Each sample carries each NFS mount's requests since the last one: how many
a second, their round trip and execute time (READ and WRITE on their own),
and how many were sent again or hit a major timeout. mountstats is the
kernel's own count and never touches the share, so it reads while one is
stuck. Steward stores them per mount and the slowest on the host as
nfs_exe_max_ms, for an "NFS slow" rule and the host page's NFS chart beside
mounts_stalled; each mount's bar says what a request took.
Agent 1.22.0 (which also carries the backlog order from 41fc807).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On 2026-10-17 the NFS under Postgres stalled for ~15 minutes. Two things
went wrong for the readings that would have explained it:
- The SNMP poll stored before it polled again, so while the database hung
it stopped polling. It now collects on schedule and hands each round to a
Holding (steward/core/holding.py): one writer stores what is held, oldest
first, each reading at the time it was collected. Bounded at two hours of
polls, with a 30-minute deadline on a store; the device list read falls
back to the last one read after 10 s.
- "Mount not answering" (10 checks in a row) went pending on Docker02 and
Docker03 and never fired: the agent sent each post's backlog with its
newest, healthy sample, and that sample ended every post's run. Agent
1.22.0 queues the new sample behind the backlog, so Steward receives a
host's samples in the order they were taken.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agent 1.21.0. The hourly update check now covers the package managers
beyond apt and dnf (#5803 "The agent's update check reads pacman,
zypper and yum"):
- yum: `yum -C check-update`, `updateinfo list security`,
`needs-restarting -r`, as dnf.
- zypper: `--no-refresh list-updates` (`--dup` on Tumbleweed),
needed security patches from `list-patches --category security`,
and `zypper needs-rebooting`.
- pacman: `checkupdates` from pacman-contrib, which install-deps.sh now
installs. pacman has no security notion; a reboot is required once
the running kernel's /usr/lib/modules/<release> is gone.
The checks sit in one UPDATE_CHECKS table, and a failure names its
manager.
The root helper's update runs on the same hosts (#5804 "The scheduled
update runs on pacman, zypper and yum hosts"): yum upgrade, zypper
refresh + update (dup on Tumbleweed, with 102/103 counted as success),
pacman -Syu. Each step carries a label so a failure says which one,
and the reboot check reads zypper and the pacman kernel too.
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smartctl reports every disk behind a PERC/MegaRAID controller as /dev/bus/0
with type megaraid,N; the helper named a drive by its path alone, so all of
VDNT-Docker02's and Docker03's disks read as one drive "0", each overwriting
the last. The slot is now part of the name (bus0-megaraid3), and Steward gives
a repeated name an ordinal so two drives never share a series. Agent 1.20.1.
fix(ansible): Steward stopping mid-run logs no traceback (#5749)
The run's done-callback called exception() on a cancelled task, which raises;
it now logs a run cut short by shutdown at INFO. A finished run's in-memory
state is dropped by a timer rather than a sleeping task, which shutdown found
still pending.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The root helper gains one read-only action, `drives`: it finds the drives
itself (smartctl --scan-open), reads each as JSON, and writes a summary the
agent carries on every sample (agent 1.20.0). Steward judges the figures in
drives.py (failing / worn / watch / ok / no SMART / unreadable), records them
per drive and as host roll-ups for covering rules, keeps the newest report on
the registration and lists it on the host page.
install-deps.sh installs smartmontools with apt, dnf, yum, zypper, pacman or
apk, run by install.sh and every agent playbook; one it can't install is
reported, never fatal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On 2026-10-14 nine swarm services sat at 0/1 and nothing fired. From each
manager's swarm report the docker plugin now records three figures on
resource "swarm": swarm_services_short, swarm_nodes_down and
swarm_managers_unreachable. Drained nodes are left out of the last two,
since a drain is deliberate. The figures are recorded at most once every
30 s whichever manager reported, and are offered to alert rules.
Agent 1.19.0 sends each manager's ManagerStatus.Reachability. Older agents
fall back to the node's status.
A maintenance job on a swarm node also keeps a window over docker/swarm,
so its drain and reboot hold those alerts until the job ends.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5767 "Steward hands a host a maintenance job and follows it to the end,
through its own restarts", milestone 514.
A host_maintenance_jobs row per job: queued → updating → [draining →]
rebooting → [undraining →] done, or failed / timed_out. Steward's answer to
an ingest post carries the step that host's agent should carry out now; the
agent (1.18.0) leaves each step id for the root helper once, and the helper
refuses an id it already ran, so repeats are harmless. Results come back as
the #5766 maintenance events, matched by step id; the reboot completes when
the host's `started` event has a boot_at after the reboot was handed out.
