Experiment Deployment & Analysis Toolkit

Overview

This repository contains internal tools for running, managing, and analyzing experiments on distributed systems. It is currently used to:

• Launch experiments on Kubernetes clusters
• Collect metrics and logs from previously run experiments
• Analyze experiment metrics (e.g., bandwidth analysis, message reliability, message latency, etc.)

These tools were originally designed to test scalability for nim-libp2p and Waku, but adaptable for a wide variety of experiments.

Note: This is a work in progress. Tooling and folder structure may change in the future.

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Dependencies

uv

Install uv and just run:

uv sync

Required python version will be installed if not present in the system, alongside with the necessary requirements.

Repository Structure

analysis/
  ├── scrape.py               # Scrape tool
  ├── example_log_analysis.py # Analysis tool
  ├── scrape.yaml             # Scrape config
deployment/
  ├── docker_utilities/       # Dockerfiles & resources to build experiment containers
  ├── kubernetes-utilities/   # Services required on Kubernetes for certain experiments
  ├── experiment_scripts/     # Legacy bash scripts for deployments
experiments/
  ├── deployment.py           # Experiment deployment script (generates & deploys)
  ├── README.md               # Usage guide for deployment script

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./experiments/

Python scripts and Kubernetes templates for generating deployments and running experiments.

deployment.py:

• Generates Kubernetes manifests for experiments
• Deploys them to the cluster
• Automatically cleans up resources on completion or abort

See ./experiments/README.md for usage instructions.

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./analysis/

Tools for scraping metrics and analyzing results.

Scraping

scrape.py:

• Queries metric sources and creates plots.
• Metrics to scrape and plots to generate are defined in scrape.yaml

Analysis

log_analysis.py

• Processes scraped data
• Further analyses (eg. check that messages appear in store nodes)
• Generates plots (eg. message time distribution plots)

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Typical Workflow

1. Run an experiment

   cd experiments
   python ./deployment.py --config ~/sapphire.yaml waku-regression-nodes --workdir ./workdir
   

2. Scrape data from the finished experiment

   cd analysis
   python3 scrape.py
   

3. Analyze results

   python3 log_analysis.py