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Every write to the high-rate target streams (TELEMETRY__, COMMAND__, DECOM__, DECOMCMD__) now passes an approximate XADD ... MINID ~ <cutoff>, so Redis/Valkey never keeps entries older than a configurable max age.

  • New env var OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS: default 600. Set it to 0 or empty to disable. Documented in configuration/environment.md.
  • For TELEMETRY__/COMMAND__, the max age is never less than 2 × (log cycle time + LogWriter::CLEANUP_DELAY), which is 1320 s with the default 600 s cycle. The reason: historical streaming reads data that isn't in the bucket yet (the current log file) from the stream. The per-target tlm_log_cycle_time/cmd_log_cycle_time is read from TargetModel once and cached per process.
  • DECOM__/DECOMCMD__ use the plain max age. Historical DECOM data comes from TSDB, and TSDB normally keeps 60 s of these streams.
  • The cutoff is measured back from the id being written, or from now when the id is *. Decom reuses the raw packet's id, so an entry written by a decom that's running behind is never trimmed by its own add.
  • write_topic in Ruby and Python (store + Topic) takes an optional minid: keyword. Existing callers are unaffected.
  • The trimming contract is now written down in comments in Topic, LogWriter, and TsdbMicroservice.

Why

Until now these streams were bounded only by their consumers trimming them: the log microservice after it uploads a file, and the TSDB microservice. If logging is disabled (PacketLogWriter#write returns early, so no trim offsets are ever queued), TSDB isn't deployed, or a trimmer falls behind, the streams grow without bound until Redis runs out of memory. This cap bounds memory even when no trimmer is running, and it sits well above normal retention so it doesn't change behavior on a healthy system.

Tradeoff: a consumer that falls further behind than the cap loses the trimmed entries. That's the intended failure mode, better than taking down Redis. Warning the user when this happens belongs in a separate PR about lag and data-loss alerting.

Testing

  • New spec/topics/topic_spec.rb and test/topics/test_topic.py: minid math (now-relative, id-relative, min age, disabled), log cycle lookup and caching, write_topic passing MINID through to XADD (fakeredis confirms old entries are actually trimmed), and TelemetryTopic queued and unqueued writes.
  • Updated the existing topic specs and tests for the new minid argument.
  • bundle exec rspec spec/topics spec/microservices spec/logs spec/api spec/utilities/store*: 643 examples, 1 failure. The failure is decom_microservice_spec.rb:58, an order-dependent limits-set test that passes on its own and also fails on main.
  • uv run pytest: 3040 passed. uv run ruff check openc3: clean.

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  • New Features
    • Added configurable stream-retention limits, defaulting to 10 minutes. Limits can be disabled or adjusted, with a 2-minute minimum when enabled.
    • Command and telemetry streams retain data long enough to cover configured log cycles and cleanup.
  • Documentation
    • Documented the new retention setting and its behavior.

TELEMETRY/COMMAND/DECOM/DECOMCMD streams were bounded only by the log and
TSDB microservices trimming them, so disabled logging, a missing TSDB, or a
lagging trimmer let Redis grow without limit. Writes now pass an approximate
MINID (OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS, default 600s, never less than two log
cycles for raw streams) so the streams stay bounded without a trimmer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- openc3/lib/openc3/topics/topic.rb:74 - SonarQube rubydre:S7865: replaced ENV['OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS'] with ENV.fetch('OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS', nil). Behaviour is unchanged: nil still selects the default.
- openc3/python/openc3/topics/topic.py:121 - SonarQube python:S5806: stopped reassigning the builtin-shadowing `id` and decode into a local `entry_id` instead. The parameter name stays `id`, so positional callers and parity with Ruby are unaffected.
- openc3/python/test/topics/test_topic.py:36,41,60,64,87 - SonarQube python:S8997: replaced direct os.environ assignments with scoped `with patch.dict(os.environ, {...})` blocks. pytest's monkeypatch can't be used in a unittest.TestCase. Every assertion is kept.

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The fixes from this review are in #4051, a PR into feat/stream-safety-trim. Merge it to apply them.

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The stream safety MINID cap is implemented the same way in Ruby and Python. The minid kwarg reaches XADD through both the direct and the queued stores, and redis 5.4 and redis-py both support XADD MINID. I found no correctness defects; the only changes this turn fix all 7 SonarQube findings. I couldn't run the tests or syntax checks here: the sandbox needed approval for those commands, so the edits were checked by reading only.