The job reboots only when the update says one is needed (or never, if asked).
A swarm node is drained first by itself if it's a manager or by a manager
with the helper, and made active after; with no manager to drain it the job
is refused. A minute tick times out a job past its state's deadline. A
maintenance window over host_agent/<host> lasts the rest of the job.
Everything is on the row, so a Steward restart, or the reboot of the host
Steward runs on, resumes from the next post. Ingest runs it in its own
savepoint so a job going wrong never costs the samples.
The Agent panel leads with a running job and says what a finished one did;
Manage agent has Update now (with "never reboot"), or says why a job can't
start. Integration test: hand off, Steward restarts, the post-boot events
close the job.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5766 "A root helper the agent can start, for a fixed set of maintenance
actions and nothing else", milestone 514.
The agent runs unprivileged under NoNewPrivileges, so it can't update or
reboot its host. It now leaves a request in /var/lib/steward-agent/requests,
the one path its unit lets it write; steward-maint.path starts maint.py as
root, which reads it without following links, accepts only update, reboot,
drain or undrain, deletes it, and writes the outcome to
/var/lib/steward-maint/results. The agent (1.17.0) reports each new result
state once as a `maintenance` event, re-checks pending updates when an update
finishes, and says in its metadata whether the helper is installed.
The units and the helper are served from one copy at
/plugins/host_agent/files/<name> (a fixed list), and install.sh plus the
install, provision and update playbooks all fetch them, replacing three
inline copies of the unit. Update agent installs the helper on existing
hosts; the Agent panel says under Manage agent whether it is there.
Steward handing out jobs is #5767; the cadence is #5768.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Step 1 of milestone 514 "Updates and reboots on a cadence, carried out by
each host's agent…": #5765 "The agent reports pending updates and whether
a reboot is required".
- Agent 1.16.0: an hourly background check (apt-check, apt list, or dnf -C
with updateinfo and needs-restarting), each command bounded at 120 s, no
root and no network. Debian's reboot-required marker and its packages
are read every sample.
- Ingest records updates_pending, updates_security and reboot_required for
rules, and keeps the newest on the registration (host_agent_005_updates).
- The Agent card leads with "Reboot required since …", then the updates
waiting or "Up to date", with when the check ran. list_agents carries
them too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5764 "The agent reads a container's whole log backlog into memory, on its
main loop, with no overall deadline". Docker03's 1.13.0 agent went silent
for a day at 2.1 GB and 46 h of CPU, then ignored SIGTERM.
- One shared reader, _docker_get: each answer has an overall deadline and a
byte cap, not only a per-recv timeout. A trickling or endless body is cut
off (15 s / 32 MiB for JSON, 5 s / 4 MiB for a log read).
- Container logs: since the cursor but only the newest 2,000 lines, all
within 10 s. A note says when older lines were skipped, and a container
whose answer is too big skips ahead to now instead of re-reading its
backlog every interval.
- The agent reports its own RSS and CPU; Steward records agent_rss_bytes
and agent_cpu_pct, so a runaway agent shows before it goes silent.
Agent 1.15.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5760 "One stalled NFS mount freezes the whole agent: statvfs has no
deadline, so the host goes silent while it still answers ping". The agent
read every mount inline in its only loop; a hard-mounted share whose server
stops blocks statvfs in the kernel with no timeout. Each mount is now read
in a daemon thread under one 5 s deadline. One that misses it is sent as
stalled, and isn't probed again while its last probe is still blocked. A
mount that errors (a stale handle) is left out instead of emptying the list.
Steward counts them as mounts_stalled (alertable: "an NFS share stopped"),
and skips the fullest-disk figure when every mount stalled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5756 "The agent says when its host rebooted and when it lost contact, so
downtime is recorded as what it was". Agent 1.14.0 posts events with the
next post that gets through: started (with the host's boot time), stopping
(on SIGTERM, with whether systemd says the host is going down) and
lost_contact (from its first unanswered post to the one carrying it).
Steward keeps them as the host's downtime (host_downtime): reboot,
agent_stop, unclean (a boot after the agent was last heard that nobody
announced) or lost_contact. Retried posts apply once.
An announced stop explains the silence for reboot_grace_seconds (Settings
-> Plugins -> host_agent, 10 minutes): seconds_since_seen reads 0 until
then, and the host's other rules go quiet with it (agents_away beside
#5721's registry). Past the grace, agent offline fires.
The host's Agent card lists the last 7 days of downtime. Rows are pruned
at data.retention_days.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VDNT-Util01's / ran out of inodes (956 free of 60.8M) with 274G of space
left; every file create failed and Steward's page read healthy at 66%.
