PMM-14787 Data retention in HA - #5792
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When VictoriaMetrics is deployed separately, retention is a vmstorage start-up flag that only its operator can change, so the Data retention setting silently had no effect on metrics in HA. Add a leader-gated reconcile loop that keeps the retention period of the VictoriaMetrics custom resource in sync with the setting. It runs at startup, on a settings change, and on a one-minute ticker, and it is a no-op outside Kubernetes or when no resource is named. The resource is identified by PMM_VM_CLUSTER_NAME, _NAMESPACE, _API_VERSION, _KIND and _RESOURCE. Writes carry the resourceVersion as an optimistic-concurrency precondition and are retried on conflict, and are attributed to the "pmm-managed" field manager. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
Every node of an HA cluster runs its own qan-api2 against the same ClickHouse, each dropping partitions on its own 24h timer using the --data-retention it last rendered. Only the node that serves a settings change re-renders it, so the effective retention was the shortest stale value held by any node: one that missed an increase kept deleting data the user had asked to keep. qan-api2 now asks the pmm-managed beside it whether this node is the leader before dropping anything, through the same unauthenticated leader health check HAProxy already uses to pick a backend. Anything other than a confirmed 200, including an unreachable pmm-managed, means no deletion; a node that does not apply retention looks again in five minutes instead of waiting out the full day. Leadership alone is not enough, since a promoted node still holds the value it rendered at start-up, so pmm-managed re-renders supervisord configuration when it gains leadership. With high availability disabled the check always reports the leader, so single-container PMM is unchanged.
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Follow-ups from reviewing the vmretention service. Naming a VictoriaMetrics resource is a statement of intent, but every way of getting it wrong was swallowed into a nil client and an info log, leaving metrics retention silently unapplied. Key the opt-out on the resource name alone and let rest.InClusterConfig report the not-in-cluster case; reject a resource with neither kind nor plural name, and an API version that is not group-qualified, since ParseGroupVersion accepts an empty string and a bare version alike and resolves each to the core API group, where a custom resource cannot live. Reset the reconciled latch when Run returns, so a node that lost leadership stops exporting a frozen reconcile timestamp instead of reporting its last term's result indefinitely. Make TestServer fail when the RequestRetentionUpdate call is removed from UpdateConfigurations; the mock previously only permitted it. Correct the startup log, which claimed retention is not applied without an operator while supervisord applies it, and three comments that described behavior the code does not have: the Set error is not returned unwrapped for RetryOnConflict's benefit, and a non-leader node has no reconcile loop whose ticker could apply the setting. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
A named resource that cannot be reached no longer takes PMM down. The chart sets PMM_VM_CLUSTER_NAME on every install, so a cluster that withholds API access reached rest.InClusterConfig, whose failure was fatal. Those three cluster-access failures now carry a sentinel and disable reconciliation instead; a malformed kind or API version is still a typo and still fatal. Note an unmounted token surfaces as a namespace file read error, not rest.ErrNotInCluster, so discriminating on that sentinel in main.go would have missed it. qan-api2 read any non-200 from the leader check as "not the leader", so a renamed route or a broken pmm-managed stopped partition drops everywhere while logging at debug. Only 200 and 400 answer the leadership question; anything else is now an error. Restore the comment above RequestRetentionUpdate, lost when files were restored from a snapshot that predated its correction. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
No behaviour change. The reconcile loop used a resourceVersion precondition that protected nothing: the patch names one field, so it cannot clobber another, and PMM is that field's only declared writer. Worse, a real conflict was made harder to resolve, since the competing value stood until the next tick while PMM's write was rejected. Retention collapses to a string and reconcile becomes get, compare, set. The conflict carve-out in the log throttle goes too, since without a precondition there can be no conflict. Drop PMM_VM_CLUSTER_RESOURCE, which overrode a plural that every CRD the VictoriaMetrics operator ships already matches. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
The same fact - every node runs its own qan-api2 against one shared ClickHouse, so only one may drop partitions - was spelled out in four places. Keep it in leader.go, where the non-obvious part is why that endpoint answers the question, and let the other three state their local mechanics instead. One of the four also claimed the node serving a settings change is the leader, because HAProxy routes by the leader health check. That is typical, not guaranteed: a follower reached directly serves it too, and then nothing re-renders on the leader. Say what the hook covers and what it does not. Drop five comments that restate their identifier. Comments only, no code changed. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
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WalkthroughPMM adds Kubernetes-backed VictoriaMetrics retention reconciliation, leader-aware Query Analytics cleanup, HA service wiring, configuration handling, cancellable partition deletion, tests, dependencies, and updated retention documentation. ChangesRetention coordination
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PMMSettings
participant pmm-managed
participant VictoriaMetrics
participant qan-api2
participant ClickHouse
PMMSettings->>pmm-managed: change retention setting
pmm-managed->>VictoriaMetrics: reconcile retention custom resource
qan-api2->>pmm-managed: check leader health
pmm-managed-->>qan-api2: return leadership status
qan-api2->>ClickHouse: remove old partitions when leader
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managed/services/vmretention/vmretention_test.go (1)
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In `@documentation/docs/install-pmm/install-HA-clustered.md`:
- Around line 722-726: Update both new YAML examples in the pmmEnv documentation
section to use the documentation lint’s required indented code-block style
instead of fenced blocks, preserving their YAML content and indentation.
