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What this PR does

Adds a default scrape class application-identity to both VMAgents: the cluster-wide one in monitoring-agents and the per-tenant one in monitoring. Every series scraped from a pod that carries the lineage labels apps.cozystack.io/application.{group,kind,name} gets them as apps_cozystack_io_application_{group,kind,name}.

Why: the per-application metrics scope in the design proposal Tenant resource-consumption metrics (Design 4a) needs to tell which application an exporter series belongs to. Today that is only possible indirectly, through pod names.

How the labels are protected against forgery by an exporter:

  • At the target stage, the class always sets all three labels: to the pod's real lineage value, or to a placeholder - when the pod has none (- is not a valid Kubernetes label value). With honorLabels: false, any copy the exporter publishes therefore collides with the target label and is renamed to exported_*.
  • At the metric stage, the class drops every exported_* copy.
  • The placeholder is removed by the VMAgent's global remote-write relabeling (inlineRelabelConfig), not at the metric stage: vmagent adds up and scrape_* with the target labels after metric relabeling, so only the remote-write stage sees those series. Targets without lineage therefore keep exactly the label set they have today on every series, including up and scrape_*.
  • With honorLabels: true the exporter's value wins and no relabel rule can tell it apart. ingress-nginx scrapes with honorLabels: true, and its series describe Ingress objects in any namespace, so the controller's identity would misattribute traffic; its scrape now drops the identity labels explicitly, from the target (so up and scrape_* stay unchanged) and from the scraped samples (so an exporter's copy cannot survive). Switching it to honorLabels: false was not done, because that renames namespace and breaks the existing ingress dashboards.

How it was tested

  • helm-unittest for monitoring-agents, monitoring and ingress. These tests check the rendered config only; the relabeling behaviour was verified offline by running vmagent v1.136.0, built from source, against the rendered rules: up and scrape_* carry no identity for targets without lineage, and the placeholder appears on no series.
  • The rendered scrapeClasses validate against the vendored VMAgent CRD schema.
  • The rendered rules were exercised on a locally built vmagent v1.136.0 (the version the bundled operator deploys) writing to a local VictoriaMetrics: with and without lineage, with and without a forging exporter, honorLabels true and false, and the ingress-nginx endpoint rules. Checked on exporter samples and on up, scrape_samples_scraped and scrape_series_added; the previous rules reproduce the - placeholder on the generated series of targets without lineage, the new ones leave no placeholder on any series.
  • Verified on a test cluster with the earlier revision that removed the placeholder at the metric stage (the move to remote-write relabeling is not yet verified on a cluster): series carry the application labels; metrics read for a Redis instance through the per-application proxy root contained only that instance's pods; vmagent logs show no errors.

Known limitations

  • Scrapes with honorLabels: true other than ingress-nginx are not protected against an exporter that publishes the identity labels itself. Today these are the vendored qdrant and harbor ServiceMonitors; their exporters are platform images with fixed label names, and their series describe the application's own pods.
  • A tenant's raw vmagent.inlineScrapeConfig bypasses scrape classes entirely, and so do additionalScrapeConfigs. VMProbe takes only auth settings from a scrape class (operator v0.68.4); no VMProbe exists in the platform today.
  • A scrape object's own relabel rules run after the class and can overwrite the labels; tenants cannot create VictoriaMetrics operator objects, so this is platform-controlled.

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No UI changes.

Downstream repositories

Downstream: no trigger matched. Candidate: none affected, because the diff changes templates and tests in packages/system/monitoring-agents, packages/system/monitoring and packages/extra/ingress without adding, renaming or removing a package and without touching any values.yaml or schema. The telemetry metrics the telemetry server reads (cozy_cluster_info, cozy_application_count) are produced by the operator, not by these scrapes. The proposal text in cozystack/community (#94, Design 4a) should be corrected to name qdrant and harbor as further honorLabels: true scrapes; that is not a trigger-map item.

