out_azure_logs_ingestion: add durable request batching - #12374
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Azure Logs Ingestion output adds opt-in durable buffering with SQLite-backed batching, gzip artifacts, recovery, retries, quotas, metrics, and shutdown handling. Integration tests cover configuration, delivery, corruption, retries, quotas, high volume, and restart behavior. ChangesAzure Logs Ingestion durable batching
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Buffered delivery can retain completed spool data and exhaust its quota, while timeout settings may be corrupted on affected architectures. These issues should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FluentBitFlush
participant AzureLogsIngestionBatch
participant SQLiteAndFstore
participant AzureLogsIngestionEndpoint
FluentBitFlush->>AzureLogsIngestionBatch: format and admit event records
AzureLogsIngestionBatch->>SQLiteAndFstore: persist source files and manifests
AzureLogsIngestionBatch->>SQLiteAndFstore: plan and persist gzip request artifact
AzureLogsIngestionBatch->>AzureLogsIngestionEndpoint: upload request artifact
AzureLogsIngestionEndpoint-->>AzureLogsIngestionBatch: return HTTP status
AzureLogsIngestionBatch->>SQLiteAndFstore: acknowledge, retry, or quarantine request
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| ret = cleanup_expired_receipts(ctx); | ||
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When a buffered output runs longer than buffer_receipt_ttl, expired receipts are never removed because this is the only call to cleanup_expired_receipts() and it runs only during initialization. Every successfully drained source adds another receipt, while manager_recount() charges the growing SQLite database/WAL files against buffer_dir_limit_size; a long-running instance can therefore reach batch buffer full even with no pending sources or requests, and cannot recover without a restart or manual database maintenance.
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If the final sqlite3_prepare_v2() in az_li_batch_admit_chunk() fails, that function returns the positive SQLite error code rather than -1; this check consequently reports FLB_OK and releases the input chunk even though only an orphan source file exists and no row is available to the running planner. Under SQLite I/O, memory, or schema failures, the records remain unsent until a later process restart happens to recover the file, so test ret != 0 or normalize every failure from the admission function.
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When shutdown begins while the timer coroutine is suspended in an upload, this early return does not actually defer destruction at the output layer: flb_output_exit() unconditionally calls flb_output_instance_destroy(ins) immediately after cb_exit returns. The coroutine is then either abandoned as the event loop and scheduler shut down, leaking the spool manager, fstore, upstream, and lock descriptors (which breaks repeated start/stop in an embedding process), or it resumes with ctx->ins already freed; teardown must be completed synchronously or coordinated by an owner whose lifetime extends beyond the output instance.
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plugins/out_azure_logs_ingestion/azure_logs_ingestion_batch.c (1)
1162-1164: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueMove the mid-block declarations to the start of their functions.
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In `@plugins/out_azure_logs_ingestion/azure_logs_ingestion_batch.c`:
- Around line 830-855: Update cleanup_drained_sources() and recover_requests()
so each SELECT’s required column values are copied into owned memory before any
cleanup mutation occurs. Finalize the active SELECT statement before deleting
source/request rows, then iterate over the materialized records and invoke the
existing cleanup operations, including cleanup_acked_request(), while releasing
all allocated memory on success and error paths.
In `@plugins/out_azure_logs_ingestion/azure_logs_ingestion.h`:
- Around line 80-86: Change the time-based configuration fields batch_timeout,
buffer_receipt_ttl, and http_timeout from time_t to int in the relevant
configuration structure so they match the FLB_CONFIG_MAP_TIME int-pointer
contract; leave the non-time fields unchanged.
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In `@plugins/out_azure_logs_ingestion/azure_logs_ingestion_batch.c`:
- Around line 1162-1164: Move the existing_content, existing_size, and
existing_digest declarations, along with any other mid-block declarations, to
the start of each affected function: manager_recount, recover_requests,
az_li_batch_admit_chunk, and plan_request. Preserve their types, initialization,
scope, and behavior while complying with the C declaration-order requirement.
