feat(metrics): add ARC domain metrics - #471
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If the artifact type is not a valid Kubernetes label value, the label is skipped rather than truncated: the workflow stays creatable and reports as artifact_type="unknown". A label value inherited from the cloned object is cleared in that case too, so a stale type never survives onto the new ArtifactWorkflow.
The cron freshness gauges aggregate to one series per namespace and artifact type, taking the oldest timestamp in the group, so a healthy workflow cannot mask a stalled sibling under the same label tuple.
Durations come from the Argo workflow's own start and finish times rather than ARC status timestamps, which are observation times and are never set for failures. Also fixes the cron status path skipping its phase update: the short-circuiting || meant setStatusFromWorkflow was never called once any earlier field had already marked the status dirty.
The metric cannot carry a useful value in the shipped image. Nothing stamps a version through ldflags, and the Docker build context excludes .git -> no vcs.revision in the embedded build info. Every release would report version="(devel)", and "(devel)" passes the != "" check, so it even beats the honest "unknown" fallback. Better no metric than one that lies about which build is running. Comes back once the release build stamps version and revision properly.
Two problems with the reason label, both of them break aggregates over it. Double counting: every failure inside computeDesiredAW recorded its own reason and then the caller recorded again as ComputationFailed. One failed endpoint fetch counted under InvalidEndpoint and under ComputationFailed, so sum(rate(arc_reconcile_errors_total[5m])), the natural "how many reconcile failures" query, read 2x the truth for that whole class, with ComputationFailed shadowing every specific reason as a sibling series. The caller no longer counts. ComputationFailed is now reserved for the two paths in computeDesiredAW that have no Event of their own, the ClusterArtifactType fetch and the sha encoding, where it is the reason the only Event fires under anyway. Missing controller: const.go claims the reason constants keep the metric and the Event in agreement, which was true for the Order controller only. The ArtifactWorkflow controller still emitted warning Events with raw literals and recorded nothing, and ControllerArtifactWorkflow had zero references. All six sites now use the constants and record beside the Event: missing secrets, failed Argo workflow creation, failed deletion, for both the single and the cron handler. No literal warning reasons are left in pkg/controller. Events are untouched, only the metric calls changed.
Two comments described behaviour the code does not have. rollup.go claimed an Order containing a cron artifact never reaches a terminal phase. It does: a cron ArtifactWorkflow reaches Succeeded between runs (artifactworkflow_controller_test.go covers it) and the Order mirrors that status straight through, so cron Orders read Succeeded between runs and stay Failed after a failed one until the next run says otherwise. leader.go claimed the cache is synced by the time the gate flips. Only half true. The manager syncs the caches it knows about before starting leader election runnables, but the Order and ArtifactWorkflow informers are created lazily by the controllers, which are leader election runnables started alongside the gate. The first scrape after election can therefore create an informer and wait for it, bounded by collectTimeout. Degrades to a failed scrape, not a hung one, so no code change, just an honest comment.
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This PR adds domain metrics and fixes cron status propagation, while removing an exported lifecycle helper that may break downstream consumers compiling against the package. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up to confirm external users do not depend on that helper. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Prometheus
participant Collector
participant CacheReader
Prometheus->>Collector: scrape metrics
Collector->>CacheReader: list Orders and ArtifactWorkflows
CacheReader-->>Collector: cached resources or list error
Collector-->>Prometheus: aggregated metrics
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participant ArtifactWorkflowController
participant WorkflowHandler
participant StatusWriter
participant Metrics
ArtifactWorkflowController->>WorkflowHandler: process workflow status
WorkflowHandler->>StatusWriter: write changed status
StatusWriter-->>WorkflowHandler: status update result
WorkflowHandler->>Metrics: record terminal completion
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pkg/controller/workflow_handler.go (1)
223-236: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRecord cron workflow completions after the status update.
Lines 223 and 235 discard the completion returned by
setStatusFromWorkflow. A terminal cron run updatesArtifactWorkflow.Statusbut does not increment the completion counter or observe its duration.Keep the returned completion and call
record()afterh.Status().Updatesucceeds.Proposed fix
- changed, _ := h.setStatusFromWorkflow(ctx, h.log, h.aw, &wf) + changed, done := h.setStatusFromWorkflow(ctx, h.log, h.aw, &wf) + completion = done updated = changed || updated ... - changed, _ := h.setStatusFromWorkflow(ctx, h.log, h.aw, &wf) + changed, done := h.setStatusFromWorkflow(ctx, h.log, h.aw, &wf) + if done != nil { + completion = done + } updated = changed || updated ... if err := h.Status().Update(ctx, h.aw); err != nil { return errLogAndWrap(h.log, err, "failed to update status") } + if completion != nil { + completion.record() + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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pkg/metrics/collector.go (1)
155-165: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 TrivialA cron workflow that never succeeded is invisible to staleness alerts.
