Fixes the review findings on this PR that belong to files it owns, plus
several defects found while verifying those fixes. Findings in files owned
by upstream branches are routed there and left untouched here.
Correctness:
- tx_submitter: advance the account sequence only on results that actually
consume one (tes*, tec*, terQUEUED). tem*/tef*/tel* never reach the
ledger, so advancing left a permanent gap that every later submit from
that account inherited. Add a re-fetch hatch so a repeated non-consuming
failure cannot livelock on the same sequence, and gate the account check
on funded-ness rather than list length.
- validate_telemetry: filter spans by name before collecting attributes, so
a per-span attribute contract can no longer be satisfied by a sibling
span; require exact name equality for non-wildcard children and glob
matching for wildcards; bounds-check every returned series instead of
only the first.
- collect_system_metrics: select xrpld by argv[0] rather than a substring
match on the whole command line, which averaged in unrelated processes
and reported their RSS as xrpld's. Count genuine 0.0 CPU readings, use a
clamped nearest-rank p99 index, and record RPC latency only on success.
- benchmark: return each verdict through a named variable instead of a
command substitution, so the pass/fail counters survive and the exit gate
can fire. Scale before dividing in the percentage math, which truncated a
1.26% impact to 1.00% and cleared a 1% threshold.
- compare_to_baseline: fall back to the absolute bound when the baseline is
not positive, so a 0 -> 500 ms jump is no longer "within bounds".
- rpc_load_generator: bound each connection to one in-flight recv(), drain
in-flight requests before closing, use a nearest-rank percentile, and
report delivery shortfall so an under-delivered run cannot pass with a 0%
error rate.
Fail loudly instead of silently:
- run-full-validation: treat a consensus timeout and a missing validated
ledger as fatal infrastructure errors, and fold the orchestrator and
benchmark exit codes into the final status. A degraded cluster previously
ran a full validation pass and reported misleading downstream failures.
- collect_system_metrics: warn per empty measurement source, emit
metrics_complete, and exit non-zero instead of substituting zeros that
pass every threshold. Require GNU date with %N rather than falling back
to a per-sample python3 fork that costs more than the threshold it is
measured against.
- benchmark: distinguish "could not measure" from "exceeded thresholds",
install a cleanup trap so a failure cannot leak nodes and ports, and
report an unusable baseline as inconclusive.
- workload_orchestrator: bound subprocess communicate() and fail the exit
gate on per-phase errors.
Also pins the workload compose images to the versions the sibling stack
already uses, hash-pins the Python dependencies, restricts the validator
config template to loopback, corrects the dashboard and metric counts in
the reference docs, drops a span from the regression gate that cannot fire
under a WebSocket-only workload, and narrows the teardown pkill pattern so
it no longer matches processes that merely mention the work directory.
Verified with a full harness run against a local five-node cluster:
158 of 158 checks passed with no regressions detected.
The harness manifests asserted things the code cannot produce and missed most
of what it does. Two assertions were failing every run, and the metric set
covered 16 of the ~41 emitted names.
expected_spans.json: rpc.process was required with rpc.ws_message as its
parent, but it is created only in ServerHandler::processRequest() on the HTTP
path, so a WebSocket-only workload never produces it -- it is now optional and
parented to rpc.http_request, and the rpc.process -> rpc.command.* edge is
skipped with the real reason instead of a coroutine-context-loss diagnosis that
was never the cause. Adds the missing rpc.ws_upgrade span, corrects four
parents (consensus.mode_change, pathfind.request, and update_positions/check,
which are children of consensus.establish rather than consensus.round), and
demotes conditionally-set attributes out of required_attributes so a healthy
run stops failing. Counts recomputed from the file: 41 span types, 62 unique
required attributes.
expected_metrics.json: 16 -> 52 asserted entries across the job-queue, RPC
method, reduce-relay, overflow and validation families, plus the fifteenth
dashboard uid. Metrics the harness workload cannot exercise -- erroring RPC,
ledger-mismatch, TxQ overflow, and the lazily-created getobject_* instruments
-- are listed in a not_asserted group the validator skips, rather than as
assertions that would fail on a healthy node.
