Fix promtail client default values

pkg/promtail/client/config.go

@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ func (c *Config) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) error {
 		// force sane defaults.
 		cfg = raw{
 			BackoffConfig: util.BackoffConfig{
-				MaxBackoff: 5 * time.Second,
-				MaxRetries: 5,
-				MinBackoff: 100 * time.Millisecond,
+				MaxBackoff: 5 * time.Minute,
+				MaxRetries: 10,
+				MinBackoff: 500 * time.Millisecond,
 			},
 			BatchSize: 100 * 1024,
 			BatchWait: 1 * time.Second,

pkg/promtail/client/config_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+package client
+
+import (
+	"net/url"
+	"reflect"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util"
+	"github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util/flagext"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+)
+
+var clientConfig = Config{}
+
+var clientDefaultConfig = (`
+url: http://localhost:3100/loki/api/v1/push
+`)
+
+var clientCustomConfig = `
+url: http://localhost:3100/loki/api/v1/push
+backoff_config:
+  max_retries: 20
+  min_period: 5s
+  max_period: 1m
+batchwait: 5s
+batchsize: 204800
+timeout: 5s
+`
+
+func Test_Config(t *testing.T) {
+	u, err := url.Parse("http://localhost:3100/loki/api/v1/push")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	tests := []struct {
+		configValues   string
+		expectedConfig Config
+	}{
+		{
+			clientDefaultConfig,
+			Config{
+				URL: flagext.URLValue{
+					u,
+				},
+				BackoffConfig: util.BackoffConfig{
+					MaxBackoff: 5 * time.Minute,
+					MaxRetries: 10,
+					MinBackoff: 500 * time.Millisecond,
+				},
+				BatchSize: 100 * 1024,
+				BatchWait: 1 * time.Second,
+				Timeout:   10 * time.Second,
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			clientCustomConfig,
+			Config{
+				URL: flagext.URLValue{
+					u,
+				},
+				BackoffConfig: util.BackoffConfig{
+					MaxBackoff: 1 * time.Minute,
+					MaxRetries: 20,
+					MinBackoff: 5 * time.Second,
+				},
+				BatchSize: 100 * 2048,
+				BatchWait: 5 * time.Second,
+				Timeout:   5 * time.Second,
+			},
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range tests {
+		err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(tc.configValues), &clientConfig)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(tc.expectedConfig, clientConfig) {
+			t.Errorf("Configs does not match, expected: %v, recieved: %v", tc.expectedConfig, clientConfig)
+		}
+	}
+}