Release note

feat(monitoring): VMAgent now adds `apps_cozystack_io_application_{group,kind,name}` labels to every series scraped from a pod that carries application lineage labels. Because the label set of those series changes, each of them becomes a new series after the upgrade: graphs and dashboards show a break at the rollout, queries over a range that spans it see two series per pod, and alert `for:` timers on those series restart. Series of targets without lineage labels, including node-level series (cAdvisor, kubelet) and kube-state-metrics, and all ingress-nginx series keep their current label set; this includes their `up` and `scrape_*` series.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements
    • Monitoring metrics now use application identity labels derived from Kubernetes pod metadata for covered scrape targets. Exporter-supplied duplicates and placeholder values are removed, including from up and scrape_* metrics.
    • Ingress metrics no longer retain application identity labels at either target or metric relabeling stages.

Scoping a metrics query to one application needs the application's
identity on the series themselves, and it is only a boundary if the
scraped pod cannot choose it. A default scrape class on the cluster-wide
vmagent copies the pod's lineage labels into
apps_cozystack_io_application_{group,kind,name} at scrape time.

The target always carries all three labels, with a placeholder when the
pod has no lineage, so an exporter's own copy always collides, is
renamed to exported_* under honorLabels false, and is dropped. Without
the placeholder a pod lacking lineage could publish any identity
unchallenged. The placeholder is removed again before storage, so series
of pods without lineage look as they did before.

Scrapes with honorLabels true keep the exporter's value; none of them
scrapes a tenant-controlled exporter.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: ZverGuy <[email protected]>
Application pods in a tenant's namespaces are also scraped by the
tenant's own vmagent, and its series need the same identity labels and
the same protection against an exporter choosing them, or the two stores
would disagree about which application a series belongs to. The class
is identical to the cluster-wide one in monitoring-agents.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: ZverGuy <[email protected]>
The vmagent scrape class stamps the scraped pod's application identity
on its series. ingress-nginx series describe the Ingress objects the
controller serves, in whatever namespace they live, so the controller's
own identity would attribute another tenant's traffic to the Ingress
application. And because these scrapes honor exporter labels, an
exporter-supplied identity would win over the class. Dropping the labels
leaves these series to the pod and namespace scopes.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: ZverGuy <[email protected]>
The exported_* rename only protects scrapes that do not honor exporter
labels, and a scrape object's own relabel rules run after the class, so
both can undo it. Saying so next to the rules keeps the next scrape
author from assuming the protection is unconditional.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: ZverGuy <[email protected]>
…lies on

The ingress assertion reads only the first endpoint of each scrape, so a
second endpoint added without the label drop would go unnoticed. Pinning
the count makes such an addition fail the suite.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: ZverGuy <[email protected]>
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The vmagent templates derive application group, kind, and name labels from pod lineage labels, drop exported duplicates, and remove unset placeholders. The ingress-nginx scrape endpoints drop application identity labels. Helm tests cover both configurations.

Changes: Application identity

Layer / File(s) Summary
vmagent identity relabeling
packages/system/monitoring-agents/templates/vmagent.yaml, packages/system/monitoring/templates/vm/vmagent.yaml, packages/system/monitoring-agents/tests/*, packages/system/monitoring/tests/*
Both vmagent templates add a default application-identity scrape class. It initializes group, kind, and name labels to "-" and copies matching pod labels. Metric relabeling drops exported identity labels. Inline relabeling removes labels that still have the placeholder value. Helm tests assert these rules.
Ingress scrape label filtering
packages/extra/ingress/templates/nginx-scrape.yaml, packages/extra/ingress/tests/application_identity_test.yaml
Both ingress-nginx scrape endpoints drop the three application identity labels during target and metric relabeling. The Helm tests check the endpoint rules.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Pod as Kubernetes pod
  participant VMAgent as vmagent
  participant Storage as Metrics storage
  Pod->>VMAgent: Provide lineage labels for the scrape target
  VMAgent->>VMAgent: Set identity labels and filter exported duplicates and placeholders
  VMAgent->>Storage: Send relabeled metrics
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Possibly related PRs

  • cozystack/cozystack#5220: Adds per-application metrics selectors that use the identity labels this PR assigns to pod scrapes.
  • cozystack/cozystack#5217: Preserves the same application identity fields in Fluent Bit container-log streams.
  • cozystack/cozystack#5215: Exports application lineage labels on kube-state-metrics PVC series, which this PR’s relabeling handles.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 699b5

The new application identity labels can be overridden by an exporter on a few existing scrapes that keep exporter-supplied labels. No shipped exporter is known to publish these labels today, so the impact is limited. Adding the same label drop to those scrapes before or shortly after merge would close the gap.