  • Fixed: openc3/lib/openc3/topics/topic.rb:74 - SonarQube rubydre:S7865: replaced ENV['OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS'] with ENV.fetch('OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS', nil). Behaviour is unchanged: nil still selects the default.
  • Fixed: openc3/python/openc3/topics/topic.py:121 - SonarQube python:S5806: stopped reassigning the builtin-shadowing id and decode into a local entry_id instead. The parameter name stays id, so positional callers and parity with Ruby are unaffected.
  • Fixed: openc3/python/test/topics/test_topic.py:36,41,60,64,87 - SonarQube python:S8997: replaced direct os.environ assignments with scoped with patch.dict(os.environ, {...}) blocks. pytest's monkeypatch can't be used in a unittest.TestCase. Every assertion is kept.
  • Concern: The quality gate also reported new_bugs_severity 15 and new_code_smells_severity 15. These should clear with the 7 issues fixed, but that only shows up on the next SonarQube analysis.
  • Concern: I couldn't run the Python and Ruby tests or syntax checks: the sandbox asked for approval before running python3 and ruby. The edits were reviewed by reading only.

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Reviewed the full PR and previous reviewer’s edits; no additional defects found. Ruby/Python behavior is consistent, and all seven listed SonarQube findings are addressed. Tests were not run because dependencies are unavailable.

  • Concern: SonarQube must rerun to confirm the previous fixes clear the quality gate.

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- Pass OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS to the operator in compose.yaml
  since setting it in .env had no effect
- Skip the cap when the TargetModel log cycle lookup fails and retry
  every LOG_CYCLE_LOOKUP_RETRY_SECONDS instead of caching the default
- Raise max ages below STREAM_MAX_AGE_MIN_SECONDS (120s) to the floor
  so a small value can't wipe a stream on writer clock offset
- Raise in write_topic when both maxlen and minid are given
- Define LogWriter.CLEANUP_DELAY from Topic.LOG_CLEANUP_DELAY_SECONDS

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I left my review changes in an attached PR. Please check that first and merge if you agree.

fix(topics): harden stream safety trim config and lookup failures
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The change adds configurable age limits for Redis streams, calculates safety MINIDs for command and telemetry streams, and passes those MINIDs through topic writers to Redis. It also adds environment configuration, documentation, and tests for the new behavior.

Changes: Stream age safety trimming

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure retention limits and calculate safety MINIDs
compose.yaml, docs.openc3.com/docs/configuration/environment.md, openc3/lib/openc3/topics/topic.rb, openc3/python/openc3/topics/topic.py, openc3/lib/openc3/logs/log_writer.rb, openc3/python/openc3/logs/log_writer.py, openc3/python/openc3/microservices/tsdb_microservice.py, openc3/spec/topics/topic_spec.rb, openc3/python/test/topics/test_topic.py
The Topic implementations add configurable, cached stream-age limits and calculate safety MINIDs. Log streams use the greater of the configured limit and the two-cycle-plus-cleanup retention period. Compose passes the setting to the operator, and the environment documentation describes it.
Add MINID support to stream writes
openc3/lib/openc3/topics/topic.rb, openc3/lib/openc3/utilities/store_autoload.rb, openc3/python/openc3/topics/topic.py, openc3/python/openc3/utilities/store_implementation.py, openc3/python/openc3/utilities/store_implementation.pyi, openc3/spec/topics/topic_spec.rb, openc3/python/test/topics/test_topic.py
Topic and Store write methods accept and forward an optional minid. Store rejects calls that supply both minid and maxlen. Tests cover argument validation and stream writes.
Pass safety MINIDs from topic writers
openc3/lib/openc3/topics/*_topic.rb, openc3/python/openc3/topics/*_topic.py, openc3/spec/topics/*_topic_spec.rb, openc3/python/test/topics/test_*_topic.py, openc3/spec/topics/topic_spec.rb, openc3/python/test/topics/test_topic.py
Command, telemetry, and decomposition topic writers pass safety MINIDs to their stream writes. Tests check the supplied MINIDs, including both telemetry write paths.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TelemetryTopic
  participant Topic
  participant Store
  participant Redis
  TelemetryTopic->>Topic: Calculate the log-stream safety MINID
  TelemetryTopic->>Topic: Write the topic with minid
  Topic->>Store: Forward minid to the store write
  Store->>Redis: XADD with minid
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f9517

