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Debuggability for OOMs due to split explosions

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
backend

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. First clarify which debuggability proposal to pursue for the Split filter: trace and warning logs, split-event metrics, or a circuit-breaker limit. Done should mean an agreed scope, implementation location, configuration behavior, and diagnostics or event-tagging expectations.

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Description

enhancement

Ideas to make the Split filter debuggable

  • Add a trace logger which logs the exact count of items before the actual split

  • Add a warning logger which logs only if:

    • by default, if the items being generated >= bulk size
    • configurable by the split filter itself (via a parameter e.g. warn_threshold)
  • Collect metrics of min/max/average or an histogram of number of split events and report them in the diagnostics

  • Have an optional circuit breaker limit which would not split the events if they exceed a threshold and tag the events as split_failed or split_limited

Dominant language
Ruby
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6
Forks
29
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