#5335 "Emails Steward sends read as designed messages: an HTML alert email
and weekly report, with a plain-text twin".
- core/mail.py renders each email as multipart/alternative from
templates/email/: a table-and-inline-style HTML part and a plain-text
twin carrying the same facts. Colours are the design system's light
theme, resolved from theme.css; nothing is fetched when a mail opens.
- Alert email: state badge, a headline sentence ("Disk used on web01 is
94%."), rule, resource, reading, the condition in words, and the time in
the zone Notifications was saved in with UTC beside it; "View in
Steward" when Steward's address is set. Subject "[Steward] Firing: <rule>
— <resource> 94%". Alerts now carry their operator.
- Weekly report: monitors down, active alerts, the week's alert events,
uptime and busiest Traefik routers as small tables with links. Sent from
the configured From address; the "Generated … UTC" line and the stale
repo footer are gone.
- condition_text() states a condition from a rule's parts.
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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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First-party plugins have shipped inside the image since a7a281c, and the
catalog's only repository (Steward-plugins) answers 404, so Steward polled a
dead URL every minute for nothing. The operator chose to remove the catalog
entirely (#5214 "Review: readable and fast on the live instance").
Removed:
- core/plugin_index.py and the plugin_catalog_refresh startup task;
- the plugins.index_url default, and migration 0035 deletes the stored
plugins.index_url / plugins.repositories rows;
- the Settings -> Plugins repository editor, catalog, refresh, install and
reload routes and their templates;
- the download/checksum/extract install path in plugin_manager, and the
PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR config it wrote to;
- plugins/index.yaml, docs/plugins/index.yaml.example and the guide's
"Publishing to the Catalog" section (now "Shipping a Plugin").
Kept: enabling and configuring plugins, hot-reload on enable, restart, orphan
cleanup, and the external root (/data/plugins) for operator-mounted plugins.
tests/test_no_plugin_catalog.py guards the routes, default and task.
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The plugin_catalog_refresh tick retries a failed repository every 5 minutes;
the configured index URL answers 404, which logged a full traceback each time.
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The operator's ruling (Background Jobs, 2026-10-08): a Steward page reads
stored records; the sources are contacted by scheduled collection. An audit
of every GET handler, HTMX fragment, widget poll and MCP read tool found one
page load that reached out: Settings -> Plugins' catalog fragment fetched
each plugin repository (5 min cache, 10 s timeout each, retried on every
load when unreachable).
plugin_catalog_refresh ticks every minute and fetches a repository whose
copy is missing or older than an hour, waiting 5 min after a failure;
saving repositories clears the cache, so the next tick fetches. The
fragment only reads the cache and says which repositories are not fetched
yet. Refresh is now a POST that fetches at once, as does install.
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The operator found "Today 08:03" in place of a date odd on the audit log,
and asked for the recency groups as dividers instead. |when now always
writes the date ("Thu 8 Oct 08:03"); mark_day_groups gives each entry its
group in the reader's zone, and a divider row opens each group. A scrolled
page carries the group the last one ended in, so it is not opened twice.
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- 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.
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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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Service page:
- The header carries the verdict, mode, stack, image and when it was reported.
'In trouble since' shows only while the service is in trouble; once recovered,
'Last failed X ago · its logs'.
- The failure card shows only while the service is down, degraded or crash-looping.
- The tile strip and the kv card are gone.
- One Tasks table: running tasks first with CPU, memory and since when, then
Swarm's record. The node is named as its Steward host throughout, and
'N failed in 24h' sits in the caption.
Container page:
- Same shape: header verdict, a 'Last exit' card only while it is stopped
after a failing exit, set-up and I/O in one kv card, and lifecycle as a table.
- A swarm task's breadcrumb goes through its service.
Both pages:
- Resource history is the one fragment (_usage_history.html): now and peak in
cores and bytes, drawn with a floor of 1 core / 1 GiB (sparkline_svg floor=),
so idle noise draws flat.
- The container page's old % sparklines, its private _sparkline and the unused
bucket()/container_history() helpers are removed.
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- #5304 "Docker disk totals recorded over time per host, with a growth chart and alertable metrics"
- #5305 "Disk page: images grouped by repository, versions folded under it"
- #5306 "Docker overview: one disk line per host linking to the Disk page"
Each `docker system df` report is now also recorded as metrics, with the host
as the resource: disk_total_bytes, its parts, and disk_reclaimable_bytes. An
alert rule can watch them. The Disk page starts with the hosts side by side,
showing how much each grew over the selected range with a line of it, then
gives each host its own section. An image's versions fold under its
repository, which is charged only for the layers its versions don't share.