- Around line 748-750: Update the grep pattern in the kubectl command to match
the logged message “Data retention applied to VictoriaMetrics: ...”, including
its capitalization and wording, so existing retention reconciliation entries are
returned.
In `@managed/cmd/pmm-managed/main.go`:
- Around line 551-570: Update updateSupervisordConfig to accept reform.DBTX
instead of *reform.DB, and pass the context-aware transaction from
applySupervisordConfig by calling it with db.WithContext(ctx). Ensure
models.GetSettings uses that DBTX so settings queries are canceled when the
leader context is canceled.
- Around line 559-565: The ChangeSettings flow currently refreshes only the
local Supervisord configuration, leaving the active leader stale when a follower
handles the update. Route follower settings writes to the active leader or
explicitly notify it to invoke applySupervisordConfig, ensuring qan-api2
receives the updated data-retention value while preserving the existing local
refresh behavior.
In `@managed/services/server/mock_vm_retention_service_test.go`:
- Line 1: Configure Mockery’s boilerplate output to include the required AGPL-3
Percona license header, then regenerate the mock file so the generated header
appears before the existing mockery notice.
In `@managed/services/vmretention/kube.go`:
- Around line 129-134: Update the non-NotFound error return in the resource.Get
flow to wrap err with descriptive context identifying the failed Kubernetes
resource read, using fmt.Errorf with %w. Preserve the existing NotFound handling
and successful obj path.
Apply the same fix in `@managed/services/vmretention/kube.go` around lines 159 -
162: The same missing operation context applies to the retention patch error.
In `@managed/services/vmretention/vmretention_test.go`:
- Around line 34-47: The setup function opens a real database for unit tests via
testdb.Open; replace it with a sqlmock-backed database and configure
expectations for models.UpdateSettings, or move the tests to integration
coverage if migrations are required. Keep the existing cleanup and reform.DB
setup behavior while ensuring no real database connection occurs in setup.
In `@managed/services/vmretention/vmretention.go`:
- Around line 50-61: Update Service and New to store and accept reform.Querier
rather than *reform.DB, while preserving the existing models.GetSettings
behavior so callers can pass either *reform.DB or *reform.TX.
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In `@managed/services/vmretention/vmretention_test.go`:
- Line 50: Update the tests around the context setup to use t.Context() instead
of context.Background() everywhere; for the cancellation case, pass t.Context()
into context.WithCancel. Preserve the existing test behavior while ensuring all
contexts inherit from the test context.
In `@qan-api2/leader_test.go`:
- Line 41: Update the test context passed to shouldApplyRetention in the
relevant test to use t.Context() instead of context.Background(), and derive any
canceled context from t.Context() as well.
