query_range(raws, last)}
lb = rng.choice(["0.1", "0.2", "0.3"])
stop = item.p["stopgap"]
stopper = person(w, item.p["person"]).first
was, now = f"{float(s.err_thr) * 100:g}%", f"{float(s.err_thr) * 400:g}%"
when = w.cal.span(days)
count = {3: "Three", 4: "Four", 5: "Five"}[n_canary]
title, body = variety.card(w, "H05", [
(f"{alert_ref(w, item, alert, 'the ' + s.name + ' error-ratio alert')} pages on every canary",
f"{count} pages {when}, each one within a quarter of an hour of a canary going out, each one resolved by "
f"itself when the canary was promoted. The load balancer shows {lb}% errors on {s.name} the whole time. "
f"{p[0].first} has stopped trusting this alert, which is the real problem. "
+ (f"{stopper} raised the threshold from {was} to {now} as a stopgap after the last one ({inc}); see the TODO "
f"on the rule. " if stop else "")
+ f"Deploy log, PD export and the pod-level pull are in `{path}/`."),
(f"{s.name}: false pages at deploy time",
f"Every {s.name} rollout {when} paged {team} for errors the edge never saw ({lb}% at the LB). Canary weight is "
f"1%. `{path}/` has the deploy log lined up with the pages."
+ (f" {stopper} bumped the threshold from {was} to {now} on the rule afterwards; that was meant to be "
f"temporary." if stop else "")),
(f"canary deploys keep paging {team}",
f"{n_canary} canaries of {s.name} {when}, {n_canary} pages, none of them real: the canary takes 1% of traffic "
f"and the LB never went above {lb}% errors. "
+ (f"There's a raised threshold on the rule from {stopper} ({inc}), please don't keep it. " if stop else "")
+ f"Everything lined up in `{path}/`.")])
return Ticket(key, title, body, p[1], files)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- H07
def h07(item, w, rng) -> Ticket:
s = w.svc(item.p["svc"])
day = w.cal.past(rng, 1, 12, weekday=True)
clock = _clock(w, day, "09:00")
key = _key(w, rng)
alert = item.p["alert"]
team = paged_team(w, s.name)
p = crew(w, rng, team, 3)
times = sorted(rng.sample(range(40, 520), 3))
inc = w.cal.inc(day, "09:00", times[-1] + 30)
lab = then.labels(w, alert, s.name)
deploys, pd = [], []
for k, t in enumerate(times):
ver = w.cal.version(day, k + 1)
deploys.append(_deploy_line(clock, t - 11, s.name, ver, f"rolling update started ({s.pods} pods, maxSurge 1)"))
deploys.append(_deploy_line(clock, t - 11 + 2 * s.pods, s.name, ver, "rolling update complete"))
row = page_row(w, rng, clock, t, lab, rng.randint(3, 7))
if row is not None:
pd.append(row)
path = f"incidents/{inc}"
files = {f"{path}/deploys.log": "\n".join(deploys) + "\n",
f"{path}/pagerduty-incidents.csv": ev.pagerduty_csv(_pd_rows(rng, w, clock, pd))}
hm = ", ".join(clock.hm(t) for t in times)
title, body = variety.card(w, "H07", [
(f"{alert_ref(w, item, alert, s.name)} pages at deploy time",
f"Paged at {hm} on {clock.day()}. Every one of them lines up with a rollout in `{path}/deploys.log`, "
f"and every one resolved on its own a few minutes later. The error rate on the LB didn't move. "
f"{p[0].first}: \"I'd rather not mute it, it did catch the bad migration in August.\""),
(f"{s.name} deploys page the on-call",
f"Three pages {w.cal.rel(day)} ({hm}), all during rollouts, none with real errors behind them. "
f"PD export and the deploy log are in `{path}/`."),
(f"three pages, three {s.name} rollouts",
f"{w.cal.rel(day)[:1].upper() + w.cal.rel(day)[1:]} {s.name} shipped three times and {team} got paged three "
f"times, a few minutes into each rollout. Nothing was wrong. `{path}/` has the deploy log and the PD export.")])
