Increased promtail's backoff settings in prod and improved doc #1083
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You need to rebase on gomod. Sorry ! EDIT: Nevermind ! the dependency change was done before :) |
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@cyriltovena I've rebased anyway |
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@cyriltovena I've seen it's approved since a week. If the reason why it doesn't get merged is the change to |
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No I was waiting on gomod PR to be fully tested. |
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What this PR does / why we need it:
The current promtail's backoff configuration starts dropping log entries if the Loki distributor endpoint is unreachable for 3.1s (worst case) - 6.2s (best case). In this PR, I'm proposing to increase the number of retries to 20, which increase the max time the distributor is unavailable before promtail starts dropping logs to the range 51.1s - 81.2s.
Current setup:
Proposed change:
Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Fixes #915
Special notes for your reviewer:
minbackoffguaranteed to be exponential (before it wasn't).Checklist