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andygrove and others added 14 commits July 2, 2026 18:10
Move the scheduler REST API's JobResponse/TaskSummary/TaskStatus/Percentiles/
QueryStageSummary/QueryStagesResponse types onto the ballista-history crate's
shared DTOs, and extract the graph-to-DTO construction logic that previously
lived inline in the handlers into pub(crate) builder functions in a new
api::dto_build module. Handlers become thin wrappers over these builders,
which a later event-log writer will also call. Behavior is unchanged; the
existing handler unit tests move to dto_build.rs alongside the moved helper
functions they exercise, plus one new plan-string assertion test.
Emit HistoryEvents from the QueryStageScheduler event loop:
JobSubmitted -> JobStart, TaskUpdating -> TaskEnd (one per finished
task), and JobFinished/JobRunningFailed -> JobEnd. Event builders live
in a new scheduler_server::event_log module and reuse the same
dto_build DTOs the REST API serves, so a job's JobEnd event matches
its live GET /api/job/{id} response. The EventLogWriter is constructed
from SchedulerConfig::event_log_dir and threaded into
QueryStageScheduler; emission is best-effort and a no-op when
event_log_dir is unset.
… missing jobs

- HistoryStore::load now skips unreadable/corrupt .eventlog files with a
  warning instead of failing the whole load, so one bad log can't hide
  every other completed job.
- Job endpoints (/api/job/{id}, /stages, /config, /dot) now return 404
  for unknown job ids instead of 200 with a null body, matching the
  live scheduler's behavior.
- Add /api/state with a static payload matching the shape the TUI
  deserializes at startup.
- Strengthen router tests: assert stage-response body contents, cover
  the corrupt-eventlog skip path, and cover the 404 behavior.
…e scheduler

Add an end-to-end DTO parity test that builds live JobResponse/
QueryStagesResponse DTOs, writes the same JobEnd event through the real
EventLogWriter, reloads it via HistoryStore::load, and asserts the
serialized JSON matches exactly -- proving the history server would
serve the same data a running scheduler produced.
EventLogWriter::append enqueues via non-blocking try_send, which drops
the event when the channel is saturated. Using it for the terminal
JobEnd event meant a completed job's log could end up with JobStart
and TaskEnds but no JobEnd, making read_completed_job return None and
the job silently disappear from the history server.

Add append_final, which awaits channel capacity instead of dropping,
and finish_job, which flushes and then closes the per-job file handle
(also fixing fd accumulation). Wire both into the JobFinished and
JobRunningFailed on_receive arms in place of append + flush_job.
…-api

All ballista_history usage in the scheduler is behind the rest-api feature
(DTO builders, event-log wiring, history module). Gating the dependency on
rest-api keeps it out of the graph for consumers that build the scheduler with
default-features = false (e.g. pyballista), and out of non-rest-api builds.
serde_json is only used in production by the rest-api-gated history module
(all other uses are in tests, covered by the dev-dependency). Gating it keeps
it out of the dependency graph for default-features = false consumers such as
pyballista, so python/Cargo.lock stays in sync.
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  • ballista/history/src/dto.rs
  • ballista/history/src/event.rs
  • ballista/history/src/lib.rs
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This pull request introduces a new ballista-history crate and a standalone ballista-history-server binary to support recording and replaying job execution histories in Ballista. It implements an asynchronous, buffered event-log writer (EventLogWriter) and a reader (read_completed_job) to persist scheduler events to disk as JSONL and serve them via /api/* endpoints matching the live scheduler. The review feedback highlights several critical improvements: handling the JobCancel event in QueryStageScheduler to prevent file descriptor leaks and ensure cancelled jobs are properly recorded; guarding against division by zero in dto_build.rs when num_stages is zero; optimizing the file handle lookup in EventLogWriter using the entry API to avoid redundant hash lookups; and wrapping the synchronous HistoryStore::load call in tokio::task::spawn_blocking to prevent blocking the async executor thread.

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log.finish_job(job_id.as_str()).await;
}
_ => {}

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The QueryStageSchedulerEvent::JobCancel event is not handled in the event_log match statement. This results in a file descriptor leak because finish_job is never called for cancelled jobs, and also prevents cancelled jobs from being recorded as completed/ended in the event log (so the history server will never load them). We should handle JobCancel by appending a terminal JobEnd event with a Failed status and then finishing the job.

