The agent sent Docker's working set (usage less inactive_file), which still
counts recently used file cache. A file-heavy container with no limit read
191 GB while its processes held 2.2 GB, and the host's own figure, which
already leaves cache out, disagreed with it.
Agent 1.23.0 sends mem_used_bytes / mem_used_pct (anon + shmem, so
Postgres's shared buffers count; v1: rss + shmem) and mem_cache_bytes
apart. The new names keep the two meanings apart in history and in learned
normals: docker_013 renames the columns, clears the old values and adds
mem_cache_bytes. The Docker page, swarm by-node sums, Busiest Containers,
container detail, normals and the MCP tools all read the new figure. File
cache is shown only on the container's page and in get_container.
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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.
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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