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Pratik Mankawde
ce18bb3317 Merge branch 'pratik/otel-phase10-workload-validation' into pratik/otel-sync-diagnostics
Brings in the hierarchy-check sampling fix: the check now asks Tempo for traces
containing both parent and child rather than inspecting the three newest parent
traces, so a child conditional on a state the workload rarely reaches is found
wherever it occurred. Merged clean, no conflicts, no resolution decisions.

This unblocks ledger.acquire -> ledger.acquire.txtree on this branch, which was
skipped for exactly that sampling problem and is un-skipped in the next commit.
2026-08-27 11:17:13 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
a87d772f40 fix(telemetry): find a span hierarchy where it happened, not only where it is newest
The hierarchy check searched the parent span and inspected the three newest
traces it returned. That is wrong whenever the child is conditional on a state
the workload only sometimes reaches: the parent fires constantly, so its newest
traces are the ones LEAST likely to carry a rare child. Three relationships had
been skipped as unassertable for exactly this, and in none of them was the child
missing -- each emitted traces of its own and simply was not in the three most
recent parent traces.

The check now issues a second query, a TraceQL trace-level conjunction of the
parent and child name predicates, and inspects those traces. Tempo searches its
whole retention for co-occurrence instead of leaving the answer to which traces
happen to be newest. The parent-only query is kept and still runs first, so "the
parent stopped being emitted" stays a distinct failure from "the parent is there
but the child never co-occurs" -- they mean different things to whoever reads the
report, and collapsing them would lose that.

The returned traces are still verified with _span_name_matches rather than the
query result being trusted on its own. Tempo has already guaranteed
co-occurrence, so this is redundant on the happy path; it is kept because it
keeps the glob semantics in one place and means a wrongly built query cannot
silently pass.

_traceql_name_predicate handles the wildcard contracts. TraceQL has no glob
operator, so `rpc.command.*` is sent as name=~"rpc\.command\..*" with the dots
escaped -- unescaped they would match any character in those positions, which is
the looseness _span_name_matches exists to avoid.

Two entries follow from the fix. txq.accept -> txq.accept_tx is asserted again:
its child is created inside the queued-transaction loop behind
`if (feeLevelPaid >= requiredFeeLevel)` (TxQ.cpp:1530) while the parent fires on
every close (:1499), which was the whole reason it failed. txq.enqueue ->
txq.batch_clear stays skipped but for ONE reason now instead of two -- its child
never fires at all under this workload, needing an account with a supersedable
batch, so it is purely a workload gap and needs nothing further from the
validator. The third, ledger.acquire -> ledger.acquire.txtree, lives on the
sync-diagnostics branch and is un-skipped there once this merges forward.

Written test-first, and the first test this module has had. The failing test
reproduces the exact CI message, "txq.accept_tx not found in txq.accept traces",
against a stubbed Tempo whose corpus holds the child only in a trace outside the
newest three. Three sibling tests guard the ways this could be "fixed" wrongly: an
absent child must still fail, a missing parent must still name the parent rather
than the child, and a wildcard child must be satisfied by any family member. The
stub records the queries issued, so the conjunction is asserted rather than
assumed. A stub rather than a live Tempo because the behaviour under test is which
traces the check ASKS FOR -- a passing query against real data proves the data
co-operated, not that the query was right.

The first run of those tests failed for the wrong reason: my stub's name-predicate
regex also matched the resource.service.name="xrpld" term every query carries and
so demanded a span literally named "xrpld". Fixed in the stub, with the lookbehind
commented as load-bearing, before touching production code.

Verification: 4/4 tests pass, and the failing one was watched failing first with
the production message; the issued queries were printed and confirmed to contain
the conjunction; validate_telemetry.py compiles; expected_spans.json parses;
21 relationships, 16 asserted and 5 skipped; counters still 41 span types;
otel-naming exits 0. Three unrelated files in this worktree are another party's
live work and were deliberately left unstaged.
2026-08-27 11:16:28 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
8521b96d85 fix(telemetry): stop an incomplete capture becoming the committed baseline
The regression baseline is bootstrapped by copying a CI artifact. The workflow
tested only that timings.json existed, then printed it verbatim under a heading
inviting the reader to paste it in as the new baseline.

capture_timings.py writes that file and only then enforces --min-capture-ratio,
so an incomplete capture leaves a file that exists but covers fewer keys than
the contract declares. The verdict lived in CAPTURE_EXIT, a shell variable local
to run-full-validation.sh that no other program could read. So on a placeholder
baseline plus a thin capture, CI offered an incomplete artifact as the next
baseline, and pasting it narrowed the gate with nothing reporting that it had.
That is the failure shape this harness keeps producing: a degraded result that
looks exactly like a good one.

The artifact now carries its own completeness, next to metrics:

  "capture": { "declared": 20, "captured": 20, "min_ratio": 0.5, "complete": true }

complete is the same condition the producer exits 0 on, computed once with the
exit code read off it, so the flag and the status cannot drift apart. Any
consumer can now tell a complete capture from a thin one, not just CI.

Both paste-me paths refuse rather than warn: the workflow prints the counts and
an error annotation with no JSON, and the comparator explains on stderr while
leaving stdout empty, so a redirect cannot produce a plausible-looking file. A
warning above a copyable block is still a copyable block, and a reader who has
just hit a red gate is already predisposed to re-baseline. A missing capture
block fails closed.

Refusal is scoped to bootstrapping a baseline, not to comparing against one, so
artifacts captured before this change still replay: verified against the run the
current baseline came from, which carries no capture block and still reports 0
regressions. An injected regression is still caught, and the gated surface is
unchanged at 20 keys with 5 excluded.
2026-08-27 09:52:48 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
1f8b69a3f0 fix(telemetry): skip the tx-tree acquire hierarchy, which the tx set being present hides
Asserting all three ledger.acquire phase parentings treated them as equally
conditional. They are not. Run 33002568549 failed on
ledger.acquire -> ledger.acquire.txtree -- "ledger.acquire.txtree not found in
ledger.acquire traces", the single failure in 279 checks -- while header and
astree passed. Skipped rather than left red.

Not a missing span: txtree reports 5 traces of its own on that same run, one per
node. InboundLedger.cpp opens each phase only when that piece is still needed:
header on !haveHeader_ (:672), astree in the else of haveState_ (:689), txtree in
the else of haveTransactions_ (:698). A node acquiring a ledger here almost always
lacks the account-state tree, so astree opens on essentially every acquire and its
assertion holds. But it usually already HOLDS the transaction set, because every
node sees the same relayed transactions and builds the same set, so
haveTransactions_ is true and no txtree phase opens at all. It fires only on the
minority of acquires where the set was genuinely missing, and with
_validate_parent_child sampling the 3 newest parent traces
(validate_telemetry.py:803) those are not the ones sampled.

This is the third entry skipped for one underlying cause, after
txq.accept -> txq.accept_tx and txq.enqueue -> txq.batch_clear: a child that is
conditional on a state the harness rarely reaches, met by newest-N sampling of the
parent. Preferring parent traces that CONTAIN the child would retire all three at
once, and that is now the highest-value change left in this harness -- recorded in
each of the three reasons so whoever picks it up finds the whole set.

The rest of the run supports the other changes. Both rpc.command.* hierarchies
un-skipped in a215ab7bb1 PASSED, confirming their old reasons really did describe
deleted code. All four intended skips reported SKIP. astree and header PASSED. The
regression gate is clean at 0 regressions.

Verification: JSON parses; 24 relationships, 17 asserted and 7 skipped; 0 spans
declaring a parent without an entry; counters still 48 span types; churn 3/1;
otel-naming exits 0. Hooks run via the commit hook, not a manual pre-commit run --
a manual run during the previous merge cleared MERGE_HEAD.
2026-08-27 09:37:53 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
f2cc740c42 Merge branch 'pratik/otel-phase10-workload-validation' into pratik/otel-sync-diagnostics
Brings phase-10 up to 6d17df083f: the txq accept-pass hierarchy skipped as
unassertable by newest-N sampling, the two rpc.command.* hierarchies un-skipped
after their reasons turned out to describe deleted code, and the three parentings
that were declared on span entries but missing from the relationship list.

One conflict, in parent_child_relationships, and it was an append-both: this
branch added the three ledger.acquire phase parentings, phase-10 added the two
pathfind ones. Union, nothing chosen over anything. Both sides' substance verified
present by name afterwards rather than assumed, along with this branch's Task 3
work: ledger.serve still optional and peer.dial still down to remote_endpoint.

Net on this branch: 24 relationships, 18 asserted, 6 skipped, and zero spans
declaring a parent without an entry.

Committed with --no-verify, deliberately. A manual `pre-commit run` during the
first attempt at this merge stashed and restored the unstaged files, which cleared
MERGE_HEAD -- the documented trap where the follow-up commit silently becomes a
single-parent commit and loses the merge. That attempt was reset to the pre-merge
tip and redone without the manual hook run. The hooks were not skipped in
substance: prettier, trailing-whitespace and cspell all passed on this exact file
content during the first attempt, and before committing here I re-confirmed the
JSON parses, the counters match, no conflict markers exist repo-wide, and no
unmerged index entries remain.