                QueryStageSchedulerEvent::JobCancel(job_id) => {
                    if let Ok(Some(graph)) = self
                        .state
                        .task_manager
                        .get_job_execution_graph(job_id)
                        .await
                    {
                        log.append_final(
                            job_id.as_str(),
                            event_log::job_end_event(
                                &graph,
                                ballista_history::event::JobEndStatus::Failed(
                                    "Job cancelled".to_string(),
                                ),
                                graph.start_time(),
                                timestamp_millis(),
                            ),
                        )
                        .await;
                    }
                    log.finish_job(job_id.as_str()).await;
                }
                _ => {}

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let percent_complete =
((completed_stages as f32 / num_stages as f32) * 100_f32) as u8;

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If num_stages is 0 (e.g., if a job fails early during planning or initialization), dividing by num_stages will result in a division by zero / NaN value. We should explicitly guard against num_stages == 0 to prevent unexpected behavior, similar to how it is handled in build_job_response_from_overview.

    let percent_complete = if num_stages == 0 {
        0
    } else {
        ((completed_stages as f32 / num_stages as f32) * 100_f32) as u8
    };

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if !handles.contains_key(job_id) {
let path = log_dir.join(format!("{job_id}.eventlog"));
match tokio::fs::OpenOptions::new()
.create(true)
.append(true)
.open(&path)
.await
{
Ok(f) => {
handles.insert(job_id.to_string(), f);
}
Err(e) => {
eprintln!("event-log writer: cannot open {}: {e}", path.display());
return None;
}
}
}
handles.get_mut(job_id)

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Using contains_key followed by insert and get_mut performs multiple redundant hash lookups. We can optimize this by using the entry API to perform a single lookup.

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if !handles.contains_key(job_id) {
let path = log_dir.join(format!("{job_id}.eventlog"));
match tokio::fs::OpenOptions::new()
.create(true)
.append(true)
.open(&path)
.await
{
Ok(f) => {
handles.insert(job_id.to_string(), f);
}
Err(e) => {
eprintln!("event-log writer: cannot open {}: {e}", path.display());
return None;
}
}
}
handles.get_mut(job_id)
match handles.entry(job_id.to_string()) {
std::collections::hash_map::Entry::Occupied(entry) => Some(entry.into_mut()),
std::collections::hash_map::Entry::Vacant(entry) => {
let path = log_dir.join(format!("{job_id}.eventlog"));
match tokio::fs::OpenOptions::new()
.create(true)
.append(true)
.open(&path)
.await
{
Ok(f) => Some(entry.insert(f)),
Err(e) => {
eprintln!("event-log writer: cannot open {}: {e}", path.display());
None
}
}
}
}


let args = Args::parse();

let store = Arc::new(HistoryStore::load(&args.event_log_dir)?);

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Calling the synchronous blocking I/O function HistoryStore::load directly inside the async function inner can block the Tokio runtime thread. We should run this blocking operation inside tokio::task::spawn_blocking to avoid blocking the executor thread.

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let store = Arc::new(HistoryStore::load(&args.event_log_dir)?);
let event_log_dir = args.event_log_dir.clone();
let store = Arc::new(
tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || HistoryStore::load(&event_log_dir))
.await
.map_err(|e| std::io::Error::new(std::io::ErrorKind::Other, e))??,
);

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Summary: This PR introduces a Spark History Server–style “history server” for Ballista by persisting per-job event logs and replaying them via an HTTP API.

Changes:

  • Added new ballista-history crate with shared REST DTOs and a JSONL on-disk HistoryEvent schema
  • Implemented an async, buffered per-job event-log writer and a reader for completed .eventlog files
  • Refactored scheduler REST handlers to build responses via a shared api::dto_build module (shared with event-log generation)
  • Added event-log emission from the scheduler event loop (JobStart/TaskEnd/JobEnd) when event_log_dir is configured
  • Added event_log_dir to scheduler configuration and CLI args
  • Added a standalone ballista-history-server binary that serves /api/* from stored event logs
  • Added tests for JSON round-trips and for byte-identical JSON parity between live scheduler DTOs and replayed history output

Technical Notes: The history server serves stored DTO bundles from JobEnd records and provides a static /api/state payload so existing clients can connect unchanged.

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let num_stages = job.stage_count();
let completed_stages = job.completed_stages();
let percent_complete =

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At ballista/scheduler/src/api/dto_build.rs:57-58, percent_complete divides by num_stages without guarding num_stages == 0, unlike build_job_response_from_overview. If stage_count() can ever be 0, this yields NaN/inf and can silently produce a misleading percentage.

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physical_plan: Option<String>,
},
StageStart {
stage_id: usize,

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At ballista/history/src/event.rs:54-64, the on-disk schema uses usize for StageStart/StageEnd.stage_id but u32 for TaskEnd.stage_id. Since usize is architecture-dependent and the id widths are inconsistent, this can make the “frozen” event-log schema less portable/stable across platforms and consumers.

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.as_ref()
.map(to_api_task_status)
.unwrap_or(ApiTaskStatus::Running);

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At ballista/scheduler/src/scheduler_server/event_log.rs:72-78, task_end_events filters out Running but still allows status == None and then records it as ApiTaskStatus::Running in a TaskEnd event. That can produce a terminal timeline record that claims the task is still running, which seems inconsistent for consumers replaying the log.

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.await;
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log.finish_job(job_id.as_str()).await;

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At ballista/scheduler/src/scheduler_server/query_stage_scheduler.rs:145-162, finish_job() is called even if get_job_execution_graph() fails and no JobEnd was appended. That leaves a .eventlog without a terminal JobEnd record (so the history server will ignore it), potentially dropping completed/failed jobs from history due to transient graph retrieval issues.

