A ticket records a known problem: title, area, hosts, subject, description,
links to alert rules and anomalies, and a log of comments, edits, resolving
and reopening. Opening, resolving (with the resolution as the note) and
reopening go on the timeline; every step is audited, and the audit rows stay
off the timeline.
An alert or anomaly an open ticket covers (by link, by subject, or a
host-wide ticket on the host itself) shows a Known issue badge, and offers
"Open a ticket" prefilled from its rule or anomaly when none does. Hosts,
monitors and containers get a Known issues card.
MCP: list_tickets, get_ticket (viewer); open_ticket, update_ticket,
comment_ticket, resolve_ticket, reopen_ticket (operator). list_alerts and
list_anomalies carry known_issue; get_overview, get_host, get_monitor and
get_container carry open_tickets. Also update_change and delete_change for
changes recorded by hand (author or admin).
Tickets are left out of backups, like the timeline (2026-10-15 ruling).
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A stored log, timeline_entries, with one row per thing that happened. Each
source writes its row in the same transaction as its own record, so the
history outlives the 30/90/365-day retention of the tables it points to:
- alert events (core/alerts._add_event): fired, resolved, acknowledged,
went silent, readings back;
- finished Ansible runs (executor, and the startup sweep of interrupted
runs): changed something, changed nothing, failed, dry run;
- audit rows (core/audit.log_audit): Steward's settings, users and access,
sign-ins, backups. Actions another writer records are left to it.
Entries carry a kind (fixed) and an area (Service, Host OS, Hardware,
Storage, Network, Security, Monitoring). Settings → Timeline edits the
areas and each type's area and visibility; both are applied when the
timeline is read, so a change re-sorts past entries and a hidden type
comes back when shown. Kept forever unless a retention is set.
The first start fills the timeline from the last 90 days of records once,
skipping any already covered. A host rename carries its entries.
UI: Timeline in the sidebar (filter by host, area, kind; scrolls on), a
History card on each host page. MCP: get_timeline.
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- Audit: syslog.source_* worded, and a Syslog filter area.
- Backups keep syslog_sources (added, named, ignored; what it last sent
isn't compared) and leave syslog_lines out, as logs.
- The integration test reaches the plugin as loaded (#5775), so its
tables aren't defined twice; ruff E741.
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#5818 "First-run setup: Restore from a backup, by upload": beside creating
the first admin, setup offers "Or restore from a backup". Only while no
user exists; the upload is checked (a newer backup or one whose key can't
open its secrets is refused and not kept), then restored with no safety
backup (nothing to keep), and Steward restarts into the backup's users.
#5819 "Docs and CI": backups.md leads with restoring from Settings →
Backups and from setup; `steward restore --in-place` does the same-schema
restore from the shell, and CI's image check now uses it with a real
pg_restore: a changed setting comes back and the audit log stays.
Also exempts errors/restoring.html from the breadcrumb guard, as with
the other whole-app error pages: it replaces every page while a restore
runs, so there is nowhere to trail back to.
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- tests/test_breadcrumbs.py: the Prometheus target list is its section's
own top page, like SNMP's, so it carries no trail.
- The integration test's exposition has label braces, which str.format read
as fields: the fake scrape raised, the target was recorded down and no
series landed. It substitutes the counter with replace() now.
- docs/plugins/prometheus.md: adding a target, filtering, how series are
named and stored, alerting, and the Fabled Archives recipe.
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Step #5429 "Reset by email: request, link and new-password page" of
milestone 497 "Passwords: change your own, and reset it by email".
- Sign-in page: "Forgot your password?" while a mail server is set.
- /forgot takes a username or email and answers the same either way; only
an active local account with a real address gets mail. Requests count
per address on their own throttle, so they never lock out sign-in.
- password_resets (migration 0039): a one-time key, stored as its sha256,
working for an hour; asking again replaces it.
- /reset/<key>: the new password, then signed straight in; every other
browser is signed out (sessions_since). Bad keys count as invite keys do.
- Email "[Steward] Reset your password", in the account's own zone.
- Audited: user.password_reset_requested, user.password_reset_by_email.
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The operator's ask: an invite link sent by mail, the key in the URL, and
the new user choosing their own username, password and email.
- user_invites (migration 0037): the key's sha256 only, the address, the
role and days the admin chose, who sent it, used/revoked.