The workflow's push trigger listed two globs matching nothing
(include/xrpl/basics/Telemetry*.h, src/xrpld/app/misc/Telemetry*), so no C++
telemetry change ever triggered validation. Replaced with the paths the code
actually lives in, including src/libxrpl/beast/insight/** for the insight
export path the harness depends on. The four inert workflow_dispatch inputs are
now labelled UNUSED rather than looking like working knobs.
Docs: the workload README described a StatsD dirty-flag mechanism under a
member name that does not exist, on a code path the harness never uses -- it
sets [insight] server=otel, so gauges export through an observable-gauge
callback every cycle. Adds the missing txq-burst phase, reconciles three
different dashboard counts, and drops "posts summary to PR", which the workflow
has no permission to do. The runbook's phase-10 section loses the last
sampling_ratio reference (not a config key), gains a Regression Gate and CI
subsection covering the gate that can fail CI, and its compose-logs command now
names the workload compose file. cmake --preset default is left for a separate
change: no CMakePresets.json is tracked, so it is wrong everywhere it appears.
Also drops the dead exporter=otlp_http key the harness wrote into every node
config, and stops capture_timings.py defaulting --profile to a profile that
does not exist.
Three doc conflicts, all inside Phase 10's own sections. Resolved by keeping
phase-9's corrections and re-applying phase-10's ownership of those sections on
top, rather than taking either side wholesale:
06 §6.8.3 — Status now says Phase 10 is implemented on THIS branch (phase-9's
copy said "not merged into this branch", true there, false here). The stale
"71 checks" enumeration and "Current Status" list are replaced by phase-9's
dynamic-count description plus a Known Gaps list that states the real reason
the rpc.process hierarchy is unassertable: rpc.process is HTTP-only, so a
WebSocket-only workload never produces it. Phase-9's CI Deliverable subsection
is carried through; exit criteria keep phase-10's tick state with phase-9's
corrected wording.
06 §6.8.3 Architecture — the automatic merge had resurrected phase-10's stale
2-node cluster prose and diagram over phase-9's 5-node correction. Reconciled
to phase-10's topology (native xrpld processes vs the containerised backend,
which is accurate) with phase-9's node count: 5 validators, and the collector
labelled OTLP + filelog rather than StatsD, which the config has never had.
Dropped the "all 26 metrics required" label in favour of the manifest.
06 §6.8.3 Key Implementation Details — two claims corrected against the code.
The StatsD m_dirty gauge fix describes a member that exists nowhere in the
repo, and the harness sets [insight] server=otel anyway, so gauges export
through an observable-gauge callback. The tx.receive attribute keys are bare
suppressed and tx_status, not dotted, and tx_status is set only on the
reject/known-bad/dropped paths, so it is absent on a successful receive.
09 §5c — kept phase-10's four-column table shape, with phase-9's corrected
counts: 40 of 41 emitted spans, 67 required attributes, 14 of 15 dashboards.
Phase10_taskList — dynamic inventory totals, the real RPC span trees, and exit
criteria ticked where the code on this branch closes them. Per-RPC timings are
recorded as not gated: regression-metrics.json defines only spans and job_queue.
Verified every hunk of the phase-10 diff falls inside a Phase-10-owned section
(06 §6.8.3, 09 §5c, Phase10_taskList, and the runbook's appended Phase 10
sections); no phase-9-owned text is modified from this branch.
The reference docs had drifted from the code in ways that break the reader
rather than merely misinform: PromQL examples that return no data, a rollback
flag that is a no-op, a sampling knob that does not exist, and two span parents
that moved. Code is treated as the truth throughout; where the code is the
defective side, the doc now records it as a known issue instead of describing
the bug as intent.
