To prevent flapping peers from endlessly dos-ing us with online and
offline events, we rate limit the number of events we will store per
period using their flap rate to determine how often we will add their
events to our in memory list of online events.
Since we are tracking online events, we need to track the aggregate
change over the rate limited period, otherwise we will lose track of
a peer's current state. For example, if we store an online event, then
do not store the subsequent offline event, we will believe that the
peer is online when they actually aren't. To address this, we "stage"
a single event which keeps track of all the events that occurred while
we were rate limiting the peer. At the end of the rate limting period,
we will store the last state for that peer, thereby ensureing that
we maintain our record of their most recent state.
When dealing with online events, we actually need to track our events
by peer, not by channel. All we need to track channels is to have a
set of online events for a peer which at least contain those events.
This change refactors chanfitness to track by peer.
To get our uptime, we first filter our event log to get online periods.
This change updates this code to be tolerant of consecutive online or
offline events in the log. This will be required for rate limiting,
because we will not record every event for anti-dos reasons, so we could
record an online event, ignore an offline event and then record another
offline event. We could just ignore this duplicate event, but we will
also need this tolerance for when we persist uptime and our peers
can have their last event before restart as an online event and record
another online event when we come back up.
Original PR was written with 4 spaces instead of 8, do a once off fix
here rather than fixing bit-by bit in the subsequent commits and
cluttering them for review.
This commit addresses a bug in the channel event store
where the opened time of a channel event log was not
set for peers that were offline on startup.
Previously, opened time was set to the time of the first
event in the event log. This worked for online peers,
because the eventlog was created with an initial online
event. However, offline peers had no inital event so had
no open time set.
This commit simplifies the creation of an event log by
removing the initial event and setting open time for all
event logs. This has the effect of potentially introducing
a gap between opened time for a log and the first peer
online event for peers with channels that exist at startup
if a peer takes time to reconnect. However, the cost of this
is less than the benefit of reducing the bug-prone custom
code path that was previously in place.
In this commit, the channelEventStore in the channel
fitness subsystem is changed to identify channels
by their outpoint rather than short channel id. This
change is made made becuase outpoints are the preferred
way to expose references over rpc, and easier to perform
queries within lnd.
This commit adds a chanfitness package which will be used to track
channel health and performance metrics. It adds a channel event
structure which will be used to track channel opens/closes and peer
uptime.
The eventLog implements an uptime function which calcualtes uptime
over a given period and a lifespan function which returns the time
when the log began monitoring the channel and, if the channel is
closed, the time when it stopped moitoring it.
