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filter_multiline: add stream_idle_timeout to evict idle per-tag streams - #12678
In buffered parser mode filter_multiline keeps one internal stream per (input, tag) and only frees them at shutdown. On Kubernetes the tag contains the pod name, so every container start retains about 22 KiB (3 parsers) to 40 KiB (6 parsers) forever. Nodes with pod churn grow without bound until OOM.
Change
New option stream_idle_timeout (default 5m, 0 disables). Streams that received no records for that long are evicted from the filter callback (sweep at most once per second, at most 256 streams per call).
Eviction uses the existing flb_ml_stream_id_destroy_all(), which flushes pending content first, so no data is lost. A returning tag gets a fresh stream transparently.
Values below 2 x flush_ms are raised to that minimum (warning only when set explicitly), so eviction never splits a record the flush timer would still have grouped.
New metrics: counter fluentbit_filter_multiline_streams_evicted_total, gauge fluentbit_filter_multiline_streams_active.
created new multiline stream log moved from info to debug.
Measured on master: 800 new tags add about 21 MB that is never released; with the fix the memory is bounded to the tags seen inside the window.
Limitations
Timestamps use cfl_time_now() (wall clock). A backwards step only restarts the idle period; a forward step can evict early, which is harmless.
The sweep runs only when records pass through the filter.
Eviction is disabled when the filter runs as an output processor: there the callback can run on worker threads while the flush timer stays on the main scheduler (buffered mode is already racy in that placement).
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New Features
Buffered multiline streams with no records within the configurable idle timeout are evicted after pending content is flushed. The timeout defaults to five minutes, accepts seconds, minutes, hours, or days, and can be set to zero to disable eviction.
Added metrics for active and evicted streams.
Bug Fixes
Eviction checks run at most once per second, pause while the emitter is paused, and are disabled for output processors. Each check limits how many streams it evicts.
Testing evidence, as required by the template. Environment: Linux (aarch64), gcc 12 (Debian), built with cmake -DFLB_LUAJIT=Off -DFLB_WASM=Off -DFLB_STREAM_PROCESSOR=Off -DFLB_HTTP_SERVER=On -DFLB_TESTS_RUNTIME=On.
Example configuration
Two inputs on different tags. The first emits a single record and goes quiet; the second keeps emitting, so its batches run the sweep. flush_ms is at its default (2000 ms), so the minimum accepted timeout is 4 s.
[SERVICE]
flush 1
log_level debug
[INPUT]
name dummy
tag app.short-lived
samples 1
dummy {"log":"Exception in thread main java.lang.RuntimeException: boom"}
[INPUT]
name dummy
tag app.long-lived
dummy {"log":"plain line"}
[FILTER]
name multiline
match app.*
multiline.key_content log
multiline.parser java
stream_idle_timeout 4
[OUTPUT]
name null
match *
Debug log output (filter lines only)
[2026/10/28 17:24:47.118] [ info] idle multiline streams are evicted after 4s
[2026/10/28 17:24:47.981] [debug] created new multiline stream for dummy.0_app.short-lived
[2026/10/28 17:24:47.981] [debug] created new multiline stream for dummy.1_app.long-lived
[2026/10/28 17:24:51.984] [debug] evicting idle multiline stream for dummy.0_app.short-lived (idle 4s)
[2026/10/28 17:24:51.984] [debug] evicted 1 idle multiline stream(s), 1 active
[2026/10/28 17:24:56.109] [debug] flushing pending multiline records on shutdown
The quiet stream is evicted exactly at the timeout; the active stream is kept. Startup handling for other values: 0 and negative values log idle multiline stream eviction is disabled; 1 with the default flush_ms logs stream_idle_timeout=1s is shorter than 2 x flush_ms, raising it to 4s; the default logs evicted after 300s.
Runtime test
tests/runtime/filter_multiline.c: ml_buffered_stream_idle_eviction (passes 3/3 consecutive runs) plus the existing buffered tests ml_buffered_two_streams, ml_buffered_16_streams, multiline_buffered_one_record, multiline_buffered_two_record, multiline_flush_pending_on_shutdown all pass. The new test asserts through the filter's cmetrics that two streams were evicted and one is active, so it fails if eviction does not happen.
SUCCESS: All unit tests have passed.
==385== HEAP SUMMARY:
==385== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==385== total heap usage: 7,369 allocs, 7,369 frees, 4,231,101 bytes allocated
==385== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==385== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
Memory reproduction (tail input with one tag per file, 3 parsers, 800 new tags per wave)
Phase
Without fix: RSS / streams created
With fix (stream_idle_timeout 5): RSS / streams created
wave 1, 800 new tags
56.3 MB / 800
54.1 MB / 800
wave 2, 800 new tags
77.4 MB / 1600
68.2 MB / 1600
wave 3, same tags as wave 2
79.7 MB / 1600
72.3 MB / 2399
Without the fix, wave 3 creates no streams (all 1600 retained forever, about 23.5 KiB each). With the fix, wave 3 re-creates 799 streams, which proves the wave-2 streams were evicted while idle, and RSS growth per wave drops to the level of a run without the filter (allocator retention only). It is 799 and not 800 because the sweep runs on incoming records: the first wave-3 batch finds its own stream still present and reuses it, then evicts the other 799 idle streams, which are re-created by the following batches.