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| while (sqlite3_step(query) == SQLITE_ROW) { | ||
| source_pk = sqlite3_column_int64(query, 0); | ||
| name = (const char *) sqlite3_column_text(query, 1); | ||
| file = flb_fstore_file_get(ctx->batch->fs, ctx->batch->sources, | ||
| (char *) name, strlen(name)); | ||
| if (file != NULL) { | ||
| flb_fstore_file_delete(ctx->batch->fs, file); | ||
| if (sync_directory(ctx->batch->sources->path) == -1) { | ||
| sqlite3_finalize(query); | ||
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| ret = sqlite3_prepare_v2(ctx->batch->manager->db->handler, | ||
| "DELETE FROM azli_sources WHERE source_pk=?", -1, &remove, NULL); | ||
| if (ret != SQLITE_OK) { | ||
| sqlite3_finalize(query); | ||
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| sqlite3_bind_int64(remove, 1, source_pk); | ||
| if (sqlite3_step(remove) != SQLITE_DONE) { | ||
| sqlite3_finalize(remove); | ||
| sqlite3_finalize(query); | ||
| return -1; | ||
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| sqlite3_finalize(remove); | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Materialize rows before mutating the SQLite tables
cleanup_drained_sources() deletes from azli_sources while stepping its SELECT, and recover_requests() calls cleanup_acked_request() while stepping its azli_requests SELECT on the same SQLite connection. SQLite does not guarantee which rows the active statement returns after these deletes, so rows can be skipped and their files, bytes, and quota can remain charged. Copy the required column values into owned memory, finalize each SELECT, then perform the cleanup operations.
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In `@plugins/out_azure_logs_ingestion/azure_logs_ingestion_batch.c` around lines
830 - 855, Update cleanup_drained_sources() and recover_requests() so each
SELECT’s required column values are copied into owned memory before any cleanup
mutation occurs. Finalize the active SELECT statement before deleting
source/request rows, then iterate over the materialized records and invoke the
existing cleanup operations, including cleanup_acked_request(), while releasing
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| time_t batch_timeout; | ||
| size_t batch_max_uncompressed_size; | ||
| size_t buffer_dir_limit_size; | ||
| int upload_retry_limit; | ||
| int upload_retry_base; | ||
| time_t buffer_receipt_ttl; | ||
| time_t http_timeout; |
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Align the time-based config fields with FLB_CONFIG_MAP_TIME
FLB_CONFIG_MAP_TIME writes through an int *, while batch_timeout, buffer_receipt_ttl, and http_timeout are declared as time_t. On targets where time_t is wider than int, especially big-endian targets, the stored values can be incorrect. Declare these fields as int to match the config-map contract.
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In `@plugins/out_azure_logs_ingestion/azure_logs_ingestion.h` around lines 80 -
86, Change the time-based configuration fields batch_timeout,
buffer_receipt_ttl, and http_timeout from time_t to int in the relevant
configuration structure so they match the FLB_CONFIG_MAP_TIME int-pointer
contract; leave the non-time fields unchanged.
