[jira] [Work started] (HBASE-24528) Improve balancer decision observability

["Viraj Jasani (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24528?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Work on HBASE-24528 started by Viraj Jasani.
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> Improve balancer decision observability
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>                 Key: HBASE-24528
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24528
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Admin, Balancer, Operability, shell, UI
>            Reporter: Andrew Kyle Purtell
>            Assignee: Viraj Jasani
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: Screenshot 2020-08-12 at 11.50.43 PM.png, Screenshot 2020-08-15 at 8.08.57 PM.png
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> We provide detailed INFO and DEBUG level logging of balancer decision factors, outcome, and reassignment planning, as well as similarly detailed logging of the resulting assignment manager activity. However, an operator may need to perform online and interactive observation, debugging, or performance analysis of current balancer activity. Scraping and correlating the many log lines resulting from a balancer execution is labor intensive and has a lot of latency (order of ~minutes to acquire and index, order of ~minutes to correlate). 
> The balancer should maintain a rolling window of history, e.g. the last 100 region move plans, or last 1000 region move plans submitted to the assignment manager. This history should include decision factor details and weights and costs. The rsgroups balancer may be able to provide fairly simple decision factors, like for example "this table was reassigned to that regionserver group". The underlying or vanilla stochastic balancer on the other hand, after a walk over random assignment plans, will have considered a number of cost functions with various inputs (locality, load, etc.) and multipliers, including custom cost functions. We can devise an extensible class structure that represents explanations for balancer decisions, and for each region move plan that is actually submitted to the assignment manager, we can keep the explanations of all relevant decision factors alongside the other details of the assignment plan like the region name, and the source and destination regionservers. 
> This history should be available via API for use by new shell commands and admin UI widgets.
> The new shell commands and UI widgets can unpack the representation of balancer decision components into human readable output. 



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