Admin/Developer Documentation¶

Setting up a development environment ¶

You can set up a development environment with:

# Builds Docker containers
$ make build

# Initializes service state (db)
$ make setup

Tecken consists of:

a Symbols Service webapp that covers uploading and downloading symbols
a Symbolication Service webapp (Eliot) that covers symbolication

To run these two services, do:

$ make run

The Symbols Service webapp is at: http://localhost:3000

The Symbolication Service webapp is at: http://localhost:8050

Managing dependencies ¶

JavaScript dependencies (Symbols Service)¶

Tecken uses yarn for JavaScript dependencies. Use the yarn installed in the Docker frontend container:

$ docker-compose run frontend bash

# display packages that can be upgraded
node@xxx:/app$ yarn outdated

# example of upgrading an existing package
node@xxx:/app$ yarn upgrade date-fns --latest

# example of adding a new package
node@xxx:/app$ yarn add some-new-package

When you’re done, you have to rebuild the frontend Docker container:

$ docker-compose build frontend

Your change should result in changes to frontend/package.json and frontend/yarn.lock which needs to both be checked in and committed.

Testing ¶

Unit tests ¶

Tecken webapp and Eliot both have Python unit tests that use the pytest test framework.

To run all of the unit tests, do:

$ make test

See Python tests for Symbols Service webapp and Python tests for Symbolication Service for details.

System tests ¶

System tests are located in the repository in systemtests/. See the README.rst there for usage.

System tests can be run against any running environment: local, stage, or prod.

Load tests ¶

At various points, we’ve done some minor load testing of the system. The scripts are located in:

https://github.com/mozilla-services/tecken-loadtests/

They’re good for bootstrapping another load testing effort, but they’re not otherwise maintained.

Symbols Service webapp things ¶

When running the Tecken webapp in the local dev environment, it’s at: http://localhost:3000

The code is in tecken/.

You can override Symbols Service webapp configuration in your .env file.

Python tests for Symbols Service webapp ¶

To run the tests, do:

$ make test

Tests for the Symbols Service webapp go in tecken/tests/.

If you need to run specific tests or pass in different arguments, you can use the testshell:

$ make testshell
app@xxx:/app$ pytest

<pytest output>

app@xxx:/app$ cd tecken/
app@xxx:/app/tecken$ pytest tests/test_download.py

<pytest output>

JavaScript tests ¶

The Tecken webapp is built using JavaScript and React. There are no tests for this code and it has to be tested manually. You can do something like this:

go to Tecken webapp website
wait for front page to load
click on “Home”
click on “Downloads missing”
click on “Symbolication”
click on “Help”
click on “Log in” and log in
click on “Home”
click on “Downloads missing”
click on “User management”
click on “API tokens”
click on “Uploads”
click on “Symbolication”
click on “Help”
click on “Sign out”

Database migrations ¶

The Symbols Service webapp uses Django’s ORM and thus we do database migrations using Django’s migration system.

Do this:

$ make shell
app@xxx:/app$ ./manage.py makemigration --name "BUGID_desc" APP

Accounts and first superuser ¶

The Symbols Service webapp has an accounts system.

Users need to create their own API tokens but before they can do that they need to be promoted to have that permission at all.

The only person/people who can give other users permissions is the superuser. To bootstrap the user administration you need to create at least one superuser. That superuser can promote other users to superusers too.

This action does NOT require that the user signs in at least once. If the user does not exist, it gets created.

The easiest way to create your first superuser is to use docker-compose:

docker-compose run --rm web bash python manage.py superuser yourname@example.com

Additionally, in a local development environment, you can create a corresponding user in the oidcprovider service like this:

docker-compose exec oidcprovider /code/manage.py createuser yourname yourpassword yourname@example.com

Giving users permission to upload symbols ¶

The user should write up a bug. See Basics.

If the user is a Mozilla employee, needinfo the user’s manager and verify the user needs upload permission.

If the user is not a Mozilla employee, find someone to vouch for the user.

Once vouched:

Log in to https://symbols.mozilla.org/users
Use the search filter at the bottom of the page to find the user
Click to edit and make give them the “Uploaders” group (only).
Respond and say that they now have permission and should be able to either upload via the web or create an API Token with the “Upload Symbol Files” permission.
Resolve the bug.