That same stash/restore had also swept another party's InboundLedger.cpp into the
index; it was unstaged again before redoing the merge, so it is not part of this
commit.
2026-08-26 19:55:45 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
6d17df083f test(telemetry): account for every declared span parenting
Each span entry documents its parent, and a separate list holds the pairs the
validator actually checks. Three parentings were declared on the span entries and
absent from that list entirely, so they were neither asserted nor recorded as
unassertable -- silently missing rather than deliberately skipped. All three are
now listed, skipped, each with the reason that actually applies. Every span
declaring a parent now has an entry: the count went from 3 unaccounted to 0.

txq.enqueue -> txq.batch_clear is conditional and narrowly so. The child is
created in TxQ::tryClearAccountQueueUpThruTx (TxQ.cpp:550), which needs one
account holding several queued transactions AND an arriving transaction that
supersedes the batch. txq-burst produces queueing but arranges no such shape, and
it has never been observed on a run. It would also meet the sampling limit that
forced the txq.accept_tx skip, so fixing the sampling addresses both at once.

rpc.command.* -> pathfind.request is the one skip caused by a wildcard PARENT
rather than by a missing span, and the asymmetry is worth recording:
_validate_parent_child inserts the parent name literally into its Tempo query
(:801), so a wildcard parent matches nothing, while the CHILD side globs through
_span_name_matches (:826-828). That is exactly why rpc.ws_message ->
rpc.command.* can be asserted and this cannot.

pathfind.compute -> pathfind.discover has both ends absent, for the reason the
pathfind.compute entry already sets out at length: pathfinding is disabled on
every harness node because Config.cpp:725-726 zeroes pathSearchMax when a
[validation_seed] is present, and since 2026-08-25 no path-finding RPC is issued
either. Listed so the family is fully accounted for rather than partly silent.

No assertion is added or removed here -- this is accounting. The plan task that
prompted it also assumed the pathfind.compute skip reason was stale and needed
correcting; it is not, it already names both blockers and corrects an older
liquidity-based reason, so that half of the task was a defect in my plan rather
than in the file.

Verification: JSON parses; 21 relationships, 15 asserted and 6 skipped; no
duplicates; 0 spans declaring a parent without an entry, down from 3; counters
still 41 span types; otel-naming exits 0; pre-commit clean.
2026-08-26 19:48:27 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
c3e4c4244a docs(telemetry): explain why the overlay dial metrics report one fewer series
overlay_connect_total and the three overlay_dial_latency_ms series come back
with 4 series per run while sibling families such as dns_resolve_* come back
with 5, one per node. That was unexplained, so anyone reading the group had to
choose between suspecting the exporter and re-deriving the cause. It is a
topology artefact and nothing is wrong.

OverlayImpl::connect asks peerFinder().newOutboundSlot for a slot and returns
early when it gets a null one (OverlayImpl.cpp:464-470), before it constructs
the ConnectAttempt that emits both signals (:472). Every node is seeded to dial
every other node -- run-full-validation.sh:324-331 builds IPS_FIXED from all
NUM_NODES-1 peers and :373-374 writes it into [ips] -- so all five nodes do try.
In a full mesh each pair is dialled from both ends, and the node whose peer got
there first is refused an outbound slot for an address it already holds inbound:
no ConnectAttempt, so neither the counter nor the histogram. dns_resolve_*
reports 5 because reportDnsResolve fires inside the resolver handler
(OverlayImpl.cpp:603), which runs before any slot allocation.

The note also records why the four entries assert series presence rather than a
count: hard-coding 4 would bake today's mesh into the contract and break on any
cluster-size change, while gaining nothing -- and it says that fewer than 4
would be worth investigating, since that means a node did not dial at all.

Verified in code: the early return and its position relative to the
ConnectAttempt, the [ips] construction, and the resolver call site. Not verified
against a run: which node is missing on any given run, because dial ordering is
not controlled and the identity is not expected to be stable. No assertion
changed -- this commit adds documentation only.
2026-08-26 19:45:15 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
a215ab7bb1 fix(telemetry): assert the rpc.command hierarchies, whose skips described dead code
Both rpc.command.* relationships were skipped on the claim that
_validate_parent_child collapses a wildcard child to one literal name via
child_name.replace("*", "server_info"). That code does not exist. d059f21bf3
removed it on 2026-08-14 and replaced it with _span_name_matches(), which globs
through fnmatch.fnmatchcase; the check's own comment now reads "globs for
wildcard contracts". So any rpc.command.<anything> under the parent satisfies the
contract, and the command mix the sampled traces happen to carry no longer
matters -- which was the entire basis of the skip. The wildcard_probes map that
does still substitute a literal name belongs to the span-EXISTENCE check
(validate_telemetry.py:545, :554), not to the hierarchy check.

The WebSocket entry's reason went stale the day that code was deleted. The
rpc.process entry's is worse and is mine: c531ac569b rewrote that reason to fix a
different error in it -- it had claimed rpc.process cannot appear under a
WebSocket-only harness, when it appears on every run because
run-full-validation.sh polls each node over HTTP with curl -- and while fixing
that I copied the wildcard claim across from the stale WS entry without checking
it. Correcting one false statement in a note is not a licence to inherit the
next one.

Both are now asserted. Both parents emit on a normal run: rpc.ws_message is the
WebSocket root the load generator drives, and rpc.process reports 5 traces from
the curl readiness and validated-ledger polls, every one of which runs a command.

This also retires the plan's Task 5 without writing any validator code. The task
was scoped as "teach the validator to match a wildcard child"; it already does,
and had for two weeks. Checking the code before writing the feature turned a code
change into a data change.

Verification: JSON parses; 18 relationships, 15 asserted and 3 skipped, up from
13 asserted; the three remaining skips are txq.accept_tx (newest-N sampling of a
conditional child), rpc.ws_message -> rpc.process (genuinely not a code
relationship) and pathfind.compute (child never fires); counters still 41 span
types; churn 2/6; otel-naming exits 0; pre-commit clean. Whether these two hold in
a real trace is what the next run decides -- both ends emitting is necessary, not
sufficient.
2026-08-26 19:43:56 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
143abfd8f6 fix(telemetry): stop requiring what the harness cannot guarantee
Two entries in the span contract could fail on healthy behaviour.

`ledger.serve` is emitted when this node answers another node's request for
ledger data, and was mandatory. A node only answers if a peer asks, and a
`TMGetLedger` request is constructed in exactly two places --
src/xrpld/app/ledger/detail/InboundLedger.cpp and
src/xrpld/app/ledger/detail/TransactionAcquire.cpp -- whose `ledger.acquire`
and `txset.acquire` spans are both already marked optional. A mandatory check
therefore rested on an optional cause. Marked optional, with the dependency
named in the note so it is promoted together with them rather than alone.

`peer.dial` covers one outbound connect attempt and required `outcome` and
`duration_ms`. Both are set only in `reportOutcome()`
(ConnectAttempt.cpp:158-199). The teardown path sets neither on purpose: an
attempt destroyed during overlay shutdown, or one whose connect was aborted,
ends its span in `~ConnectAttempt` (ConnectAttempt.cpp:89-102), whose own
comment states that a span ending with no `outcome` is the honest record of a
dial that never concluded. Since `peer.dial` is a freshRoot, each dial is its
own trace with exactly one instance of the span, and the validator inspects
only the most recent trace -- so one newly-aborted dial fails CI while the node
is behaving correctly. `remote_endpoint` stays required; it is set at
construction on every path.

Verified: both call sites read in current code; `TMGetLedger` construction
confined to those two files; the counters recomputed -- 48 span types (matches
len(spans)) and 74 unique attributes, unchanged, because `outcome` and
`duration_ms` are still required by `txset.acquire` and the `ledger.acquire`
family. Not verified: that a run with these entries relaxed still exercises
both spans, which only a CI dispatch can show. Neither entry can now fail on
healthy behaviour, so a green run proves less than before by design.
2026-08-26 19:43:46 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
e5d7b2a4b0 fix(telemetry): skip the txq accept-pass hierarchy, which sampling cannot assert
c531ac569b asserted txq.accept -> txq.accept_tx. Run 32990348089 failed it:
"txq.accept_tx not found in txq.accept traces", the only failure in 278 checks.
Skipped rather than left red.

Not a missing span, and not an xrpld defect. Both ends emit on that same run, 5
traces each with all their attributes. The assertion was simply stronger than the
check can evaluate, and the reason is a conditional child meeting newest-N
sampling.

The parent is created once per accept pass, so every ledger close (TxQ.cpp:1499).
The child is created inside the loop over queued transactions and behind
`if (feeLevelPaid >= requiredFeeLevel)` (TxQ.cpp:1530), so it exists only for a
close where the queue actually held a transaction whose fee cleared the level.
_validate_parent_child searches the parent with limit=3
(validate_telemetry.py:803). Queue pressure comes from workload phase 5 of 7,
txq-burst, and mixed-peak (60s) then cooldown (30s) run after it -- so by the time
validation queries, the three newest txq.accept traces are quiet closes with an
empty queue and no child to find.

That is the same shape as the rpc.command.* skips already in this file: sampling
the newest traces of the parent is wrong whenever the child is conditional on load
that has since stopped. Recorded in the reason, with the two real fixes in
preference order -- prefer parent traces that contain the child via a TraceQL
child filter instead of newest-N, or move txq-burst to the final workload phase.
Raising the limit alone only shifts the odds, which would make the check flaky
rather than correct, so it is named and rejected there.

The other 13 assertions added in c531ac569b all PASS, including the three
consensus.round children, the two consensus.establish children,
rpc.http_request -> rpc.process and the three ledger.acquire phases. The
regression gate is clean at 0 regressions now that phase-10 recaptured the
baseline, and both reverse-coverage checks pass.

Verification: JSON parses; 18 relationships, 13 asserted and 5 skipped; counters
still 41 span types; churn 3/1, surgical; otel-naming exits 0; pre-commit clean.
2026-08-26 18:09:45 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
92e988c8b8 Merge branch 'pratik/otel-phase10-workload-validation' into pratik/otel-sync-diagnostics
Brings phase-10 up to c531ac569b: the workload trigger now keys on changed paths
rather than branch name, and eleven span hierarchies gained assertions.

One conflict, in parent_child_relationships, and it was an append-both: each
branch added entries to the same array, so the resolution is the union of the
two. Nothing was chosen over anything. Both sides' final object was unclosed
because the conflict boundary cut mid-entry, with the shared closing brace after
the marker -- the first attempt asserted the wrong shape and failed loudly rather
than producing malformed JSON, which is why the assertion was there.

The two sets are disjoint by design and by ownership. phase-10 added the eleven
whose spans it owns: rpc.http_request -> rpc.process, three txq parentings and
seven under consensus.round and consensus.establish. This branch added the three
ledger-acquire phase parentings, which could not go on phase-10 because
ledger.acquire.header and ledger.acquire.txtree do not exist there.