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The note claimed the PMM pods run under a service account supplied through serviceAccount.name. They do not: the chart renders serviceAccountName only when serviceAccount.create is true, so with create: false the pods use the namespace default account. Granting the Role to the named account left the 403 in place. Also make the log check usable. Only the leader reconciles, and it logs a standing failure once per leadership term, so a single pod is the wrong place to look. Match on the component field rather than message text, which additionally catches the success line and the message logged when reconciliation is disabled. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
A bare *reform.DB carries context.Background(), so both retention paths read settings with no deadline. In vmretention that silently defeated reconcileTimeout, which bounds the Kubernetes calls but not the query they depend on. In applySupervisordConfig a blocked read could outlive the leadership term it was started for. models.GetSettings already accepts reform.DBTX, so widening the updateSupervisordConfig parameter is enough to pass a context-bound Querier. The Service field stays *reform.DB, because WithContext is not part of the DBTX interface. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
The only query under test is the single settings select, so testdb.Open was starting PostgreSQL to store one duration. go-sqlmock covers it and follows the convention in managed/AGENTS.md. Each sqlmock expectation is fulfilled once, so the test that reconciles twice now takes a database per reconcile instead of sharing one. The package no longer needs a database at all, and its tests drop from 1.5s to under 10ms. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
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NewKubeClient returning anything other than ErrNoClusterAccess used to panic pmm-managed at start-up. In HA every replica reads the same Helm values, so a typo in PMM_VM_CLUSTER_API_VERSION or PMM_VM_CLUSTER_KIND is identical on all of them and the whole cluster crash-loops over a setting that only governs retention. It also contradicted the branch beside it, which held that a retention reconciler must not be able to stop PMM from starting. Both classes now degrade. Collapsing them naively would have been worse than the panic, though: the nil client fell through to New, whose info line claimed retention was applied through the supervisord configuration instead. That is false whenever a resource was named, and supervisord deletes victoriametrics.ini outright when VictoriaMetrics is external, so it pointed at a file that is not there. The message was also logged under component=main, which the troubleshooting recipe on the HA install page does not grep. So the service now owns the reason it is inert. NewDisabled carries it, logs it at error level under component=vmretention, and Run re-announces it on every promotion, the way a reconcile failure already did. New keeps its signature and its info line no longer mentions supervisord. ErrNoClusterAccess had exactly one consumer, the branch being removed, and no test asserted it, so it goes too and the three wraps around it collapse. That also settles the NewKubeClient doc paragraph promising a start-up failure the caller never implemented. Document the four PMM_VM_CLUSTER_* variables, which appeared nowhere outside flag definitions and error strings, and say what a bad value now looks like in the log.
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In `@documentation/docs/install-pmm/install-HA-clustered.md`:
- Around line 756-764: Correct the “Pointing PMM at a different VictoriaMetrics
resource” note to explain that victoriaMetrics.vmstorage.retentionPeriod
configures the deployed VMCluster, or update the chart’s PMM StatefulSet wiring
to set PMM_VM_CLUSTER_NAME to the generated <release-fullname>-vmcluster
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Leader-gating the partition drop made QAN retention fail closed. A wrong --leader-check-url, a wedged pmm-managed, or anything else holding port 7772 means DropOldPartition never runs again, and the only evidence was a warning every five minutes in a log file that rotates. Every pass of the loop now records its outcome: qan_api2_retention_passes_total{result="applied|failed|follower|undetermined"} All four label values are seeded at zero, so an alert on a condition that has never happened reads as zero rather than as no data. The daily interval was measured from the end of the previous drop, so the cadence slipped by however long the drop took; it now runs from the start of the iteration.
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In `@qan-api2/main.go`:
- Around line 297-325: Propagate ctx through the retention drop path: change
runRetentionLoop’s drop callback and invocation, DropOldPartition, and any
intermediate callers to accept context.Context, then replace the partition query
and deletion DB calls with SelectContext and ExecContext using that context so
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An empty namespace does not fail. Namespace("") builds a cluster-scoped
request path, where a namespaced resource can never be found, so every
reconcile would 404 with a message naming the two variables that are
correct. Confirmed by observing what client-go issues: without a
namespace it drops the .../namespaces/pmm/... segment and raises no error.
Both sources are trimmed and the result rejected when empty, not just the
service account file, since a whitespace PMM_VM_CLUSTER_NAMESPACE reaches
the same dead end. Trimming also means a whitespace value counts as unset
and falls back to the projected file, which is why the guard sits after
both sources rather than inside either.
namespaceFile becomes a var so a test can point it elsewhere.
