fix(nvca): do not report a backend healthy before queue readiness - #1668
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NVCA's readiness probe had no relationship to whether anything was consuming the creation queue. /healthz reported the backend healthy once startup progressed, so a caller that treats agentStatus=healthy as a readiness contract could create an SIS request that then sat in pending-evaluation until NVCA was restarted. The queue manager was registered for liveness only, and its StatusOK flag is set true in the constructor before any poll has happened, so it could not distinguish "the queue works" from "the queue has not been tried yet". Readiness therefore could not be derived from it as-is. Record whether a poll has completed alongside that flag, and report the queue as a readiness component that is unhealthy until a poll has completed successfully, and unhealthy again while polls are failing. The component reports at StatusLevelError because the readiness aggregate only flips overall status for components below Warn level, so a Warn-level component would appear in the payload while gating nothing. Registering it requires BackendStatusCache.AddGetter: the queue manager is not constructed until after the startup health gate has already run against that cache, so passing it to the constructor would stall startup rather than gate readiness. This takes the first of the two options the issue offers, so no new CRD condition is added and existing clients and BDD tests keep waiting on the same readiness signal, which is now truthful. No delay is added anywhere. Six existing tests asserted readiness without any queue activity, because their harness deliberately suppresses queue syncing: the GracefulNoGPU tests delete EventTickSyncSQSQueue, and TestAgentApis pins SyncQueueInterval to a year. They now supply the poll they skip. Those tests already asserted 503 while the queue is paused, so the semantics here match the existing intent. Fixes #1590 Signed-off-by: Ankit Anand <ankanand@nvidia.com>
Gating readiness on the creation queue is not enough on its own: the NATS client reported a broken consumer as an empty queue, so the signal readiness reads could never go false. ReceiveMessage logged batch.Error() at warn level and returned (nil, nil). A poll against a deleted stream or consumer was therefore indistinguishable from a poll that found no work, the queue manager counted it as success, and the backend went on reporting healthy while consuming nothing. Return the error when the batch produced no messages, and keep returning any messages that did arrive so work already taken off the stream is not dropped. The cached consumer handle was also never invalidated, so once a consumer disappeared server-side every later poll reused the dead handle and only a process restart recovered: the NVCA restart described in the issue. Evict the cached consumer on a non-timeout fetch failure so the next poll rebuilds it. This is the reactive recreation the TODO above ensureConsumer describes. Note the SQS client already returns receive errors, so queue pull failures already gate liveness there; this makes the NATS path consistent rather than introducing new behaviour. Verified against a local stack by deleting CreateNvcaFunctionTaskStream. Before: /healthz stayed 200 healthy for 192s while every poll failed. After: /healthz reports 503 with "creation queue polling is failing" within ~24s, and restoring the stream returns it to ready in ~10s in the same pod with an unchanged restart count. Refs #1590
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change makes queue readiness, NATS connection state, and health refresh results part of backend health. It adds resilient NATS reconnects, transport metrics, queue liveness tracking, and cached consumer recovery. ChangesNVCA readiness and queue health
NATS transport resilience
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)Queue readinesssequenceDiagram
participant Agent
participant BackendStatusCache
participant QueueManager
participant QueueClient
Agent->>QueueManager: initialize
Agent->>BackendStatusCache: register queue health
QueueManager->>QueueClient: poll queues
QueueClient-->>QueueManager: return poll result
QueueManager->>BackendStatusCache: publish readiness
NATS connection recoverysequenceDiagram
participant NATSClient
participant NATSConnection
participant ConnectionObserver
NATSClient->>NATSConnection: connect with retry options
NATSConnection->>ConnectionObserver: report state changes
NATSConnection->>ConnectionObserver: report successful reconnect
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Concurrent health refreshes can make readiness throttling unreliable, so that race should be fixed before merge. Metric cleanup and repeated getter-error logging also remain bounded operational concerns. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/health/status.go`:
- Line 107: Update AddGetter so adding a getter invalidates or rebuilds the
cached aggregate health result, ensuring readiness cannot report healthy until
the new getter has been polled. Add a regression test covering an unhealthy
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I'm concerned about this and think we should be cautious about the repercussions. Can we get more data here about the likelihood of this happening, or can we do anything to mitigate this scenario? |
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I got this wrong in the description and have fixed it. I said recovery no longer needs a restart, but that's only true for a dead consumer, not a dead connection. We don't set any reconnect options, so we get the nats.go defaults: 60 attempts per server, 2s apart. After that the pool is empty and No likelihood number from me, I don't have production outage history for NATS. It's a 3-node cluster and Since I can't put a number on it I'd rather kill the failure mode: Want that here or separately? |
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Do all the changes in this PR, please. NVCA ships as a versioned artifact, so anything deferred means cutting a release with a known hole in the exact failure mode this PR is about.