Net effect on this branch: 21 relationships declared, 17 of them asserted, up
from 8 declared and 5 asserted. The four still skipped are the two wildcard
rpc.command.* families, which the validator cannot match because it resolves a
wildcard child to a single literal probe, and pathfind.compute, whose child never
fires under this workload.

Verification: no conflict markers repo-wide, no unmerged entries, two parents;
JSON parses; 21 relationships with no duplicates and every non-wildcard child
resolving to a declared span entry; counters still 48 span types and 74 unique
attributes; otel-naming exits 0; the workflow YAML parses and no longer carries a
branches key; pre-commit clean. Two C++ files in this worktree carry another
party's uncommitted work and were deliberately left alone -- only
expected_spans.json was staged, and both remain modified after the commit.
2026-08-26 16:23:03 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
504138dd9c test(telemetry): assert all three ledger-acquire phase hierarchies
The acquire span opens three phase children -- header, account-state tree and
transaction tree -- and the contract documented all three parentings while
checking none of them. astree had an entry marked skipped; header and txtree had
no entry at all.

The skip reason was that the parent is optional, because a healthy 5-node cluster
agreeing from genesis rarely back-fills history, so the hierarchy check would
fail against a parent with no traces. Run 32969481032 refutes the premise:
ledger.acquire reported 5 traces and so did each of the three children, one per
node. The parenting was never the uncertain part -- beginPhaseSpan() parents
through the acquire span's own captured SpanContext rather than the ambient
thread context, so it holds whichever worker opens a phase.

Asserting these matters because of what the phases are for. A fresh sync is
dominated by the account-state tree, and the flat parent span cannot separate
that from the much smaller transaction tree or from the header wait that gates
both. If a phase stops nesting under the acquire it still emits, still carries
its missing-node count and its timeout flag, and nothing else in this harness
notices -- but the trace stops answering which phase the sync is stuck in, which
is the whole reason these spans exist.

Routed here rather than to phase-10 because phase-10 has no
ledger.acquire.header or ledger.acquire.txtree span at all; the phase children
were introduced on this branch.

Verification: JSON parses; 10 relationships, 6 asserted and 4 skipped, no
duplicates, every non-wildcard child resolves to a declared span entry; counters
unchanged at 48 span types and 74 unique attributes; otel-naming exits 0;
pre-commit clean. Edited by surgical text replacement -- a first attempt used a
json.dumps round-trip and reflowed the whole file, 148 insertions against 47
deletions with unrelated compact arrays expanded and unrelated notes rewritten;
that was reverted and redone, and the churn is now 11 against 3. Whether a child
is findable INSIDE the parent's fetched trace is what CI will decide.
2026-08-26 16:21:15 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
c531ac569b fix(telemetry): trigger the workload by what changed, and assert the span tree
Two problems, both about coverage this workflow claims to have and does not.

The push trigger gated on branch NAME as well as path, and GitHub ANDs the two.
Branch names are not something this repository controls, so a push to any branch
outside "pratik/otel-phase*", "feature/otel-*" or "feature/telemetry-*" was never
dispatched -- not queued, not skipped, no run to look at. That is not a
theoretical gap: two rounds of harness fixes on pratik/otel-sync-diagnostics
produced no signal at all before anyone noticed the workflow had never started.
The branches filter is removed; the paths already express the real question.

The path list was also incomplete in a way that matters more than it looks. The
span-name and metric-name headers are the wire contract this harness asserts
against by literal string, and the convention colocates each one with the class
it serves -- so eight of the ten *SpanNames.h headers live under consensus/,
overlay/, app/ledger/, app/main/, app/misc/, rpc/ and tx/, none of which was
matched. Renaming a span constant therefore compiled clean, emptied the
assertions and triggered nothing. Matched now by filename, "**/*SpanNames.h" and
"**/*MetricNames.h", so future headers are covered wherever they land. Added for
the same reason: include/xrpl/beast/insight (the interface headers decide what
the collector can publish, so they move the metric surface as surely as the
implementation), src/tests/libxrpl/telemetry (the GTests pinning those
constants), and the two checker directories that gate this surface in CI.

Second, the span hierarchy. Each span entry documents its parent, and a separate
list holds the pairs the validator actually checks in Tempo. Those had drifted
apart: 18 parentings were documented, 7 were checked. A span that stops nesting
under its parent -- which is what a detached guard does -- leaves every span and
every attribute intact, so no other check in this harness notices; the trace
simply stops being readable as one operation. Eleven pairs are added, each one
where both ends emitted on a real run: rpc.http_request -> rpc.process, the three
txq parentings, and seven consensus ones under consensus.round and
consensus.establish. Fourteen of eighteen are now asserted; the four still
skipped are the wildcard rpc.command.* families and pathfind.compute.

Three notes were also factually wrong, all repeating one mistake. They said
rpc.process and rpc.http_request cannot appear because that path is HTTP-only
while the load generator is WebSocket-only. The premise is right, the conclusion
is not: both appear on every run, five traces each, because
run-full-validation.sh polls each node's HTTP port with curl for readiness and
validated-ledger progress (:449, :502). Those polls take the HTTP path. A reader
acting on the old text would have gone looking for a way to make the harness
speak HTTP that it already speaks. The rpc.process -> rpc.command.* skip reason
inherited the same error and additionally claimed the WebSocket equivalent is
"asserted above instead", which it is not -- that one is skipped for the same
wildcard limitation. All three now state the real blocker, which is that
_validate_parent_child resolves a wildcard child to a single literal probe.

Both HTTP spans stay optional rather than being promoted: the curl polls are
harness scaffolding, not workload, and a future change to how the script waits
for a node could legitimately remove them.

Verification: JSON parses; 18 relationships, no duplicates, every non-wildcard
endpoint resolves to a declared span entry; counters still 41 span types and 62
unique attributes; workflow YAML parses, has no branches key, keeps
workflow_dispatch, and every new glob was checked against the tracked file list
with a matcher that reproduces GitHub's ** semantics; otel-naming exits 0;
pre-commit clean on both files. The eleven new assertions are proven only to the
extent that both ends emitted on run 32969481032 -- that a child is findable
INSIDE the parent's fetched trace is what CI will now decide.
2026-08-26 16:17:36 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
44fd31f7cd Merge branch 'pratik/otel-phase10-workload-validation' into pratik/otel-sync-diagnostics
Brings phase-10 up to f13524c93c, one commit: every harness failure now maps to
exit 2 and timings are captured unconditionally.

Merged clean -- git reported no conflicts, so no resolution decisions were made
here. Two incoming files, run-full-validation.sh and the runbook. No runtime C++,
no include changes, no change to either expected_*.json contract.

Relevant to this branch: the previous run failed the job through the regression
gate while the validation suite itself passed 264/264, and the failing step was
the reporter keying on the validation step's outcome rather than anything the
suite reported. A single exit code for every harness failure makes which stage
failed legible from the exit status instead of only from the log.
2026-08-26 15:51:17 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
f13524c93c fix(telemetry): map every harness failure to exit 2, and always capture timings
Two defects raised in review of PR 6519, both about the harness misreporting
its own state.

The script documents exit 2 for an infrastructure failure and routes that
through die(), but eleven commands were unguarded, so under set -euo pipefail a
failure aborted with the tool's own status instead. Measured before the fix:
docker compose exited 125, the key generator 7, a jq read 5, and several others
1 -- which the table defines as "checks failed", so an infrastructure problem
was reported as a validation result. Two of the eleven are worth naming. A
trailing option with no value (--nodes at the end of the command line) exited 1
because set -u aborted on the unset positional, now unified through one
require_value helper. And report_stopped_nodes, which runs immediately before a
die, contained an unguarded pipeline that tripped errexit, so the die never ran
and a crashed cluster reported 1 -- the script failed to report the exact
condition the contract exists for. Commands whose failure is genuinely
tolerated were left alone.

The seed read also gained a value check, because jq prints the string "null" and
exits 0 for a missing key, so testing only the exit status cannot see it.

Step 6 said it "ALWAYS captures timings (so CI always has an artifact from which
to bootstrap/refresh the committed baseline)" while the capture sat inside the
--skip-regression guard. The comment stated the intent and the code was the bug:
that artifact is the only route to a refreshed baseline, and the workflow reads
it unconditionally to print the paste-me block. Capture now always runs and only
the comparison is gated. A capture failure still surfaces, folding into the exit
code only when the gate is active, so --skip-regression cannot start failing
runs that previously passed.

Note a non-zero capture status does not mean the file is absent: capture_timings
writes it and then fails the minimum-ratio check, so the artifact exists but is
incomplete. The messages say incomplete rather than missing, so nobody goes
looking for a file that is already there.

The runbook's matching claims are corrected in the same commit: it said
--skip-regression skips the capture, and its exit-code summary predated the
uniform mapping.
2026-08-26 15:38:10 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
a4fedeceed Merge branch 'pratik/otel-phase10-workload-validation' into pratik/otel-sync-diagnostics
Brings phase-10 up to 29673de531, three commits: a Loki-diagnostic count fix with
Tempo errors made visible, a baseline recapture that stops gating keys whose
run-to-run variance dominates their bound, and WebSocket reply correlation with
silent placeholder data removed.

Merged clean -- git reported no conflicts, so no resolution decisions were made
here. The 14 incoming files are all harness and docs: six .py, three .md, three
.json, two .sh. No runtime C++ and no include-line changes.

The baseline recapture resolves the regression gate that reddened the previous
run on this branch. That run reported span.consensus.ledger_close p95 1.62ms and
p99 7.14ms against a baseline of 0.49 and 0.93; the recaptured baseline puts p95
at 0.783 with a 5ms trip point and p99 at 2.03 with a 10ms trip point, so both
readings now sit inside the gate. That matches the diagnosis recorded at the
time: everything changed between the last green gate and that failure was a .py,
a .md and a GTest file, with zero runtime C++, and p50 had improved while only
the tail moved -- variance, not a slowdown. The incoming commit reaches the same
conclusion from the other side, excluding three p50 keys after measuring spreads
of 391.8x, 20.7x and 6.1x across three runs.
2026-08-26 14:53:10 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
29673de531 fix(telemetry): correlate WebSocket replies, and stop silent placeholder data
Eight defects found in review of PR 6519. Twenty-four review threads reported
them; ten were duplicates of one another and four were wrong about the code.

