tx.receive no longer sets it, and it is no longer a spanmetrics dimension, so
the attribute tables, the span-scope list and the Prometheus label list all
named something that is not emitted. The reduce-relay suppressed_peers gauge is
a different thing and stays.
The tx.receive span is created after the duplicate check, so it carries no
suppressed attribute and a dropped copy produces no span at all. How many were
dropped is the transactions_duplicate traffic category.
MetricsRegistry did two jobs. It owned the OTel metrics pipeline, and it
registered the observable gauges whose callbacks read live application
services. The second job is what made the whole class xrpld-tier, so the
pipeline's lifecycle -- the recording() gate and the stop() teardown that
closes a use-after-free window -- could not be unit-tested in xrpl_tests.
Split it in two:
- xrpl::telemetry::MetricsRegistry (libxrpl) owns the exporter, provider,
meter, the 16 synchronous instruments, recording(), stop(), and the
record*/increment* methods.
- xrpl::telemetry::AppMetricGauges (xrpld) owns the 19 observable gauges
and their callbacks, holding a reference to the core and to the
ServiceRegistry.
MetricMacros.h and ValidationTracker move with the core. The macros need
only recording() and meter(), both core members; the core holds a tracker
by value, and a libxrpl header cannot include one from src/.
ApplicationImp owns both objects and sequences them. The core is built in
the member-init list, so every synchronous instrument exists before any
subsystem can record one. The gauges are armed once overlay_ exists, the
last service their callbacks read. Shutdown detaches the gauge callbacks
before the core drops the provider, and each shutdown step is isolated so
a failure in one cannot skip the others.
That detach call is new. detachCallbacks() had no callers, and the flag it
sets is read by the gauge callbacks but can no longer be written by the
core, so the caller now has to make the ordering explicit.
The telemetry module links xrpl.libxrpl.core and xrpl.libxrpl.protocol
PUBLIC: ValidationTracker.h takes a LedgerIndex and MetricMacros.h takes a
ServiceRegistry, both in interfaces a consumer compiles against.
Adds a MetricsRegistry gtest that drives an enabled core with telemetry on
and pins the recording() gate, stop() leaving the registry inert, and
stop() being idempotent. The libxrpl test tree no longer depends on
xrpld.telemetry at all, and the two CMake workarounds that compiled xrpld
sources into xrpl_tests are gone.
Documentation and dashboard source links follow the code to their new
paths, split between the two classes by which one now defines each metric.
The three tracker files conflicted because both sides had rewritten them. Took
the incoming lock-free class, then put this branch's two monotonic accessors
back on top of it: totalAgreementsEver() and totalMissedEver(), backed by a
gross pair incremented at first classification and left alone by the repair
branch. MetricsRegistry reads both, so dropping them would not compile.
The test file kept the incoming suite, which renames every case, and gained
this branch's two gross-counter cases adapted to the injected clock.
Addresses the open review findings on this branch.
The log root was never delivered at all. Docker creates a missing bind-mount
source as root, Config::getDebugLogFile() only warns when it cannot create the
network subdirectory inside it, and Application carries on. The node therefore
looked healthy while writing no debug.log, and Loki stayed empty with no error
at any layer. docker/telemetry/data/logs has in fact been root-owned in a
working checkout since it was first created. A one-shot xrpld-logdir-init
service now creates the directory and hands it to XRPLD_UID/XRPLD_GID,
following the pattern the storage-init service already uses.
Ingested logs carried no node identity, so a multi-node stack collapsed into
one indistinguishable stream while every dashboard filters on
service_instance_id. The receiver now sets include_file_path and lifts the
per-node directory onto the resource attribute service.instance.id, which is
on the allow-list Loki promotes to an indexed stream label. A record attribute
would only become structured metadata and could not be used in a selector.
For that to join anything the directory name has to equal the emitter's
service_instance_id, so the node directories are renamed to match: node$i
becomes Node-$i, and the standalone config writes to logs/xrpld-standalone.
The integration test aborted before reporting. Under set -o pipefail the
grep | head -1 pipeline is killed by SIGPIPE once the log exceeds the pipe
buffer, so the run exited 141 somewhere past a few hundred matching lines and
read as a flaky test. grep -m1 stops on its own. The test also verified the
local file and Tempo but never that a line reached Loki, which is the one hop
this branch adds, so a bounded Loki assertion is added alongside a readiness
wait.
