Spring Cloud Turbine - Unable to handle multiple clients? - spring-boot

Question

I’m having a bit of trouble getting Turbine to work in Spring Cloud. In a nutshell, I can’t determine how to configure it to aggregate circuits from more than one application at a time.
I have 6 separate services, a eureka server, and a turbine server running in standalone mode. I can see from my Eureka server that all of the services are registered, including turbine. My turbine server is up and running, and I can see its /hystrix page without issue. But when I try to use it to examine turbine.stream, I only see the FIRST server that is listed in turbine.appConfig, the rest are ignored.
This is my Turbine server’s application.yml, or at least the relevant parts:
---
eureka:
client:
serviceUrl:
defaultZone: http://localhost:8010/eureka/
server:
port: 8030
info:
component: Turbine
turbine:
clusterNameExpression: new String(“default”)
appConfig: sentence,subject,verb,article,adjective,noun
management:
port: 8990
When I run this and access the hystrix dashboard on my turbine instance, asking for the turbine.stream, the ONLY circuit breakers listed in the output are for the first service listed in appConfig, the “sentence” service in this case. Curiously, if I re-arrange the order of these services and put another one first (like “noun”), I see only the circuits for THAT service. Only the first service in the list is displayed.
I’ll admit to being a little confused on some of the terminology, like streams, clusters, etc., so I could be missing some basic concept here, but my understanding is that Turbine could digest streams from more than one service and aggregate them in a single display. Suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I don't have enough reputation to comment, so I have to write this in an answer :)
I had the exactly same problem:
There are two services "test-service" and "other-service", each with it's own working hystrix-stream
and there is one Turbine-Application, which is configured like this:
turbine:
clusterNameExpression: new String("default")
appConfig: test-service,other-service
All of my services are running on my local machine.
Result is: My Hystrix-Dashboard just shows the metrics from "test-service".
Reason:
It seems to be, that a Turbine-Client which is configured the described way doesn't handle multiple services when they are running at the same host.
This is explained here:
https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/issues/117#issuecomment-14262713
Turbine maintains state of all these instances in order to maintain persistent connections to them and it does rely on the "hostname" and if the host name is the same then it won't instantiate a new connection to that same server (on a different port).
So the main point is, that all of your services must be registered with different hostnames. How you could do this on your local machine is described below.
UPDATE 2015-06-12/2016-01-23: Workaround for local testing
Change your hostfile:
# ...
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localdomain1
127.0.0.1 localdomain2
# ...
127.0.0.1 localdomainx
And then set the hostname for your clients each to a different domain-entry like this:
application.yml:
eureka:
instance:
hostname: localdomainx