On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 4:40 PM Julien Pivotto <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 27 Aug 16:30, Bjoern Rabenstein wrote: > > On 24.08.20 09:35, Brian Brazil wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 16:56, Julien Pivotto <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > On 23 Aug 12:17, Brian Brazil wrote: > > > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 12:08, Julien Pivotto > > > <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Dear developers, > > > > > > > > > > Prometheus has an experimental api V2 in GRPC, which does not get > > > any > > > > > updates. In addition, it is marked experimental, so we could drop > > > it in > > > > > minor releases. > > > > > > > > > > The code itself is quite small, there is (to my knowledge) no > > > > > documentation and no tests. > > > > > > > > > > The feature surface seems to be really small, with only > > > admin-specific > > > > > API's implemented. > > > > > > > > > > At this point, I'd like to see if we could remove that code, and > > > also > > > > > the cmux library we use, which did not get any updated in 2 > > > years, and > > > > > is incompatible with recent releases of GRPC. > > > > > > > > > > > > The plan of record is to remove it whenever 3.0 is released, > > > however if > > > > it's causing us hassle I see no issue with removing it sooner. > > > > > > 1. CMUX > > > > > > That cmux library is using the helloworld package from grpc which is > > > gone. > > > https://github.com/soheilhy/cmux/blob/ > > > 8a8ea3c53959009183d7914522833c1ed8835020/example_test.go#L32 > > > > > > Additionally, the 2.21 fixes some misconfiguration of the cmux that > > > makes prometheus hang on SIGTERM. I hope that the mitigation we have > > > is > > > complete, but the library lacks features like clean shutdown: > > > https://github.com/soheilhy/cmux/issues/39 > > > > > > At the end the repo seems abandoned since 2 years. > > > > > > 2. GRPC > > > > > > We can not update GRPC, partly because of cmux, partly because we are > > > friendly with downstream, cortex, which depends on etcd, which > > > requires an old version of grpc. > > > > > > This is blocking an update of google.golang.org/api, which is used > > > in our GCE discovery. > > > > > > > > > Those sound like good enough reasons to me. > > > > +1 > > Do we want to add in the 2.21 release notes that we will remove it in > 2.22?
Sounds good to me. > > -- > Julien Pivotto > @roidelapluie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/20200827144020.GA601189%40oxygen. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CAM6RFu7R_JWv4b11QnEB1AwhFKFTZgWKBG6N6iHJ6arEMbe4cA%40mail.gmail.com.
