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feat: the System tab reads a stored sample instead of inspecting per load (4295)
Operator: "there is a repull every time this page loads is there a reason
this info isn't being tracked in the background and stored in some way?"

There was a reason and it had expired, and underneath it there was plain
waste.

The expired one: /api/system/workers was deliberately uncached because an
operator dragging the stepper must not be shown a pre-change value. That
stopped being true at 1353d34, when the UI began patching its row from the
write's reply instead of refetching.

The waste: size_worker_lanes already inspected the broker on a timer to
decide pool sizes — computing the pool, active, reserved and queue depth
the page shows, using them, and discarding them. The browser then asked
the broker for the same numbers four times a minute, per open tab.

So one inspect now feeds three things: the sizing decision, a stored
sample (worker_lane_sample, alembic 0107), and the celery roster. No
request path touches the broker at all — the roster refresh comes off
/api/system/health too, where it had been rate-limited to 20s and so made
worker liveness a function of whether anyone had a browser open.

Consequences, stated rather than hidden:

- The live figures are up to one sweep old. measured_at travels with each
  lane and the page says how old, because a stale number presented as
  current is how someone watches a queue "not move" that is moving.
- The sweep is the roster's only writer now, so its period and the
  staleness thresholds are in a relationship. 60s against a 90s stale
  threshold left one missed tick between normal and all-yellow — the
  shape of lesson #4355 — so the period is 30s, named once in
  worker_lanes, and system_health asserts its headroom at import with a
  test stating the same thing in prose.
- An idle lane therefore also gives a worker back twice as fast. That is
  the direction asked for: "idle instances quiet down when not running".

Also bounds the inspect in push_lane_cap, which was an await with no
deadline (rule 156) — harmless while it ran on a request, less so now
that it runs in a background task where a hang would be silent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LVjrnpQjRgHdvq95rASoiR
2026-09-23 18:52:08 -04:00

