Move the circuitbreaker check out in a separate process

Moving the check out of the general requests, makes sure we don't have
any slowdown in the regular requests.

To keep the process performing this checks small, the check is still
performed inside a unicorn. But that is called from a process running
on the same server.

Because the checks are now done outside normal request, we can have a
simpler failure strategy:

The check is now performed in the background every
`circuitbreaker_check_interval`. Failures are logged in redis. The
failures are reset when the check succeeds. Per check we will try
`circuitbreaker_access_retries` times within
`circuitbreaker_storage_timeout` seconds.

When the number of failures exceeds
`circuitbreaker_failure_count_threshold`, we will block access to the
storage.

After `failure_reset_time` of no checks, we will clear the stored
failures. This could happen when the process that performs the checks
is not running.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/app/helpers/application_settings_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_settings_helper.rb
index dccde46fa33..b12ea760668 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_settings_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_settings_helper.rb
@@ -124,17 +124,6 @@ module ApplicationSettingsHelper
     _('The number of attempts GitLab will make to access a storage.')
   end
 
-  def circuitbreaker_backoff_threshold_help_text
-    _("The number of failures after which GitLab will start temporarily "\
-      "disabling access to a storage shard on a host")
-  end
-
-  def circuitbreaker_failure_wait_time_help_text
-    _("When access to a storage fails. GitLab will prevent access to the "\
-      "storage for the time specified here. This allows the filesystem to "\
-      "recover. Repositories on failing shards are temporarly unavailable")
-  end
-
   def circuitbreaker_failure_reset_time_help_text
     _("The time in seconds GitLab will keep failure information. When no "\
       "failures occur during this time, information about the mount is reset.")
@@ -145,6 +134,11 @@ module ApplicationSettingsHelper
       "timeout error will be raised.")
   end
 
+  def circuitbreaker_check_interval_help_text
+    _("The time in seconds between storage checks. When a previous check did "\
+      "complete yet, GitLab will skip a check.")
+  end
+
   def visible_attributes
     [
       :admin_notification_email,
@@ -154,10 +148,9 @@ module ApplicationSettingsHelper
       :akismet_enabled,
       :auto_devops_enabled,
       :circuitbreaker_access_retries,
-      :circuitbreaker_backoff_threshold,
+      :circuitbreaker_check_interval,
       :circuitbreaker_failure_count_threshold,
       :circuitbreaker_failure_reset_time,
-      :circuitbreaker_failure_wait_time,
       :circuitbreaker_storage_timeout,
       :clientside_sentry_dsn,
       :clientside_sentry_enabled,
diff --git a/app/helpers/storage_health_helper.rb b/app/helpers/storage_health_helper.rb
index 4d2180f7eee..b76c1228220 100644
--- a/app/helpers/storage_health_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/storage_health_helper.rb
@@ -18,16 +18,12 @@ module StorageHealthHelper
     current_failures = circuit_breaker.failure_count
 
     translation_params = { number_of_failures: current_failures,
-                           maximum_failures: maximum_failures,
-                           number_of_seconds: circuit_breaker.failure_wait_time }
+                           maximum_failures: maximum_failures }
 
     if circuit_breaker.circuit_broken?
       s_("%{number_of_failures} of %{maximum_failures} failures. GitLab will not "\
          "retry automatically. Reset storage information when the problem is "\
          "resolved.") % translation_params
-    elsif circuit_breaker.backing_off?
-      _("%{number_of_failures} of %{maximum_failures} failures. GitLab will "\
-        "block access for %{number_of_seconds} seconds.") % translation_params
     else
       _("%{number_of_failures} of %{maximum_failures} failures. GitLab will "\
         "allow access on the next attempt.") % translation_params