return Ticket(key, title, body, p[1], files)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- H22
def h22(item, w, rng) -> Ticket:
s = w.svc(item.p["svc"])
day = w.cal.past(rng, 1, 14, weekday=True)
start = w.cal.office_start(rng, rng.random() < 0.25)
clock = _clock(w, day, start)
key = _key(w, rng)
team = paged_team(w, s.name)
p = crew(w, rng, team, 4)
ver = item.p["version"]
rs = rs_hash(rng)
lines, t = [], 12
lines.append(_deploy_line(clock, t, s.name, ver, f"rolling update started ({s.pods} pods)"))
gens = rng.randint(6, 9)
for g in range(gens):
lines.append(_deploy_line(clock, t + 6 * g + 1, s.name, ver, f"pod {pod_name(rng, s.name, rs)} CrashLoopBackOff, replaced"))
lines.append(_deploy_line(clock, t + 6 * gens + 3, s.name, ver, "rollback to previous revision"))
dur = 6 * gens + 3
inc = w.cal.inc(day, start, t + 14)
path = f"incidents/{inc}"
lb = rng.randint(25, 45)
shape = variety.card(w, "H22:thread", [0, 1, 2])
if shape == 2:
thread = [(clock.hm(t + 12), "incident-bot", f":rotating_light: {inc} declared by @{p[1].handle}: {s.name} rollout"),
(clock.hm(t + 13), p[1].handle, f"{ver} pods crashing on start, {lb}% 5xx at the edge"),
(clock.hm(t + 18), p[3].handle, f"{item.p['alert']} hasn't fired. is it even looking at {s.name}?"),
(clock.hm(t + 22), p[1].handle, "letting it run a bit longer to get a stack trace"),
(clock.hm(t + dur), p[1].handle, "rollback done, recovered")]
elif shape == 0:
thread = [(clock.hm(t + 14), p[0].handle, f"{s.name} error rate on the LB is ~{lb}%, anyone deploying?"),
(clock.hm(t + 16), p[1].handle, f"{ver} is rolling, pods keep getting replaced"),
(clock.hm(t + 19), p[0].handle, f"no page from {item.p['alert']}, and it's clearly above the threshold"),
(clock.hm(t + dur), p[1].handle, "rolled back, errors gone")]
else:
thread = [(clock.hm(t + 13), p[2].handle, f"LB 5xx for {s.name} jumped to {lb}%"),
(clock.hm(t + 15), p[0].handle, by_trait(p[0], terse=f"{ver} crashlooping",
chatty=f"it's {ver}, the new pods crashloop and get replaced one after another",
asks=f"is that {ver}? pods look like they're crashlooping")),
(clock.hm(t + 21), p[2].handle, f"still nothing from pagerduty for {team}"),
(clock.hm(t + 24), p[1].handle, "holding the rollout, want to see the logs first"),
(clock.hm(t + dur), p[0].handle, "rolled back. 5xx back to normal")]
files = {f"{path}/deploys.log": "\n".join(lines) + "\n",
f"{path}/timeline.md": _thread(header(w, rng, inc), thread)}
title, body = variety.card(w, "H22", [
(f"bad {s.name} rollout never paged",
f"{ver} failed for {dur} minutes {w.cal.rel(day)} and {alert_ref(w, item, item.p['alert'], 'the error page')} stayed quiet, while the LB showed "
f"around {lb}% of requests failing. The rollout kept replacing pods the whole time (`{path}/deploys.log`)."),
(f"{alert_ref(w, item, item.p['alert'], 'pager')} silent through a {dur}-minute bad {s.name} deploy",
f"{p[0].first} noticed on the LB dashboard. Thread and deploy log in `{path}/`. We want this paged "
f"next time; README says what the page is meant to look like."),
(f"no page during the {ver} crashloop",
f"{s.name} {ver} crashlooped for {dur} minutes {w.cal.rel(day)}, about {lb}% of requests failed at the LB, and "
f"nobody was paged. Deploy log and thread: `{path}/`.")])