Documentation fixes: the Tempo cross-check counted .data, but Tempo returns
OTLP shape so the array is batches and one trace can span several; the Loki
step used the instant /query endpoint, which rejects a bare log selector with
HTTP 400 and a text/plain body, so jq could never parse it and the step never
printed a number even when ingestion worked. The filelog comment claimed six
fractional digits where the node always emits nine. The two flowcharts used
<br/>, carried no legend, and advertised GetSpan(), which Log.cpp deliberately
avoids in favour of reading the thread-local context directly.
Finally, rename the deprecated collector component names: the pinned
collector warns on every start that otlphttp and filelog are aliases for
otlp_http and file_log. Alloy's otelcol.exporter.otlphttp and
otelcol.receiver.filelog are that product's own component names and are not
deprecated, so they are left alone.
Every citation below was checked against the file it names:
- LedgerMaster.cpp:463 is fixIndex, not the ledger.store span; that guard is at
:470 and the insert it wraps at :476
- LedgerMaster.cpp:987 is the tvc assignment, which sits BEFORE the tvc < minVal
return at :988; the ledger.validate span opens at :1003
- ServerHandler.cpp:705 is inside makeJsonError; processRequest is at :718
- docker-compose.yml:71 and :75 are comments in the collector's volume block;
the loki service is at :112 and its config command at :116
Two claims were also wrong rather than merely stale. Log-trace correlation is
gated in CI, because the workflow passes no --skip-loki, and the separate check
in integration-test.sh is run by no workflow at all. The Loki label note
described the Grafana Cloud collector config rather than the local one: only the
cloud variant sets job=xrpld, and the local config's own comment says to select
on service_name. The dashboards carry 35 Loki queries, not 38.
One conflict, in docs/telemetry-runbook.md: both sides had independently
corrected the same consensus_round_id example. This branch kept the pipe form,
which Tempo rejects as a parse error; upstream moved the predicate inside the
braces, which parses and returns data. Upstream's query is kept, with this
branch's note that the value is the previous ledger sequence plus one.
The plan doc offered `"attribute"` as the alternative to `"deterministic"`
for consensus_trace_strategy. The parser accepts `"random"`; "attribute"
described the correlation mechanism rather than the setting's value. Note
also that the alternative is experimental and not used.
One conflict, in 06-implementation-phases.md: this branch had rewritten the
phase-4 task table with a Status column, a descoping note and a Spans Produced
section, while upstream corrected the class name in the old plain table. This
branch's section is kept and the name correction re-applied to its 4.1 row.
One conflict, in SpanGuard.h: this branch added struct TraceBytes and upstream
added enum SpanRole at the same position after TraceCategory. Unrelated
declarations, so both are kept.
Review feedback on the plan documents. Four kinds of error:
- Symbols that do not exist: ConsensusProposal::prevLedger_ (it is
previousLedger_), RCLConsensusAdaptor (it is RCLConsensus::Adaptor, and
startRound() is on RCLConsensus itself), and RPCHandler::doCommand (a free
function, xrpl::rpc::doCommand).
- Attribute keys: the tables used ledger_index, which no telemetry code emits.
Same concept as ledger_seq but a different referent, so the code disambiguates
by prefix: current_ledger_seq for the open ledger a transaction targeted,
ledger_seq for a closed or validated one. A note now states which is which.
- TraceQL that does not parse: span-field predicates need braces, status.code
is not an intrinsic (status = error), and avg(duration) does not take a by
clause (avg_over_time does). All five re-tested against Tempo.
- The StatsD comparison omitted the Histogram instrument, which aggregates at
the point of measure, and the when-to-use table had no row for a metric that
spans cannot afford to carry.
The runbook span table, the phase-4 task list and the data reference all
conflicted: this branch had already expanded them with the open-phase,
avalanche and proposal-prefix attributes. Keep this branch's tables and
apply the close-time rename to their rows.
The close_time entry in ledger_history_mismatch_total{reason} is a metric
label value, not the span attribute, and is deliberately unchanged.
The consensus and ledger attribute tables conflicted: this branch had
already rewritten both, adding the open-phase and avalanche attributes and
correcting tx_count/tx_failed to sit on tx.apply alone. Keep this branch's
tables and apply the close-time rename to their rows, rather than taking
either side whole.
The emitted keys are close_time_ripple_epoch_s,
parent_close_time_ripple_epoch_s and close_time_self_ripple_epoch_s.
Update the consensus.accept.apply attribute tables and the close-time
attribute descriptions to match.
The native-metrics pipeline built its own OTLP/HTTP exporter and set only the
URL, so an operator who enabled TLS got mutual TLS on the trace exporter and a
plaintext-configured exporter for metrics. cfg/xrpld-example.cfg promises TLS for
"the OTLP exporter connection" with no carve-out, and two exporters exist. The
exporter now reads the same four [telemetry] TLS keys the trace exporter does.
