try using a redis replica in some areas (#3748)

* try using a redis replica in some areas

* harden up replica usage

* comment

* slow down cloud dispatch temporarily

* add ignored syncing list back

* raise multiplier to 8

* comment out per tenant code (no longer used by fanout)

---------

Co-authored-by: Richard Kuo (Danswer) <rkuo@onyx.app>

Author: rkuo-danswer

backend/onyx/background/celery/apps/beat.py

@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 from datetime import timedelta
 from typing import Any
-from typing import cast
 
 from celery import Celery
 from celery import signals
 from celery.beat import PersistentScheduler  # type: ignore
 from celery.signals import beat_init
 
 import onyx.background.celery.apps.app_base as app_base
-from onyx.configs.constants import ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX
 from onyx.configs.constants import POSTGRES_CELERY_BEAT_APP_NAME
 from onyx.db.engine import get_all_tenant_ids
 from onyx.db.engine import SqlEngine
@@ -132,21 +130,25 @@ def _try_updating_schedule(self) -> None:
         # get current schedule and extract current tenants
         current_schedule = self.schedule.items()
 
-        current_tenants = set()
-        for task_name, _ in current_schedule:
-            task_name = cast(str, task_name)
-            if task_name.startswith(ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX):
-                continue
-
-            if "_" in task_name:
-                # example: "check-for-condition-tenant_12345678-abcd-efgh-ijkl-12345678"
-                # -> "12345678-abcd-efgh-ijkl-12345678"
-                current_tenants.add(task_name.split("_")[-1])
-        logger.info(f"Found {len(current_tenants)} existing items in schedule")
-
-        for tenant_id in tenant_ids:
-            if tenant_id not in current_tenants:
-                logger.info(f"Processing new tenant: {tenant_id}")
+        # there are no more per tenant beat tasks, so comment this out
+        # NOTE: we may not actualy need this scheduler any more and should
+        # test reverting to a regular beat schedule implementation
+
+        # current_tenants = set()
+        # for task_name, _ in current_schedule:
+        #     task_name = cast(str, task_name)
+        #     if task_name.startswith(ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX):
+        #         continue
+
+        #     if "_" in task_name:
+        #         # example: "check-for-condition-tenant_12345678-abcd-efgh-ijkl-12345678"
+        #         # -> "12345678-abcd-efgh-ijkl-12345678"
+        #         current_tenants.add(task_name.split("_")[-1])
+        # logger.info(f"Found {len(current_tenants)} existing items in schedule")
+
+        # for tenant_id in tenant_ids:
+        #     if tenant_id not in current_tenants:
+        #         logger.info(f"Processing new tenant: {tenant_id}")
 
         new_schedule = self._generate_schedule(tenant_ids)
 

backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/beat_schedule.py

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 # it's only important that they run relatively regularly
 BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT = 15 * 60  # 15 minutes (in seconds)
 
