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Summary

  • coalesce PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB node_user_usages deltas in memory and flush them every 60 seconds by default instead of issuing the heavy history UPSERT every recorder cycle
  • flush pending history on its deadline even when traffic goes idle, before a 10-minute bucket rollover, and during graceful shutdown, while retaining failed batches for retry
  • keep authoritative user/admin counters immediate and preserve the existing MySQL/SQLite write paths
  • aggregate duplicate samples, omit net-zero rows, and expose USER_USAGE_HISTORY_FLUSH_INTERVAL
  • add focused coverage for timing, idle periods, rollover, retry, shutdown, aggregation, and fallback behavior

Closes #786

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Breaking change
  • Refactor / cleanup
  • Documentation
  • Tests / CI

Checklist

  • I tested the change locally or explained why it cannot be tested.
  • I added or updated tests for behavior changes.
  • I updated documentation, translations, or examples if needed.
  • I checked database migrations when models or schema changed.
  • I did not include secrets, tokens, private keys, or unrelated changes.

Testing

  • uv run --frozen ruff check app/jobs/record_usages.py tests/test_record_usages.py config.py
  • uv run --frozen ruff format --check app/jobs/record_usages.py tests/test_record_usages.py config.py
  • uv run --frozen pytest -q tests/test_record_usages.py (15 passed)
  • uv run --frozen ruff check . (passed)

The complete test suite was also attempted against a fresh isolated SQLite database. The current dev API test harness does not complete in this workspace: after successful migrations, its authentication fixture returns no token and causes cascading unrelated API setup errors. The focused usage suite is isolated and passes completely.

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Notes for reviewers

  • No schema migration is required.
  • The repository has no upstream next branch despite the branching note in CONTRIBUTING.md; this branch is based on the active dev branch, matching current project PRs.
  • With the default 10-second recorder interval, steady-state PostgreSQL history UPSERT frequency falls by roughly 6x. The first sample is flushed immediately.
  • Authoritative users.used_traffic and admins.used_traffic updates remain on every cycle. Only analytical chart history is delayed, with at most one configured interval potentially lost on an ungraceful process termination; graceful shutdown flushes pending data.
  • A failed PostgreSQL flush keeps the in-process batch for the next retry. PostgreSQL uses one statement for the batch, avoiding partial chunk commits.
  • PR perf(usage): reduce PostgreSQL write amplification #778 changes nearby user-counter code in the same module but is logically independent; a small merge conflict may need resolution depending on merge order.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable buffering for PostgreSQL user usage history, with a default flush interval of 60 seconds.
    • Usage updates are aggregated and persisted periodically, including during shutdown.
    • Failed writes can be retried, while non-PostgreSQL usage recording remains immediate.
  • Configuration

    • Added the USER_USAGE_HISTORY_FLUSH_INTERVAL setting, requiring a minimum value of 1 second.

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Walkthrough

The usage recorder now buffers PostgreSQL node-user history deltas in memory. It flushes data by interval, bucket rollover, or shutdown. Other database dialects retain immediate writes. Configuration and tests cover the new behavior.

Changes

Usage history buffering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persistence helpers and configuration
.env.example, config.py, app/jobs/record_usages.py
Adds the flush interval setting, usage normalization helpers, shared persistence logic, and process-wide PostgreSQL buffering state.
Coalescing and lifecycle integration
app/jobs/record_usages.py
Aggregates PostgreSQL deltas by bucket, user, and node. Flushes on interval expiration, bucket rollover, and shutdown. Preserves failed data for retry and keeps non-PostgreSQL writes immediate.
Buffering behavior validation
tests/test_record_usages.py
Tests aggregation, timed flushing, rollover, retry, net-zero omission, shutdown flushing, and non-PostgreSQL behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 71bb5

The change coalesces PostgreSQL history writes while keeping authoritative counters immediate and preserving retry and graceful-shutdown behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains, so it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

Possibly related issues

  • #777: Both changes reduce PostgreSQL usage-recording write amplification in app/jobs/record_usages.py.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow as User usage workflow
  participant Recorder as record_user_stats
  participant Buffer as PostgreSQL history buffer
  participant History as node_user_usages
  Workflow->>Recorder: record usage deltas
  Recorder->>Buffer: aggregate bucket, user, and node deltas
  Buffer->>History: flush coalesced history
  Workflow->>Recorder: shutdown
  Recorder->>History: flush pending history
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A rabbit tracks each usage stream,
And stores the deltas by time scheme.
PostgreSQL flushes on cue,
With retries when writes do not go through.
At shutdown, pending rows are saved.

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447-452: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use one transaction for the complete PostgreSQL history flush. Each safe_execute call opens and commits its own engine.begin() transaction. If a later batch fails, _flush_pending_user_usage_history_locked retains the full buffer, so retrying replays earlier committed batches and duplicates their deltas.

