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## Motivation
Currently, filtering with `Subscribe`s is always _global_. If a
`Subscribe` performs filtering, it will disable a span or event for
_all_ subscribers that compose the current subscriber. In some cases,
however, it is often desirable for individual subscribers to see
different spans or events than the rest of the `Subscribe` stack.
Issues in other projects, such as tokio-rs/console#64 and
tokio-rs/console#76, linkerd/linkerd2-proxy#601,
influxdata/influxdb_iox#1012 and influxdata/influxdb_iox#1681,
jackwaudby/spaghetti#86, etc; as well as `tracing` feature requests like
#302, #597, and #1348, all indicate that there is significant demand for
the ability to add filters to individual `Subscribe`s.
Unfortunately, doing this nicely is somewhat complicated. Although a
naive implementation that simply skips events/spans in
`Subscribe::on_event` and `Subscribe::new_span` based on some filter is
relatively simple, this wouldn't really be an ideal solution, for a
number of reasons. A proper per-subscriber filtering implementation
would satisfy the following _desiderata_:
* If a per-subscriber filter disables a span, it shouldn't be present
_for the subscriber that filter is attached to_ when iterating over
span contexts (such as `Context::event_scope`, `SpanRef::scope`, etc),
or when looking up a span's parents.
* When _all_ per-subscriber filters disable a span or event, it should
be completely disabled, rather than simply skipped by those particular
subscribers. This means that per-subscriber filters should participate
in `enabled`, as well as being able to skip spans and events in
`new_span` and `on_event`.
* Per-subscriber filters shouldn't interfere with non-filtered
`Subscribe`s. If a subscriber contains subscribers without any
filters, as well as subscribers with per-subscriber filters, the
non-filtered `Subscribe`s should behave exactly as they would without
any per-subscriber filters present.
* Similarly, per-subscriber filters shouldn't interfere with global
filtering. If a `Subscribe` in a stack is performing global filtering
(e.g. the current filtering behavior), per-subscriber filters should
also be effected by the global filter.
* Per-subscriber filters _should_ be able to participate in `Interest`
caching, _but only when doing so doesn't interfere with
non-per-subscriber-filtered subscribers_.
* Per-subscriber filters should be _tree-shaped_. If a `Subscriber`
consists of multiple subscribers that have been `Subscribeed` together
to form new `Subscribe`s, and some of the `Subscribeed` subscribers
have per-subscriber filters, those per-subscriber filters should
effect all subscribers in that subtree. Similarly, if `Subscribe`s in
a per-subscriber filtered subtree have their _own_ per-subscriber
filters, those subscribers should be effected by the union of their
own filters and any per-subscriber filters that wrap them at higher
levels in the tree.
Meeting all these requirements means that implementing per-subscriber
filtering correctly is somewhat more complex than simply skipping events
and spans in a `Subscribe`'s `on_event` and `new_span` callbacks.
## Solution
This branch has a basic working implementation of per-subscriber
filtering for `tracing-subscriber` v0.2. It should be possible to add
this in a point release without a breaking change --- in particular, the
new per-subscriber filtering feature _doesn't_ interfere with the global
filtering behavior that subscribers currently have when not using the
new per-subscriber filtering APIs, so existing configurations should all
behave exactly as they do now.
### Implementation
The new per-subscriber filtering API consists of a `Filter` trait that
defines a filtering strategy and a `Filtered` type that combines a
`Filter` with a `Subscribe`. When `enabled` is called on a `Filtered`
subscriber, it checks the metadata against the `Filter` and stores
whether that filter enabled the span/event in a thread-local cell. If
every per-subscriber filter disables a span/event, and there are no
non-per-subscriber-filtered subscribers in use, the `Registry`'s
`enabled` will return `false`. Otherwise, when the span/event is
recorded, each `Filtered` subscriber's `on_event` and `new_span` method
checks with the `Registry` to see whether _it_ enabled or disabled that
span/event, and skips passing it to the wrapped subscriber if it was
disabled. When a span is recorded, the `Registry` which filters disabled
it, so that they can skip it when looking up spans in other callbacks.
A new `on_subscriber` method was added to the `Subscribe` trait, which
allows running a callback when adding a `Subscribe` to a `Subscriber`.
