feat: added job heartbeat to track whether job is actually executing (#1349)

* feat: added job heartbeat to track whether job is actually executing

heartbeat might be needed in cases when worker was hardkilled or the whole VM/docker was forcibly rebooted.

* fixed tests

* fixed test coverage issue

* chore: renamed job.heartbeat stuff according to review feedback

* chore: pipelined worker heartbeat and job heartbeat

* docs: documented job.heartbeat property

* fixes after review

* docs: updated last_heartbeat description

* chore: review

Co-authored-by: Ruslan Mullakhmetov <ruslan@twentythree.net>

docs/docs/jobs.md

@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ Some interesting job attributes include:
 * `job.started_at`
 * `job.ended_at`
 * `job.exc_info` stores exception information if job doesn't finish successfully.
+* `job.last_heartbeat` the latest timestamp that's periodically updated when the job is executing. Can be used to determine if the job is still active.
 
 If you want to efficiently fetch a large number of jobs, use `Job.fetch_many()`.
 

rq/job.py

@@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ class Job(object):
         # retry_intervals is a list of int e.g [60, 120, 240]
         self.retry_intervals = None
         self.redis_server_version = None
+        self.last_heartbeat = None
 
     def __repr__(self):  # noqa  # pragma: no cover
         return '{0}({1!r}, enqueued_at={2!r})'.format(self.__class__.__name__,
@@ -384,6 +385,11 @@ class Job(object):
             raise TypeError('id must be a string, not {0}'.format(type(value)))
         self._id = value
 
+    def heartbeat(self, heartbeat, pipeline=None):
+        self.last_heartbeat = heartbeat
+        connection = pipeline if pipeline is not None else self.connection
+        connection.hset(self.key, 'last_heartbeat', utcformat(self.last_heartbeat))
+
     id = property(get_id, set_id)
 
     @classmethod
@@ -477,6 +483,7 @@ class Job(object):
         self.enqueued_at = str_to_date(obj.get('enqueued_at'))
         self.started_at = str_to_date(obj.get('started_at'))
         self.ended_at = str_to_date(obj.get('ended_at'))
+        self.last_heartbeat = str_to_date(obj.get('last_heartbeat'))
         result = obj.get('result')
         if result:
             try:
@@ -530,6 +537,7 @@ class Job(object):
             'data': zlib.compress(self.data),
             'started_at': utcformat(self.started_at) if self.started_at else '',
             'ended_at': utcformat(self.ended_at) if self.ended_at else '',
+            'last_heartbeat': utcformat(self.last_heartbeat) if self.last_heartbeat else '',
         }
         
         if self.retries_left is not None:

rq/worker.py

@@ -751,14 +751,19 @@ class Worker(object):
             except HorseMonitorTimeoutException:
                 # Horse has not exited yet and is still running.
                 # Send a heartbeat to keep the worker alive.
-                self.heartbeat(self.job_monitoring_interval + 60)
 
                 # Kill the job from this side if something is really wrong (interpreter lock/etc).
                 if job.timeout != -1 and (utcnow() - job.started_at).total_seconds() > (job.timeout + 60):
+                    self.heartbeat(self.job_monitoring_interval + 60)
                     self.kill_horse()
                     self.wait_for_horse()
                     break
 
+                with self.connection.pipeline() as pipeline:
+                    self.heartbeat(self.job_monitoring_interval + 60, pipeline=pipeline)
+                    job.heartbeat(utcnow(), pipeline=pipeline)
+                    pipeline.execute()
+
             except OSError as e:
                 # In case we encountered an OSError due to EINTR (which is
                 # caused by a SIGINT or SIGTERM signal during
@@ -853,6 +858,7 @@ class Worker(object):
                                           job_class=self.job_class)
             registry.add(job, timeout, pipeline=pipeline)
             job.set_status(JobStatus.STARTED, pipeline=pipeline)
+            job.heartbeat(utcnow(), pipeline=pipeline)
             pipeline.hset(job.key, 'started_at', utcformat(utcnow()))
             pipeline.execute()
 

tests/test_job.py

@@ -222,7 +222,14 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
         # ... and no other keys are stored
         self.assertEqual(
             sorted(self.testconn.hkeys(job.key)),
-            [b'created_at', b'data', b'description', b'ended_at', b'started_at'])
+            [b'created_at', b'data', b'description', b'ended_at', b'last_heartbeat', b'started_at'])
+
+        self.assertEqual(job.last_heartbeat, None)
+        self.assertEqual(job.last_heartbeat, None)
+
+        ts = utcnow()
+        job.heartbeat(ts)
+        self.assertEqual(job.last_heartbeat, ts)
 
     def test_persistence_of_retry_data(self):
         """Retry related data is stored and restored properly"""