Tracking and Monitoring APIs at Scale

Tracking and Monitoring APIs at ScaleBuilding a big-data pipeline with Nginx

Cosmin StanciuLead Software Engineer, Adobe I/O

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Adobe API’s

Adobe Document Cloud

Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe Marketing Cloud

API Gateway

Adobe API Gateway

Validation Caching Throttling Logging

• apigateway• api-gateway-request-validation• api-gateway-cachemanager• api-gateway-aws• api-gateway-async-logger

Github

metadata

request

response

600M/day

API Gateway

Kinesis / Kafka

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Data

Analytics

Debugging

Business model

Monitoring

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– Carl Sagan

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

architecture

architectureBatch

ServiceSpeed

HDFS SQLStreaming

{API}

Agg. Index

Speed IndexConsumers

Kinesis

S3

- Streaming layer

Kinesis

BatchService

Speed

HDFS SQLStreaming

{API}

Agg. Index

Speed IndexConsumers

S3

Kinesis Logger Config1. local logger_module = “api-gateway.logger.BufferedAsyncLogger"

3. local logger_opts = {4. flush_length = 500,5. flush_interval = 5,6. flush_concurrency = 16,7. flush_throughput = 10000, 8. sharedDict = “stats_kinesis”9. }

PutRecords - ever request up to 500 records

5s - interval in seconds to flush regardless if the buffer is full or

notMax parallel

threads used for sending logs

max logs / SECOND that can be sent to

the Kinesis backend

dict for caching the logs

Kinesis Logger Config1. backend_opts = {2. aws_region = ngx.var.aws_region or "us-east-1",3. kinesis_stream_name = "api-gateway-stream",4. aws_credentials = {5. provider = "api-gateway.aws.AWSSTSCredentials",6. role_ARN = "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/admin,7. role_session_name = "kinesis-logger-session",8. shared_cache_dict = “aws_credentials”9. }10. }

Security Token Service

AsumeRole returns a set of temporary

security credentials

Cluster

Cluster deployment

VPCPublicPrivate

Stateless Body

Stateful BodyNucleus Membrane

Mesos Agents HDFS

NameNodeZookeeper

Mesos master

Stateless Workloads

Stateful Workloads

- HDFS DataNodes

API Gateway- Auto discover

- Load balancing- Security

SpeedSpeed IndexConsumers

Kinesis

BatchService

HDFS SQLStreaming

{API}

Agg. Index

S3

Real-time data

Kibana UIDebugging

Monitoring

- Speed layer

- Batch layer Batch

HDFS SQLStreamingAgg. Index

ServiceSpeed

{API}

Speed IndexConsumers

Kinesis

S3

Docker / Marathon Batch size

Checkpointing Kinesis / Spark

Store in Parquet format

Temporary storage Parquet files

S3 sync

Elasticsearch Index

Docker / ChronosDaily / Hourly aggregation

Run job hourly or daily

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OLAP Data Cube

count

time

consumer

serviceThe Elasticsearch aggregated index can be represented as a Data Cube

The cube is actually a hypercube with more than 3 dimensions

Users can apply filters, roll-ups or drill-downs

Service{API}

Agg. Index

Speed Index

S3 BatchSpeed

HDFS SQLStreaming

Consumers

Kinesis

- Service layer

Testing

Performance testing

Functional testing

HDFS SQLStreaming

Kafka

Testing app

Canary testing

{API}

Agg. Index Speed Index

Canary traffic

Results

Results

Monitoring

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1750

3500

5250

7000

8750

Realtime Forcast

Demo

Functional testing

HDFS SQLStreaming

Kafka

Testing app

Kafka Logger Config1. local logger_module = “api-gateway.logger.BufferedAsyncLogger"

3. local logger_opts = {4. flush_length = 500,5. flush_interval = 1,6. flush_concurrency = 16,7. flush_throughput = 10000, 8. sharedDict = “stats_kafka”9. }

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