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40 changes: 35 additions & 5 deletions deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/nginx.conf
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proxy_http_request_time_ms_total = prometheus:counter(
"proxy_cache_http_requests_time_ms_total", "Sum of time elapsed between reading the first bytes from the client and writing a log entry after the last bytes were sent for each request", {"request_method", "cache_status", "http_status"})

{{- /*
`route` distinguishes how a request was served under
consistent-hash routing, and is always "local" when it is off:
local served from this pod's own cache or origin fetch
relayed forwarded to the owner pod, so it paid the peer hop
peer served for another pod that relayed it here
Three bounded values, so this does not add unbounded cardinality.
*/}}
proxy_http_requests_count = prometheus:counter(
"proxy_cache_http_requests_count", "Count of requests with additional labels", {"request_method", "cache_status", "http_status"})
"proxy_cache_http_requests_count", "Count of requests with additional labels", {"request_method", "cache_status", "http_status", "route"})

proxy_http_upstream_requests_count = prometheus:counter(
"proxy_cache_http_upstream_requests_count", "Count of upstream requests with additional labels", {"request_method", "cache_status", "http_status"})
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"proxy_cache_response_body_size_bytes", "Number of bytes sent to client, not counting the response header", {"cache_status", "http_status"})

proxy_cache_throughput = prometheus:histogram(
"proxy_cache_throughput", "Throughput of proxy cache(bytes/msec)", {"cache_status", "http_status"}, { {{ $.Values.metrics.throughputHistogramBuckets | default "25000000, 30000000, 35000000, 40000000, 50000000, 60000000, 80000000, 100000000" }} })
"proxy_cache_throughput", "Throughput of proxy cache(bytes/msec)", {"cache_status", "http_status", "route"}, { {{ $.Values.metrics.throughputHistogramBuckets | default "25000000, 30000000, 35000000, 40000000, 50000000, 60000000, 80000000, 100000000" }} })
proxy_cache_upstream_throughput = prometheus:histogram(
"proxy_cache_upstream_throughput", "Throughput of upstream server(bytes/msec)", {"host", "http_status"}, { {{ $.Values.metrics.throughputHistogramBuckets | default "25000000, 30000000, 35000000, 40000000, 50000000, 60000000, 80000000, 100000000" }} })
metric_latency = prometheus:histogram("proxy_cache_request_duration_seconds", "HTTP request latency", {"host", "request_method", "cache_status", "http_status"}, {0.005, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10})
metric_upstream_latency = prometheus:histogram("proxy_cache_upstream_request_duration_seconds", "HTTP request latency", {"host", "request_method", "cache_status", "http_status"}, {0.005, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10})
{{- /*
Duration buckets must cover a whole object transfer, not an API
call. These are multi-hundred-MB model files, so a request that
takes tens of seconds is normal and says nothing about cache
health. With a 10s top bucket a large share of traffic landed in
+Inf, and histogram_quantile clamps at the last finite bucket, so
any reported high quantile was the bucket edge rather than a
measurement. Buckets past 10s exist to make those quantiles real.
*/}}
metric_latency = prometheus:histogram("proxy_cache_request_duration_seconds", "HTTP request latency", {"host", "request_method", "cache_status", "http_status", "route"}, { {{ $.Values.metrics.durationHistogramBuckets | default "0.005, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, 300, 600" }} })
metric_upstream_latency = prometheus:histogram("proxy_cache_upstream_request_duration_seconds", "HTTP request latency", {"host", "request_method", "cache_status", "http_status"}, { {{ $.Values.metrics.durationHistogramBuckets | default "0.005, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, 300, 600" }} })
metric_connections = prometheus:gauge("nginx_http_connections", "Number of HTTP connections", {"state"})
metric_response_sizes = prometheus:histogram("proxy_cache_response_size_bytes", "Size of HTTP responses", nil,{1000,2000,4000,8000,16000,32000,64000,128000,256000,1048576, 10485760, 104857600, 1000000000, 10000000000, 100000000000})
{{- /*
Response-size buckets previously jumped 100MB -> 1GB -> 10GB, so
essentially all model traffic fell in a single bucket and the
distribution was unreadable. The added steps give resolution
across the range these objects actually occupy.
*/}}
metric_response_sizes = prometheus:histogram("proxy_cache_response_size_bytes", "Size of HTTP responses", nil, { {{ $.Values.metrics.responseSizeHistogramBuckets | default "1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000, 32000, 64000, 128000, 256000, 1048576, 10485760, 104857600, 268435456, 536870912, 805306368, 1073741824, 2147483648, 5368709120, 10737418240, 107374182400" }} })