A malformed OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS value, such as "inf" or "nan", can make stream writes fail repeatedly. This only happens after an operator misconfigures the setting. Rejecting non-finite values in both the Ruby and Python implementations is a small fix and can be done before or shortly after merge.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f9517

The retention cap reduces exposure to unbounded stream growth and preserves a substantial logging window under normal conditions. However, raw-stream deletion now depends on producer clocks: a sufficiently fast clock can remove recent command or telemetry history before consumers retain it elsewhere. Disabling the cap cannot restore deleted entries.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Raw-stream safety trimming uses producer wall time while Redis generates entry IDs from its own clock. If a producer is ahead by more than the effective retention age, its MINID can delete recent, potentially unconsumed or unpersisted entries in streams it writes, including newly appended entries. Previously, raw-stream cleanup used logged offsets rather than a producer-derived age threshold. The 120-second minimum, larger raw logging floor, and documented NTP requirement protect ordinary clock differences but do not enforce this precondition or contain a large clock error.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A faulty producer cutoff affects the streams that producer writes, potentially across multiple configured targets and their consumers. The inspected packet paths do not establish arbitrary cross-scope or cross-shard deletion from packet contents. No independently reachable privilege-escalation path was demonstrated.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The generic Store interface accepts caller-selected stream names and MINIDs, but this is not newly granted deletion privilege: the PR base already exposed MINID-based trim_topic and MAXLEN-based writes. The inspected producers calculate thresholds internally. Direct untrusted access to the generic library interface was not established.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Raw-stream policy lookup exceptions fail open for retention, with a retry delay rather than a guessed shorter age. Concurrent writes enforce their individual thresholds atomically through XADD, but that atomicity does not validate clock accuracy or synchronize cached policy across processes.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider deriving automatic-ID cutoffs from Redis-authoritative time, or validating producer-to-Redis clock skew before allowing destructive trimming. This would contain a clock fault rather than relying solely on operational synchronization.
  • proposed — Make the retention-policy restart or invalidation contract explicit for all writer processes, particularly when increasing log-cycle duration or changing the global cap. This would reduce uncertainty during mixed configuration rollouts.
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  • openc3/lib/openc3/topics/command_topic.rb
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  • openc3/lib/openc3/topics/telemetry_topic.rb
  • openc3/lib/openc3/topics/topic.rb
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  • openc3/python/openc3/logs/log_writer.py
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Comment on lines +97 to +106
@classmethod
def stream_max_age_seconds(cls) -> float:
"""Configured safety max age in seconds (<= 0 means disabled)"""
value = os.environ.get("OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS")
if value is None:
return cls.STREAM_MAX_AGE_DEFAULT_SECONDS
try:
return float(value)
except ValueError:
return 0.0

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject non-finite OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS values in both languages.

In Python, float() accepts "nan", "inf", and "1e400". If the value is nan, both seconds <= 0 and seconds < 120 are false, so Line 124 runs int(nan * 1000) and raises ValueError. If the value is inf, Line 124 raises OverflowError. stream_max_age_ms() stores nothing in the cache before it raises. Every later TelemetryTopic, CommandTopic, and decom write then calls it again and raises again, so these microservices stop writing packets.

Ruby has the same failure. "1e400".to_f returns Infinity, and (Infinity * 1000).to_i in Topic.stream_max_age_ms raises FloatDomainError. Ruby converts "nan" and "inf" to 0.0, which disables the cap. Python and Ruby therefore handle the same input differently.

The trigger is an operator typo in one environment variable. The fix is a small, local change: treat non-finite values as invalid in both implementations. Log a warning and fall back to either "disabled" or the default.

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         try:
-            return float(value)
+            seconds = float(value)
         except ValueError:
             return 0.0
+        if not math.isfinite(seconds):
+            return 0.0
+        return seconds

Add import math at the top of the file. Apply the same check in openc3/lib/openc3/topics/topic.rb:

    def self.stream_max_age_seconds
      value = ENV.fetch('OPENC3_STREAM_MAX_AGE_SECONDS', nil)
      return STREAM_MAX_AGE_DEFAULT_SECONDS if value.nil?
      seconds = value.to_f
      return 0.0 unless seconds.finite?
      return seconds
    end

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