MaxScale 21.06 Tee Filter
Tee Filter
Overview
The tee filter is a "plumbing" fitting in the MariaDB MaxScale filter toolkit. It can be used in a filter pipeline of a service to make copies of requests from the client and send the copies to another service within MariaDB MaxScale.
Please Note: Starting with MaxScale 2.2.0, any client that connects to a
service which uses a tee filter will require a grant for the loopback address,
i.e. 127.0.0.1
.
Configuration
The configuration block for the TEE filter requires the minimal filter parameters in its section within the MaxScale configuration file. The service to send the duplicates to must be defined.
[DataMartFilter] type=filter module=tee target=DataMart [Data-Service] type=service router=readconnroute servers=server1 user=myuser password=mypasswd filters=DataMartFilter
Filter Parameters
The tee filter requires a mandatory parameter to define the service to replicate statements to and accepts a number of optional parameters.
target
The target where the filter will duplicate all queries. The target can be either a service or a server. The duplicate connection that is created to this target will be referred to as the "branch target" in this document.
service
The service where the filter will duplicate all queries. This parameter is
deprecated in favor of the target
parameter and will be removed in a future
release. Both target
and service
cannot be defined.
match
, exclude
and options
These regular expression settings limit the queries replicated by the tee filter.
match=/insert.*into.*order*/ exclude=/select.*from.*t1/ options=case,extended
source
The optional source parameter defines an address that is used to match against the address from which the client connection to MariaDB MaxScale originates. Only sessions that originate from this address will be replicated.
source=127.0.0.1
user
The optional user parameter defines a user name that is used to match against the user from which the client connection to MariaDB MaxScale originates. Only sessions that are connected using this username are replicated.
user=john
sync
Enable synchronous routing mode. This boolean parameter was added in MaxScale 6.2.0 and is disabled by default.
When configured with sync=true
, the filter will queue new queries until the
response from both the main and the branch target has been received. This means
that for n
executed queries, n - 1
queries are guaranteed to be
synchronized. Adding one extra statement (e.g. SELECT 1
) to a batch of
statements guarantees that all previous SQL statements have been successfully
executed on both targets.
In the synchronous routing mode, a failure of the branch target will cause the client session to be closed.
Limitations
-
All statements that are executed on the branch target are done in an asynchronous manner. This means that when the client receives the response there is no guarantee that the statement has completed on the branch target. The
sync
feature provides some synchronization guarantees that can be used to verify successful execution on both targets. -
Any errors on the branch target will cause the connection to it to be closed. If
target
is a service, it is up to the router to decide whether the connection is closed. For direct connections to servers, any network errors cause the connection to be closed. When the connection is closed, no new queries will be routed to the branch target.
With sync=true
, a failure of the branch target will cause the whole session
to be closed.
Module commands
Read Module Commands documentation for details about module commands.
The tee filter supports the following module commands.
tee disable [FILTER]
This command disables a tee filter instance. A disabled tee filter will not send any queries to the target service.
tee enable [FILTER]
Enable a disabled tee filter. This resumes the sending of queries to the target service.
Examples
Example 1 - Replicate all inserts into the orders table
Assume an order processing system that has a table called orders. You also have another database server, the datamart server, that requires all inserts into orders to be replicated to it. Deletes and updates are not, however, required.
Set up a service in MariaDB MaxScale, called Orders, to communicate with the order processing system with the tee filter applied to it. Also set up a service to talk to the datamart server, using the DataMart service. The tee filter would have as its service entry the DataMart service, by adding a match parameter of "insert into orders" would then result in all requests being sent to the order processing system, and insert statements that include the orders table being additionally sent to the datamart server.
[Orders] type=service router=readconnroute servers=server1, server2, server3, server4 user=massi password=6628C50E07CCE1F0392EDEEB9D1203F3 filters=ReplicateOrders [ReplicateOrders] type=filter module=tee target=DataMart match=insert[ ]*into[ ]*orders [DataMart] type=service router=readconnroute servers=datamartserver user=massi password=6628C50E07CCE1F0392EDEEB9D1203F3 filters=QLA-DataMart [QLA-DataMart] type=filter module=qlafilter options=/var/log/DataMart/InsertsLog [Orders-Listener] type=listener target=Orders protocol=MariaDBClient port=4011 [DataMart-Listener] type=listener target=DataMart protocol=MariaDBClient port=4012