The transitions panel used increase(...[$__rate_interval]). $__rate_interval is
defined as max($__interval + scrape, 4 * scrape), i.e. deliberately one scrape
longer than the step so rate() windows overlap and lose no counter increase.
That overlap is harmless for rate(), but this panel reads the value as a count
of discrete events, and the overlap counts each event in more than one bucket.
Measured against a log-derived ground truth of 106 syncing transitions on
devnet-otel-usw2-01 over 2026-08-11T11:05Z..2026-08-12T23:04Z, the old query
reported 111.3 at a 300s step and 133.7 at a 60s step -- the error grew to +26%
as you zoomed in, because the overlap is a larger fraction of a smaller step.
Switch to $__interval so the buckets tile exactly, and wrap in round() because
increase() extrapolates to the window edges and so reports fractional counts for
an integer counter. The same measurement now gives 106 at 300s, 105 at 60s and
107 at 900s. Every state and both nodes land within a few counts of truth at any
zoom, and the legend Total is now a meaningful figure.
Pin Min step to 1m: the real scrape interval is 60s while the datasource
declares 15s, so without a floor $__interval can fall below one sample.
Draw as bars with 0 decimals -- the value is a discrete count per bucket, and a
line implies interpolation between counts that does not exist.
The Operating Mode Transitions panel queried state_accounting_*_transitions
directly. Those are monotonic counters, so the panel drew a slowly rising line
and a few transitions per hour were invisible against a total in the hundreds.
It also fell off a cliff whenever xrpld restarted and the counters reset to 0,
which reads as missing data rather than a restart.
Wrap each target in increase(...[$__rate_interval]) so each point is the number
of transitions in that bucket and the series survives a counter reset. This is
what the sibling panels on the same row (Operating Mode (Time Share), State
Duration Rate) already do.
Verified against devnet-otel-usw2-01/02 over 2026-08-11T11:01Z..2026-08-12T16:23Z:
the fixed expression reports 107 and 123 syncing transitions, matching the
counter deltas, and stays continuous across the 12:07 restart where the raw
counter dropped 630 -> 1.
Brief mode flaps remain invisible on Operating Mode (State Timeline) because a
~2 s dwell cannot be captured by a 60 s scrape; this panel is the place to read
them.
The troubleshooting step queried `job_count`, which returns no series. The
gauge is registered as `makeGauge("job_count")` but `Application.cpp` passes
`collectorManager_->group("jobq")`, so the exported name carries the `jobq`
segment. The two metric tables in this file were corrected when phase-6
merged forward; this example was missed because it sits outside the tables.
Conflict resolution kept this branch's evolution and re-applied phase-6's
fixes on top of it, rather than taking either side wholesale:
- consensus-health.json: kept the native `span_calls_total` metric name and
the `interval: 15s` and point styling from this branch; added phase-6's
`close_time_correct` PromQL filter and the NetClock axis labels. The
TraceQL boolean-regex filter stays removed and the `byRegexp` overrides
carry over. Panel count unchanged at 27.
- 09-data-collection-reference.md: kept this branch's headings, its more
detailed consensus attribute table (which already types
`consensus_round_id` as int64) and its section numbering, including the
deliberate removal of the SpanNames inventory. Carried over only the
correction that the state-accounting duration gauges are cumulative
microseconds, not seconds.
- telemetry-runbook.md: kept this branch's native metric names
(`span_calls_total`, `span_duration_milliseconds_bucket`); carried the
`rpc.request` -> `rpc.http_request` span-name fix and the `jobq_` segment
on the job-queue depth metric.
- integration-test.sh: kept this branch's `check_otel_metric` form and
carried the `jobq_job_count` correction.
The integration test asserted `rippled_job_count`, which never reports any
series, so that check always failed. `JobQueue` registers the gauge as
`makeGauge("job_count")`, but `Application.cpp` passes it
`collectorManager_->group("jobq")`, so the emitted StatsD name is
`jobq.job_count` and the exported Prometheus name is
`<prefix>_jobq_job_count`.
