Problem: statsd configuration is no longer supported

Solution: remove monitoring code, completes #1138

bigchaindb/__init__.py

@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ config = {
         'granular_levels': {},
         'port': log_config['root']['port']
     },
-    'graphite': {
-        'host': os.environ.get('BIGCHAINDB_GRAPHITE_HOST', 'localhost'),
-    },
 }
 
 # We need to maintain a backup copy of the original config dict in case

bigchaindb/core.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import random
-import statsd
 from time import time
 
 from bigchaindb import exceptions as core_exceptions
@@ -72,8 +71,6 @@ class Bigchain(object):
         if not self.me or not self.me_private:
             raise exceptions.KeypairNotFoundException()
 
-        self.statsd = statsd.StatsClient(bigchaindb.config['graphite']['host'])
-
     federation = property(lambda self: set(self.nodes_except_me + [self.me]))
     """ Set of federation member public keys """
 

bigchaindb/pipelines/block.py

@@ -126,8 +126,6 @@ class BlockPipeline:
         logger.info('Write new block %s with %s transactions',
                     block.id, len(block.transactions))
         self.bigchain.write_block(block)
-        self.bigchain.statsd.incr('pipelines.block.throughput',
-                                  len(block.transactions))
         return block
 
     def delete_tx(self, block):

bigchaindb/pipelines/vote.py

@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ class Vote:
         logger.info("Voting '%s' for block %s", validity,
                     vote['vote']['voting_for_block'])
         self.bigchain.write_vote(vote)
-        self.bigchain.statsd.incr('pipelines.vote.throughput', num_tx)
         return vote
 
 

bigchaindb/web/views/transactions.py

@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ class TransactionListApi(Resource):
             )
 
         with pool() as bigchain:
-            bigchain.statsd.incr('web.tx.post')
             try:
                 bigchain.validate_transaction(tx_obj)
             except ValidationError as e:

docker-compose.benchmark.yml

@@ -22,16 +22,6 @@ services:
       BIGCHAINDB_DATABASE_HOST: mdb
       BIGCHAINDB_DATABASE_PORT: 27017
       BIGCHAINDB_SERVER_BIND: 0.0.0.0:9984
-      BIGCHAINDB_GRAPHITE_HOST: graphite
     ports:
       - "9984"
     command: bigchaindb start
-
-  graphite:
-    image: hopsoft/graphite-statsd
-    ports:
-      - "2003-2004"
-      - "2023-2024"
-      - "8125/udp"
-      - "8126"
-      - "80"

docs/server/source/server-reference/configuration.md

@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ For convenience, here's a list of all the relevant environment variables (docume
 `BIGCHAINDB_DATABASE_KEYFILE`<br>
 `BIGCHAINDB_DATABASE_KEYFILE_PASSPHRASE`<br>
 `BIGCHAINDB_DATABASE_CRLFILE`<br>
-`BIGCHAINDB_GRAPHITE_HOST`<br>
 
