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synapse/docs/usage/administration/admin_api/background_updates.md
Quentin Gliech bed00bb766 Allow resigning of events with a new signing key (#19668)
This adds a way to re-sign all locally-created events with a new signing
key, which is useful when rotating server signing keys.

This doesn't trigger automatically, instead needs to be triggered when
needed via the admin API.

c.f.
https://github.com/matrix-org/internal-config/issues/1670#issuecomment-4206020126
for internal discussion.

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Co-authored-by: Kegan Dougall <kegan@element.io>
Co-authored-by: Erik Johnston <erikj@element.io>
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# Background Updates API
This API allows a server administrator to manage the background updates being
run against the database.
## Status
This API gets the current status of the background updates.
The API is:
```
GET /_synapse/admin/v1/background_updates/status
```
Returning:
```json
{
"enabled": true,
"current_updates": {
"<db_name>": {
"name": "<background_update_name>",
"total_item_count": 50,
"total_duration_ms": 10000.0,
"average_items_per_ms": 2.2,
},
}
}
```
`enabled` whether the background updates are enabled or disabled.
`db_name` the database name (usually Synapse is configured with a single database named 'master').
For each update:
`name` the name of the update.
`total_item_count` total number of "items" processed (the meaning of 'items' depends on the update in question).
`total_duration_ms` how long the background process has been running, not including time spent sleeping.
`average_items_per_ms` how many items are processed per millisecond based on an exponential average.
## Enabled
This API allows pausing background updates.
Background updates should *not* be paused for significant periods of time, as
this can affect the performance of Synapse.
*Note*: This won't persist over restarts.
*Note*: This won't cancel any update query that is currently running. This is
usually fine since most queries are short lived, except for `CREATE INDEX`
background updates which won't be cancelled once started.
The API is:
```
POST /_synapse/admin/v1/background_updates/enabled
```
with the following body:
```json
{
"enabled": false
}
```
`enabled` sets whether the background updates are enabled or disabled.
The API returns the `enabled` param.
```json
{
"enabled": false
}
```
There is also a `GET` version which returns the `enabled` state.
## Run
This API schedules a specific background update to run. The job starts immediately after calling the API.
The API is:
```
POST /_synapse/admin/v1/background_updates/start_job
```
with the following body:
```json
{
"job_name": "populate_stats_process_rooms"
}
```
The following JSON body parameters are available:
- `job_name` - A string which job to run. Valid values are:
- `populate_stats_process_rooms` - Recalculate the stats for all rooms.
- `regenerate_directory` - Recalculate the [user directory](../../../user_directory.md) if it is stale or out of sync.
- `event_resign` - Re-sign all locally-sent events with the current signing key. This is useful after rotating the server's signing key to ensure all historical events are signed with the new key. Optional additional parameters:
- `old_key` - Only re-sign events whose signature verifies against this key. Format: `"ed25519:key_id base64_public_key"` (e.g. `"ed25519:my_old_key XGX0JRS2Af3be3knz2fBiRbApjm2Dh61gXDJA8kcJNI"`).
- `before_ts` - Only re-sign events with a `received_ts` less than this value (milliseconds since the epoch).