return Ticket(key, title, body, p[2], files)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- H19
def h19(item, w, rng) -> Ticket:
pp = item.p
day = w.cal.past(rng, 2, 14)
start = rng.choice(["02:05", "03:40", "23:15", "01:30"])
clock = _clock(w, day, start)
key = _key(w, rng)
inc = w.cal.inc(day, start, 4)
team = paged_team(w, pp["a1"])
p = crew(w, rng, team, 3)
dba = crew(w, rng, "database-reliability", 1)[0]
rows, slack, fyi, count = [], [], [], 0
for svc, k in pp["pods"].items():
base = then.labels(w, item.ALERT, svc) or {"alertname": item.ALERT, "service": svc, "severity": "page"}
labs, times = [], []
for pod in pods(rng, svc, k + rng.randint(1, 3)):
labs.append({**base, "instance": f"{ip(rng)}:8080", "namespace": w.namespace, "pod": pod})
times.append(3 + rng.random() * 2.5)
per_pod = len(then.group_by(w, labs[0], "slack-")) >= len(labs[0])
# #sre-fyi groups every page the root's way, one line per service
fyi.append((min(times), f"{clock.hm(min(times))} {ev.slack_title('firing', labs, ['alertname', 'service'])}"))
if base.get("team") == team: # the team's own channel
if per_pod: # every pod is its own group: a line (and a page) each
for m, lab in zip(times, labs):
slack.append((m, f"{clock.hm(m)} {then.title(w, lab, receiver_prefix='slack-')}"))
else:
gb = then.group_by(w, labs[0], "slack-")
slack.append((min(times), f"{clock.hm(min(times))} {ev.slack_title('firing', labs, gb)}"))
for i, (m, lab) in enumerate(zip(times, labs)):
pager = then.pager(w, lab)
if pager is not None and lab.get("team") == team and (per_pod or i == 0):
rows.append({"created_on": clock.iso(m), "service_name": f"{pager} (prod)",
"title": then.title(w, lab) if per_pod else ev.slack_title("firing", labs, then.group_by(w, lab)),
"urgency": "high", "status": "resolved", "acknowledged_by": p[0].full if i == 0 else "",
"resolved_on": clock.iso(m + rng.randint(11, 19))})
count += 1
slack.sort()
fyi.sort()
path = f"incidents/{inc}"
files = {f"{path}/pagerduty-incidents.csv": ev.pagerduty_csv(numbered(w, rows)),
f"{path}/slack-{team}-alerts.txt": f"#{team}-alerts\n\n" + "\n".join(x for _, x in slack) + "\n",
f"{path}/slack-sre-fyi.txt": "#sre-fyi\n\n" + "\n".join(x for _, x in fyi) + "\n"}
shape = variety.card(w, "H19:thread", [0, 1, 2])
db = rng.choice(["primary db", "orders-db", "main postgres", "pg-primary"])
if shape == 0:
files[f"{path}/timeline.md"] = _thread(header(w, rng, inc), [
(clock.hm(0), dba.handle, f"starting the {db} failover now, should be ~5 min (announced in #maintenance yesterday)"),
(clock.hm(3), p[0].handle, "phone's going off. a lot."),
(clock.hm(4), p[0].handle, f"{count} pages. all {item.ALERT}, one per pod"),
(clock.hm(5), dba.handle, "expected, connections drop during the promote. done in a sec"),
(clock.hm(7), dba.handle, "promoted, pools reconnecting"),
(clock.hm(10), p[0].handle, f"everything resolved by itself. {pp['a1']} and {pp['a2']} paged once per pod, the other teams once per service?"),
(clock.hm(11), p[0].handle, "ticket for the morning")])
elif shape == 1:
files[f"{path}/timeline.md"] = _thread(header(w, rng, inc), [
(clock.hm(3), p[0].handle, by_trait(p[0], terse=f"{count} pages in two minutes??",
chatty=f"just got {count} pages in two minutes, all for {pp['a1']} and {pp['a2']}",
asks=f"anyone know why I just got {count} pages?")),
(clock.hm(5), p[1].handle, f"db connection errors on every {pp['a1']} pod. is the database down?"),
(clock.hm(9), dba.handle, f"that's the {db} failover, the planned one"),
(clock.hm(10), p[0].handle, "oh, the planned one? nobody told the rota"),
(clock.hm(12), dba.handle, "done now, connections are back")])
body_extra = ""
if shape == 2: # no thread: the on-call wrote it up in the ticket the next morning
body_extra = (f" From the night: the {db} failover started at {clock.hm(0)} (planned, announced in "
f"#maintenance), and within three minutes I had {count} pages, all the same database alert, one per pod of "
f"{pp['a1']} and {pp['a2']}. The DBA had it promoted by {clock.hm(7)} and everything resolved on "
f"its own.")
title, body = variety.card(w, "H19", [
(f"{count} pages for one database failover",
f"The planned failover {w.cal.rel(day)} paged {team} {count} times in about three minutes. Every page was the "
f"same problem on a different pod. Other teams got one page per service. Packet: `{path}/`. "
f"We still want to know when a service can't reach its database, just once per service."),
(f"page storm during the db failover ({team})",
f"{count} PagerDuty incidents in three minutes, one per pod of {pp['a1']} and {pp['a2']}. The PD export, our "
f"alert channel and #sre-fyi from that night are in `{path}/`."),
(f"{team}: one page per pod is too many",
f"A database blip shouldn't page {count} times. {pp['a1']} and {pp['a2']} lost their connections for a few "
f"minutes during the failover and every pod paged on its own; one page per service is what we want. "
f"`{path}/`.")])
