Added bucket index flag, and enable bucket index by default. (#254)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   - Cortex / Queries: added bucket index load operations and latency (available only when bucket index is enabled)
   - Alerts: added "CortexBucketIndexNotUpdated" (bucket index only) and "CortexTenantHasPartialBlocks"
 * [ENHANCEMENT] The name of the overrides configmap is now customisable via `$._config.overrides_configmap`. #244
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Added flag to control usage of bucket-index, and enable it by default when using blocks. #254
 * [BUGFIX] Honor configured `per_instance_label` in all panels. #239
 * [BUGFIX] `CortexRequestLatency` alert now ignores long-running requests on query-scheduler. #242
 * [BUGFIX] Honor configured `job_names` in the "Memory (go heap inuse)" panel. #247

cortex/tsdb.libsonnet

@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
 
     // Allow to fine tune compactor.
     cortex_compactor_max_concurrency: 1,
+    // While this is the default value, we want to pass the same to the -blocks-storage.bucket-store.sync-interval
+    cortex_compactor_cleanup_interval: '15m',
+
+    // Enable use of bucket index by querier, ruler and store-gateway.
+    // Bucket index is generated by compactor from Cortex 1.7, there is no flag required to enable this on compactor.
+    cortex_bucket_index_enabled: false,
   },
 
   blocks_chunks_caching_config::
@@ -59,8 +65,15 @@
     'blocks-storage.bucket-store.metadata-cache.memcached.max-get-multi-batch-size': '100',
   } else {},
 
-  querier_args+:: $.blocks_metadata_caching_config,
-  ruler_args+:: $.blocks_metadata_caching_config,
+  bucket_index_config:: if $._config.cortex_bucket_index_enabled then {
+    'blocks-storage.bucket-store.bucket-index.enabled': true,
+
+    // Bucket index is updated by compactor on each cleanup cycle.
+    'blocks-storage.bucket-store.sync-interval': $._config.cortex_compactor_cleanup_interval,
+  } else {},
+
+  querier_args+:: $.blocks_metadata_caching_config + $.bucket_index_config,
+  ruler_args+:: $.blocks_metadata_caching_config + $.bucket_index_config,
 
   // The ingesters should persist TSDB blocks and WAL on a persistent
   // volume in order to be crash resilient.
@@ -134,6 +147,7 @@
       'compactor.data-dir': '/data',
       'compactor.compaction-interval': '30m',
       'compactor.compaction-concurrency': $._config.cortex_compactor_max_concurrency,
+      'compactor.cleanup-interval': $._config.cortex_compactor_cleanup_interval,
 
       // Enable sharding.
       'compactor.sharding-enabled': true,
@@ -189,7 +203,10 @@
       // Persist ring tokens so that when the store-gateway will be restarted
       // it will pick the same tokens
       'store-gateway.sharding-ring.tokens-file-path': '/data/tokens',
-    } + $.blocks_chunks_caching_config + $.blocks_metadata_caching_config,
+    } +
+    $.blocks_chunks_caching_config +
+    $.blocks_metadata_caching_config +
+    $.bucket_index_config,
 
   store_gateway_ports:: $.util.defaultPorts,