The two that corrupt data. Both WebSocket clients reuse the socket after a recv
timeout, and the library queues the late reply, so the NEXT request reads the
previous response. In rpc_load_generator that misattributes latency, and the
skew is permanent rather than one-off. In tx_submitter it is worse: a submit
that reads an account_info reply freezes that account's sequence number and
every later transaction for it fails. Both now correlate replies by request id
under a single overall deadline, with a counter rather than a wall clock, since
time.time() is not monotonic and collides within a tick.

workload_orchestrator never cleared its fixed report paths, so a run that
produced no report silently adopted the previous run's totals -- breaking the
invariant evaluate_exit_gate documents. Reproduced by planting a stale total
and watching it appear in a later summary.

collect_system_metrics reported placeholders as if they were measurements. The
consensus mean used bc with a || echo 0 fallback that neither warned nor
cleared METRICS_COMPLETE, unlike every sibling path; it now uses awk, already a
hard dependency here, which removes the failure mode instead of reporting it.
Note this moves the mean from truncation to rounding, at most 1 ms on a value
of about 45 s. Unmeasurable TPS now warns and clears the flag too. All four
curl probes gained a timeout, not just the one the review named -- an
unresponsive node could hang any of them.

The orchestrator's help text claimed 18-dashboard coverage; there are 15 on
disk, 15 uids in the contract, and the profile already said 15. The
tx_submitter docstring listed twelve transaction types where ten exist, and
claimed issued-currency payments that build_payment never sends.

Two suggested patches were deliberately not taken. A recursive delete of the report
parent sits in a per-task function and would delete earlier phases' reports
mid-run, and recursively remove a caller-supplied --report-dir.

The stale microsecond axis label on ledger-data-sync is real but belongs to
phase 9, which carries a byte-identical copy of that dashboard, so fixing it
here would leave that PR wrong and guarantee a conflict.
2026-08-26 14:39:21 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
a734da8b33 test(telemetry): recapture the baseline and stop gating what variance dominates
Refreshes baselines/baseline-timings.json from run 32964262700 at 8418d474a7,
byte-identical to the CI artifact. The previous baseline was captured at
6a82fc6f37, before the path-finding load was removed from the workload, so it
described a load shape the harness no longer runs.

Every absolute bound is re-derived, because the rule is hi_next minus baseline
and the baselines moved.

Three more keys stop being gated: span.tx.apply.p50, span.ledger.build.p50 and
span.consensus.ledger_close.p50. This is the rule the previous commit recorded
being applied, not a new exception -- a key is gateable only when its
run-to-run spread fits inside its bound.

The evidence is span.tx.apply.p50, which read 0.7917 ms in the old baseline and
0.00597 ms in this one. That is a 132x move between two runs of the SAME
workload. The old value happened to land mid-distribution, so hi_next minus
baseline gave a 4.21 ms bound that absorbed the spread; the new value lands in
the ladder's first bucket, so the same rule gives 0.0440 ms and cannot survive
one. Whether the gate functioned was decided by where in the distribution the
captured run happened to fall, which is not a threshold in need of tuning.
Measured spreads across four runs agree: 364x, 25.3x and 5.9x respectively.

All five excluded keys share one shape -- a baseline landing in the ladder's
low buckets, where the derived bound is tiny, together with large run-to-run
spread. Single-run baselines cannot support them; a multi-run baseline, or a
spread measurement captured alongside the baseline, is what would let them be
gated again. Not attempted here.

Both runs that would have reddened CI now replay clean, and an injected 10x
regression is still caught on 19 of the 20 remaining keys, 20 of 20 at 20x.
The exception is job.acceptLedger.running.p95, whose baseline fell while its
hi_next did not, moving its floor to 16.28x. It stays gated with that floor
recorded beside the other weak keys.

Also makes the bounds checker report a zero or negative baseline as a named
rule failure instead of dividing by it and raising.
2026-08-26 14:38:16 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
6cb02a1b40 fix(telemetry): make the Loki diagnostic count real, and Tempo errors visible
Three defects in the harness's own instrumentation, all of the same shape: a
failure that reads as an absence.

The Loki diagnostic reported "unavailable entries" rather than a count. It
issued an unaggregated count_over_time, and because the filelog regex_parser
leaves message and timestamp as log-record attributes, Loki's OTLP path turns
those into structured metadata, which joins a metric query's label set. The
query therefore produced one series per log line and Loki answered HTTP 400,
maximum number of series reached. A second bug hid the first: the JSON helper
never checked resp.status, so Loki's own explanation arrived as a mimetype
complaint instead. Both fixed, in the Python and the shell twin, and verified
against a real loki 3.7.6 including a genuine-zero control so that zero stays
distinguishable from unavailable.

_tempo_search and _tempo_get_trace called resp.json() with no status check, so
any non-2xx became "0 traces" or "0 spans" -- the same class of bug as the
span.name tag returning 200 with an empty list. A 404 on /api/traces/<id>
legitimately means "not indexed yet", so that stays an absence and every other
non-200 now raises.

log.trace_id_cross_reference queried Tempo once, with no retry, while the
metric checks share a poll deadline for exactly this race. It now polls on the
existing METRIC_POLL_TIMEOUT_SEC/INTERVAL, so a trace that has not yet been
indexed is retried rather than reported missing. The window stays at 4 hours
and the assertion is unchanged.
2026-08-26 14:37:49 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
3d61ceae6e Merge branch 'pratik/otel-phase10-workload-validation' into pratik/otel-sync-diagnostics
Brings phase-10 up to 8418d474a7, one commit: the span reverse-coverage check
was querying the tag `span.name`, but a span's name is a TraceQL intrinsic
rather than a span-scoped attribute, so Tempo answered 200 with an empty
tagValues list and the check silently never evaluated. It now queries the bare
`name` intrinsic.

That is the same inertness the previous CI round on this branch observed from the
other end -- the run logged "Tempo span names (0 total)" while per-span TraceQL
searches each found traces and a logged trace id resolved to 100 spans. So the
incoming fix converts a check that could only ever pass into one that can
actually fail.

validate_telemetry.py auto-merged: the incoming change and this branch's are in
different regions. Verified afterwards that both survived -- the bare `name`
endpoint is in and the old `span.name` one is gone, alongside this branch's
assert_sync_diagnostics_metrics, its gather-based fan-out, and the
SKIPPED_METRIC_GROUPS exclusion inside _metric_check_targets that keeps the
sync-diagnostics group from being walked twice.

One conflict, in the runbook's validation-coverage table, and it needed both
sides rather than either. This branch's copy carries the counts recomputed from
the real contract during the previous merge (48 span types as 28 required and 20
optional, 145 metric checks across 26 categories, 16 dashboards); phase-10's copy
still carries the pre-merge figures. But phase-10's copy also corrected the
Reverse coverage row's description from the `span.name` attribute to the `name`
intrinsic, which is precisely the bug its commit fixes -- this branch's row still
described the broken query. Resolved as this branch's rows with phase-10's
Reverse coverage row substituted in. Every other cell was byte-identical between
the two sides apart from separator padding.

Verification: no conflict markers repo-wide; two parents; validate_telemetry.py
compiles; both sides' contributions asserted present by name rather than assumed;
otel-naming exits 0 including Rule E over the edited doc; levelization baseline
clean and the incoming diff changes no include lines; pre-commit clean on both
files, prettier having re-padded only the eight table rows, with the recomputed
counts and the corrected intrinsic wording confirmed present afterwards. No C++
changed, so no compile is implicated by this merge.
2026-08-26 13:36:09 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
8418d474a7 fix(telemetry): read span names from the Tempo name intrinsic
The span reverse-coverage check has never evaluated. It reported "no span
names were reported (backend unreachable or empty)" on a run where Tempo
demonstrably held data -- the same run resolved a logged trace id to 32
spans.

Root cause: the tag-values query asked for `span.name`. A span's name is a
TraceQL intrinsic, not a span-scoped attribute, so `span.name` resolves to
an attribute nothing sets. Tempo answers 200 with an empty tagValues list,
which is indistinguishable from an empty backend and never raises, so the
surrounding try/except stayed silent.

Verified against tempo 2.9.4 holding exactly one span named
probe.reverse.coverage, with the collector in front of it:

  /api/v2/search/tag/span.name/values -> {"tagValues":[]}
  /api/v2/search/tag/name/values      -> that span's name
  /api/v2/search/tag/resource.service.name/values -> xrpld

The third line is the control: the span was in Tempo, so the first line's
emptiness was the wrong tag rather than no data. Cross-checked against a
populated Tempo elsewhere, whose span scope lists real attributes
(command, ledger_seq, tx_hash) and no name tag at all, while the bare
intrinsic returns the whole span inventory.

This is pre-existing, not a regression in the reverse check: the same URL
fed the operations diagnostic before that check existed, and the last
green run before it also logged "Tempo operations (0 total)". The check
faithfully reported an empty input; the input was broken.

The neighbouring resource.service.name query is correctly scoped and is
left alone.
2026-08-26 12:37:22 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
493475a9d4 Merge branch 'pratik/otel-phase10-workload-validation' into pratik/otel-sync-diagnostics
Brings phase-10 up to 3836078a78 (74 commits). Seven conflicts, resolved
per-hunk; no side was taken wholesale.

validate_telemetry.py, four hunks. The module docstring keeps both category
lists, renumbered. _log_prometheus_metric_names takes phase-10's version: it
returns the family list that the new reverse-coverage check consumes, and
_log_name_list prints every family sorted one per line, which supersedes the
hand-maintained prefix filter this branch had been extending -- that filter
existed only to keep the log readable and listed strictly less. validate_metrics
takes phase-10's _metric_check_targets call. assert_sync_diagnostics_metrics and
phase-10's _check_metric_label both landed at the same place; both are kept.

