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Prevent excessive memory and CPU consumption when OTLP log conversion duplicates resource attributes across many scopes.

  • Add logs_max_size (default 4M) to bound generated MessagePack bytes, including group headers and footers.
  • Enforce the budget for JSON and protobuf, sharing it across gRPC messages within a request.
  • Skip empty JSON scopes before packing metadata, propagate encoding failures, and roll back partial record writes.
  • Reject invalid or negative limits and preserve the existing OTEL group format.
  • Add regression coverage and correct encoder initialization and cleanup in the router’s OTEL test fixture.

Requests exceeding the generated-byte limit are rejected. Legitimate workloads requiring larger converted payloads can increase logs_max_size.

Validation: focused encoder, OpenTelemetry, router, and runtime tests passed, alongside 36 integration cases. Fourteen multiworker cases were skipped because Windows lacks shared listener ports. Valgrind and macOS Leaks were unavailable on the Windows host.


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  • New Features
    • OpenTelemetry log requests now support a configurable maximum generated size, defaulting to 100 MB. The limit includes group metadata and applies across cumulative gRPC request processing.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Requests exceeding the configured limit are rejected without partial ingestion.
    • Improved encoding failure handling preserves existing output and prevents incomplete records.
    • Empty log scopes are handled without producing unnecessary output.
    • Invalid size configurations are rejected during startup.

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The change adds bounded serialized-output support to the log event encoder and configures OpenTelemetry with a default 100M per-request generated MessagePack limit. Conversion paths enforce the remaining budget and propagate encoder failures. Unit and integration tests cover limits, rejection, recovery, and flush boundaries.

Changes: OpenTelemetry log output budgets

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded log event encoding
include/fluent-bit/flb_log_event_encoder.h, src/flb_log_event_encoder.c, tests/internal/log_event_encoder.c
The encoder gains an output limit, rejects MessagePack writes that exceed it, and restores the prior buffer size when record emission fails. Tests cover default and configured limits, reset behavior, group operations, and rollback.
Conversion and failure handling
src/opentelemetry/flb_opentelemetry_logs.c, plugins/in_opentelemetry/opentelemetry_logs.{c,h}, tests/internal/opentelemetry.c, tests/internal/router_config.c
Conversion checks encoder failures, applies remaining capacity to temporary encoders, and appends converted output through the caller encoder. Budget-aware APIs separate encoding from ingestion. Tests cover generated-size limits and encoder cleanup.
Request configuration and transport budget
plugins/in_opentelemetry/opentelemetry.{c,h}, plugins/in_opentelemetry/opentelemetry_prot.c, tests/integration/scenarios/in_opentelemetry/tests/test_in_opentelemetry_001.py
The input adds and validates logs_max_size, with a default of 100M. Log requests share a remaining-byte budget. Integration tests cover JSON, protobuf, and gRPC requests, invalid settings, rejection, recovery, and entries split across flushes.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant HTTP2Handler as opentelemetry_prot_handle_ng
  participant LogProcessor as opentelemetry_process_logs_with_budget
  participant LogEncoder as flb_log_event_encoder
  HTTP2Handler->>LogProcessor: Pass remaining request budget
  LogProcessor->>LogEncoder: Set output_limit
  LogEncoder-->>LogProcessor: Return encoded output length
  LogProcessor->>LogProcessor: Deduct encoded length from remaining budget
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Oversized multi-message gRPC log requests can be partly ingested while the client is told the whole request failed. Clients that retry may then see duplicated logs. The effect is bounded to requests that exceed the limit, so this is mergeable with awareness. Tidy the test table and align the documentation with the 100M default.

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- Around line 1023-1025: Update the gRPC log-processing flow around
opentelemetry_process_logs_with_budget so it validates the request’s aggregate
generated size before ingesting any frames, or returns an accurate OTLP
partial-success response when only some logs are accepted; do not report the
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Comment thread plugins/in_opentelemetry/opentelemetry_prot.c
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
# Inspect how empty encoder output is handled during ingestion.
rg -nP -C8 '\bopentelemetry_ingest_logs(_take)?\s*\(' plugins/in_opentelemetry
rg -nP -C5 'n_log_records\s*==\s*0|log_records.*empty|skip' src/opentelemetry/flb_opentelemetry_logs.c

Repository: fluent/fluent-bit

Length of output: 10174


🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- test case and nearby helpers ---'
nl -ba tests/integration/scenarios/in_opentelemetry/tests/test_in_opentelemetry_001.py | sed -n '470,545p'
printf '%s\n' '--- encoder empty-scope and submission path ---'
rg -n -C12 -F -e 'n_log_records == 0' -e 'record_count' -e 'binary_payload_to_msgpack' -e 'opentelemetry_process_logs' plugins/in_opentelemetry
printf '%s\n' '--- log submission and response path ---'
nl -ba plugins/in_opentelemetry/opentelemetry_logs.c | sed -n '430,525p;820,935p'
printf '%s\n' '--- ingestion wrappers ---'
nl -ba plugins/in_opentelemetry/opentelemetry.h | sed -n '45,110p'
printf '%s\n' '--- append definitions and HTTP status mapping ---'
rg -n -C10 -F -e 'flb_input_log_append' -e 'flb_input_ingress_queue_log' -e 'HTTP_STATUS' -e '400' plugins/in_opentelemetry src include | head -n 500

Repository: fluent/fluent-bit

Length of output: 42006


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#!/bin/bash
set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- exact protobuf processing and HTTP response mapping ---'
nl -ba plugins/in_opentelemetry/opentelemetry_logs.c | sed -n '395,505p;830,930p'
nl -ba plugins/in_opentelemetry/opentelemetry_prot.c | sed -n '960,1085p'
printf '%s\n' '--- exact input append and ingress zero-buffer guards ---'
rg -n -F -e 'static int input_log_append' -e 'int input_log_append' -e 'buf_size == 0' src/flb_input_log.c src/flb_input_ingest.c
nl -ba src/flb_input_log.c | sed -n '1450,1535p;1595,1655p'
nl -ba src/flb_input_ingest.c | sed -n '527,610p'
printf '%s\n' '--- existing empty OTLP/log request expectations ---'
rg -n -i -C4 -e 'empty.*(scope|log|record|payload)' -e '(scope|log|record|payload).*empty' -e 'status_code == (201|400)' tests/integration/scenarios/in_opentelemetry plugins/in_opentelemetry | head -n 400

Repository: fluent/fluent-bit

Length of output: 41597


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#!/bin/bash
set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- complete non-worker append path ---'
nl -ba src/flb_input_log.c | sed -n '1529,1598p'
nl -ba src/flb_input_log.c | sed -n '1125,1170p'
printf '%s\n' '--- JSON empty-scope handling ---'
rg -n -C10 -F -e 'scopeLogs' -e 'logRecords' -e 'n_log_records' plugins/in_opentelemetry | head -n 300

Repository: fluent/fluent-bit

Length of output: 8740


Do not attribute this 400 response to the generated-byte limit.

The protobuf encoder skips every empty scope before group initialization. The request therefore produces zero encoded bytes. Worker ingestion rejects the zero-length buffer, and the HTTP handler maps that error to 400.

Remove this row from the generated-limit parameterization. Test empty-scope behavior separately. If the endpoint contract requires empty requests to succeed, expect 201 with zero records or update ingestion to accept zero-length output.

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at line 522:
Remove the (64, 1000, 0, 1, False) case from the generated-byte-limit
parameterization because it exercises zero-byte ingestion rather than the limit.
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201 with zero records, or update ingestion to accept zero-length encoded output
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