 The local config file is `$HOME/.bigchaindb` by default (a file which might not even exist), but you can tell BigchainDB to use a different file by using the `-c` command-line option, e.g. `bigchaindb -c path/to/config_file.json start`
 or using the `BIGCHAINDB_CONFIG_PATH` environment variable, e.g. `BIGHAINDB_CONFIG_PATH=.my_bigchaindb_config bigchaindb start`.
@@ -550,29 +549,3 @@ The port number at which the logging server should listen.
 ```
 
 **Defaults to**: `9020`
-
-
-## graphite.host
-
-The host name or IP address of a server listening for statsd events on UDP
-port 8125. This defaults to `localhost`, and if no statsd collector is running,
-the events are simply dropped by the operating system.
-
-**Example using environment variables**
-```text
-export BIGCHAINDB_GRAPHITE_HOST=10.0.0.5
-```
-
-**Example config file snippet**
-```js
-"graphite": {
-    "host": "10.0.0.5"
-}
-```
-
-**Default values (from a config file)**
-```js
-"graphite": {
-    "host": "localhost"
-}
-```

scripts/benchmarks/README.md

@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# Benchmarks
-
-## CREATE transaction throughput
-
-This is a measurement of the throughput of CREATE transactions through the entire
-pipeline, ie, the web frontend, block creation, and block validation, where the
-output of the measurement is transactions per second.
-
-The benchmark runs for a fixed period of time and makes metrics available via
-a graphite interface.
-
-### Running the benchmark
-
-Dependencies:
-
-* Python 3.5+
-* docker-compose 1.8.0+
-* docker 1.12+
-
-To start:
-
-    $ python3 scripts/benchmarks/create_thoughtput.py
-
-To start using a separate namespace for docker-compose:
-
-    $ COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=somename python3 scripts/benchmarks/create_thoughtput.py
-
-### Results
-
-A test was run on AWS with the following instance configuration:
-
-* Ubuntu Server 16.04 (ami-060cde69)
-* 32 core compute optimized (c3.8xlarge)
-* 100gb root volume (300/3000 IOPS)
-
-The server received and validated over 800 transactions per second:
-
-![BigchainDB transaction throughput](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/125019/26688641/85d56d1e-46f3-11e7-8148-bf3bc8c54c33.png)
-
-For more information on how the benchmark was run, the abridged session buffer [is available](https://gist.github.com/libscott/8a37c5e134b2d55cfb55082b1cd85a02).

scripts/benchmarks/create_thoughtput.py

@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-import sys
-import math
-import time
-import requests
-import subprocess
-import multiprocessing
-
-
-def main():
-    cmd('docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f benchmark.yml up -d mdb')
-    cmd('docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f benchmark.yml up -d bdb')
-    cmd('docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f benchmark.yml up -d graphite')
-
-    out = cmd('docker-compose -f benchmark.yml port graphite 80', capture=True)
-    graphite_web = 'http://localhost:%s/' % out.strip().split(':')[1]
-    print('Graphite web interface at: ' + graphite_web)
-
-    start = time.time()
-
-    cmd('docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f benchmark.yml exec bdb python %s load' % sys.argv[0])
-
-    mins = math.ceil((time.time() - start) / 60) + 1
-
-    graph_url = graphite_web + 'render/?width=900&height=600&_salt=1495462891.335&target=stats.pipelines.block.throughput&target=stats.pipelines.vote.throughput&target=stats.web.tx.post&from=-%sminutes' % mins  # noqa
-
-    print(graph_url)
-
-
-def load():
-    from bigchaindb.core import Bigchain
-    from bigchaindb.common.crypto import generate_key_pair
-    from bigchaindb.common.transaction import Transaction
-
-    def transactions():
-        priv, pub = generate_key_pair()
-        tx = Transaction.create([pub], [([pub], 1)])
-        while True:
-            i = yield tx.to_dict()
-            tx.asset = {'data': {'n': i}}
-            tx.sign([priv])
-
-    def wait_for_up():
-        print('Waiting for server to start... ', end='')
-        while True:
-            try:
-                requests.get('http://localhost:9984/')
-                break
-            except requests.ConnectionError:
-                time.sleep(0.1)
-        print('Ok')
-
-    def post_txs():
-        txs = transactions()
-        txs.send(None)
-        try:
-            with requests.Session() as session:
-                while True:
-                    i = tx_queue.get()
-                    if i is None:
-                        break
-                    tx = txs.send(i)
-                    res = session.post('http://localhost:9984/api/v1/transactions/', json=tx)
-                    assert res.status_code == 202
-        except KeyboardInterrupt:
-            pass
-
-    wait_for_up()
-    num_clients = 30
-    test_time = 60
-    tx_queue = multiprocessing.Queue(maxsize=num_clients)
-    txn = 0
-    b = Bigchain()
-
-    start_time = time.time()
-
-    for i in range(num_clients):
-        multiprocessing.Process(target=post_txs).start()
-
-    print('Sending transactions')
-    while time.time() - start_time < test_time:
-        # Post 500 transactions to the server
-        for i in range(500):
-            tx_queue.put(txn)
-            txn += 1
-        print(txn)
-        while True:
-            # Wait for the server to reduce the backlog to below
-            # 10000 transactions. The expectation is that 10000 transactions
-            # will not be processed faster than a further 500 transactions can
-            # be posted, but nonetheless will be processed within a few seconds.
-            # This keeps the test from running on and keeps the transactions from
-            # being considered stale.
-            count = b.connection.db.backlog.count()
-            if count > 10000:
-                time.sleep(0.2)
-            else:
-                break
-
-    for i in range(num_clients):
-        tx_queue.put(None)
-
-    print('Waiting to clear backlog')
-    while True:
-        bl = b.connection.db.backlog.count()
-        if bl == 0:
-            break
-        print(bl)
-        time.sleep(1)
-
-    print('Waiting for all votes to come in')
-    while True:
-        blocks = b.connection.db.bigchain.count()
-        votes = b.connection.db.votes.count()
-        if blocks == votes + 1:
-            break
-        print('%s blocks, %s votes' % (blocks, votes))
-        time.sleep(3)
-
-    print('Finished')
-
-
-def cmd(command, capture=False):
-    stdout = subprocess.PIPE if capture else None
-    args = ['bash', '-c', command]
-    proc = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=stdout)
-    assert not proc.wait()
-    return capture and proc.stdout.read().decode()
-
-
-if sys.argv[1:] == ['load']:
-    load()
-else:
-    main()

setup.py

@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ install_requires = [
     'pyyaml~=3.12',
     'aiohttp~=2.3',
     'python-rapidjson-schema==0.1.1',
-    'statsd==3.2.1',
 ]
 
 setup(

tests/test_config_utils.py

@@ -304,7 +304,6 @@ def test_autoconfigure_read_both_from_file_and_env(monkeypatch, request, ssl_con
             'granular_levels': {},
             'port': 9020
         },
-        'graphite': {'host': 'localhost'},
     }
 
 

tests/test_core.py

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ def config(request, monkeypatch):
         'keyring': [],
         'CONFIGURED': True,
         'backlog_reassign_delay': 30,
-        'graphite': {'host': 'localhost'},
     }
 
     monkeypatch.setattr('bigchaindb.config', config)