kibana/x-pack/plugins/monitoring/server/routes
Shaunak Kashyap 2f9ad0a814
Improve performance of the Logstash Pipeline Viewer (#33793)
Resolves #27513.

_This PR is a combination of #31293 (the code changes) + #33570 (test updates). These two PRs were individually reviewed and merged into a feature branch. This combo PR here simply sets up the merge from the feature branch to `master`._

Summary of changes, taken from #31293:

## Before this PR
The Logstash Pipeline Viewer UI would make a single Kibana API call to fetch all the information necessary to render the Logstash pipeline. This included information necessary to render the detail drawer that opens up when a user clicks on an individual vertex in the pipeline.

Naturally, this single API call fetched _a lot_ of data, not just from the Kibana server but also, in turn, from Elasticsearch as well. The "pro" of this approach was that the user would see instantaneous results if they clicked on a vertex in a pipeline and opened the detail drawer for that vertex. The "cons" were the amount of computation Elasticsearch had to perform and the amount of data being transferred over the wire between Elasticsearch and the Kibana server as well as between the Kibana server and the browser.

## With this PR
This PR makes the Kibana API call to fetch data necessary for **initially** rendering the pipeline — that is, with the detail drawer closed — much lighter. When the user clicks on a vertex in a pipeline, a second API call is then made to fetch data necessary for the detail drawer.

## Gains, by the numbers

Based on a simple, 1-input, 1-filter, and 1-output pipeline.

* Before this PR, the Elasticsearch `logstash_stats` API responses (multiple calls were made using the `composite` aggregation over the `date_histogram` aggregation) generated a total of 1228 aggregation buckets (before any `filter_path`s were applied but across all `composite` "pages"). With this PR, the single `logstash_stats` API response (note that this is just for the initial rendering of the pipeline, with the detail drawer closed) generated 12 buckets (also before any `filter_path`s were applied). That's a **99.02% reduction** in number of buckets.

* Before this PR, the Elasticsearch `logstash_stats` API responses added up to 70319 bytes. With this PR, the single `logstash_stats` API response for the same pipeline is 746 bytes. That's a **98.93% reduction** in size.

* Before this PR, the Elasticsearch `logstash_state` API response was 7718 bytes. With this PR, the API response for the same pipeline is 2328 bytes. That's a **69.83% reduction** in size.

* Before this PR the Kibana API response was 51777 bytes. With this PR, the API response for the same pipeline is 2567 bytes (again, note that this is just for the initial rendering of the pipeline, with the detail drawer closed). That's a **95.04% reduction** in size.
2019-03-26 06:27:20 -07:00
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api/v1 Improve performance of the Logstash Pipeline Viewer (#33793) 2019-03-26 06:27:20 -07:00
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