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#5290 "Host page: the health tiles span the card's width; even spacing above Ansible":
the four tiles take equal quarters (halves on a phone) and their sparklines stretch
across them; the Monitors + Agent row drops the Agent card's own margin, so the gap
above Ansible is 1rem like every other.
#5291 "Add host opens as a dialog over the Hosts list": a native <dialog> on /hosts/,
opened by Add host or /hosts/?add=1. A name clash re-renders the list with it open,
the error and what was typed. GET /hosts/new is gone; hosts/form.html is Edit only.
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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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A chart built while its cell was still being laid out could stay blank until
a window resize; it now measures and draws again after layout settles. Each
refresh rebuilds the chart (the flash), and its buckets are minutes wide, so
the widget refreshes every 5 minutes instead of every poll.
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The fill bars were a share of the host's capacity, a sliver on hosts with
80 cores. Each figure now sits beside 24 bars of the last 6 hours (1h/24h
per widget), each row scaled to its own peak but never below 1 core or
1 GiB (configurable per widget), so a 0.05-core container reads flat and
a bar's height means real load. One grouped date_bin query feeds them.
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The Monitors widget opens with a verdict ("1 of 5 monitors down."), then one
row per monitor under a single header: latency and uptime over 24h, 7d and
30d, down monitors first with why and since when, the name linking to the
monitor. Counts follow the type filter. Problems always show; the limit
trims only the healthy rest ("+N more up").
Uptime / SLA (uptime_summary) repeated those numbers per host; migration
0033 moves dashboards onto Monitors. Shared widget styles (.w-verdict,
.w-table, .w-sub, .w-more) carry the widget-shape ruling for the widgets
that follow.
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- New installs start from widgets.RECOMMENDED, packed row by row for the
enabled plugins; the edit drawer can reset a dashboard to it.
- Host Agent — Resources folds into Hosts — Overview (which gains load 1m),
UniFi — Devices into UniFi — Overview; migration 0032 moves existing
dashboards onto the survivors.
- The Overview labels what it counts (hosts, monitors up/down/pending,
alerts firing) and lists firing alerts and down monitors with since-times.
- Uptime polls every 5 minutes (poll_seconds) instead of every cycle.
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#5212 "Plain labels: no raw ids, scopes, metric keys or unexplained jargon",
batch 3:
- Disk page: each tile says what it holds. "Writable layers" becomes
"Container files" and Build cache says it is safe to clear. Shared is
"Shared with other images" with a tooltip, and "dangling" is gone.
Untagged images show by id instead of "<none>", a capped list says
"The 50 largest of N images", and each host shows "as of" its report.
- Traefik: an expired certificate reads "expired 12 days ago", not "-12
days" (cert_left). The Traffic empty state knows whether the access log
is on: off points to Settings → Plugins → Traefik; on says to check the
mounted log path.
- Moments use |ago with an exact UTC tooltip: UniFi last seen, alarms,
events, speed test and DPI; AI token last used.
- Settings: the Auth tab is "Authentication" like its breadcrumb, plugin
fields read "Metrics URL" not metrics_url (field_label), a source's pull
interval is "every 1h", and the last report time drops the ISO "T".
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#5212 "Plain labels: no raw ids, scopes, metric keys or unexplained jargon",
batch 2:
- A run records where it came from: AnsibleRun.origin ("schedule", "alert"
or "mcp") and origin_id, set by the scheduler, Run now, alert actions and
the MCP tools. Migration 0031 backfills past runs from alert events,
schedules' last runs, and MCP audit entries.
- The runs list has a Started by column: "schedule nightly", "alert rule
nas down", "alice via MCP" or "alice", linked where there is a page.
The raw scope tooltip is gone.
- Run detail: no run id in the subtitle or body, Started by in words, and
the host summary lists failed and unreachable hosts first. The live
output only follows new lines while the reader is at the bottom, and
when the run finishes the page reloads once so the badge and summary
are final.
- list_ansible_runs and get_ansible_run report origin and origin_id.
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#5212 "Plain labels: no raw ids, scopes, metric keys or unexplained jargon",
batch 1:
- Audit log: each action reads as a sentence ("paused monitor"), with the
code as its tooltip. Detail shows flags as yes/no, lists joined, a run's
scope by name, spans as spans, and no ids the entity column already gives.
The filter is now a picker of areas.
- Alert rules, history and Status say the condition in words: "is down",
"Fullest disk >= 85%". Readings use metric_value, and history times use
|ago.
