Cache topic configs with configurable expiry - #1949
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ScrapedClusterState.scrape() called the no-arg ReactiveAdminClient describeTopics() and getTopicsConfig() overloads, each of which issued its own listTopics(true). That meant two Metadata requests per scrape tick, and a topic created between the two calls was described but got an empty config list for that cycle. Hoist listTopics(true) into scrape() and pass the resulting name set to describeTopics(names) and getTopicsConfig(names, false). The no-arg overloads had no other callers, so remove them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
getTopicsConfigImpl() deliberately swallows per-resource errors (TopicAuthorizationException, UnknownTopicOrPartitionException, UnknownServerException), so its result map can legitimately omit topics that were described successfully. updateTopics() then wrote configs.getOrDefault(topic, List.of()), replacing configs we already had with an empty list. An empty config list drops InternalTopic.cleanUpPolicy to UNKNOWN, which nulls messagesCount in the topics list and reorders the server-side MESSAGES_COUNT sort. Add mergeTopicConfigs(): freshly fetched configs win, but a topic absent from or empty in the fetched map keeps what we already knew. Apply it in updateTopics(). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every ClustersStatisticsScheduler tick (default 30s, per cluster) described the configs of every topic. Topic configs are cold data - they only change by an explicit admin action - but describeConfigs() is charged per topic on managed Kafka: on AWS MSK every topic in the request becomes its own DescribeTopicDynamicConfiguration CloudTrail event, so reporters see 10-23M events/day and pay for them twice over in CloudTrail and GuardDuty (kafbat#1717). Until now the only lever was kafka.update-metrics-rate-millis, which slows the whole scrape, so operators had to trade consumer-lag freshness to fix a config-fetch problem. This decouples the two. Add kafka.scrape.topic-configs-expiry, overridable per cluster. While it has not elapsed, the scrape carries the previous state's configs forward and describes only topics it has not seen before, so a newly created topic never shows an unknown cleanup policy. A full re-describe resets the window; an incremental fetch deliberately does not, otherwise steady topic churn would postpone the full refresh forever. The cached configs live in ScrapedClusterState rather than behind a TTL in ReactiveAdminClient, so that every existing write-back keeps working: TopicsService.loadTopics already pushes fresh configs into the cached state on create/clone/recreate/alter, and onTopicDelete already removes them. A cache inside the admin client would be invisible to those, so a config edited in the UI would visibly revert on the next scrape. Defaults to zero, i.e. describe on every scrape exactly as before, so this is opt-in and changes no behaviour until configured. Every on-demand path is untouched and still live: the topics list, the topic details config tab, and the read-modify-write in updateTopicConfig. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds global and per-cluster topic-config expiry settings. Scraping now reuses cached state, fetches only required configurations, preserves partial results, and tracks full-refresh time separately from scrape completion time. ChangesTopic configuration refresh
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to With a positive topic-config expiry, the initial scrape may skip fetching configs and leave config-derived values unavailable until the expiry window passes. This is a bounded correctness issue that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant StatisticsService
participant ScrapedClusterState
participant ReactiveAdminClient
StatisticsService->>ScrapedClusterState: scrape cached state with expiry
ScrapedClusterState->>ReactiveAdminClient: listTopics(true)
ScrapedClusterState->>ScrapedClusterState: plan full or incremental refresh
ScrapedClusterState->>ReactiveAdminClient: describe planned topic configs
ScrapedClusterState->>ScrapedClusterState: merge configs with previous state
ScrapedClusterState-->>StatisticsService: return updated cluster state
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- Around line 89-90: Initialize topicConfigsRefreshedAt as null instead of
Instant.EPOCH so plan performs a full refresh on the first scrape for any
positive expiry; add a regression test covering a very long positive
topicConfigsExpiry and confirming configs are fetched initially.
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Force a first refresh for every positive expiry.
Line 90 marks the empty state as refreshed at Instant.EPOCH. If topicConfigsExpiry exceeds the elapsed time since that instant, plan selects an incremental refresh on the first scrape. It then fetches no configs because there are no unseen topics. The scrape stores the topics with empty configs, and later scrapes skip them until expiry.
Use null for the uninitialized timestamp, which plan already handles, or add an explicit uninitialized-state check. Add a regression test with a very long positive expiry.
