feat: added segment tree to transaction trace

lib/transaction/trace/exclusive-time-calculator.js

@@ -7,40 +7,32 @@
 
 class ExclusiveCalculator {
   constructor(root, trace) {
-    this.trace = trace
-    this.id = root.id
-    this.toProcess = [root]
+    this.node = trace.getNode(root.id)
     // use a second stack to do a post-order traversal
     this.parentStack = []
   }
 
   /**
    * Kicks off the exclusive duration calculation.  This is performed
-   * using a depth first, postorder traversal over the tree.
+   * using a depth first, postorder traversal over the tree recursively
+   *
+   * @param {Node} node to process duration and children
    */
-  process() {
-    while (this.toProcess.length) {
-      const segment = this.toProcess.pop()
-      const children = this.trace.getChildren(segment.id)
-      // when we hit a leaf, calc the exclusive time and report the time
-      // range to the parent
-      if (children.length === 0) {
-        segment._exclusiveDuration = segment.getDurationInMillis()
-        if (this.parentStack.length) {
-          this.finishLeaf(segment.timer.toRange())
-        }
-      } else {
-        // in the case we are processing an internal node, we just push it on the stack
-        // and push its children to be processed. all processing will be done after its
-        // children are all done (i.e. postorder)
-        this.parentStack.push({
-          childrenLeft: children.length,
-          segment: segment,
-          childPairs: []
-        })
-        for (let i = children.length - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
-          this.toProcess.push(children[i])
-        }
+  process(node = this.node) {
+    const { children, segment } = node
+    if (children.length === 0) {
+      segment._exclusiveDuration = segment.getDurationInMillis()
+      if (this.parentStack.length) {
+        this.finishLeaf(segment.timer.toRange())
+      }
+    } else {
+      this.parentStack.push({
+        childrenLeft: children.length,
+        segment,
+        childPairs: []
+      })
+      for (let i = children.length - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
+        this.process(children[i])
       }
     }
   }

lib/transaction/trace/index.js

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ const logger = require('../../logger').child({ component: 'trace' })
 const { DESTINATIONS } = require('../../config/attribute-filter')
 const FROM_MILLIS = 1e-3
 const ATTRIBUTE_SCOPE = 'transaction'
-
 const REQUEST_URI_KEY = 'request.uri'
 const UNKNOWN_URI_PLACEHOLDER = '/Unknown'
+const SegmentTree = require('./segment-tree')
 
 /**
  * A Trace holds the root of the Segment graph and produces the final
@@ -30,18 +30,18 @@ function Trace(transaction) {
 
   this.transaction = transaction
 
-  transaction.incrementCounters()
-
-  this.root = new TraceSegment({
+  const root = new TraceSegment({
     config: transaction.agent.config,
     name: 'ROOT',
     collect: transaction.collect,
     isRoot: true
   })
-  this.root.start()
+  root.start()
+  transaction.incrementCounters()
 
   this.intrinsics = Object.create(null)
-  this.segments = []
+  this.segments = new SegmentTree(root)
+  this.root = this.segments.root.segment
   this.totalTimeCache = null
 
   this.custom = new Attributes(ATTRIBUTE_SCOPE, MAXIMUM_CUSTOM_ATTRIBUTES)
@@ -61,32 +61,33 @@ function Trace(transaction) {
 /**
  * End and close the current trace. Triggers metric recording for trace
  * segments that support recording.
+ * @param {Node} [node] the node to process the segment and its children
  */
-Trace.prototype.end = function end() {
-  this.root.finalize(this)
-  const segments = this.segments
+Trace.prototype.end = function end(node = this.segments.root) {
+  const { children, segment } = node
+  segment.finalize(this)
 
-  for (let i = 0; i < segments.length; i++) {
-    segments[i].finalize(this)
+  for (let i = 0; i < children.length; ++i) {
+    this.end(children[i])
   }
 }
 