- Rule form: sources and metrics by name, the threshold's unit, "fires
when it is down/up" for an up/down metric instead of 0.5, and a metric
reference built from the catalog.
- Schedules and Maintenance: viewers no longer see Run now, Pause, Edit,
Delete or New. Intervals and next runs read as "every 2h" and "in 3h";
a scope reads "Every alert on Host agent".
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#5211 "Lists load as you scroll: audit, alert history, Ansible runs"
(milestone 477), per preference 172.
- core/paging.py: keyset paging over (time, id), newest first, with an
opaque "<iso>|<id>" cursor; a page reads one row past itself to know
whether another follows. No OFFSET, so rows added while someone scrolls
never shift the pages after them.
- _macros.html scroll_more / scroll_end and static/scroll-more.js, written
once: an IntersectionObserver with a 600px margin fetches the next page
before the reader reaches the end; "Loading more…" while in flight,
"End of the list." at the end, and a failed page says so with a Retry
button instead of re-firing on every scroll.
- Audit log: no "Load more" link and no 500-row cap.
- Alert history: no 200-row stop with "pick a shorter range";
alert_svc.history takes the cursor, so the MCP tool and the page share
one query.
- Ansible runs: no silent cap of 50.
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#5209 "Docker views: readable names, CPU/memory in cores and bytes, failures
listed with since-time" (milestone 477 "UI problems first").
- A swarm task reads as its service and slot ("codex_db · 1", or the node
for a global service), with the raw name in the title: Docker page, host
panel, busiest widget, container detail.
- CPU reads in cores (Docker's 100% = one core), toned by its share of the
host's CPUs from the agent's per-core series. Memory reads in bytes, against
a limit only when one is really set (Docker reports host RAM otherwise).
- Exit 137/143 without an OOM kill is a stop, not a failure: no
exited_nonzero, no crash-loop death, no "failed (24h)", dim exit code.
- "Failed (24h)" is a list (Docker page #failures, linked from the widget
and the tile): plain containers by their deaths, swarm services by Swarm's
failed tasks; a second manager's copy of a task death counts once.
- Failing swarm services lead Needs attention; services sort problems first
with since-times on the page, the widget and the Swarm page; nodes that
are down or drained sort first.
- Busiest widget orders by a 5-minute CPU average so the list holds still.
- Host panel: a table, problems first with what is wrong and since when;
replaced swarm tasks hidden and counted.
- Container detail: node hostname, I/O labelled "since start", Restarts
hidden for swarm tasks with a note on where task failures are.
- Widget names: "Docker — Services & failures", "Docker — Busiest containers".
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Migration 0030 seeded plugin_metric_latest from the whole history: two index
probes per distinct metric key. On the live instance that held the first
boot for 7+ minutes with Steward down. The migration now only creates the
table. Live sources fill it on their next sample, and backfill_latest runs
after startup for resources that have history but no latest rows. Per
resource it does one backward probe for the last sample, then takes the
newest value per metric within the hour before it. Resources that already
have rows are skipped, so later boots only walk the resource names.
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_last_n_results (Status, the monitors list, host monitors), host_status
(hosts overview, list_hosts) and the report's down-monitor list each
ranked every result a monitor ever recorded to keep the newest few. Each
monitor now gets ORDER BY checked_at DESC LIMIT n in a LATERAL subquery,
which walks ix_monitor_results_monitor_checked backwards and stops.
Also fixes the latest-table test, which read between two begin() blocks
and so autobegan a transaction the second block then refused.
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The dashboard's host widgets took 18-60 s. Every "latest reading" query
(hosts overview, host-agent fleet, host page, vitals, SNMP, MCP get_host)
searched plugin_metrics for the newest row per metric. Postgres has no skip
scan, so each one read every raw sample in the 7-day window.
- plugin_metric_latest: one row per (source, resource, metric).
record_metrics upserts it in the same transaction, moving forward only and
in sorted key order. Migration 0030 seeds it by stepping the existing index.
- Retention drops a latest row once its sample leaves the raw window, so a
resource that stopped reporting disappears when its history does, as before.
Renames carry it along.
- A quiet host keeps its last values, marked stale. A time-bounded query
would have shown it as missing.
- Vitals sparklines span the 6 h they claim, averaged in SQL to ~120 points,
instead of fetching 6 h raw and drawing the last 120 samples.
