The two log-correlation checks have never executed in CI: the workflow
hardcoded --skip-loki, so validate_telemetry.py never constructed
log.trace_id_present or log.trace_id_cross_reference. A green Telemetry
Validation therefore carried no evidence that a log line reaches Loki with
trace context. Drop the flag so both checks run and can fail the job.
Correlation spans four independent legs and a failed check names none of
them, so run-full-validation.sh now prints a per-leg diagnostic after the
suite whenever the checks are enabled:
node per-node debug.log line count, the count matching the injected
trace_id/span_id shape, one sample line, and the severity mix,
so "no log at all", "log level too high" and "no active sampled
span" are distinguishable
mount the container-side listing of /var/log/xrpld, taken with the
collector's own mounts and uid. That image is built from
scratch and carries no shell, so the listing runs in a
throwaway container with --volumes-from, not via docker exec
collector the receiver's watched files, logs-pipeline warnings, and the
internal log-record counters, read from inside the container's
network namespace because that endpoint binds to the
container's own localhost and its port is not published
loki the exact query used, the label inventory, and entry counts for
the stream selector with and without the line filter, so "Loki
has nothing" and "Loki has lines but none carry a trace id" are
distinguishable
The diagnostics are non-fatal by construction: every leg runs in its own
subshell with errexit off, each docker and curl call is guarded, and the
coordinator always returns success. Verified with no containers and no Loki
reachable, with an emptied PATH, and with a leg forced to exit non-zero.
validate_telemetry.py gains a matching diagnostic beside the checks,
following _log_prometheus_metric_names: warnings only, never a check
result. Its stream selector and line filter move into module constants
that the shell diagnostic reads back, so the two cannot drift into
describing different queries.
No check was widened or auto-passed, and LOG_QUERY_WINDOW_SECONDS stays at
four hours; a wider window would let a check pass on a previous run's logs.
validate_metrics and validate_spans only ever run one direction: read the
contract, ask the backend whether each listed name exists. Nothing looked the
other way, so a metric family or span name the contract omitted was invisible
by construction. Both emitted inventories were already being fetched for the
CI log and neither was compared back, which is how a 345 family metric gap and
7 unknown span names went unnoticed.
Add two reverse checks, metric.reverse_coverage and span.reverse_coverage.
Each names every emitted family the contract never mentions, sorted, one per
line, with counts in the report details.
Warn only, by design. passed is hardcoded True in a single shared builder, so
an unaccounted name cannot turn CI red: downstream branches legitimately add
telemetry an upstream contract has not seen yet, and a hard failure would
redden all of them for doing the right thing.
Bulk families are accounted for declaratively. A new top level
accounted_patterns list in expected_metrics.json holds anchored regexes with a
written reason each, covering the 105 per job type queue gauges, the 70 per job
type histogram families, the 228 overlay per category traffic families, and the
Prometheus scrape plumbing that is not xrpld telemetry. Job type shapes are
reduced structurally because every job type name lowercases to letters only;
traffic categories are enumerated instead, because they contain underscores and
a structural pattern there would swallow unrelated names. Anything outside
these shapes still surfaces.
Exporter shapes are folded before matching, so a histogram triple is accounted
for by an entry written for its base family and is never reported as three
separate gaps. Spans need no pattern list: the reverse check reuses the same
matcher the forward check uses, so a glob such as rpc.command.* covers every
command it expands to, and an optional entry still counts as known.
Also fix the diagnostic these checks feed on: both emitted lists were logged as
a single Python list repr, about 15 kB on one line for 422 families, unreadable
and impossible to compare between runs. Both now print one name per line.
_metric_check_targets now selects groups by testing that the value is an
object, rather than by excluding two key names, so a non group top level key
cannot break it. Output is byte identical: 79 metric plus 5 label checks, same
names in the same order.
_log_prometheus_metric_names exists to make name mismatches between
expected_metrics.json and actual emissions visible in CI logs, but it kept
only names matching 19 hard-coded prefixes. On the last CI run that showed
147 of 422 families, and none of the prefixes covered state_accounting_*,
node_family_*, overlay_peer_disconnects or the pathfind_* histograms, so
the coverage gap the preceding commit closes could not be seen through it
at all.