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The title "feat(monitoring): stamp application identity on scraped series" matches the main change. The PR adds a default application-identity scrape class to the VMAgents. That class sets apps_cozystack_io_application_{group,kind,name} on series from pods with the matching lineage labels. The title names the feature and its scope, and it does not list files. It is specific enough for a teammate reviewing history to understand the primary change.

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Maxim Kitsunoff (@kitsunoff) NOT LGTM. The placeholder remains on generated scrape-health metrics for targets without lineage, so their series change too.

Business context: exporter series need application identity from pod metadata without accepting an exporter's forged identity.

The E2E failure happened before tests started: the image registry returned HTTP 500 while uploading a matchbox layer.

default: true
relabelConfigs:
{{- range list "group" "kind" "name" }}
- targetLabel: apps_cozystack_io_application_{{ . }}

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The placeholder needs cleanup after generated metrics are added. Evidence: VictoriaMetrics v1.136.0 calls addRows(..., false) for up and scrape_*, which skips metric relabeling. I reproduced this with the rendered class and that version's real scraper: exporter samples had no identity labels, while up and scrape_samples_scraped kept all three set to -. This also changes scrape-health series for nodes and kube-state-metrics, contrary to the release note. Please move placeholder cleanup to a stage that covers generated metrics and add a regression check for those samples.

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Confirmed and fixed. The placeholder removal moved from the class's metricRelabelConfigs to the VMAgent's inlineRelabelConfig, which the operator passes as -remoteWrite.relabelConfig; vmagent applies it in remotewrite.TryPush to every series, including up and scrape_* from addAutoMetrics. The exported_* drop stays in the class. Same change in the tenant VMAgent.

The same gap affected ingress-nginx: its identity drop was metric-stage only, so up and scrape_* of the controller still carried the controller pod's identity. Its endpoints now also drop the labels at the target stage.

Regression checks: helm-unittest pins the remote-write rules and the ingress target-stage drop. Offline, I ran vmagent v1.136.0 built from source against the rendered rules, writing to a local VictoriaMetrics, and exported app_metric, up, scrape_samples_scraped and scrape_series_added. With the old rules, targets without lineage had all three labels set to - on the generated series; with the new rules no series carries -. Targets without lineage, with or without a forging exporter and with either honorLabels value, keep their previous label set on every series. Lineage targets carry their real identity on every series, and the ingress-nginx endpoint rules produce no identity on any series. I have not verified this on a cluster yet.

The release note now says that series of targets without lineage, including up and scrape_*, and all ingress-nginx series keep their current label set.

…eries

vmagent appends up and scrape_* to each scrape after metric relabeling:
in VictoriaMetrics v1.136.0, the version operator v0.68.4 deploys,
lib/promscrape/scrapework.go addAutoMetrics passes needRelabel=false to
writeRequestCtx.addRows, so addRow attaches the target labels but skips
MetricRelabelConfigs. The "-" placeholder that the scrape class sets on
targets without lineage was removed only in metricRelabelConfigs, so it
stayed on the scrape-health series of every such target, including
nodes and kube-state-metrics.