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In
`@api/src/main/java/io/kafbat/ui/service/metrics/scrape/ScrapedClusterState.java`
around lines 89 - 90, Initialize topicConfigsRefreshedAt as null instead of
Instant.EPOCH so plan performs a full refresh on the first scrape for any
positive expiry; add a regression test covering a very long positive
topicConfigsExpiry and confirming configs are fetched initially.
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Fixes #1717.
ScrapedClusterState.scrape()describes the configs of every topic on every scheduler tick (default 30s, per cluster). Topic configs are cold data — they only change by an explicit admin action — butdescribeConfigsis billed per topic on managed Kafka. On AWS MSK with IAM auth, each topic in the request becomes its ownDescribeTopicDynamicConfigurationCloudTrail event, so volume is:#1717 reports 10–23M events/day, paid for twice over in CloudTrail and GuardDuty. Today the only lever is
kafka.update-metrics-rate-millis, which slows the whole scrape — so operators trade 30s consumer-lag freshness to fix a config-fetch problem. This decouples the two.This is not a rerun of #1657 (
skipDescribeConfigs, declined): nothing is disabled, no feature is lost, and every on-demand path stays live.There is already a precedent for this in the same class
ReactiveAdminClient.ConfigRelatedInfo.extract()ends with.cache(UPDATE_DURATION)whereUPDATE_DURATION = Duration.of(1, ChronoUnit.HOURS).updateInternalStats()runs on every scrape, but ~119 of every 120 calls replay from memory. So broker configs are already treated as hourly-cold, while topic configs are refetched every 30s. This change makes topic configs consistent with that.The change
New
kafka.scrape.topic-configs-expiry(Duration), overridable per cluster:It defaults to zero, so nothing changes until it is configured — call counts at the default are byte-for-byte what they are today.
While the expiry has not elapsed, the scrape carries the previous state's configs forward and describes only topics it has not seen before, so a newly created topic never shows an unknown cleanup policy. A full re-describe resets the window; an incremental new-topic fetch deliberately does not, otherwise steady topic churn would postpone the full refresh forever.
New-topic detection is keyed on presence in
topicStates, not on having non-empty configs.getTopicsConfigImpldeliberately swallowsTopicAuthorizationException, so keying on content would re-describe everyDESCRIBE_CONFIGS-denied topic on every scrape — the exact storm this setting exists to stop.Why the state, not a TTL in ReactiveAdminClient
ScrapedClusterState.topicStates[*].configs()already is the topic-config cache, so a second cache would mean two copies of truth to invalidate in lockstep. Keeping the memory in the state means every existing write-back keeps working with no new invalidation hooks:TopicsService.loadTopicsalready pushes fresh configs into the cached state on create/clone/recreate/alter, andonTopicDeletealready removes them. A cache inside the admin client would be invisible to those, so a config edited in the UI would visibly revert on the next scrape until the TTL expired. It would also be dropped wholesale byAdminClientServiceImpl.invalidateon any Kafka error, causing precisely the full-cluster burst this is meant to avoid.Also included
listTopicsper scrape instead of two.describeTopics()andgetTopicsConfig()each listed topics on their own, so a topic created between the two calls was described but got an empty config list for that cycle. Hoisting the call is also a prerequisite — the refresh plan needs the name set before anything is described.updateTopics()didconfigs.getOrDefault(topic, List.of()), so a partialdescribeConfigsfailure (a swallowed per-resourceTopicAuthorizationException) replaced configs we already had with an empty list. An empty config list dropsInternalTopic.cleanUpPolicytoUNKNOWN, which nullsmessagesCountin the topics list and reorders the server-sideMESSAGES_COUNTsort.mergeTopicConfigs()now keeps what we knew.What can go stale, and what cannot
cleanUpPolicyis the only config-derived field in the OpenAPI spec (Topic,TopicDetails);messagesCountderives from it.retention.*,max.message.bytesandsegment.*appear nowhere in the spec — they are served exclusively by the liveGET /topics/{name}/config.Unaffected: the Settings tab and Edit form (live endpoint), the topic list and details pages (
