Add a Grafana dashboard for the resolver's metrics

With traffic charts gone from the console, deploy/grafana/fancy-dns.json is
where they live: queries by outcome, transport and client group, latency
quantiles, RCODEs, cache hits/misses/stale, the upstream round trips saved by
coalescing and early refresh, upstream health and latency, blocklist and zone
sizes, and (in a Loki row) the blocked/failed-query access log. A node variable
spreads or narrows every panel, and the per-node panel shows whether load is
even across pods.

A test reads the dashboard and fails if a panel queries a metric the resolver
does not export, so a rename cannot silently empty a panel.

The ingress no longer needs the SSE buffering/timeout annotations, and the
statefulset comments no longer describe a query log on the volume.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ metadata:
spec:
serviceName: fancy-dns
# A StatefulSet rather than a Deployment because each pod owns a PVC (the
# cache snapshot and the query log are per-pod state worth keeping across a
# reschedule). The flip side: the HPA does not work on a StatefulSet — the
# cache snapshot and downloaded blocklists are per-pod state worth keeping
# across a reschedule). The flip side: the HPA does not work on a StatefulSet — the
# controller and the autoscaler fight over the replica count — so scaling
# means adding nodes and replicas here, not CPU targets.
replicas: 1
@@ -170,16 +170,16 @@ spec:
- name: tmp
emptyDir: {}
volumeClaimTemplates:
# Cache snapshot (cache.persist.path) and query log (qlog.path) live here,
# along with downloaded blocklists. ReadWriteOnce is per-pod: a pod keeps
# Cache snapshot (cache.persist.path) lives here, along with downloaded
# blocklists. The resolver stores no query log: the access log goes to stdout. ReadWriteOnce is per-pod: a pod keeps
# its own cache across a reschedule, which is the whole point of the
# snapshot, but it cannot be shared between replicas.
#
# Sizing: cache.size is an entry count, not bytes, so disk usage has to be
# estimated. A packed A/AAAA answer with a small authority section is
# roughly 300-600 bytes on the wire and nearer 1 kB resident, so 500k
# entries lands around 500 MB; qlog is the other consumer (see
# qlog.max_entries). 4Gi leaves room for both plus a re-fetched list.
# entries lands around 500 MB. 4Gi leaves room for that plus a re-fetched
# list.
- metadata:
name: data
spec:
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@@ -13,13 +13,6 @@ metadata:
k8s-helper.io/icon: "network"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: "HTTP"
cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-prod
# SSE (the live query log) is the reason for these three. With response
# buffering on, nginx holds events until the buffer fills and the log page
# looks frozen; with a 60s read timeout the stream is cut every minute and
# the page reconnects in a loop.
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-buffering: "off"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-read-timeout: "3600"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-send-timeout: "3600"
spec:
ingressClassName: nginx
rules:
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package metrics
import (
"os"
"regexp"
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
)
// TestGrafanaDashboardOnlyUsesMetricsThatExist keeps deploy/grafana/fancy-dns.json
// from drifting away from the collectors: a renamed metric would otherwise
// leave a panel empty and nothing would say why.
func TestGrafanaDashboardOnlyUsesMetricsThatExist(t *testing.T) {
initCollectors()
descs := make(chan *prometheus.Desc, 256)
go func() { Registry.Describe(descs); close(descs) }()
known := map[string]bool{}
nameRe := regexp.MustCompile(`fqName: "([a-z0-9_]+)"`)
for d := range descs {
if m := nameRe.FindStringSubmatch(d.String()); m != nil {
known[m[1]] = true
}
}
if !known["fancydns_queries_total"] {
t.Fatalf("collector names were not read; got %v", known)
}
raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../deploy/grafana/fancy-dns.json")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
used := regexp.MustCompile(`fancydns_[a-z0-9_]+`).FindAllString(string(raw), -1)
if len(used) == 0 {
t.Fatal("the dashboard references no fancydns metrics")
}
for _, name := range used {
base := name
for _, suffix := range []string{"_bucket", "_count", "_sum"} {
base = strings.TrimSuffix(base, suffix)
}
if !known[base] {
t.Errorf("the dashboard queries %s, which the resolver does not export", name)
}
}
}