Corrected the same name in two runbook tables that also dropped the `jobq`
segment. `09-data-collection-reference.md` already had it right, which is why
the two documents disagreed.
Routed here rather than to the phase-10 PR where it was reported: the wrong
name is present in `integration-test.sh` on every branch from phase 6
onward, and this is the branch that introduces the file.
Left alone deliberately:
- `statsd-node-health.json` still queries the old name, but that dashboard is
deleted at phase 7 in favour of `node-health.json`
- `06-implementation-phases.md` names `job_count`, which is accurate as the
code-level makeGauge argument rather than the exported metric name
The integration test's span assertions never actually ran. check_span()
built a Tempo /api/search call with --data-urlencode but no -G, so curl
POSTed the params as a body; Tempo answers 200 and ignores the query, so
every span name looked present. Verified against a live Tempo 2.9.4: the
buggy form returns the store's total trace count for any name, including
"zzz.does.not.exist"; with -G a real name returns 1 and a bogus one 0.
Fixed alongside it: the RPC check asserted "rpc.request", which is never
emitted (ServerHandler.cpp builds "rpc.http_request"). These two had to
change together, since -G turns the bogus name from a silent pass into a
hard failure.
Also in the script: a consensus timeout logged two failures and counted
two, because a post-loop else re-reported what the timeout branch had
already reported; and three unguarded curl calls aborted the whole script
under set -euo pipefail, making the ACCOUNT_ZERO fallback dead code with
no cleanup. Guarded the curls and wired an EXIT trap to the existing
cleanup(). The trap deliberately fires only before the summary, so a
completed run still leaves the stack up as the header documents.
Docs corrections, all re-derived from code:
- span inventory heading 35 -> 38, attribute heading 83 -> 89 rows
(78 unique keys), and the section 6 header table now carries the
missing TxApplySpanNames.h row so its columns sum to the same figures
- two stale paths: ConsensusSpanNames.h is under include/xrpl/consensus/,
TxSpanNames.h under src/xrpld/telemetry/
- consensus_round_id is int64, not string (RCLConsensus.cpp sets
prevLgr.seq() + 1); the runbook's TraceQL examples now use a numeric
literal instead of an unparseable bare <round_id>
- state-accounting duration gauges are cumulative MICROSECONDS, not
seconds (NetworkOPs.cpp declares std::chrono::microseconds and
publishes dur.count() raw)
- sampling_ratio is not a config key; head sampling is fixed at 1.0 and
the shipped collector has no tail sampling, so the caveat was rewritten
- the plan blurb referenced Jaeger; this stack is Tempo
The four job-latency panels on node-health declared milliseconds while
querying `job_running_us` / `job_queued_us`, which record microseconds
(MetricsRegistry records the raw value, and the instrument description
says microseconds). Every reading was therefore a thousand times too
large: the p95 for acceptLedger, 241495us, rendered as "241 sec"
instead of 241ms. job-queue.json already read these same metrics as
microseconds, so the two dashboards disagreed by 1000x on identical
data. Switch node-health to microseconds to match.
Also replace the generic `ops` and `cps` units, which Grafana renders
as the literal "ops/s" and "counts/s", with custom-suffix units naming
what each panel counts -- messages, fetches, calls, mismatches.
Two panels plot more than one quantity on a single axis, which no
single unit can describe. Give each series its own unit through field
overrides: reads per second beside two queue depths on NuDB Read
Pressure, and ledgers beside fetches on Ledger Close Rate, the latter
on a right-hand axis.
State Duration Rate plots a seconds-per-second time share, which can
exceed 1.0 and so is not a percentage; label it as the ratio it is.
The normalised share already exists as its own panel.
Queries are unchanged; the values were already correct.
Alongside, bring the touched panels up to the dashboard guidelines and
hoist the stat panels above the fold.
Grafana renders `unit: "ops"` as the literal string "ops/s", so every
rate panel read as "operations per second" regardless of what it
actually counted. `Ledger Build Rate` showed "0.258 ops/s" where the
value is one ledger every 3.9s -- the number was right, the unit was
meaningless.
