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Pull request overview
This PR introduces an experimental agent WebSocket notification transport (“agentws”) to reduce empty distributed/read polling by letting the server nudge agents only when work is due, while keeping HTTP as the data plane and polling as a fallback.
Changes:
- Server: adds per-instance WebSocket hub,
/api/fleet/orbit/notificationsendpoint, Redis pub/sub fan-out for wake-ups, interval-based due-work notifier, and a/debug/agentwsobservability endpoint. - Agent (orbit): adds a server-driven toggle, a persistent WebSocket manager with polling fallback, and an osquery distributed plugin that serves queries from an in-memory cache and forwards results over HTTP.
- Tooling: adds a local dashboard (
tools/agentws-viz) and updatesosquery-perfto simulate the WebSocket transport.
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| tools/tuf/test/build_and_push_orbit.sh | Helper script to build/push orbit artifacts for TUF auto-update testing. |
| tools/agentws-viz/main.go | Local dev dashboard server and proxy for /debug/agentws. |
| tools/agentws-viz/dashboard.go | Self-contained HTML/JS dashboard UI for visualizing agentws state. |
| server/service/testing_utils_test.go | Updates debug handler construction for new agentws hub parameter. |
| server/service/svctest/server.go | Updates debug handler construction for new agentws hub parameter. |
| server/service/service.go | Adds AgentCheckInNotifier plumbing on the service. |
| server/service/osquery.go | Adds orbit-node-key auth fallback and distributed plugin stripping when WS transport is enabled; adds due-work listing and read-stats wrapper. |
| server/service/osquery_test.go | Adds tests for distributed plugin stripping, read stats recording, orbit node key fallback, and due-work listing. |
| server/service/orbit.go | Adds WebSocketTransport directive to orbit config response when enabled. |
| server/service/orbit_test.go | Tests orbit config includes/omits the WebSocket transport directive. |
| server/service/mock/service_osquery.go | Adds mock implementation for ListHostIDsDueForDistributedRead. |
| server/service/handler.go | Registers agentws endpoint when enabled and optionally wraps distributed/read for debug stats. |
| server/service/debug_trace_sampler_test.go | Updates debug handler construction for new agentws hub parameter. |
| server/service/debug_handler.go | Extends debug handler to serve /debug/agentws snapshot payload. |
| server/service/debug_handler_test.go | Updates debug handler construction for new agentws hub parameter. |
| server/service/campaigns.go | Notifies connected agents on new live query campaigns (best-effort). |
| server/service/campaigns_test.go | Tests agent notification behavior for live query creation. |
| server/pubsub/agent_notifications.go | Adds Redis pub/sub notifier and delayed notifier for agent wake-ups. |
| server/pubsub/agent_notifications_test.go | Tests notifier round-trip, delay behavior, and chunking. |
| server/mock/service/service_mock.go | Adds mock methods for notifier injection and due-host listing. |
| server/mock/datastore.go | Adjusts mock default behavior for LoadHostByOrbitNodeKey to return not-found by default. |
| server/fleet/service.go | Extends service interfaces with due-host listing + notifier injection. |
| server/fleet/orbit.go | Extends orbit config schema with websocket_transport directive. |
| server/fleet/agent_websocket.go | Defines agentws message envelope, types/reasons, and notifier interface. |
| server/config/config.go | Adds websocket transport config (enable, ping/pong, check interval, batch size). |
| server/agentws/seen.go | Adds loop to keep websocket-connected hosts “seen” for online status. |
| server/agentws/seen_test.go | Tests seen loop behavior. |
| server/agentws/read_stats.go | Tracks per-host distributed/read counts (orbit vs legacy path) for debug. |
| server/agentws/interval_checker.go | Per-instance due-work checker that nudges connected agents. |
| server/agentws/interval_checker_test.go | Tests interval checker batching, errors, and stop behavior. |
| server/agentws/hub.go | Core per-instance connection registry + notify + snapshot logic. |
| server/agentws/handler.go | HTTP handler for authenticated WS upgrades and handing connection to hub. |
| server/agentws/handler_test.go | Tests auth rejection, notify delivery, eviction, unregister, keepalive, read stats, shutdown. |
| server/agentws/counting_conn.go | Wraps hijacked net.Conn to count raw bytes for observability. |
| server/agentws/conn.go | Per-connection send buffer, keepalive ping loop, read loop, and observability counters. |
| orbit/pkg/wstransport/toggle.go | Persists server directive and triggers orbit restart on toggle. |
| orbit/pkg/wstransport/toggle_test.go | Tests toggle persistence and restart triggering. |
| orbit/pkg/wstransport/osquery_flags.go | Builds osquery flags for orbit distributed plugin, merging user flagfile settings. |
| orbit/pkg/wstransport/osquery_flags_test.go | Tests osquery flag merging/dedup/timeout logic. |