loadTopicsrefetches live for the visible page), all metrics and consumer lag (InferredMetricsScraper/MetricsScrapernever readconfigs()), and the read-modify-write inupdateTopicConfig→incrementalAlterConfig, which callsgetTopicsConfigImpldirectly and bypasses the cache.Can lag by up to the configured expiry, and only for config changes made outside kafka-ui:
config_*search filters, the CSV export (which reads the cached index with no re-hydration), and the ODD exporter. Changes made through kafka-ui land in the cached state immediately.Deliberately not included
describeLogDirs(the other half of Add Configuration Option to Disable Unnecessary Permission Requests (DescribeLogDirs, DescribeConfigs) #1657). It is O(brokers), not O(topics), so it has none of the per-topic CloudTrail amplification; and it is a measurement, not a setting — serving stale byte counts to the Prometheus endpoint would produce sawtooth series and corruptrate(). Its problem is payload size and latency (UI is unresponsive when fetching (meta)data from large Kafka cluster #1776), which wants per-broker fan-out with concurrency limiting, not a TTL.ScrapePropertiesis the seam a follow-up would extend with alogDirsExpiry.StatisticsinStatisticsCache.replace.LuceneTopicsIndex.find()takes a read lock but never re-checks a closed flag, so closing there would turn a rareAlreadyClosedExceptionrace into a per-tick one. Worth its own PR after the index gets a closed flag.api/src/main/resources/static/openapi/kafbat-ui-api.yamlis not regenerated here, matching the precedent of every recentconfig.tspchange (BE: Add OAuth2 client authentication method support (#1721) #1812, BE: Auth: Add support for OAuth2 with Schema Registry #1645, feat: Add connector-level permissions for Kafka Connect #1541, BE: Make oauth2 field in config optional #1551, BE: Add skip ssl for SR #1518, BE: Switched to extended connectors endpoint #1418).Happy to change the default, the property name (
kafka.scrapevs reviving the currently-unusedkafka.cache), or to split any commit out — the three commits are independent.Is there anything you'd like reviewers to focus on?
kafka.scrapegroup rather than revivingClustersProperties.CacheProperties, whoseenabledandconnectClusterCacheExpiryfields currently have zero usages — putting a per-cluster override on that group would drag dead config into the public surface.kafka.clusters[].metricsalready means something else, so this naming is worth your call.scrape()now takes the previous state. It becomesprevious -> next, which is whatupdateTopics/topicDeletedalready are.StatisticsServiceconsequently readsStatisticsCachebefore writing it; that is safe because the scheduler's task pool is single-threaded andupdateStatistics()blocks, so ticks for one cluster cannot overlap — read at subscribe, write at complete.How Has This Been Tested?
./gradlew :api:check— 715 tests, checkstyleMain and checkstyleTest clean.The only failures in my environment are 6 pre-existing ones that reproduce identically on unmodified
main: threenowsci/samba-domain:latestcontainer-startup failures (ActiveDirectoryLdapTest,ActiveDirectoryLdapsTest,AuditRbacIntegrationTest) and threeKafkaConnectServiceTestsAwaitility timeouts. The latter fail a different method set on every run, onmainas well, so they are flaky timing rather than a regression. I run rootless Podman rather than Docker, which is the likely cause of both.New coverage:
ScrapedClusterStateTest— the refresh policy as a pure function of(previous, currentTopics, expiry, now), so noClockseam is needed: first scrape, expiry elapsed/not elapsed, zero and negative expiry, new-topics-only, that an incremental fetch does not advance the refresh clock, thatDESCRIBE_CONFIGS-denied topics are not re-described every tick, and themergeTopicConfigsrules.ScrapedClusterStateScrapeTest(new) — end to end over a mockedReactiveAdminClientwith call-count assertions: exactly onelistTopicsper scrape, nogetTopicsConfigon a second tick inside the expiry, configs carried forward, anArgumentCaptorproving only the new topic is requested, and a full re-describe when expiry is zero.ClustersPropertiesTest— the default and the cluster-overrides-global resolution.StatisticsServiceTest— against a real broker: configs andcleanup.policysurvive a second scrape inside the expiry withtopicConfigsRefreshedAtunchanged, and a topic created between scrapes gets its configs on the next tick.One documentation note: the new property needs a line on the misc-configuration-properties page in
kafbat/ui-docs.README.mdhas no property table (it links out to the docs site), so there is nothing to change here — happy to raise the docs PR alongside.Summary by CodeRabbit