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Buffered multiline filtering now tracks stream activity and evicts idle streams after flushing pending content. The timeout defaults to five minutes and can be disabled. Metrics report active and evicted streams. A runtime test checks eviction and stream recreation.
Changes: Buffered Stream Eviction
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Summary
Stream contract and timeout configuration plugins/filter_multiline/ml.h, plugins/filter_multiline/ml.c
Stream and filter context structures track activity, timeout, sweep time, and metrics. The stream_idle_timeout property defaults to 5m; positive values are raised to at least twice the configured flush_ms, rounded up to whole seconds.
Stream activity and idle eviction plugins/filter_multiline/ml.c
Buffered filtering refreshes stream activity and periodically evicts up to 256 idle streams. Sweeps skip when the emitter is paused. Eviction flushes pending content before removal and updates metrics. Output processors do not use idle-stream eviction.
Mass stream expiry can trigger back-to-back eviction sweeps and extra CPU use, though the work per call is capped. Remove the throttle reset before merging; it is a small fix.
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The PR implements the main retention fix for [#12670]. It adds idle eviction to buffered filter_multiline. It sweeps at most once per second and evicts at most 256 streams per call. It flushes pendi…
1. Set the stream_idle_timeout default to 0 so that eviction is opt-in. Keep 5m only as example or documentation text. 2. Use a monotonic clock for last_used and last_evict_check. Apply the same clock to the idle-timeout compariso…
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All changed behavior supports the buffered filter_multiline idle-stream cleanup in [#12670]. The changes are these: the eviction sweep, the pending-content flush before eviction, the minimum timeout…
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The title names the main change: a new stream_idle_timeout option in filter_multiline that evicts idle per-tag streams. The raw summary and PR objectives both describe this as the core change (config option, eviction sweep, stream recreation). The title is specific and concise, and it fits the changeset.
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All changed behavior supports the buffered filter_multiline idle-stream cleanup in [#12670]. The changes are these: the eviction sweep, the pending-content flush before eviction, the minimum timeout of twice flush_ms, the eviction counter and active-stream gauge, the stream-creation log level change from info to debug, and the runtime test. The log level change supports the same stream lifecycle work. The closed issue [#6192] gives historical context only. The PR description limits are design notes and do not add unrelated product changes. No unrelated change is evident in the reviewed summary.
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The PR implements the main retention fix for [#12670]. It adds idle eviction to buffered filter_multiline. It sweeps at most once per second and evicts at most 256 streams per call. It flushes pending content through flb_ml_stream_id_destroy_all() before it frees a stream. A returning tag gets a new stream. It adds an eviction counter and an active-stream gauge. The test ml_buffered_stream_idle_eviction covers eviction and recreation.
Two direct requirements of [#12670] are not met at the reviewed head:
Default value. [#12670] requires opt-in eviction, with stream_idle_timeout defaulting to 0. The current PR description and the change summary both state that the default is 5m. The previous assessment found the 5m default in plugins/filter_multiline/ml.c. The changes since the previous review do not show a change to this default.
Clock. [#12670] requires monotonic inactivity tracking. The current PR description and the change summary both state that ml_stream.last_used and ml_ctx.last_evict_check use cfl_time_now(), which is wall-clock time. The previous assessment confirmed this in code. No later change is evident that switches to a monotonic clock.
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Set the stream_idle_timeout default to 0 so that eviction is opt-in. Keep 5m only as example or documentation text.
Use a monotonic clock for last_used and last_evict_check. Apply the same clock to the idle-timeout comparison.
Add or update runtime tests that check two behaviors: eviction is disabled when the option is not set, and idle timing uses the monotonic clock.
Update the PR description so that it matches the final default and clock.
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- Around line 737-851: Update evict_idle_streams to retain the wrapper stream
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The default enables idle-stream eviction for existing buffered parser users.
The linked issue requires opt-in eviction with stream_idle_timeout defaulting to 0. The current configuration map uses "5m", so existing buffered parser configurations that do not set this option now evict idle streams. Change the default to "0" and retain positive values as explicit opt-in settings.
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Review comment at @plugins/filter_multiline/ml.c around lines 1344 - 1356:
Change the `stream_idle_timeout` default in the configuration map from a
positive timeout to `0`, so eviction is opt-in; preserve support for explicitly
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- Around line 774-883: Update evict_idle_streams and the stream idle-timestamp
paths to use a platform-appropriate monotonic clock for last_used,
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Done, thanks. Moved the processor-unit lookup into a small is_output_processor() helper (same pattern as ingest_inline()), so the condition is now a single readable line. No behavior change; re-verified both placements.
