Prometheus启动流程

概述

Prometheus最开始设计是一个面向云原生应用程序的开源的监控&报警工具，之后许多公司和组织接受和采用prometheus，他们便将它独立成开源项目，该项目有非常活跃的社区和开发人员，目前是独立的开源项目，现在最常见的Kubernetes容器管理系统中，通常会搭配Prometheus进行监控。

(资料图片仅供参考)

下面是官网给出的Prometheus架构图：

代码入口

prometheus采用Golang开发语言，其源码官网地址：https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus，服务启动代码入口：cmd/prometheus/main.go

cli参数解析

1、初始化flagConfig结构体

cfg := flagConfig{  notifier: notifier.Options{   // 默认注册器注册 cpu 和 go 指标收集器   Registerer: prometheus.DefaultRegisterer,  },  web: web.Options{   Registerer: prometheus.DefaultRegisterer,   Gatherer:   prometheus.DefaultGatherer,  },  promlogConfig: promlog.Config{}, }

flagConfig结构体定义如下，用于存放cli解析配置信息：

type flagConfig struct { configFile string localStoragePath    string notifier            notifier.Options forGracePeriod      model.Duration outageTolerance     model.Duration resendDelay         model.Duration web                 web.Options tsdb                tsdbOptions lookbackDelta       model.Duration webTimeout          model.Duration queryTimeout        model.Duration queryConcurrency    int queryMaxSamples     int RemoteFlushDeadline model.Duration featureList []string // These options are extracted from featureList // for ease of use. enablePromQLAtModifier     bool enablePromQLNegativeOffset bool enableExpandExternalLabels bool prometheusURL   string corsRegexString string promlogConfig promlog.Config}

2、将cli参数绑定到flagConfig结构体的变量上：

a.Flag("config.file", "Prometheus configuration file path.").  Default("prometheus.yml").StringVar(&cfg.configFile)a.Flag("web.listen-address", "Address to listen on for UI, API, and telemetry.").  Default("0.0.0.0:9090").StringVar(&cfg.web.ListenAddress)a.Flag("web.read-timeout",  "Maximum duration before timing out read of the request, and closing idle connections.").  Default("5m").SetValue(&cfg.webTimeout)...

3、prometheus支持的cli参数可以通过prometheus -h查看，如下图：

比如这里最常见的几个参数：

--config.file:指定prometheus主配置文件路径--web.listen-address:指定prometheus监听地址--storage.tsdb.path:本地存储模式数据存放目录--storage.tsdb.retention.time:本地存储模式存放时间，默认15天--storage.tsdb.retention.size:数据保存的最大大小，支持的单位 B, KB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB. Ex

4、解析cli参数

_, err := a.Parse(os.Args[1:])

os.Args[1:]获取到prometheus启动命令后所有参数信息，a.Parse()方法将命令行参数解析存放到上面初始化的flagConfig结构体的变量里，变量和命令行参数通过上面的a.Flag()方法进行绑定。

配置初始化

1、prometheus.yml合法性校验：config.LoadFile()方法用于解析校验prometheus.yml配置文件

if _, err := config.LoadFile(cfg.configFile, false, log.NewNopLogger()); err != nil { level.Error(logger).Log("msg", fmt.Sprintf("Error loading config (--config.file=%s)", cfg.configFile), "err", err) os.Exit(2)}// Now that the validity of the config is established, set the config// success metrics accordingly, although the config isn"t really loaded// yet. This will happen later (including setting these metrics again),// but if we don"t do it now, the metrics will stay at zero until the// startup procedure is complete, which might take long enough to// trigger alerts about an invalid config.configSuccess.Set(1)configSuccessTime.SetToCurrentTime()

“注意，这里只解析prometheus.yml配置文件只用于校验配置文件合法性，并没有保留解析结果；校验成功后设置prometheus自身监控指标：prometheus_config_last_reload_successful和prometheus_config_last_reload_success_timestamp_seconds，避免prometheus_config_last_reload_successful为0的时间也就是启动的时间足够长可能触发配置无效的告警。

