element-hq / element-hq/synapse
Add a metric for the proportion of `pdu_process_time` time spent waiting on remote servers
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Description
This issue has been migrated from [#8083](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8083).
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During processing of inbound events we sometimes need to go and request stuff from remote servers, and so `pdu_process_time` includes that time. This makes it hard to tell if inbound federation is slow because of Synapse being slow or because the remote is being slow.
We should ~remove that time from the metric~ add a new metric.
Contributor guide
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by locating the instrumentation for pdu_process_time and the inbound-federation path that waits on remote servers. Done means a separate metric reports the proportion of processing time spent waiting remotely, without removing the existing metric.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100