- core/invites: create (revokes an older open invite to the address),
renew (new key, new clock), find_pending, the four states, signup checks.
- /invite/<key>, outside sign-in and throttled like login: the invitee's
username, email (prefilled, theirs to change) and password; the account
takes the admin's role, the key is used up in the same transaction and
they are signed in. A bad key gets one plain message.
- Settings › Users: Invite by email (address, role, 1/7/30 days), sent from
the admin in their zone; without a mail server, or if sending fails, the
link is shown once to copy. Invites not yet used are listed with Resend
and Withdraw.
- Audit: user.invited, user.invite_resent, user.invite_revoked, user.joined.
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The last page of #5214's walk. Settings still described Steward as it was
before monitors were unified and SNMP was rebuilt, drew its tabs below the
breadcrumb, and showed the report schedule in UTC.
- Tabs (#5377): settings/_tabs.html is a settings_tabs() macro called in
each page's section_tabs block, above the trail, as Ansible's are. The
breadcrumb guard also fails any page that {% include %}s a tab strip.
- Report time (#5378): reports.schedule_tz keeps the zone of whoever saved
the schedule; check_and_send compares in it (report_due), and the form shows
the day and hour on the reader's clock (schedule_in) under their zone's
name. "Last sent" uses |when.
- Wording (#5379): the report contents list what the report holds (monitors,
not ping-enabled hosts); "Ping latency" is "Response time" and says what it
grades; plugin detail says enabling loads now and disabling needs a
restart; the monitor interval says it applies on the next check (the
scheduler reads it every pass); the dead list-config branch is gone.
- Traefik (#5380): the 5xx and 4xx cutoffs are settings
(traefik.threshold.error_5xx_pct 0.1, error_4xx_pct 1.0) in a "Traefik
routers" group on Thresholds while the plugin runs, read by router_state
through error_cutoffs(). The Traefik page has a Thresholds button for
admins, to /settings/thresholds/#traefik.
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- users.time_zone (0034). An account without one takes the browser's zone
on its first page (POST /account/time-zone/adopt, never over a choice made
by hand); the session follows the account on every request.
- /account: who you are and the zone every page writes its times in,
reached from your name in the sidebar.
- formatting.when: 'Today 06:58', 'Yesterday 23:41', 'Tue 6 Oct 14:12',
'6 Oct 2025 14:12', 24-hour, in the reader's zone; |ago's hover is the
exact local moment instead of UTC; tz_label() for column headers.
- Audit log: When (EDT) with exact times, one detail fact a line, on classes.
- tzdata in the image, and the airgapped smoke checks a zone resolves.
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The tabs were drawn in each page's content block, which base.html renders
after the breadcrumb, so on every nested Ansible page the strip moved down a
line. base.html now has a section_tabs block above the breadcrumb, and every
Ansible page fills it. A guard in test_breadcrumbs.py fails any page that calls
a tabs macro outside that block.
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Status repeated the Monitors page's counts, check strip and uptime. Monitors
now has one header row and every column Status had: the last 30 checks,
latest response with its trend, uptime over 24h / 7d / 30d (the range picker
goes) and TLS days on every row. /status and /status/rows and the nav link
are removed outright; the dashboard Overview (/status/widget) stays and its
Details link goes to Monitors.
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#5095 "Share view on the shared stylesheet; breadcrumbs, focus-visible and
wide tables".
- dashboard/share_view.html loads theme.css and steward.css; its own copy of
the old purple palette is gone. Only the read-only frame and the x/y/w/h
grid stay inline, written in tokens. HEX_CEILING 75 -> 58.
- Breadcrumbs on settings/general, settings/thresholds, the dashboard share
page and share-link-created. tests/test_breadcrumbs.py fails on any page
extending base.html without a crumbs() trail, unless it is on the named
list of section top pages, logged-out and error pages (rule 134).
- :focus-visible draws --fs-focus-ring on links, buttons, summaries, inputs
and anything with tabindex.
- Any card holding a .table scrolls sideways (card:has(table.table)), so a
wide table no longer widens the page at phone width; .card-flush scrolls
too, main gets min-width:0, and .table-wrap covers a table outside a card.
- tests/test_share_view.py renders the share view: shared sheets, no hex
colour, escaped name, widgets loading through the share token.
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