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Any 400 counted as "follower", but 400 is not specific to leadership: the gateway renders InvalidArgument, FailedPrecondition and OutOfRange alike, and anything else on port 7772 can answer 400 too. A foreign one made every node conclude it was a follower, stopping retention cluster-wide, traced only by a debug line a deployed qan-api2 cannot emit. The gRPC code is already on the wire, so the body is read rather than discarded and a follower verdict now requires FailedPrecondition. Anything else is undetermined, which the caller already treats as "do not delete". LeaderHealthCheck sends that code and nothing else, so a change there fails safe. The retention loop's stub sent a bodyless 400, which this correctly reclassifies, so it now sends what pmm-managed actually sends. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
Two of these were latent bugs rather than style. The "pmm-managed unreachable" subtest closed a test server and dialled the address it had just released, while running in parallel with siblings that bind ephemeral ports. Being handed that very port would have answered 200 and failed the require.Error. It now dials a port nothing can listen on. The vmretention setup helper queued a settings read but never asserted ExpectationsWereMet, so the read was optional in every test: SkipsWhenEqual would still have passed if reconcile had stopped reading settings at all, which is the property that helper exists to pin. The rest is what the guides ask for. t.Context() replaces context.Background(); the inline comments move above their statements, and the one on RequestRetentionUpdate is corrected, since Run returns before it can touch the nil db and what the call really exercises is a non-blocking send with nothing draining the channel. server_test.go held its vmretention mock in a variable shared across subtests, reassigned by every newServer call. It is local now, and the assertions reach the mock through the server under test so they cannot inspect another subtest's. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
Review asked for the mock to be returned from newServer, and dea8be6 instead had the assertions reach it through the server under test. The reasoning given for that was wrong: the returned mock is the same object newServer hands to Params.VMRetention, so neither shape can inspect another subtest's mock, and the type assertion used the panicking form, which fails worse than the shape it was meant to improve on. Returning it also keeps the test to the constructor's API rather than the unexported Server.vmRetention field. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
The duration to whole days conversion existed twice, in supervisord's template params and again in vmretention. Both feed the same VictoriaMetrics retentionPeriod by different routes, a supervisord flag when VictoriaMetrics is internal and a custom resource patch when it is external, so a drift in rounding or unit would have made the two disagree. It is a property of the settings value, and Settings already owns nine other derived values, so it lives there now and both callers read it. That also puts the conversion beside fillDefaults, which is what guarantees the whole-day precondition it relies on. DataRetentionHours went with it: no template interpolated it. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
The port was written out in three places and the leader-check route in four, held together only by comments telling the reader to keep them in sync. Neither value had an importable owner: the listen address is a package-level var in pmm-managed's main, and the route is bound by the generated gateway to an unexported pattern rather than to a string. utils/managedapi is that owner now. It sits in utils because qan-api2 already depends on that tree and must not import managed, and because api is generated-only and off limits to managed/models. http1Addr derives from it too, so every Go caller and the listener agree by construction. Two copies remain outside Go and are unaffected: the nginx upstream in build/ansible/roles/nginx/files/conf.d/pmm.conf and a readyz URL in build/ansible/roles/initialization/tasks/main.yml. The port itself is not configurable, having no flag and no environment variable, so the chart cannot vary it either. The route is fixed at build time by the proto annotation, so the constant is a copy of it. A test reads the annotation back off the generated descriptor and fails if the two diverge. The auth exemption in grafana predates this branch and is included because leaving it would keep a fourth copy for the next reader to reconcile. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
golangci-lint reports contextcheck on both calls to updateSupervisordConfig: the chain down to supervisorctl never passes a context. Threading one through would make supervisorctl cancelable, which changes behaviour product-wide. ChangeSettings commits the new settings and only then calls UpdateConfigurations with the gRPC request context, so a client hangup would leave the database holding a retention value supervisord never applied. Suppress the finding instead, and record why the supervisord control path takes no context. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
A canceled context turns both the leader check and the partition drop into errors, so shutting down mid-pass logged "Failed to apply data retention, will retry" at ERROR and counted a failed pass moments before the process exited. Return instead once the context is done, and stop the drop loop rather than collecting one cancellation error per remaining partition. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
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| ```yaml | ||
| pmmEnv: | ||
| PMM_DATA_RETENTION: "2160h" # Adjust based on your retention policy (default: 90 days) | ||
| PMM_DEBUG: "1" |
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I wouldn't add this parameter by default :)
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I've replaced PMM_DEBUG with PMM_METRICS_RESOLUTION, to serve as a better example of customization.
