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perf(traces): match span-name filters without reading the attribute map per row - #1332
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…ap per row A span-name filter matches the stored name or the HTTP display name. The display name was computed from SpanAttributes on every row of the org and window, so the filter could not use the sorting key. - equality and exclusion: only an HTTP span has a display name of its own, so the stored names that can display as a value are derived when the query is compiled; the map is read for those names only. - contains: the names are resolved from service_operations_hourly, and the map is read for HTTP-named spans only when a rewritten name in the window contains the term.
A local store can keep raw spans longer than service_operations_hourly keeps names. A window that starts before the rollup's horizon falls back to comparing both names on the row. The two-tier guard skips literals and follows nested parentheses when it tells a lookup from a tier.
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSpan-name filtering now matches stored names and HTTP display names. Span searches use separate paths for trace IDs, single-value contains searches, and other searches. When available, hourly operation-name data supports non-HTTP matching. Catalog queries and tests cover these paths and their rollup boundary. ChangesHTTP span-name search
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Refactor Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PipeDispatch
participant SpanSearchQuery
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PipeDispatch->>SpanSearchQuery: pass spanNameRollup capability
SpanSearchQuery->>QueryHelpers: build stored-name and HTTP display-name matches
QueryHelpers->>ServiceOperationsHourly: look up distinct names when rollup matching applies
QueryHelpers->>Traces: apply row-level matching when lookup is unavailable or over limit
SpanSearchQuery->>Traces: union matching sets and apply cutoff and page
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Span-name filtering now matches HTTP display names without reading the attribute map on every row. It also narrows contains searches through the hourly operation rollup. The rollup records every span, so search results should be the same. No merge-blocking issues remain. Production query timings still need checking after deploy. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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packages/query-engine/src/benchmark/catalog.ts (1)
1249-1267: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueAvoid repeated prefix scans without imposing a 32-character limit.
The generated catalog has 378
(SELECToccurrences and causes about 1.84 MB of repeated prefix scanning. This is test-only work, so the benefit is limited to an optional refactor.Do not use a fixed 32-character suffix as a general replacement.
ROW_SOURCE_REaccepts any amount of whitespace and opening parentheses. A longer valid prefix would be classified incorrectly. Use a single-pass stateful scan if this optimization is needed. TheSTRING_LITERAL_REconcern is separate.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 1249-1267: Update withoutLookupSubqueries to avoid rescanning
text.slice(0, i) with ROW_SOURCE_RE at every “(SELECT” occurrence. Track the
relevant row-source context during one pass, preserving ROW_SOURCE_RE’s support
for arbitrary whitespace and opening parentheses; do not replace the prefix scan
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…ptional lookup A contains search matched stored name OR display name in one predicate, so the attribute map was read for every row the scan touched: over a high-volume week that ran out of memory. span_search now scans HTTP-named spans (the only rows whose map is read) and all other spans separately. - The stored-name half resolves names from service_operations_hourly only when the warehouse has the table, the rollup has a row older than the window, and at most 10,000 names match; otherwise it compares SpanName on the row. - The lookup is distinct, capped, narrowed to an exact service filter, and its end bound no longer wraps past 2106. No now() in the statement. - Equality filters put the stored-name candidates in front as their own condition, and stop enumerating them for values with many spaces. - contains filters outside span_search keep the per-row predicate. - The two-tier catalog guard exempts only the distinct-names lookup.
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Span-name filters on the raw
tracestable were the slowest warehouse reads behind the MCPsearch_tracestool and the chat agent. Self-tracedWarehouseQueryService.executeSqlspans, production, 2026-10-04 00:00 to 2026-10-08 18:00 UTC, statements with a span-name filter:query.contextpipe:span_searchpipe:span_searchtracesBreakdowntracesBreakdownEvery
span_searchover a 6 or 7 day window ended at the 15 smax_execution_time(9 of 9 between 2026-10-06 and 2026-10-08).McpTool.searchTracesas a whole sat at p95 6.6 s.Cause
A span-name filter matches the stored name or the HTTP display name (
http.server GET+ route is shown asGET /users):Two properties of that
ORmake it expensive:(OrgId, ServiceName, SpanName, toDateTime(Timestamp))nothing to prune on.ORas one filter step, soSpanAttributesis read for every row the scan touches, also when a pureSpanNamecondition sits on the other side of theOR. Only a conjunction is split: it filters onSpanNamefirst and reads the map where a row survives. Measured in review on 3.5 days at September volume: the HTTP branch as a conjunction 362 ms, the same rows through anOR1 874 ms.On Maple's own org that is 4 to 6 s per 15 M spans at two threads,
span_searchruns the predicate twice (timestamp cutoff, then the page), and at September volume (62 to 111 M stored spans a day) a week does not finish. The second scan inspan_searchhas to stay: it is what keeps the maps of non-returned rows from being read.Solution
1. Equality,
INand exclusion, in every traces query (tracesBaseWhereConditions,packages/query-engine/src/ch/queries/query-helpers.ts). Only an HTTP-named span has a display name of its own, and it is always<method> <route>. The stored names that can display as a value are derived when the query is compiled and go in front as their own condition:A value with more than 16 derived names (many spaces) uses "is HTTP-named" as the candidate condition instead of the list, so the statement stays small: a 300-word value compiles to under 6x its own length.
