[8.x](backport #41952) auditbeat: Add a cached file hasher for auditbeat#41992
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[8.x](backport #41952) auditbeat: Add a cached file hasher for auditbeat#41992
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This implements a LRU cache on top of the FileHasher from hasher.go, it will be
used in the new backend for the system process module on linux.
The cache is indexed by file path and stores the metadata (what we get from
stat(2)/statx(2)) along with the hashes of each file.
When we want to hash a file: we stat() the file, then do cache lookup and
compare against the stored metadata, if it differs, we rehash, if not we use the
cached values.
The cache ignores access time (atime), it's only interested in write
modifications, if the machine doesn't support statx(2) it falls back to stat(2)
but uses the same Unix.Statx_t.
With this we end up with a stat() + lookup on the hotpath, and a stat() + stat()
+ insert on the cold path.
The motivation for this is that the new backend ends up fetching "all
processes", which in turn causes it to try to hash at every event, the
current/old hasher just can't cope with it:
1. Hashing for each event is simply to expensive, in the 100us-50ms range on the
default configuration, which puts us below 1000/s.
2. It has a scan rate throttling that on the default configuration ends easily
at 40ms per event (25/s).
With the cache things improve considerably, we stay below 5us (200k/s) in all
cases:
```
MISSES
"miss (/usr/sbin/sshd) took 2.571359ms"
"miss (/usr/bin/containerd) took 52.099386ms"
"miss (/usr/sbin/gssproxy) took 160us"
"miss (/usr/sbin/atd) took 50.032us"
HITS
"hit (/usr/sbin/sshd) took 2.163us"
"hit (/usr/lib/systemd/systemd) took 3.024us"
"hit (/usr/lib/systemd/systemd) took 859ns"
"hit (/usr/sbin/sshd) took 805ns"
```
(cherry picked from commit 8ec2e31)
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This implements a LRU cache on top of the FileHasher from hasher.go, it will be used in the new backend for the system process module on linux.
The cache is indexed by file path and stores the metadata (what we get from stat(2)/statx(2)) along with the hashes of each file.
When we want to hash a file: we stat() the file, then do cache lookup and compare against the stored metadata, if it differs, we rehash, if not we use the cached values.
The cache ignores access time (atime), it's only interested in write modifications, if the machine doesn't support statx(2) it falls back to stat(2) but uses the same Unix.Statx_t.
With this we end up with a stat() + lookup on the hotpath, and a stat() + stat() + insert on the cold path.
The motivation for this is that the new backend ends up fetching "all processes", which in turn causes it to try to hash at every event, the current/old hasher just can't cope with it:
With the cache things improve considerably, we stay below 5us (200k/s) in all cases:
Checklist
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation- [ ] I have made corresponding change to the default configuration filesCHANGELOG.next.asciidocorCHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc.This is an automatic backport of pull request auditbeat: Add a cached file hasher for auditbeat #41952 done by Mergify.