The microsecond ladder's first edge was 100us, which sat ABOVE the mass of
every instrument using it. Measured on devnet: 99.3% of job_queued_us
samples, 92.5% of job_running_us and 90.4% of getobject_lookup_us fell in
that first bucket. histogram_quantile then interpolated inside bucket 0 and
returned `quantile / fraction_in_bucket_0 x first_edge` -- p75/p95/p99 of
job_queued_us read 75.52/95.66/99.69us against a prediction of
75.53/95.67/99.70. Three-decimal agreement: those panels were reporting
arithmetic on the bucket edge, not latency.
The fix was already half-written. kSubMillisecondBoundaries had been parked
in MetricsRegistry.cpp as [[maybe_unused]] with a comment noting exactly this
problem for nodestore reads. Its edges are now folded into kMicrosecondBuckets
rather than deleted, so the parked intent is carried forward: 1..1000us
resolution where the mass is, upper edges unchanged so multi-second stalls
stay measurable.
Also moves the GetObject count and charge ladders into HistogramBuckets.h, so
all five ladders have one owner and one set of invariant tests (29 now).
Adds check_bucket_parity.py, wired into the existing OTel naming workflow.
The C++ millisecond ladder and the collector's spanmetrics ladder are
specified to agree over their shared range; they were identical when shipped,
then the collector side alone was extended and nothing noticed for eleven
phases. The check asserts containment rather than equality, because jobs
outlive spans -- jobq_updatepaths averages ~60s, which no span approaches, so
demanding equality would force a ceiling that censors it. Verified it rejects
a missing collector edge, a bogus in-range edge, and a return to the 5s
ceiling.
ledger-data-sync's "Job Queue Wait p95 By Type" moves off the beast
jobq_*_q_milliseconds pair onto job_queued_us filtered by job_type. Those
beast metrics are ms-quantised at the source (Event rounds up to a whole
millisecond), so 94-100% of their samples sat in the first bucket and no
ladder change could fix them. Note the label values are camelCase
(job_type="ledgerData"), not the lowercase metric-name fragments.
Both histogram-fed alert thresholds re-validated and left unchanged, with the
measured basis recorded so neither gets tuned against the old artefact: only
0.0022% of job_queued_us samples exceed the 1s threshold, and every edge
bracketing the 1000ms ios_latency threshold survived the ladder change.
Docs: the rpc_size "known issue -- tracked separately" notes in the runbook
and 09-data-collection-reference are now resolved notes, the stale 10-edge
span_duration bucket list is corrected to the collector's real 20, and the
runbook gains a "Reading A Histogram Percentile" section covering both
saturation traps and the expected discontinuity after a ladder change.
The bucket edges for the OTel histograms lived as file-local `namespace {}`
constants, unreachable from any test, and they drifted from the collector's
spanmetrics ladder they were specified to match. The millisecond ladder
stayed capped at 5 s after the collector side was extended to 30 s, so any
quantile above 5 s read back as a flat 5000 -- Prometheus returns the
second-highest edge for a quantile in the `+Inf` bucket, which looks like a
measurement rather than an error.
Adds include/xrpl/telemetry/HistogramBuckets.h as the single owner of the
ladders, with a constexpr validator plus static_asserts so a descending or
duplicated edge cannot compile, and gtest coverage that pins the floor and
ceiling against the measured distributions:
- kMillisecondBuckets carries every representable collector edge and extends
to 120 s, because the updatepaths job type averages ~60 s and a 30 s
ceiling would censor it exactly as 5 s does today. Sub-millisecond
collector edges are omitted: beast::insight::Event rounds durations up to
whole milliseconds, so they would collect nothing.
- kByteBuckets is new, for Events whose samples are sizes rather than
durations. Edges follow the measured RPC response distribution (mean
2131 B, half under 1 kB, tail mean bounded at 7538 B) rather than a guess,
so the resolution sits between 512 B and 64 kB.
No behaviour change yet -- nothing consumes the header until the views are
rewired.
makeTelemetrySetup() rejects a contradictory [telemetry] mutual-TLS
setup by throwing, but it is called from ApplicationImp's
member-initializer list. A try/catch in the constructor body cannot
reach a throw from there, and nothing further up the stack caught it
either, so a config mistake reached std::terminate: the default handler
printed a terminate dump and raised SIGABRT, leaving a core file
instead of a startup error.