Renames the docs missed: histogram names gain the exporter's unit suffix
(ios_latency_milliseconds_bucket and four siblings), ledger_history_mismatch
gains _total, the StatsD-era quantile label gives way to le buckets,
rpc.request becomes rpc.http_request, traces_spanmetrics_calls_total becomes
span_calls_total, and the nine dotted xrpl.* span attributes are recorded as
renamed rather than left as live keys.
Re-parenting: consensus.update_positions and consensus.check are children of
consensus.establish, not of consensus.round.
Units and labels: state_accounting_*_duration is microseconds, not seconds;
cache_metrics label values are case-sensitive; object_count carries demangled
C++ type names. Nodestore read and write latency stays microseconds -- the
nanosecond accumulator change did not move the exported unit.
Adds what shipped but was undocumented: the ledger.acquire span, seven
consensus.round events, twelve span attributes, node_writes_duration_us, the
7-day validation-agreement window, the TxQ admission and reduce-relay metric
families, metrics_endpoint, and the phase-10 validation workflow.
Corrects claims that never held: 10% head sampling (it is fixed at 100%),
configurable redaction (it is unconditional), -DXRPL_ENABLE_TELEMETRY=OFF
(the flag is -Dtelemetry=OFF, default ON), FindOpenTelemetry.cmake and the
xrpl_telemetry target (neither exists), Promtail and a StatsD exporter in the
pipeline (neither exists), and Loki stream selection on job= (only
service_name is a stream label).
Phase 9 is marked complete, its provisioned alerting is attributed to the
branch that shipped it, and Phase 11 stays at zero except the one prerequisite
its code closes. Counts are reconciled repo-wide: 41 emitted span families,
15 dashboards on disk with 14 asserted, 13 alert rules in 5 groups.
Hardens the gate that let this drift through: Rule E of the naming check now
covers the reference docs, its allow-dotted marker is key-scoped and warns on
stale or empty use, a missing checked file is reported instead of silently
skipped, the test suite runs in CI, and doc paths trigger the check.
C++ and CMake changes are comment-only: three MetricsRegistry instrument names,
eight OTelCollector claims of a metric-name prefix that formatName never adds,
and the telemetry option's inverted default.
The Phase 7 section existed twice in this file; the copies disagreed on this
one label. Consolidating on the single copy kept the older wording, but Jaeger
was removed from the project earlier in this chain, so Tempo is the only trace
backend the diagram should name.
These changes were developed on the phase-10 branch but belong to content this
branch and its upstreams introduced. Carrying them on phase-10 made its PR diff
report churn in files phase-10 does not own, and left each PR claiming a scope
that did not match its contents.
Moved here from phase-10 (identical content, no functional change):
- Dashboards: all 14 existing boards plus the new log-derived-insights board.
- Docs: telemetry-runbook.md (minus the workload/benchmark sections, which
describe phase-10 tooling) and the new telemetry-glossary.md.
- Grafana Cloud + Alloy export path: collector config, compose override, the
two .env examples and alloy/config.alloy.
- Local stack: otel-collector-config.yaml gains sub-millisecond and
second-scale spanmetrics buckets, pins unit=ms, and promotes
close_time_correct; integration-test.sh and TESTING.md follow.
- Node configs: exported_instance -> service_instance_id in comments; the
mainnet sample now logs at warning to bound log volume.
- Metrics code: Telemetry.cpp builds the metrics pipeline in the constructor
via initMetrics() so the global MeterProvider is published before any
subsystem creates a beast::insight instrument, and the histogram view keeps
each instrument's own name instead of collapsing them under one series.
MetricsRegistry gains a last_close_time gauge and skips negative job-queue
durations. OTelCollector drops an unused accessor.
- Naming CI: xrpl_work_item joins EXTERNAL_INFRA_LABELS and Rule E accepts the
dotted perf-iac resource-attribute form. This must travel with the
dashboards and runbook that reference those labels, or the rules fail.