The success gauge only receives a sample when
Status.Succeeded > 0. A cron ArtifactWorkflow that has never completed a successful run contributes nothing to the group. If another workflow with the same namespace and artifact type succeeds, the group still reports a recent timestamp, so the failing workflow stays hidden. The same applies to the scheduled gauge for a workflow that was never scheduled.Consider one of these additions so alerting can see this state:
- Emit a separate count of cron ArtifactWorkflows that have no successful run yet, labelled by namespace and artifact type.
- Alert on the phase gauge
arc_artifactworkflowsfor cron workflows inFailedorErrorphases in addition to the freshness gauges.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@pkg/metrics/rollup.go`:
- Around line 46-55: Resolve the precedence between stopped and in-progress
workflows in the status aggregation switch: make inProgress take priority over
stopped so mixed Stopped/Running orders report WorkflowRunning. Update the
switch around the stopped and inProgress cases while preserving the existing
succeeded and pending behavior.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@pkg/controller/workflow_handler.go`:
- Around line 223-236: Update both setStatusFromWorkflow call sites in the
workflow status handling path to retain the returned completion instead of
discarding it, then invoke completion.record() only after h.Status().Update
succeeds. Preserve the existing updated aggregation and ensure terminal cron
workflows increment their completion counter and record duration.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@pkg/metrics/collector.go`:
- Around line 155-165: Update the cron workflow metrics collection around the
succeeded and scheduled gauges so workflows with no successful run or no
schedule are represented instead of omitted. Add a separate count metric labeled
by namespace and artifact type for these missing states, and emit it while
processing each cron ArtifactWorkflow alongside keepOldest(succeeded, ...) and
keepOldest(scheduled, ...).
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For the record, since it came up: I did look at kube-state-metrics Covers current state only -> the counters, the duration histogram and the reason taxonomy need in-process code either way. Orders carry no phase field, its derived from the per-artifact workflow map and that rollup is Go regardless. Metric names would live in a config operators own so we cant promise the dashboard a stable contract. Plus a KSM dependency and per-cluster config on every operator, on the aggregated-apiserver path rather than CRDs. What it would have given us for free: single exporter, so no leader gating and no duplicate series, but I guess its not a replacement for arcs own metrics |
An Order holding one Stopped workflow and one Running workflow reported Stopped, which hid work that was still going. In flight now outranks a stop. The stop is not lost, it surfaces once nothing is in flight.
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… helpers Collector implements Runnable and LeaderElectionRunnable directly, so the leaderGate struct and its constructor go away. modeOf and phaseLabel each had one caller and are inlined.
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pkg/metricswith ARC's first domain metrics, plus the wiring to expose them:arc_orders{namespace,phase}andarc_artifactworkflows{namespace,artifact_type,mode,phase}, read from the manager cache at scrape timearc_artifactworkflow_last_scheduled_timestamp_secondsand..._last_success_timestamp_seconds, one series per(namespace, artifact_type)carrying the oldest timestamparc_artifactworkflow_completions_total,arc_artifactworkflow_duration_seconds,arc_reconcile_errors_total{controller,reason}arc.opendefense.cloud/artifact-typeTwo pre-existing bugs fixed on the way, separate commits:
updated = updated || h.setStatusFromWorkflow(...)short circuits -> once any earlier field had marked the status dirty the call never ran, so phase and completion time were never updatedcloneObjectMetahanded out the Order's own label map by reference -> writing the new label would have mutated the OrderNo chart or docs changes, those follow in separate PRs.
Why
ARC had no domain metrics at all,
observability.mdsaid so outright. A dashboard could show whether the reconciler was busy or erroring, not whether orders actually went through. This is the metrics half of #316, the dashboard needs them to exist first.The non-obvious calls:
/metrics, only the leader reconciles -> ungated, two replicas read exactly doubletime() - last_success > thresholdhas to fire on the stalest workflow, not be masked by a healthy siblingStartedAt/FinishedAt. ARC setsCompletionTimeonly for Succeeded and Stopped, failures setFailureTime-> deriving it from ARC status is garbage for every failurereasonreuses the Event reasons and each failure records once ->sum(rate(arc_reconcile_errors_total[5m]))means what it looks like, and the label always matcheskubectl describe orderScoped out: cron completions (Argo's cumulative counters reset on force reconcile, freshness timestamps cover it instead), the
"Deleting"event (fires on every normal deletion, would spike the errors panel),arc_build_info(nothing stamps a version and the docker context has no.git, so every image would report(devel)).Known limitations
artifact_type="unknown". The label is stamped at creation only and the name sha is over the field list, not ObjectMeta -> never relabelled, never recreated. Permanent for cron ones, which is exactly what the freshness gauges servearc_reconcile_errors_totalis retry inflated, a permanently failing reconcile increments its reason on every backoffTesting
ENVTEST_K8S_VERSION ?= 1.36.1(Makefile:22) has no darwin/arm64 envtest bundle, somake testdies during setup on a Mac before running anything. Ran both gates withENVTEST_K8S_VERSION=1.36.2, whichsetup-envtest listdoes offer. Left the pin alone, its?=so the override is enough and the same variable drivesKIND_NODE_IMAGE-> changing it would re-target the kind cluster. Worth a separate fix imho.Checklist
Part of #316.
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