The removal now runs in the VMAgent's inlineRelabelConfig, which the
operator passes as -remoteWrite.relabelConfig. app/vmagent/remotewrite
TryPush applies it to every series before remote write, scraped and
generated alike, so targets without lineage keep the label set they had
before the class. The exported_* drop stays in the class: only scraped
samples can carry it.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: ZverGuy <[email protected]>
…th series

Dropping the identity in metricRelabelConfigs reaches only the scraped
samples. vmagent adds up and scrape_* with the target labels after
metric relabeling (VictoriaMetrics v1.136.0 lib/promscrape addAutoMetrics,
addRows with needRelabel=false), so those series still carried the
controller pod's identity. Dropping it from the target as well leaves
every ingress-nginx series with the label set it had before the scrape
class. The metric-stage drop stays: with honorLabels true an
exporter-supplied identity is not renamed and would otherwise survive.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: ZverGuy <[email protected]>
The comment promised identity labels on every target and forbade scrape
objects from touching them. Neither holds: operator v0.68.4 applies only
a class's auth to VMProbe (factory/vmagent/probe.go), raw scrape configs
bypass classes, and the cadvisor, kubelet and ingress-nginx scrapes drop
the labels on purpose. The real invariant for a scrape object is that it
never sets them; dropping them is safe.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: ZverGuy <[email protected]>
The comment said every ingress-nginx series describes served Ingress
objects. The metrics port also serves the controller's own series
(nginx process, reload status, go_*, up, scrape_*), and dropping the
identity on the whole endpoint removes it from those as well. Say so,
so the lost attribution reads as a decision rather than an oversight.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: ZverGuy <[email protected]>
A containment check passes even if a rule added after the drop sets the
identity labels again. Asserting both endpoints' full target relabel
lists fixes the drop as the last rule, so such a change fails the test.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: ZverGuy <[email protected]>

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# so it never collides with a real one). Under honorLabels false every
# exporter-supplied copy then collides, is renamed to exported_* and
# dropped. Under honorLabels true the exporter's copy wins, so such a
# scrape must drop these labels itself. A scrape object's own relabel
# rules run after these: they may drop the labels but must never set them.

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Script executed:

rg -n 'honorLabels' --glob '!**/charts/**' --glob '!**/crds/**' . | head -80

Repository: cozystack/cozystack

Length of output: 1863


Script executed:

set -u
for f in packages/system/monitoring-agents/templates/vmagent.yaml packages/system/monitoring/templates/vm/vmagent.yaml packages/system/monitoring-agents/templates/cadvisor-scrape.yaml packages/system/monitoring-agents/templates/kubelet-scrape.yaml packages/system/monitoring-agents/templates/kube-state-metrics-scrape.yaml; do
  echo "=== $f"
  cat -n "$f" || echo "read failed: $f"
done
echo "=== scrape class selection markers"
rg -n -F -e 'scrapeClassName' -e 'default: true' -e 'application-identity' -- packages/system packages/extra || test "$?" -eq 1
echo "=== scrape object kinds in monitoring and extra packages"
rg -n -e 'kind: VM(Service|Pod|Node|Static)Scrape' -- packages/system packages/extra || test "$?" -eq 1

Repository: cozystack/cozystack

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Drop identity labels in the existing honorLabels: true scrapes.

The cluster VMAgent applies the application-identity class to the honorLabels: true scrapes in cozy-monitoring. These are the cAdvisor, kubelet, and kube-state-metrics scrapes. When honorLabels: true is set, an exporter that publishes apps_cozystack_io_application_{group,kind,name} overrides the pod-derived values. The inline rule removes only -, so the exporter value remains. The class comment in vmagent.yaml requires such scrapes to drop these labels. The ingress-nginx scrape already does this. Add the same drop to each affected scrape. Keep honorLabels: true unchanged.

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packages/system/monitoring-agents/templates/cadvisor-scrape.yaml:

   - action: labeldrop
     regex: (id|name)
+  - action: labeldrop
+    regex: apps_cozystack_io_application_(group|kind|name)

packages/system/monitoring-agents/templates/kubelet-scrape.yaml (both VMNodeScrape documents):

   - action: labeldrop
     regex: (id|name)
+  - action: labeldrop
+    regex: apps_cozystack_io_application_(group|kind|name)

packages/system/monitoring-agents/templates/kube-state-metrics-scrape.yaml:

       - action: labeldrop
         regex: (uid|container_id|image_id)
+      - action: labeldrop
+        regex: apps_cozystack_io_application_(group|kind|name)
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Thanks — you were right, and the version detail (addRows(..., false) for generated series in v1.136.0) was the key. The placeholder removal moved from metric relabeling to the VMAgent's inlineRelabelConfig (remote-write relabeling), which vmagent applies to every series including up and scrape_*; the same change is in the tenant VMAgent. Targets without lineage now keep exactly their current label set on every series.

