metrics: export histograms with delta temporality - #683
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proxy.session.goodput.bucket had grown to ~55M unique series and was timing out every SigNoz query past a ~1w window. The cause is per-host identity on the histogram: host.name alone has 10,854 distinct values, multiplied by 15 bucket boundaries, track, and ~200 client countries. Nothing reads those labels. The experiment evaluator and lantern-dashboard both slice goodput by track and geo.country.iso_code only, and the metric backs 0 dashboards and 0 alerts. They are there because the VPS tags every metric with OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES and SigNoz promotes resource attrs to queryable labels, not because anyone chose per-host goodput. The ops collector can aggregate them away, but only safely on a delta stream: stripping a label from a cumulative stream merges independent monotonic series whose resets interleave, which corrupts rate() silently rather than failing. So switch the exporter to delta for all instrument kinds. Temporality is selected per instrument KIND, so this covers every histogram this binary emits. The only other one with readers is proxy_http_ping_request_duration_seconds, read as a p90 over .bucket by the host_metrics and track_performance_by_volume dashboards; a bucket quantile is computed over per-bucket rates and reads correctly on either temporality. Deploy ordering matters: lantern-cloud reads the paired .count stream with timeAggregation=sum once this ships (delta), where it used increase (cumulative). Mixing them is a ~500x count error, so land the collector and reader changes together and hold experiment_evaluator_autoact_enabled off across the roll. Refs getlantern/engineering#3831
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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This changes OTLP metrics to delta temporality; enabling it before the paired downstream count-query update can substantially overcount sessions and affect evaluator decisions. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness of the required deployment order. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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otel/otel.go (1)
174-175: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 TrivialGate rollout on downstream reader changes.
Deploy the lantern-cloud
.countquery change before enabling this exporter. Keep the experiment evaluator disabled until all hosts report delta temporality. Otherwise, the oldincreasequeries can substantially overcount delta data.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@otel/otel.go`:
- Around line 174-175: Keep the exporter experiment disabled around the
otlpmetrichttp configuration using deltaTemporality until downstream
lantern-cloud .count queries are deployed and all hosts report delta
temporality; enable rollout only after that migration gate is satisfied.
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The temporality switch had no test. Mirrors the coverage added to lantern-box after review feedback there: the selector is what makes the ops collector safe to strip route.id/instance.id/host.name from proxy.session.goodput, and it is also what makes lantern-cloud reading the paired .count stream with timeAggregation=sum correct, so a silent revert to cumulative is expensive in both directions. This package had no test file at all, so the assertion is a direct unit test over every instrument kind rather than an export-path integration test. Mutation-checked against a counter-only selector: fails on Histogram/Gauge/UpDownCounter. Refs getlantern/engineering#3831
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What
Switch the OTLP metrics exporter to delta temporality for all instrument kinds, so histograms (notably
proxy.session.goodput) are delta.Part of getlantern/engineering#3831. Companion PRs: getlantern/lantern-box (same change), getlantern/lantern-cloud (collector + readers), getlantern/lantern-dashboard (query hint).
Why
SigNoz reported
proxy.session.goodput.bucketat ~55M unique time series, timing out every query over a window of ~1 week or longer.Measured cause, from
signoz_check_metric_cardinalityover 7d:host.namehas 10,854 distinct values on this metric, withroute.idandinstance.idin the same range. Times 15 bucket boundaries × track × ~200 client countries.No reader anywhere uses those labels. Audited org-wide (
gh search code --owner getlanternplus every local clone):cmd/api/experiment/signoz.gotrack,geo.country.iso_codeExperimentsOverview.tsxtrack(+ country filter)Plus 0 dashboards and 0 alerts. The identifiers exist only because the host tags every metric via
OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTESand SigNoz promotes resource attributes to queryable labels.The fix is to aggregate them away in the ops collector, but that is only safe on a delta stream. Stripping a label from a cumulative stream merges independent monotonic series whose resets interleave, which corrupts
rate()silently instead of failing. Hence delta here first.Scope note
Temporality is selected per instrument kind at the exporter, so this covers every histogram this binary emits, not just goodput. The only other one with readers is
proxy_http_ping_request_duration_seconds, read as a p90 over.bucketby thehost_metricsandtrack_performance_by_volumedashboards. A bucket quantile is computed over per-bucket rates and reads correctly on either temporality.Deploy ordering (important)
lantern-cloud switches the paired
.countread fromincreasetosumto match delta. The two are not interchangeable: measured on RU over one day of still-cumulative data,sumreturned 3.59e9 sessions whereincreasereturned 7.0e6, a ~500x overcount. An inflated count does not look like an outage; it silently clears every sample floor in the experiment evaluator and the impact ledger.So:
experiment_evaluator_autoact_enabledoff.Testing
go build ./otel/ ./instrument/...andgo vet ./otel/clean. (go build ./...fails ongo-libutpcgo on main, unrelated.)host.name/route.id/instance.idwhileproxy.ioandsystem.cpu.utilizationkeep them./cc @jay-418 @Crosse
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