At 20:25-20:39Z the NFS storage under steward_db slowed badly (checkpoint
sync 4.6 s, then 70.7 s with one file at 21.9 s, against the usual 0.002 s).
Ingest commits stalled past the agent's 10 s timeout and were dropped, and
last_seen_at, written in that same transaction, went with them. Agents
posting every few seconds read as silent for 3 minutes, and "Agent offline"
fired and emailed for all three hosts.
Ingest now notes each agent's arrival in memory right after the (read-only)
registration lookup, before any write; seconds_since_seen counts from the
later of last_seen_at and that arrival.
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After Steward or its database was down, every agent's age and every
series' last sample were old, so all agent-offline rules fired and all
rules went no-data at once, clearing a minute later. With per-account
alert email that would have mailed everyone a dozen notices per restart.
A periodic job now ticks a Watch (steward/core/watch.py) once it has
reached the database; the Watch says since when runs have been unbroken
(process start, or the end of a gap over 120 s). seconds_since_seen and
the no-data sweep count silence from no earlier than that, so a source
must stay quiet while Steward is watching before it counts as silent.
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Agent offline is an ordinary rule now. The host_agent scheduler records
host_agent/<host>/seconds_since_seen every minute (from last_seen_at, or
registration time for an agent that never reported), replacing the task
that only logged stale agents. The catalog offers the metric, and picking
it on a new rule fills "> 180".
No data: each rule's state tracks its last sample and its usual gap,
smoothed so that an outage counts as at most three gaps. A core task,
alert_silence_check, runs every 60s and marks a rule no_data_since once its
series has had no sample for three usual gaps (at least 5 minutes; an hour
while the cadence is unknown). A never-sampled rule counts from when it
started watching. The mark sits beside the state, so a firing alert that
goes silent stays firing. Each silence records one event and sends one
notification (rule option notify_no_data, default on; muted in maintenance
windows). The next sample clears it with a "data resumed" event and
notification. Creating, changing, disabling or re-enabling a rule restarts
its watch.
Migration 0029 adds the columns and seeds each existing rule's last sample
and gap from its last day of data, so an upgrade does not flag every rule.
Shown on the Alerts page (a NO DATA badge with its start time), in MCP
list_alerts, list_alert_rules and get_host (state "no_data", no_data_since),
in get_overview findings (alert_no_data, or a firing alert marked silent)
and in the weekly report. The rule form has the notify option, and its
metric reference now matches what traefik records and lists host_agent.
Emails say "no data" and carry the event's note.
The metric-catalog guard also reads positional MetricBatch.add arguments.
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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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