Varnish 503 on POST requests once in a while

Maninder Singh mandys at gmail.com
Fri Dec 27 08:52:30 UTC 2019


Here are the different timeouts:

*timeout_idle* (default: 5 seconds): How long we will wait from we
`accept()` the connection, until the client must have sent us a
non-whitespace character. (typically this will be the G in "GET /url
HTTP/1.1")

Isn't idle_timeout for client to varnish requests ??

Also, just so that you know, these requests dont make it to apache logs
also.



backend_idle_timeout       60.000 [seconds] (default)
between_bytes_timeout      60.000 [seconds] (default)
cli_timeout                60.000 [seconds] (default)
connect_timeout            3.500 [seconds] (default)
first_byte_timeout         60.000 [seconds] (default)
idle_send_timeout          60.000 [seconds] (default)
pipe_timeout               60.000 [seconds] (default)
send_timeout               600.000 [seconds] (default)
thread_pool_timeout        300.000 [seconds] (default)
timeout_idle               5.000 [seconds] (default)
timeout_linger             0.050 [seconds] (default)


On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 at 13:15, Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi at varni.sh> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 1:00 AM Maninder Singh <mandys at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I only have php-fpm slow logging for requests greater than 5secs.
> Otherwise it should be all defaults for varnish/apache/fpm.
> >
> > Does varnish or apache have anything defaulting to 5secs?
>
> timeout_idle defaults to 5s
>
> > Otherwise fpm might be closing the connection for logging a slow request
> ? Strange?
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Dec, 2019, 10:44 pm Guillaume Quintard, <
> guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> The first looks like the backend is just closing the door on you. The
> other one (Resource temporarily unavailable), because of the
> Timestamp:Beresp,  is most probably a timeout (did you set anything to 5s?)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Guillaume Quintard
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 3:12 PM Maninder Singh <mandys at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Another one.
> >>> This one is diff error.
> >>>
> >>> *   << BeReq    >> 19327398
> >>> -   Begin          bereq 19327397 pass
> >>> -   Timestamp      Start: 1577370022.344818 0.000000 0.000000
> >>> -   BereqMethod    POST
> >>> -   BereqURL       /LetsCelebrate
> >>> -   BereqProtocol  HTTP/1.1
> >>> -   BereqHeader    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X
> 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88
> Safari/537.36
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Accept:
> text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Cache-Control: max-age=0
> >>> -   BereqHeader    SSLClientCertStatus: NoClientCert
> >>> -   BereqHeader    X-Forwarded-Proto: https
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
> boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryBBVOJciq1v4rbZs9
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
> >>> -   BereqHeader    SSLClientCipher:
> SSL_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, version=TLSv1.2, bits=256
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Host: mydomain.com
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Referer: https://mydomain.com/LetsCelebrate
> >>> -   BereqHeader    SSLSessionID:
> 97258494A3DD008A855B552F701E9F95C25CDC7B1CF5FD63D382ED09391585C7
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Origin: https://mydomain.com
> >>> -   BereqHeader    X-Cluster-Client-Ip: X.X.X.X
> >>> -   BereqHeader    X-Forwarded-Port: 443
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Sec-Fetch-Mode: nested-navigate
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
> >>> -   BereqHeader    Content-Length: 2076
> >>> -   BereqHeader    X-Forwarded-For: X.X.X.X, 10.187.187.36
> >>> -   BereqHeader    browser: other
> >>> -   BereqHeader    serverIp: 10.208.225.235
> >>> -   BereqHeader    X-Varnish: 19327398
> >>> -   VCL_call       BACKEND_FETCH
> >>> -   VCL_return     fetch
> >>> -   BackendOpen    23 reload_2019-12-18T054238.default 127.0.0.1 8080
> 127.0.0.1 39568
> >>> -   BackendStart   127.0.0.1 8080
> >>> -   FetchError     req.body read error: 11 (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> >>> -   FetchError     backend write error: 11 (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> >>> -   Timestamp      Bereq: 1577370027.344908 5.000090 5.000090
> >>> -   BackendClose   23 reload_2019-12-18T054238.default
> >>> -   Timestamp      Beresp: 1577370027.345014 5.000196 0.000105
> >>> -   Timestamp      Error: 1577370027.345025 5.000206 0.000011
> >>> -   BerespProtocol HTTP/1.1
> >>> -   BerespStatus   503
> >>> -   BerespReason   Service Unavailable
> >>> -   BerespReason   Backend fetch failed
> >>> -   BerespHeader   Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:20:27 GMT
> >>> -   BerespHeader   Server: Varnish
> >>> -   VCL_call       BACKEND_ERROR
> >>> -   BerespHeader   Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> >>> -   BerespHeader   Retry-After: 5
> >>> -   VCL_return     deliver
> >>> -   Storage        malloc Transient
> >>> -   ObjProtocol    HTTP/1.1
> >>> -   ObjStatus      503
> >>> -   ObjReason      Backend fetch failed
> >>> -   ObjHeader      Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:20:27 GMT
> >>> -   ObjHeader      Server: Varnish
> >>> -   ObjHeader      Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> >>> -   ObjHeader      Retry-After: 5
> >>> -   Length         1288
> >>> -   BereqAcct      1276 0 1276 0 0 0
> >>> -   End
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 at 17:27, Maninder Singh <mandys at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Got one in the log.
> >>>>
> >>>> varnishlog -r /var/log/varnish/503.log
> >>>> *   << BeReq    >> 21993384
> >>>> -   Begin          bereq 21993383 pass
> >>>> -   Timestamp      Start: 1577360704.829258 0.000000 0.000000
> >>>> -   BereqMethod    POST
> >>>> -   BereqURL       /corp/contact.php?cf=exitpopup
> >>>> -   BereqProtocol  HTTP/1.1
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1;
> Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg,
> image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    SSLClientCertStatus: NoClientCert
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    X-Forwarded-Proto: https
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    SSLClientCipher:
> SSL_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, version=TLSv1, bits=256
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    Host: www.mydomain.com
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    Referer:
> http://mydomain.com/solutions/enterprise.php
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    SSLSessionID:
> 3C119EF3FE70318789F82E9B583581C876B4DDE520C0182C33CD6AF1AA46E63A
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    X-Cluster-Client-Ip: X.X.X.X
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    Cookie:
> X-Mapping-fjhppofk=E8F494E9A630955F1975EEDF11EBC4D7
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    X-Forwarded-Port: 443
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    Content-Length: 1366
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    X-Forwarded-For: X.X.X.X, 10.187.187.36
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    browser: other
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    serverIp: 10.208.224.192
> >>>> -   BereqHeader    X-Varnish: 21993384
> >>>> -   VCL_call       BACKEND_FETCH
> >>>> -   VCL_return     fetch
> >>>> -   BackendOpen    26 reload_2019-12-18T054253.default 127.0.0.1 8080
> 127.0.0.1 59998
> >>>> -   BackendStart   127.0.0.1 8080
> >>>> -   Timestamp      Bereq: 1577360705.664932 0.835674 0.835674
> >>>> -   FetchError     http first read error: EOF
> >>>> -   BackendClose   26 reload_2019-12-18T054253.default
> >>>> -   Timestamp      Beresp: 1577360705.665020 0.835763 0.000089
> >>>> -   Timestamp      Error: 1577360705.665028 0.835770 0.000008
> >>>> -   BerespProtocol HTTP/1.1
> >>>> -   BerespStatus   503
> >>>> -   BerespReason   Service Unavailable
> >>>> -   BerespReason   Backend fetch failed
> >>>> -   BerespHeader   Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 11:45:05 GMT
> >>>> -   BerespHeader   Server: Varnish
> >>>> -   VCL_call       BACKEND_ERROR
> >>>> -   BerespHeader   Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> >>>> -   BerespHeader   Retry-After: 5
> >>>> -   VCL_return     deliver
> >>>> -   Storage        malloc Transient
> >>>> -   ObjProtocol    HTTP/1.1
> >>>> -   ObjStatus      503
> >>>> -   ObjReason      Backend fetch failed
> >>>> -   ObjHeader      Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 11:45:05 GMT
> >>>> -   ObjHeader      Server: Varnish
> >>>> -   ObjHeader      Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> >>>> -   ObjHeader      Retry-After: 5
> >>>> -   Length         1288
> >>>> -   BereqAcct      849 1366 2215 0 0 0
> >>>> -   End
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 at 15:21, Maninder Singh <mandys at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Okay. Let me set it up and get back to you once i see something in
> that log. It happens only once/twice a day so could be a while before i get
> back.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, 26 Dec, 2019, 3:10 pm Guillaume Quintard, <
> guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Most probably, varnishncsa isn't going to give you the full
> picture, so let's go for the exhaustive way:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> varnishlog -q "BerespStatus eq 503" -w /whatever/file
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> you can then read the logs with
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> varnishlog -r /whatever/file
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> (more logging pointers here:
> https://docs.varnish-software.com/tutorials/vsl-query/)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If you can get your hands on a failed transaction, we should be
> able to tell you what went wrong. Most probably, you hit a timeout of some
> sort. Or it could be that the backend was declared sick, if you have probes.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Guillaume Quintard
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 6:33 AM Maninder Singh <mandys at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I am facing a strange problem.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I am running varnish 4.1.11 on port 80 which is behind a LB.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Varnish then connects to apache 2.4 ( on port 8080 ) and also have
> php-fpm running.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Now, everything works fine but once in a while I am seeing 503
> response from varnish for a POST request. During this time there is no log
> in apache also ( neither access log nor error log ).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Where does this request vanish ?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> How do I debug this issue ?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Some more details:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> * I have varnishncsa turned on with following flags.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ExecStart=/usr/bin/varnishncsa -q 'not (ReqURL ~
> "\.(js|css|png|jpeg|jpg|ico|gif|swf|woff)" or ReqHeader:User-Agent ~
> "HTTP-Monitor" or ReqHeader:User-Agent ~ "Monitoring/1.1")' -a -w
> /var/log/varnish/varnishncsa.log -D -f /etc/sysconfig/varnishncsa
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Here is the entry in varnish log during that time.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> X.X.X.X, LB.IP.0.0 - - [25/Dec/2019:00:26:40 -0600] 2629363 "POST
> http://mydomain.com/LetsCelebrate HTTP/1.1" 503 1288 "
> https://referringdomain.com/LetsCelebrate?hostingUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fxy.abc.com"
> "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; SM-A920F) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
> Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.93 Mobile Safari/537.36" "mydomain.com" miss
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> In .vcl file I have following set.
> >>>>>>>  .first_byte_timeout = 120s;
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Now, I am not logging varnish to apache requests ( which backend
> fetch ).
> >>>>>>> As you can see above I am only logging client requests.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Is their a way to log client requests like above but then also log
> backend fetch failures to another log file ?
> >>>>>>> [ Running 2 instances of varnishncsa ? ]
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Any pointers ?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Please let me know.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thanks.
> >>>>>>>
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