Concretely, the full set:
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Both connect paths. client.go:100-106 and client_psat.go:126-132 build opts independently, so every option below goes in both.
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nats.MaxReconnects(-1) and nats.IgnoreAuthErrorAbort(). Infinite reconnects alone isn't enough. It closes the pool-exhaustion path — selectNextServer keeps every server when maxReconnect < 0 (nats.go:1718), so the loop never reaches nc.close(CLOSED, ...) at nats.go:3030. But processAuthError (nats.go:3539-3551) sets nc.ar = true when the same auth error recurs on a server, and doReconnect breaks out and closes the connection at nats.go:2969-2971 regardless of MaxReconnect. lastErr is per-server and cleared on success, so it's about two rotations through the 3-node pool — seconds, not minutes.
Live path for us: the PSAT TokenHandler returns "" on a failed fetch (client_psat.go:120-124), which surfaces as an authorization violation, not a network error. A token-source blip overlapping a NATS blip closes the connection for good. Shipping MaxReconnects(-1) without this is a fix that still has the bug. -
Scope the liveness change to nc.IsClosed() rather than deleting it. Dropping a.livenessCheckGetter.AddChecker(a.queueManager) (agent.go:1423) removes the only automatic recovery we have, and the operator writes agentStatus: Unknown on a non-200 so nothing self-corrects. Failing liveness on connection-closed instead of on poll-failed splits the two cases correctly:
- NATS down, client retrying → readiness 503, liveness OK, no restart. This is the mass-restart scenario, now a no-op.
- Connection actually closed → restart, which is the only recovery.
client already holds nc (client.go:61). queue.Client (queue.go:35-40) is shared with SQS, so an optional interface assertion (interface{ ConnectionClosed() bool }) beats a fifth method with an SQS no-op.
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nats.RetryOnFailedConnect(true). Without it, NATS being down at NVCA start means Agent.Start returns at agent.go:1333-1336/1385-1388 and the pod crash-loops — and CrashLoopBackOff caps at 5 minutes, so recovery can lag NATS coming back by that much. With it plus infinite reconnects, NVCA starts, reports not-ready, and converges. The tradeoff is that a genuine misconfig (wrong URL) becomes "not-ready forever" instead of a fast crash; readiness now surfaces that, and the PSAT path keeps its pre-flight token check at client_psat.go:105-107 for the misconfig case. I think it's worth taking, but flag it if you disagree — I'd rather it be an explicit call in the description either way.
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Connection handlers + metrics. Register DisconnectErrHandler / ReconnectHandler / ClosedHandler on both connect paths (they're currently absent, so a NATS drop produces no log line at all), and drive metrics off them:
- nvca_nats_connection_state — gauge, 0/1/2/3 for disconnected/connected/reconnecting/closed. This is the one that answers "is the connection permanently dead," and state==3 is the alert that replaces the restart we're removing.
- nvca_nats_reconnects_total — counter, so flapping is distinguishable from a single long outage.
- nvca_queue_poll_failures_total{queue_type, gpu, reason} — counter on the error branch of tryPopMessage, with reason bounded to something like connection_closed / no_servers / auth / stream_not_found / consumer_not_found / timeout / other. This is what makes a failing poll visible at all, and the reason split is what separates "NATS is down" from "the consumer went stale" — the two halves this PR fixes independently.
All three on the always-on nvcametrics registry (internal/metrics/metrics.go), not behind ClientMetrics, since the whole point is that they work in prod as shipped. Please add the reason classifier to semconv.ClassifyError too if you'd rather keep one code path, but the always-on counter is the part that matters.