That third hunk carried the hazard this branch had flagged in advance.
_metric_check_targets selects every group satisfying isinstance(dict) and had no
equivalent of SKIPPED_METRIC_GROUPS, because on phase-10 there was no group that
needed excluding. Merged as-is it would have walked sync_diagnostics while
assert_sync_diagnostics_metrics also walks it, polling and reporting all 61
metrics twice. The exclusion is reinstated inside that function, and its
docstring claim that the isinstance test "selects exactly the same groups the
previous name-based exclusion list did" is corrected -- true on phase-10, false
here, and the reason is ownership, which no structural test can express.

expected_metrics.json: both sides appended to metrics_excluded, so both sets are
kept, 29 entries. expected_spans.json: phase-10's fuller pathfind.compute
skip_reason replaces this branch's, and this branch's ledger.acquire ->
ledger.acquire.astree relationship is kept.

Both docs carried stale counts, and the two sides disagreed with each other --
15 dashboards against 16, and both claiming 41 span types when the contract holds
48. Rather than pick a stale side, every figure is recomputed from the resolved
contract: 48 span types as 28 required and 20 optional, 145 metric checks across
26 asserting categories as 140 names plus 5 required_labels, of which 61 are the
sync_diagnostics names, and 16 dashboards, which matches both the uid list and
the files on disk. The runbook keeps phase-10's table, which adds the reverse-
coverage row.

ConsensusSpanNames.h: both sides added different constants to namespace val;
both kept. Confirmed no identifier is redefined -- the merged file's duplicate
set is identical to this branch's, and those duplicates are distinct namespaces
(op::round against the enclosing span::round), not redefinitions.

ConsensusSpanNames.cpp was an add/add: both branches wrote this file
independently, 9 tests here and 8 on phase-10, with no name in common. All 17
are kept. The guard is dropped rather than applied to the union: SpanNames.h
documents that its constants are deliberately NOT guarded by
XRPL_ENABLE_TELEMETRY, ConsensusSpanNames.h has no guard, and the tests this
branch contributed reference ValStatus only in comments while calling
validationStatusValue with plain ints. So they compile without telemetry, and
unguarding them gains coverage in a -Dtelemetry=OFF build rather than losing it.

One defect belongs to the merge itself, appearing on neither parent. phase-10
added a job_queue_per_type_gauges group holding six jobq_<type>_running/_waiting
names; this branch declared jobq_saturation in MetricNames.h. Rule K checks a
name only when its family is owned, so declaring that constant made jobq_ owned
and turned phase-10's six entries into violations. They are beast::insight gauges
created per job type by JobTypeData's constructor, so no constant can exist for
them -- one triple per job type, minted at runtime. The group joins
NON_OTEL_METRIC_GROUPS alongside statsd_gauges for the same reason.

Verification: no conflict markers repo-wide and no unmerged index entries; both
JSON contracts parse; validate_telemetry.py compiles; every count written into
the docs re-derived from the resolved files and matching; span counters still 48
and 74; check_otel_naming.py exits 0, and Rule K proven still able to fail by
injecting a bogus name in an owned family; levelization baseline clean after
regeneration, with 17 incoming include changes; doxygen style clean across all
tracked C++ at CI scope; pre-commit --all-files clean except cargo-fmt, which
reports "Executable `cargo` not found" and touches none of the 0 Rust files here.
NOT compiled -- no approval to build, so the incoming C++ is unverified by a
compiler on this branch.
2026-08-26 12:00:25 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
394ed2cbc0 fix(telemetry): correct the sync-diagnostics harness rationales and gaps
Review of 42a72863bb found that several of the reasons it recorded were wrong,
and one of its own changes was half-applied. A wrong rationale in a contract
file is worse than none, because the next reader treats it as evidence.

The histogram parity claim falsified itself. That commit's group description
says histograms are listed by all three Prometheus series, but dns_resolve and
overlay_dial were given only _bucket and _sum. Both gain _count, so the four new
histograms now match the claim and the rpc_method_us convention. Two notes still
said the histogram is asserted "by its _bucket and _count series"; both now say
all three.

The reason given for excluding serve_refused_total was wrong. It said every node
holds the same history so getLedger()/getTxSet() succeed. PeerSetImpl::addPeers
uses hasItem(peer) only as a sort SCORE and then adds peers in score order up to
its limit, so peers that lack the item are asked anyway and would be refused.
The real reason nothing is refused is that nothing asks: an inbound TMGetLedger
originates only from the ledger.acquire and txset.acquire paths, both optional.
That ties this counter to those spans, which the note now records.

The reason for excluding peer_disconnect_total rested on the run window being
270 s, shorter than maxDivergedTime. The window is over 300 s once the 60 s
propagation wait, node startup and up to 45 s of metric polling are counted, so
that argument does not hold. The counter also sits after the socket-already-
closed early return, which only de-duplicates repeat closes, and covers 13 reason
values rather than the three cited. It stays excluded on the ground that a
healthy cluster produces no disconnect cause and a mutual-dial race can produce
one non-deterministically, which is flaky either way.

ledger_jump_total was described as unable to fire. Its counter is unconditional
and checkLastClosedLedger runs every round on every node, so a node that falls
behind can follow a chain tip it did not build on -- and the burst phases exist
to create exactly that load. Reworded as not deliberately provoked, with the
decisive test named: grep the nodes' debug.log for "JUMP last closed ledger".

The claim that the group had never asserted anything was false, and the true
history is worth keeping. The five-argument call was CORRECT when it landed on
2026-07-24: the function then took report as its fifth parameter and recorded the
result itself. phase-10 added the deadline and semaphore on 2026-08-14, updating
its own caller, and never saw this one. The merge that first contained both,
7c70e142e9, was CLEAN because the two edits sit in different regions, and it
produced a caller that no longer matches its callee. So the group asserted for
about four weeks and then broke silently at a clean merge -- a semantic conflict
git cannot see and, in Python, no compile step rejects. Recorded as
_gate_history_note, because the standing rule it implies is that a clean merge is
not evidence that a cross-branch call site still matches.

_b5_rotation_note had three defects of its own. Deleting "Two independent
reasons." left "First, ... Second, ..." dangling; it counted four signals where
there are three; and its second half still described the dynamic_cast as making
registerRotationStateGauge return early, which contradicts the correction in its
first half and would tell a reader no instrument exists. The cast and early
return are inside the observe callback; the instrument is created eagerly.

Two further corrections. The comment explaining the fix said four later phases
were lost; CI passes --skip-loki, so three are. And the claim about phase-10's
unaccounted-metric pass overstated it: it is warning-only, cannot fail CI, and
also accepts an accounted_patterns regex list.

Recorded a merge hazard where the resolver will see it. phase-10 replaces the
group flatten with _metric_check_targets, which selects every dict group and has
no equivalent of SKIPPED_METRIC_GROUPS, so resolving that merge in phase-10's
favour makes validate_metrics walk sync_diagnostics while its own validator still
does -- every metric polled and reported twice.

The runbook contradicted the CI requirement this work introduces. It carried a
"Gap: no ledger.* span carries a ledger hash" block stating the attribute is
never set by any call site and that filtering on span.ledger_hash returns
nothing, while makeLedgerTraceSpan sets it unconditionally on ledger.validate and
ledger.store and InboundLedger sets it on ledger.acquire and its three phase
children. ledger.build is the one real exception. The block, the ledger-span
attribute table and the sentence listing what init() sets are all corrected.

Verification: both JSON files parse; the four histograms each carry _bucket,
_count and _sum; 61 asserted names with no duplicates and no overlap with the 22
excluded; span counters still 48 and 74; the crash repro records 61 checks with
no TypeError; check_otel_naming.py exits 0; pre-commit passes on all three files
(prettier re-padded only the runbook table rows touched here). NOT compiled -- no
C++ changed.
2026-08-25 20:06:59 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
42a72863bb fix(telemetry): make the sync-diagnostics metric gate actually assert
The sync_diagnostics group asserted nothing. assert_sync_diagnostics_metrics
called _check_prometheus_metric with five positional arguments against a
six-parameter signature: `report` landed in `deadline` and `sem` was omitted
entirely, so the call raised TypeError before a single metric was queried.
Neither run_validation nor main catches anything, so the traceback propagated,
run-full-validation.sh recorded the non-zero exit as a validation failure, and
the four phases ordered after it -- dashboards, both parity checks and log-trace
correlation -- never ran at all. Reproduced directly: TypeError, zero checks
recorded. Even with the arity corrected the group would still have passed
silently, because _check_prometheus_metric RETURNS its CheckResult rather than
recording it and the value was discarded. Both halves are fixed by adopting the
fan-out validate_metrics already uses: one shared deadline, a concurrency
semaphore, gather, then report.add per result. The same call now records 55
checks where it previously recorded none.

With the gate live, the inventory it guards had to be made honest.

Two metrics could never have passed it. unl_fetch_total is emitted only from
ValidatorSite::reportFetchOutcome, which indexes sites_[siteIdx]; sites_ comes
from [validator_list_sites], and the harness writes a static [validators] file
with no list site anywhere, so no fetch outcome is ever reported.
handshake_negotiation_fail_total needs a rejected handshake, and no reject path
was found to be reachable between identical localhost nodes. Both move to
not_asserted.metrics_excluded, which is where the file's own description says
workload-gated names belong. Eleven further conditional metrics -- the acquire,
replay, disconnect, serve, jump and sweep counters -- were documented only
inside free-text notes; they move to the same map. That matters beyond tidiness:
_accounted_metric_names harvests metrics_excluded keys, so a name recorded only
in prose is reported as unaccounted, and a prose note cannot be linted at all.

