The validation owned its own push trigger and paths filter, which made it the one
build-and-test workflow outside the on-pr.yml plus reusable-*.yml pair the rest of
CI uses. Rename it to reusable-telemetry-validation.yml, take workflow_call, and
let on-pr.yml decide when it runs.
on-pr.yml gains a second changed-files list for the telemetry paths. Its existing
`go` flag is true for nearly every pull request, so gating on `go` alone would run
a self-hosted build and a 30-minute cluster on all of them.
The configure step no longer repeats the telemetry option. A command-line define
is written to the cache before the toolchain runs and wins over it, so it could
turn telemetry on with the package never fetched. build-xrpld reads the value the
build actually configured out of CMakeCache.txt and publishes it as a job output;
validate-telemetry runs only when that says telemetry is on, and every value CMake
does not accept as a boolean fails the job rather than skipping silently.
MetricsRegistry did two jobs. It owned the OTel metrics pipeline, and it
registered the observable gauges whose callbacks read live application
services. The second job is what made the whole class xrpld-tier, so the
pipeline's lifecycle -- the recording() gate and the stop() teardown that
closes a use-after-free window -- could not be unit-tested in xrpl_tests.
Split it in two:
- xrpl::telemetry::MetricsRegistry (libxrpl) owns the exporter, provider,
meter, the 16 synchronous instruments, recording(), stop(), and the
record*/increment* methods.
- xrpl::telemetry::AppMetricGauges (xrpld) owns the 19 observable gauges
and their callbacks, holding a reference to the core and to the
ServiceRegistry.
MetricMacros.h and ValidationTracker move with the core. The macros need
only recording() and meter(), both core members; the core holds a tracker
by value, and a libxrpl header cannot include one from src/.
ApplicationImp owns both objects and sequences them. The core is built in
the member-init list, so every synchronous instrument exists before any
subsystem can record one. The gauges are armed once overlay_ exists, the
last service their callbacks read. Shutdown detaches the gauge callbacks
before the core drops the provider, and each shutdown step is isolated so
a failure in one cannot skip the others.
That detach call is new. detachCallbacks() had no callers, and the flag it
sets is read by the gauge callbacks but can no longer be written by the
core, so the caller now has to make the ordering explicit.
The telemetry module links xrpl.libxrpl.core and xrpl.libxrpl.protocol
PUBLIC: ValidationTracker.h takes a LedgerIndex and MetricMacros.h takes a
ServiceRegistry, both in interfaces a consumer compiles against.
Adds a MetricsRegistry gtest that drives an enabled core with telemetry on
and pins the recording() gate, stop() leaving the registry inert, and
stop() being idempotent. The libxrpl test tree no longer depends on
xrpld.telemetry at all, and the two CMake workarounds that compiled xrpld
sources into xrpl_tests are gone.
Documentation and dashboard source links follow the code to their new
paths, split between the two classes by which one now defines each metric.
Three conflicts, all from both branches editing the same passage:
- Main.cpp: kept phase-9's wording. The metrics registry only exists here, so
"unwinding destroys little: the metrics registry, whose destructor joins its
export thread" is the true statement on this branch.
- TESTING.md: kept both paragraphs. They document different things (the
private [network_id], and the log path plus log_level).
- 05-configuration-reference.md: composed both. The identity is now resolved
before construction and never empty, so every producer stamps the node key
from the start; the only divergence left is a wallet that already holds a
different key, which corrects the tracer alone. Rewrote the earlier
"three producers" blockquote too: its "no fallback", "first boot ... left
off" and "Known issue" claims are what this change removes.
One silent break the merge could not flag: makeMetricsRegistryOptions() took
the std::optional<std::string> node key that used to be a constructor
parameter, and that parameter is now the resolved keypair. It takes the base58
string directly, and the constructor derives it from nodeIdentity_, which is
declared before both telemetry_ and metricsRegistry_.
resolveNodePublicKey() returned std::nullopt in three real cases: a first boot
with no wallet database, a standalone run (its wallet is a private temporary
database), and --newnodeid. Telemetry's resources are built during
ApplicationImp's member-init list and are immutable, so on those runs the node
reported an empty service.instance.id and no xrpl.node.id for the whole run,
while setup() minted a key moments later and patched only the tracer.