Its resource was also thinner than the trace resource: service.name was
hardcoded, and service.version, xrpl.network.id and xrpl.network.type were
absent. Because the collector promotes resource attributes to labels, an operator
setting service_name split their fleet - spans carried the configured name while
every XRPL_METRIC_ series still said xrpld, blanking native-metric panels in
every dashboard that filters on it. All four now come from config, and
xrpl.network.type is derived inside from network_id through the shared
networkTypeFromId so a caller cannot supply a mismatched pair.
start() and initExporterAndProvider() take a StartOptions aggregate rather than
growing to eleven positional parameters, seven of them same-typed strings where a
swap would compile silently and stamp the wrong label - the defect class this
change exists to remove. It is constructed at one production site, so replacing
it with Telemetry::Setup once that is exposed stays a single-site edit.
service.version, service.instance.id and xrpl.node.id are stamped only when
non-empty, keeping this pipeline's existing behaviour of omitting an attribute
rather than writing it blank.
Also corrects three plan-doc references that cited line numbers rather than
symbols; the reader line moved and the numbers differ per branch.
Addresses review findings on the native-metrics work.
StatsDCollector::onTimer drained the send buffer inside the polling_ gate. That
gate holds back hook handlers until the application's services are built, but
sendBuffers() is socket I/O. StatsDEventImpl derives only from EventImpl, so it
never enters metrics_ and posts straight to the buffer; its |ms timings piled up
before onCollectionReady and were dropped after onCollectionStopping. The drain
now runs every tick, and outside metricsLock_, so onCollectionStopping no longer
waits on a UDP flush.
TelemetryImpl's constructor left meterProvider_ set when initMetrics() threw.
initMetrics publishes globally as its last step, so a throw left getMeter()
callers holding a provider nothing else could reach. Reset it in the catch.
~ApplicationImp caught only std::exception around telemetry shutdown while the
callees reach third-party SDK code, so a foreign exception would have terminated
the process. Added a logging catch-all.
ValidationTracker's hard trim evicted by unordered_map bucket order. It now
evicts oldest-first, so the entry dropped under pressure is the one least likely
to still reconcile.
The GetMeter test restored the global meter provider only on the success path,
and ASSERT_TRUE early-returns past it. Uses xrpl::ScopeExit instead.
The hook debounce window is a named constant rather than a bare 500 in a
comparison, and the metric export cadence becomes operator-configurable through
metric_export_interval_ms and metric_export_timeout_ms. Both are range-checked:
the SDK warns and silently substitutes its own 60s/30s defaults when the timeout
is not below the interval, so an unchecked value would slow export rather than
speed it up. Parsing uses a signed representation because lexical_cast<uint32_t>
accepts a leading minus and wraps it.
Naming corrections: CollectorManager documented exported_instance, which no OTel
dashboard uses; node-health queried job_count where the exported name is
jobq_job_count; network-traffic and overlay-traffic-detail referenced an
undeclared DS_PROMETHEUS variable; the counter table omitted the _total suffix
the Prometheus exporter appends; the plan docs and task list carried an xrpld_
prefix formatName never applies; and OTelCollector::New()'s contract promised its
instanceId, serviceName and networkType arguments were read, contradicting the
definition that marks them unused.
Telemetry.cpp conflicted. Phase-9 rewrote the metrics pipeline into
makeTracerResource()/makeMetricsResource()/initMetrics() further down the
class, so its side of the region is empty and phase-8's private helper
block does not apply. Resolved to phase-9's structure; phase-8's own
hunks outside the region (the deleted kTracesPath/kMetricsPath, the
verbatim traces URL, the two-endpoint startup log) merged in.
Phase-9's initMetrics() still derives the metrics URL by suffix-swap.
That is fixed in the next commit, not here.
One [telemetry] key served both OTLP signals, and the metrics URL was
derived from it by suffix-swap: strip a trailing slash, strip a known
signal path if present, append the wanted one. Anything not ending
/v1/traces therefore posted metrics to the traces path, and the OTLP
version was pinned in code where an operator could not reach it.
Adds metrics_endpoint alongside traces_endpoint. Both are full URLs used
verbatim, so traces and metrics can go to different collectors, or to one
whose OTLP paths are not the defaults. signalEndpoint(), kTracesPath and
kMetricsPath are gone; nothing derives an endpoint from another.
