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The *_topic_delta_seconds lag gauges were only visible as metrics, so a microservice falling behind (and silently skipping data trimmed from its streams) went unnoticed. Add a TopicLagMonitor (Ruby and Python) that publishes warn/critical/recovery notifications with hysteresis and alerts when data was trimmed before it could be processed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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P1: Trimming never sets max-deleted-entry-id (confirmed by running it)
I ran this against the local cosmos-openc3-redis-ephemeral-1 container (Valkey 9.1.2) on a throwaway key, which I deleted afterwards:
┌──────────────────┬────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│ Step │ length │ max-deleted-entry-id │ recorded-first-entry-id │
├──────────────────┼────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ 10 entries added │ 10 │ 0-0 │ 1-0 │
├──────────────────┼────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ XTRIM MINID 3-0 │ 8 │ 0-0 │ 3-0 │
├──────────────────┼────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ XTRIM MAXLEN 6 │ 6 │ 0-0 │ 5-0 │
├──────────────────┼────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ XADD MAXLEN 4 │ 4 │ 0-0 │ 8-0 │
├──────────────────┼────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ XDEL 9-0 │ 3 │ 9-0 │ 8-0 │
└──────────────────┴────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
Only XDEL changes the field. COSMOS trims in two ways: Topic.trim_topic calls xtrim_minid (store_autoload.rb:291), and write_topic adds with maxlen and ~. Neither updates it, so max-deleted-entry-id stays at 0-0 and compare_ids(max_deleted, prev_id) > 0 is never true. The lost-data alert can never fire.
The specs miss this because they stub xinfo to return a populated max-deleted-entry-id (topic_lag_monitor_spec.rb:140,148).
This also changes my earlier performance finding. Those XINFO STREAM calls aren't just expensive, they currently detect nothing at all.
recorded-first-entry-id does move on trim. If prev_id is older than the stream's first entry when you read the next message, your read position was trimmed past. That's the field to build on.
P2: Fast path hides losses when the consumer comes back to fresh data (confirmed)
Line 81: when the state is OK and the lag is small, the code overwrites @last_ids[topic] and returns without looking at the gap. Scenario: a consumer stalls, its whole unread backlog gets trimmed, and its next XREAD returns a fresh message with low lag. That message takes the fast path. Losing the entire backlog is the worst
case, and it produces no alert and no spike in the lag gauge.
P2: Losses under one second are ignored (confirmed)
Line 145 returns early when the gap is under TRIM_CHECK_GAP_SECONDS = 1.0. At 100 Hz, losing 49 packets leaves a 0.5s gap, so no check runs. The fixed 1use of the problem from my first review, in the other direction: 1 Hz topics always trip it. A fixed absolute threshold is wrong for both fast and slowtopics.
P2: Rate limiting permanently drops gaps (confirmed)
When line 148 skips the check, line 89 has already advanced @last_ids[topic] to msg_id. The skipped gap is never checked later. During backlog processing, at most one gap per topic per second gets examined and the rest are discarded.
P2: Fast topics can clear the alert before a slow topic recovers (confirmed)
@State, @below_since and @max_lag are shared by every topic. Every fresh 100 Hz message satisfies lag < threshold * CLEAR_RATIO (line 114). After @clear_seconds (10s by default) the monitor announces "caught up" (line 122), even though a delayed once-per-minute topic hasn't been read again yet. When that topic's next lagged
message arrives, the warning fires again.
This one is lower severity than the others: it causes alert flapping and a premature "caught up" message, but no data goes undetected. It can happen becstreams lets one stream stay backlogged while the others are current.
Fixing them
These share a root cause: loss detection depends on the lag state and a time-gap guess. A redesign that handles all five:
- Check for loss whatever the lag state is, so the fast path still runs it.
- Use recorded-first-entry-id: if prev_id is older than it, the read position was trimmed past.
- Throttle by queuing topics for a check, not by skipping and forgetting them.
- Track lag state per topic, and derive the service-wide state from the worst topic.
To keep XINFO calls rare, run the check only when a topic's gap is unusually large compared with its own normal message interval.
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- openc3/lib/openc3/utilities/topic_lag_monitor.rb:140 - Critical recovery could announce caught-up after one fresh message; now requires the full hold below the warning recovery threshold. - openc3/python/openc3/utilities/topic_lag_monitor.py:139 - Fixed the equivalent premature recovery bug and preserved Ruby/Python parity. AI-Review-Bot: true AI-Review-Run: 38620539338
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Turn-by-turn logTurn 1: Claude (no changes)I found nothing that needs changing, so I made no edits. The PR adds a
Turn 2: Codex (commit a800c7719)Fixed premature caught-up notifications in Ruby and Python and added matching regression tests. Diff checks passed; test suites could not run because dependencies are unavailable.