Replace it with resolveNodeIdentity(), which always returns a keypair: derived
from a configured seed, else read from an existing wallet database, else
minted. Main.cpp passes that pair to makeApplication(), ApplicationImp stores
it in nodeIdentity_ -- now declared before telemetry_ and no longer an optional,
because it is always set -- and builds the telemetry resource from it.
setup() calls getNodeIdentity(), which now persists rather than mints: it
stores the resolved pair when the wallet holds no identity, adopts the stored
one when it does, and clears first for --newnodeid. The write stays in setup()
because that is where the database exists; a standalone run has no persistent
wallet to write to, which is why the pair has to be decided before
construction rather than read back afterwards. Wallet gains storeNodeIdentity()
for that write, and getNodeIdentity(session) now uses it instead of repeating
the insert.
The three-argument makeApplication() mints a keypair, so jtx::Env and any other
test Application behave as a standalone run always did.
Also fold the three hand-rolled "meter from a NoopMeterProvider" copies into
telemetry::noopMeter(): the base-pointer call and the kMeterVersion argument are
both easy to get wrong alone, and the meter identity has to match the one the
histogram views select on.
The new gtest covers the wallet half: store-then-read, store not replacing an
existing identity, clear-then-store, and that the mint path persists. It adds
the tests.libxrpl > xrpl.rdb levelization edge, regenerated here.
The committed baseline was captured 2026-08-26, before the account-funding
race was detectable. Phases whose funding silently failed submitted no
transactions, so the capture recorded artificially low ledger and transaction
timings, and job.transaction.queued.p95 and job.transaction.running.p95 could
not be captured at all. Once funding worked, span.ledger.build.p99 read
29.00 ms against a 9.11 ms baseline and turned the gate red on a run whose
200 span and metric checks all passed.
Refresh every value to the median of CI runs 34495527952, 34505215266 and
34507425933, the first three with the fix in place, and re-derive each
absolute bound as hi_next - baseline from that median.
Exclude span.ledger.build.p99. Across those three runs it read 29.00, 7.06
and 8.94 ms, a 4.11x spread whose maximum is 1.16x its 25 ms trip point, so a
healthy run reddens CI. Widening cannot fix it: a bound tolerating 29.00 ms
would reach into the bucket above and restore the single-crossing false
positive the derivation rule removes. span.ledger.build.p95 stays gated at
0.48 of its trip point, so ledger construction keeps coverage.
The other 19 keys sit between 0.17 and 0.76 of their trip points.
span.tx.process.p95 is the tightest and is the first to re-measure if the gate
reddens again.
Repoint one bounds-checker test at span.ledger.build.p95, since it mutated the
p99 override this commit removes.
Account setup submitted the funding Payments, slept a flat 10 seconds, then
read each sequence once. The txq-burst and mixed-peak phases escalate the
open-ledger fee on purpose, so the funding transactions were queued, every
account read Sequence 0, and the phase aborted with "only 0 of 8 created
accounts were funded". The run then reddened on a workload gate rather than on
anything telemetry had done.
Poll the ledger until each account has a sequence, with a deadline, so a late
confirmation is still seen and a healthy cluster pays no waiting cost. Pay a
multiple of the current open-ledger fee, so funding is not queued behind the
load a phase creates deliberately. terQUEUED no longer marks an account funded:
only a ledger read does.
Retry the accounts that never confirmed, once, after re-reading the genesis
sequence from the ledger. consumes_sequence advances the local counter on
terQUEUED, so a dropped funding transaction leaves it ahead of the ledger and
every resubmit would otherwise land on a future sequence.
The funding wait can run twice, so raise the orchestrator's grace above twice
the timeout. A test pins that relationship, since the two constants live in
different files.
Also save each generator's full stdout and stderr beside its JSON report. Only
the last 200 characters of stderr reached the phase error and stdout was
dropped, so none of the per-account funding results appeared in CI.
compare_to_baseline took the unit from the baseline entry and dropped the current
run's, and nothing compared the two, so a us -> ms change was scored as a numeric
delta: four keys rewritten to the same physical durations reported 99.9%
improvements and the gate exited 0. prom_queries.py says the baseline preserves
the unit "so the comparator can sanity-check unit drift"; it never did. A unit
mismatch now fails and names both units.
The workflow's step summary printed total, regressions and improvements. total is
every key in the report -- the union of baseline and current -- so it was neither
the baseline count nor what was gated, and missing_in_current was computed and
never printed. A run that gated 16 of 20 keys read as a full comparison. The
comparator now reports a real "compared" count and the summary prints it beside
the not-captured count, with a warning when any key was missed. The table also
refused nothing on a truncated report; existence is not readability.
check_regression_bounds told the operator to add max_abs_increase while reading
max_abs_increase_ms / _us, so following the message added a key nothing reads and
the gate kept failing with no explanation. The committed thresholds use only the
suffixed spelling, so the message was the defect. Its three JSON inputs were also
unchecked: a top-level null, list or number parsed and then died on the first
.get, and a string "metrics" survived the placeholder test and reported its own
characters as gated keys -- wrong advice rather than a crash.