- Doxygen input glob no longer recurses dot-directories.
Sections describing phase-10 tooling stay on phase-10 and keep their
"Future Enhancement" / "Planned, not yet implemented" markers here; phase-10
removes those markers when it lands the tooling.
The nudb_bytes label value on the storage_detail gauge named something the
code never measured. It observes Database::getStoreSize(), which returns the
storeSz_ accumulator: the cumulative payload bytes of objects this process
handed to the NodeStore. That is not a NuDB file size. It excludes NuDB's
keys, bucket padding and log, and it resets with the process while the files
on disk do not.
The name caused two concrete errors. It invited sizing the store on disk from
a number that cannot do it, and it invited a write-amplification ratio against
node_written_bytes -- which reads the same accessor at MetricsRegistry.cpp:836,
so that ratio is a constant 1.0 and measures nothing.
The nudb_ prefix was wrong too. storeSz_ is written only by
Database::storeStats(), called from DatabaseNodeImp, DatabaseRotatingImp and
Database itself. No backend code touches it, so the value reads the same on
RocksDB. That distinguishes it from the real nudb_* family
(nudb_writers_in_flight and friends), which come from getWriteStats() and are
absent entirely on a non-NuDB backend.
stored_object_bytes says what the value is and claims nothing about the
filesystem. Docs already described the value correctly; they keep that
explanation and now also record the old name, so a query pinned to it can be
traced. Neither Backend nor Database exposes an on-disk size accessor and none
was added -- no metric reports the store's on-disk size today.
Updates the node-health panel title, description and PromQL, and the four docs
that name the label value.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings forward the node_reads_hit and nudb_bytes label corrections from phases 7
and 9.
Conflicts resolved keeping both sides:
- 06-implementation-phases.md: kept phase-10's unprefixed `storage_detail` gauge
name with phase-7's corrected getStoreSize() description.
- node-health.json: kept phase-10's rewritten panel structure and re-applied the
panel renames (NodeStore Read Found Ratio, NuDB Stored Bytes), legends and axis
labels on top of it.
nudb_bytes was documented as a NuDB file size, one place even claiming a
filesystem stat. It observes Database::getStoreSize(), which sums the object
payloads this process has written. It excludes NuDB's keys, bucket padding and
log, and resets with the process. node_written_bytes calls the same accessor, so
the two series are equal by construction and a write-amplification ratio built
from them is a constant 1.0. Neither Backend nor Database exposes a file-size
accessor, so nothing reports on-disk size today.
The Ledger Data & Sync panel plotting node_reads_hit / node_reads_total was
titled "NuDB Cache Hit Ratio" and described as reads served from cache.
fetchHitCount_ increments whenever a fetch returned an object, whatever served
it, so the ratio is a found rate. It reads near 100% while every fetch goes to
disk, which made the cold-read failure mode look impossible. Renamed to
"NuDB Read Found Ratio" and rewrote the guidance to pair it with read latency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dashboard audit against the live datasource surfaced two broken panel queries
and applied UX polish across all 14 dashboards.
- node-health "Job Queue Depth": job_count -> jobq_job_count. The JobQueue
collector is wrapped in group("jobq") (Application.cpp), so the registered
job_count gauge is emitted with the jobq_ prefix; the panel queried the
unprefixed name and returned nothing.
- network-traffic "Overlay Traffic by Category" + "All Traffic Categories":
topk(N, rate({__name__=~".*_bytes_in"}[...])) errors on Mimir ("vector
cannot contain metrics with the same labelset") because rate() drops
__name__ and the many counters collapse. Replaced with an enumerated
label_replace form that re-attaches __name__ per metric, preserving the
{{__name__}} legend and per-series display-name overrides.
- All 14 dashboards: refresh set to 10s.
- peer-quality: each panel full screen width.