- Dashboard and share-view cells: "Loading…" until the first answer; a 20 s
deadline per fetch; "Couldn't load (why)" with Retry now and an automatic
retry for cells that don't poll; "as of HH:MM" in the header, and
"couldn't refresh · as of" when a refresh fails over shown data.
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- Dockerfile: python:3.14-slim, the Python CI tests on (was 3.13). tini from
apt is PID 1 (ENTRYPOINT tini -- entrypoint.sh): it reaps the zombies ssh
and ansible leave and forwards SIGTERM.
- cli: Hypercorn's serve() with one worker (run, stream and scheduler state is
in-process), a 10 s graceful timeout, and SIGTERM/SIGINT as the shutdown
trigger. Access and error lines go through Steward's logging. --debug keeps
Quart's reloading dev server.
- Logging: steward/core/logging_setup.py installs one root handler before
anything logs (until now a library's basicConfig on import was the only
configuration). Its level is the `log.level` setting (DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/
ERROR, default INFO), applied at boot and on save in Settings → General.
- CI publish: build, then "The image boots with no internet" (rule 164,
snippet #3552), then push, so a broken image never reaches a tag (rule 177).
On an --internal network with its own Postgres, the image must migrate and
answer /health, run tini as PID 1, serve first-run setup with its assets
from /static and no third-party host, and exit 0 on SIGTERM. Logs and
clean-up run always.
Tests: tests/core/test_logging_setup.py; the smoke step itself.
Not in this commit: the dependency lockfile (it conflicts with rule 154 and
is waiting on the operator).
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- One run per host: start_run claims every host it touches (addresses read
from the inventory Steward wrote; a source's own inventory file is claimed
as that file) before it takes a run slot. The claim is all-or-nothing. A run
waiting on a host shows queued and names the run it waits for, honours a
cancel, and fails after HOST_WAIT_SECONDS (1 h) with which host and run.
- A due schedule whose previous run is still queued or running skips the
firing: last_run_at moves on, last_run_id still names the run going, and
last_error says "Skipped: the previous run was still going". The Schedules
page shows that beside the run (muted), and a launch error in red.
- An alert rule that fires while the action run from an earlier firing is
still going starts no new run; the event says so and names the run. An
in-process set closes the gap between the check and the run being linked.
- docs/core/ansible.md: queued/cancelled statuses and the overlap rules.
Tests: tests/core/test_ansible_overlap.py (claim keys, waiting, all-or-nothing,
cancel, deadline) and tests/integration/test_ansible_overlap.py (two real
runs on one host take turns; schedule skip then fire; alert action skip then
start).
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- git ships in the image; checkouts live under /data/ansible/sources
(STEWARD_ANSIBLE_SOURCE_DIR), on the persistent volume.
- One task, ansible_git_pulls, reads the sources every 30 s and pulls each
as its interval passes: a source added in Settings is pulled without a
restart, a removed one is forgotten.
- git_pull: a 120 s timeout ending the process group, GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0,
pull --ff-only, a failed clone removed; it raises GitPullError with git's
message, so the Sync button stops saying Synced after a failure (and the
message is now escaped).
- An alert action's vars and the firing's steward_alert_* vars reach
ansible-playbook as one JSON extra-vars file, not -e key=value, which
Ansible split on whitespace (a rule named 'High CPU on web').
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- prune_by_age(column) registers a time-series column with the hourly cleanup;
Traefik (metrics, access summaries, global stats) and UniFi (WAN, client,
WLAN, DPI, events, alarms, speedtests) register theirs in setup().
- Alert events join monitor results and Ansible runs on data.retention_days,
read from Settings each run; Ansible run log files older than it are deleted.
- audit.retention_days (365) keeps the audit log longer, set on Settings > General.
- metric_series.points reads metrics.retention.raw_days, so the chart's
raw/rollup seam is where the rollup put it (RAW_DAYS removed).
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Measured on dev (385a579), agent posts cut to five samples still dropped:
flush=8.8s for 990 rows, 6.6s for 680, 8.4s for 1000 — about 110 rows/s,
~9 ms a row, with rules and evaluation near zero. One random read per
row fits a random uuid4 primary key whose index no longer fits in memory:
every new row lands on a random page of it. (Inferred from the rate; the
table and index sizes have not been read.)
- steward.core.ids.time_ordered_id: a UUIDv7-layout string (48-bit ms
timestamp, then random), same 36-char shape as the stored uuid4 ids, so
no migration. Python's uuid7() arrives in 3.14; the image runs 3.13.
- Used for plugin_metrics and its hourly rollup, monitor_results,
audit_events, the docker metrics/hourly/events/logs tables, and the
traefik and unifi time series.