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Buffered mode changes more than request sizing: it transfers delivery ownership from the engine to the output plugin. Before enabling it, I would want the persistence, delivery accounting, and full-buffer behavior below addressed. These are source-level observations against bf8dea1; I have not run the integration or fault-injection suites. 1. The artifact commit path does not establish the claimed durabilityThe source admission path calls Directory The ownership handoff needs synchronous persistence of the required file data, metadata, and directory entries before acknowledgement or transmission. Please validate write/sync failures and crash boundaries around artifact/manifest publication. SIGKILL recovery alone does not establish power-loss safety because the kernel's dirty pages survive process termination. 2. Existing success metrics become admission metrics, without replacement delivery accounting
Internal upload retries and quarantine also bypass the engine's retry/drop counters. Azure can be unavailable while processed-record counters increase and reported output latency remains low; records already counted as successful can later be quarantined. The payload-size histograms help measure batching efficiency, but do not replace delivery accounting. Buffered mode needs explicit Azure-accepted requests/records, upload outcomes and retries, quarantine counts, pending bytes/oldest age, and uploader health. The changed meaning of the generic metrics also needs to be documented so existing dashboards and alerts are not silently misleading. The broader telemetry gaps also remain: records per request, HTTP attempt duration, OAuth acquisition duration/outcomes, and bounded failure classifications distinguishing HTTP status from transport/authentication failures. These should use consistent output/DCR/table attribution. Compression ratio and small-request percentages can be derived from the new payload histograms rather than adding redundant metrics. HTTP 2xx still proves API acceptance, not queryability or preservation through DCR transformations; Azure-side reconciliation or an end-to-end canary is needed for that distinction. 3. A failed SQLite admission can still release the engine chunkThe existing review finding appears to remain present: the final That produces Please ensure the flush callback returns 4. Receipt retention can exhaust the quota during healthy continuous operationThe receipt-expiry review finding also remains present: A continuously running output can therefore reach A soak with a short receipt TTL should demonstrate that bookkeeping usage stabilizes and admission continues without reloads or manual database maintenance. Short successful drain/restart tests do not exercise this failure mode. 5. Full-buffer behavior can drop new data and exhaust shared capacityThere are two independent retry policies:
Consequently, indefinite upload retries do not make the overall path lossless. Quarantined data also remains charged, and there is no per-destination reservation in the shared budget: one failing destination can consume capacity needed by healthy outputs. The shared byte budget is application-level accounting, not an OS-enforced filesystem quota. Separate Please document the intended retention/admission-loss policy and quarantine recovery procedure. Test capacity exhaustion with both healthy and failing destinations, including output removal/reconfiguration with queued data so it cannot silently strand capacity. 6. Throughput, resource usage, and cross-output contention need sustained-load validationBuffered mode requires exactly one worker per output, and the uploader handles at most one request per one-second timer callback. Please measure sustained throughput and backlog-drain time, including recovery after an outage, rather than just successful startup at high output counts. The shared-directory mutex covers source reads, JSON assembly, compression probes, and local persistence, not just short database operations. The HTTP upload itself runs outside that lock, but slow local I/O or expensive compression holds up other outputs sharing the directory. Startup/reload tests with many outputs do not establish steady-state isolation. The disk quota does not bound total memory or thread usage. Admission formats the complete incoming chunk before checking available space, retaining formatted records alongside an NDJSON copy; planning adds source copies, JSON candidates, and compression buffers. Even mostly idle workers wake for periodic housekeeping and count against cgroup PID limits or systemd Please test one failing destination alongside healthy ones under sustained traffic, a nearly full spool, and slow storage, then measure how quickly the backlog drains after the failure clears. 7. Recovery must handle corrupt sources and a latched uploader stop
This differs from the implemented quarantine path for corrupt request artifacts and from the PR's general description of corrupt-artifact handling. Please define a recovery policy that preserves damaged data for inspection, accounts for any undeliverable records and retained bytes, and allows unaffected queued data to progress. Add restart tests for both corrupt source metadata and corrupt source contents, not only gzip request artifacts. There is also a runtime recovery requirement: when Stopping may be the correct fail-closed behavior, but it needs a documented recovery procedure and an explicit unhealthy state. Please inject a transient local persistence failure, clear it, and verify that the prescribed recovery restores both queued delivery and new admission. 8. Disabled buffering does not leave the existing send path unchangedThe shared send helper adds payload metrics and applies the new Please document changes to the non-buffered path and validate it explicitly, including slow responses, read-idle timeouts, compression, and existing retry behavior. This is a compatibility concern rather than a reproduced regression; the default-off claim should distinguish unchanged batching from unchanged request behavior. The existing review's time-field typing finding also remains applicable: 9. Aside: investigate worker threads for hot outputs independently of batching
The existing plugin defaults to Compare the current configuration against workers on hot outputs, measuring main-loop responsiveness, delivered throughput, CPU, RSS, file descriptors, and thread count at representative output cardinality. Include token refresh/failure and repeated reloads. Use the worker-enabled existing plugin as a comparison for this PR so improvements from moving work off the main thread are not mistaken for batching gains. Generated with Pi using |
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What this changes
Today, the Azure Logs Ingestion output sends each Fluent Bit engine chunk as its own HTTP request. When chunks are small, Azure receives many small requests instead of fewer requests close to its 1 MiB limit.