Also worth updating internal/metrics/METRICS.md, and adding a line to the PR description on what to alert on — nvca_nats_connection_state == 3 and a sustained nonzero rate on nvca_queue_poll_failures_total are the two that replace "the pod restarted."
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CodeRabbit's AddGetter finding on status.go:107. Readiness can still return 200 between registration at agent.go:1430 and the next refresh. Same release, same hole.
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Test evidence for the connection half. Your stream-deletion injection covers the consumer half well. The connection equivalent on the same k3d stack: scale NATS to 0 for well past the old ~120s window, confirm (a) no ErrNoServers/CLOSED in the logs, (b) readiness 503 throughout, (c) restartCount unchanged, (d) scaling back up recovers in the same pod. Plus a token-fetch-failure case for #2, since that's the path that's easiest to regress.
Both connect paths built their nats.Options independently, so an option could end up live in only one auth mode. They now share one set, which holds MaxReconnects(-1), IgnoreAuthErrorAbort() and RetryOnFailedConnect(true). Infinite reconnects alone was not enough: processAuthError closes the connection on a repeated auth error regardless of MaxReconnect, and the PSAT TokenHandler returns "" on a failed fetch, which surfaces as an authorization violation rather than a network error. There were no connection handlers at all, so a NATS drop produced no log line. Connect, DisconnectErr, Reconnect and Closed are now registered on both paths and drive nvca_nats_connection_state, nvca_nats_reconnects_total and nvca_queue_poll_failures_total on the always-on registry, with the failure reason bounded to a fixed set. Liveness keys on a closed connection instead of a failed poll. Restarting on a failed poll would restart every NVCA in the fleet during a queue outage and throw away each in-progress reconnect, while a connection closed for good is the one state a restart actually fixes. The check goes through an optional interface assertion so queue.Client stays shared with SQS, which keeps its existing poll-based behaviour. Readiness also reports unhealthy when no creation queue is configured, and when SyncQueues has run five cycles without reaching a poll. Counted in cycles rather than seconds because SyncQueueInterval is operator-configurable with no upper bound. AddGetter now folds the new component's status into the cached aggregate before returning, since GetStatusForLevel serves readiness out of the cache without refreshing. Concurrent refreshes are sequenced so an older slow refresh cannot overwrite a newer result.
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All seven are done. The alerting line went in the description rather than here, On item 3 I kept Item 6 needed more than appending to I skipped the Item 7 didn't recover on NATS scale-up alone. The local auth callout needed a I've left the getter-error hole alone. Fixing it would gate readiness fleet-wide |
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QueueManagerstarts queue fetches concurrently, whileReceiveMessagereleasesconsumersMubeforeFetch. A stale poll can therefore remove a replacement cached under the samedurableName. Pass the failed consumer todropConsumerand delete it only when the cached handle is still that consumer.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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lastRefreshwithgmu.
SyncQueuesand the heartbeat callBackendStatusCache.RefreshStatusForLevelfrom separate workers. WhenminRefreshWaitis non-zero, the method reads and writeslastRefreshwithout synchronization. Concurrent refreshes can race and make the throttle decision nondeterministic.Move the throttle block under
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/internal/metrics/metrics.go`:
- Around line 389-391: Update the Destroy method to unregister
QueuePollFailuresTotal, NATSConnectionState, and NATSReconnectsTotal through
m.registerer.Unregister instead of the package-level prometheus.Unregister,
matching the registerer used by NewDefaultMetrics.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/queue/nats/conn_handlers_test.go`:
- Around line 76-79: Update the first() helper in the connection-state test to
distinguish no recorded state from an actual ConnState value: either return a
presence indicator alongside the state or assert that o.states contains an entry
before comparing it. Preserve the existing first-state comparison when a state
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/queue/nats/conn_options.go`:
- Line 100: Update connectionHandlers to accept clusterID and include a bounded
cluster_id field in every connection lifecycle log, including the established,
closed, disconnected, and error logs around the affected handlers. Pass the
cluster ID through each connectionHandlers call while preserving the existing
URL and error fields.
- Around line 100-121: Add cluster_id from c.clusterID and durable_name from
durableName to the existing partial-batch warning in the relevant client
fetch/poll failure path, while preserving the current fetch error details and
warning behavior.