instance_info = prometheus:gauge("proxy_cache_instance_info", "Information about proxy cache instance", {"chart_version"})
instance_info:set(1, { "{{ $.Chart.Version }}" })
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{{- if gt $n 1 }}
server {{ $.Release.Name }}-peer-{{ mod (add $i 1) $n }}.{{ $.Release.Namespace }}.svc.cluster.local:{{ $port }} backup;
{{- end }}
# Keep idle connections to the peer. Without this every relayed
# request pays a fresh TCP and TLS handshake, which is worst for the
# many small Range requests the hash spreads across owners.
# @cc_relay must also send `Connection ""` for these to be reused.
keepalive {{ ($.Values.consistentHashRouting).peerKeepaliveConnections | default 32 }};
keepalive_timeout {{ ($.Values.consistentHashRouting).peerKeepaliveTimeout | default "60s" }};
keepalive_requests {{ ($.Values.consistentHashRouting).peerKeepaliveRequests | default 1000 }};
}
{{- end }}
{{- end }}
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53 changes: 47 additions & 6 deletions deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/proxy-common.conf
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local upstream_time = tonumber(ngx.var.upstream_response_time)
local host = ngx.var.host

-- How this request was served. Peer routing is optional, and when
-- it is off every request is served here, so "local" is accurate
-- and the lookup below is not emitted at all. The routing variable
-- is only declared when routing is enabled, and reading an
-- undeclared variable raises in OpenResty.
local route = "local"
{{- if ($.Values.consistentHashRouting).enabled }}
-- Non-empty owner means the route helper sent this to a peer, so it
-- paid the relay hop. The inbound relay marker means this pod is the
-- owner answering for a peer.
local cc_owner = ngx.var.cc_owner
if cc_owner ~= nil and cc_owner ~= "" then
route = "relayed"
elseif ngx.var.http_x_nvcf_cc_relayed == "1" then
route = "peer"
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Classify relay-cache hits as local.

Lines 45-49 set route to relayed whenever cc_owner is non-empty. Lines 186-189 now let @cc_relay serve a local cache hit without contacting the owner. That hit still reports relayed, so route metrics overstate peer-hop traffic.

Derive route from the final cache or upstream outcome. Treat cache-served relay responses as local. Add a request test for both a relay-cache hit and miss.

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In `@deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/proxy-common.conf` around lines 45 -
49, Update the route classification around cc_owner and the `@cc_relay` handling
so a response served from the relay cache is reported as local, while
relay-cache misses retain the appropriate relayed or peer classification based
on the final upstream outcome. Add request coverage for both relay-cache hit and
miss cases, validating the reported route metric.

end
{{- end }}

if request_uri ~= nil and cache_status ~= nil and remote_addr ~= nil and not string.find(request_uri, "manifest") then
if request_time ~= nil and request_time > 0 then
proxy_http_request_time_ms_total:inc(request_time, {request_method, cache_status, http_status})
proxy_http_requests_count:inc(1, {request_method, cache_status, http_status})
proxy_http_requests_count:inc(1, {request_method, cache_status, http_status, route})