2、存储时长和存储空间容量配置参数初始化：

{ // Time retention settings.    // --storage.tsdb.retention参数已被废弃，不建议使用，如果使用会打印warn警告日志 if oldFlagRetentionDuration != 0 {  level.Warn(logger).Log("deprecation_notice", ""storage.tsdb.retention" flag is deprecated use "storage.tsdb.retention.time" instead.")  cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration = oldFlagRetentionDuration } // --storage.tsdb.retention.time赋值给cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration if newFlagRetentionDuration != 0 {  cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration = newFlagRetentionDuration }    // --storage.tsdb.retention.time和--storage.tsdb.retention.size都为0，即既没有限制存储最大时长，也没有限制存储最大空间容量场景下，默认存储15d(天) if cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration == 0 && cfg.tsdb.MaxBytes == 0 {  cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration = defaultRetentionDuration  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "No time or size retention was set so using the default time retention", "duration", defaultRetentionDuration) } // Check for overflows. This limits our max retention to 100y. // 如果最大存储时长过大溢出整数范围，则限制为100年 if cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration < 0 {  y, err := model.ParseDuration("100y")  if err != nil {   panic(err)  }  cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration = y  level.Warn(logger).Log("msg", "Time retention value is too high. Limiting to: "+y.String()) }}

3、storage.tsdb.max-block-duration参数初始化：

prometheus tsdb数据文件最终会被存储到本地chunks文件中，storage.tsdb.max-block-duration就是限制单个chunks文件最大大小。默认为存储时长的 10%且不超过31d(天)。

{ if cfg.tsdb.MaxBlockDuration == 0 {  maxBlockDuration, err := model.ParseDuration("31d")  if err != nil {   panic(err)  }  // When the time retention is set and not too big use to define the max block duration.  if cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration != 0 && cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration/10 < maxBlockDuration {   maxBlockDuration = cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration / 10  }  cfg.tsdb.MaxBlockDuration = maxBlockDuration }}

组件初始化

1、Storage组件初始化：

/** Prometheus的Storage组件是时序数据库，包含两个：localStorage和remoteStorage．localStorage当前版本指TSDB， 用于对metrics的本地存储存储，remoteStorage用于metrics的远程存储，其中fanoutStorage作为localStorage和remoteStorage的读写代理服务器  */var ( // 本地存储 localStorage  = &readyStorage{} scraper       = &readyScrapeManager{} // 远程存储 remoteStorage = remote.NewStorage(log.With(logger, "component", "remote"), prometheus.DefaultRegisterer, localStorage.StartTime, cfg.localStoragePath, time.Duration(cfg.RemoteFlushDeadline), scraper) // 读写代理服务器 fanoutStorage = storage.NewFanout(logger, localStorage, remoteStorage))

2、notifierManager组件：该组件用于发送告警信息给AlertManager

notifierManager = notifier.NewManager(&cfg.notifier, log.With(logger, "component", "notifier"))

3、discoveryManagerScrape组件：该组件用于服务发现，当前版本支持多种服务发现系统，比如静态文件、eureka、kubertenes等

discoveryManagerScrape  = discovery.NewManager(ctxScrape, log.With(logger, "component", "discovery manager scrape"), discovery.Name("scrape"))

4、discoveryManagerNotify组件：该组件用于告警通知服务发现，比如自动发现AlertManager服务

discoveryManagerNotify  = discovery.NewManager(ctxNotify, log.With(logger, "component", "discovery manager notify"), discovery.Name("notify"))

“discoveryManagerScrape组件和discoveryManagerNotify组件两个组件都是discovery.Manager类型组件，都是通过discovery.NewManager()方式创建，所以它们原理是一样的，因为它们都是用于服务发现。

5、scrapeManager组件：该组件对discoveryManagerScrape组件发现的所有targets进行metrics指标抓取，并将抓取的metrics指标使用fanoutStorage组件进行存储

scrapeManager = scrape.NewManager(log.With(logger, "component", "scrape manager"), fanoutStorage)

6、queryEngine组件：promql查询引擎

// 声明 promql 的引擎配置opts = promql.EngineOpts{ Logger:                   log.With(logger, "component", "query engine"), Reg:                      prometheus.DefaultRegisterer, MaxSamples:               cfg.queryMaxSamples, Timeout:                  time.Duration(cfg.queryTimeout), // 查询超时时 ActiveQueryTracker:       promql.NewActiveQueryTracker(cfg.localStoragePath, cfg.queryConcurrency, log.With(logger, "component", "activeQueryTracker")), LookbackDelta:            time.Duration(cfg.lookbackDelta), NoStepSubqueryIntervalFn: noStepSubqueryInterval.Get, EnableAtModifier:         cfg.enablePromQLAtModifier, EnableNegativeOffset:     cfg.enablePromQLNegativeOffset,}// 初始化queryEnginequeryEngine = promql.NewEngine(opts)