- Agent 1.13.0 reports each mount's inodes (statvfs; a filesystem reporting
none, like btrfs, is left without).
- Ingest records inodes_used_pct per mount, and disk_used_pct_worst is the
fullest mount by space or inodes, so existing disk-full rules and the
overview see it.
- The host's health strip, the Hosts widget and the host glance grade / by
whichever is fuller and name inodes when they are ("Disk / 66% · inodes
100%", "Inodes on / ... past its critical threshold").
Hosts pick up the inode figures once their agent is updated to 1.13.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Agent 1.12.0 stamps each post with sent_at; ingest compares it with the
moment the post arrived: clock_offset_s / clock_checked_at on the
registration (host_agent_003), and a clock_off_secs metric (either way)
that alert rules can watch. Replaces the old skew log, which measured the
newest sample and was off by up to an interval.
- Settings -> Thresholds: Clock drift, 30 s warn / 5 min critical.
- Host page: 'clock 0.3s ahead' in the vitals line, toned past the warning.
- Hosts list: names hosts whose clock is off; when every reporting host is
off by about the same amount, says Steward's own clock is the likely one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agent 1.11.0 sends finished_at (State.FinishedAt) and reads a stopped
container's logs once per stop: since its cursor if it was being read, or
its last 200 lines when first seen already crashed (non-zero exit, stopped
in the last 10 min). Cursors and finals are forgotten once a container is no
longer listed.
Ingest gives a container first seen already exited non-zero a die event, and
dates die/stop events by finished_at when the agent sends it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- BACKOFF_CAP 300 → 60: Steward reads a host stale after 180 s, so an agent
backing off to five minutes read stopped long after Steward came back
(lesson #4355: a check-in inherits its call's backoff).
- A POST carries at most five samples: the oldest four buffered plus the
new one, the rest held for the next post. A backlog drains a few at a
time instead of in one post Steward cannot write before the timeout
(the loop measured in #5149).
- Per-container Docker work has a 20 s deadline over the whole fan-out.
Past it the sample reports docker_status "error" ("N of M containers
not read within 20 s") and no list: a partial list would read as
removals, and a record without its inspect as restarts.
- /system/df is asked every 600 s rather than every sample; Steward keeps
the last answer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Agent: started_at comes from inspect's State.StartedAt (nanoseconds
trimmed; Docker's zero time is "never started"), not the list's Created,
so a restarted container's uptime counts from its restart.
- A rising restart_count between two snapshots emits a "restart" event
("restart #3", or "3 restarts, now #5"), said instead of a start; a
restart then a death gives both. A count that falls (recreated under the
same name) says nothing. The timeline draws it as ↻.
- Network and disk I/O count what the kernel calls physical: interfaces
not under /sys/devices/virtual/net (bridges, docker0, veth, vxlan, tun),
block devices with a device behind them (not dm, md, zram), so a byte is
not counted twice. Where /sys calls everything virtual (an agent in LXC)
the name-filtered set is kept rather than reporting no traffic.
- Agent tests updated for #5152's (status, detail, containers) and
(is_manager, topology) shapes; the no-Docker disk test now states the
case it was passing for by accident.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The agent (1.9.0) said nothing when Docker could not be asked and nothing
when Docker had no containers, so Steward could tell neither apart from the
other, and kept a host's last containers on screen as running either way.
- Agent: collect_docker returns (status, detail, containers). "ok" sends
docker: [] when there are none; "unavailable" (no socket, nothing
listening) and "error" (permission, timeout, bad answer) say why.
collect_swarm says whether /info answered, and a node that is not a
manager sends swarm_manager: false. A failed /info says nothing.
- Ingest: an empty docker list is a snapshot; the newest sample's status
goes to the Docker plugin with the rest.
- docker_host_status (docker_011): per host, status, detail, since and
last report. A host that never had Docker gets no row.
- An "ok" empty snapshot reaps the host's containers; an error keeps them.
swarm_manager: false drops the host's swarm services and nodes.
- Docker page: a "Docker not answering" card names each such host, why,
and since when; its containers read as stale. Duplicate header comment
in rows.html removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Milestone 465 "Swarm task awareness". Fixes three defects from the live MCP
review #4973:
- #5008 "Swarm task history read as live state"
- #5009 "Crash-loop detection is blind to Swarm services"
- #5011 "Swarm task errors are not captured"
Agent and ingest (agent 1.8.0):
- A manager's agent now reports each service's newest tasks: slot, node,
desired and current state, Swarm's Err/Message, exit code and time.