Our own review then found the same gap on ingress-nginx (its identity drop was metric-stage only, so the controller's up/scrape_* kept its identity); its endpoints now also drop the labels at the target stage, and a test pins the drop as the last rule. Behaviour was verified offline with vmagent v1.136.0 built from source against the rendered rules: the old rules reproduce the - on generated series, the new ones leave it on no series. The description and release note are updated.

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Maxim Kitsunoff (@kitsunoff) LGTM. I verified that placeholder cleanup also covers generated scrape metrics. All 368 tests in the affected charts passed.

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## What this PR does

Depends on #5219. This PR is stacked on that branch; the description
covers only what it adds on top.

Adds the per-application roots to the observability proxy, as described
in the design proposals [Tenant application
logs](cozystack/community#95) and [Tenant
resource-consumption
metrics](cozystack/community#94):

```text
/apis/apps.cozystack.io/v1alpha1/namespaces/<ns>/<plural>/<name>/log/select/logsql/<endpoint>
/apis/apps.cozystack.io/v1alpha1/namespaces/<ns>/<plural>/<name>/metrics/api/v1/<endpoint>
```

This lets the console show the logs and resource consumption of one
application rather than of the whole namespace.

What is added:

- Plural-to-Kind mapping from an informer over `ApplicationDefinitions`.
The Kind is looked up only after the `SubjectAccessReview` (`get
<plural>/log` or `get <plural>/metrics`), so an unauthenticated caller
cannot probe which plurals exist. An unknown plural answers `404`; an
unsynced cache or a plural declared by two kinds answers `503`.
- Logs: a second `extra_stream_filters` value with the application Kind
and name, on top of the unchanged namespace filter. VictoriaLogs ANDs
the two, on every endpoint including `tail`.
- Metrics: the forced `extra_filters[]` becomes an OR of three branches,
each still bound to the namespace:
  1. series carrying the application identity labels;
  2. series of the application's pods, found through `kube_pod_labels`;
3. series of the application's PVCs, found through
`kube_persistentvolumeclaim_labels`.
- The pod and PVC lookups cap the number of names
(`--metrics-app-max-pods`, `--metrics-app-max-pvcs`); over the cap
answers `422`. A failed pod or PVC lookup fails the request (`502`, or
`504` on the deadline) rather than answer without the application's
series, and so does a lookup that vmselect marks `isPartial`, since a
storage node that did not answer leaves names out (a partial list
already over the cap still answers `422`); vmselect's series-limit
refusal of a lookup is passed through as `422`. A query that reads
further back than `--metrics-app-lookback` (default 720h, chart value
`observabilityProxy.metrics.appLookback`), or by an unknown amount, and
a query whose samples lie at a time the lookup cannot cover answer `422`
on the application root; this includes every query with an `@` modifier,
`WITH` with a negative offset, and offsets that are not plain durations.
The namespace root still serves them. `rollup_candlestick`, a backslash
or a `#` comment outside a string, an offset directly followed by a
minus (compound durations such as `-1h-30m` or `1h-2h`), and a subquery
step that is not a plain duration are refused as well. The lookup
reaches past the evaluation time by any negative offset and by two steps
per subquery level.
- Application routes require read access to the namespace root as well
as the application subresource; a grant narrowed with `resourceNames`
alone answers `403`.
- The proxy's ClusterRole gains `list`/`watch` on
`cozystack.io/applicationdefinitions`. No tenant RBAC change is needed:
the `view` role already allows `get` on every `apps.cozystack.io`
resource and subresource.
- `/readyz` now also waits for the `ApplicationDefinitions` cache, so a
missing CRD or RBAC rule keeps the whole proxy unready, namespace roots
included.