return Ticket(key, title, body + body_extra, p[2] if shape != 2 else p[0], files)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- H20
def h20(item, w, rng) -> Ticket:
pp = item.p
day = w.cal.past(rng, 3, 16)
start = rng.choice(["04:10", "12:30", "21:50", "15:05"])
clock = _clock(w, day, start)
key = _key(w, rng)
inc = w.cal.inc(day, start, 5)
p = crew(w, rng, "platform", 3)
cu = then.labels(w, "ClusterUnreachable", None, cluster=pp["c1"]) or {
"alertname": "ClusterUnreachable", "cluster": pp["c1"], "severity": "page", "team": "platform"}
rows = [{"created_on": clock.iso(3), "service_name": f"{then.pager(w, cu) or 'platform'} (prod)", "title": then.title(w, cu),
"urgency": "high", "status": "resolved", "acknowledged_by": ack(w, rng, "platform"), "resolved_on": clock.iso(41)}]
# every service that had pods in c1 that night paged its owner (one incident each: group key alertname, service)
for i, svc in enumerate(pp["packet"]):
s = w.svc(svc)
lab = then.labels(w, f"{s.camel}Down", svc, cluster=pp["c1"])
if lab is None:
continue
row = page_row(w, rng, clock, 4 + 0.2 * i, lab, 37, acked=False)
if row is not None:
rows.append(row)
path = f"incidents/{inc}"
late = pp["late"]
dedupe = then.has_down_dedupe(w)
shape = variety.card(w, "H20:thread", [0, 1, 2])
if shape == 2:
lines = [(clock.hm(4), "incident-bot", f":rotating_light: {inc} declared by @{p[0].handle}: {pp['c1']} unreachable"),
(clock.hm(6), p[0].handle, "cloud provider has a control plane incident for the region"),
(clock.hm(9), p[1].handle, f"{len(pp['packet'])} service pages on top of the cluster one. we can't do anything with those"),
(clock.hm(13), p[2].handle, f"{late} wasn't in it, it moves to {pp['c1']} next week"),
(clock.hm(41), p[0].handle, "provider says mitigated, cluster reachable")]
if dedupe:
lines.insert(3, (clock.hm(10), p[2].handle, "isn't there a Down inhibition for this?"))
elif shape == 0:
lines = [(clock.hm(5), p[0].handle, f"{pp['c1']} control plane unreachable, cloud provider incident open"),
(clock.hm(6), p[1].handle, "why is my phone going off for every service in there"),
(clock.hm(11), p[1].handle, f"{late} is the only one that kept quiet, it doesn't run in {pp['c1']} "
f"until the move next week"),
(clock.hm(40), p[0].handle, f"{pp['c1']} back")]
if dedupe:
lines.insert(2, (clock.hm(8), p[2].handle, "the Down dedupe inhibition was supposed to stop exactly this"))
else:
lines = [(clock.hm(4), p[0].handle, f"ClusterUnreachable for {pp['c1']}, provider status page has an incident"),
(clock.hm(7), p[2].handle, by_trait(p[2], terse="and every service owner in it just got paged too",
chatty="also every team with something in that cluster just got woken up, my phone included",
asks="did everyone with pods there just get paged as well?")),
(clock.hm(12), p[1].handle, f"not {late} though, that one only lands in {pp['c1']} with next week's move"),
(clock.hm(39), p[0].handle, f"provider recovered, {pp['c1']} reachable again")]
if dedupe:
lines.insert(2, (clock.hm(9), p[0].handle, "thought we had an inhibition for exactly this"))
files = {f"{path}/pagerduty-incidents.csv": ev.pagerduty_csv(numbered(w, rows)),
f"{path}/timeline.md": _thread(header(w, rng, inc), lines)}
teams = and_list(sorted({paged_team(w, x) for x in pp["packet"]}))
title, body = variety.card(w, "H20", [
(f"{len(rows)} pages when {pp['c1']} dropped",
f"When {pp['c1']} became unreachable {w.cal.rel(day)}, platform got `ClusterUnreachable`, which is right, "
f"and every service owner with pods there got paged as well, which is what README says shouldn't happen. "
f"{late} has moved into {pp['c1']} since, so next time it would be one more. PD export in `{path}/`."),
(f"service pages during the {pp['c1']} outage",
f"Platform was on it within a minute, but {teams} were woken up for a cluster they can't do anything "
f"about. See `{path}/`."),
(f"cluster outage paged every team",
f"{pp['c1']} was unreachable for about 40 minutes {w.cal.rel(day)}. Only platform can do anything about that, "
f"but every team with something running there got its own page. {late} moved into {pp['c1']} after that "
f"night. PD export: `{path}/`.")])
return Ticket(key, title, body, p[1], files)
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