An allow-list can only ever surface names someone already thought to look
for, which is the opposite of what a discovery aid has to do, so the
filter is removed rather than extended. The whole list is a few kilobytes
of CI log. Sorted, so two runs' output can be diffed directly; the
Prometheus API promises no order.
Both checks selected on {job="xrpld"}. Loki's OTLP ingestion promotes
service.name to the label `service_name` and keeps a `job` attribute as
structured metadata, which a stream selector cannot match, so the selector
returned zero streams whatever had been ingested. The collector config and
TESTING.md already say to select on `service_name`.
Invert the cross-reference. Picking an arbitrary trace from Tempo and
expecting it in Loki fails even when correlation works, because a log line
carries a trace_id only when emitted inside a sampled span and most spans
log nothing at `warning` level. Start from a logged trace_id instead and
resolve it in Tempo, which is the invariant worth asserting, and try every
id found so one unexported trace does not fail the check.
Bound the log queries in time. Nothing here set start/end, so every query
relied on Loki's one-hour default and returned nothing when re-run later to
investigate a result.
Two defects reported against the harness, both confirmed.
The TPS field was computed with `bc` at scale=2, and bc omits the leading
zero: it prints ".25", not "0.25". A bare ".25" is not valid JSON, and this
was the normal case rather than an edge case — ledgers close every few
seconds, so ledger-advance over elapsed-seconds is well under 1 for any
realistic window. It survived earlier checks because those piped the file
through jq, which accepts the malformed form; Python's json rejects the whole
file. awk's %.2f always pads, so the field is now produced with awk. Audited
the other numeric fields at the same time: CPU average and memory peak
already used awk, and the p99, sample count and consensus mean are integers,
so TPS was the only one affected.
Separately, a failing attribute fetch was reported under the span's own check
name, which had already recorded the trace as found. That produced two
entries for one name, one passing and one failing, inflating the check total
and blaming the trace-existence check for a failure in a later network call.
The fetch now carries its own error handling and reports under
`span.attrs.<span>`, matching where its successful counterpart reports. It
moved into a helper rather than growing `validate_spans`, which was already
well over the line limit.
Two defects reported against the validation harness. Both premises were
correct, but neither suggested fix was, so the remedies differ.
Dashboard panel count: `len(dashboard["panels"])` treated Grafana row
objects as panels and skipped the panels nested inside collapsed rows, so
every dashboard was over-reported by between 1 and 10 (`log-derived-insights`
read 41 against a true 31). The check also passed unconditionally on HTTP
200, so a dashboard that renders nothing would still pass. `_leaf_panel_count`
now walks row children and the result gates the verdict. Gating on the old
top-level length, as suggested, would not have caught the case it was aimed
at: a dashboard made only of collapsed rows counts its rows and reports a
positive number while rendering nothing.
RPC latency percentiles: `LoadStats.record` appended a latency for every
outcome, including requests that never got a reply, where the value is a
time-to-failure rather than a round trip. A timeout contributed the full
receive timeout, and at the error rate a real run shows this reported p95 and
p99 of 10000 ms where the true figure was 5 ms. `record` now takes an
optional latency and the timeout path passes none. The suggestion to append
only on success was not adopted: a reply carrying `status: error` is a
completed, timely round trip whose latency is a genuine measurement, and
discarding it would throw away real data. `per_command` is now keyed off the
request counts rather than the latency map, so a command whose every request
timed out still appears in the report instead of vanishing from it, and each
entry carries a `latency_samples` count.
Fixes the review findings on this PR that belong to files it owns, plus
several defects found while verifying those fixes. Findings in files owned
by upstream branches are routed there and left untouched here.
Correctness:
- tx_submitter: advance the account sequence only on results that actually
consume one (tes*, tec*, terQUEUED). tem*/tef*/tel* never reach the
ledger, so advancing left a permanent gap that every later submit from
that account inherited. Add a re-fetch hatch so a repeated non-consuming
failure cannot livelock on the same sequence, and gate the account check
on funded-ness rather than list length.