Turn 3: Claude (no changes)The PR adds a TopicLagMonitor in both Ruby and Python, and the two versions match. I checked Codex's turn-2 recovery fix by walking through the state transitions: going from CRITICAL to WARN to OK now requires the full hold below the warning clear threshold. The new regression tests encode this correctly. The microservice call sites and the Python/Ruby integration look correct, CI passed, and SonarQube reported nothing.
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- Around line 70-80: At openc3/lib/openc3/utilities/topic_lag_monitor.rb lines
70-80, update TopicLagMonitor#record or its reader callback to compare the
consumer offset with the stream’s first entry and detect trimmed unread data;
aggregate affected topics and emit a rate-limited Logger::ALERT. Apply the
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| def record(topic, msg_id, metric_name: nil, help: nil, now: Time.now.to_f) | ||
| lag = now - (id_ms(msg_id) / 1000.0) | ||
| update_gauge(metric_name, help, lag, now) if @metric and metric_name | ||
| return lag if @warn_seconds <= 0 # Notifications disabled | ||
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| return lag if @state == OK and lag < @warn_seconds | ||
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| @mutex.synchronize { update_state(topic, lag, now) } | ||
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printf '%s\n' '--- references and lost-data terms ---'
rg -n -F --glob '!vendor/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' -e 'TopicLagMonitor' -e 'LOST' -e 'lost' -e 'first_entry' -e 'first_entry_id' -e 'XRANGE' -e 'xrange' openc3/lib openc3/python spec test || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- target tests ---'
if [ -f spec/utilities/topic_lag_monitor_spec.rb ]; then nl -ba spec/utilities/topic_lag_monitor_spec.rb; fi
if [ -f test/utilities/test_topic_lag_monitor.py ]; then nl -ba test/utilities/test_topic_lag_monitor.py; fiRepository: OpenC3/cosmos
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Add lost-data detection for lagging consumers.
Both monitors can report lag, but neither compares a consumer offset with the stream's first entry or emits a rate-limited Logger::ALERT for entries removed by trimming. A lagging consumer can therefore skip unread data and receive no lost-data alert.
Add this behavior to both Ruby and Python paths. The current record methods receive only topic and msg_id, so pass the required stream access and consumer offset into the detection path, or perform the comparison in the reader callbacks. Aggregate affected topics and preserve rate limiting for the alert.
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At openc3/lib/openc3/utilities/topic_lag_monitor.rb lines 70-80, update
TopicLagMonitor#record or its reader callback to compare the consumer offset
with the stream’s first entry and detect trimmed unread data; aggregate affected
topics and emit a rate-limited Logger::ALERT. Apply the equivalent detection and
alert behavior at openc3/python/openc3/utilities/topic_lag_monitor.py lines
64-80, passing the required stream access and offset into the detection path if
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It's basically pure notification only now with no trimming. I'm not sure what the coderabbit comment is getting at so decide if you want that before merging.
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TopicLagMonitor(Rubyopenc3/utilities/topic_lag_monitor.rband Pythonopenc3/utilities/topic_lag_monitor.py). It is wired into every microservice that already reported a*_topic_delta_secondsgauge: decom, log, text_log, interface cmd, router tlm, and tsdb ingest.The monitor keeps setting the existing gauge. On top of that it:
XINFO STREAM(at most once per second per topic). It compares the stream'smax-deleted-entry-idto the last id this consumer processed. If unread entries were deleted, it publishes one ALERT covering all affected topics, listing each topic and roughly how many seconds were skipped. This alert is rate limited.XINFOfrom the target hashtag in the topic name ({TARGET}), falling back to the microservice'sdb_shard.Notifications go through the existing Logger
notification/alerttypes, so they show up in the Notifications menu with no frontend changes.Why
The lag gauges were only visible as metrics (charted in Enterprise System Health, invisible in Core). A microservice that couldn't keep up, or that lost data to stream trimming, gave users no indication.
Configuration (env vars)
OPENC3_LAG_WARN_SECONDS0disables notifications and alerts; the gauge is still set.OPENC3_LAG_CRITICAL_SECONDSOPENC3_LAG_CLEAR_SECONDSOPENC3_LAG_RENOTIFY_SECONDSNotes
max-deleted-entry-id. On servers without that field it skips the check.Testing
spec/utilities/topic_lag_monitor_spec.rb(16 examples) andtest/utilities/test_topic_lag_monitor.py(16 tests). They cover the thresholds, hysteresis and recovery, stepping down from critical, rate limiting, env config, lost-data detection, alert aggregation,XINFOrate limiting, db_shard lookup, and error handling.bundle exec rspec spec/microservices spec/utilities spec/models spec/topics: 1493 examples, 0 failures.uv run pytest ./test: 3045 passed.uv run ruff check openc3: clean.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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