- validator-health: at most two panels per row (row headers preserved).
- docs: telemetry-runbook and 06-implementation-phases updated for the
jobq_ prefix and the network-traffic query pattern.
Verified end-to-end against a local mainnet xrpld node feeding the local
stack: jobq_job_count returns data (old job_count empty), both network-traffic
exprs execute (old form reproduces the labelset error), and panels render
through the Grafana proxy. All 14 pass validate_dashboards.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Strip xrpld_ prefix, lowercase beast::insight names, and replace
traces_span_metrics_ with span_ in all remaining tracked files:
alert rules, integration tests, workload validation, TESTING.md,
OpenTelemetryPlan docs, code comments, and config templates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the standalone External Dashboard Parity design spec out of
docs/superpowers/ (which the project guidelines say not to create) and into
an appendix of OpenTelemetryPlan/06-implementation-phases.md, so the phase
plan is self-contained. Repoint the 10 "Source" links in the phase 3/4/7
task lists to the new appendix anchor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Point the workload validation uid list and implementation-phases doc at
the renamed bare dashboard uids.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Forward-merge the OTel naming-check Rule C/D fixes and the phase 2-9 chain.
Conflict resolutions:
- 02-design-decisions.md TxQ Attributes: take the convention-correct markdown
table (txq_* keys) over the stale planned-attrs code block.
- SpanGuardFactory.cpp: keep the explanatory comment for the literal attribute
keys in the libxrpl test.
Bring phase-8 (log correlation) and the naming-check + BasicConfig fixes forward
into phase 9 (native-metrics gap fill). Phase 9 adds MetricsRegistry and
LedgerSpanNames.h.
Conflict resolution:
- presentation.md: took phase-9's restructured deck — sampling now lives in
Slide 8 (Head vs Tail) and the Phase 10/11/12 future-phase slides; phase-8's
older standalone sampling section is superseded (no content lost).
- ordering.txt/loops.txt: regenerated via generate.py.
Naming check: A/B/E/F/G green. Rule D reports 6 findings that are all check
gaps, not data errors (verified every dashboard label traces to code):
- 3 are TraceQL `span.<attr>` references (bare attr is in L1); Rule D should
strip the span./resource. scope prefix.
- 2 (`reason`, `job_type`) are native OTel metric labels emitted by
MetricsRegistry.cpp — a new source of truth the check does not yet model.
The Rule D enhancement lands on phase-1c and merges forward.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bring native-metrics (phase 7) and the naming-check work forward into phase 8
(log correlation).
Conflict resolution — tempo.yaml datasource provisioning (search.filters):
- Took phase-7's complete 30-filter list as the base (it is the comprehensive
set), preserved phase-8's tracesToLogs Loki-correlation block, and added
phase-8's two unique filters (tx-type, ledger-hash). Verified the result is
the full union (32 filters) with no filter dropped and no duplicate ids.
- Fixed a pre-existing dotted tag carried in from phase-7: the
consensus-ledger-id filter used `xrpl.consensus.ledger_id`; the code emits
the underscore key `consensus_ledger_id` (ConsensusSpanNames.h), so the
dotted form was a dead filter. Now corrected.
Every span-scope filter tag verified to exist in the L1 *SpanNames.h key set.
Naming check green; 72 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bring the hardened OTel naming check (Rule E fix + 71 tests) and the phase 1-6
convention work forward into phase 7 (native metrics).
Conflict resolution:
- 05-configuration-reference.md: kept phase-7's native-OTLP metrics story
(server=otel, /v1/metrics) over phase-6's superseded StatsD scrape job, in
prose form (no code block).