 /**
  * Iterates over the trace tree and generates a span event for each segment.
+ * @param {Node} [node] the node to process the segment and its children
  */
-Trace.prototype.generateSpanEvents = function generateSpanEvents() {
+Trace.prototype.generateSpanEvents = function generateSpanEvents(node = this.segments.root) {
   const config = this.transaction.agent.config
 
   if (!shouldGenerateSpanEvents(config, this.transaction)) {
     return
   }
 
+  const { children, segment } = node
+
   // Root segment does not become a span, so we need to process it separately.
   const spanAggregator = this.transaction.agent.spanEventAggregator
-
-  const segments = this.segments
-
-  if (segments.length > 0) {
+  if (children.length && segment.name === 'ROOT') {
     // At the point where these attributes are available, we only have a
     // root span. Adding attributes to first non-root span here.
     const attributeMap = {
@@ -100,13 +101,12 @@ Trace.prototype.generateSpanEvents = function generateSpanEvents() {
 
     for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(attributeMap)) {
       if (value !== null) {
-        segments[0].addSpanAttribute(key, value)
+        children[0].segment.addSpanAttribute(key, value)
       }
     }
   }
 
-  for (let i = 0; i < segments.length; ++i) {
-    const segment = segments[i]
+  if (segment.id !== this.root.id) {
     const isRoot = segment.parentId === this.root.id
     const parentId = isRoot ? this.transaction.parentSpanId : segment.parentId
     // Even though at some point we might want to stop adding events because all the priorities
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ Trace.prototype.generateSpanEvents = function generateSpanEvents() {
       isRoot
     })
   }
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < children.length; ++i) {
+    this.generateSpanEvents(children[i])
+  }
 }
 
 function shouldGenerateSpanEvents(config, txn) {
@@ -209,14 +213,22 @@ Trace.prototype.getTotalTimeDurationInMillis = function getTotalTimeDurationInMi
   if (this.totalTimeCache !== null) {
     return this.totalTimeCache
   }
-  const segments = this.segments
-  if (segments.length === 0) {
+
+  const rootNode = this.segments.root
+  const children = []
+  children.push(...rootNode.children)
+
+  if (!children.length) {
     return 0
   }
 
   let totalTimeInMillis = 0
-  for (let i = 0; i < segments.length; i++) {
-    totalTimeInMillis += segments[i].getExclusiveDurationInMillis(this)
+
+  while (children.length !== 0) {
+    const node = children.pop()
+    const { segment, children: childChildren } = node
+    totalTimeInMillis += segment.getExclusiveDurationInMillis(this)
+    childChildren.forEach((child) => children.push(child))
   }
 
   if (!this.transaction.isActive()) {
@@ -339,37 +351,41 @@ Trace.prototype._getRequestUri = function _getRequestUri() {
   return requestUri
 }
 
-/**
- * Gets all children of a segment.
- *
- * @param {number} id of segment
- * @returns {Array.<TraceSegment>} list of all segments that have the parentId of the segment
- */
-Trace.prototype.getChildren = function getChildren(id) {
-  return this.segments.filter((segment) => segment.parentId === id)
+Trace.prototype.getNode = function getNode(id) {
+  return this.segments.find(id)
 }
 
 /**
  * Gets all children of a segment that should be collected and not ignored.
  *
- * @param {number} id of segment
- * @returns {Array.<TraceSegment>} list of all segments that have the parentId of the segment
+ * @param {Array.<Node>} children filters children that are not ignored or `_collect` is false
+ * @returns {Array.<Node>} list of all segments and their children
  */
-Trace.prototype.getCollectedChildren = function getCollectedChildren(id) {
-  return this.segments.filter(
-    (segment) => segment.parentId === id && segment._collect && !segment.ignore
-  )
+Trace.prototype.getCollectedChildren = function getCollectedChildren(children) {
+  return children.filter((child) => child.segment._collect && !child.segment.ignore)
 }
 
