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Thomas Eizinger 81da120c17 fix(phoenix-channel): report connection hiccups to upper layer (#8203)
The WebSocket connection to the portal from within the Clients, Gateways
and Relays may be temporarily interrupted by IO errors. In such cases we
simply reconnect to it. This isn't as much of a problem for Clients and
Gateways. For Relays however, a disconnect can be disruptive for
customers because the portal will send `relays_presence` events to all
Clients and Gateways. Any relayed connection will therefore be
interrupted. See #8177.

Relays run on our own infrastructure and we want to be notified if their
connection flaps.

In order to differentiate between these scenarios, we remove the logging
from within `phoenix-channel` and report these connection hiccups one
layer up. This allows Clients and Gateways to log them on DEBUG whereas
the Relay can log them on WARN.

Related: #8177 
Related: #7004
2025-02-20 00:54:43 +00:00
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Rust development guide

Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.

We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml. If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you. Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the release profile.
  2. sudo perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.