#### Data comes from the identity labels

The application roots find data only through identity labels added by
three PRs that are now in main:

- #5215 `feat(monitoring-agents)`: export PVC labels from
kube-state-metrics (PVC branch).
- #5216 `feat(monitoring)`: stamp application identity on scraped series
(identity branch).
- #5217 `feat(monitoring-agents)`: keep application identity in
container log streams (logs root).

Merge after #5219.

The pod branch does not depend on them, because `kube_pod_labels`
already exports all pod labels. Logs and series written before those
changes rolled out carry no identity and are reachable only through the
namespace root.

#### Security condition: a convenience filter, not an isolation boundary

The application roots narrow the namespace roots; they do not isolate
applications from each other. Each application route therefore requires
two grants: the application subresource (`get <plural>/log` or `get
<plural>/metrics`) and read access to the namespace root (`list
cozystack.io/logs` or `cozystack.io/metrics` in the namespace). A grant
narrowed with `resourceNames` alone is refused. Every tenant role that
can read applications already has both. The application scope cannot
isolate yet because:

1. The lineage webhook keeps `apps.cozystack.io/application.*` labels
that a user sets on a pod or PVC that has no application owner, so such
an object can claim another application's identity.
2. The webhook's `objectSelector` skips any object created with
`internal.cozystack.io/managed-by-cozystack`, pods included, so forged
labels on such an object are never examined.
3. The pod and PVC branches match by name over the lookup window, so an
object that reuses the name of another application's recently deleted
pod or PVC pulls that object's older series into scope.

The proposed fix (a separate change to the lineage webhook) is to strip
the identity labels when no owner resolves, and to stop skipping CREATE
requests for objects carrying the managed-by label.

#### Other known gaps

- PVCs created from a StatefulSet's `volumeClaimTemplates` usually get
no lineage labels, so their volume series are not in the application
scope.
- ingress-nginx series intentionally carry no application identity, so
they are reachable only through the namespace root.
- A request for an application that does not exist answers `200` with an
empty result rather than `404`: the proxy checks authorization, not
existence. Nothing leaks; whether a `404` is wanted is open for review.

#### How it was tested

- `go test -race` and `go vet` for the proxy packages, including a
narrowed-grant test (access to application `a` only): every application
path for `b` answers `403` and no request reaches the store. Name
escaping in the pod and PVC branches is covered for regex metacharacters
and quotes.
- helm-unittest for `observability-proxy` (new RBAC rule).
- Verified on a test cluster, with the three identity PRs above applied:
the application logs root of a Redis instance returned only that
instance's lines and none from a neighbouring pod in the same namespace;
its application metrics root returned only the Redis pods' series.

### Screenshots

No UI changes.

### Downstream repositories

- [ ] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
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- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
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- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:
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follow-up:

Downstream: no trigger matched. Candidate: none affected, because the
diff on top of #5219 is confined to the proxy's Go code and its own
chart RBAC; it reads `ApplicationDefinitions` but does not change their
semantics or the CRD. The security condition above may deserve a note in
the design proposals in `cozystack/community`, which is not a
trigger-map item.

### Release note

```release-note
feat(observability-proxy): add per-application logs and metrics roots under `/apis/apps.cozystack.io/v1alpha1/namespaces/<ns>/<plural>/<name>/{log,metrics}/`, scoped by application identity labels. Data appears for logs and series collected after the application identity changes to Fluent Bit, VMAgent and kube-state-metrics are rolled out.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added a tenant-aware observability proxy for logs and metrics, with
namespace and application scoping, access checks, and per-user request
limits.
* Enabled the proxy in the system package bundle and routed console log
and metrics requests through it.
* Added live log streaming and health, readiness, and metrics endpoints.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Invalid or excessive query parameters are rejected; requests with
uncertain application-metric scope are refused rather than returning
incomplete results.
* **Tests**
* Added end-to-end and integration coverage for tenant isolation,
console routing, access controls, and log streaming.
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