Fix indexing regression by disabling payload compression (#5064)

This disables default compression.
After this PR, compression is only enabled if the
`QW_MINIMUM_COMPRESSION_SIZE` environment variable is set.

This PR also enables ZSTD compression, and sets the compression
quality to "Fast".

Closes #5049

Co-authored-by: Remi Dettai <rdettai@gmail.com>

quickwit/Cargo.toml

@@ -244,7 +244,11 @@ tower = { version = "0.4.13", features = [
   "retry",
   "util",
 ] }
-tower-http = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["compression-gzip", "cors"] }
+tower-http = { version = "0.4.0", features = [
+  "compression-zstd",
+  "compression-gzip",
+  "cors",
+] }
 tracing = "0.1.37"
 tracing-opentelemetry = "0.20.0"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.16", features = [

quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/rest.rs

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ use hyper::{http, Method, StatusCode};
 use quickwit_common::tower::BoxFutureInfaillible;
 use tower::make::Shared;
 use tower::ServiceBuilder;
-use tower_http::compression::predicate::{DefaultPredicate, Predicate, SizeAbove};
+use tower_http::compression::predicate::{NotForContentType, Predicate, SizeAbove};
 use tower_http::compression::CompressionLayer;
 use tower_http::cors::CorsLayer;
 use tracing::{error, info};
@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ use crate::template_api::index_template_api_handlers;
 use crate::ui_handler::ui_handler;
 use crate::{BodyFormat, BuildInfo, QuickwitServices, RuntimeInfo};
 
-/// The minimum size a response body must be in order to
-/// be automatically compressed with gzip.
-const MINIMUM_RESPONSE_COMPRESSION_SIZE: u16 = 10 << 10;
-
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub(crate) struct InvalidJsonRequest(pub serde_json::Error);
 
@@ -88,6 +84,39 @@ impl std::fmt::Display for InternalError {
     }
 }
 
+/// Env variable key to define the minimum size above which a response should be compressed.
+/// If unset, no compression is applied.
+const QW_MINIMUM_COMPRESSION_SIZE_KEY: &str = "QW_MINIMUM_COMPRESSION_SIZE";
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
+struct CompressionPredicate {
+    size_above_opt: Option<SizeAbove>,
+}
+
+impl CompressionPredicate {
+    fn from_env() -> CompressionPredicate {
+        let minimum_compression_size_opt: Option<u16> = quickwit_common::get_from_env_opt::<usize>(
+            QW_MINIMUM_COMPRESSION_SIZE_KEY,
+        )
+        .map(|minimum_compression_size: usize| {
+            u16::try_from(minimum_compression_size).unwrap_or(u16::MAX)
+        });
+        let size_above_opt = minimum_compression_size_opt.map(SizeAbove::new);
+        CompressionPredicate { size_above_opt }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Predicate for CompressionPredicate {
+    fn should_compress<B>(&self, response: &http::Response<B>) -> bool
+    where B: hyper::body::HttpBody {
+        if let Some(size_above) = self.size_above_opt {
+            size_above.should_compress(response)
+        } else {
+            false
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Starts REST services.
 pub(crate) async fn start_rest_server(
     rest_listen_addr: SocketAddr,
@@ -158,14 +187,15 @@ pub(crate) async fn start_rest_server(
         .boxed();
 
     let warp_service = warp::service(rest_routes);
-    let compression_predicate =
-        DefaultPredicate::new().and(SizeAbove::new(MINIMUM_RESPONSE_COMPRESSION_SIZE));
+    let compression_predicate = CompressionPredicate::from_env().and(NotForContentType::IMAGES);
     let cors = build_cors(&quickwit_services.node_config.rest_config.cors_allow_origins);
 
     let service = ServiceBuilder::new()
         .layer(
             CompressionLayer::new()
+                .zstd(true)
                 .gzip(true)
+                .quality(tower_http::CompressionLevel::Fastest)
                 .compress_when(compression_predicate),
         )
         .layer(cors)