MetricsRegistry created its provider and synchronous instruments in start(),
called from setup() after the node identity was read. Every XRPL_METRIC_*
call site creates its instrument on first use, so any site that ran before
that point found no meter and never recorded again. The start was moved three
times to chase the newest early caller; nothing guaranteed the order.
Build the pipeline in the constructor instead. ApplicationImp declares
metricsRegistry_ right after telemetry_ and before every subsystem, so
declaration order now guarantees the instruments exist before any producer.
start() is gone and its config parsing moves to makeMetricsRegistryOptions().
The registry now guarantees a meter whenever it is enabled: the real one, or
the OTel no-op meter if the pipeline failed to build. disablePipeline() owns
that fallback and its one error log, and the constructor routes both
std::exception and a non-std throw through it, because the SDK is third-party
code. So the macros shrink to one function-local static built from meter()
plus the record call: no once-flag, no null check, and no path for a call
that arrives before the meter, because that state no longer exists. The three
observable macros drop the same now-dead meter check.
The lifecycle is three explicit phases with a Phase enum: Ready at
construction, GaugesArmed by startAsyncGauges() once overlay_ exists, and
Stopped by stop(). startAsyncGauges() checks the phase before the pipeline,
so a second call and a call after stop() are each reported as what they are.
run() stops both observers (insight collector, registry) before any service,
and ~ApplicationImp repeats the stop for the setup() failure paths that never
reach run(). stop() already detaches the callbacks, so it is the only call.
Meter name and version come from kMeterName/kMeterVersion, and the endpoint
default from Telemetry::Setup, so the two metric pipelines share one source
for both.
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.
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.
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>
Bring phase-2 forward into phase 3 (transaction tracing). Phase 3 introduces
TxSpanNames.h, TxQSpanNames.h, and TxApplySpanNames.h.
Conflict resolution:
- TxQ.cpp: kept phase-3's txq_span-based instrumentation (phase-2 had none).
Dropped the orphaned `NumberSO{... fixUniversalNumber}` line — develop's
#5962 (Retire fixUniversalNumber) removed that symbol repo-wide; the
conflict block had carried one stale copy that would not compile.
- 05/08/OpenTelemetryPlan.md: dropped the deleted 04-code-samples / POC_taskList
references (carried from phase-2), kept phase-3's new secure-OTel.md doc rows,
section, and Mermaid node/edge/style. Config code block -> prose; merged the
secure-OTel hardening pointer with the authoritative-config prose.
- Phase3_taskList.md: removed the "dotted keys for readability" note that came
from phase-2 — phase 3 already uses the underscore keys.
Reviewed by code-review agents: telemetry instrumentation intact, naming check
green (47 keys across 7 *SpanNames.h headers), no conflict markers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bring the phase-1a code-sample cleanup into phase-1b.
Phase 1a deleted the two code-sample docs (04-code-samples.md,
POC_taskList.md) and stripped C++/config code blocks from the remaining
plan docs, replacing them with prose summaries and pointers to the real
source/config files.
Conflict resolution:
- 04-code-samples.md, POC_taskList.md: deletion wins (phase-1b's SpanGuard
rewrites of these files are intentionally dropped).
- 03/05/OpenTelemetryPlan.md: took phase-1a's code-block-free prose, but
kept phase-1b's accurate descriptions of the real telemetry code
(DiscardFlag.h, FilteringSpanProcessor, SpanGuard factory methods, and
the corrected file-count/file-list tables).
- presentation.md left untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Document that head sampling is intentionally fixed at 100% and no longer
exposes a sampling_ratio config knob. A per-node ratio let nodes make
divergent keep/drop decisions for the same distributed trace, producing
broken/partial traces; pinning at 1.0 with a ParentBased sampler keeps
decisions coherent across the network. Volume reduction is delegated to
collector-side tail sampling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two stray "rippled" tokens introduced by 43258e8d ("docs(telemetry):
add secure-OTel pipeline analysis…") were caught by check-rename in
CI. Re-run docs.sh to convert them to xrpld so the rename check
passes on PR #6425 (and downstream PR #6426 once merged up).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Document the threat model and chosen hardening approach for the OTel
pipeline: mTLS to the collector as primary defense (across-network
deployment), NetworkPolicy as defense-in-depth, and source-side
validation plus per-peer rate limiting for protocol::TraceContext on
peer messages. Skips Basic Auth (wrong shape for multi-operator
fleet) and HTTP-gateway header stripping (rippled is P2P).
Wires the new doc into the master plan ToC, mermaid diagram, and
body section, plus cross-refs from the privacy section in
02-design-decisions.md and the collector config in
05-configuration-reference.md so readers reach it from natural
in-context entry points. Adds a backlink at the top of secure-OTel.md
to the master plan.
Adds 'exfiltration' and 'htpasswd' to cspell dictionary.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace remaining rippled/Ripple references with xrpld/XRPL in
data collection reference, implementation phases, and runbook docs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Integrate the existing StatsD metrics pipeline (beast::insight) into
the OpenTelemetry observability stack and add new trace spans for
ledger build/store/validate and peer proposal/validation receive.
Phase 5b — Ledger, peer, and transaction spans:
- Add ledger.build span with close time attributes in BuildLedger.cpp
- Add tx.apply span with tx_count/tx_failed in BuildLedger.cpp
- Add ledger.store and ledger.validate spans in LedgerMaster.cpp
- Add peer.proposal.receive span with trusted attribute in PeerImp.cpp
- Add peer.validation.receive span with ledger_hash, full, trusted
attributes in PeerImp.cpp
- Add ledger-operations and peer-network Grafana dashboards
Phase 6 — StatsD metrics integration:
- Add StatsD UDP receiver (port 8125) to OTel Collector
- Add 5 StatsD Grafana dashboards: node health, network traffic,
overlay traffic detail, ledger data sync, RPC pathfinding
- Add 09-data-collection-reference.md cataloging all metrics/spans
- Update existing dashboards with new span panels
- Expand telemetry runbook and integration test script
- Add codecov exclusions for telemetry modules
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace references to non-existent TracingInstrumentation.h with
SpanGuard.cpp pimpl implementation that actually exists on this branch.
Update conditional compilation section to describe the pimpl approach.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add DiscardFlag.h and FilteringSpanProcessor references to the file
tree, key files table, and implementation summary in OpenTelemetryPlan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Run .github/scripts/rename/docs.sh to replace rippled → xrpld
references in all plan documentation files, fixing the check-rename
CI failure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