- They are stored in docker_swarm_services.tasks_json (migration
docker_010_swarm_tasks).
Swarm view (pure):
- A task container is "replaced" when Swarm set its task's desired state off
`running`. Without the task on record, a newer or running task in the same
slot decides.
- Replaced containers are no longer replicas or crashes.
- Each service gets, from the task records:
- failures_1h and failures_24h (failed or rejected tasks);
- crash_looping (Settings → Thresholds count);
- last_error, in Swarm's own words.
MCP:
- New findings: swarm_service_crash_looping (critical) and swarm_task_failed
(warning, on a healthy service with a failure in 24h).
- Down and degraded findings name the last task error.
- list_swarm_services carries the failure fields.
- Container rows mark swarm_replaced and give a replaced task no problems.
Web:
- The containers page swarm cards and the Swarm topology page show crash
loops, recent failures and the last task error.
- The dashboard widget flags a crash loop, and its "failed (24h)" count no
longer counts a rolling update's killed task.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agent-side of Docker container-log collection (milestone 79). Each interval the
agent fetches new log lines per running container over the local Docker socket,
demuxes the multiplexed stream, and folds sample["docker_logs"] into the same
push as metrics — no inbound channel needed.
- since-cursor per container kept in rate-state; a container's first interval
seeds from a short tail, then fetches incrementally via ?since=<cursor>
- _docker_request_raw + _demux_docker_logs + RFC3339Nano ts parsing (stdlib,
TTY/unframed fallback); one row per (stream, ts, line)
- per-batch byte cap with a truncation marker; logs are dropped (never buffered)
across a backoff so an outage keeps metrics but not stale logs
- docker_logs_enabled (default on) + docker_log_exclude per-host config keys
- AGENT_VERSION 1.6.0 -> 1.7.0
Server ignores the new sample key until the ingest step lands, so this commit is
CI-safe on its own.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CAGR73DUowdVFVvYzLXC5C
Backend for the image/disk panel (milestone 77 #942). Agent gains
collect_disk_usage() — one /system/df call (gated on containers existing, so
Docker-less hosts pay nothing), surfacing reclaimable bytes (image size held by
unreferenced images), layers/containers/volumes/build-cache sizes, and the top
50 images by size. Emitted as sample["docker_disk"]; host_agent ingest tracks
the newest sample's copy and hands it to the docker capability as a 5th arg.
New current-state tables docker_disk_usage (one row/host) + docker_images
(per-host image rows), docker_007 migration; ingest upserts the summary and
replaces the image set per host (stale images pruned). Unit tests for the df
parsing/reclaimable math + build_sample gating; integration test for
persistence + image-set replacement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Jg27rgypiW2efULXJDtMC
Adds collect_swarm(socket_path) to the host agent. Self-detects a Swarm
manager via /info (Swarm.ControlAvailable) — workers and non-swarm daemons
return None and never touch the manager-only endpoints (one cheap /info call,
no 503s). On a manager it queries /services, /tasks, /nodes and emits
sample["swarm"] = {services, nodes}:
* services roll desired-vs-running replicas up from the task list (replica
health isn't on the service object), handle replicated + global mode, strip
the @sha256 image digest, and carry cross-node task→node placement.
* nodes normalise role / availability / status + the manager leader flag.
build_sample omits the swarm key entirely off managers, same silent contract
as collect_docker. Unit tests cover manager detection, replica roll-up +
placement (replicated & global), node normalisation, worker silent-skip, and
build_sample wiring.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Jg27rgypiW2efULXJDtMC
First slice of milestone 77 (Docker monitoring depth). Surfaces real per-container
stats beyond basic state, all read-only on the existing push model.
- agent (→1.4.0): collect_docker now inspects each container (health, restart
count, exit code, OOM) and reads net + block I/O from the stats payload; pulls
compose project + swarm service/task/node from container labels. Per-container
inspect+stats calls run over a small bounded ThreadPool so the ~1s-per-stats
blocking doesn't stretch the sample on a busy host.
- schema (docker_003): additive columns on docker_containers — health, exit_code,
oom_killed, compose_project, service_name, task_id, node_id, and BigInteger
net/blk byte counters.
- ingest: persists the enrichment + restart_count (.get keeps older agents working).
- ui: Docker page rows now show health badge, uptime ("up 3d 4h"), restart count,
exit code (+OOM) for stopped containers, and compose/service grouping label.
- tests: agent helpers (grouping, inspect fields, net/IO sum) + collect_docker
assembly incl. inspect; integration asserts enrichment round-trips.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Jg27rgypiW2efULXJDtMC
Docker collection moves off the central single-socket scrape onto the host
agent, giving Docker a real per-host dimension. The Steward host now reports
its own containers like any other host, and same-named containers on different
hosts no longer collide.