Catch std::exception around makeApplication() in run(), report the
reason on stderr and return -1, so the failure is a clean non-zero exit
with a message an operator can act on. Only the construction is
wrapped. setup() starts subsystems whose shutdown order is delicate and
is left outside deliberately, because unwinding a half-started
Application would skip the normal stop sequence.
Gate both validation guards on enabled. A node with telemetry switched
off previously refused to start over certificate paths that nothing
would read.
Document both throws on makeTelemetrySetup(), state in
cfg/xrpld-example.cfg and the configuration reference that a partial
mutual-TLS setup is fatal and that the checks apply only when
enabled=1, and add a runbook troubleshooting entry keyed on the two
error messages.
Tests cover both guards with the message asserted so the two are told
apart, both enabled=0 paths, and the default plaintext configuration.
Node identity reached the OTel resource only as service.instance.id, which is
config-overridable and carries a deployment-chosen label rather than the node's
own identity. Add xrpl.node.id, set unconditionally from the node public key
(base58, TokenType::NodePublic), so traces and metrics share a stable per-node
key independent of [telemetry] service_instance_id.
Set on the tracer resource via Telemetry::setNodeId(), called from
ApplicationImp::setup() once nodeIdentity_ is known, and on the MetricsRegistry
resource via an added start() parameter. The beast::insight meter provider is
built in TelemetryImpl's constructor, before the wallet DB exists, so its
resource cannot carry the value; that path is left for later and the attribute
is omitted rather than stamped blank.
Also drops the transform/spanidentity collector processor added in
4a361a496d: per-node identity belongs on the resource, not copied onto every
span.
These comments pointed at a planning folder and at its rollout phase
numbering, neither of which is part of the shipped tree, so the
references would dangle for any reader of the repository. Each comment
now states the fact it was pointing at.
The reference docs had drifted from the code in ways that break the reader
rather than merely misinform: PromQL examples that return no data, a rollback
flag that is a no-op, a sampling knob that does not exist, and two span parents
that moved. Code is treated as the truth throughout; where the code is the
defective side, the doc now records it as a known issue instead of describing
the bug as intent.
Renames the docs missed: histogram names gain the exporter's unit suffix
(ios_latency_milliseconds_bucket and four siblings), ledger_history_mismatch
gains _total, the StatsD-era quantile label gives way to le buckets,
rpc.request becomes rpc.http_request, traces_spanmetrics_calls_total becomes
span_calls_total, and the nine dotted xrpl.* span attributes are recorded as
renamed rather than left as live keys.
Re-parenting: consensus.update_positions and consensus.check are children of
consensus.establish, not of consensus.round.
Units and labels: state_accounting_*_duration is microseconds, not seconds;
cache_metrics label values are case-sensitive; object_count carries demangled
C++ type names. Nodestore read and write latency stays microseconds -- the
nanosecond accumulator change did not move the exported unit.
Adds what shipped but was undocumented: the ledger.acquire span, seven
consensus.round events, twelve span attributes, node_writes_duration_us, the
7-day validation-agreement window, the TxQ admission and reduce-relay metric
families, metrics_endpoint, and the phase-10 validation workflow.
Corrects claims that never held: 10% head sampling (it is fixed at 100%),
configurable redaction (it is unconditional), -DXRPL_ENABLE_TELEMETRY=OFF
(the flag is -Dtelemetry=OFF, default ON), FindOpenTelemetry.cmake and the
xrpl_telemetry target (neither exists), Promtail and a StatsD exporter in the
pipeline (neither exists), and Loki stream selection on job= (only
service_name is a stream label).
Phase 9 is marked complete, its provisioned alerting is attributed to the
branch that shipped it, and Phase 11 stays at zero except the one prerequisite
its code closes. Counts are reconciled repo-wide: 41 emitted span families,
15 dashboards on disk with 14 asserted, 13 alert rules in 5 groups.
Hardens the gate that let this drift through: Rule E of the naming check now
covers the reference docs, its allow-dotted marker is key-scoped and warns on
stale or empty use, a missing checked file is reported instead of silently
skipped, the test suite runs in CI, and doc paths trigger the check.
C++ and CMake changes are comment-only: three MetricsRegistry instrument names,
eight OTelCollector claims of a metric-name prefix that formatName never adds,
and the telemetry option's inverted default.