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/nvca/health/status.go`:
- Around line 299-305: Update BackendStatusCache.RefreshStatusForLevel so the
minRefreshWait throttle check and lastRefresh read/write are performed while
holding gmu. Preserve the existing early status return and timestamp update
behavior while serializing concurrent calls from SyncQueues and the heartbeat.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/queue/nats/client.go`:
- Line 148: Update the ReceiveMessage eviction path and dropConsumer to pass the
failed consumer instance, then remove the cached entry only when it still
matches that instance rather than relying solely on durableName. Preserve
concurrent replacement consumers under the same durableName.
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| prometheus.Unregister(m.QueuePollFailuresTotal) | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Unregister metrics from the configured registerer.
NewDefaultMetrics registers all collectors through m.registerer, but Destroy calls prometheus.Unregister, which targets only DefaultRegisterer. With a custom registerer, the collectors remain registered and a later construction on the same registry can fail. Replace every call in Destroy with m.registerer.Unregister.
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Add cluster_id and durable_name to the partial-batch warning. At client.go#L179, both c.clusterID and durableName are available. Include them with the existing fetch error so operators can identify the affected NATS cluster and durable consumer when partial results and repeated poll failures occur.
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvca/pkg/queue/nats/conn_options.go` around lines
100 - 121, Add cluster_id from c.clusterID and durable_name from durableName to
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Bazel compiles from the checked-in srcs lists, so conn_options.go and queue_observability.go were invisible to it and the nats package failed with undefined: ConnectionObserver. Adding them also needs nats.go and jetstream on pkg/nvca, which had not depended on either before. The test files are the same omission with no build error to announce it: Bazel silently skips a _test.go that no rule lists, so client_broken_consumer_test.go has not run since it was added, and neither would the new readiness, liveness and observability tests.
…NATS logs recordingObserver.first() returned a bare ConnState, which is a string, so it returned "" when nothing had been observed. Three NotEqual assertions compared that against ConnStateConnected and passed, meaning they would have stayed green for an observer wired to nothing, which is the regression they exist to catch. first() now reports presence separately and the callers require it. Verified by deleting the seed in connect(): the tests fail, and before this change they did not. The connection lifecycle logs carried a URL or an error but never said which cluster, and they are read aggregated across clusters. The partial-batch fetch warning gains cluster_id and durable_name for the same reason.
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Yes, in this PR. Same failure mode this PR exists to fix, and "the exact failure mode this PR is about" was the bar I set, not "the exact failure mode named in item 3." If a single getter error gates aggregate readiness the same way a single connection blip used to gate liveness, that's not a new bug for a follow-up, it's the other half of this one. Point me at the specific code path and I'll confirm scope, but I'd rather this ship fixed than tracked. |
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Separately, I found a new issue in pkg/nvca/queue_manager.go:305-363: the paused branch of SyncQueues never calls setPollResult(). Every other path through this function does — the maintenance-cordon branch at line 388/421, the normal path at line 540 — but when qm.IsPaused() is true, all three return points in the paused branch skip it. Meanwhile cyclesSincePoll keeps incrementing on every sync tick regardless of pause state (line 295), so polled/StatusOK() freeze at whatever they were right before the pause and only self-correct once cyclesSincePoll happens to cross the 5-cycle staleness threshold on its own. Concretely: an NVCA that's healthy, then loses all its GPUs and gets paused via handleGPUStateChange, keeps reporting the queue component as healthy for a stretch after pausing — a real staleness window, structurally the same class of bug as NVCF-1590. It's currently masked because the one caller that pauses today also independently flips a separate readiness flag in the same code path, but Pause()/Resume() are exported, so that's incidental coverage, not a guarantee. No test exercises GetComponentStatus() across a paused sync cycle. Fix: call setPollResult() in the paused branch too, mirroring the other branches, so cyclesSincePoll resets and the queue component doesn't drift on stale state while paused. Worth a test that pauses, lets a sync cycle run, and asserts the component reflects the pause rather than a frozen prior status. |
Two readiness paths could still report a backend healthy while nothing was consuming work. The paused branch of SyncQueues reaches none of the poll-result recordings the other branches do, so the queue component kept serving its pre-pause status until the no-poll counter happened to cross its threshold on its own. GetComponentStatus now reports the pause directly. Recording a poll result in that branch instead would either claim a poll that never happened, leaving a manager paused since startup to look healthy the moment it resumed, or label a deliberate stop a polling failure. A getter returning an error had its components dropped and only set the aggregate status, which GetStatusForLevel discards when it rebuilds status from components alone. The component left the payload entirely and readiness answered 200 for something that had no idea how it was doing. publishRefresh now serves a failing getter's last known components for three consecutive refreshes, then reports them unhealthy at Error level; one that has never reported is named by its Go type so there is always something to gate on. The tolerance is deliberate. These getters read through shared informers against the same API server and fail together, so reporting on the first error would take every backend out of service on a single blip, which is the mass-effect problem the liveness scoping in this PR exists to avoid. Only consecutive failures count, so a flaky dependency cannot accumulate its way to unhealthy.