| orbit/pkg/wstransport/manager.go | WebSocket manager with reconnect/backoff/jitter and polling fallback; drives distributed-read iterations. |
| orbit/pkg/wstransport/manager_test.go | Tests state coalescing and end-to-end connect/notify/poll fallback behavior. |
| orbit/pkg/wstransport/distributed.go | Osquery distributed plugin implementation backed by the manager/cache. |
| orbit/pkg/wstransport/distributed_test.go | Tests distributed plugin getQueries/writeResults behavior and state transitions. |
| orbit/pkg/wstransport/cache.go | In-memory query cache with merge + take-and-clear semantics. |
| orbit/pkg/wstransport/cache_test.go | Tests cache merge and take clearing behavior. |
| orbit/pkg/update/flag_runner.go | Exposes ReadFlagFile for reuse (flag merge for ws transport). |
| orbit/pkg/update/flag_runner_test.go | Updates tests for exported ReadFlagFile. |
| orbit/pkg/table/extension.go | Adds plugin registration support and exports extension name constant. |
| orbit/cmd/orbit/orbit.go | Wires ws transport toggle, reads persisted state, adjusts osquery flags, and registers ws manager + distributed plugin. |
| orbit/changes/agent-websocket-transport | User-visible changelog entry for orbit websocket transport support. |
| cmd/osquery-perf/websocket.go | Adds ws transport simulation to osquery-perf load test tool. |
| cmd/osquery-perf/websocket_test.go | Tests ws transport trigger coalescing in the simulator. |
| cmd/osquery-perf/osquery_perf/stats.go | Adds ws transport counters to perf stats logging. |
| cmd/osquery-perf/agent.go | Integrates ws transport simulation; routes distributed calls based on transport mode. |
| cmd/fleet/serve.go | Bootstraps server-side agentws hub, notifier subscription, interval checker, and seen loop when enabled. |
| client/orbit_distributed.go | Adds OrbitClient distributed read/write helpers using orbit node key auth. |
| client/orbit_distributed_test.go | Tests orbit distributed read/write wire format and dual-auth header/body behavior. |
| client/orbit_client.go | Allows request params to set headers (for header-auth endpoints). |
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WalkthroughAdded an experimental, disabled-by-default WebSocket transport for Fleet agents. The server authenticates persistent connections, sends Redis-backed and scheduled notifications, records connection and read metrics, and exposes diagnostics. Orbit now handles distributed queries through a WebSocket-aware plugin with polling fallback. The performance simulator supports transport behavior and statistics. A local dashboard and multi-platform Orbit build script were added. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2 | ❌ 3❌ Failed checks (3 warnings)
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server/pubsub/agent_notifications.go (1)
138-152: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winHandle idle timeouts without Error-level logging. When no Redis message arrives for one hour,
ReceiveWithTimeoutreturns a timeout error. The loop then logsagent notifications subscription failed; resubscribingat Error level and reconnects during normal idle operation. Treat this timeout as normal, or keep the connection alive withpsc.Ping("").🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@cmd/osquery-perf/websocket_test.go`:
- Around line 22-42: Register the transport created by newWSTransport with the
agent’s ws field before calling ws.trigger(), so agent.wsTransportActive()
selects the WebSocket API prefix and the handler receives the expected
distributed read path; preserve the existing request assertion and test setup.
In `@server/agentws/conn.go`:
- Around line 160-167: Set a 1024-byte inbound message limit on c.ws before the
first ReadMessage call in the connection read loop, using the WebSocket
connection’s existing read-limit API; keep the current deadline, pong-handler,
and read-error behavior unchanged.
In `@server/agentws/interval_checker.go`:
- Around line 62-75: Guard the batch-processing loop in the interval checker so
a non-positive c.BatchSize cannot enter or continue the start += c.BatchSize
iteration; return or otherwise preserve safe behavior before processing hostIDs
when the configured batch size is zero or negative. Keep normal batching
unchanged for positive values.
Apply the same fix in `@server/agentws/interval_checker.go` at line 1.
Apply the same fix in `@server/agentws/interval_checker.go` around lines 39 - 42:
Preserves the interval-specific ticker panic failure mode.
In `@tools/agentws-viz/main.go`:
- Line 34: Validate the configured addr before starting the dashboard listener,
using loopback detection to reject or clearly warn on non-loopback binds. Apply
this to the addr flag value and ensure the check occurs before serving requests,
preserving the safe 127.0.0.1 default.
In `@tools/tuf/test/build_and_push_orbit.sh`:
- Around line 3-27: Update the script setup to enable fail-fast and strict
unset-variable handling with set -euo pipefail, while preserving tracing. Quote
the ORBIT_VERSION argument in every push_target.sh invocation, and ensure
load_orbit_version_vars.sh defines ORBIT_VERSION and ORBIT_COMMIT
unconditionally so strict mode works.