Two metrics were wrongly excluded. rotation_state's callback gates only on
dynamic_cast<DatabaseRotating*>, and online_delete=256 is set by both the cfg
template and run-full-validation.sh, so SHAMapStoreImp builds a
DatabaseRotatingImp, the cast succeeds, and both sub-series are observed on
every collection tick. The note claiming the harness could not produce them
conflated "no rotation runs" with "no series published"; the first is true and
bounds the values, the second is false. Both are now asserted at value 0, where
absence rather than the zero is the regression, and the note is corrected.

The four new histograms listed only _bucket, or _bucket and _count. Each now
lists _sum as well, matching the rpc_method_us and job_queued_us convention, so
an exporter regression that drops one series cannot pass.

On the span side, ledger.validate and ledger.store are the two ends of the
per_ledger trace-join group, and the join is computed by hashing ledger_hash --
yet neither required it. Both spans take it unconditionally from
makeLedgerTraceSpan, so requiring it is free, and without it a lost join key
surfaces only as "spans landed in separate traces", naming the consequence
instead of the cause.

Deliberately unchanged: ledger.serve stays required and peer.dial keeps its
current required attributes, though both look unsafe -- ledger.serve can only
fire if an optional span fires first, and peer.dial's destructor exit sets
neither outcome nor duration_ms. Those weaken assertions rather than add
coverage, so they are reported rather than changed here.

Verification: TypeError reproduced before the fix and absent after, with 55
checks recorded; both JSON files parse; no name is both asserted and excluded
and none is duplicated; the declared span counters remain consistent at 48 and
74, proven by injecting an extra attribute and watching the check fail;
check_otel_naming.py exits 0, and Rule K was proven to read these entries by
injecting a bogus name in an owned family and observing exit 1; pre-commit
passes on all three files; the levelization baseline is unchanged. NOT compiled
-- no C++ changed.
2026-08-25 19:39:36 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
3836078a78 fix(telemetry): stop gating ledger.validate p95 and p99, which vary too much
The regression gate has been red on runs with no code change. Only two of
the 25 gated keys ever tripped, both on the same span and never together:
run 32862589645 failed p99 at 25.8750 ms against a 1.0600 ms baseline
(+2341%), run 32867433073 failed p95 at 0.7500 ms against 0.2404 ms
(+212%), and in each run the other quantile sat well inside its own bound.
A real slowdown would move both. This is variance, not a defect.

Measured across four CI runs:

  span.ledger.validate.p50   0.0484 to 0.0778 ms    1.6x spread   kept
  span.ledger.validate.p95   0.1281 to 0.7500 ms    5.9x spread   excluded
  span.ledger.validate.p99   0.3875 to 25.8750 ms  66.8x spread   excluded

Both excluded quantiles reach past their trip point on a healthy run. The
mechanism is arrival timing, not slow code: the span opens only once a
quorum-completing validation arrives (LedgerMaster.cpp:987, inside
checkAccept, past the early return) and wraps the promotion work that
follows, so one slow consensus round dominates the tail of a 3m rate
window and which round that is differs every run.

Widening is not available and must not be attempted later: tolerating
25.8750 ms against a 1.0600 ms baseline needs a bound of about 24.8 ms,
which gates nothing. A bound admitting every healthy run's worst case
admits every regression too. p50 stays gated; it is stable.

THE GENERAL RULE, recorded so this does not recur: an absolute bound
derived as hi_next minus baseline comes from the histogram ladder, so it
budgets for quantization noise and for nothing else. It knows nothing about
how far a metric moves between runs on identical code. Before gating any
key, check its observed maximum across several runs against its trip point
and gate it only with margin. Spread alone proves nothing: tx.apply.p50
swings 364x and never fires, because its 5 ms trip point absorbs the range.
Of the 23 keys still gated the worst reaches 0.67 of its trip point.

Mechanism: spans.names lists span names while _quantiles is shared, so
dropping two quantiles of one span cannot be expressed by deleting a name.
regression-metrics.json gains an excluded_keys map from a flat key to the
reason it is not gated, subtracted by both prom_queries.py (so the key is
never queried) and check_regression_bounds.py rule A. A per-name quantile
override was rejected: a typo there leaves the key gating, whereas a typo
in an exclusion subtracts nothing and new rule F rejects it, along with an
empty reason, a leftover threshold override and a leftover baseline value.

Derived figures recomputed from the committed baseline: 25 gated keys to
23, detection floor 2.02x-9.43x to 2.02x-9.42x, weakly guarded keys ten to
nine, bound over baseline 102%-843% to 102%-842%. The baseline edit is a
deletion of two entries only, with no value rewritten.

Verified: both previously failing runs replay to zero regressions and exit
0; a tenfold increase injected into each of the 23 remaining keys in turn
is still caught in all 23 cases; rule F was confirmed load-bearing by
stubbing it out, which lets a stale exclusion pass.
2026-08-25 18:21:35 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
c65cb0e2a8 feat(telemetry): gate log-trace correlation in CI with per-leg diagnostics
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.
2026-08-25 18:20:38 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
59a0595a6e fix(telemetry): stop the workload harness issuing refused path-finding RPC
Every node the harness starts is a validator, and validators disable
pathfinding: Config.cpp:725-726 zeroes pathSearchMax whenever a
[validation_seed] or [validator_token] section is present, and
run-full-validation.sh writes [validation_seed] into every generated node
cfg (:308) with no [path_search] section to put the default back. So
doRipplePathFind refused every call at RipplePathFind.cpp:48-49 and the
3% ripple_path_find weight bought no coverage at all.

It was not free either. The pathfind.request guard is constructed at
RipplePathFind.cpp:35, above that refusal, so each refused call still
exported a span, and the enclosing rpc.command.ripple_path_find span
carried rpc_status=error. That put a steady 3% error floor into
span_calls_total for STATUS_CODE_ERROR: any error-rate threshold derived
from harness data before this change was measuring the harness rather
than xrpld, and needs re-deriving.

Removing the load makes pathfind.request unreachable, so it moves from
required to optional in expected_spans.json; without that the span check
would fail on every run. Three notes in that file and three in
expected_metrics.json made claims that are now false, two of them citing
line numbers this commit deletes; all six are corrected. The runbook
required/optional count moves 26/15 to 25/16.

Two facts a future reader needs.

First, the weights previously summed to 103, not 100, so every percentage
the docstring stated was wrong: health checks were really 38.8%, not 40%.
Dropping the 3 makes the sum exactly 100 and every stated percentage
correct for the first time. expected_spans.json also carried live
arithmetic off the old total, "25/103 ... roughly 43%", now 25/100 and
42%.

Second, baselines/baseline-timings.json was captured WITH this load. Only
span.rpc.ws_message p50/p95/p99 of the 25 gated keys sees the RPC mix,
and their trip points sit 3.1x to 5.9x above baseline, so the gate will
not fire. But a timing baseline is workload-specific and its profile
field still reads full-validation, so nothing will flag the drift:
refresh it from the next CI run's timings artifact.

Pathfinding now has no coverage in this harness at all. The workload
README section "Pathfinding is not exercised" records that cost, the
manual verification route, and a four-step restore recipe in which steps
1 and 2 alone only reinstate the error floor.
2026-08-25 16:31:23 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
c863b83a1c feat(telemetry): warn on telemetry the harness contract does not account for
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.
2026-08-25 15:51:06 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
7d35eb872a docs(telemetry): correct the harness contract's pathfinding and gauge reasons
The assert / do-not-assert decisions in expected_metrics.json and
expected_spans.json were all correct, but several recorded reasons were not.
Pathfinding is disabled outright on every harness node: Config.cpp:725-726
zeroes pathSearchMax whenever a [validation_seed] or [validator_token] section
is present, run-full-validation.sh writes [validation_seed] for every node and
has no [path_search] override, and both handlers return rpcNOT_SUPPORTED
before constructing a PathRequest.

- pathfind_full_milliseconds no longer claims a probabilistic path, nor
  prescribes an explicit ledger index, which cannot help: the config gate
  fires before the ledger parameter is read.
- pathfind_fast_milliseconds keeps its hasCompletion argument but now leads
  with the config gate, which is the operative blocker.
- The pathfind.compute and pathfind.discover notes and the
  pathfind.request to pathfind.compute skip reason no longer blame missing
  liquidity. pathfind.update_all now records why its request list stays empty.
- statsd_gauges states the arming precondition: a beast gauge is only as safe
  as an observable gauge when its object exists before Application.cpp:1570,
  where onCollectionReady arms the registered gauges exactly once.
- Alert wiring claims softened: every rule in rules.yaml is paused.
- The per job type gauge group loses its bogus poll bandwidth reason, and its
  regex claim is corrected: there is no running state regex, so 30 of those
  gauges have no consumer at all.
- overlay_peer_disconnects has one query consumer, not two.
- Cloud dashboard copies dropped from consumer counts: that tree is ignored by
  git and has no tracked files.
- rpc_method_errored_total explains that a refused RPC is a normal return, not
  a throw, so the refusals above do not make it fire.
- 09-data-collection-reference.md no longer claims a Prometheus name query in
  expected_metrics.json.

No behaviour change: the flattened check name list is byte identical.
2026-08-25 15:41:30 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
dc7f968f95 Merge branch 'pratik/otel-phase9-metric-gap-fill' into pratik/otel-phase10-workload-validation 2026-08-25 15:15:09 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
f71357d826 Merge branch 'pratik/otel-phase8-log-correlation' into pratik/otel-phase9-metric-gap-fill
# Conflicts:
#	OpenTelemetryPlan/05-configuration-reference.md
#	OpenTelemetryPlan/09-data-collection-reference.md
#	OpenTelemetryPlan/Phase4_taskList.md
#	docker/telemetry/grafana/dashboards/ledger-data-sync.json
#	docs/telemetry-runbook.md
2026-08-25 15:14:56 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
520e8e5895 Merge branch 'pratik/otel-phase7-native-metrics' into pratik/otel-phase8-log-correlation 2026-08-25 15:07:36 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
638ab2f4f5 test(telemetry): log every emitted metric family, not 19 prefixes
_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.
2026-08-25 15:05:53 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
8547adb5c1 test(telemetry): close the 20-metric harness coverage gap
Dashboards and alert rules reference 186 metrics; the harness asserted 57.
Excluding the 107 per-category overlay-traffic expansions, the meaningful
gap was 20 names. This closes it under the contract file's own doctrine:
assert only what the workload guarantees, and record the rest with a
precise reason.

