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Grafana blank graphs in dashboards after update

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Upgrading Grafana (kube-prometheus-stack) from version 23.1 to the latest one currently 44.2.1 results in many Grafana graphs to disappear from the existing dashboards.

Since editing the actual graphs and trying to use ‘Run queries’ does not seem to work, a work around is the following:

  • Edit the blank graph.
  • Add a new query (B) – even empty is fine
  • Use the ‘Run queries’ (it does not matter if you use the button on the original one or in the new query B)
  • Delete the new query B
  • The graph should appear again, so use the ‘Apply’ button on top right.
  • Repeat the process for any additional graphs in the dashboard
  • When you finish ‘Save’ the dashboard
  • The dashboard should be working again

Removing gitlab’s container registry ‘repository scheduled for deletion’ message

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If you want to remove the ‘repository scheduled for deletion’ message from a self hosted gitlab’s container registry installation, you can do the following.

Login to the toolbox pod

kubectl --kubeconfig /path/to/gitlab/kubeconfig -n gitlab-system exec -it gitlab-toolbox-pod-name -- bash

Start the rails console

cd /srv/gitlab
bundle exec rails console

Find the repository with it’s id and then get the registry for it

project=Project.find(project_id)
registry=project.container_repositories.first

The message is displayed when the status of the container is set to ‘delete_scheduled’, so change this to be null

registry.status=''
registry.save

Error: parse error at (gitlab-agent/templates/observability-secret.yaml:1): unclosed action

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Problem

You are trying to install the gitlab kubernetes agent (kas) after getting the installation instructions from the Gitlab registration, but you are getting the following error:

Error: parse error at (gitlab-agent/templates/observability-secret.yaml:1): unclosed action

Solution

This is caused by the helm version used, so upgrading the helm version works with no issues.

 helm version
version.BuildInfo{Version:"v3.5.3", GitCommit:"041ce5a2c17a58be0fcd5f5e16fb3e7e95fea622", GitTreeState:"dirty", GoVersion:"go1.15.8"}

so trying to install gives the previous error.

Changing the helm version (ie with asdf)

asdf global helm 3.70

Checking the version

helm version
version.BuildInfo{Version:"v3.7.0", GitCommit:"eeac83883cb4014fe60267ec6373570374ce770b", GitTreeState:"clean", GoVersion:"go1.16.8"}

And running the helm installation again

helm upgrade --install gitlab-kas-agent gitlab/gitlab-agent \

--namespace gitlab-agent --set image.tag=v15.6.0 \

--set config.token=token_from_gitlab-registration \

--set config.kasAddress=wss://kas.domain_name.tld


Release "gitlab-kas-agent" does not exist. Installing it now.
NAME: gitlab-kas-agent
LAST DEPLOYED: Mon Dec  5 13:38:33 2022
NAMESPACE: gitlab-agent
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None

Exporting Gitlab project through the API

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To export a project through Gitlab’s API, first create a Personal Access Token (PAT) and give api and repository permissions.


Export PAT as an environment variable.

Then find the project id (main page of the project – 1111).

To start an export use

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $PAT" "https://your.gitlab.repo/api/v4/projects/1111/export" --data "upload[http_method]=PUT"

Then check the status and get the download link when it has finished

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $PAT" "https://your.gitlab.repo/api/v4/projects/1111/export"
{"id":1111,"description":"Project description","name":"project","name_with_namespace":"MyOrg / project","path":"project","path_with_namespace":"myorg/project","created_at":"2021-11-01T10:57:23.195+02:00","export_status":"finished","_links":{"api_url":"https://your.gitlab.repo/api/v4/projects/1111/export/download","web_url":"https://your.gitlab.repo/myorg/project/download_export"}}

Restic index invalid data returned error

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Problem

It is possible after a broken network connection to get the restic error about invalid data returned for the index (maybe when using check).

Solution

You would need to rebuild the index, but using the –read-all-packs flag as described [here](https://forum.restic.net/t/fatal-load-index-xxxxxxxxx-invalid-data-returned/3596/27) which does the rebuild from scratch

restic rebuild-index -r $REPO --read-all-packs

PostgreSQL connection string for Percona PostgreSQL K8S operator

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Since the documentation does not contain any information about how you can connect an existing application to the newly created percona pgo cluster, you can use something like the following in your pod postgresql connection string.

postgresql://username:password@cluster1.pgo-perc-production.svc.cluster.local/production

where cluster1.pgo-perc-production.svc.cluster.local points to your newly created cluster and the /production is the database to connect to.

failed to create fsnotify watcher: too many open files

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This is quite possibly caused by one of the limits set too low. It is common when using promtail (with Loki for example) to tail log files.

One of the ways to get over this is to increase the value (in this example max_user_instances) either for the session or by making the change permanent by adding to a file (/etc/sysctl.conf).

For testing and doing it for the session, login to the affected server and do the following

ubuntu@server:~$ cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances 
128
ubuntu@server:~$ sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances=8192
fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 8192
ubuntu@server:~$ cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances 
8192