- MAX_SAMPLES_PER_INGEST 5 → 2 (~400 rows) for now: it fits the agent's
10 s even at the old rate, so hosts land data whichever way the new rate
comes out. Raise it once the new rate is measured.
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The first instrumented drop on dev read "dropped after 10.0s … (completed:
parse=0.1s)": the whole stall is inside record_metrics. It now marks its
three steps (flush of the rows, the rule and state reads, the per-sample
evaluation) on the caller's phases, and the drop line carries the request's
samples and metric row count.
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Runs read "update.yml on web-1" (run_title over the scope label, beside
describe_scope) on the runs list, the run page's title and breadcrumb, and
the run-started panel. The list shows started |ago (full time on hover),
|duration (counting "so far" while a run is going) and a dry-run tag.
Run statuses join STATES, so the list and the run page use status_badge:
queued dim, running info (blue, so work in progress doesn't read as a
problem), success ok "Succeeded", failed crit, interrupted warn, cancelled
dim. run_started.html leaves its hard-coded colours for tokens; the run
page's facts move to the .kv list and its failures to var(--red). Template
hex colours: 54 -> 47.
Also fixes#5124's sidebar count, which CI run 8389 failed on: the stylesheet
guard allows no weight above 500, and .nav-count asked for 600.
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The Alerts page's active list now says each alert in one line around the
resource it watches, e.g. "cpu_pct on web-1 is 94% (> 90%), firing for 12m",
with web-1 linking to its host, monitor or container page (or the plugin's
page for Traefik, UniFi and SNMP). Values take their unit from the metric
name through formatting.metric_value. A silent series reads "No cpu_pct from
web-1 for 20m"; an up/down metric says the word.
Actions follow the routes' roles: acknowledge, edit, toggle and New rule for
operators and admins, Delete for admins only, nothing for viewers.
The sidebar shows how many alerts need attention beside Alerts, from an
async context processor that skips htmx fragments, logged-out pages and the
database-down page, and renders without the count if the query fails.
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The host page's vitals strip becomes its health header: Live or Stale,
then one sentence — "Memory 93% is past its critical threshold", "Every
reading is within its thresholds", or, for a stale host, "No report since
20m ago; the readings below are from then" — and last seen as |ago. CPU,
memory, root disk and load per core follow as stat tiles graded by
Settings → Thresholds, with their sparklines.
The full-metrics page drew its bars and gauges at a hard-coded 70/90
(temperatures 70/85) while every other page used the configured cutoffs
(80/90 by default), so a 75 % CPU was amber here and fine everywhere else.
bar() now takes the metric kind and colours its .meter-fill through
status_class; gauges, temperatures and per-core bars do the same.
The host's monitor rows move onto the Monitors list's shapes: a status dot,
the name linking to the monitor's page, Ping/TCP/DNS/HTTP, pill-up/
pill-down, latency and uptime through status_class, labelled icon buttons.
HEX_CEILING drops to 54.
New formatting.worst_reading(readings, thresholds) picks the reading
furthest past its cutoff, the first of equals winning.
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The Monitors list now opens with a count strip (down, up with how many
degraded, pending, paused) and sorts down, degraded, pending, up, paused,
by name within each. Degraded is up but worth a look: uptime at or below
its warning floor, or the latest response past its critical cutoff, both
from Settings → Thresholds; a slow-but-tolerable reply is coloured, not
sorted.
A monitor had no page of its own: every link went to the list. Now
/monitors/<id> shows its state and since when, latency, uptime for 24h/7d/
30d, TLS days, the last checks, recent failures with their errors, and its
settings (HTTP header names, never their values). Status links to it, and
adding or editing returns to it.
Adding is its own page (/monitors/new, form.html shared with edit) behind
an "Add monitor" button; a refused add re-renders the form with the error
and what was typed instead of a bare 400 text. Row actions are labelled
icon buttons, type names read Ping/TCP/DNS/HTTP (|monitor_type), and the
heartbeat uses pill-up/pill-down, so HEX_CEILING drops to 56.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5120 "Status page: what is wrong first".
- A "Needs attention" card heads the Status board: each down monitor with
how long it has been down, and each active alert (firing, acknowledged,
pending, no data) with its condition and how long, linking to its history.
- StatusEntry.since / since_at_least: when the current up/down run began,
from the recent checks (streak_start); "for at least" when every check we
have agrees.
- Counts as stat tiles (Down, Active alerts, Pending, Up); names wrap
instead of being cut off; dots carry their label.
