fix(server): reduce the screaming heartbeat logs

Currently the only way we know that a peer isn't getting a heartbeat is
an edge triggered event from go raft on every missed heartbeat. This
means that we need to do some book keeping in order to do exponential
backoff.

The upside is that instead of screaming thousands of log lines before a
machine hits the default removal of 30 minutes it is only ~100.

server/peer_server.go

@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
+	// MaxHeartbeatTimeoutBackoff is the maximum number of seconds before we warn
+	// the user again about a peer not accepting heartbeats.
+	MaxHeartbeatTimeoutBackoff = 15 * time.Second
+
 	// ThresholdMonitorTimeout is the time between log notifications that the
 	// Raft heartbeat is too close to the election timeout.
 	ThresholdMonitorTimeout = 5 * time.Second
@@ -70,10 +74,18 @@ type PeerServer struct {
 	routineGroup         sync.WaitGroup
 	timeoutThresholdChan chan interface{}
 
+	logBackoffs map[string]*logBackoff
+
 	metrics *metrics.Bucket
 	sync.Mutex
 }
 
+type logBackoff struct {
+	next    time.Time
+	backoff time.Duration
+	count   int
+}
+
 // TODO: find a good policy to do snapshot
 type snapshotConf struct {
 	// Etcd will check if snapshot is need every checkingInterval
@@ -97,6 +109,7 @@ func NewPeerServer(psConfig PeerServerConfig, client *Client, registry *Registry
 		serverStats:    serverStats,
 
 		timeoutThresholdChan: make(chan interface{}, 1),
+		logBackoffs:          make(map[string]*logBackoff),
 
 		metrics: mb,
 	}
@@ -687,11 +700,12 @@ func (s *PeerServer) raftEventLogger(event raft.Event) {
 	case raft.RemovePeerEventType:
 		log.Infof("%s: peer removed: '%v'", s.Config.Name, value)
 	case raft.HeartbeatIntervalEventType:
-		var name = "<unknown>"
+		peer, ok := value.(*raft.Peer);
-		if peer, ok := value.(*raft.Peer); ok {
+		if !ok {
-			name = peer.Name
+			log.Warnf("%s: heatbeat timeout from unknown peer", s.Config.Name)
+			return
 		}
-		log.Infof("%s: warning: heartbeat timed out: '%v'", s.Config.Name, name)
+		s.logHeartbeatTimeout(peer)
 	case raft.ElectionTimeoutThresholdEventType:
 		select {
 		case s.timeoutThresholdChan <- value:
@@ -701,6 +715,35 @@ func (s *PeerServer) raftEventLogger(event raft.Event) {
 	}
 }
 
+// logHeartbeatTimeout logs about the edge triggered heartbeat timeout event
+// only if we haven't warned within a reasonable interval.
+func (s *PeerServer) logHeartbeatTimeout(peer *raft.Peer) {
+	b, ok := s.logBackoffs[peer.Name]
+	if !ok {
+		b = &logBackoff{time.Time{}, time.Second, 1}
+		s.logBackoffs[peer.Name] = b
+	}
+
+	if peer.LastActivity().After(b.next) {
+		b.next = time.Time{}
+		b.backoff = time.Second
+		b.count = 1
+	}
+
+	if b.next.After(time.Now()) {
+		b.count++
+		return
+	}
+
+	b.backoff = 2 * b.backoff
+	if b.backoff > MaxHeartbeatTimeoutBackoff {
+		b.backoff = MaxHeartbeatTimeoutBackoff
+	}
+	b.next = time.Now().Add(b.backoff)
+
+	log.Infof("%s: warning: heartbeat time out peer=%q missed=%d backoff=%q", s.Config.Name, peer.Name, b.count, b.backoff)
+}
+
 func (s *PeerServer) recordMetricEvent(event raft.Event) {
 	name := fmt.Sprintf("raft.event.%s", event.Type())
 	value := event.Value().(time.Duration)