+# hack to slow down task dispatch in the cloud until
+# we have a better implementation (backpressure, etc)
+CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER = 8
+
 # tasks that only run in the cloud
 # the name attribute must start with ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX = "cloud" to be filtered
 # by the DynamicTenantScheduler
@@ -24,7 +28,7 @@
     {
         "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check-alembic",
         "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_CHECK_ALEMBIC,
-        "schedule": timedelta(hours=1),
+        "schedule": timedelta(hours=1 * CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER),
         "options": {
             "queue": OnyxCeleryQueues.MONITORING,
             "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGH,
@@ -35,7 +39,7 @@
     {
         "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check-for-indexing",
         "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_BEAT_TASK_GENERATOR,
-        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=15),
+        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=15 * CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER),
         "options": {
             "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGHEST,
             "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,
@@ -47,7 +51,7 @@
     {
         "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check-for-connector-deletion",
         "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_BEAT_TASK_GENERATOR,
-        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=20),
+        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=20 * CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER),
         "options": {
             "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGHEST,
             "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,
@@ -59,7 +63,7 @@
     {
         "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check-for-vespa-sync",
         "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_BEAT_TASK_GENERATOR,
-        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=20),
+        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=20 * CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER),
         "options": {
             "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGHEST,
             "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,
@@ -71,7 +75,7 @@
     {
         "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check-for-prune",
         "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_BEAT_TASK_GENERATOR,
-        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=15),
+        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=15 * CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER),
         "options": {
             "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGHEST,
             "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@
     {
         "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_monitor-vespa-sync",
         "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_BEAT_TASK_GENERATOR,
-        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=5),
+        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=15 * CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER),
         "options": {
             "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGHEST,
             "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,
@@ -95,7 +99,7 @@
     {
         "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check-for-doc-permissions-sync",
         "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_BEAT_TASK_GENERATOR,
-        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=30),
+        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=30 * CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER),
         "options": {
             "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGHEST,
             "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,
@@ -107,7 +111,7 @@
     {
         "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check-for-external-group-sync",
         "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_BEAT_TASK_GENERATOR,
-        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=20),
+        "schedule": timedelta(seconds=20 * CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER),
         "options": {
             "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGHEST,
             "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,
@@ -119,7 +123,7 @@
     {
         "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_monitor-background-processes",
         "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_BEAT_TASK_GENERATOR,
-        "schedule": timedelta(minutes=5),
+        "schedule": timedelta(minutes=5 * CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER),
         "options": {
             "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGHEST,
             "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,
@@ -137,7 +141,9 @@
         {
             "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check-for-llm-model-update",
             "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_BEAT_TASK_GENERATOR,
-            "schedule": timedelta(hours=1),  # Check every hour
+            "schedule": timedelta(
+                hours=1 * CLOUD_BEAT_SCHEDULE_MULTIPLIER
+            ),  # Check every hour
             "options": {
                 "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGHEST,
                 "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,

backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/indexing/tasks.py

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 from onyx.natural_language_processing.search_nlp_models import warm_up_bi_encoder
 from onyx.redis.redis_connector import RedisConnector
 from onyx.redis.redis_pool import get_redis_client
+from onyx.redis.redis_pool import get_redis_replica_client
 from onyx.redis.redis_pool import redis_lock_dump
 from onyx.utils.logger import setup_logger
 from onyx.utils.variable_functionality import global_version
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ def check_for_indexing(self: Task, *, tenant_id: str | None) -> int | None:
     tasks_created = 0
     locked = False
     redis_client = get_redis_client(tenant_id=tenant_id)
+    redis_client_replica = get_redis_replica_client(tenant_id=tenant_id)
 
     # we need to use celery's redis client to access its redis data
     # (which lives on a different db number)
@@ -227,7 +229,7 @@ def check_for_indexing(self: Task, *, tenant_id: str | None) -> int | None:
             # or be currently executing
             try:
                 validate_indexing_fences(
-                    tenant_id, self.app, redis_client, redis_client_celery, lock_beat
+                    tenant_id, redis_client_replica, redis_client_celery, lock_beat
                 )
             except Exception:
                 task_logger.exception("Exception while validating indexing fences")

backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/indexing/utils.py

@@ -291,8 +291,7 @@ def validate_indexing_fence(
 
 def validate_indexing_fences(
     tenant_id: str | None,
-    celery_app: Celery,
-    r: Redis,
+    r_replica: Redis,
     r_celery: Redis,
     lock_beat: RedisLock,
 ) -> None:
@@ -301,7 +300,9 @@ def validate_indexing_fences(
     )
 
     # validate all existing indexing jobs
-    for key_bytes in r.scan_iter(
+    # Use replica for this because the worst thing that happens
+    # is that we don't run the validation on this pass
+    for key_bytes in r_replica.scan_iter(
         RedisConnectorIndex.FENCE_PREFIX + "*", count=SCAN_ITER_COUNT_DEFAULT
     ):
         lock_beat.reacquire()

backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/shared/tasks.py

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 from onyx.redis.redis_pool import get_redis_client
 from onyx.redis.redis_pool import redis_lock_dump
 from onyx.server.documents.models import ConnectorCredentialPairIdentifier
+from shared_configs.configs import IGNORED_SYNCING_TENANT_LIST
 