- validate_telemetry: filter spans by name before collecting attributes, so
a per-span attribute contract can no longer be satisfied by a sibling
span; require exact name equality for non-wildcard children and glob
matching for wildcards; bounds-check every returned series instead of
only the first.
- collect_system_metrics: select xrpld by argv[0] rather than a substring
match on the whole command line, which averaged in unrelated processes
and reported their RSS as xrpld's. Count genuine 0.0 CPU readings, use a
clamped nearest-rank p99 index, and record RPC latency only on success.
- benchmark: return each verdict through a named variable instead of a
command substitution, so the pass/fail counters survive and the exit gate
can fire. Scale before dividing in the percentage math, which truncated a
1.26% impact to 1.00% and cleared a 1% threshold.
- compare_to_baseline: fall back to the absolute bound when the baseline is
not positive, so a 0 -> 500 ms jump is no longer "within bounds".
- rpc_load_generator: bound each connection to one in-flight recv(), drain
in-flight requests before closing, use a nearest-rank percentile, and
report delivery shortfall so an under-delivered run cannot pass with a 0%
error rate.
Fail loudly instead of silently:
- run-full-validation: treat a consensus timeout and a missing validated
ledger as fatal infrastructure errors, and fold the orchestrator and
benchmark exit codes into the final status. A degraded cluster previously
ran a full validation pass and reported misleading downstream failures.
- collect_system_metrics: warn per empty measurement source, emit
metrics_complete, and exit non-zero instead of substituting zeros that
pass every threshold. Require GNU date with %N rather than falling back
to a per-sample python3 fork that costs more than the threshold it is
measured against.
- benchmark: distinguish "could not measure" from "exceeded thresholds",
install a cleanup trap so a failure cannot leak nodes and ports, and
report an unusable baseline as inconclusive.
- workload_orchestrator: bound subprocess communicate() and fail the exit
gate on per-phase errors.
Also pins the workload compose images to the versions the sibling stack
already uses, hash-pins the Python dependencies, restricts the validator
config template to loopback, corrects the dashboard and metric counts in
the reference docs, drops a span from the regression gate that cannot fire
under a WebSocket-only workload, and narrows the teardown pkill pattern so
it no longer matches processes that merely mention the work directory.
Verified with a full harness run against a local five-node cluster:
158 of 158 checks passed with no regressions detected.
Strip xrpld_ prefix, lowercase beast::insight names, and replace
traces_span_metrics_ with span_ in all remaining tracked files:
alert rules, integration tests, workload validation, TESTING.md,
OpenTelemetryPlan docs, code comments, and config templates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The workload validator queried each expected metric once, immediately after
a fixed post-workload propagation wait. Several beast::insight metrics
(ledger-age and peer-finder gauges, overlay-traffic and rpc-request counters)
only populate after the node validates ledgers and sustains peer traffic,
then travel a 1s OTLP export + 15s Prometheus scrape before they are
queryable. On a slower CI runner that pipeline can settle after the wait
ends, so the single query raced and reported "0 series", failing 12 checks
that pass locally with the same config and binary.
Poll each metric on the /api/v1/series endpoint until it appears or a 45s
window (two scrape cycles) elapses. Present metrics still return on the first
query with no added delay; a genuinely-absent metric still fails after the
timeout. Makes the check robust to runner speed.
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- peer.validation.receive now asserts the shared bare ledger_hash /
full_validation keys (was the dotted xrpl.ledger.hash and validation_full);
PARITY_SPAN_ATTRS checks both on the peer span too.
- Fix a span-name drift: the per-transaction accept span is txq.accept_tx
(op::acceptTx = "accept_tx"), not txq.accept.tx — the old assertion never
matched and was silently skipped as optional.
- Drop the "intentionally dotted" notes; there is no dotted span attribute.
The Phase 10 validation harness had drifted from the code's recording surface
and the telemetry-validation CI job was failing before it could build.