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Fixed. The path you asked for: status.go:410-429. GetStatusForLevel seeds status healthy and rebuilds it from Components alone, so the aggregate unhealthy that RefreshStatusForLevel set on the error was discarded and the component just left the payload. publishRefresh (status.go:240) serves the getter's last known components for three consecutive failures, then reports them unhealthy at Error level. One that has never reported is named by its Go type. Three, not zero: these getters read through shared informers against the same API server and fail together, so reporting on the first error 503s the fleet on one blip. Consecutive only, so a flaky dependency can't accumulate. |
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Fixed at queue_manager.go:986, though not by mirroring the other branches. setPollResult(true) claims a poll that never happened, so a manager paused since startup reports healthy the moment it resumes. setPollResult(false) calls a deliberate stop a polling failure. GetComponentStatus now has a paused case ahead of the staleness one, so the pause registers on the first paused cycle and is named as a pause. Counter keeps running, which leaves resume fail-closed until a real poll lands. Two tests drive real SyncQueues cycles: one that the component stops serving the pre-pause status, one that the pause registers well inside the tolerance. Does that work, or do you want the poll result recorded there too? |
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WithError(res.err)from the tolerance log.
RefreshStatusForLevellogs each getter failure and returns it inutilerror.NewAggregate.queue_manager.gologs the returned error again. After the tolerance, this line adds another error-level record on every refresh, which duplicates error telemetry and violates the checked-in logging guideline. Keepgetterandconsecutive_failures.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The failure is already logged where the getter is called, returned in the refresh aggregate, and carried on the component itself, so this line made it a third record per refresh. AGENTS.md asks for one or the other. Keeps the getter and the failure count, which are what the transition needs.
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Fixes #1590.
NVCA reported a backend healthy before anything was consuming its creation queue,
so the control plane sent it work that then sat in pending-evaluation. Two things
caused that: the queue manager marks itself OK at construction, and that same
optimistic flag was also wired into liveness.
The liveness half is the worse of the two. A NATS outage longer than the 150s
liveness window would restart every NVCA in the fleet at once, and each restart
throws away an in-progress reconnect.
What's in here
Readiness gates on the creation queue.
QueueManagerreports aqueuecomponentat
StatusLevelError, unhealthy if no poll has completed, if no creation queue isconfigured, if polling is failing, or if
SyncQueueshas run five cycles withoutgetting as far as a poll. It registers through
AddGetter, since the queuemanager is built after the health cache.
Liveness keys on a closed connection instead of a failed poll (your item 3). I
didn't delete
AddChecker(a.queueManager); it now checksnc.IsClosed()throughan optional
interface{ ConnectionClosed() bool }assertion, soqueue.Clientstays shared with SQS. NATS down and retrying gets you readiness 503, liveness
fine, no restart. A connection that's genuinely closed still restarts, since
that's the only way back.
Both connect paths share one option set now (items 1, 2, 4). They used to build
opts independently, which is exactly how an option ends up live in only one auth
mode.
resilienceOptions()holdsMaxReconnects(-1),IgnoreAuthErrorAbort()and
RetryOnFailedConnect(true), and both paths call it.Connection handlers and metrics (item 5). There were no handlers at all, so a
NATS drop didn't produce so much as a log line. They're registered on both paths
and drive
nvca_nats_connection_state,nvca_nats_reconnects_totalandnvca_queue_poll_failures_total{queue_type,gpu_name,reason}on the always-onregistry, with
reasonbounded.CodeRabbit's
AddGettergap (item 6), plus a related one I hit while testing it.The heartbeat and queue ticks each get their own worker goroutine, so two
refreshes really can overlap, and the older one could overwrite the newer one's
result.