Replace the generic units with Grafana custom-suffix units naming the
quantity, following the existing `suffix:/hr` and `si:drops` precedent
in this repo. Nine of these are `stat` panels with no axis, so the unit
string was the only text a reader ever saw.
Also switch the two trusted/untrusted piecharts and the transaction
path piechart from rate() to increase(): a per-slice "per second"
reading is not a share of a total, counts in the window are.
Queries are unchanged apart from those three; the values were already
correct.
Alongside, bring the touched panels up to the dashboard guidelines:
tooltip mode/sort/max-height, 30-minute null spanning, and axis labels
in title case. Hoist the stat panels above the fold on
ledger-operations and rpc-performance.
Panels that a later branch in this chain removes are deliberately left
alone -- fixing them would only add merge conflicts.
Add current_ledger_seq / current_ledger_hash to the tx.process, tx.receive,
and txq.enqueue span-reference rows, correct the txq.enqueue parent note
(parents to tx.process on the submission path via explicit context; a root on
the open-ledger rebuild path), and add a "Correlating a transaction to the
ledger it was worked on" recipe joining the txID-keyed tx/txq spans to the
ledger trace via current_ledger_seq.
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These inbound peer-message entry points (kConsumer) used span(), which
inherits whatever span is active on the peer thread — including a leaked
tx.receive scope — so validations/proposals were wrongly nested under
unrelated transaction traces. rootSpan() starts a fresh trace root.
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Replace the TxQ Accept Status piechart on the Transaction Overview
dashboard with a state-timeline showing each node's applied fraction of
TxQ accepts (applied / applied+failed) over time, colored by threshold
(green >=0.9, yellow >=0.7, red below). Remove the now-orphaned
txq_status template variable (the piechart was its only consumer) and
document the panel in the telemetry runbook.
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The spanmetrics connector had no namespace, so it emitted traces_span_metrics_*
metric names by default. The span dashboards and docs are renamed to query
span_* names; this is only correct if the connector emits them too, so add
namespace: "span" to the spanmetrics connector. Both sides change together:
renaming the dashboards without the namespace (or vice versa) would break the
pipeline. Matches the phase9 collector config.
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The phase7 OTelCollector::formatName lowercases and strips names, emitting
snake_case metrics with no xrpld_ prefix. The native Grafana dashboards and
the telemetry docs still queried the old xrpld_CamelCase names, so they were
broken against their own pipeline. Rename every metric name to match what the
code emits: drop the xrpld_ prefix and lowercase the remainder. The two job
histograms also drop the redundant 'duration' word (job_queued_us,
job_running_us) to match the phase9 forms. Add havetxset to the cspell
dictionary since the lowercased metric name no longer word-splits.
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- Add PathFinding Spans section to the runbook Span Reference and
remove the incorrect "not emitted / later-phase" annotations:
pathfind.request/compute/discover/update_all are emitted since
Phase 2 (upstream of Phase 5).
- Runbook label names use the bare spanmetrics dimensions
(command, rpc_status, local, consensus_mode); fix stale docs.
- 05-configuration-reference: note tls_client_cert/key require use_tls=1.
- TelemetryConfig: reject mTLS cert paths when use_tls=0 so telemetry
is not silently sent in plaintext.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same operator-facing cleanup as the RPC/transaction/consensus headings: the
runbook documents the running system, not the development phase that added
each span. Strip the "(Phase 6)" suffixes from the Ledger and Peer span
reference headings.
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The operator runbook is for people running OpenTelemetry against a node, not
a record of the internal development phases. Strip the "(Phase N)" suffixes
from the span-reference headings and replace the personal-name example
service.name value with a generic one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rename the 5 system-* dashboard files to bare domain names (uid ==
filename stem) and update all doc references. The system- prefix was
redundant now that titles no longer carry a recorder-pipeline suffix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make dashboard uids bare domain names (uid == filename stem) and update
doc references. Grafana links/bookmarks to the old uids will need
refreshing.
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Add a Deployment Tiers section covering the four filtering dimensions
(node, service, network, environment), who owns each attribute, the
collector's upsert-vs-insert rule, per-tier collector values, and how the
tier labels reach metrics. This is the operator-facing home for the
deployment-tier feature.