This allows mutating both the `Subscribe` and the `Subscriber`, since
they are both passed by value when subscribering a `Subscribe` onto a
`Subscriber`, and a new `register_filter` method was added to
`LookupSpan`, which returns a `FilterId` type. When a `Filtered`
subscriber is added to a subscriber that implements `LookupSpan`, it
calls `register_filter` in its `on_subscriber` hook to generate a
unique ID for its filter. `FilterId` can be used to look up whether a
span or event was enabled by the `Filtered` subscriber.
Internally, the filter results are stored in a simple bitset to reduce
the performance overhead of adding per-subscriber filtering as much as
possible. The `FilterId` type is actually a bitmask that's used to set
the bit corresponding to a `Filtered` subscriber in that bitmap when it
disables a span or event, and check whether the bit is set when querying
if a span or event was disabled. Setting a bit in the bitset and testing
whether its set is extremely efficient --- it's just a couple of bitwise
ops. Additionally, the "filter map" that tracks which filters disabled a
span or event is just a single `u64` --- we don't need to allocate a
costly `HashSet` or similar every time we want to filter an event. This
*does* mean that we are limited to 64 unique filters per
`Registry`...however, I would be _very_ surprised if anyone _ever_
builds a subscriber with 64 subscribers, let alone 64 separate
per-subscriber filters.
Additionally, the `Context` and `SpanRef` types now also potentially
carry `FilterId`s, so that they can filter span lookups and span
traversals for `Filtered` subscribers. When `Filtered` subscribers are
nested using the `Subscribeed`, the `Context` _combines_ the filter ID
of the inner and outer subscribers so that spans can be skipped if they
were disabled by either.
Finally, an implementation of the `Filter` trait was added for
`LevelFilter`, and new `FilterFn` and `DynFilterFn` structs were added
to produce a `Filter` implementation from a function pointer or closure.
### Notes
Some other miscellaneous factors to consider when reviewing this change
include:
* I did a bit of unrelated refactoring in the `subscriber` module. Since
we were adding more code to the `Subscribe` module (the `Filter`
trait), the `subscriber.rs` file got significantly longer and was
becoming somewhat hard to navigate. Therefore, I split out the
`Context` and `Subscribeed` types into their own files. Most of the
code in those files is the same as it was before, although some of it
was changed in order to support per-subscriber filtering. Apologies in
advance to reviewers for this...
* In order to test this change, I added some new test-support code in
`tracing-subscriber`. The `tracing` test support code provides a
`Subscriber` implementation that can be configured to expect a
particular set of spans and events, and assert that they occurred as
expected. In order to test per-subscriber filtering, I added a new
`Subscribe` implementation that does the same thing, but implements
`Subscribe` rather than `Subscriber`. This allows testing
per-subscriber filter behavior in the same way we test global filter
behavior. Reviewers should feel free to just skim the test the test
support changes, or skip reviewing them entirely.
## Future Work
There is a bunch of additional stuff we can do once this change lands.
In order to limit the size of this PR, I didn't make these changes yet,
but once this merges, we will want to consider some important follow up
changes:
* [ ] Currently, _only_ `tracing-subscriber`'s `Registry` is capable of
serving as a root subscriber for per-subscriber filters. This is
in order to avoid stabilizing a lot of the per-subscriber
filtering design as public API without taking the time to ensure
there are no serious issues. In the future, we will want to add
new APIs to allow users to implement their own root `Subscriber`s
that can host subscribers with per-subscriber filtering.
* [ ] The `EnvFilter` type doesn't implement the `Filter` trait and thus
cannot currently be used as a per-subscriber filter. We should add
an implementation of `Filter` for `EnvFilter`.
* [ ] The new `FilterFn` and `DynFilterFn` types could conceivably
_also_ be used as global filters. We could consider adding
`Subscribe` implementations to allow them to be used for global
filtering.
* [ ] We could consider adding new `Filter` implementations for
performing common filtering predicates. For example, "only enable
spans/events with a particular target or a set of targets", "only
enable spans", "only enable events", etc. Then, we could add a
combinator API to combine these predicates to build new filters.
* [ ] It would be nice if the `Interest` system could be used to cache
the result of multiple individual per-subscriber filter
evaluations, so that we don't need to always use `enabled` when
there are several per-subscriber filters that disagree on whether
or not they want a given span/event. There are a lot of unused
bits in `Interest` that could potentially be used for this
purpose. However, this would require new API changes in
`tracing-core`, and is therefore out of scope for this PR.
Closes#302Closes#597Closes#1348
Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <[email protected]>
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