A getter that can't answer no longer disappears.
RefreshStatusForLeveldroppedan erroring getter's components and set only the aggregate status, and
GetStatusForLevelthrows that away when it rebuilds status from componentsalone, so the component left the payload and readiness answered 200 for something
that had no idea how it was doing.
publishRefreshserves its last knowncomponents for three consecutive failures, then reports them unhealthy at
StatusLevelError. One that has never reported is named by its Go type.A paused queue manager says so. The paused branch of
SyncQueuesreaches none ofthe poll-result recordings the other branches do, so the component kept serving
its pre-pause status until the no-poll counter crossed its threshold on its own.
Recording a poll result there instead would either claim a poll that never
happened, leaving a manager paused since startup healthy the moment it resumes,
or call a deliberate stop a polling failure.
Judgement calls
RetryOnFailedConnect(true)swaps a fast crash for a slow not-ready, and youasked for this to be explicit either way. NATS being down at startup no longer
crash-loops the pod, so recovery doesn't lag NATS coming back by up to the five
minute backoff cap. The price is that a wrong URL is now not-ready forever
instead of an obvious crash. Readiness surfaces it and the PSAT path still
pre-flights its token fetch, so I think it's the right trade.
Three consecutive failures before a getter error moves readiness, not one. These
getters read through shared informers against the same API server and fail
together, so reporting on the first error would 503 the fleet on one blip — the
mass-effect problem your item 3 avoids for liveness. Only consecutive failures
count, so a flaky dependency can't accumulate its way to unhealthy.
Staleness counts sync cycles, not seconds.
SyncQueueIntervalis configurablewith no upper bound, and readiness refreshes at the top of
SyncQueuesbeforethat cycle's poll lands, so any fixed timeout shorter than the interval reads
stale every single cycle and pins a healthy backend at 503.
That detector has a hole I know about. It catches
SyncQueuesrunning withoutpolling, but not a poll that wedges partway through, because then nothing
increments either. I don't believe it's reachable today: both stages of the NATS
path are bounded,
FetchMaxWaitat 3s and JetStream API calls at 5s, becausewrapContextWithoutDeadlineapplies its default to any context without adeadline, not just
Background()as its comment suggests. Leaving it as a knowngap rather than adding a watchdog for a case I can't actually produce.
Alerting
These replace "the pod restarted":
nvca_nats_connection_state == 3. The connection is gone for good and only arestart fixes it.
nvca_queue_poll_failures_total. Split byreasonit tells you whether NATS is down or the consumer went stale, which are the two
halves this fixes separately.
METRICS.mdis updated. One trap in there: the creation-queue query needsqueue_type=~"createQueue|clusterCreateQueue|taskClusterCreateQueue". Self-hostedsynthesises
clusterCreateQueue, so a query pinned tocreateQueuereported zerocreation-queue failures across a real 53 minute outage.
Testing
Unit tests for each readiness state, the liveness split, the handlers including a
deferred first connect, the auth-abort path,
AddGetter, and refresh ordering. Imutation-tested each new test: pull the fix out, check the test actually fails,
put it back.
For item 7 I scaled NATS to 0 on k3d and it stayed down 53 minutes against a 150s
window. Readiness 503 and liveness 200 on every sample,
restartCount0,ErrNoServersandclosed permanentlyboth 0, and the connection survived 96authorization violations before recovering in the same pod. I kept the pod logs,
the pod JSON and the metrics scrape from that run.
One caveat. NVCA did not recover on NATS scale-up alone. NATS came back and NVCA
stayed 503 until I separately restarted the NATS auth callout service, which
doesn't survive a NATS outage in the local stack and keeps reporting healthy while
refusing to serve its responder. Local stack bug, filed on its own. Nothing in
that component's own health surfaced the failure, which is what the alerting
above is for.
Item 2's token-failure case is a unit test: the fetcher breaks mid-connection, the
reconnect gets rejected on auth twice over, the connection stays open, and the
same client recovers once the token source returns.
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