oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/omicron

Capture sled system time in ClickHouse to monitor drifts

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Metrics
Dominant language
Rust
Stars
572
Forks
97
Avg merge
2d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
96

Description

While debugging a customer issue, we realized that the ability to correlate time drifts with system events would be very useful. We saw up to 4 seconds difference between sleds.

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Begin by identifying where sled system time can be collected and where ClickHouse records are written; done means system-time data is captured for sleds so time drift can be correlated with system events.

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Assessment

Tech stack
clickhouse, rust
Domain
databases, observability-sre
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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