lttng - how to empty channel sub-buffers manually - channel

I'm taking snapshots for the current session, but I only want to see the latest event records every time. So is there a way to empty the channel's sub-buffers manually?

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Fetching Latest 2 records from Lookback API

We are in situation where We Need to fetch last two records from Lookback API every time .
For the below case, we need the records highlighted in green,
We are doing the incremental fetch using the _ValidFrom Date in Lookback API.
We need last two records so that we can handle the updates happening to _ValidTo whenever new snapshot is created.
You should be able to get that data from just the most recent snapshot can't you? The _ValidFrom of the most recent should be equal to the _ValidTo of the second to last one.

Rally Lookback, Snapshot with empty custom field

I am trying to get a snapshot of deleted userstory to get value for a custom field(c_Dep). I get the snapshot but the custom field is empty. It had value in it. Does lookback not save value for cutomer created cutom field?
findConfig: {
_TypeHierarchy: 'HierarchicalRequirement',
"ObjectID": 12345,
"_ValidFrom": {
"$lte": "2017-01-25T19:00:57.475Z"
}
Sarita, It is hard to tell from the information you have given what is going on precisely. However, I can give you some pointers
The Lookback API will store changes in values for custom fields. The selection you have shown is valid from 24thJan to 25thJan. During this period was the custom field set? Probably not, because the array is only one long and I think it is showing the creation event.
Was the custom field updated to contain something after this time period?
The reason for asking is that a common misunderstanding is that the records stored in the lookback database will hold the current value of fields - it doesn't. It holds the changes in fields. If c_Dependencies didn't change during that time period, you may not see an entry returned in the array. The next entry in the database might be the record where the c_Dependencies field was set (changed from null to something) and that might be 'after' your time period filter.
It looks like your query is requesting snapshots earlier than 2017/1/25 ($lte). Since there's only one, it's probably the creation snapshot. If you get all snapshots for the ObjectID by removing the _ValidFrom parameter, you should see the changes made to c_Dep after artifact creation.
As I am not allowed to comment, I have to post a new answer.
I think William Scott meant remove the ValidTo filter. The one you have is the creation change. The update will be afterwards.

Which datastructure should I use in Redis for a notification system?

I am trying to make a notification system with Redis rather than using MySQL which is what I use for the rest of the system. The reason for this is that I don't really need to save that much data so it can be saved in memory and I want it to be lightweight and fast.
The notifications will be kept temporarily. What I mean by that is that I do not want to save all notifications, but more like 50 latest unseen notifications for each user. So first thing I thought about was to use a linked list with a capped length of 50.
I would need to save this information for the notification:
postId
commentId
type
time
userId
username
image
So perhaps a JSON serialized string like this:
{"postId":1,"commentId":10,"type":1,"time":1462960058,"userId":2,"username":"Alexander","image":"ntfpRrgx.png"}
The notifications would be output like this on the client side:
Alexander commented on your post.
Alexander replied to your comment.
Where the type determines what kind of notification it is. I can handle "type" checks client side and output notification format accordingly. But here is the part I am having difficult with.
1) I need to be able to save the notifications in an ordered way so that I know which notification is newest.
2) I need to be able to know when a notification has been seen, so that it is not registered as not seen anymore.
3) I need to have a count of unseen notifications that I can show to the user. And If the user clicks on a notification, I need to mark that as a seen notification and decrement the count of unseen notifications.
4) I need to be able to mark all notifications as marked seen if the user wishes to do that.
5) I need to be able to get a subset of the notifications, whether seen or unseen, like an offset and limit on MySQL. For example, the user sees the newest 5 notifications, but he could click a next button and see the next 5, and the next 5 and so on.
I have no idea how to do all of this on Redis.
The key for the list or set could be user:1:notification. I know a list is sorted, and we can add and remove from the head and tail. But how do I achieve all these points?
1: You can use redis sorted sets (zset) operations and use timestamp as a score, and event id (or the entire event json) as a member.
ZADD my-set-key timestamp event-id
Then to get a page newest items you use zrevrange command. If you choose to use event id as a member, then you need additional structure to store event fields. I would recommend HSET eventid, field, value.
2: You can remove an item by member (event-id)
ZREM my-set-key event-id
3: Assuming your zset only keeps unseen, then you can use ZCARD to get size of the set
ZCARD my-set-key
4: You can remove an entire set in one shot using
DELETE my-set-key
5: You can paginate using zrange/zrevrange:
ZREVRANGE my-set-key start-position to-position
If you need to keep both seen and unseen items, then you need an extra zset where you only add, but don't remove once an item is seen

How combine data from Redis?

I use sorted sets type in Redis. Each user adds an event to Redis with a score - current timestamp and key: User:ID_USER
How I can get 10 latest events from redis store sorted by score(timestamp)?
For this there is a function ZREVRANGEBYSCORE, but if use it, I get a problem, because not every user have events at last time score.
Edited:
For example, I want to merge some sorted keys by score(timestamp) and selecting the latest data for last 4 hours for each users.
Problem is, that if user did not post data in Redis in this interval(4 hours) then does not show nothing for this user. But I need select latest data sorted by timestamp from each user. Maybe use any function?

Redis pub/sub replay last

Redis supports pub/sub.
How can I have a client retrieve the last value and subscribe to changes, in such a way that I don't miss messages.
Here is the problem with get + subscribe:
I get the last value from Redis
subscribe to changes
before I store the last value from 1. I receive an update, and therefore update my cache with the update
I naively proceed to store the the value from 1. overwritting the value from 3