metric_latency:observe(request_time, {host, request_method, cache_status, http_status})
metric_latency:observe(request_time, {host, request_method, cache_status, http_status, route})
if body_size ~= nil then
proxy_cache_throughput:observe(body_size / request_time, {cache_status, http_status})
proxy_cache_throughput:observe(body_size / request_time, {cache_status, http_status, route})
if upstream_time ~= nil and upstream_time > 0 then
proxy_cache_upstream_throughput:observe(body_size / upstream_time, {host, http_status})
metric_upstream_latency:observe(upstream_time, {host, request_method, cache_status, http_status})
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# every block, so the relay location is not duplicated per block.
set $cc_owner "";
location @cc_relay {
# Relay to the owner pod: a pure stream that never writes the local
# cache or temp files; only the owner stores the object. lua-access
# runs on the owner, which sees the original request headers.
# Relay to the owner pod. lua-access runs on the owner, which sees the
# original request headers.
{{- $relayMinUses := int (($.Values.consistentHashRouting).relayCacheMinUses | default 0) }}
{{- if gt $relayMinUses 0 }}
# Objects pulled through this pod repeatedly are replicated locally
# after relayCacheMinUses requests, so hot objects stop paying the
# relay hop while one-off objects still live only on their owner.
# Keyed on $cc_hash_key, which each server block sets to the same
# value it uses for proxy_cache_key, so the local copy has exactly the
# owner's cache identity. Bounded by the same min_free eviction as
# every other zone.
proxy_cache proxy_ngc;
proxy_cache_key $cc_hash_key;
proxy_cache_min_uses {{ $relayMinUses }};
proxy_cache_valid 200 206 {{ $.Values.cache.valid | default "31d" }};
{{- else }}
# A pure stream that never writes the local cache; only the owner
# stores the object. Set consistentHashRouting.relayCacheMinUses to
# replicate hot objects locally instead.
proxy_cache off;
{{- end }}
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_pass_request_headers on;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header Range $http_range;
proxy_set_header X-NVCF-CC-Relayed "1";
# Declaring any proxy_set_header here cancels inheritance of the
# server-level set, which includes `Connection ""`. Without repeating
# it nginx sends its default `Connection: close` and the upstream
# keepalive pool is never used, so every relay reconnects and
# re-handshakes TLS.
proxy_set_header Connection "";
# The peer serves the same ssl listener with a per-pod internal leaf
# cert, so system-CA verification cannot pass. Verification is skipped
# on this internal peer hop only; the tier is an internal,
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# Owner pods are in-cluster peers, so this stays short: a slow connect means
# the owner is down, and failing over fast is correct.
relayConnectTimeout: 2s
# Idle connections kept open to each owner pod. Without a pool every relayed
# request pays a fresh TCP and TLS handshake to the peer, which is worst for
# the many small Range requests the hash spreads across owners. Cheap: these
# are in-cluster peers and the pool is per worker process.
peerKeepaliveConnections: 32
peerKeepaliveTimeout: 60s
peerKeepaliveRequests: 1000
# Replicate an object locally after this many requests arrive here for an
# object owned by another pod, so hot objects stop paying the relay hop while
# one-off objects still live only on their owner. Storage is bounded by the
# same min_free eviction as every other zone, and the extra copies are by
# definition the objects being requested most.
#
# 0 disables local replication and restores the strict single-copy behavior,
# where every request for a non-owned object relays for the object's whole
# lifetime.
relayCacheMinUses: 3

# Metrics configuration.
metrics:
cacheMetricsStorageSize: 300m
throughputHistogramBuckets: 25000000, 30000000, 35000000, 40000000, 50000000, 60000000, 80000000, 100000000
# Request-duration buckets. These requests are whole model-file transfers, not
# API calls, so tens of seconds is normal and the top bucket has to cover a
# full object. If the largest finite bucket is below real traffic, everything
# above it lands in +Inf and histogram_quantile clamps to that edge, reporting
# the bucket boundary instead of a latency.
durationHistogramBuckets: 0.005, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, 300, 600
# Response-size buckets, with resolution across the range model objects
# actually occupy. A 100MB -> 1GB -> 10GB ladder puts nearly all traffic in
# one bucket and hides the distribution entirely.
responseSizeHistogramBuckets: 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000, 32000, 64000, 128000, 256000, 1048576, 10485760, 104857600, 268435456, 536870912, 805306368, 1073741824, 2147483648, 5368709120, 10737418240, 107374182400