- Uptime and TLS are coloured by status_class against Settings → Thresholds
instead of literal cutoffs; heartbeat pills and DOWN/UP use tokens and
status_badge rather than hex and bold.
- tests/core/test_status_page.py: streak_start cases, and the rows render
with the problem card before the list, each since-time, threshold tones
and no hex colour.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5094 "Status and layout macros, and form classes".
- formatting.STATES: one state -> (tone, label) map for up, down, stale,
firing, pending, acknowledged, no_data, ok, warn, crit, resolved and
inactive; status_info() reads it (an unmapped state is drawn dim under its
own name). required() lets a macro refuse a missing argument.
- _macros.html: status_badge and status_dot (a dot always carries its label,
sr-only unless shown), stat_tile, empty_state, page_header (actions via a
call block) and icon_button, which raises without a label.
- steward.css: tone classes (badge-/dot-/stat- ok, warn, crit, info, dim),
.sr-only, .page-header, .stat-tile, .empty-state, .btn-icon and the form
classes .field, .field-label, .field-hint and .input. Info text is a 40%
mix (--blue): the house --fs-info-fg falls to 4.18:1 on its tint over a
hovered row, 40% holds 5.09:1.
- First users: the Alerts list, history and maintenance pages (headers,
state badges, empty states) and the alert forms' hints; the inline inp/lbl
style sets on the monitor and host forms become .input / .field-label.
- tests/core/test_macros.py renders each macro through the app environment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5093 "Shared format filters and status_class driven by Settings → Thresholds".
- steward/core/formatting.py: human_bytes (binary units), human_rate,
human_duration (two largest units), ago (a <time> titled with the absolute
UTC time) and status_class(value, kind, thresholds) -> ok/warn/crit/unknown,
which raises on a kind the thresholds don't name.
- app.py registers them as the bytes, rate, duration and ago filters and the
status_class global; threshold_style is now graded by status_class (and caps
its weight at 500).
- Replaces the copies: docker's _human_bytes/_human_uptime, core alerts'
_duration, the host-agent fmt_bps/fmt_bytes macros, the Traefik and UniFi
byte-rate arithmetic, the swarm-failures ago macro and two uptime spans.
- Tests: a table per helper, and every template compiled against the app's
filters, so an unknown filter fails CI rather than a page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5065 "Renames carry their alerts". Alert rules, maintenance-window scopes
and metric history key a thing by (source, name), so a rename used to leave
the rules watching a name nothing reported under, and split the history.
- core/renames.carry_rename moves AlertRule.resource_name,
MaintenanceWindow.scope_resource, plugin_metrics and plugin_metrics_hourly
to the new name in the caller's transaction. A host rename also carries
its parts: host_agent "<host>:…" and docker "<host>/…" (HOST_SOURCES).
Matching is exact (a prefix compare, not LIKE or a collation range).
History left under the new name by something deleted is dropped first
rather than merged in.
- Web monitor edit, MCP update_monitor and web host edit call it; MCP
answers with `carried` (it used to return a warning naming stranded rules).
- A name another monitor of the same type, or another host, already has is
refused on create and rename: two would share one history.
- The rename is audited (monitor.updated / host.renamed) with what moved.
Tests: an integration test renames a firing monitor through the web route
and finds its rule still firing and cleared by a sample on the new name,
its window and raw+hourly history moved and an orphan's history dropped; a
host rename moves agent and container parts but not a longer-named host's
or another source's; a guard that every host_agent resource is "<host>" or
"<host>:…".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The rule name goes into the Subject header, and EmailMessage refuses a
header holding a line break, so the whole email failed. The web form can't
enter one but MCP takes any string. The subject now folds whitespace.
Found by the new From-fallback test in CI run 8349.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5064 "Notifications that arrive":
- render_webhook: alert.* is escaped to sit inside a JSON string (a quote
or newline in a rule name no longer breaks the body); raw.* is the plain
value for |tojson; a missing value reads "no data"; the template runs
sandboxed and the body is checked to be JSON before it is sent.
- SMTP: 15s timeout; port 465 connects with implicit TLS, otherwise the
box means STARTTLS; a From address setting (falls back to the username).
- A webhook error no longer carries the URL, which is a secret.
- Settings → Notifications: "Send a test email" / "Send a test webhook"
send a sample alert with the form's values (unsaved) and show the result
and the body that went out; template help names alert.* and raw.*.