The startup log names both URLs, since with two independent endpoints
there was otherwise no way to see where metrics were going.
Also drops exporter=otlp_http from the shipped config and the test
fixture. No branch in the chain reads an `exporter` key: it was a real
Setup member in the first phase-1b implementation, removed when only
OTLP/HTTP was wired up, and already deleted from TESTING.md once on the
same grounds.
Four conflicts. None was a take-a-side.
xrpld-telemetry.cfg: dropped the incoming [insight] block. This branch already
has one, and duplicate ini sections do not replace each other -- parseIniFile
appends onto the same section, so keys merge last-wins and the effective config
is one that appears nowhere in the file.
src/tests/libxrpl/CMakeLists.txt: kept this branch's else() branch, which
compiles MetricsRegistry.cpp for the telemetry-off build, and dropped only the
ValidationTracker target_sources inside if(telemetry). Upstream relocated that
one out of the guard, so keeping both would have compiled it twice. The
else() branch is this branch's own: the MetricsRegistry test exists only here,
and without its implementation the off build would not link.
RCLConsensus.cpp: union. The metric macros and registry come from this branch,
PropagationHelpers from upstream; all three are used.
PeerImp.cpp: MetricMacros.h stays unguarded, because all seven XRPL_METRIC_*
uses in this file are on unconditional paths and the header is what defines
them. ConsensusReceiveTracing.h takes upstream's guarded placement, and this
branch's guarded GetObjectMetricNames.h is kept beside it.
formatName() never reads prefix, so setting it here does nothing and the
exported names are bare and lowercase. Leaving it invites queries written
against xrpld_jobq_job_count, which match no series.
The StatsD examples keep it, because that path does apply it to the name.
Conflict resolutions:
- docker/telemetry/xrpld-telemetry.cfg: relocation conflict. phase-9 had
already moved [insight] to the end of the file with server=otel, so the
incoming block was dropped rather than inserted. Keeping both would have
produced two [insight] sections, which merge last-wins into a single
effective section, silently reviving the bug this branch just fixed.
phase-9's per-branch service_instance_id=xrpld-devnet is preserved.
- OpenTelemetryPlan/06-implementation-phases.md: kept both corrections.
phase-9's "Tempo" is right (no Jaeger anywhere in the stack) and
phase-8's "active, sampled span" is right: Log.cpp:328 injects only
when spanCtx.IsValid() && spanCtx.IsSampled().
- OpenTelemetryPlan/09-data-collection-reference.md and
docs/telemetry-runbook.md: kept phase-9's structured-metadata LogQL.
The collector's filelog regex_parser already extracts partition,
severity, trace_id and span_id, so phase-8's inline regexp forms are
redundant, and a line filter matches the literal text in a message body.
Six findings from the review of #6494 survived independent verification.
Each was checked against the branch tip, and where behaviour was in
question, against a live collector and Loki rather than from the
reviewer's claim or from documentation alone.
Plan-doc section numbering. 06-implementation-phases.md used "## 6.9"
twice: for the new Phase 8 section and for the pre-existing Risk
Assessment. Three references already pointed at 6.8.1 and none at 6.9,
and the later phases are numbered 6.8.2 through 6.8.4, so Phase 8
becomes 6.8.1 and the sequence is monotonic. Renumbering to 6.10, as
suggested on the PR, would have collided with Success Metrics.
filelog read position. The receiver relied on the upstream default
start_at=end, which skips everything a node wrote before the first poll
and reads nothing at all from a log that has stopped being written to.
Read from the beginning instead, paired with a file_storage extension so
a restart resumes at the last offset rather than re-ingesting the file.
The collector image runs as 10001:10001 and ships no writable directory,
and a fresh named volume is root-owned, so a one-shot init service
prepares the volume first. It reuses an image the stack already pulls,
adding no new dependency.
Loki log stream label. The job resource attribute did not become a Loki
index label, so the documented {job="xrpld"} queries matched nothing.
Verified against grafana/loki:3.4.2 with its default config: only
service_name and deployment_environment are indexed, and job arrives as
structured metadata, which a stream selector cannot match. Dropped the
attribute and moved the twelve queries this branch introduced to
{service_name="xrpld"}. Three further occurrences in
07-observability-backends.md originate on the phase-1a branch and are
left for a commit there.
Trace ids on unsampled spans. Logs::format emitted trace_id and span_id
whenever the span context was valid. A span dropped by the
ParentBasedSampler still carries its parent's ids, so log lines
advertised traces that were never exported and the log-to-trace link
resolved to nothing. Require the sampled flag as well, and correct the
task list and the documentation that promised the fields unconditionally.