7、ruleManager组件：

//ruleManager组件通过方法rules.NewManager完成初始化．其中rules.NewManager的参数涉及多个组件：存储，queryEngine和notifier，整个流程包含rule计算和发送告警ruleManager = rules.NewManager(&rules.ManagerOptions{ Appendable:      fanoutStorage, Queryable:       localStorage, QueryFunc:       rules.EngineQueryFunc(queryEngine, fanoutStorage), NotifyFunc:      sendAlerts(notifierManager, cfg.web.ExternalURL.String()), Context:         ctxRule, ExternalURL:     cfg.web.ExternalURL, Registerer:      prometheus.DefaultRegisterer, Logger:          log.With(logger, "component", "rule manager"), OutageTolerance: time.Duration(cfg.outageTolerance), ForGracePeriod:  time.Duration(cfg.forGracePeriod), ResendDelay:     time.Duration(cfg.resendDelay),})//scraper.Set(scrapeManager)

8、webHandler组件：该组件用于web服务启动，这样可以通过http方式访问prometheus，比如调用promql语句

// Depends on cfg.web.ScrapeManager so needs to be after cfg.web.ScrapeManager = scrapeManager.webHandler := web.New(log.With(logger, "component", "web"), &cfg.web)

ApplyConfig

prometheus.yml是prometheus核心配置文件，待prometheus.yml配置信息解析到config.Config结构体中，然后调用各个组件定义的ApplyConfig(conf *config.Config)提取自己相关配置数据进行处理：

reloaders := []reloader{ {  name:     "remote_storage",  // 存储配置  reloader: remoteStorage.ApplyConfig, }, {  name:     "web_handler",  // web配置  reloader: webHandler.ApplyConfig, }, {  name: "query_engine",  reloader: func(cfg *config.Config) error {   if cfg.GlobalConfig.QueryLogFile == "" {    queryEngine.SetQueryLogger(nil)    return nil   }   l, err := logging.NewJSONFileLogger(cfg.GlobalConfig.QueryLogFile)   if err != nil {    return err   }   queryEngine.SetQueryLogger(l)   return nil  }, }, {  // The Scrape and notifier managers need to reload before the Discovery manager as  // they need to read the most updated config when receiving the new targets list.  // scrape 和 notifier manager 要在 discovery manager 之前重新加载，因为它们要在获取新的监控目标之前最新配置  name:     "scrape",   // scrapeManger配置  reloader: scrapeManager.ApplyConfig, }, {  name: "scrape_sd",  //从配置文件中提取Section:scrape_configs  reloader: func(cfg *config.Config) error {   c := make(map[string]discovery.Configs)   for _, v := range cfg.ScrapeConfigs {    c[v.JobName] = v.ServiceDiscoveryConfigs   }   return discoveryManagerScrape.ApplyConfig(c)  }, }, {  name:     "notify",  // notifier配置  reloader: notifierManager.ApplyConfig, }, {  name: "notify_sd",  //从配置文件中提取Section:alerting  reloader: func(cfg *config.Config) error {   c := make(map[string]discovery.Configs)   for k, v := range cfg.AlertingConfig.AlertmanagerConfigs.ToMap() {    c[k] = v.ServiceDiscoveryConfigs   }   return discoveryManagerNotify.ApplyConfig(c)  }, }, {  name: "rules",  //从配置文件中提取Section:rule_files  reloader: func(cfg *config.Config) error {   // Get all rule files matching the configuration paths.   var files []string   for _, pat := range cfg.RuleFiles {    fs, err := filepath.Glob(pat)    if err != nil {     // The only error can be a bad pattern.     return errors.Wrapf(err, "error retrieving rule files for %s", pat)    }    files = append(files, fs...)   }   return ruleManager.Update(    time.Duration(cfg.GlobalConfig.EvaluationInterval),    files,    cfg.GlobalConfig.ExternalLabels,   )  }, },}

启动组件

prometheus组件初始化完成，并且完成对prometheus.yml配置中信息处理，下面就开始启动这些组件。

prometheus组件间协调使用了oklog/run的goroutine编排工具，大致逻辑：

var g run.Group//加入goroutine（或者称为 actor）g.Add(...)g.Add(...)//调用Run方法后会启动所有goroutine（或者称为 actor）if err := g.Run(); err != nil { level.Error(logger).Log("err", err) os.Exit(1)}

prometheus启动总共涉及到如下10个协程：

1、优雅退出

// 创建监听退出chanterm := make(chan os.Signal, 1)// pkill信号syscall.SIGTERM// ctrl+c信号os.Interrupt// 首先我们创建一个os.Signal channel，然后使用signal.Notify注册要接收的信号。signal.Notify(term, os.Interrupt, syscall.SIGTERM)cancel := make(chan struct{})g.Add( func() error {  // Don"t forget to release the reloadReady channel so that waiting blocks can exit normally.  select {  case <-term: //监听到系统ctrl+c或kill等程序退出信号   level.Warn(logger).Log("msg", "Received SIGTERM, exiting gracefully...")   reloadReady.Close()  case <-webHandler.Quit()://监听到web服务停止   level.Warn(logger).Log("msg", "Received termination request via web service, exiting gracefully...")  case <-cancel://其它需要退出程序信号   reloadReady.Close()  }  return nil }, func(err error) {  close(cancel) },)

