fix(worker): report unhealthy when the worker cannot reach the UI - #330
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The container healthcheck was a TCP connect to the worker's own port, which succeeds on a worker that has been unable to reach the UI for days. Two hosts ran exactly like that for 42 hours: docker ps showed healthy the whole time, the fleet page showed both workers offline, and nothing reconciled the two. /api/health now degrades (503) after a sustained run of missed heartbeats, and the healthcheck asks the app instead of the socket. The healthy response is byte-identical to before, so anything already parsing it keeps working, and a worker with no CASHPILOT_UI_URL is never degraded because it has nowhere to report by design. Also explain the failure that produces this. A worker that cannot resolve the UI logged a bare 'Heartbeat failed: [Errno -3] Try again' every 60 seconds and nothing else. The cause is usually not broken DNS but a container attached to no Docker network - compose service names only resolve inside a shared network, and docker start can leave a container detached after an unclean shutdown. That hint is logged once per outage, with the inspect command that confirms it.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe worker now tracks consecutive heartbeat failures and stale heartbeats, reports degraded health through ChangesWorker health monitoring
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In `@app/worker_api.py`:
- Around line 557-560: Move heartbeat payload construction in _send_heartbeat
into the existing try/failure-accounting path so failures from
_detect_egress_ip, orchestrator.docker_available, or other payload dependencies
increment _consecutive_heartbeat_failures and set _last_error consistently. Add
a regression test covering a payload dependency exception and verify the failure
state is reported through the health path.
- Around line 542-553: Update the URL handling around the host extraction and
the success log near the heartbeat resolution path to parse UI_URL and use only
its hostname, never logging raw UI_URL or embedded credentials such as userinfo,
tokens, or API keys. Preserve the existing fallback behavior for an unparseable
URL and keep the resolution logging context unchanged.
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Review round on #330 (three independent lenses + CodeRabbit), all findings verified before fixing: - Staleness backstop: /api/health also degrades when the last ACCEPTED heartbeat is older than _HEARTBEAT_STALE_AFTER. The counter only moves when a cycle returns — a payload helper blocking forever (statvfs on a wedged /data mount, a wedged Docker socket) froze the loop at counter 0 and the endpoint answered 200 ok indefinitely. Staleness catches raise, hang and dead-task alike; the stamp starts at process start so boot gets the same grace. - The staleness window is deliberately LONGER than the counter window: the auth-discard ladder is cycle-counted (a cycle costs 60s plus payload time), so a wall clock equal to 12 nominal cycles would flip unhealthy before failure #10 on a slow host — and a restart-on-unhealthy supervisor would then reset the in-memory ladder while the stale key survives on disk, restart-looping the lockout forever. Contract tests pin both orderings (threshold > discard; window > discard wall-time + headroom). - Cycle failures that escape _send_heartbeat (payload construction) are now counted by the loop with their own error string. - Success state is recorded immediately after the 2xx: an enrollment bookkeeping explosion (malformed worker_key from a UI version skew) can no longer report a landed heartbeat as 'connection failed'. - The once-per-outage DNS hint re-arms on ANY HTTP reply — a reply proves the name resolves — instead of staying silenced through a post-outage 401 spell. - The exception-chain walk honors __suppress_context__ and follows implicit context, not just __cause__. - URL credentials can no longer reach the logs: the hint logs a parsed hostname (the string-split printed token@host whole, printed the username as the 'host' for user:pass forms, and mangled IPv6), the startup line strips userinfo case-insensitively and through unencoded '@' in passwords, and both 'Heartbeat failed' warnings redact httpx exception text (str(request.url) embeds the password verbatim). - The container healthcheck uses http.client with an explicit 200 check: urllib honors http_proxy with no loopback exemption, so on a host whose Docker injects proxy env the 'loopback' probe was answered by the proxy — unhealthy forever, or healthy on the strength of a different host. - Unhealthy threshold 12 (> discard 10), api_health annotated dict[str, Any] (the api_deploy response-model lesson), and the new globals join conftest's process-wide reset so worker tests cannot poison /api/health tests in other files. Every mechanism is pinned by a test that goes red when it is removed (mutation-verified). Full suite 4664 passed, coverage 95.62%.
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52-66: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAlso save and restore
_consecutive_auth_failures.