Viewing all metrics keys ¶

In the Symbols Service webapp, to get insight into all metrics keys that are used, a special Markus backend is enabled called tecken.libmarkus.LogAllMetricsKeys. It’s enabled by default in local development. And to inspect its content you can either open all-metrics-keys.json directly (it’s git ignored) or you can run:

$ make shell
app@xxx:/app$ ./bin/list-all-metrics-keys.py

Now you can see a list of all keys that are used. Take this and, for example, make sure you make a graph in Datadog of each and everyone. If there’s a key in there that you know you don’t need or care about in Datadog, then delete it from the code.

The file all-metrics-keys.json can be deleted any time and it will be recreated again.

Minio (S3 mock server)¶

When doing local development we, by default, mock AWS S3 and instead use minio. It’s API compatible so it should reflect how AWS S3 works but with the advantage that you don’t need an Internet connection and real S3 credentials just to test symbol uploads for example.

When started with docker, it starts a web server on :9000 that you can use to browse uploaded files. Go to http://localhost:9000.

How to do local Upload by Download URL ¶

When doing local development and you want to work on doing Symbol Upload by HTTP posting the URL, you have a choice. Either put files somewhere on a public network, or serve the locally.

Before we start doing local Upload By Download URL, you need to make your instance less secure since you’ll be using URLs like http://localhost:9090. Add DJANGO_ALLOW_UPLOAD_BY_ANY_DOMAIN=True to your .env file.

To serve them locally, first start the dev server (make run). Then you need to start a bash shell in the current running web container:

$ make shell

Now, you need some .zip files in the root of the project since it’s mounted and can be seen by the containers. Once they’re there, start a simple Python server:

$ ls -lh *.zip
$ python -m http.server --bind 0.0.0.0 9090

Now, you can send these in with tecken-loadtest like this:

$ export AUTH_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
$ python upload-symbol-zips.py http://localhost:8000 -t 160 --download-url=http://localhost:9090/symbols.zip

This way you’ll have 3 terminals. 2 bash terminals inside the container and one outside in the tecke-loadtests directory on your host.

Debugging a “broken” Redis ¶

By default, we have our Redis Cache configured to swallow all exceptions (…and just log them). This is useful because the Redis Cache is only supposed to make things faster. It shouldn’t block things from working even if that comes at a price of working slower.

To simulate that Redis is “struggling” you can use the CLIENT PAUSE command. For example:

$ make redis-cache-cli
redis-cache:6379> client pause 30000
OK

Now, for 30 seconds (30,000 milliseconds) all attempts to talk to Redis Cache is going to cause a redis.exceptions.TimeoutError: Timeout reading from socket exception which gets swallowed and logged. But you should be able to use the service fully.

For example, all things related to authentication, such as your session cookie should continue to work because we use the cached_db backend in settings.SESSION_ENGINE. It just means we have to rely on PostgreSQL to verify the session cookie value on each and every request.

Auth debugging ¶

Cache/cookeis issues ¶

Anyone can test caching and cookies by going to https://symbols.mozilla.org/__auth_debug__. That’s a good first debugging step for helping users figure out auth problems.

Auth0 issues ¶

Symbols Service uses Mozilla SSO. Anyone can log in, but by default accounts don’t have special permissions to anything.

A potential pattern is that a user logs in with their work email (e.g. example@mozilla.com), gets permissions to create API tokens, the uses the API tokens in a script and later leaves the company whose email she used she can no longer sign in to again. If this happens her API token should cease to work, because it was created based on the understanding that she was an employee and has access to the email address.

This is why there’s a piece of middleware that periodically checks that users who once authenticated with Auth0 still is there and not blocked.

Being “blocked” in Auth0 is what happens, “internally”, if a user is removed from LDAP/Workday and Auth0 is informed. There could be other reasons why a user is blocked in Auth0. Whatever the reasons, users who are blocked immediately become inactive and logged out if they’re logged in.

If it was an error, the user can try to log in again and if that works, the user becomes active again.

This check is done (at the time of writing) max. every 24 hours. Meaning, if you managed to sign or use an API token, you have 24 hours to use this cookie/API token till your user account is checked again in Auth0. To override this interval change the environment variable DJANGO_NOT_BLOCKED_IN_AUTH0_INTERVAL_SECONDS.

Testing if a user is blocked ¶

To check if a user is blocked, use the is-blocked-in-auth0 which is development tool shortcut for what the middleware does:

$ docker-compose run web python manage.py is-blocked-in-auth0 me@example.com

Symbolication Service webapp things (Eliot)¶

How Symbolication Service works ¶

When running Symbolication Service webapp in the local dev environment, it’s at: http://localhost:8050

The code is in eliot-service/.