Drops nodestore_read_us and everything added to reach it. read_mean_us already
carries microsecond precision and separated the two sync failure modes cleanly
in live testing -- 8.8 us on a clean store against a 223 us cold-store peak --
so the distribution added no signal that changed a diagnosis.
The cost of getting it was disproportionate. NodeStoreScheduler had no path to
the metrics registry, so its production constructor grew a ServiceRegistry
parameter: a metric addition changing a production signature. That in turn
forced an edit to a pre-existing test, src/test/app/SHAMapStore_test.cpp, whose
only stake in this is that it constructs a scheduler. Worse, the scheduler is
built in Application's member initializer list, long before metricsRegistry_
exists, so the registry could not be captured once and had to be re-resolved on
every fetch -- a lookup on a path that runs millions of times per sync.
The constructor returns to taking JobQueue& alone and SHAMapStore_test.cpp
returns to the single-argument call, leaving that file differing from its
pre-change form only by the NodeStore:: to node_store:: rename it picked up from
develop.
FetchReport::elapsed stays microseconds and onFetch keeps its explicit
duration_cast to milliseconds for addLoadEvents, which takes milliseconds. That
widening was a separate fix and is what makes read latency measurable at all.
kSubMillisecondBoundaries loses its only consumer and regains [[maybe_unused]],
which is the state the commit that introduced it left it in; without the
attribute an unused constant is an error under wextra with werr.
Also removes the ledger-data-sync panel that charted the histogram and the
fetch_type and found template variables, which filtered on labels no metric
emits any more, plus the runbook and reference-doc sections and the two
instrument and view counts that named it.
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kSubMillisecondBoundaries existed but nothing used it, so per-fetch read
latency never reached Grafana -- only the coarse read_mean_us gauge did,
which cannot separate "every read took 9us" from "most took 2 and a few
took 900".
Add a nodestore_read_us histogram, register its view against the sub-
millisecond ladder rather than kMicrosecondBoundaries (whose first edge
is 100us, above the entire range a warm read occupies), and record into
it from NodeStoreScheduler::onFetch using FetchReport::elapsed, which a
previous change widened to microseconds for exactly this purpose.
The name and its labels live in a new include/xrpl/telemetry header
because the view registration (xrpld.telemetry) and the record site
(xrpld.app) sit in different levelization modules; a copy-pasted literal
would let them drift and silently drop the bucket override. Same reason
and same placement as GetObjectMetricNames.h. No new levelization edge:
xrpld.app > xrpl.telemetry already exists.
NodeStoreScheduler had no registry access, so it now takes a
ServiceRegistry and resolves the registry per call. It is constructed in
Application's initializer list, long before metricsRegistry_ is assigned
in setup() and started in startTelemetry(), so capturing a pointer at
construction would capture nullptr forever; the metric macros null-check
the registry, the meter and the instrument, so early fetches are simply
not recorded.
Labels are fetch_type and found, both already carried on the report --
4 series, fixed at compile time. A slow async read delays prefetch while
a slow sync read blocks a caller, and a miss can cost a read of every
backend, so neither dimension can be collapsed.
Negative elapsed times are skipped: the SDK rejects them and logs a
warning on every call, which on a per-fetch path is a log flood. Zero is
still recorded, since a page-cache-served read genuinely rounds to it.
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Slowness on the peer object-fetch path could be observed but not
attributed. Job duration metrics carry only `job_type`, and both
`RcvGetLedger` and `RcvGetObjByHash` report as `ledgerRequest`, so a
queue-wait spike could not be traced to a handler. Nothing measured
NodeStore cost, request size, or the differential charge.
Latency now decomposes into three additive parts, each separately
measurable:
end-to-end = queue wait + NodeStore lookup + everything else
- `handler` label on job_queued_total/_started_total/_finished_total and
job_queued_us/job_running_us. The value is sanitised: a name passes
through only if non-empty and all ASCII letters, else "other". Two job
names embed a ledger sequence, so a raw label would mint one series
per ledger; the rule bounds the domain at 43 names plus "other".
- getobject_lookup_us, _request_objects, _lookups_total{result},
_rejected_total{reason} and _charge, recorded at their call sites.
All three histograms get explicit bucket views: the SDK default stops
at 10,000, which every one of them exceeds.