2、discoveryManagerScrape组件启动：抓取scrape组件自动发现targets

g.Add( func() error {  err := discoveryManagerScrape.Run()  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Scrape discovery manager stopped")  return err }, func(err error) {  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Stopping scrape discovery manager...")  cancelScrape() },)

3、discoveryManagerNotify组件启动：告警AlertManager服务自动发现

g.Add( func() error {  err := discoveryManagerNotify.Run()  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Notify discovery manager stopped")  return err }, func(err error) {  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Stopping notify discovery manager...")  cancelNotify() },)

4、scrapeManager组件启动，用于监控指标抓取

g.Add( func() error {  // When the scrape manager receives a new targets list  // it needs to read a valid config for each job.  // It depends on the config being in sync with the discovery manager so  // we wait until the config is fully loaded.  // 当所有配置都准备好  // scrape manager 获取到新的抓取目标列表时，它需要读取每个 job 的合法的配置。  // 这依赖于正在被 discovery manager 同步的配置文件，所以要等到配置加载完成。  <-reloadReady.C  level.Info(logger).Log("cus_msg", "--->ScrapeManager reloadReady")  // 启动scrapeManager  //ScrapeManager组件的启动函数  err := scrapeManager.Run(discoveryManagerScrape.SyncCh())  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Scrape manager stopped")  return err }, func(err error) {  // 失败处理  // Scrape manager needs to be stopped before closing the local TSDB  // so that it doesn"t try to write samples to a closed storage.  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Stopping scrape manager...")  scrapeManager.Stop() },)

5、配置动态加载：通过监听kill -HUP pid信号和curl -XPOST http://ip:9090/-/reload方式实现配置动态加载；

// Make sure that sighup handler is registered with a redirect to the channel before the potentially// long and synchronous tsdb init.// tsdb 初始化时间可能很长，确保 sighup 处理函数在这之前注册完成。hup := make(chan os.Signal, 1)signal.Notify(hup, syscall.SIGHUP)cancel := make(chan struct{})g.Add( func() error {  <-reloadReady.C  for {   select {   case <-hup:    if err := reloadConfig(cfg.configFile, cfg.enableExpandExternalLabels, logger, noStepSubqueryInterval, reloaders...); err != nil {     level.Error(logger).Log("msg", "Error reloading config", "err", err)    }   case rc := <-webHandler.Reload():    if err := reloadConfig(cfg.configFile, cfg.enableExpandExternalLabels, logger, noStepSubqueryInterval, reloaders...); err != nil {     level.Error(logger).Log("msg", "Error reloading config", "err", err)     rc <- err    } else {     rc <- nil    }   case <-cancel:    return nil   }  } }, func(err error) {  // Wait for any in-progress reloads to complete to avoid  // reloading things after they have been shutdown.  cancel <- struct{}{} },)

6、配置加载：通过reloadConfig()方法将prometheus.yml配置文件加载进来

cancel := make(chan struct{})g.Add( func() error {  select {  case <-dbOpen:  // In case a shutdown is initiated before the dbOpen is released  case <-cancel:   reloadReady.Close()   return nil  }  //加载解析prometheus.yml配置文件，并调用各个组件ApplyConfig()方法将配置传入  if err := reloadConfig(cfg.configFile, cfg.enableExpandExternalLabels, logger, noStepSubqueryInterval, reloaders...); err != nil {   return errors.Wrapf(err, "error loading config from %q", cfg.configFile)  }  //配置加载完毕，执行reloadReady.Close()关闭reloadReady.C通道，这样  <-reloadReady.C 阻塞地方可以继续向下执行  reloadReady.Close()  webHandler.Ready()  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Server is ready to receive web requests.")  <-cancel  return nil }, func(err error) {  close(cancel) },)

7、ruleManager组件启动，用于进行rule规则计算：

g.Add( func() error {  <-reloadReady.C  ruleManager.Run()  return nil }, func(err error) {  ruleManager.Stop() },)

