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This pull request significantly enhances the observability of the dynamic stream component by introducing detailed batch-level metrics. It adds new Prometheus histograms to track the count of events, total bytes, and processing duration for each batch. These additions provide critical insights into the performance and efficiency of event handling, facilitating better monitoring and debugging of the dynamic stream's operational characteristics.

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  • New Batch Metrics: Introduced three new Prometheus histogram metrics: DynamicStreamBatchCount, DynamicStreamBatchBytes, and DynamicStreamBatchDuration to monitor batch processing within the dynamic stream component. These metrics track the number of events, total bytes, and processing duration per batch, respectively.
  • Event Queue Modification: The popEvents function in event_queue.go was updated to return the total number of bytes processed in a batch, enabling more comprehensive metric collection.
  • Metric Integration: Integrated the recording of these new batch metrics into the stream.handleLoop function, ensuring that batch size, byte count, and processing duration are captured and exposed via Prometheus.
  • Metric Labeling: Added an areaStr field to the pathInfo struct, which is used as a label for the new batch metrics, allowing for more granular monitoring.

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This pull request adds batch metrics to dynstream. The changes are generally good, but I've found a critical issue that could cause a panic due to a nil pointer dereference, as well as an issue with an incorrect time unit for a duration metric. Additionally, there's a minor inconsistency in metric labeling that should be addressed for better clarity. My detailed feedback and suggestions are in the comments below.

Comment on lines 286 to 292
metrics.DynamicStreamBatchDuration.WithLabelValues(path.areaStr).Observe(float64(time.Since(start)))
metrics.DynamicStreamBatchCount.WithLabelValues(path.areaStr).Observe(float64(len(eventBuf)))
metrics.DynamicStreamBatchBytes.WithLabelValues(path.areaStr).Observe(float64(nBytes))

if len(eventBuf) == 0 {
eventQueueEmpty = true
continue Loop

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There are two critical issues in this block:

  1. Nil Pointer Dereference: s.eventQueue.popEvents can return a nil path if the event queue is empty. The current code attempts to record metrics using path.areaStr before checking if a batch was actually returned (len(eventBuf) == 0). This will cause a panic if path is nil.

  2. Incorrect Metric Unit: The DynamicStreamBatchDuration histogram expects a value in seconds (as indicated by its buckets), but float64(time.Since(start)) provides nanoseconds. You should use time.Since(start).Seconds() to report the duration correctly.

I've provided a suggestion to fix both issues by checking the batch size before recording metrics and using the correct unit for the duration.

if len(eventBuf) == 0 {
					eventQueueEmpty = true
					continue Loop
				}
				metrics.DynamicStreamBatchDuration.WithLabelValues(path.areaStr).Observe(time.Since(start).Seconds())
				metrics.DynamicStreamBatchCount.WithLabelValues(path.areaStr).Observe(float64(len(eventBuf)))
				metrics.DynamicStreamBatchBytes.WithLabelValues(path.areaStr).Observe(float64(nBytes))

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DynamicStreamBatchCount = prometheus.NewHistogramVec(
prometheus.HistogramOpts{
Namespace: "ticdc",
Subsystem: "dynamic_stream",
Name: "batch_count",
Help: "The number of events in each batch processed by dynamic stream",
Buckets: prometheus.ExponentialBuckets(1, 2, 15), // 1 ~ 16384
}, []string{"module"})
DynamicStreamBatchBytes = prometheus.NewHistogramVec(
prometheus.HistogramOpts{
Namespace: "ticdc",
Subsystem: "dynamic_stream",
Name: "batch_bytes",
Help: "The total bytes in each batch processed by dynamic stream",
Buckets: prometheus.ExponentialBuckets(1024, 2, 18), // 1KB ~ 128MB
}, []string{"module"})
DynamicStreamBatchDuration = prometheus.NewHistogramVec(
prometheus.HistogramOpts{
Namespace: "ticdc",
Subsystem: "dynamic_stream",
Name: "batch_duration",
Help: "The duration of batch each batch in dynamic stream",
Buckets: prometheus.ExponentialBuckets(0.00004, 2.0, 19), // 40us to 10s
}, []string{"module"})

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The new batch metrics are defined with the label module, but they are used with path.areaStr in stream.go. For consistency with other metrics like DynamicStreamMemoryUsage and to accurately reflect what is being measured, the label should be area.

Additionally, the help text for DynamicStreamBatchDuration is slightly ungrammatical. I've included a fix for that as well.

// Other metrics like DynamicStreamMemoryUsage use "area" as a label.
DynamicStreamMemoryUsage = prometheus.NewGaugeVec(
    ...
    []string{"module", "type", getKeyspaceLabel(), "area"})

// The new metrics are used with area string.
metrics.DynamicStreamBatchDuration.WithLabelValues(path.areaStr).Observe(...)
DynamicStreamBatchCount = prometheus.NewHistogramVec(
		prometheus.HistogramOpts{
			Namespace: "ticdc",
			Subsystem: "dynamic_stream",
			Name:      "batch_count",
			Help:      "The number of events in each batch processed by dynamic stream",
			Buckets:   prometheus.ExponentialBuckets(1, 2, 15), // 1 ~ 16384
		}, []string{"area"})
	DynamicStreamBatchBytes = prometheus.NewHistogramVec(
		prometheus.HistogramOpts{
			Namespace: "ticdc",
			Subsystem: "dynamic_stream",
			Name:      "batch_bytes",
			Help:      "The total bytes in each batch processed by dynamic stream",
			Buckets:   prometheus.ExponentialBuckets(1024, 2, 18), // 1KB ~ 128MB
		}, []string{"area"})
	DynamicStreamBatchDuration = prometheus.NewHistogramVec(
		prometheus.HistogramOpts{
			Namespace: "ticdc",
			Subsystem: "dynamic_stream",
			Name:      "batch_duration",
			Help:      "The duration of each batch processed by dynamic stream",
			Buckets:   prometheus.ExponentialBuckets(0.00004, 2.0, 19), // 40us to 10s
		}, []string{"area"})

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