Symbolication Service webapp logs its configuration at startup. You can override any of those configuration settings in your .env file.

Symbolication Service webapp runs in a Docker container and is composed of:

Honcho process which manages:
- eliot_web: gunicorn which runs multiple worker webapp processes
- eliot_disk_manager: a disk cache manager process

Symbolication Service webapp handles HTTP requests by pulling sym files from the urls configured by ELIOT_SYMBOL_URLS. By default, that’s https://symbols.mozilla.org/try.

The Symbolication Service webapp downloads sym files, parses them into symcache files, and performs symbol lookups with the symcache files. Parsing sym files and generating symcache files takes a long time, so it stores the symcache files in a disk cache shared by all webapp processes running in that Docker container. The disk cache manager process deletes least recently used items from the disk cache to keep it under ELIOT_SYMBOLS_CACHE_MAX_SIZE bytes.

Metrics ¶

Table of metrics:

Key	Type
`eliot.symbolicate.api`	timing
`eliot.symbolicate.request_error`	incr
`eliot.downloader.download`	histogram
`eliot.symbolicate.parse_sym_file.error`	incr
`eliot.symbolicate.parse_sym_file.parse`	timing
`eliot.symbolicate.jobs_count`	histogram
`eliot.symbolicate.stacks_count`	histogram
`eliot.symbolicate.frames_count`	histogram
`eliot.diskcache.get`	histogram
`eliot.diskcache.set`	histogram
`eliot.diskcache.evict`	incr
`eliot.diskcache.usage`	gauge

Metrics details:

eliot.symbolicate.api¶

Type: timing

Timer for long a symbolication API request takes to handle.

Tags:

version: the symbolication api version
- v4: the v4 API
- v5: the v5 API

eliot.symbolicate.request_error¶

Type: incr

Counter for errors in incoming symbolication requests.

Tags:

reason: the error reason
- bad_json: the payload is not valid JSON
- invalid_modules: the payload has invalid modules
- invalid_stacks: the payload has invalid stacks
- too_many_jobs: (v5) the payload has too many jobs in it

eliot.downloader.download¶

Type: histogram

Timer for how long it takes to download SYM files.

Tags:

response: the HTTP response we got back
- success: HTTP 200
- fail: HTTP 404, 500, etc

eliot.symbolicate.parse_sym_file.error¶

Type: incr

Counter for when a sym file fails to parse.

Tags:

reason: the reason it failed to parse
- bad_debug_id: debug_id is not valid
- sym_debug_id_lookup_error: when the debug_id isn’t in the sym file
- sym_tmp_file_error: error creating tmp file to save the sym file to disk

eliot.symbolicate.parse_sym_file.parse¶

Type: timing

Timer for how long it takes to parse sym files with Symbolic.

eliot.symbolicate.jobs_count¶

Type: histogram

Histogram for how many jobs were in the symbolication request.

Tags:

version: the symbolication api version
- v4: the v4 API
- v5: the v5 API

eliot.symbolicate.stacks_count¶

Type: histogram

Histogram for how many stacks per job were in the symbolication request.

Tags:

version: the symbolication api version
- v4: the v4 API
- v5: the v5 API

eliot.symbolicate.frames_count¶

Type: histogram

Histogram for how many frames per stack were in the symbolication request.

eliot.diskcache.get¶

Type: histogram

Timer for how long it takes to get symcache files from the disk cache.

Tags:

result: the cache result
- hit: the file was in cache
- error: the file was in cache, but there was an error reading it
- miss: the file was not in cache

eliot.diskcache.set¶

Type: histogram

Timer for how long it takes to save a symcache file to the disk cache.

Tags:

result: the cache result
- success: the file was saved successfully
- fail: the file was not saved successfully

eliot.diskcache.evict¶

Type: incr

Counter for disk cache evictions.

eliot.diskcache.usage¶

Type: gauge

Gauge for how much of the cache is in use.

Python tests for Symbolication Service ¶

To run all the tests, do:

$ make test

Tests for the Symbolication Service webapp go in eliot-service/tests/.

If you need to run specific tests or pass in different arguments, you can use the testshell:

$ make testshell
app@xxx:/app$ cd eliot-service
app@xxx:/app/eliot-service$ pytest

<pytest output>

app@xxx:/app/eliot-service$ pytest tests/test_app.py

<pytest output>