Asserted 18, taking the metric checks from 61 to 79 and the whole metric
phase from 66 to 84. No pre-existing check name or position changes.

statsd_gauges gains the nine state_accounting_* siblings of the one member
already asserted, plus the two NodeFamily full-below-cache gauges and
overlay_peer_disconnects. All twelve rest on one mechanism the group
description now spells out: on the OTel path a beast gauge is an
Int64ObservableGauge, every instance self-registers in its constructor,
onCollectionReady arms all of them unconditionally, and the armed callback
Observes on every export cycle whether or not set was ever called, so the
series exist at 0. The state_accounting family is set in one unconditional
block in NetworkOPsImp::collectMetrics, and full_transitions is the input
to the NodeStateFlapping alert rule, so the alert's own signal had been
going unverified.

A new job_queue_per_type_gauges group asserts the six per-job-type gauges
that a panel or a rule names literally, jobq_manifest_waiting among them
as the ManifestJobQueueConvoy rule's input. The description records why
those six and not all 105: the guarantee is identical for every
non-special job type, so the discriminator is consumer coverage, and the
remaining names are only reached through topk queries over the family that
do not depend on any single type being present.

Recorded four more in not_asserted rather than asserting them.
pathfind_fast_milliseconds is unreachable for this workload, not merely
rare: reportFast fires only from the doCreate fast pass, which is guarded
by !hasCompletion(), and both ripple_path_find entry points construct the
request with a completion function. Only the path_find subscription
reaches it, and the generator does not use it.
pathfind_full_milliseconds is reachable but only one ledger close after
the request, through PathRequestManager::updateAll, and nothing in the
harness arranges or checks that, so the guarantee is probabilistic.
warn_total and drop_total are resource-manager meters gated on a consumer
crossing the warn or drop threshold; their rpc-pathfinding panels are
correct and render empty only because the condition has not occurred,
which is worth stating because both were briefly mis-read as phantoms.

Runbook check counts updated to match.
2026-08-25 15:05:36 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
e4926f55be fix(telemetry): derive workload gate bounds from the bucket above the baseline
The gate could not catch a regression on any sub-millisecond span.
compare_to_baseline.py requires both the percentage and the absolute bound to
breach, and every span shared one flat absolute bound of 10 ms (15 ms for p99)
calibrated for a 5-25 ms band the spans do not occupy. Against the baseline
captured on 2026-08-24, where 18 of the 28 quantiles gated at the time sat
below 1 ms, that bound sat 1.15x to 2000x above the metric it guarded, so the
AND never fired: a 100x regression injected into span.ledger.store.p95 reported
0 regressions and exit 0. Injecting a 10x regression into each key in turn was
caught on only 5 of 28.

Give every gated key its own absolute bound, equal to the distance from its
baseline to hi_next, the edge above the top of the bucket the baseline sits in.
The trip point is then exactly hi_next, so the gate fires only once the reading
clears the bucket above the baseline's own. That is the property a multiple of
the enclosing bucket width cannot provide: after the quantile crosses hi, the
interpolation happens across the next bucket, which on this ladder is up to
eight times wider, so no multiple of the enclosing width bounds the excursion.
Measured with a model-free reachability test, a single bucket crossing can
produce a false regression on 2 of 25 keys under the old flat bound and 0 of 25
under this rule. The smallest catchable regression is 2.02x to 9.43x per key.

The job queue bound had the same shape of problem on three of its four keys
(42x, 47x, 220x before). Defaults now sit at each ladder floor, leaving the
percentage bound operative for a metric that somehow reaches them.

Drop span.ledger.store from the gated surface. Its captured quantiles were
0.005, 0.0095 and 0.0099 ms, which is the ladder's 0.01 ms floor times the
quantile: every sample lands under 10 us, so the reported value does not move
even if each store slows from 2 us to 9 us. No bound can gate it. Presence is
still asserted by expected_spans.json and the integration test, and the rate is
still on the ledger-operations dashboard.

Add check_regression_bounds.py, wired into the same workflow step as the bucket
parity check. It fails when a bound is not the one its own baseline implies,
when a gated key has no override, when the baseline and metric surface disagree,
when the percentage bound would become operative, and when a baseline carries
the ladder floor signature. This gate has now broken three times through the
same drift between ladder, baseline and bounds, so documentation alone is not
enough.

compare_to_baseline.py is unchanged: its existing per-metric override mechanism
already expresses all of this.

A missing, unreadable or malformed input makes that check exit 1 naming the
input, rather than reporting success without having checked anything; only a
placeholder baseline, the documented bootstrap state, still exits 0. Its own
tests cover both halves of that contract plus one case per rule, and run in the
workflow before the check so a broken rule reads as a broken rule.
2026-08-25 13:02:12 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
c4b8df9de1 test(telemetry): recapture span baselines on the current ladder
Copied verbatim from the timings.json produced by the telemetry-validation
run at 6a82fc6f37 (166/166 checks passed), which is the hand-off the
workflow prints for a placeholder baseline.

The numbers confirm why the previous baseline had to be voided. It was
captured 2026-06-05, before the collector's spanmetrics ladder gained
sub-millisecond edges, and its sub-1ms entries were arithmetic on the old
1ms first edge rather than latencies:

  span.ledger.store  p50/p95/p99  0.5 / 0.95 / 0.99   ->  0.005 / 0.0095 / 0.0099

Exactly 100x, because the old values were quantile x 1ms and the real ones
are quantile x 0.01ms. Since the gate only trips on increases, every
sub-millisecond span was unguarded against a 100x regression.

The job.* pair is back too, recaptured on the re-cut microsecond ladder
(floor 1us): job.acceptLedger.queued.p95 now reads 91.1us as a measurement,
where the voided value of 96.79us was 0.95/0.9926 x 100.
2026-08-24 22:33:22 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
6a82fc6f37 docs(telemetry): qualify the log-correlation guarantee and record the CI gap
The runbook said a correlated log line was "guaranteed" at info severity.
Info is necessary but not sufficient. Replaced the flat claim with the four
real preconditions, each with the code that enforces it and the failure mode
it produces: telemetry enabled, trace_consensus=1, a valid roundSpanContext_
(SpanGuard::childSpan returns a null guard on an invalid parent), and a valid
plus sampled span context (Log.cpp gates injection on IsValid and IsSampled).
Also noted which harness cfgs satisfy them -- run-full-validation.sh and
integration-test.sh set all three config keys; benchmark.sh deliberately
stays at warning and runs no correlation check.

Second, the two checks this work exists to make pass are not exercised by
CI. The workflow hardcodes --skip-loki, and validate_telemetry.py builds
log.trace_id_present and log.trace_id_cross_reference only inside an
"if not skip_loki" branch, so they are never constructed rather than merely
skipped, and never appear in the report. No workflow runs integration-test.sh
either, so its own check_log_correlation() never runs in CI. Recorded that in
the runbook's CI workflow section and in the workload README, with the local
command that does cover it: run-full-validation.sh without --skip-loki.

The workflow itself is unchanged on purpose. Dropping the flag would make CI
exercise Loki ingestion and filelog mounting for the first time on the same
run that must produce a clean regression baseline, so a red result would not
be attributable.
2026-08-24 21:46:30 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
9c89419929 docs(telemetry): correct two miscounted facts in dashboard and metric docs
RPC Response Size on rpc-pathfinding said its p95 was computed "over the
dashboard rate interval", but the query hardcodes [5m]. Every other panel on
that dashboard with a hardcoded [5m] -- RPC Response Time, RPC Response Time
Distribution, both Pathfinding duration panels, the gRPC latency panel and
Pathfinding Compute Duration -- says "over 5 minutes". Matched the clause to
the query. The same edit was applied to the local grafanacloud copy so the
two stay identical; that tree is gitignored, so it is not in this commit.

The io_latency group in expected_metrics.json claimed "all 6 panels that
query it". That 6 was a raw string-occurrence count over the dashboards and
included two panel descriptions. Verified truth: two distinct panels query
the metric, ledger-data-sync "I/O Scheduler Latency p95" and node-health
"I/O Latency", each mirrored in a grafanacloud copy, plus one alert rule in
grafana/provisioning/alerting/rules.yaml. Stated that instead of a count.
2026-08-24 21:46:04 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
bca2b35bf0 docs(telemetry): stop showing inert [insight] prefix on the OTel path
ff8629bb11 dropped prefix=xrpld as inert and misleading, but four OTel-path
sites still set it, so the branch contradicted itself.

OTelCollector routes every instrument name through a static formatName()
that only lowercases and maps '.'/space to '_'; the sole read of prefix_ is
the startup log line at OTelCollector.cpp:810. All four instrument factories
funnel through formatName(), so no prefix can reach an exported name.
StatsDCollector does prepend it (StatsDCollector.cpp:551/592/640/715), so the
StatsD example legitimately keeps it.

Removed from the 09 reference's OTel config block and from both
quick-reference setups, and from the cfg integration-test.sh generates. The
StatsD example is unchanged and now states why it keeps the key.

Also corrected run-full-validation.sh: [insight] endpoint was described as
"already matches the built-in default", implying it would matter if it
differed. CollectorManager reads it and hands it to OTelCollector, which also
only logs it; the exporter URL is built in Telemetry::initMetrics() from
[telemetry] endpoint. It is as inert as prefix was.
2026-08-24 21:45:35 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
cc5e098928 fix(telemetry): rate the overlay traffic bargauge instead of ranking totals
The panel described itself as showing which categories consume the most
receive bandwidth, and told operators to watch for a category dominating
during ongoing sync, but it ranked raw cumulative counters. That ranks by
lifetime total, so a sync burst days earlier still dominates the bars and
the stated guidance cannot work.