The remaining two findings were refuted. The reported risk of signing
material reaching Loki does not hold: Logs::format already scrubs seven
sensitive fields, and there is a single write path to the log file, so
every JLOG site is covered. The suggestion to add internalLink to the
Loki derived field is not applicable, because that key is not part of
Grafana's schema.
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.
The Phase 7 section existed twice in this file; the copies disagreed on this
one label. Consolidating on the single copy kept the older wording, but Jaeger
was removed from the project earlier in this chain, so Tempo is the only trace
backend the diagram should name.
These changes were developed on the phase-10 branch but belong to content this
branch and its upstreams introduced. Carrying them on phase-10 made its PR diff
report churn in files phase-10 does not own, and left each PR claiming a scope
that did not match its contents.
Moved here from phase-10 (identical content, no functional change):
- Dashboards: all 14 existing boards plus the new log-derived-insights board.
- Docs: telemetry-runbook.md (minus the workload/benchmark sections, which
describe phase-10 tooling) and the new telemetry-glossary.md.
- Grafana Cloud + Alloy export path: collector config, compose override, the
two .env examples and alloy/config.alloy.
- Local stack: otel-collector-config.yaml gains sub-millisecond and
second-scale spanmetrics buckets, pins unit=ms, and promotes
close_time_correct; integration-test.sh and TESTING.md follow.
- Node configs: exported_instance -> service_instance_id in comments; the
mainnet sample now logs at warning to bound log volume.
- Metrics code: Telemetry.cpp builds the metrics pipeline in the constructor
via initMetrics() so the global MeterProvider is published before any
subsystem creates a beast::insight instrument, and the histogram view keeps
each instrument's own name instead of collapsing them under one series.
MetricsRegistry gains a last_close_time gauge and skips negative job-queue
durations. OTelCollector drops an unused accessor.
- Naming CI: xrpl_work_item joins EXTERNAL_INFRA_LABELS and Rule E accepts the
dotted perf-iac resource-attribute form. This must travel with the
dashboards and runbook that reference those labels, or the rules fail.
- Doxygen input glob no longer recurses dot-directories.
Sections describing phase-10 tooling stay on phase-10 and keep their
"Future Enhancement" / "Planned, not yet implemented" markers here; phase-10
removes those markers when it lands the tooling.
The nudb_bytes label value on the storage_detail gauge named something the
code never measured. It observes Database::getStoreSize(), which returns the
storeSz_ accumulator: the cumulative payload bytes of objects this process
handed to the NodeStore. That is not a NuDB file size. It excludes NuDB's
keys, bucket padding and log, and it resets with the process while the files
on disk do not.
The name caused two concrete errors. It invited sizing the store on disk from
a number that cannot do it, and it invited a write-amplification ratio against
node_written_bytes -- which reads the same accessor at MetricsRegistry.cpp:836,
so that ratio is a constant 1.0 and measures nothing.
The nudb_ prefix was wrong too. storeSz_ is written only by
Database::storeStats(), called from DatabaseNodeImp, DatabaseRotatingImp and
Database itself. No backend code touches it, so the value reads the same on
RocksDB. That distinguishes it from the real nudb_* family
(nudb_writers_in_flight and friends), which come from getWriteStats() and are
absent entirely on a non-NuDB backend.
stored_object_bytes says what the value is and claims nothing about the
filesystem. Docs already described the value correctly; they keep that
explanation and now also record the old name, so a query pinned to it can be
traced. Neither Backend nor Database exposes an on-disk size accessor and none
was added -- no metric reports the store's on-disk size today.
Updates the node-health panel title, description and PromQL, and the four docs
that name the label value.
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nudb_bytes was documented as a NuDB file size, one place even claiming a
filesystem stat. It observes Database::getStoreSize(), which sums the object
payloads this process has written. It excludes NuDB's keys, bucket padding and
log, and resets with the process. node_written_bytes calls the same accessor, so
the two series are equal by construction and a write-amplification ratio built
from them is a constant 1.0. Neither Backend nor Database exposes a file-size
accessor, so nothing reports on-disk size today.
The Ledger Data & Sync panel plotting node_reads_hit / node_reads_total was
titled "NuDB Cache Hit Ratio" and described as reads served from cache.
fetchHitCount_ increments whenever a fetch returned an object, whatever served
it, so the ratio is a found rate. It reads near 100% while every fetch goes to
disk, which made the cold-read failure mode look impossible. Renamed to
"NuDB Read Found Ratio" and rewrote the guidance to pair it with read latency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