- Notification audits go through audit_request; the test send is audited
as settings.notification.tested, with the channel and outcome only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Notifications and alert actions now start only once the evaluating
transaction commits, and never for one that rolls back. record_metrics
queues them on the session (_after_commit), and after_commit/after_rollback
listeners on the sync session spawn or drop them. Spawned tasks are held in a
module set so they cannot be garbage-collected before they run.
A maintenance window no longer skips evaluation. Alerts in its scope still
change state, but their notifications and actions are held, and each event
says so ("notification muted: maintenance window <name>"; also on no-data
and resume events). notify_after_maintenance, run every minute with the
silence check as the new core task alert_reconcile, sends one notification
for an alert still firing after its window ends and runs its action. The
event's note records the release.
Alert actions go through runner.trigger_run like every other run path, so
the playbook and the inventory must be ones the source lists (#5034 guards).
The firing event links to the run, or its note says why the action did not
start. The maintenance page and form wording now say what a window does.
Tests:
- integration: a rolled-back evaluation notifies nobody, and dispatch waits
for the commit; maintenance mutes while the state moves and notifies once
when the window ends; an action whose playbook is outside its source is
refused, with the note set;
- the alert-action test uses a listed inventory name and waits, with a
deadline, for the run the action starts;
- unit: _muted_by.
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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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5060 "One evaluation path: record_metrics batch API; host-agent ingest
evaluates rules".
- record_metrics(session, rows) writes metric rows and evaluates the rules
that watch them, reading rules, states and maintenance windows once per
batch. Each rule sees its key's samples oldest first, so an agent catching
up after an outage counts consecutive checks as they happened.
- Host-agent ingest now goes through it. Before, it wrote plugin_metrics
directly and no host_agent rule could ever fire. The catalog gains the
per-mount disk_used_pct ("<host>:<mount>").
- MetricBatch gathers a transaction's samples; the docker ingest, traefik,
unifi, snmp, monitor and self-monitor writers record one batch each instead
of a rule query per sample.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5059 "Alert state machine: acknowledgement holds until resolve; N
consecutive OK to resolve; editing, disabling or deleting a rule resets it".
- The state machine is now next_step(), a pure function of one sample. An
acknowledged alert stays acknowledged while breached; before, the next
breaching sample re-fired it. Firing and acknowledged alerts resolve after
consecutive_ok_required OK checks in a row (new rule column, default 1;
rule form, rules list and MCP create/update_alert_rule clear_after_checks).
- Changing what a rule watches (source, resource, metric, operator,
threshold) or disabling it resets its alert to inactive; a firing or
acknowledged one records a resolved event whose new note says why, and
nobody is notified. Web and MCP edits share alerts.service.apply_rule_change.
- Migration 0028: consecutive_ok_required, consecutive_ok_count,
alert_events.note, and metric_value nullable (a reset has no sample).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5037 "Secrets at rest and in run output: webhook URL and git token
encrypted, askpass via env, secret values scrubbed from logs".
- webhook.url joins SECRET_KEYS; existing values are sealed at startup by
migrate_plaintext_secrets. Settings -> Notifications no longer echoes the
URL: it names the saved host, keeps it when left blank, and has a Remove
box.
- Git source http_token is sealed inside ansible.sources on save and at
startup, opened in get_sources, and counted by the undecryptable-secrets
scan as ansible.sources[<name>].http_token.
- The askpass script holds no token: git runs it with STEWARD_GIT_TOKEN in
its environment and printf prints it as data.
- The executor masks every secret the run is handed (become/vault
passwords, bootstrap passwords, sensitive run vars, and the per-host agent
tokens the host_agent plugin now passes as redact) in each line before it
is broadcast, logged or stored.
- Bundled "Write agent config" tasks are no_log; a test fails if any bundled
task templating steward_token lacks it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5036 "SSO and LDAP: users keep their auth source, no merging into local
accounts, is_active checked, LDAP TLS real and filter escaped".
- users gain auth_source (local/ldap/oidc) and external_id (migration 0027).
A provider account is found by (source, subject) only: the LDAP entry DN
or the OIDC sub. A first sign-in whose username or email another account
holds is refused with a message naming why; a disabled user stays out.
- Local passwords sign in local accounts only.
- LDAP: port 636 is LDAPS, otherwise StartTLS before any bind; the server
certificate is checked against the system CAs or a CA pasted in
Settings -> Auth. The login name is escaped into the filter (RFC 4515),
and an empty password is refused before the directory sees it.
- OIDC: the ID token must carry this sign-in's nonce and the userinfo sub.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5035 "Sessions: lifetime applied, role and is_active re-read per request,
logout is a POST, failed logins throttled".
