FY22 Q2 Scalability OKR: Reduce daily peak CPU saturation on redis-sidekiq to no more than 75% => 70%

Key Results

The aim is to reduce daily peak CPU saturation on redis-sidekiq to no more than 75%

Context

During the busiest times of our day, cpu saturation on redis-sidekiq is between 75% and 100%. Occurances at 100% are increasing which results in incidents.

https://dashboards.gitlab.net/d/redis-sidekiq-main/redis-sidekiq-overview?viewPanel=1217942947&orgId=1&from=now-24h&to=now

Next Steps

  1. Reduce catchall shard to default and mailers: &447 (closed)
  2. Single queue per shard &469 (closed)
Edited by Rachel Nienaber