 DOCUMENT_BY_CC_PAIR_CLEANUP_MAX_RETRIES = 3
 
@@ -247,6 +248,10 @@ def cloud_beat_task_generator(
                 lock_beat.reacquire()
                 last_lock_time = current_time
 
+            # needed in the cloud
+            if IGNORED_SYNCING_TENANT_LIST and tenant_id in IGNORED_SYNCING_TENANT_LIST:
+                continue
+
             self.app.send_task(
                 task_name,
                 kwargs=dict(

backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/vespa/tasks.py

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
 from onyx.redis.redis_connector_prune import RedisConnectorPrune
 from onyx.redis.redis_document_set import RedisDocumentSet
 from onyx.redis.redis_pool import get_redis_client
+from onyx.redis.redis_pool import get_redis_replica_client
 from onyx.redis.redis_pool import redis_lock_dump
 from onyx.redis.redis_pool import SCAN_ITER_COUNT_DEFAULT
 from onyx.redis.redis_usergroup import RedisUserGroup
@@ -895,6 +896,17 @@ def monitor_vespa_sync(self: Task, tenant_id: str | None) -> bool | None:
 
     r = get_redis_client(tenant_id=tenant_id)
 
+    # Replica usage notes
+    #
+    # False negatives are OK. (aka fail to to see a key that exists on the master).
+    # We simply skip the monitoring work and it will be caught on the next pass.
+    #
+    # False positives are not OK, and are possible if we clear a fence on the master and
+    # then read from the replica. In this case, monitoring work could be done on a fence
+    # that no longer exists. To avoid this, we scan from the replica, but double check
+    # the result on the master.
+    r_replica = get_redis_replica_client(tenant_id=tenant_id)
+
     lock_beat: RedisLock = r.lock(
         OnyxRedisLocks.MONITOR_VESPA_SYNC_BEAT_LOCK,
         timeout=CELERY_VESPA_SYNC_BEAT_LOCK_TIMEOUT,
@@ -954,17 +966,19 @@ def monitor_vespa_sync(self: Task, tenant_id: str | None) -> bool | None:
         # scan and monitor activity to completion
         phase_start = time.monotonic()
         lock_beat.reacquire()
-        if r.exists(RedisConnectorCredentialPair.get_fence_key()):
-            monitor_connector_taskset(r)
+        if r_replica.exists(RedisConnectorCredentialPair.get_fence_key()):
+            if r.exists(RedisConnectorCredentialPair.get_fence_key()):
+                monitor_connector_taskset(r)
         timings["connector"] = time.monotonic() - phase_start
         timings["connector_ttl"] = r.ttl(OnyxRedisLocks.MONITOR_VESPA_SYNC_BEAT_LOCK)
 
         phase_start = time.monotonic()
         lock_beat.reacquire()
-        for key_bytes in r.scan_iter(
+        for key_bytes in r_replica.scan_iter(
             RedisConnectorDelete.FENCE_PREFIX + "*", count=SCAN_ITER_COUNT_DEFAULT
         ):
-            monitor_connector_deletion_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r)
+            if r.exists(key_bytes):
+                monitor_connector_deletion_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r)
             lock_beat.reacquire()
 
         timings["connector_deletion"] = time.monotonic() - phase_start
@@ -974,66 +988,74 @@ def monitor_vespa_sync(self: Task, tenant_id: str | None) -> bool | None:
 
         phase_start = time.monotonic()
         lock_beat.reacquire()
-        for key_bytes in r.scan_iter(
+        for key_bytes in r_replica.scan_iter(
             RedisDocumentSet.FENCE_PREFIX + "*", count=SCAN_ITER_COUNT_DEFAULT
         ):
-            with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id) as db_session:
-                monitor_document_set_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r, db_session)
+            if r.exists(key_bytes):
+                with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id) as db_session:
+                    monitor_document_set_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r, db_session)
             lock_beat.reacquire()
         timings["documentset"] = time.monotonic() - phase_start
         timings["documentset_ttl"] = r.ttl(OnyxRedisLocks.MONITOR_VESPA_SYNC_BEAT_LOCK)
 
