Live: throttle messages when FPS decreases (#32627)

* throttle when FPS is low

* fix throttling

* grafanaStreamingPerfBudget

* grafanaStreamingPerfBudget

* change global strategy

* also throttle frontend

Co-authored-by: Leon Sorokin <leeoniya@gmail.com>

packages/grafana-data/src/dataframe/StreamingDataFrame.ts

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ function circPush(data: number[][], newData: number[][], maxLength = Infinity, d
     sliceIdx = nlen - maxLength;
   }
 
-  if (maxDelta !== Infinity) {
+  if (maxDelta !== Infinity && deltaIdx >= 0) {
     const deltaLookup = data[deltaIdx];
 
     const low = deltaLookup[sliceIdx];

packages/grafana-runtime/src/measurement/perf.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+let lastUpdate = Date.now();
+
+/**
+ * This object indicats how overloaded the main thread is
+ */
+export const perf = {
+  budget: 1,
+  threshold: 1.05, // trial and error appears about right
+  ok: true,
+  last: lastUpdate,
+};
+
+// Expose this as a global object so it can be changed locally
+// NOTE: when we are confident this is the right budget, this should be removed
+(window as any).grafanaStreamingPerf = perf;
+
+// target is 20hz (50ms), but we poll at 100ms to smooth out jitter
+const interval = 100;
+
+function measure() {
+  const now = Date.now();
+  perf.last = now;
+  perf.budget = (now - lastUpdate) / interval;
+  perf.ok = perf.budget <= perf.threshold;
+  lastUpdate = now;
+}
+
+setInterval(measure, interval);

packages/grafana-runtime/src/measurement/query.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import { getGrafanaLiveSrv } from '../services/live';
 
 import { Observable, of } from 'rxjs';
 import { toDataQueryError } from '../utils/queryResponse';
+import { perf } from './perf';
 
 export interface LiveDataFilter {
   fields?: string[];
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ export function getLiveDataStream(options: LiveDataStreamOptions): Observable<Da
     let data: StreamingDataFrame | undefined = undefined;
     let state = LoadingState.Loading;
     const { key, filter } = options;
+    let last = perf.last;
 
     const process = (msg: DataFrameJSON) => {
       if (!data) {
@@ -67,7 +69,11 @@ export function getLiveDataStream(options: LiveDataStreamOptions): Observable<Da
         };
       }
 
+      const elapsed = perf.last - last;
+      if (elapsed > 1000 || perf.ok) {
         subscriber.next({ state, data: [filtered], key });
+        last = perf.last;
+      }
     };
 
     const sub = live

public/app/plugins/datasource/testdata/runStreams.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
 
 import { TestDataQuery, StreamingQuery } from './types';
 import { getRandomLine } from './LogIpsum';
+import { perf } from '@grafana/runtime/src/measurement/perf'; // not exported
 
 export const defaultStreamQuery: StreamingQuery = {
   type: 'signal',
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ export function runSignalStream(
 
     let value = Math.random() * 100;
     let timeoutId: any = null;
+    let lastSent = -1;
 
     const addNextRow = (time: number) => {
       value += (Math.random() - 0.5) * spread;
@@ -102,11 +104,17 @@ export function runSignalStream(
 
     const pushNextEvent = () => {
       addNextRow(Date.now());
+
+      const elapsed = perf.last - lastSent;
+      if (elapsed > 1000 || perf.ok) {
         subscriber.next({
           data: [frame],
           key: streamId,
           state: LoadingState.Streaming,
         });
+        lastSent = perf.last;
+      }
+
       timeoutId = setTimeout(pushNextEvent, speed);
     };