8、tsdb模块启动，用户监控数据存储：

opts := cfg.tsdb.ToTSDBOptions()cancel := make(chan struct{})g.Add( func() error {  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Starting TSDB ...")  if cfg.tsdb.WALSegmentSize != 0 {   if cfg.tsdb.WALSegmentSize < 10*1024*1024 || cfg.tsdb.WALSegmentSize > 256*1024*1024 {    return errors.New("flag "storage.tsdb.wal-segment-size" must be set between 10MB and 256MB")   }  }  if cfg.tsdb.MaxBlockChunkSegmentSize != 0 {   if cfg.tsdb.MaxBlockChunkSegmentSize < 1024*1024 {    return errors.New("flag "storage.tsdb.max-block-chunk-segment-size" must be set over 1MB")   }  }  db, err := openDBWithMetrics(   cfg.localStoragePath,   logger,   prometheus.DefaultRegisterer,   &opts,  )  if err != nil {   return errors.Wrapf(err, "opening storage failed")  }  switch fsType := prom_runtime.Statfs(cfg.localStoragePath); fsType {  case "NFS_SUPER_MAGIC":   level.Warn(logger).Log("fs_type", fsType, "msg", "This filesystem is not supported and may lead to data corruption and data loss. Please carefully read https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/storage/ to learn more about supported filesystems.")  default:   level.Info(logger).Log("fs_type", fsType)  }  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "TSDB started")  level.Debug(logger).Log("msg", "TSDB options",   "MinBlockDuration", cfg.tsdb.MinBlockDuration,   "MaxBlockDuration", cfg.tsdb.MaxBlockDuration,   "MaxBytes", cfg.tsdb.MaxBytes,   "NoLockfile", cfg.tsdb.NoLockfile,   "RetentionDuration", cfg.tsdb.RetentionDuration,   "WALSegmentSize", cfg.tsdb.WALSegmentSize,   "AllowOverlappingBlocks", cfg.tsdb.AllowOverlappingBlocks,   "WALCompression", cfg.tsdb.WALCompression,  )  startTimeMargin := int64(2 * time.Duration(cfg.tsdb.MinBlockDuration).Seconds() * 1000)  localStorage.Set(db, startTimeMargin)  time.Sleep(time.Duration(10)*time.Second)  close(dbOpen)  <-cancel  return nil }, func(err error) {  if err := fanoutStorage.Close(); err != nil {   level.Error(logger).Log("msg", "Error stopping storage", "err", err)  }  close(cancel) },)

9、webHandler组件启动，prometheus可以接收http请求：

g.Add( func() error {  if err := webHandler.Run(ctxWeb, listener, *webConfig); err != nil {   return errors.Wrapf(err, "error starting web server")  }  return nil }, func(err error) {  cancelWeb() },)

10、notifierManager组件启动，将告警数据发送给AlertManager服务：

g.Add( func() error {  // When the notifier manager receives a new targets list  // it needs to read a valid config for each job.  // It depends on the config being in sync with the discovery manager  // so we wait until the config is fully loaded.  <-reloadReady.C  notifierManager.Run(discoveryManagerNotify.SyncCh())  level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Notifier manager stopped")  return nil }, func(err error) {  notifierManager.Stop() },)

总结

上面分析的Prometheus启动流程中最为关键的是：通过oklog/run的协程编排工具启动10个协程组件，每个协程组件都有各自功能(见下图):

大致说明：

1、绿色框代表的就是oklog/run工具管理启动的10个启动组件；

2、优雅退出组件：主要用于监听系统发出的kill和Ctrl+C信号，用于Prometheus优雅退出；

3、discoveryManagerScrape和discoveryManagerNotify这两个是服务发现组件，分别用于发现targets和alertmanager服务，通过通道传递给scrapeManager和notifierManager组件，scrapeManager组件拿到targets开始抓取监控指标，notifierManager拿到alertmanager服务发送告警数据；

4、配置加载组件：主要用于加载prometheus.yml配置并初始化到Config结构体中，然后遍历执行reloader，将解析的配置数据Config传递给相关组件进行处理，reloader信息见前面分析的ApplyConfig一节；

5、配置加载完成后会向reloadReady.C通道发送信号，scrapeManager组件、配置动态加载组件、ruleManager组件和notifierManager这四个组件会监听该信号才能执行，即这四个组件依赖配置加载完成，reloader执行完成；

6、TSDB组件：主要用于scrapeManager抓取的监控指标存储时序数据库；

7、webHandler组件：prometheus启动http服务器，这样可以查询到prometheus相关数据，如执行promql语句；

8、动态配置加载：该组件主要在配置加载完成后启动监听kill -HUP或curl -XPOST http://ip:port/-/reload信号，动态重新加载prometheus.yml配置文件；

9、ruleManager组件：ruleManager组件主要用于rule规则文件计算，包括record rule和alert rule规则文件。