Four tests cover these; all four fail against the previous checker.
One conflicted file, docs/telemetry-runbook.md, with three spots:
- Build section: both sides added different text at one point. Kept both,
incoming sentence first, then this branch's "Run against a live network".
- Disabling section, first spot: this branch's wording names the config
section and says no rebuild is needed, so it already covers the incoming
sentence.
- Disabling section, second spot: kept this branch's paragraph and folded in
the one point it lacked, that both flags have to be passed.
Three conflicts, all resolved by keeping this branch's rewrite and
re-applying the incoming change onto it:
- 09-data-collection-reference.md: phase-7 rewrote both attribute tables,
so the incoming table would have reverted them. Kept phase-7's and
re-applied the two "XRPL epoch" spellings.
- integration-test.sh: phase-7 moved these checks from StatsD to OTel and
no longer defines check_statsd_metric, so only this side compiles.
- TelemetryConfig.cpp: the incoming side carried networkTypeFromId(), which
this branch already has. Kept one definition and took the incoming
doc wording, which the auto-merged body below it already matches.
One conflict, in 06-implementation-phases.md: this branch had rewritten the
phase-4 task table with a Status column, a descoping note and a Spans Produced
section, while upstream corrected the class name in the old plain table. This
branch's section is kept and the name correction re-applied to its 4.1 row.
One conflict, in SpanGuard.h: this branch added struct TraceBytes and upstream
added enum SpanRole at the same position after TraceCategory. Unrelated
declarations, so both are kept.
Two conflicts, both resolved by composing the sides rather than taking one.
cfg/xrpld-example.cfg: this branch had moved the batch-processor keys under
their own heading while upstream edited them in place, so a merge-both would
have documented them twice. Upstream's range sentences are applied to the
relocated block and the head-sampling note keeps its position.
02-design-decisions.md: the summary table changed on both sides for different
reasons. Upstream renamed ledger_index to current_ledger_seq and ledger_seq;
this branch had corrected the PathFinding row to the keys it actually emits.
Both are kept.
Review feedback asked for a Histogram rather than a span attribute at these two
places. Both, not either: the attribute answers how big one sampled request was,
which an aggregate cannot, and the histogram answers the distribution across all
requests, which an unsampled trace never reveals. Both attributes stay.
The metrics land here rather than with the attributes because neither
HistogramBuckets.h nor the metric macro exists on the branch that added them.
Both use kObjectCountBuckets. The argument is the floor, not the ceiling: the SDK
default edges start 0,5,10,25, so an ordinary batch of one to five falls in a
single bucket and every quantile becomes an interpolation on one edge. The object
ladder puts five edges over the mass of both distributions. Path count is bounded
at 352 by kMaxPaths times kMaxAutoSrcCur and cannot saturate. Batch size can, at
roughly 333k, but no measured traffic goes near it, so the ladder is not widened
for a range nothing occupies; the runbook records the overflow query and a test
asserts it stays readable.
Review feedback on the RPC integration PR.
The childSpan examples could not work as written. childSpan() takes its parent
from the ambient context and uses impl_ only as a liveness gate, so an unscoped
SpanGuard parent produced two siblings rather than a parent and child. The parent
is now a ScopedSpanGuard, the child no longer reuses the parent's name, and the
examples pass a full dotted constant because childSpan() takes the name verbatim.
Five of the ten Rule D tests could not fail. Four passed an empty L1 key set,
which makes the rule skip validation altogether; the fifth asserted an empty
result against an escaped-quote selector that extracted no labels at all. Each
now passes a nonempty L1 set and carries a known-bad label in the same
expression, so it asserts both that the intended labels are accepted and that
Rule D ran. Verified by disabling the rule: the old tests stay green, the new
ones all fail.
Span kind is not fixed here. categoryToSpanKind and the span factories belong to
the telemetry library, so the role parameter is routed to that branch, and the
two call sites here follow once it exists.
Two conflicts, both additions at the same spot:
NetworkOPs.cpp include block kept develop's rpc/detail/SyntheticFields.h
alongside this branch's telemetry/MetricsRegistry.h; .cspell.config.yaml
kept both new words.
NetworkOPs.cpp include block: develop replaced DeliveredAmount.h,
MPTokenIssuanceID.h and NFTSyntheticSerializer.h with the single
rpc/detail/SyntheticFields.h. Kept that and this branch's two telemetry
includes.