In buffered 'parser' mode the filter keeps one internal stream (plus one
flb_ml_stream and buffers per configured parser) for every distinct
(input, tag) pair it has ever seen. Streams were only released in
cb_ml_exit(), so on Kubernetes nodes where the tag embeds the pod and
container name, every container start permanently retained roughly
4 KiB per parser plus an 8 KiB msgpack buffer (about 22 KiB with three
parsers, about 40 KiB with six). On nodes with pod churn this grows
without bound until the process is OOM-killed (fluent#12670, earlier reports
in fluent#6192 and fluent#6881).
Add the 'stream_idle_timeout' option (time value, default 5m; 0 disables
eviction and restores the previous behavior). A sweep runs from the
filter callback at most once per second and evicts streams that received
no records for that long. A container that logs at least once per
timeout keeps its stream for its whole life, so the default changes
nothing for active tags; it only bounds memory to the tags seen inside
the window. Values below 2 x flush_ms are raised to that minimum (with a
warning when the user set the value explicitly), so eviction can never
split a record the flush timer would still have grouped. Idle streams
are checked when records pass through the filter. Eviction
goes through flb_ml_stream_id_destroy_all(), which flushes any pending
content before releasing the parser streams, so no data is lost. A tag
that shows up again after eviction gets a fresh stream transparently.
The stream list is kept ordered by last use, so the sweep walks from the
oldest stream and stops at the first live one; its cost is bounded by
the number of evictions, capped at FLB_MULTILINE_STREAM_EVICT_MAX (256)
per callback. Nothing is evicted while the emitter is paused, since the
forced flush of an evicted stream could not be delivered in that state.
Eviction runs on the thread that executes the filter callback, which
is also the thread that owns the flush timer for classic filters and
input processors; as an output processor the callback can run on
worker threads, so eviction is disabled in that placement. The stream that just
received records is re-stamped with the clock value the sweep uses,
so a batch that takes longer than the timeout cannot evict its own
stream.
Expose two metrics for operators: the counter
fluentbit_filter_multiline_streams_evicted_total and the gauge
fluentbit_filter_multiline_streams_active.
The 'created new multiline stream' message moves from info to debug:
with eviction it also fires on re-creation and would be noisy on busy
nodes.
The idle timestamp uses cfl_time_now(); a backwards wall-clock step only
restarts the idle period of a stream, it never evicts early.
Signed-off-by: Tim Bai <timbai@google.com>
Verify that an idle stream is evicted and transparently re-created when
its tag receives records again, and that all records (both multiline
traces and the single-line record that triggers the sweep) are emitted.
The eviction itself is asserted through the filter's cmetrics: the
evicted counter must be at least 1 and the active gauge must equal the
number of live tags, so the test fails if eviction does not happen.
Signed-off-by: Tim Bai <timbai@google.com>
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Minor · Preserve the sweep throttle after reaching the eviction limit. · ml.c:846
plugins/filter_multiline/ml.c:846 Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win
Preserve the sweep throttle after reaching the eviction limit.
When a sweep evicts 256 streams, this assignment clears the timestamp set at Line 811. The next filter callback can therefore run another sweep within the same second. With many expired streams, consecutive batches repeatedly perform destruction and forced-flush work, defeating the stated once-per-second CPU bound.
Keep last_evict_check unchanged here. Resume from the remaining list on the next permitted sweep.
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Remove the assignment that resets ctx->last_evict_check when a sweep reaches the eviction limit, preserving the once-per-second throttle; let the next permitted sweep continue from the remaining list.
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- Line 846: Remove the assignment that resets ctx->last_evict_check when a sweep
reaches the eviction limit, preserving the once-per-second throttle; let the
next permitted sweep continue from the remaining list.
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Fixes #12670 (same cause as the closed #6192 and #6881).
In buffered
parsermodefilter_multilinekeeps one internal stream per(input, tag)and only frees them at shutdown. On Kubernetes the tag contains the pod name, so every container start retains about 22 KiB (3 parsers) to 40 KiB (6 parsers) forever. Nodes with pod churn grow without bound until OOM.Change
stream_idle_timeout(default5m,0disables). Streams that received no records for that long are evicted from the filter callback (sweep at most once per second, at most 256 streams per call).flb_ml_stream_id_destroy_all(), which flushes pending content first, so no data is lost. A returning tag gets a fresh stream transparently.2 x flush_msare raised to that minimum (warning only when set explicitly), so eviction never splits a record the flush timer would still have grouped.fluentbit_filter_multiline_streams_evicted_total, gaugefluentbit_filter_multiline_streams_active.created new multiline streamlog moved from info to debug.Measured on master: 800 new tags add about 21 MB that is never released; with the fix the memory is bounded to the tags seen inside the window.
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cfl_time_now()(wall clock). A backwards step only restarts the idle period; a forward step can evict early, which is harmless.fluent-bit-docsto follow.Enter
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