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In `@server/pubsub/agent_notifications.go`:
- Around line 138-152: Update the receive loop around ReceiveWithTimeout so the
normal one-hour idle timeout is handled without Error-level logging or
unnecessary reconnection; detect and continue on the expected timeout, or send
psc.Ping("") to keep the subscription alive, while preserving error handling for
other receive failures.
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In `@cmd/fleet/serve.go`:
- Around line 1126-1130: Update the shutdown flow around agentWSHub.Shutdown and
the WebSocket upgrade registration path so the hub is marked closed before
snapshotting connections, preventing in-flight upgrades from registering during
shutdown. Ensure late registrations are rejected or closed, and add a concurrent
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| // The agent notifications WebSocket endpoint is a raw http.Handler on the | ||
| // NoAuth endpointer: the upgrade request is authenticated inside the | ||
| // handler with the orbit node key. Registered only when the websocket | ||
| // transport is enabled, so with the feature off (the default) upgrade | ||
| // attempts get a 404. | ||
| if config.WebSocket.TransportEnabled && extra.agentWSHub != nil { | ||
| ne.HandleHTTPHandler("/api/fleet/orbit/notifications", | ||
| agentws.NewHandler(extra.agentWSHub, svc, logger), "GET") | ||
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The ADR specified some DoS mitigations, do you think we should consider following up on those after this PR?
I'm mainly thinking about the case where an enroll secret is somehow leaked: an attacker could enroll a bunch of fake hosts and establish a WebSocket connection for each.
With WebSockets we now hold a file descriptor (fd) per connection indefinitely, vs. polling where each is released shortly after the request. Since the fd limit is per-process, I'm thinking we could hit "too many open files" -- and it wouldn't be scoped to this endpoint: the instance would stop accepting new connections for anything (API, UI, the osquery HTTP endpoints, /healthz) and wouldn't be able to open new MySQL/Redis connections either. (I believe the same ceiling applies without an attacker, just from scale.)
Not suggesting anything actionable for this PR, but maybe we should double-check the ulimit/LimitNOFILE we have set before enabling this on Dogfood? Our reference systemd unit has LimitNOFILE=8192, which would already be under a 10k-connection instance.
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The ADR specified some DoS mitigations, do you think we should consider following up on those after this PR?
I'm mainly thinking about the case where an enroll secret is somehow leaked: an attacker could enroll a bunch of fake hosts and establish a WebSocket connection for each.
Agree.
Though this is an issue that already exists, such attacker could fake hosts and then call distributed/read like crazy with those valid (fake) node keys. Most likely there's probably higher impact with WebSockets though.
See #25730.
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cmd/fleet/serve.go (1)
1129-1133: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winClose the agent WebSocket hub before slow shutdown steps.
At Lines [1129-1133],
agentWSHub.Shutdown()runs afterlauncher.GracefulStop()and all OTEL provider shutdowns. If any cleanup step takes time, connected agents remain open until that work completes and cannot reconnect promptly during a rolling restart.Move
agentWSHub.Shutdown()immediately aftercancelFunc(). Keepsrv.Shutdown(ctx)afterward.Proposed ordering
cancelFunc() + if agentWSHub != nil { + agentWSHub.Shutdown() + } cleanupCronStatsOnShutdown(ctx, ds, logger, instanceID) launcher.GracefulStop() // Flush any pending OTEL data before shutting down ... - if agentWSHub != nil { - agentWSHub.Shutdown() - } return srv.Shutdown(ctx)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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I only reviewed docs/Contributing/adr/0011-agent-websocket-transport.md
Relying on @nulmete approval for the other files.
Three conflicts, all from main gaining code in the same spots. Two were purely additive; one needed the two changes combined. cmd/osquery-perf/osquery_perf/stats.go and server/service/service.go: both sides appended methods / struct fields at the same location, so both were kept. In stats.go the two blocks also shared a trailing closing brace, so ours needed one added explicitly. server/service/osquery.go, buildClientConfig: the WebSocket transport PR (#51427) added a block that strips distributed_plugin from the agent options when websocket.transport_enabled is set, and it calls getPackConfig on the way past. This branch changed getPackConfig's signature to take the host's packs so the publish guard can see them without a second query. Kept the new websocket behavior with the new signature. The strip runs inside buildClientConfig, before the validator is computed, so the validator covers the post-strip body. It keys off a server-level config flag rather than anything per-host, so it does not make the shared cache mode host-incorrect. Nothing else the WebSocket PR added sits on the config path: its other two changes to this file are in AuthenticateHost, which runs before the endpoint, and a distributed/read wrapper. Verified: build and vet clean; the etag unit tests, etag_invalidate, osquery-perf, and redis_config_etag standalone tests pass; main's own TestGetClientConfigStripsDistributedPluginWhenWebSocketTransportEnabled passes in both directions; and TestIntegrations/TestOsqueryConfigETag passes alongside the TestAppConfig tests.
Resolves #50639 and #51800.
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