Wrapping the existing selector in rate() does not work: rate() drops
__name__, so the many *_bytes_in series collapse to one labelset and the
query fails with "vector cannot contain metrics with the same labelset".
Grouping with sum by (__name__) does not help either, because Prometheus
strips __name__ from aggregation output regardless of the grouping. Both
were tried against a local Prometheus with synthetic multi-category
counters and both error.

Instead recover the category into a normal `series` label before rating,
and use a subquery so the renamed series can be rated. Verified against
the same synthetic data: rates match a plain single-metric rate control
to within subquery resolution, ranking order is correct, and both the
category and node labels survive.

Also set unit to Bps, matching the ten sibling rate panels in this
dashboard (this was the only byte panel still on decbytes and the only
one plotting raw), and drop "Heatmap" from the title since the panel is
a bargauge.

Note the subquery evaluates the selector at several steps, so it costs
more than the previous instant query across the traffic categories.
2026-08-24 21:10:28 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
4c33ffb9ca docs(telemetry): retire the rpc_size instrument-mismatch warning 2026-08-24 21:08:43 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
98ba282854 fix(telemetry): make the integration test correlate by construction, record the baseline log-level coupling
Three related follow-ups to running the workload at info.

integration-test.sh has its own log-trace correlation check that the workload
validator knows nothing about: check_log_correlation() greps each node's
debug.log for "trace_id=<hex> span_id=<hex>" and fails when it finds none, then
cross-checks a sample id against Tempo. At warning it had no guaranteed source.
The only warn-or-worse statement inside the activated accept scope is
RCLConsensus.cpp:671, which fires solely when a transaction throws, so the
check was passing incidentally -- helped by scanning whole files with no time
window. Raising it to info gives it the same guarantee the workload now has:
the consensus accept pair, one branch of which fires every accepted round.
Safe here because this script captures no latency baseline, so there is nothing
for the extra log I/O to contaminate.

baselines/README.md now records that the committed baseline is only valid at
the log level the harness generates. Logging is synchronous and several gated
spans contain log statements -- ledger.build has BuildLedger.cpp:81, and
consensus.accept has RCLConsensus.cpp:655/663/686 with :663 logging once per
transaction -- so the configured level is part of the measurement. Moving it
inflates or deflates the quantiles the gate reads without ever reporting a
regression, because the baseline moves with it. Changing the level therefore
requires re-capturing the baseline.

benchmark.sh keeps warning and keeps prefix=xrpld, and now says why. It
measures telemetry overhead as a delta between a telemetry-off and a
telemetry-on arm, so extra synchronous log I/O would inflate both arms and the
thresholds gate the result. The comment exists to stop a future reader
"aligning" it with the workload harness and quietly degrading the measurement.
2026-08-24 20:50:34 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
ff8629bb11 fix(telemetry): drop the inert insight prefix and its false comment
Every generated node cfg carried prefix=xrpld under a comment claiming it
"matches the OTel resource service name and the metric names the dashboards
query". Both halves are false.

Verified inert before removing: CollectorManager.cpp reads the key on the OTel
path and passes it to OTelCollector::New, but the only use of prefix_ anywhere
in OTelCollector.cpp is the startup log line. formatName() -- the single funnel
for every instrument name -- only lowercases the name and turns dots and
spaces into underscores; it never reads prefix_. So exported names carry no
prefix at all. expected_metrics.json's own description records this ("Metric
names have no prefix (the xrpld_ prefix was removed)") and 488 live metric
names confirmed it: jobq_job_count, rpc_requests_total, total_bytes_in.

A reader trusting the comment would look for xrpld_jobq_job_count and find
nothing.

The replacement comment states what is true and checkable: the collector
declares no statsd receiver (its metrics pipeline is [otlp, spanmetrics],
confirmed in otel-collector-config.yaml), so beast::insight must export over
OTLP for system metrics to reach Prometheus at all; server=otel is the only
load-bearing key; exported names carry no prefix.

Metric names, series and dashboards are unchanged. The one observable
difference is the OTelCollector startup log line, which now prints an empty
prefix.

Also updated workload/README.md, which repeated the same prefix=xrpld claim
and would have been left describing a cfg key that no longer exists, and made
the template header state the sync obligation explicitly -- nothing reads that
file, so nothing catches it drifting from the cfg the runner generates.
2026-08-24 20:50:21 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
2097293e8f fix(telemetry): run the workload at info so log-trace correlation is testable
The two log.trace_id_* checks have failed on every run -- they were the only
failures in the 2026-08-20 run (158/160). The workload never satisfied their
precondition, because warning suppressed the one line that is correlated by
construction.

trace_id is injected in Log.cpp from RuntimeContext::GetCurrent(). Severity
does not affect injection, but JLOG filters on severity before format() runs,
so what matters is which severity emits a line while a span is current.

A span becomes current in either of two ways: as a ScopedSpanGuard, or by
activating a plain SpanGuard via activate() / activateIfLive(). activate()
returns a ScopedActivation holding an otel_trace::Scope built from the span,
which pushes onto the same RuntimeContext store Log.cpp reads. A plain
SpanGuard that is never activated makes no span current.

The guaranteed correlated line at info is the consensus accept pair at
RCLConsensus.cpp:736/740 -- an if/else, so exactly one fires on every accepted
round. doAccept activates the accept span as ambient over its whole body at
:565 via activateIfLive(acceptSpan), and that activation lives to the end of
the function, so both branches are inside it. At roughly one round every 4 s
this gives dozens of correlated lines per run, well inside the validator's 4 h
window. LOG_QUERY_WINDOW_SECONDS stays at 4 h deliberately -- a wider window
would let the check pass on logs from a previous run.

info is the minimum that works, which is what the task asked for. debug would
correlate strictly more, additionally covering BuildLedger.cpp:81 and
RPCHandler.cpp:188, but it is the wrong default: it puts synchronous log I/O
inside ledger.build, consensus.accept (RCLConsensus.cpp:663 logs per
transaction) and tx.apply, which are exactly the spans whose latency
regression-metrics.json gates. The next run reprints the voided baseline, so
capturing at debug would bake log I/O into the latency numbers permanently --
the same class of defect this plan exists to remove. The runbook records how to
get the broader coverage per partition, after a baseline exists.
2026-08-24 20:46:53 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
6389f8fb4c docs(telemetry): document the tx-set fetch round-request events
Commit c5829df68f added a per-round event to the txset.acquire span but
updated only three of the surfaces that describe that span. Fills the rest.

The operator glossary gains the round-naming behaviour, and loses a claim it
should not have made: it described a tx-set fetch as being on the critical
path of a round. It is not. acquireTxSet returns immediately and the round
continues without the set; a set that arrives after the round has accepted is
discarded. The cost is a round resolving its disputes on less information,
not a round held up. Two later sentences restated the same claim and are
reworded to match.

The Tempo config records that the new event attributes are queryable through
event:name / event.<attr> on the pinned 2.9.4, but that a dedicated parquet
column accepts only span or resource scope, so those filters scan rather than
index and no event-scoped column should be added.

The collector config adds them to its deliberately-not-promoted list, with
the reason that matters: they are per-round and so unbounded, but more
fundamentally spanmetrics derives metrics from spans and not from span
events, so an event attribute cannot be a metric dimension at all. The
Grafana Cloud collector only cross-references that note, so it is unchanged.

No dashboard change: this adds no metric, so there is no panel to add and no
new filter dimension.

Verification: both YAML files parse; pre-commit passes on the changed files.
2026-08-24 20:39:59 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
c5829df68f feat(telemetry): record which consensus rounds requested a tx-set fetch
A tx-set fetch carried no key tying it to the consensus round that needed
the set, so attributing a stalled fetch to a round meant guessing from
timestamps. One fetch is wanted by many rounds -- it is keyed by set hash,
survives the round sweep, and the round never blocks on it -- so a single
parent, link or attribute cannot describe the relationship.

Instead the fetch span records one timestamped event per requesting round,
carrying the round's parent-ledger hash and the ledger it is building. Both
attribute keys already existed in the shared telemetry namespace with
exactly this meaning, and the existing addEvent API is used as-is, so no
new telemetry surface is added and the whole feature compiles out with
telemetry disabled.

The event fires once per round rather than once per peer proposal, keyed on
the round's parent-ledger hash: that distinguishes rounds started on
different forks at the same height, which a ledger-height compare cannot.
A mid-round wrong-ledger recovery re-enters consensus without re-caching the
round identity, so a fetch begun after that switch is attributed to the
pre-switch round; the limitation is documented where the values are cached.

Also fixes the fetch span's end time, which depended on when the C++ object
was destroyed. Three of the four exits that stop pursuing a fetch -- the set
arriving from elsewhere, the round sweep, and shutdown -- ended the span
only via the destructor, so the recorded duration included however long any
reference happened to be held. Each exit now ends the span itself, plus
cancel() and container teardown, and the destructor asserts the span is
already closed rather than closing it: a fallback that can never legitimately
fire should fail loudly instead of hiding a missed exit. An abandoned fetch
also no longer asks peers for a set nobody wants, which previously led to
charging those peers for answering our own request.

Verification: pre-commit and TIDY=1 clang-tidy pass; levelization is
unchanged. NOT compiled -- the branch is blocked by a gcc-15 internal
compiler error in the unrelated xrpl.libxrpl.rdb unity translation unit.
Runtime behaviour is unasserted: xrpl_tests links only xrpl.libxrpl, so
TransactionAcquire is unreachable from GTest; the added tests cover the new
span-name and attribute constants only.
2026-08-24 20:15:11 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
2ae47c66aa fix(telemetry): assert ios_latency and correct the rpc_size rename attribution 2026-08-24 20:09:04 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
2afae6655d test(telemetry): assert xrpl_node_id reaches the metric series 2026-08-24 19:53:43 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
14badbfdd7 docs(telemetry): record rpc_size_bytes and the other unasserted histograms 2026-08-24 19:46:18 +01:00
Pratik Mankawde
d1b80e47a2 test(telemetry): void span baselines captured on the old span ladder 2026-08-24 19:35:00 +01:00