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Review feedback asked for '%s' rather than %q in log and error messages. The five production messages in the package use it now: the three PMM_VM_CLUSTER_* diagnostics in kube.go, and the failed-write error and the applied-retention line in vmretention.go. The %q that remain in the package are testify failure-message arguments rather than messages PMM emits, so they are left as they are. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
The block showed PMM_DEBUG: "1" only because it needed some example once the chart started reserving PMM_DATA_RETENTION. Under a heading about matching monitoring requirements, that read as advice to run with verbose logging on. PMM_METRICS_RESOLUTION is a real tuning knob, is documented on the env_var.md page the block already links to, and lands identically on every replica from one Helm value. Signed-off-by: Ante Gulin <ante.gulin@percona.com>
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PMM-14787
Feature build
Related Helm chart PR: percona/percona-helm-charts#933
Why
PMM has one Data retention setting and two stores behind it. In a single container both are
driven by supervisord program flags rendered from that setting
(
managed/services/supervisord/supervisord.go):--retentionPeriod={days}dvictoriametrics--data-retention={days}percona-qan-api2That works because there is exactly one process per store, one config file, and one writer. HA
breaks both assumptions, and each store breaks differently:
pmm-hachart runs VictoriaMetrics outside the PMM container, sovmParams.ExternalVM()is true and supervisord deletesvictoriametrics.inirather thanrendering it.
DataRetentionDaysis computed and thrown away. The real store is theVMClustercustom resource, whosespec.retentionPeriodcame only from chart values. TheAPI accepted the new value,
GetSettingsechoed it back, the UI displayed it, and nothingdownstream moved.
dropping partitions on its own 24h timer using the
--data-retentionit last rendered, andonly the node that served the settings change re-renders it.
1. Query Analytics retention is now leader-gated
The bug
The per-node flag never propagated, so the effective QAN retention was the shortest stale
value held by any node.
Shortening retention therefore looked like it worked: one node did the destructive work for
everyone. The inverse is where the damage was. A node that missed a retention increase kept
enforcing the old, shorter value once every 24 hours, deleting data the user had explicitly
asked to keep, until that pod happened to restart.
DropOldPartitionlogs its errors at infolevel and returns nothing, so nothing surfaced it.
The fix
Two parts, because leadership alone is not sufficient:
qan-api2/leader.goplusrunRetentionLoopinqan-api2/main.go: before dropping anything, qan-api2 asks the pmm-managed beside it viathe new
--leader-check-urlflag, rendered byleaderCheckURL()insupervisord.go.Only
200(leader) and400(follower) answer the question; any other status, and anunreachable pmm-managed, is an error that logs at warn rather than a silent "not the
leader". Nothing is deleted unless leadership is confirmed. A node that does not apply
retention looks again in 5 minutes rather than waiting out the full day, so leadership
moving mid-cycle costs minutes, not a day.
applySupervisordConfiginmanaged/cmd/pmm-managed/main.gois registered as a leader service. A node promoted laterstill holds the flag it rendered at start-up, so on gaining leadership it re-renders
supervisord configuration from the stored settings, retrying every 30s until it succeeds.
Without this the newly authorised deleter would act on a stale retention period.
With HA disabled the endpoint always reports the leader, so single-container PMM is unchanged.
2. PMM owns metrics retention through the VMCluster resource
Why there is no other option
VictoriaMetrics retention is a vmstorage start-up flag. Its own docs are explicit that VM
"must be restarted when new command-line flags should be applied"; there is no runtime
endpoint.
/api/v1/admin/tsdb/delete_seriescannot delete a time range, only whole series.Retention filters are Enterprise, and still flags.
The only component allowed to restart vmstorage with new arguments is the VictoriaMetrics
operator, and the only way to tell the operator anything is its custom resource.
Why patching the CR is the canonical approach
This is the standard Kubernetes control loop, not a workaround. Desired state lives in a
resource spec; controllers reconcile actual state towards it. Writing
spec.retentionPeriodisthe same interface a human
kubectl patch, an Argo sync, or any other controller would use,and it leaves the operator owning what it should own: the vmstorage StatefulSet and its
rollout. PMM acts as an in-cluster controller over exactly one field.
