Intermittent fatal errors: InvalidOperationException: Sequence contains no matching element

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We have some metrics that scrape fine >99% of the time, but encounter an FTL error in the scraper code a few times per day for some reason. It’s just a couple failed scrapes here and there, but it would be nice to know what condition causes this, and hopefully there is a way to improve it.

Example configuration that works >99% of the time

          - name: azure_redis_respond_errortype_errors
            description: "Errors."
            resourceType: RedisCache
            azureMetricConfiguration:
              metricName: errors	
              aggregation:
                type: Maximum
              dimension:
                name: ErrorType
            resourceDiscoveryGroups:
            - name: our-resource-group

Here’s the error that gets logged when the scrape fails:

[00:25:01 FTL] Failed to scrape resource for metric 'azure_redis_respond_errortype_errors'
System.InvalidOperationException: Sequence contains no matching element
   at System.Linq.ThrowHelper.ThrowNoMatchException()
   at Promitor.Core.Metrics.MeasuredMetric.CreateForDimension(Nullable`1 value, String dimensionName, TimeSeriesElement timeseries) in /src/Promitor.Core/MeasuredMetric.cs:line 68
   at Promitor.Integrations.AzureMonitor.AzureMonitorClient.QueryMetricAsync(String metricName, String metricDimension, AggregationType aggregationType, TimeSpan aggregationInterval, String resourceId, String metricFilter, Nullable`1 metricLimit) in /src/Promitor.Integrations.AzureMonitor/AzureMonitorClient.cs:line 117
   at Promitor.Core.Scraping.AzureMonitorScraper`1.ScrapeResourceAsync(String subscriptionId, ScrapeDefinition`1 scrapeDefinition, TResourceDefinition resourceDefinition, AggregationType aggregationType, TimeSpan aggregationInterval) in /src/Promitor.Core.Scraping/AzureMonitorScraper.cs:line 72
   at Promitor.Core.Scraping.Scraper`1.ScrapeAsync(ScrapeDefinition`1 scrapeDefinition) in /src/Promitor.Core.Scraping/Scraper.cs:line 103

Expected Behavior

Properly defined metrics should work consistently when Azure Monitor itself is in good condition.

Actual Behavior

Properly defined metrics experience intermittent fatal errors on scrapes, just a few per day always.

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. I provided a metric definition in the report section.
2. You could stand up an Azure Redis Cache to run that metric configuration against. Unfortunately, you would have to wait 24 hours to catch a few occurrences of the error.

Component

Scraper

Version

v2.9.1

Configuration

Configuration:

          - name: azure_redis_respond_errortype_errors
            description: "Errors."
            resourceType: RedisCache
            azureMetricConfiguration:
              metricName: errors	
              aggregation:
                type: Maximum
              dimension:
                name: ErrorType
            resourceDiscoveryGroups:
            - name: our-resource-group

Logs

[00:25:01 FTL] Failed to scrape resource for metric 'azure_redis_respond_errortype_errors'
System.InvalidOperationException: Sequence contains no matching element
   at System.Linq.ThrowHelper.ThrowNoMatchException()
   at Promitor.Core.Metrics.MeasuredMetric.CreateForDimension(Nullable`1 value, String dimensionName, TimeSeriesElement timeseries) in /src/Promitor.Core/MeasuredMetric.cs:line 68
   at Promitor.Integrations.AzureMonitor.AzureMonitorClient.QueryMetricAsync(String metricName, String metricDimension, AggregationType aggregationType, TimeSpan aggregationInterval, String resourceId, String metricFilter, Nullable`1 metricLimit) in /src/Promitor.Integrations.AzureMonitor/AzureMonitorClient.cs:line 117
   at Promitor.Core.Scraping.AzureMonitorScraper`1.ScrapeResourceAsync(String subscriptionId, ScrapeDefinition`1 scrapeDefinition, TResourceDefinition resourceDefinition, AggregationType aggregationType, TimeSpan aggregationInterval) in /src/Promitor.Core.Scraping/AzureMonitorScraper.cs:line 72
   at Promitor.Core.Scraping.Scraper`1.ScrapeAsync(ScrapeDefinition`1 scrapeDefinition) in /src/Promitor.Core.Scraping/Scraper.cs:line 103

Platform

Microsoft Azure

Contact Details

No response

[gburton1]

We will start looking into this over the next two weeks to see if we can improve the handling in this method.

[tomkerkhove]

Please give me some time as I maintain more than just Promitor so I cannot guarantee a response within 1-2 days 😃

I think the exception is fairly clear and the CreateForDimension method needs to be improved.