- ordering.txt/loops.txt: regenerated via generate.py (not hand-edited).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two "Spans Produced" tables in 06-implementation-phases.md (added by the
Phase 4 consensus work) listed span ATTRIBUTE keys in the dotted
xrpl.consensus.* / ledger.seq / mode.old form. Convert them to the underscore
convention, matching the authoritative ConsensusSpanNames.h constants
(consensus_round, ledger_seq, consensus_mode, consensus_round_id,
consensus_ledger_id, consensus_result, mode_old/new, agree_count/disagree_count,
etc.). Span NAMES in column 1 stay dotted (rule 5). Every key verified to exist
as a constant in ConsensusSpanNames.h / SpanNames.h.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 4 added a span catalog in `06-implementation-phases.md` listing the
source location for each consensus span. Line numbers `Consensus.h:707`,
`RCLConsensus.cpp:232/341/492/541/900` drift on every refactor and would
become stale PR after PR. Filename alone is enough for operators to
grep — the RCLConsensus.cpp spans are already unambiguous from the span
name itself.
Phase-6 introduces ledger-operations, peer-network, and the five StatsD
dashboards. Align them with the rest of the chain:
- Rename dashboard UIDs from `rippled-*` to `xrpld-*` so the provisioned
UIDs match the post-rename-script documentation (`docs.sh` rewrites
.md but not .json, so the two drifted). Runbook references
`xrpld-rpc-perf`, `xrpld-transactions`, etc., now the JSON matches.
- Add the `$node` template variable + `exported_instance=~"$node"` filter
to every target in the five `statsd-*` dashboards. Mirrors the pattern
already used by consensus-health, ledger-operations, and peer-network
per the project rule that every dashboard must support per-node
filtering.
- Strip `:<line>` (and `:NN-NN` range) suffixes from C++ file references
in every dashboard panel description and in docker/telemetry/TESTING.md.
Line numbers drift on every refactor; the filename alone is enough to
grep.
- Replace stale `rpc.request` entries with the real emitted span names
(`rpc.http_request`, `rpc.ws_upgrade`, `rpc.ws_message`, `rpc.process`)
in TESTING.md so operators can copy-paste the filters and hit real
traces.
- Also drop the `:706` line ref from the `StatsDCollector.cpp` callout
in `06-implementation-phases.md`.
Phase-1a plan documents advertised OTLP/gRPC on port 4317 as the default
exporter, four unparsed [telemetry] config keys, and "Phase 4a Complete"
status with exit-criteria checkboxes marked done. Every downstream branch
through Phase 5 ships only OTLP/HTTP on port 4318 via OtlpHttpExporterFactory,
never parses the advertised keys, and the Phase 4 work is not yet delivered.
Fixes:
- 02-design-decisions.md: flip §2.1.1 SDK dependency recommendations to
OTLP/HTTP (shipped) with OTLP/gRPC marked Future. Update §2.2 architecture
diagram and text from OTLP/gRPC:4317 to OTLP/HTTP:4318. Rewrite §2.2.1 as
"OTLP/HTTP (Shipped)" and §2.2.2 as "OTLP/gRPC (Future Work — Planned
Upgrade)" with a concrete checklist (Conan dep, config parsing, factory
branch, runbook/dashboard updates) for landing the gRPC transport later.
- 05-configuration-reference.md: drop the fabricated exporter/otlp_grpc key
and the :4317 default from the sample config block and the options-summary
table. Move trace_pathfind, trace_txq, trace_validator, trace_amendment
into a new "Planned (not yet implemented)" table citing the phase that will
add each one. Keep the example config minimal so copy-paste does not produce
a silently-ignored stanza.
- 06-implementation-phases.md: reset Phase 4 Exit Criteria checkboxes from
[x] to [ ] (Phase 4 is not shipped at Phase-1a time). Rename "Phase 4a
Complete" to "Phase 4a Plan" and describe the work as future. Replace the
broken forward link to Phase4_taskList.md (introduced in the Phase 2 PR)
with a sentence pointing readers to where that spec will land. Renumber
the final section 6.12 to 6.11 so it sits directly after 6.10; section 6.11
("Effort Summary") was intentionally removed in earlier edits.
