Snapshot of verae-nats-cluster from zapier monorepo (NATS cluster bench)

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Turn nats bench text logs + latency JSON into markdown."""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import re
import sys
from pathlib import Path
def fmt_int(s: str | None) -> str:
if not s:
return ""
return f"{int(s):,}"
def parse_bench(text: str) -> dict[str, str]:
out: dict[str, str] = {"kind": "throughput"}
m = re.search(r"(?m)^\s*Pub stats:\s*([0-9,]+)\s*msgs/sec\s*~\s*([0-9.]+)\s*MB/sec", text)
if m:
out["pub_msgs"] = m.group(1).replace(",", "")
out["pub_mb"] = m.group(2)
m = re.search(r"(?m)^\s*Sub stats:\s*([0-9,]+)\s*msgs/sec\s*~\s*([0-9.]+)\s*MB/sec", text)
if m:
out["sub_msgs"] = m.group(1).replace(",", "")
out["sub_mb"] = m.group(2)
m = re.search(r"NATS Pub/Sub stats:\s*([0-9,]+)\s*msgs/sec\s*~\s*([0-9.]+)\s*MB/sec", text)
if m:
out["agg_msgs"] = m.group(1).replace(",", "")
out["agg_mb"] = m.group(2)
if "JetStream" in text or "--js" in text or "js-" in text:
out["mode"] = "jetstream r=3 file"
else:
out["mode"] = "core pub/sub"
# nats 0.1.6 prints min/avg/max as msgs/sec across publishers, not µs delay
m = re.search(
r"min\s+([0-9,]+)\s*\|\s*avg\s+([0-9,]+)\s*\|\s*max\s+([0-9,]+)\s*\|\s*stddev\s+([0-9,]+)\s*msgs",
text,
)
if m:
out["pub_spread"] = f"{m.group(1)}{m.group(3)} (avg {m.group(2)})"
return out
def parse_lat(text: str) -> dict[str, str] | None:
for line in text.splitlines():
line = line.strip()
if line.startswith("{") and "p99_us" in line:
d = json.loads(line)
mode = d.get("mode") or ""
return {
"kind": "latency",
"count": str(d.get("count", "")),
"pubs": str(d.get("pubs", "")),
"size": str(d.get("size", "")),
"mode": str(mode),
"min": d.get("min", ""),
"avg": d.get("avg", ""),
"p50": d.get("p50", ""),
"p90": d.get("p90", ""),
"p99": d.get("p99", ""),
"max": d.get("max", ""),
}
return None
def lat_mode(run: str, recorded: str) -> str:
if recorded in ("ping", "flood"):
return recorded
if "ping" in run:
return "ping"
return "flood"
def thru_sort(p: dict[str, str]) -> tuple:
return (0 if p.get("mode", "").startswith("core") else 1, p.get("run", ""))
def lat_sort(p: dict[str, str]) -> tuple:
mode = lat_mode(p.get("run", ""), p.get("mode", ""))
return (0 if mode == "ping" else 1, int(p.get("count") or 0), p.get("run", ""))
def main() -> int:
folder = Path(sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else ".")
thru: list[dict[str, str]] = []
lats: list[dict[str, str]] = []
for f in sorted(folder.glob("*.txt")):
text = f.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
lat = parse_lat(text)
if lat:
lat["run"] = f.stem
lats.append(lat)
continue
p = parse_bench(text)
if p.get("pub_msgs") or p.get("agg_msgs"):
p["run"] = f.stem
thru.append(p)
stamp = folder.name if re.fullmatch(r"\d{8}T\d{6}Z", folder.name) else ""
print("# NATS cluster message speed")
print()
if stamp:
print(f"Run **`{stamp}`** (UTC). ", end="")
print(
"Client: LXC **510** `verae-px-worker` (`10.10.10.20`), not a nats-* server. "
"Servers: `nats-a/b/c` on `10.10.10.2123` (`vmbr1` only)."
)
print()
print("Client URL:")
print()
print("```text")
print("nats://10.10.10.21:4222,nats://10.10.10.22:4222,nats://10.10.10.23:4222")
print("```")
print()
print("## Method")
print()
print("- **Core NATS** is fire-and-forget pub/sub (`nats bench`). No disk, no replica ack.")
print(
"- **JetStream** uses **file** storage and **replicas=3** (same as product streams). "
"The unique stream `benchstream` is deleted between JS loads."
)
print("- Throughput is **msgs/sec** from nats CLI **0.1.6** (`--no-progress --csv`). Its min/avg/max are publisher **rate spread**, not delay.")
print(
"- **Ping** delay: one publisher, sequential publish-then-wait. This is one-message round-trip through the cluster."
)
print(
"- **Flood** delay: N publishers dump the whole batch, then the subscriber drains. "
"This is **queueing under burst**, not wire RTT."
)
print("- Probe: `scripts/latency.mjs` (two connections, header timestamp).")
print()
print("## Throughput")
print()
print("| Run | Mode | Aggregate msgs/s | Pub msgs/s | Pub MB/s | Sub msgs/s | Sub MB/s |")
print("|-----|------|------------------|------------|----------|------------|----------|")
for p in sorted(thru, key=thru_sort):
print(
f"| `{p['run']}` | {p.get('mode', '')} | {fmt_int(p.get('agg_msgs'))} | "
f"{fmt_int(p.get('pub_msgs'))} | {p.get('pub_mb') or ''} | "
f"{fmt_int(p.get('sub_msgs'))} | {p.get('sub_mb') or ''} |"
)
print()
print("## Round-trip delay")
print()
print("| Run | Kind | Count | Pubs | Size | min | avg | p50 | p90 | p99 | max |")
print("|-----|------|-------|------|------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|")
for p in sorted(lats, key=lat_sort):
kind = lat_mode(p.get("run", ""), p.get("mode", ""))
label = "ping (sequential RTT)" if kind == "ping" else "flood (burst queueing)"
print(
f"| `{p['run']}` | {label} | {p.get('count', '')} | {p.get('pubs', '')} | "
f"{p.get('size', '')} B | {p.get('min', '')} | {p.get('avg', '')} | "
f"{p.get('p50', '')} | {p.get('p90', '')} | {p.get('p99', '')} | {p.get('max', '')} |"
)
print()
print("## What the numbers mean")
print()
print(
"Product job/event/archive traffic is **JetStream r=3 file**. On this three-LXC stand that is about "
"**16k durable 128 B pubs/s** (about **13k** at 1 KiB). Core NATS is an upper bound for "
"non-durable fan-out: about **0.72.0M msgs/s** aggregate at 128 B, or **~630k msgs/s (~616 MB/s)** at 1 KiB with 4 publishers."
)
print()
print(
"A quiet request-reply is **~0.3 ms** average, **p99 < 1 ms**. Flood rows in the **150500 ms** band "
"are the subscriber catching up after a burst, which is what a job-events mailbox sees if publishers outrun consumers."
)
print()
print("Re-run on NS1: `bash scripts/bench.sh`. Raw logs/CSVs are under `results/<utc>/`.")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())