 /**
  * Gets the parent segment from list of segments on trace by passing in the `parentId`
- * and matching on the `segment.id`
+ * and matching on the `segment.id`. Only used in testing
  *
  * @param {number} parentId id of parent segment you want to retrieve
  * @returns {TraceSegment} parent segment
  */
 Trace.prototype.getParent = function getParent(parentId) {
-  return this.segments.filter((segment) => segment.id === parentId)[0]
+  const node = this.segments.find(parentId)
+  return node?.segment
+}
+
+/**
+ * Gets all children of a segment. This is only used in testing
+ *
+ * @param {number} id of segment
+ * @returns {Array.<TraceSegment>} list of all segments that have the parentId of the segment
+ */
+Trace.prototype.getChildren = function getChildren(id) {
+  const node = this.segments.find(id)
+  return node?.children.map((child) => child.segment)
 }
 
 /**
@@ -404,17 +420,18 @@ Trace.prototype.toJSON = function toJSON() {
   // serialized data.
   const segmentsToProcess = [
     {
-      segment: this.root,
+      node: this.segments.root,
       destination: resultDest
     }
   ]
 
   while (segmentsToProcess.length !== 0) {
-    const { segment, destination } = segmentsToProcess.pop()
+    const { node, destination } = segmentsToProcess.pop()
+    const { segment, children } = node
     const start = segment.timer.startedRelativeTo(this.root.timer)
     const duration = segment.getDurationInMillis()
 
-    const segmentChildren = this.getCollectedChildren(segment.id)
+    const segmentChildren = this.getCollectedChildren(children)
     const childArray = []
 
     // push serialized data into the specified destination
@@ -426,7 +443,7 @@ Trace.prototype.toJSON = function toJSON() {
       // onto the stack backwards (so the first one created is on top).
       for (let i = segmentChildren.length - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
         segmentsToProcess.push({
-          segment: segmentChildren[i],
+          node: segmentChildren[i],
           destination: childArray
         })
       }
@@ -463,7 +480,7 @@ Trace.prototype._serializeTrace = function _serializeTrace() {
   ]
 
   // clear out segments
-  this.segments = []
+  this.segments = null
   return trace
 }
 

lib/transaction/trace/segment-tree.js

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2024 New Relic Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+'use strict'
+const logger = require('../../logger').child({ component: 'segment-tree' })
+
+class Node {
+  constructor(segment) {
+    this.segment = segment
+    this.children = []
+  }
+}
+
+class SegmentTree {
+  constructor(root) {
+    this.root = new Node(root)
+  }
+
+  find(parentId, node = this.root) {
+    if (parentId === node.segment.id) {
+      return node
+    }
+
+    for (const child of node.children) {
+      const result = this.find(parentId, child)
+      if (result) {
+        return result
+      }
+    }
+
+    return null
+  }
+
+  add(segment) {
+    const node = new Node(segment)
+    const parent = this.find(segment.parentId)
+
+    if (!parent) {
+      logger.debug('Cannot find parent %s in tree', segment.parentId)
+      return
+    }
+
+    parent.children.push(node)
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = SegmentTree

lib/transaction/tracer/index.js

@@ -102,10 +102,10 @@ function createSegment({ name, recorder, parent, transaction }) {
   logger.trace('Adding segment %s to %s in %s', name, parent.name, transaction.id)
 
   let collect = true
-  if (transaction.trace.segments.length >= this.agent.config.max_trace_segments) {
+
+  if (transaction.numSegments >= this.agent.config.max_trace_segments) {
     collect = false
   }
-
   transaction.incrementCounters()
 
   const segment = new TraceSegment({
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ function createSegment({ name, recorder, parent, transaction }) {
   if (recorder) {
     transaction.addRecorder(recorder.bind(null, segment))
   }
-  transaction.trace.segments.push(segment)
+  transaction.trace.segments.add(segment)
 
   return segment
 }