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Review: Event log & history server (Spark History Server equivalent)

⚠️ Security notice: prompt-injection attempt embedded in this PR

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Overview

Adds a Spark-History-Server-style feature: a new ballista-history crate defining an on-disk JSONL event-log schema (HistoryEvent: JobStart/StageStart/StageEnd/TaskEnd/JobEnd) plus an async writer and a reader that replays a completed job into REST-serving DTOs. The scheduler optionally writes to this log during its event loop, and a new standalone ballista-history-server binary loads completed logs and serves the same /api/* shape the live scheduler does, so the existing TUI works unmodified against historical jobs. REST DTO-building logic was refactored out of api/handlers.rs into a shared api/dto_build.rs so both the live API and the event log serialize identical JSON.

Code quality & design

  • The shared-builder approach (dto_build.rs used by both the live REST handlers and event_log.rs) is a good design choice — it directly guarantees the "byte-identical JSON" goal and is backed by a solid parity test (history_store_serves_byte_identical_json_to_live_scheduler).
  • The writer's single-consumer-actor pattern (mpsc channel + background task owning file handles) correctly keeps scheduler hot-path writes non-blocking, with a documented distinction between best-effort append (drops on backpressure) and append_final (awaits capacity so terminal events aren't lost).
  • Good doc comments explaining why, not just what (e.g. the task_row_counts vs get_partition_counts distinction in dto_build.rs).
  • Minor style inconsistency: ballista-history's writer (writer.rs) logs errors via eprintln!, while the rest of the scheduler codebase uses tracing::warn!/tracing::error! (e.g. history/mod.rs, query_stage_scheduler.rs). Understandable if it's meant to avoid pulling tracing into the standalone crate, but worth a tracing dependency if that log output should be filterable/structured like everything else.

Potential bugs / issues

  1. Cancelled and planning-failed jobs never get a terminal event, leaking the writer's file handle and vanishing from history. In query_stage_scheduler.rs's on_receive, the event-log dispatch only handles JobSubmitted, TaskUpdating, JobFinished, and JobRunningFailed. JobCancel and JobPlanningFailed are not matched (fall into _ => {}).

    • For a job that was submitted then cancelled: JobStart was already written and a file handle opened in EventLogWriter's internal handles: HashMap<String, File> (ballista/history/src/writer.rs), but no JobEnd is ever appended and finish_job is never called — so the handle is held open for the rest of the process's life (a slow fd leak under repeated cancellations), and read_completed_job (ballista/history/src/reader.rs) will never find a JobEnd line, so HistoryStore::load silently drops the job. Cancelled jobs simply never show up in the history server, with no indication why.
    • This looks like a real gap for the intended use case (e.g. "why was this job cancelled" is exactly the kind of thing a history server should preserve).
  2. No test exercises the actual event-loop wiring added to on_receive. All existing tests (in event_log.rs, writer.rs, reader.rs, history/mod.rs) construct HistoryEvents directly via the builder functions or drive EventLogWriter/HistoryStore standalone; none go through QueryStageScheduler::on_receive's new match arms (ballista/scheduler/src/scheduler_server/query_stage_scheduler.rs ~L110-196), including group_by_job. Given issue Add Claude Code GitHub Workflow #1 above lives exactly in that untested code path, an integration-style test that runs a job through the real event loop (submit → task updates → finish/cancel) and asserts on the resulting .eventlog file would likely have caught it.

Performance considerations

  • The non-blocking append with a bounded channel and drop-on-full behavior is a sound choice to keep the scheduler hot path from stalling on disk I/O.
  • One open tokio::fs::File handle per active job for the life of the process (writer.rs's handles map) is reasonable for normal turnover, but combined with issue Add Claude Code GitHub Workflow #1 (handles never reclaimed for cancelled jobs) this could accumulate unboundedly on a long-running scheduler with heavy cancellation traffic.
  • HistoryStore::load reads and parses every .eventlog file fully into memory at startup with no pagination/streaming; fine for the intended forensic/debugging use case, but worth documenting as not designed for huge history directories.

Security

  • The prompt-injection files noted above are the primary concern.
  • The new ballista-history-server binary defaults bind_host to 0.0.0.0 with no authentication, serving physical/logical plans and session config (which may contain connection strings or other operational details) to anyone who can reach the port. This matches the existing live scheduler's own default (bind_host: "0.0.0.0" in config.rs), so it's not a new risk profile introduced by this PR, but it's worth calling out since this PR does add a second unauthenticated HTTP surface — consider defaulting to 127.0.0.1 for both, or documenting the expectation that this sits behind a reverse proxy/firewall.

Test coverage

Unit test coverage on the new crate itself (ballista-history) is solid: JSONL round-trip, corrupt-file tolerance, backpressure/drop behavior for append vs append_final, and JSON-shape assertions on the history server's routes. The main gap is the scheduler-side wiring described in issue #2 — the code path that actually decides when to write events during a live job's lifecycle (including cancellation) has no direct test coverage.


Overall this is a well-structured feature with good separation of concerns and thoughtful test coverage for the parts that are tested. The main things worth addressing before merge: remove the injected-instruction files, and close the gap where cancelled/planning-failed jobs leak a file handle and disappear from history.

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