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[Bug]: Max clock skew setting not applied in v2 #6565

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dnaka91 opened this issue Jan 18, 2025 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #6566
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[Bug]: Max clock skew setting not applied in v2 #6565

dnaka91 opened this issue Jan 18, 2025 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #6566
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area/otel bug storage/badger Issues related to badger storage v2

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dnaka91 commented Jan 18, 2025

What happened?

I'm having a distributed tracing setup in which some devices have a clock difference of several seconds and wanted to adjust the maximum clock skew adjustment duration.

After some digging into the config structures, I found that the yaml setting should be as follows and confirmed it's parsed and accepted by the server, as it errors on any unknown config field:

extensions:
  jaeger_query:
    max_clock_skew_adjust: 5s

This is the equivalent of the --query.max-clock-skew-adjustment=5s of Jaeger v1.

However, it seems this setting is not being applied in v2 at all, as regardless of what duration is set, it always applies the default of 1 second.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Have a Jaeger instance and two OTLP clients set up with different clock timing.
    1.1. The clients should have a clock difference of at least a few seconds.
    1.2. The clients must be setup for distributed tracing so their traces are combined in Jaeger.
  2. Configure Jaeger to accept larger durations that 1 second.
  3. View a trace in the UI that is a distributed trace of both clients.
  4. Verify that the spans of the clients are far apart and not normalized, despite the configured max clock skew adjustment. A warning will be shown in the spans, saying that the clock skew exceeds the limit.

Expected behavior

The Jaeger server should apply the max clock skew adjustment setting accordingly.

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Jaeger backend version

v2.2.0

SDK

Rust setup with tracing, tracing-subscriber, tracing-opentelemetry and various crates from the opentelemetry-rust project.

All with the latest version as of writing, but this appears to be no client-side error anyway.

Pipeline

OTEL SDK -> [OTLP] -> Jaeger v2

Same pipeline for 2 clients, but the clients are on different installments:

  • Server system receiving requests.
  • Android app sending requests.

In a local setup the server is run in Docker, and the app is run in an Android emulator.

Stogage backend

Badger

Operating system

Linux

Deployment model

Docker Compose

Deployment configs

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dnaka91 commented Jan 18, 2025

I already have a draft PR for this and just opened it, which should fix the problem but I haven't had a chance to properly test it yet.

Also, there is an open question from my side for the default setting of 1 second.

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