- steward/core/proxy.py: trusted_value / is_https / client_ip read
X-Forwarded-Proto and -For only as far as the trusted proxy hops
(Settings → General, default 1, 0 = trust none).
- The session cookie is Secure, and HSTS is sent, only on requests that
arrived over HTTPS by that rule; plain-HTTP and LAN use are unchanged
and nothing redirects.
- A login lasts Settings → General's session lifetime from when it began
(session.permanent + a login_at stamp checked every request — the
cookie's own age slides on every response). A deleted or deactivated
user is logged out on their next request; a role change applies at once.
- Logout is a POST (a form in the sidebar); GET /logout is gone.
- Failed logins pause an address after login.max_failures within
login.lockout_minutes (Settings → General; defaults 5 in 15 min),
keyed by address so nobody can lock a user out by name. Failures are
audited as auth.login_failed with the address.
- to_access_cfg projects the new settings into app.config at startup and
on save, beside the existing projections.
- Integration tests seed real users and a login_at, since every request
now re-reads the session's user.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5034 "Playbook runs: path and inventory checks in trigger_run, connection
vars admin-only, confirm enforced server-side, web actions audited".
Ansible runs inside the Steward container, so an operator who could name
any playbook path, set ansible_connection=local or ProxyCommand ssh args,
or put {{ lookup('pipe', …) }} in a value could run commands on Steward.
- steward/ansible/guards.py: check_playbook (the source must list it),
check_inventory_scope (steward:* or an inventory file the source has),
check_vars_for_role (ansible_* beyond host/port/user/password/become,
and any Jinja in a value, are admin-only), changed_vars (an edit is
held to the role only for what it changes).
- trigger_run applies the path checks, so every run path — web, MCP,
alerts, schedules, plugins — gets them.
- Variables are checked by role on the web run form, host-page runs,
schedule create/update, inventory group/target create/update, and MCP
run_playbook / create_schedule / update_schedule.
- A steward:confirm playbook needs the confirmation ticked on the server
side for a real (non-check) web run, as MCP already required.
- Audited: runs, cancel, schedule create/update/enable/disable/delete/
run-now, playbook create/update/delete, inventory group and target
create/update/delete (variable names only, never values). One
audit_request helper serves the web routes.
- The CSRF form guard and the route guard now each test that they fail
on a synthetic broken input (rule: a guard must be able to fail).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5032 "Plugin install takes its URL and checksum from the catalog, requires
the checksum, and extracts only inside the plugin folder". The install form
carried the download URL and checksum as hidden fields, so any admin POST
could make Steward fetch and import code from anywhere, unchecked, and a zip
member like ../x.py was written wherever it pointed.
- The route takes only the plugin name and reads download_url and
checksum_sha256 from the configured catalogs; a name no repository lists
is refused. Installs are audited (plugin.install / plugin.install_failed).
- The checksum is required; the name must be a plain identifier.
- extract_plugin refuses any member that resolves outside the plugin
folder, caps the download at 50 MB and the unpacked size at 200 MB.
- The zip unpacks into a staging folder and is swapped in whole: a refused
or failed install leaves the installed copy untouched, and an update no
longer leaves the old version's deleted files behind.
- The catalog shows "Can't install: the catalog lists no checksum" in place
of the button for an entry without one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MCP-5 of milestone 461 "MCP server: Steward as an LLM-inspectable,
LLM-operable hub". Contributed through each plugin's register_mcp_tools
hook, so they exist only while the plugin is enabled.
docker (viewer, read-only):
- list_containers: filter by host, status, compose project, or problem
(restarting, crash_looping, unhealthy, oom_killed, exited_nonzero);
problems sort first and each row names what is wrong.
- get_container: state, CPU/memory history across the raw/hourly seam,
lifecycle events. A unique part of a swarm task name is enough.
- list_swarm_services: replicas per node (agent-less placements as ghosts)
and the swarm's nodes.
- search_container_logs: text (% and _ literal), stream, range, context
lines, paging by a full-precision `before` cursor; over-long lines keep
both ends and say how much of the middle was cut.
- get_docker_disk_usage: bytes per host, reclaimable first.
- mcp_overview: failing containers and under-replicated swarm services
join get_overview.
host_agent: list_agents (reporting / stale / pending, version, OS), and an
overview finding for agents registered over 30 minutes ago that never
checked in.
Settings > Thresholds gains the TLS-expiry warn/crit days (were 14/3 in
code) and the crash-loop deaths-per-hour count (3), which get_overview
and the docker tools now read.
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