Every alternative fights the operator instead of using it: editing the StatefulSet directly is
reverted on the operator's next reconcile, and restarting pods or rewriting args in place
bypasses the component whose job that is.
Implementation
New package
managed/services/vmretention/:haService.AddLeaderService, so exactly onenode ever writes to the resource. It runs at start-up, on a settings change
(
RequestRetentionUpdatefromserver.UpdateConfigurations, batched by 3s), and on a1-minute ticker. The ticker is what guarantees convergence; the request is only a fast path
for when the serving node is also the leader.
k8s.io/client-go/dynamic) rather than the operator's typedAPI, so PMM does not vendor the VictoriaMetrics operator. Reviewers should note this adds the
first
k8s.io/*dependencies togo.mod:apimachineryandclient-go.Setsends a JSON merge patch naming onlyspec.retentionPeriod, so thereplica counts and resources the chart declares cannot be disturbed. The write is
last-one-wins on that one field, which is correct because PMM is its only declared writer:
the chart does not set it unless retention is pinned declaratively, and the operator writes
status rather than spec. A value overwritten by anything else is restored on the next tick.
Writes are attributed to field manager
pmm-managed, so ownership is visible inmanagedFields. AGetprecedes every write purely so an unchanged setting does not patchthe resource and make the operator roll vmstorage for nothing.
PMM_VM_CLUSTER_NAMEmeans no client and the service isa no-op, which is how Docker, OVF, AMI and single-container installs behave. Once a name is
given, a malformed one fails at start-up (no kind, or an API version that is not
group-qualified) instead of degrading into a silent nil client that looks identical to a
deployment that never wanted reconciliation. Cluster access is the exception: if the API
cannot be reached at all, PMM logs an error and disables reconciliation rather than refusing
to start, because a cluster may legitimately withhold a service-account token and a retention
reconciler must not be able to take the product down.
PMM_VM_CLUSTER_NAME,PMM_VM_CLUSTER_NAMESPACE(defaults to the pod'snamespace),
PMM_VM_CLUSTER_API_VERSION(defaultoperator.victoriametrics.com/v1beta1),and
PMM_VM_CLUSTER_KIND(defaultVMCluster; the plural is derived from it, soVMSingleworks with no extra configuration). These are read as flags, not stored in settings, and are
added to the
envvarsparser skip list so they do not warn as unknown.Helm chart contract
The chart half is not optional. Without it
PMM_VM_CLUSTER_NAMEis unset, the client is nil,and metrics retention behaves exactly as before this PR. The companion chart PR:
PMM_VM_CLUSTER_NAMEon the PMM StatefulSet, andPMM_VM_CLUSTER_NAMESPACEfrommetadata.namespacevia afieldRef.Rolegranting onlygetandpatch, onvmclustersinoperator.victoriametrics.com, restricted byresourceNamesto the single VMCluster thechart creates. Least privilege: no ClusterRole, no wildcard verbs, no other resource reachable.
The Role is created only when the chart also manages the service account. With
serviceAccount.create: falsethe PMM pods run under the namespace'sdefaultaccount, sothat is the account to grant
getandpatchto, or metrics retention will not change.Documented in
install-HA-clustered.md.victoriaMetrics.vmstorage.retentionPeriodisgone, and
templates/vmcluster.yamlsetsspec.retentionPeriodonly whendataRetentionDaysis given. Declaring it while the UI owns retention would have eachhelm upgradere-assert the chart's value over the user's and PMM overwrite it back within aminute, rolling vmstorage each round. Leaving it undeclared while pinned was equally wrong:
an upgrade strips the field, the operator falls back to its own default, and vmstorage
deletes past that default before PMM patches the pinned value back. The chart now fails the
render with an explanatory message if that value, or
pmmEnv.PMM_DATA_RETENTION, is setdirectly, rather than letting the drift happen quietly.
dataRetentionDays(whole days) rendersPMM_DATA_RETENTION, which PMM already treats as authoritative and which makes the UI fieldread-only, and declares the matching
spec.retentionPeriodso there is no window wherevmstorage runs on anything else. Both stores then follow the pinned value on every node.