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"""The learned roster: which of FabledCurator's parts have checked in, and when.
Milestone 365. `celery inspect` answers "who is here"; this answers "who is
missing", which nothing in the application could do before — see
`models/service_seen.py` for why the identity is a queue set and not a
worker hostname.
## Who does the observing, and why it is the web process
Three candidates, and the choice matters more than the code:
* **A celery beat sweep.** Rejected. If the scheduler dies, the sweep stops,
every row goes stale, and the page reports that everything is down when one
thing is. An alarm that cannot distinguish "one part died" from "the
observer died" is worse than no alarm.
* **A background task in web.** Rejected on a detail of how this deploys:
hypercorn runs `--workers 4`, so a `before_serving` loop would be FOUR
concurrent inspect loops hammering the broker, forever, per container.
* **Refresh on demand, rate-limited by the data itself.** Taken. Whichever web
process happens to serve a health request refreshes the roster if it is
older than REFRESH_TTL, and otherwise reads what is already there.
The third has the property the other two lack: **the observer is the thing
serving the page.** If web is down you get a browser error rather than a
confidently green page, which is the honest failure. It also self-limits
without coordination — the TTL lives in the row everybody can see.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import asyncio
import logging
from sqlalchemy import func
from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import insert as pg_insert
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
from ..models import ServiceSeen
from .worker_lanes import LANES, lane_for_node
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# There is no refresh TTL any more. It existed because the HEALTH REQUEST
# refreshed the roster, rate-limited to 20s so that a page open in two tabs
# did not inspect twice as often. `size_worker_lanes` owns the refresh now, on
# `SWEEP_PERIOD_SECONDS`, so the cadence is a schedule rather than a side
# effect of someone looking.
# celery inspect is a broker round trip and this sits on a request path, so it
# gets a deadline (rule 156). A broker that has stopped answering must make the
# roster stale — which is a true statement about the system — not hang the one
# page that exists to explain it.
INSPECT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 2.0
# How many broadcast round trips `_inspect_celery_sync` makes. Named, because
# the wrapper's budget is derived from it and the two must not drift.
#
# `active_queues()` and `active()` are separate broadcasts, and a broadcast
# with no `destination` cannot know how many replies to expect — so each one
# waits out its full timeout rather than returning on the last reply. The sync
# call therefore costs ~2 x INSPECT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS in the ordinary case, not
# once.
INSPECT_ROUND_TRIPS = 2
# Slack for the thread handoff. `asyncio.to_thread` hands work to the default
# executor, and on a loaded web process — the operator's showcase page pulling
# ninety thumbnails a second — the thread may not even be scheduled inside the
# budget, let alone finish.
#
# This exists because the wrapper used to allow `INSPECT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS * 2`,
# which LOOKS like a safety factor and is exactly the worst case with nothing
# left over. Observed on the operator's first consolidated deploy, 2026-09-23:
# a TimeoutError traceback per refresh while the two inspect calls were
# working perfectly. A budget equal to the work is a budget that fails under
# any load at all.
INSPECT_SLACK_SECONDS = 3.0
# Queue set -> the name an operator recognises. Sorted-tuple keys, because the
# order celery reports them in is not guaranteed.
#
# DERIVED from `worker_lanes.LANES` (milestone 422 step 1) rather than written
# out here. It was a hand-kept second copy of the same fact, and it had already
# drifted: `maintenance_long` is a live lane with four task routes pointing at
# it and a dedicated worker in the operator's stack, and this map did not know
# it — so the System tab labelled it `Worker (maintenance_long)`. One list of
# lanes now names them everywhere.
#
# A deployment that slices CELERY_QUEUES differently still falls through to the
# raw queue list rather than being given a name this code invented for it: a
# wrong-but-confident label on a status page is worse than an ugly true one.
ROLE_NAMES: dict[tuple[str, ...], str] = {
lane.queue_key: lane.display_name for lane in LANES
}
def role_display_name(queues: tuple[str, ...]) -> str:
known = ROLE_NAMES.get(queues)
if known:
return known
return "Worker (" + ", ".join(queues) + ")"
def _inspect_celery_sync() -> dict[tuple[str, ...], dict]:
"""celery inspect, grouped by queue set rather than by worker.
Returns {queue_set: {"hostnames": [...], "active": int}}. Two replicas of
one role collapse into one entry on purpose — the question is whether the
role is being served, not how many containers exist.
"""
from ..celery_app import celery as celery_app
insp = celery_app.control.inspect(timeout=INSPECT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS)
# TWO broadcasts, each waiting out its own timeout — see
# INSPECT_ROUND_TRIPS, which the caller's budget is derived from. Adding a
# third call here without updating that constant puts the wrapper back
# under the work it is waiting for.
active_queues = insp.active_queues() or {}
active_tasks = insp.active() or {}
grouped: dict[tuple[str, ...], dict] = {}
for hostname, queues in active_queues.items():
# Keyed on the LANE's queue set when the node name identifies one, so
# a lane keeps the same roster row whether or not it is consuming.
#
# Grouping on the ACTIVE queues alone meant a lane at cap 0 — which
# cancels its consumers — reported an empty set, landed under the key
# `celery:`, and rendered as a phantom row named `Worker ()` while its
# real row went stale beside it. Both symptoms on the operator's
# screen, 2026-09-23, from this one line.
#
# Deriving the key from `lane.queue_key` rather than inventing a new
# one keeps every existing row: it is the same string the lane already
# had while it was running.
lane = lane_for_node(hostname)
key = lane.queue_key if lane else tuple(sorted({q["name"] for q in queues}))
entry = grouped.setdefault(key, {"hostnames": [], "active": 0})
entry["hostnames"].append(hostname)
entry["active"] += len(active_tasks.get(hostname, []))
for entry in grouped.values():
entry["hostnames"].sort()
return grouped
def touch_service_stmt(*, key: str, kind: str, display_name: str, details: dict):
"""The upsert that records a check-in, as a statement.
Built here rather than inline so the async caller (an agent lease, over
the API) and the sync one (the sizing sweep, in a celery task) run the
SAME write. Two spellings of one upsert is the kind of duplication that
stays correct right up until one of them gains a column.
Upsert rather than read-modify-write: several web processes and several
agents can be doing this at once, and the last writer is simply the most
recent sighting. `first_seen_at` is deliberately NOT updated — it is the
one field that answers "has this ever run", which the learned-roster design
depends on.
"""
stmt = pg_insert(ServiceSeen).values(
key=key, kind=kind, display_name=display_name, details=details,
)
return stmt.on_conflict_do_update(
index_elements=[ServiceSeen.key],
set_={
"kind": stmt.excluded.kind,
"display_name": stmt.excluded.display_name,
"details": stmt.excluded.details,
"last_seen_at": func.now(),
},
)
async def touch_service(
session: AsyncSession, *, key: str, kind: str, display_name: str, details: dict
) -> None:
"""Record that a part checked in just now."""
await session.execute(touch_service_stmt(
key=key, kind=kind, display_name=display_name, details=details,
))
def _roster_rows(grouped: dict[tuple[str, ...], dict]) -> list[dict]:
"""The `touch_service` arguments for everything that answered.
Split from the write so the async and sync refreshes below share the
mapping as well as the statement — what a roster row IS should not depend
on which kind of session is writing it.
"""
return [
{
"key": "celery:" + ",".join(queues),
"kind": "celery",
"display_name": role_display_name(queues),
"details": {
"queues": list(queues),
"hostnames": entry["hostnames"],
"replicas": len(entry["hostnames"]),
"active": entry["active"],
},
}
for queues, entry in grouped.items()
]
def refresh_celery_roster_sync(session) -> None:
"""The roster refresh, from the sizing sweep's sync session.
## Why the sweep owns this now
It used to run on the request path, rate-limited to once every 20s by the
newest celery row. So the roster only advanced while somebody had a
browser open — the liveness of the workers was a function of whether
anyone was looking at them, which is the observer-effect version of the
bug this roster exists to prevent.
Operator, 2026-09-23: *"there is a repull every time this page loads — is
there a reason this info isn't being tracked in the background and stored
in some way?"*
Now a timer writes it and the page only reads. The cadence is
`SWEEP_PERIOD_SECONDS`, and `api/system_health` asserts it leaves headroom
under the staleness thresholds — because a sweep period and a stale
threshold chosen in different files and never compared is exactly how the
idle GPU agent came to read as stopped (lesson #4355).
Never raises. A failure means the roster does not advance, and the rows
going stale is then a TRUE report about a broker nobody can reach.
"""
try:
grouped = _inspect_celery_sync()
except Exception:
log.warning(
"service roster: celery inspect failed; roster not refreshed",
exc_info=True,
)
return
for row in _roster_rows(grouped):
session.execute(touch_service_stmt(**row))
session.commit()
async def refresh_celery_roster(session: AsyncSession) -> None:
"""Inspect the broker and record what answered. Never raises.
A failure here means the roster does not advance, and the rows going stale
is then a TRUE report about a broker nobody can reach. Letting the
exception out would instead break the health endpoint, which is the one
thing that must keep answering when the stack is unwell.
"""
try:
grouped = await asyncio.wait_for(
asyncio.to_thread(_inspect_celery_sync),
timeout=(
INSPECT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS * INSPECT_ROUND_TRIPS
+ INSPECT_SLACK_SECONDS
),
)
except Exception:
log.warning("service roster: celery inspect failed; roster not refreshed", exc_info=True)
return
for row in _roster_rows(grouped):
await touch_service(session, **row)