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feat: a learned roster, so a stopped part is observable (milestone 365 steps 1-2)
Nothing in FabledCurator knew what was SUPPOSED to be running. `celery
inspect` reports the workers that ANSWER, so a dead worker was a shorter list
rather than a red light, and grep for any notion of expected services returned
nothing. That is why Portainer was the only place an operator could see it:
Portainer knows the intended set.

`service_seen` is the memory that makes an absence observable — every part
that has checked in, and when it last did.

**Keyed on the queue set, not the worker hostname.** Celery's worker names
here are `celery@<container id>`, minted fresh on every deploy. Keyed on those,
this table would record a death and a birth every time the stack updates — and
a status page that goes red on every deploy is a status page nobody reads,
which is worse than not having one. CELERY_QUEUES is assigned per role in
compose and survives container replacement, so it is the stable identity. Two
replicas of a role are therefore ONE row, which is right: the question is
whether the role is served, not how many containers exist.

The GPU agent is keyed on agent_id, the identity its lease protocol already
uses. gpu.py received it on both lease and heartbeat and threw it away — an
idle agent with nothing to lease left no trace and was indistinguishable from
one switched off a week ago. Now recorded on the calls that were already
happening.

**Who observes, corrected from the plan.** The plan said "record from the
existing inspect path", which would only run when someone opened the Activity
tab. Two other candidates and why they lost:

- A beat sweep. If the scheduler dies the sweep stops, every row goes stale,
  and the page says everything is down when one thing is. An alarm that cannot
  distinguish "a part died" from "the observer died" is worse than none.
- A background task in web. hypercorn runs --workers 4, so that is four
  concurrent inspect loops per container, forever.

Taken instead: refresh on demand, rate-limited by the newest last_seen_at that
every process can already see. The observer is then the thing serving the page
— if web is down you get a browser error, not a confidently green page — and
it self-limits with no coordination, since a race costs one redundant inspect
that writes identical values.

Migration 0090 is the first written on the collapsed baseline (milestone 328),
so it is also the first evidence the chain steps FORWARD from 0089 rather than
merely reproducing the schema. No secondary indexes: one row per moving part
means every read is a handful of rows, and #3301 is the record of what
speculative indexes cost.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TTjbZZ6JirCMSaJzQV1RhA
2026-09-02 17:15:46 -04:00

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"""service_seen — the learned roster of FabledCurator's own moving parts.
Nothing else in this application knows what is SUPPOSED to be running.
`celery inspect` reports the workers that answer, so a stopped worker is a
shorter list rather than a red light, and Postgres and Redis have no
representation at all. That is why the only place an operator could see a
dead service was Portainer, which knows the intended set (milestone 365).
This table is the memory that makes an absence observable: every part that
has ever checked in, and when it last did. A row that stops advancing is a
part that stopped.
## Why the key is not the hostname
`_read_workers_sync()` returns celery's worker names, which here are
`celery@<container id>`. Those are minted fresh on every deploy. Keyed on
them, this table would record a death and a birth every time the stack is
updated — and a status page that goes red on every deploy is a status page
nobody reads, which is worse than not having one.
So a celery role is keyed on its **queue set**, which is assigned per role in
docker-compose.yml (`CELERY_QUEUES`) and survives container replacement:
default,import,thumbnail,download -> worker
maintenance,scan -> scheduler (celery worker --beat)
ml -> ml-worker
Two replicas of one role share a queue set and are therefore ONE row — which
is right, because the question being answered is "is that role being served",
not "how many containers exist". The replica count and their hostnames go in
`details`, where they can change without the identity changing.
The GPU agent is keyed on its `agent_id`, the identity its lease protocol
already uses (`api/gpu.py`).
## What is NOT in here
Postgres and Redis. They are always expected and never learned, and a
last-seen for them would be actively misleading — that one answered thirty
seconds ago says nothing about now. They are probed live at request time.
## kind
Plain `String`, not a Postgres ENUM and not CHECK-gated, matching
`gpu_job.status` and `backup_run.status`. The value set here is expected to
grow as parts are added, and a constraint swap per new kind (rule 36) would
be cost with no invariant behind it.
celery — a worker role, keyed on its queue set
agent — a GPU agent, keyed on its agent_id
"""
from datetime import datetime
from sqlalchemy import JSON, DateTime, String, func
from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped, mapped_column
from .base import Base
class ServiceSeen(Base):
__tablename__ = "service_seen"
# No indexes beyond the primary key, deliberately. This table holds one row
# per moving part — a handful, forever — so every query against it is a
# full read of a few rows and an index would be write cost buying nothing
# (the lesson of #3301, which removed seven redundant ones).
key: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(128), primary_key=True)
kind: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(16), nullable=False)
# What to call it in the UI. Derived from the queue set where it is
# recognised, and falling back to the raw queue list where it is not — a
# deployment that slices its queues differently should still show something
# true rather than a name this code invented for it.
display_name: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(64), nullable=False)
first_seen_at: Mapped[datetime] = mapped_column(
DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=False, server_default=func.now(),
)
last_seen_at: Mapped[datetime] = mapped_column(
DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=False, server_default=func.now(),
)
# The parts that change without changing identity: replica hostnames,
# active task counts, the queues actually being served. Kept as a blob
# because it is displayed and never queried — giving it columns would
# invite filtering on it, which is what the activity endpoints are for.
details: Mapped[dict] = mapped_column(JSON, nullable=False, default=dict)