- agent: stdlib UDS Docker client (AF_UNIX HTTP/1.1, Connection: close,
chunked-aware), collect_docker() ports the cpu%/mem math; sample["docker"]
added best-effort (silent-skip on absent/unreadable socket). AGENT_VERSION
1.2.0 → 1.3.0; optional docker_socket config key.
- ingest: host_agent ingest hands per-host container snapshots to the docker
plugin via a new "docker.persist_host_samples" capability (no hard import,
no-op when docker disabled), inside a SAVEPOINT so a docker failure never
sinks the host metrics. Resource names are host-scoped ("<host>/<name>").
- schema: docker_containers re-keyed (host_id, name); docker_metrics gains
host_id; docker_002 migration DROP+recreates (dev-only, rule 122).
- ui: Docker page + widgets grouped by host with host links; new per-host
Docker panel embedded on the Hosts hub (gated on docker enabled via a new
enabled_plugins template context). Replaces the SQLite-only strftime
bucketing with DB-agnostic Python bucketing.
- provisioning: install/provision playbooks add steward-agent to the docker
group (best-effort) so the agent can read the socket.
- removed central scrape: docker scheduler.py + scraper.py deleted; plugin.yaml
socket_path/scrape_interval_seconds/include_stopped dropped (plugin 2.0.0).
- tests: agent docker collector units (math, chunked decode, silent-skip,
sample shape, config) + integration (host-scoped schema + persistence).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Jg27rgypiW2efULXJDtMC
Extends the push agent (v1.2.0) with the Netdata-style signals the operator
wants: per-core CPU, per-interface network throughput and per-disk I/O
(rates derived in-agent from monotonic /proc counter deltas, with
counter-reset clamping), hardware temperatures (/sys/class/hwmon),
memory-pressure PSI (/proc/pressure), and cached/buffers memory breakdown.
All stdlib-only.
Server side needs no migration — these land as additional rows in the shared
PluginMetric table via _expand_sample_to_metrics. Per-resource series use a
':' in resource_name (host:net:eth0, host:core0, host:temp:Package) so the
existing fleet widget's ':' filter ignores them; host-level totals/max are
emitted at the bare host resource. New sample keys are optional, so older
agents keep ingesting unchanged.
Unit tests for the new parsers, rate/reset logic, and the expander contract.
Data foundation for the Netdata-style host view (task #867).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The agent now detects its own primary non-loopback IP (UDP-socket trick, no
packets sent) and sends it in the metadata bag; bumps AGENT_VERSION 1.0.0->1.1.0
and re-detects on SIGHUP. The server persists it on HostAgentRegistration.host_ip
and mirrors it into Host.address ONLY when that field is blank — an admin-typed
address is never overwritten. The reported IP shows in the settings table so
admins can see drift regardless.
- agent.py: detect_primary_ip(); host_ip in collect_metadata(); refresh on reload
- routes.py: pure pick_host_address() helper; ingest persists host_ip + mirrors
- models.py + migration host_agent_002_host_ip: new String(45) column
- settings_list.html: Reported IP column
- plugin.yaml: 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0
- tests: pick_host_address (fill-when-blank / never-clobber / no-op),
detect_primary_ip (never raises, non-loopback), metadata carries host_ip
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First-party plugins (host_agent, http, snmp, traefik, unifi, docker) are now
tracked under plugins/ and baked into the image, so they version atomically
with core — ending the cross-repo import drift the roundtable->steward rename
exposed. History for these files is preserved in the archived Roundtable-plugins
repo.
Plugin discovery becomes multi-root: PLUGIN_DIR (single) -> PLUGIN_DIRS
(bundled first, then external) + PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR. Bundled ships in the image;
third-party plugins still mount at runtime into the external root
(STEWARD_PLUGIN_DIR, default /data/plugins) and downloads/installs land there.
Bundled shadows external on a name collision.
- config.py: load_bootstrap returns plugin_dirs + plugin_install_dir
- app.py: iterate PLUGIN_DIRS at the migration + load sites
- migration_runner.py: discover_all_in() unions every plugin root
- plugin_manager.py: resolve_plugin_path() (pure, first-root-wins); load /
install / hot-reload span all roots; installs target the external root
- settings/routes.py: _discover_plugins scans all roots, dedup bundled-first
- Dockerfile: COPY plugins/ ; docker-compose: drop host bind, document external
- tests/test_plugin_dirs.py: resolution, multi-root discovery, bootstrap split
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