- Per-job-type waiting/running/deferred gauges for the 35 non-special
job types. `deferred` is the leading indicator, since addJob never
rejects -- it defers, so backpressure otherwise shows up only as
latency after the fact.
`JobQueue::collect()` snapshots the counters under the queue lock and
publishes gauges after releasing it. Writing them while holding the lock
would invert a lock order against the collector's own lock, which the
collector's flush thread already holds when it calls this hook.
Tests assert exact values, including that the charge is priced on the
requested count rather than the capped iteration count.
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Add shared current_ledger_seq / current_ledger_hash span attributes so a
transaction's work can be joined to the ledger trace that produced it, and
fix discrepancy D1 (txq.enqueue was a detached trace root).
- Define current_ledger_seq / current_ledger_hash once in SpanNames.h and
re-export via `using` from TxQ/TxApply/Tx span-name headers. These name the
ledger being worked on (open/tentative apply or in-flight consensus build),
distinct from ledger_seq (the built/validated ledger on ledger.build /
consensus.round). Named after the RPC field ledger_current_index.
- txq.enqueue: set current_ledger_seq/hash from the view, and parent the span
to the caller's tx.process span via an explicit captured SpanContext (new
trailing TxQ::apply param) instead of a detached root. The parent is
explicit, not ambient-inherited, and the ScopedSpanGuard scope is RAII-bound
to the synchronous apply, so it cannot leak onto a reused worker (D1 fix).
On the open-ledger rebuild path no tx.process context exists, so it stays a
root and the attribute provides the correlation.
- tx.preclaim / tx.transactor: set both attributes from their ledger view.
tx.preflight is stateless (no view) and is the documented exception.
- tx.process / tx.receive: set current_ledger_seq from the current open ledger
index at submit/receive time (no hash: not yet applied to a ledger).
- Contract test pins the two new attribute key strings.
Neither key is a spanmetrics dimension, so there is no metric-cardinality
impact. Dashboards/collector/docs land on the later phases per the chain split.
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M1: ~PendingTraceId now increments a process-wide atomic counter when a
pinned deterministic trace_id is destroyed unconsumed, so the silent drop
stays observable in release builds where the existing XRPL_ASSERT is a
no-op. Exposed via unconsumedDeterministicIdDrops() for a future metric.
The deterministic trace_id bytes, the GenerateTraceId() consume logic, and
the unconditional reset() are all unchanged.
M2: tighten the Doxygen on SpanGuard::childSpan(std::string_view) to state
it parents to the current ambient context of this store (meaningful only
when a scope/ScopedSpanGuard/ScopedActivation is active) and to point
callers at childSpan(name, ctx) for explicit cross-store parenting.
Doc-only; no behavior change.
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Brings coroutine-aware context storage + tx/consensus worker-body activation.
Resolved: Telemetry.cpp keeps both meterProvider_ (phase-7) and contextStorage_
(coro-aware); doc-09 keeps phase-7 structure and applies the pathfind.request →
rpc.command.<name> correction to phase-7's own PathFind section.
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Brings coroutine-aware context storage, scoped rpc.command, coro-store-swap
tests, and the scoped pathfind.request forward.
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Brings coroutine-aware OTel context storage forward: CoroAwareContextStorage,
its install in Telemetry, ScopedSpanGuard same-store assertion, and the
non-owning ScopedActivation helper.
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Add SpanGuard::activate() returning a ScopedActivation RAII helper that
activates an already-owned span (from a thread-free SpanGuard) as the
current context WITHOUT taking ownership. The activation pushes the span
onto the current LocalValue context store on construction and pops it on
destruction; it never ends the span (its owning SpanGuard does).
This lets a job-handoff span be made ambient for the duration of a
synchronous, non-yielding worker body so log lines there carry the
span's trace_id. Non-copyable and non-movable, mirroring ScopedSpanGuard.
owner is captured after the Scope push via declaration-order member
initialization (scope declared before owner), matching the A3
capture-after-materialization invariant. A #else no-op stub keeps the
API zero-overhead when telemetry is compiled out.
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Coroutine-aware storage lets a scope resume on another worker within the same
coroutine store; store-identity is the correct pop-safety invariant. Same-store
equals same-thread for synchronous code, so no safety is lost.
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Backs the OTel active-context stack with xrpl::LocalValue so the ambient
context follows a JobQueue::Coro across yield/resume. Not yet installed.
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