February, 2019

Fri Feb 01, 2019 by Alan Orth in Notes

2019-02-01

Linode has alerted a few times since last night that the CPU usage on CGSpace (linode18) was high despite me increasing the alert threshold last week from 250% to 275%—I might need to increase it again!
The top IPs before, during, and after this latest alert tonight were:

# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "01/Feb/2019:(17|18|19|20|21)" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10
    245 207.46.13.5
    332 54.70.40.11
    385 5.143.231.38
    405 207.46.13.173
    405 207.46.13.75
   1117 66.249.66.219
   1121 35.237.175.180
   1546 5.9.6.51
   2474 45.5.186.2
   5490 85.25.237.71

85.25.237.71 is the “Linguee Bot” that I first saw last month
The Solr statistics the past few months have been very high and I was wondering if the web server logs also showed an increase
There were just over 3 million accesses in the nginx logs last month:

# time zcat --force /var/log/nginx/* | grep -cE "[0-9]{1,2}/Jan/2019"
3018243

real    0m19.873s
user    0m22.203s
sys     0m1.979s

Normally I’d say this was very high, but about this time last year I remember thinking the same thing when we had 3.1 million…
I will have to keep an eye on this to see if there is some error in Solr…
Atmire sent their pull request to re-enable the Metadata Quality Module (MQM) on our 5_x-dev branch today
- I will test it next week and send them feedback

2019-02-02

Another alert from Linode about CGSpace (linode18) this morning, here are the top IPs in the web server logs before, during, and after that time:

# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "02/Feb/2019:0(1|2|3|4|5)" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10
    284 18.195.78.144
    329 207.46.13.32
    417 35.237.175.180
    448 34.218.226.147
    694 2a01:4f8:13b:1296::2
    718 2a01:4f8:140:3192::2
    786 137.108.70.14
   1002 5.9.6.51
   6077 85.25.237.71
   8726 45.5.184.2

45.5.184.2 is CIAT and 85.25.237.71 is the new Linguee bot that I first noticed a few days ago
I will increase the Linode alert threshold from 275 to 300% because this is becoming too much!
I tested the Atmire Metadata Quality Module (MQM)’s duplicate checked on the some WLE items that I helped Udana with a few months ago on DSpace Test (linode19) and indeed it found many duplicates!

2019-02-03

This is seriously getting annoying, Linode sent another alert this morning that CGSpace (linode18) load was 377%!
Here are the top IPs before, during, and after that time:

# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "03/Feb/2019:0(5|6|7|8|9)" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10
    325 85.25.237.71
    340 45.5.184.72
    431 5.143.231.8
    756 5.9.6.51
   1048 34.218.226.147
   1203 66.249.66.219
   1496 195.201.104.240
   4658 205.186.128.185
   4658 70.32.83.92
   4852 45.5.184.2

45.5.184.2 is CIAT, 70.32.83.92 and 205.186.128.185 are Macaroni Bros harvesters for CCAFS I think
195.201.104.240 is a new IP address in Germany with the following user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

This user was making 20–60 requests per minute this morning… seems like I should try to block this type of behavior heuristically, regardless of user agent!

# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "03/Feb/2019" | grep 195.201.104.240 | grep -o -E '03/Feb/2019:0[0-9]:[0-9][0-9]' | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 20
     19 03/Feb/2019:07:42
     20 03/Feb/2019:07:12
     21 03/Feb/2019:07:27
     21 03/Feb/2019:07:28
     25 03/Feb/2019:07:23
     25 03/Feb/2019:07:29
     26 03/Feb/2019:07:33
     28 03/Feb/2019:07:38
     30 03/Feb/2019:07:31
     33 03/Feb/2019:07:35
     33 03/Feb/2019:07:37
     38 03/Feb/2019:07:40
     43 03/Feb/2019:07:24
     43 03/Feb/2019:07:32
     46 03/Feb/2019:07:36
     47 03/Feb/2019:07:34
     47 03/Feb/2019:07:39
     47 03/Feb/2019:07:41
     51 03/Feb/2019:07:26
     59 03/Feb/2019:07:25

At least they re-used their Tomcat session!

$ grep -o -E 'session_id=[A-Z0-9]{32}:ip_addr=195.201.104.240' dspace.log.2019-02-03 | sort | uniq | wc -l
1

This user was making requests to /browse, which is not currently under the existing rate limiting of dynamic pages in our nginx config
- I extended the existing dynamicpages (12/m) rate limit to /browse and /discover with an allowance for bursting of up to five requests for “real” users
Run all system updates on linode20 and reboot it
- This will be the new AReS repository explorer server soon

2019-02-04

Generate a list of CTA subjects from CGSpace for Peter:

dspace=# \copy (SELECT DISTINCT text_value, count(*) FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id=124 GROUP BY text_value ORDER BY COUNT DESC) to /tmp/cta-subjects.csv with csv header;
COPY 321

Skype with Michael Victor about CKM and CGSpace
Discuss the new IITA research theme field with Abenet and decide that we should use cg.identifier.iitatheme
This morning there was another alert from Linode about the high load on CGSpace (linode18), here are the top IPs in the web server logs before, during, and after that time:

# zcat --force /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "04/Feb/2019:0(5|6|7|8|9)" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10
    589 2a01:4f8:140:3192::2
    762 66.249.66.219
    889 35.237.175.180
   1332 34.218.226.147
   1393 5.9.6.51
   1940 50.116.102.77
   3578 85.25.237.71
   4311 45.5.184.2
   4658 205.186.128.185
   4658 70.32.83.92

At this rate I think I just need to stop paying attention to these alerts—DSpace gets thrashed when people use the APIs properly and there’s nothing we can do to improve REST API performance!
Perhaps I just need to keep increasing the Linode alert threshold (currently 300%) for this host?