2. Contains, in
span_search(the pipe behind MCPsearch_traces, the chat agent and the CLI;spanSearchByNameQueryintraces.ts). The search is two scans of disjoint rows,UNION ALL, each with the existing cutoff-then-page stages:The second scan can resolve its names from
service_operations_hourly(distinct display names per hour, capped at 10 001 rows, narrowed to an exact service filter), which lets the sorting key prune to them. This is a new read dependency ofspan_searchon that rollup, and it is conditional:service_operations_hourly(self-hosted cluster without the migration, or metadata unreadable)SpanNamescan of the window, no mapHTTP-named spans never depend on the rollup. The table check comes from
WarehouseCapabilities(the deployed schema for managed warehouses,system.columnsfor self-hosted), so an absent table is never queried. The other two checks are scalar subqueries that are constants by the time the read is planned. One state is not detected: rollup rows missing inside the window while an older row still exists (a materialized-view swap gap, or retention cleanup that removes rows out of order). Then a non-HTTP name that occurs only in the missing stretch is not found.3. Contains in the other traces queries (breakdown, timeseries, trace list) keeps the per-row predicate, unchanged SQL. Those need the same two-scan restructure per query; the production evidence above is
span_search.Also in this PR:
now(), no schema, datasource or materialized view change.DateTime64, so an end past 2106 no longer wraps to an empty set.rollup-spliceexempts exactly one shape, a subquery selecting onlyDISTINCT service_operations_hourly.SpanName, which has no measure to add to a raw tier. Ten crafted tier shapes (parenthesised and nested unions, scalar sums, comma joins,WITH,arrayJoin,greatest, a plain rollupIN) are tests and stay flagged.docs/warehouse-rollups.mddescribes the exemption.span_searchcontains with and without the rollup capability, with a service filter and offset, andlist_tracescontains, all in the SQL baseline and the ClickHouse analyzer sweep.Before
Measured on Maple's own production org through
run_sql: two threads, 512 MB, 10 s cap, so absolute numbers are higher than under the productionlistprofile (15 s, 1.5 GB).db.duration_msfrom the self-trace. Every run has its own statement text and, for a contains term, its own letter case, so no run is answered from a cached statement or filter result. Old and new alternate.Windows and stored spans (from
service_operations_hourly):The real
span_searchstatement, contains, limit 20:searchTracesWarehouseQueryServicePOST /mcpmcpexecute_toolselectsearchTracesPOST /mcpmcpexecute_toolsearchTracesWarehouseQueryServicePOST /mcpsearchTracesWarehouseQueryServicePOST /mcpmcpFilter scans,
SELECT count(), sum(cityHash64(TraceId, SpanId)) FROM traces WHERE <org, window, filter>, which touch every selected row:= 'WarehouseQueryService.executeSql'= 'POST /mcp'IN(3 names, 2 of them HTTP display names)= 'WarehouseQueryService.executeSql'= 'POST /mcp'= 'WarehouseQueryService.executeSql'= 'POST /mcp'Rows 24 and 25 are single first runs. An equality predicate cannot be varied without changing its rows, and a repeat of the identical predicate on the same replica comes back in 0.2 to 0.5 s on the old SQL too, so the first run is the number a new filter pays.
After
Same cases and harness. Median with min and max where there are three runs; two values where there are two.
searchTracesWarehouseQueryServicePOST /mcpmcpexecute_toolselectsearchTracesPOST /mcpmcpexecute_toolsearchTracesWarehouseQueryServicePOST /mcpsearchTracesWarehouseQueryServicePOST /mcpmcp"Lookup off" is the statement a warehouse without the rollup gets, and what any of the fallback states above costs.
= 'WarehouseQueryService.executeSql'= 'POST /mcp'IN(3 names, 2 HTTP display names)= 'WarehouseQueryService.executeSql'= 'POST /mcp'= 'WarehouseQueryService.executeSql'= 'POST /mcp'Reading the tables:
POST /mcp,mcp), terms that match many non-HTTP names with large attribute maps (execute_tool,select), and plain terms. None reported a memory error under the 512 MB limit; the previous revision of this branch did forPOST /mcpandexecute_toolon that week.SpanNamescan per stage: 6.4 s on the September week for a plain term, at the cap forPOST /mcp, 1.8 to 3.7 s on a September day. That is still inside what the old statement could not finish.Row equality, count and
sum(cityHash64(TraceId, SpanId))over every selected row:POST /mcpthe open-ended window grew between the three serial runs (21 747, 21 749, 21 756), and with the raw rows capped at a fixed instant old and new are identical (21 155).IN(3 values) and exclusion (2 values), old against new: October day and September 66 minutes, 8 pairs, all identical. September day, exclusion: identical in 3 runs; the old equality scans hit the cap there, the 3 new runs agree with each other.Scoped tests in
packages/query-engine:traces.test.ts(65),ch.test.ts(126),catalog.test.ts(19),catalog.baseline.test.ts,pipe-dispatch.test.ts(69),managed-capabilities.test.ts(4),executor.test.ts(46). The SQL baseline is regenerated.Verify after deploy
Run in the production org once the revision is live, over a window that starts after the deploy:
Pre-change values are the table under Problem (same SQL, 2026-10-04 00:00 to 2026-10-08 18:00 UTC).
What to expect, and what not:
pipe:span_search: p95 andover_5sshould drop for both services. The measured two-scan statement took 1 to 2.3 s on a 566 M span week at two threads. Statements at the 15 s cap are not excluded: a tenant on the fallback path pays aSpanNamescan of the window, and a first read of cold partitions adds seconds.tracesBreakdown: equality filters should drop; contains filters are unchanged by this PR and will still show up here.span_searchstatement is still slow, itsdb.query.texttells the path: noservice_operations_hourlyin it means the warehouse metadata did not list the rollup.Summary by CodeRabbit
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