         phase_start = time.monotonic()
         lock_beat.reacquire()
-        for key_bytes in r.scan_iter(
+        for key_bytes in r_replica.scan_iter(
             RedisUserGroup.FENCE_PREFIX + "*", count=SCAN_ITER_COUNT_DEFAULT
         ):
-            monitor_usergroup_taskset = fetch_versioned_implementation_with_fallback(
-                "onyx.background.celery.tasks.vespa.tasks",
-                "monitor_usergroup_taskset",
-                noop_fallback,
-            )
-            with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id) as db_session:
-                monitor_usergroup_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r, db_session)
+            if r.exists(key_bytes):
+                monitor_usergroup_taskset = (
+                    fetch_versioned_implementation_with_fallback(
+                        "onyx.background.celery.tasks.vespa.tasks",
+                        "monitor_usergroup_taskset",
+                        noop_fallback,
+                    )
+                )
+                with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id) as db_session:
+                    monitor_usergroup_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r, db_session)
             lock_beat.reacquire()
         timings["usergroup"] = time.monotonic() - phase_start
         timings["usergroup_ttl"] = r.ttl(OnyxRedisLocks.MONITOR_VESPA_SYNC_BEAT_LOCK)
 
         phase_start = time.monotonic()
         lock_beat.reacquire()
-        for key_bytes in r.scan_iter(
+        for key_bytes in r_replica.scan_iter(
             RedisConnectorPrune.FENCE_PREFIX + "*", count=SCAN_ITER_COUNT_DEFAULT
         ):
-            with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id) as db_session:
-                monitor_ccpair_pruning_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r, db_session)
+            if r.exists(key_bytes):
+                with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id) as db_session:
+                    monitor_ccpair_pruning_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r, db_session)
             lock_beat.reacquire()
         timings["pruning"] = time.monotonic() - phase_start
         timings["pruning_ttl"] = r.ttl(OnyxRedisLocks.MONITOR_VESPA_SYNC_BEAT_LOCK)
 
         phase_start = time.monotonic()
         lock_beat.reacquire()
-        for key_bytes in r.scan_iter(
+        for key_bytes in r_replica.scan_iter(
             RedisConnectorIndex.FENCE_PREFIX + "*", count=SCAN_ITER_COUNT_DEFAULT
         ):
-            with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id) as db_session:
-                monitor_ccpair_indexing_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r, db_session)
+            if r.exists(key_bytes):
+                with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id) as db_session:
+                    monitor_ccpair_indexing_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r, db_session)
             lock_beat.reacquire()
         timings["indexing"] = time.monotonic() - phase_start
         timings["indexing_ttl"] = r.ttl(OnyxRedisLocks.MONITOR_VESPA_SYNC_BEAT_LOCK)
 
         phase_start = time.monotonic()
         lock_beat.reacquire()
-        for key_bytes in r.scan_iter(
+        for key_bytes in r_replica.scan_iter(
             RedisConnectorPermissionSync.FENCE_PREFIX + "*",
             count=SCAN_ITER_COUNT_DEFAULT,
         ):
-            with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id) as db_session:
-                monitor_ccpair_permissions_taskset(tenant_id, key_bytes, r, db_session)
+            if r.exists(key_bytes):
+                with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id) as db_session:
+                    monitor_ccpair_permissions_taskset(
+                        tenant_id, key_bytes, r, db_session
+                    )
             lock_beat.reacquire()
 
         timings["permissions"] = time.monotonic() - phase_start
         timings["permissions_ttl"] = r.ttl(OnyxRedisLocks.MONITOR_VESPA_SYNC_BEAT_LOCK)
-
     except SoftTimeLimitExceeded:
         task_logger.info(
             "Soft time limit exceeded, task is being terminated gracefully."

backend/onyx/configs/app_configs.py

@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@
 REDIS_PORT = int(os.environ.get("REDIS_PORT", 6379))
 REDIS_PASSWORD = os.environ.get("REDIS_PASSWORD") or ""
 
+# this assumes that other redis settings remain the same as the primary
+REDIS_REPLICA_HOST = os.environ.get("REDIS_REPLICA_HOST") or REDIS_HOST
 
 REDIS_AUTH_KEY_PREFIX = "fastapi_users_token:"