_drive_heartbeat(401)incrementsworker_api._consecutive_auth_failures, and the fixture does not restore it. If the count reaches_AUTH_FAILURE_DISCARD_AFTERacross tests in this process,_send_heartbeatcalls_discard_worker_key, which touches the key file. Adding the counter to the saved tuple removes that order-dependent path.♻️ Proposed fix
before = ( worker_api._consecutive_heartbeat_failures, worker_api._link_hint_logged, worker_api._last_heartbeat, worker_api._last_error, worker_api._last_heartbeat_ok, + worker_api._consecutive_auth_failures, ) yield ( worker_api._consecutive_heartbeat_failures, worker_api._link_hint_logged, worker_api._last_heartbeat, worker_api._last_error, worker_api._last_heartbeat_ok, + worker_api._consecutive_auth_failures, ) = before🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tests/test_worker_heartbeat_health.py`:
- Around line 52-66: Update the heartbeat test fixture’s saved and restored
state tuple around the existing heartbeat fields to include
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* feat(alerts): a worker going offline now notifies, not just logs The 42-hour incident had two halves. #330 fixed the worker's half — docker ps now tells the truth. This is the UI's half: it KNEW within 3 minutes (it wrote 'offline' to its own database) and told nobody. The only witness was the fleet page, and the whole incident happened because nobody was looking at it. The online->offline transition now records a durable alert and pushes out-of-band with the same once-per-window dedupe collectors get, the bell shows every currently offline worker (re-derived from the workers table on each rebuild, so the hourly wholesale replacement of the list cannot silently un-report a dead machine, and it survives a UI restart), and the recovery heartbeat clears the stored alert so the NEXT outage notifies again instead of being deduped into silence. Also restores 'notice' bell entries across UI restarts: #326 made notices durable, but the warm filter dropped them, so a recovery inside the gap skipped clear_alerts and the stale row swallowed the next genuine warning within the cooldown window. The pre-heartbeat state read is best-effort by design: it failing must never reject a heartbeat — the upsert one line below is the loud path. 10 new tests incl. negative controls; the transition mechanism is mutation-verified (disabling the alert path turns the test red). Full suite 4674 passed, coverage 95.64%. * fix(alerts): worker alert identity, atomic transition, retryable lifecycle Review round on #331, all four findings verified then fixed: - Identity is client_id, not the display name: workers.name is the container hostname — cosmetic, mutable across recreates, shareable by two hosts — so keying alerts on it let one worker suppress or clear another's. Alert rows and pushes key on client_id; the name travels in the message/title; bell entries carry both; warm restoration resolves stored ids to current display names (a deleted worker keeps the raw id — still actionable, never wrong). - The offline transition is atomic with its evidence: the sweep marks offline via a conditional UPDATE on the exact heartbeat it decided from, so a recovery heartbeat landing in the read-write gap wins instead of being alerted offline at its exact moment of coming back. - The lifecycle is retryable end to end: a still-offline worker re-attempts the durable alert every sweep (the record_alert cooldown makes the successful case a no-op, so a failed insert or push is retried in 2 minutes instead of being lost to the already-offline state); the heartbeat route's recovery clear is best-effort (a DB hiccup must never fail a HEARTBEAT — and on failure the bell entry deliberately stays so memory and disk cannot diverge); the sweep reconciles any lingering alert it finds on an online worker. - Tests read the fleet key from the environment instead of embedding a second copy of the literal. 15 tests in the lifecycle file (+ race, retry, reconciliation, failed-clear-never-fails-heartbeat cases); two pre-existing sweep tests updated to the conditional-mark call shape they now exercise. Full suite 4679 passed, coverage 95.55%.
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The UI half of the healthcheck audit. The container healthcheck was a TCP connect — completed by the kernel's listen backlog while uvicorn is wedged, the scheduler is dead or the database is unreadable — and the docs claimed both images verify 'the app inside is actually answering', which was only true of the worker after #330. Meanwhile the bell's 'All collectors healthy' renders from a latch that can never go false once set, so a dead scheduler left every signal affirmatively green with week-old numbers underneath, indefinitely. - GET /api/health (unauthenticated — the Docker healthcheck asks it, and it is registered in the anonymous-rejection test's PUBLIC list with its reason): 503 + fixed problem names when the scheduler is stopped, when no collection has COMPLETED within 2.5x the interval, or when the database cannot be read. The stamp measures completion, not success — and a wedged collection lock freezes it, because the skip path returns before the finally: the wedge the skip line used to disguise as routine is now the thing this detects. Reason strings are fixed state names; exception text never reaches the response. - Dockerfile healthcheck asks that endpoint via http.client (urlopen honors http_proxy with no localhost exemption — the worker lesson), with an explicit 200 check. Verified to parse intact in a real docker build. - The bell goes 'No collection in N minutes — status unknown' when the server-computed staleness flag is set, instead of affirming health from the permanent latch. 9 new tests incl. negative controls (fresh stamp healthy, lock-skip does not advance the stamp, no exception text in the unauthenticated body). Full suite 4673 passed, coverage 96.56%.
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Why
Two workers in a production fleet were unable to reach the UI for 42 hours. Throughout,
docker psreported themUp (healthy)while the fleet page showed them offline — and nothing reconciled the two views, so nobody noticed until someone went looking for an unrelated reason.Both causes are things any user can hit:
CASHPILOT_UI_URLemitted a bareHeartbeat failed: [Errno -3] Try againevery 60 seconds. The real cause is usually not broken DNS — it is that the container is attached to no Docker network, so a Compose service name cannot resolve.docker startcan leave a container detached after an unclean shutdown (power cut, host crash), anddocker compose up -dfixes it — but nothing in the logs points there.What
/api/healthreturns 503 +status: degradedafter a sustained run of missed heartbeats (5 ≈ 5 min), includinglast_heartbeat,consecutive_failuresand the last error.Dockerfile.workerhealthcheck now asks/api/healthinstead of opening a socket, sodocker psand any container monitoring surface it.docker inspect … NetworkSettings.Networkscommand that confirms it (an empty result is the bug). Logged once, not per cycle — the per-60s warning is exactly what got scrolled past for 42 hours.Deliberate constraints:
{"status": "ok", "worker": …}), so anything already parsing it keeps working. Only the degraded path adds fields.CASHPILOT_UI_URLis never degraded — it has nowhere to report by design, and marking it unhealthy forever would train operators to ignore the signal.httpxwraps thegaierror, so the surface type is not the cause).Testing
uv run pytest tests/— 4643 passed, 6 skippedtests/test_worker_heartbeat_health.py: healthy shape unchanged, below-threshold stays ok, degrades after sustained failures, no-UI-configured never degrades, hint logged exactly once, silent for non-resolution errors, finds agaierrornested deep in the chain, and survives a self-referential exception chainruff check+ruff format --checkcleanSummary by CodeRabbit
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