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In `@app/jobs/record_usages.py` around lines 447 - 452, Update
_flush_pending_user_usage_history_locked so the entire PostgreSQL history flush
uses one transaction spanning all batches and statements, rather than calling
safe_execute for each statement with separate transactions. Preserve the
existing concurrency control and retain the full pending buffer when the
transaction fails, while committing only after every upsert succeeds.
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Inline comments:
In `@app/jobs/record_usages.py`:
- Around line 488-526: Ensure pending PostgreSQL user-usage history is flushed
when no new deltas arrive: remove the early-return path in record_user_stats
that bypasses due-flush evaluation, or add a periodic/tick-based flush check
that runs during idle recorder cycles. Preserve non-PostgreSQL fallback behavior
and add a test covering an idle interval that flushes buffered history.
- Around line 473-481: Filter out entries whose accumulated value is zero when
building upsert_params in the buffered usage flush, so net-zero corrections do
not produce UPSERT payloads; preserve all nonzero entries and add a test
covering accumulation across separate recorder cycles.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@app/jobs/record_usages.py`:
- Around line 447-452: Update _flush_pending_user_usage_history_locked so the
entire PostgreSQL history flush uses one transaction spanning all batches and
statements, rather than calling safe_execute for each statement with separate
transactions. Preserve the existing concurrency control and retain the full
pending buffer when the transaction fails, while committing only after every
upsert succeeds.
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CodeRabbit follow-up:

  • The idle-flush finding was valid and is fixed in 536a7baf.
  • The cross-cycle net-zero finding was valid and is fixed in 32cba5f1.
  • I verified the outside-diff transaction finding against the current implementation. It does not apply to the buffered PostgreSQL path: NODE_USER_USAGE_BATCH_SIZE_BY_DIALECT only defines MySQL/SQLite sizes, so PostgreSQL creates exactly one batch; build_node_user_usage_upsert("postgresql", ...) returns exactly one statement; and only that single statement is passed to one safe_execute transaction. MySQL/SQLite never enter the in-memory buffer. I therefore did not add a broader transaction helper that would change existing fallback/retry behavior.

Validation after fixes: focused Ruff checks pass and pytest -q tests/test_record_usages.py reports 15 passed.

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@dr-hoseyn I verified the reported fixes.

  • The idle flush runs before the healthy-node check.
  • The cross-cycle net-zero buffer entries do not produce an UPSERT.
  • The transaction finding does not apply. PostgreSQL creates one batch, build_node_user_usage_upsert("postgresql", ...) returns one statement, and safe_execute() executes that statement in one transaction. I withdraw that finding.

P2 — Buffer the first PostgreSQL history delta for the configured interval.
record_user_stats() treats _user_usage_history_last_flush is None as flush_due. The first delta therefore writes immediately. A short or intermittent traffic burst still creates one PostgreSQL history UPSERT per burst. This bypasses the intended 60-second coalescing behavior. Set the initial flush timestamp when the first delta enters the buffer, then flush after USER_USAGE_HISTORY_FLUSH_INTERVAL elapses. Update test_postgres_history_coalesces_until_flush_interval to expect no write after its first call.


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Production-compatible canary validation (anonymized):

  • Backported the PR on top of the existing v5.2.1 performance/logging fixes; focused compatibility suite: 26 passed.
  • Deployed by recreating only the panel container; PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, PgBouncer, and pgAdmin were not restarted.
  • Stabilized 137-second observation: 14 user-usage recorder cycles, 2 node_user_usages PostgreSQL UPSERT calls (about 7x fewer statements than one per cycle).
  • The active 10-minute history bucket advanced from 41,643,945,529 to 67,805,217,147 bytes, confirming buffered deltas were persisted.
  • Those two flushes generated 13,714,479 WAL bytes. The pre-canary cumulative average was about 4.36 MB WAL per immediate call; at 14 immediate calls that would have been roughly 61 MB, so this sample used about 4.5x less WAL per wall-clock period despite larger flush batches.
  • HTTPS remained 200, panel restart count remained zero, and no traceback, DB-unavailable, 503, usage-job failure, or due-flush failure was logged during the final observation.
  • Panel memory remained around 376–401 MiB. CPU is still dominated by the separate external polling workload.

This validates the intended statement/WAL reduction while authoritative counters and history buckets continue advancing.

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Addressed the remaining initial-flush finding in 71bb558. The first PostgreSQL delta now establishes the coalescing deadline instead of flushing immediately; interval, rollover, retry, idle, shutdown, and cross-cycle net-zero expectations were updated accordingly. Validation: pytest -q tests/test_record_usages.py -> 15 passed; focused Ruff check/format and git diff --check pass. @coderabbitai review

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@dr-hoseyn The initial-flush finding is addressed.

record_user_stats() now sets _user_usage_history_last_flush when it buffers the first PostgreSQL delta. It does not flush that delta immediately.

The coalescing test verifies one write with all buffered deltas after the configured interval. The updated rollover, retry, idle-flush, shutdown, and net-zero cases are consistent with this behavior.

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