This PR adds an optional disk-backed batching mode. When enabled, the output collects records from multiple Fluent Bit chunks and sends gzip-compressed requests close to a configurable target size. The default target is 900,000 bytes, leaving room below Azure's fixed 1,048,576-byte compressed request limit.
Batching is disabled by default. Existing configurations continue to send synchronously as they do today.
Behavior when batching is enabled
Receiving records
When Fluent Bit gives the output a chunk:
FLB_OKto the engine.The output never acknowledges a partially saved chunk. If the disk is full or the local write cannot be completed, it returns
FLB_RETRYso the Fluent Bit engine retains the original chunk.Building Azure requests
The output combines records from multiple saved chunks while preserving their order. It uses the observed gzip ratio to estimate when a candidate should be near the configured compressed target, then compresses it to measure the exact size.
batch_timeoutsends an underfilled request rather than waiting indefinitely.The estimated compression ratio is only used to decide when to measure. Every persisted and transmitted request is checked using its exact compressed size.
Retries and failures
The exact gzip request body is saved before the HTTP request is attempted.
A successful Azure response is recorded before source files are removed.
Restart and hot reload
Saved records and requests survive process restart and Fluent Bit hot reload.
Buffered mode uses one standard Fluent Bit output worker. During hot reload, the old worker finishes or times out its active request, closes the local store, and releases its lock. The replacement output reopens the same directory and continues with any queued or retryable request.
The output does not need to empty the queue before reload.
This has been tested with:
Delivery guarantee
The mode provides at-least-once delivery. If Azure accepts a request but Fluent Bit loses the response before recording the success locally, the same request is sent again and may create duplicates.
Example configuration
compress: trueand a non-zerobuffer_dir_limit_sizeare required when batching is enabled.New configuration options
buffering_enabledfalsebuffer_dir/tmp/fluent-bit/azure-logs-ingestionbuffer_keybuffer_dir. Set it explicitly when output names may change. It may contain letters, numbers,.,_, and-.buffer_dir_limit_size0buffer_dir. Required when batching is enabled. Space for constructing a request is reserved automatically.batch_target_size900000batch_timeout5sbatch_max_uncompressed_size16Mupload_retry_limit0upload_retry_base1buffer_receipt_ttl24hhttp_timeout30sAdditional constraints:
buffer_dirat a time.buffer_keyfor a different Azure destination is rejected so queued data cannot be sent to the wrong DCR or table.Metrics
The PR also adds request-size metrics for both synchronous and buffered sends:
fluentbit_azure_logs_ingestion_uncompressed_payload_size_byteshistogramfluentbit_azure_logs_ingestion_http_payload_size_byteshistogramfluentbit_azure_logs_ingestion_http_payload_size_min_bytesgaugeThey are labeled with the output name and DCR ID. Attempts, including buffered retries, are measured immediately before HTTP.
Validation
src/,include/, orlib/.v5.1.1source compiled successfully with this plugin.Development Azure DCR results:
Dynamic-output checks:
The per-output worker cost should be monitored during the initial canary against the actual number of generated outputs.
Rollout
This remains a draft. The first production test should be a small Linux canary with persistent storage and monitoring for queue age, disk usage, retries, quarantine, hot-reload duration, RSS, thread count, and CPU.