# Custom annotations and labels for pods.
podAnnotations: {}
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45 changes: 45 additions & 0 deletions deploy/helm/container-cache/tests/render-consistent-hash-test.sh
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grep -q 'proxy_set_header X-NVCF-CC-Relayed "1"' "$TMP/on.yaml" || fail "relay hop must emit the one-hop marker"
grep -q 'ngx.req.get_headers()\["X-NVCF-CC-Relayed"\]' "$TMP/on.yaml" || fail "cc-route.lua must reject an inbound relay marker (serve locally, prevents relay loops)"

echo "7. enabled: the peer hop reuses connections"
# Both halves are required. A keepalive pool with no `Connection ""` is dead
# weight, because nginx then sends its default `Connection: close` and every
# relayed request re-handshakes TLS. The header must be repeated inside
# @cc_relay specifically: declaring any proxy_set_header in a location cancels
# inheritance of the server-level set.
[ "$(count 'keepalive [0-9]+;' "$TMP/on.yaml")" = 3 ] || fail "each cc_owner upstream needs a keepalive pool"
awk '/location @cc_relay/,/^ *}$/' "$TMP/on.yaml" | grep -q 'proxy_set_header Connection ""' \
|| fail '@cc_relay must repeat Connection "" or the keepalive pool is never used'

echo "8. enabled: hot objects replicate locally after relayCacheMinUses"
awk '/location @cc_relay/,/^ *}$/' "$TMP/on.yaml" | grep -q 'proxy_cache_min_uses 3' \
|| fail "relay must cache locally after the configured use threshold"
awk '/location @cc_relay/,/^ *}$/' "$TMP/on.yaml" | grep -q 'proxy_cache_key \$cc_hash_key' \
|| fail "relay cache key must match the owner's identity, not the default key"

echo "8b. relayCacheMinUses=0 restores strict single-copy relaying"
helm template t "$CHART_DIR" --set consistentHashRouting.enabled=true --set replicaCount=3 \
--set consistentHashRouting.relayCacheMinUses=0 > "$TMP/on-nocache.yaml" 2>/dev/null
awk '/location @cc_relay/,/^ *}$/' "$TMP/on-nocache.yaml" | grep -q 'proxy_cache off' \
|| fail "relayCacheMinUses=0 must leave the relay a pure stream"
if awk '/location @cc_relay/,/^ *}$/' "$TMP/on-nocache.yaml" | grep -q 'proxy_cache_min_uses'; then
fail "relayCacheMinUses=0 must not emit proxy_cache_min_uses"
fi

echo "9. relay cost is observable, and duration buckets outlast a whole transfer"
# Without the route label a relayed request is indistinguishable from a local
# hit, which is what made the relay's latency cost unmeasurable.
grep -q '"cache_status", "http_status", "route"' "$TMP/on.yaml" \
|| fail "request/throughput metrics must carry the route label"
grep -q 'local route = "local"' "$TMP/on.yaml" || fail "route must default to local"
grep -q 'route = "relayed"' "$TMP/on.yaml" || fail "relayed requests must be labelled"
grep -q 'route = "peer"' "$TMP/on.yaml" || fail "requests served for a peer must be labelled"
# The objects here are whole model files, so a 10s ceiling put a large share of
# traffic in +Inf and histogram_quantile then reports the bucket edge, not a
# latency.
grep -q 'proxy_cache_request_duration_seconds' "$TMP/on.yaml" || fail "duration histogram missing"
awk '/proxy_cache_request_duration_seconds/{print; exit}' "$TMP/on.yaml" | grep -q '600' \
|| fail "duration buckets must extend past a full object transfer"

echo "9b. route label renders even with routing disabled (no undeclared-variable read)"
grep -q 'local route = "local"' "$TMP/off.yaml" || fail "route label must still render when routing is off"
[ "$(count 'ngx.var.cc_owner' "$TMP/off.yaml")" = 0 ] \
|| fail "must not read the routing variable when it is undeclared (OpenResty raises)"

echo "PASS: all consistent-hash routing render assertions hold"
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