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The consensus.proposal.receive and consensus.validation.receive spans record
the trust flag under proposal_trusted / validation_trusted (shared with the
peer spans of the same message type), not a bare `trusted`. Update the span
reference table to match.
Bring phase-4 forward into phase 5 (docs & deployment). Phase 5 owns the
operator runbook (docs/telemetry-runbook.md).
Conflict resolution:
- 05-configuration-reference.md: took phase-4's code-block-free prose for the
config-parser section; the mTLS options (tls_client_cert/tls_client_key)
remain documented in the §5.1.2 options table.
Phase-5-owned naming fix:
- docs/telemetry-runbook.md: converted 20 dotted xrpl.<domain>. attribute keys
in the Span Reference tables to the underscore convention (tx_hash, peer_id,
ledger_seq, consensus_mode/round/round_id/ledger_id, tx_id). Span NAMES stay
dotted (rule 5). `trusted` left as-is — verified it matches the code constant
ConsensusSpanNames.h (the proposal_trusted/validation_trusted split is a
separate, not-yet-applied code change).
End-to-end reconciliation: every span-attribute token in the runbook (L5) now
matches an L1 *SpanNames.h constant. The xrpl_<domain>_<field> tokens are the
spanmetrics-derived Prometheus labels (documented mapping), not span attrs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Head sampling is now fixed at 1.0 and not configurable. Drop the
sampling_ratio config row and redirect volume-reduction guidance to
collector-side tail sampling. trace_peer=0 stays as the high-volume opt-out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reflect the new on-by-default behavior in the config defaults table. The
volume-reduction guidance (High memory usage, Production mainnet tuning)
intentionally keeps trace_peer=0 as an opt-out recommendation for
high-traffic deployments.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire the apply-pipeline stage spans (tx.preflight, tx.preclaim,
tx.transactor) added on phase-3 through the observability stack so the
spanmetrics connector produces per-stage RED metrics without any native
instruments.
- collector: add the `stage` dimension to the spanmetrics connector so
the three stages split into separate metric series (3 bounded values).
- dashboard: add a "Tx Apply Pipeline" section to transaction-overview
with rate, p95 latency, and failure-rate panels grouped by stage, plus
a `stage` template variable. Panels follow the existing config (node
filter, exported_instance legends, Title Case, axis labels).
- The failure panel filters ter_result != tesSUCCESS rather than span
status, because a failing ter code completes the span normally — only
thrown exceptions set an error status. This matches the existing
"Transaction Results by Type" panel convention.
- docs: document the spans, attributes, and stage dimension in the data
collection reference and runbook, including the sampling caveat that
span-derived metrics inherit tracer head-sampling and undercount at
sampling_ratio < 1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The spanmetrics connector dimension was `xrpl.consensus.mode`, but the code
emits the span attribute under the bare key `consensus_mode` (matching every
other dimension after the Phase 6 rename). The mismatch left the
`xrpl_consensus_mode` Prometheus label empty, so the Consensus Health
"Consensus Mode Over Time" panel and the `$consensus_mode` template variable
(which filters every panel) matched no live series.
- otel-collector-config.yaml: dimension `xrpl.consensus.mode` -> `consensus_mode`
- consensus-health.json: 11 label refs `xrpl_consensus_mode` -> `consensus_mode`
(the `$consensus_mode` Grafana variable name is unchanged)
- telemetry-runbook.md: refresh the stale spanmetrics label table to the bare
names actually emitted (command/rpc_status/consensus_mode/local/
proposal_trusted/validation_trusted), fix dotted->bare attribute names in
span tables and TraceQL examples (tx_hash, ledger_seq, consensus_round_id,
consensus_ledger_id, consensus_round, tx_id event attr), correct the
consensus_round_id query to int (not quoted string), and fix the
load_type value query ("exception_rpc" -> "exceptioned RPC").
Verified against the live stack: Tempo span tags confirm bare attribute keys
(consensus_mode, ledger_seq, tx_hash, ...); the populated xrpl_consensus_mode
series in Prometheus is stale retained data from an older build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