CI fix (telemetry-validation.yml):
- Replace nonexistent local action ./.github/actions/print-env with the remote
XRPLF/actions/print-build-env (the build-xrpld job failed in 56s on this).
- Sync prepare-runner and upload-artifact action SHAs to the canonical workflow.
Recording-surface reconciliation (docker/telemetry/workload/):
- Migrate span attributes from dotted xrpl.<domain>.<field> to the bare/underscore
form introduced by the 2026-05-13 span-attr naming redesign (tx_hash, peer_id,
ledger_seq, consensus_mode, consensus_round, full_validation, quorum, ...).
Dotted xrpl.ledger.hash is retained only on peer.validation.receive (shared
constant), while consensus.validation.send uses bare ledger_hash.
- Fix attribute placement: tx.apply carries tx_count/tx_failed (not ledger_seq);
ledger.build carries ledger_seq/close_* (not tx_count/tx_failed).
- Replace the phantom rpc.request span with the real WS root rpc.ws_message; drop
the never-emitted duration_ms; rebuild the parent-child map accordingly.
- Add the new spans the code emits: apply-pipeline stage spans
(tx.preflight/preclaim/transactor with stage/tx_type/ter_result), txq.*,
consensus sub-spans (round/establish/update_positions/check/phase.open),
ledger.acquire, grpc.*, pathfind.*. Conditional spans are marked optional so
they are skipped (not failed) when the workload does not exercise them.
- validate_telemetry.py: service.name and Loki job label rippled -> xrpld; fix
PARITY_SPAN_ATTRS (rename the 4 real attrs, drop the 3 that are metrics not span
attrs); add optional-span handling that skips missing optional spans while still
validating attributes when present.
- expected_metrics.json: rippled_ -> xrpld_ on all beast::insight/overlay metrics,
xrpld_job_count, the 15 on-disk xrpld-* dashboard UIDs, and the real bare
spanmetrics dimension labels.
- regression-metrics.json + baseline-timings.json: rpc.request -> rpc.ws_message.
Metrics pipeline fix:
- Switch node [insight] config from server=statsd/prefix=rippled to server=otel +
/v1/metrics endpoint + prefix=xrpld across run-full-validation.sh,
xrpld-validator.cfg.template, benchmark.sh and the workload compose. The
collector has no StatsD receiver, so system metrics only reach Prometheus over
OTLP.
Synthetic load for new spans:
- Add ripple_path_find to the RPC load generator (drives pathfind.* spans).
- Add a high-TPS txq-burst workload phase to force fee escalation (drives txq.*).
All facts verified against the *SpanNames.h headers and a live xrpld node +
collector (Tempo service.name=xrpld, tx.preflight attrs [stage,ter_result,tx_type],
279 xrpld_ Prometheus metrics and zero rippled_).
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Phase 10's workload validation configs (expected_metrics.json,
regression-metrics.json, validate_telemetry.py) queried the
MetricsRegistry metrics under the rippled_ prefix, but MetricsRegistry
emits them as xrpld_ (see MetricsRegistry.cpp). On a live run the
workload validator reported every MetricsRegistry metric as missing,
masking genuine regressions.
Rename the following to xrpld_ across the workload validator,
expected-metrics manifest, and regression-metrics template:
- nodestore_state, cache_metrics, txq_metrics, load_factor_metrics,
object_count
- rpc_method_started_total / _finished_total / _errored_total /
_duration_us
- job_queued_total / _started_total / _finished_total /
_queued_duration_us_bucket / _running_duration_us_bucket
- peer_quality, server_info, validator_health, ledger_economy,
db_metrics, complete_ledgers, build_info, state_tracking,
storage_detail
- ledgers_closed_total, validations_sent_total,
validations_checked_total, state_changes_total
- validation_agreement, validation_agreements_total,
validation_missed_total
Mirrors the phase-9 fix in commit 5601615952.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Migrate validate_telemetry.py to Tempo TraceQL search API, remove
Jaeger service from workload docker-compose, update readiness checks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
