feat(observability-proxy): serve per-application logs and metrics - #5220

Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

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Skip negative caching for TokenReview responses that carry status.error.

When the backend authenticator fails, a TokenReview can return authenticated: false with a populated status.error. Authenticate caches that response as a refusal for the auth cache TTL (auth-cache-ttl, 10s by default). A valid token then receives 401 until the entry expires, even after the backend recovers. The Authorizer comment says transport errors are not cached so that an apiserver blip does not lock a user out. This response bypasses that intent.

Refusals and outages do not need to be separated first. Skip the cache write for every authenticated: false response that has status.error. Expired credentials also set status.error, so their requests call TokenReview again instead of reading a cached refusal. Those requests still return 401.

Add a test in auth_test.go for a TokenReview with Authenticated=false and Error set. Assert that the next call invokes TokenReview again.

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Review comment at @internal/observabilityproxy/auth.go around lines 72 - 81:
In Authenticate, skip the a.tokens.set cache write when TokenReview reports
Authenticated=false and Status.Error is non-empty, while still returning
ErrUnauthenticated. Add a test in auth_test.go confirming a subsequent call
invokes TokenReview again for that response.

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Fixed in "do not cache reviews that failed to decide": an unauthenticated review with status.error is no longer cached, and the next request reviews the token again. Covered by TestAuthenticateFailedReviewNotCached.

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Major · Security & Privacy · Heavy lift

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Stop serving root-store logs to a namespace that reuses a deleted namespace's name.

StoreResolver.Resolve returns the root tenant in two cases: the namespace does not exist (store.go:48-51), or the namespace exists with an empty namespace.cozystack.io/monitoring label (store.go:56-58). A tenant without its own monitoring setting inherits the parent's value, so the label can be empty.

The log query filters only on kubernetes_namespace_name (logsparams.go:77). The stream fields in packages/system/monitoring-agents/values.yaml do not include a namespace UID. A namespace recreated under the same name with an empty monitoring label can therefore read root-store lines written for its predecessor.

The start and end parameters come from the client. --logs-max-range limits the length of the interval, not its age. A request can set end in the past, so the reachable history is limited by root-store retention, not by 7 days.

Rejecting only the not-found case does not close this path. The recreated namespace exists and still resolves to root through the empty-label branch. A fix must bind root-store queries to the namespace's identity, such as its UID or creation time. The stored lines need a field that carries that identity.

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Review comment at @internal/observabilityproxy/store.go around lines 48 - 51:
StoreResolver.Resolve can route a recreated namespace to the root store when its
monitoring label is empty, exposing its predecessor’s retained logs. Bind
root-store access to the namespace’s stable identity, such as its UID or
creation time: ensure stored log lines carry that identity and update the log
query to filter by the requesting namespace’s identity, including the
empty-label resolution path.

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Real, but not specific to the root fallback, and not fixed in this round. Log lines are keyed by namespace name only, so any store that outlives a namespace (the root store, or a parent tenant's store the label points to) serves the previous namespace's lines to whoever can read a new namespace of the same name; the metrics root has the same property. As you note, closing it needs an identity the stored lines carry (namespace UID or creation time), which is a collector-side change. A partial mitigation in the proxy would be to clamp start to the namespace's creation time; I'd rather agree on that with the maintainers than add it here. Recorded as a follow-up.

Maxim Kitsunoff (@kitsunoff) Agreed. My root-fallback framing was too narrow. The namespace-name reuse risk applies to any store that retains the previous namespace’s data, not only the root store.

Understood that you have deferred the fix. Clamping start to the namespace’s creation time is a partial mitigation for maintainer discussion, not an agreed change here. The security finding remains valid and unresolved.

If the follow-up already has an issue, could you share the link? Otherwise, would you like me to open one covering logs and metrics?

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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

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Add a migration note or an explicit backward-compatibility statement for the observability-proxy addition.

This change makes cozystack.observability-proxy default-on for full installations, including existing installations that upgrade. Changes under packages/core/platform/ need a matching migration update or an explicit backward-compatibility note. This PR has neither. Add the note to the PR description. If the upgrade needs an ordering step, add a migration under packages/core/platform/images/migrations/.

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For the cozystack.observability-proxy default inclusion in
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Same as 4468215149 on #5219: no migration is needed, and the backward-compatibility note goes into the PR description.

Maxim Kitsunoff (@kitsunoff) Understood. No migration is needed for this addition. The backward-compatibility note belongs in the PR description, not in a template change.

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Please require namespace-level read permission on these routes until the application scope can enforce a narrower grant. Evidence: authorization asks only for the application subresource, but the pod and PVC branches select by namespace and name across the whole query window. If a name was used by application b before a, a caller granted only a can receive b's older series. I reproduced the handler accepting this caller and forwarding the name-only scope with a local HTTP fixture. The warning in the description does not prevent the server from accepting such grants.

Fixed in "require namespace access on application roots". Each application route now asks two SubjectAccessReviews: the namespace root's (list cozystack.io/logs or metrics in the namespace) and the application subresource. A caller granted only application a now gets 403 on a as well as on b, and no request reaches the store (TestServerApplicationNarrowedGrant, with a third caller that has both grants and reads only a). Every tenant role that can read applications already holds the namespace grant through the aggregated view role, so no existing grant loses access. The applicationSelectors comment now says the scope narrows rather than isolates and why. The PR description's "Security condition" section needs the matching update; suggested text is at the end of this file.

Please cover the time of the samples in the ownership lookup, or reject queries whose sample window is unsupported. Evidence: the lookup always ends at the query's evaluation time. An instant query evaluated two hours ago with container_cpu_usage_seconds_total offset -1h reads samples one hour ago. A pod created between those times is missing from the lookup, so its container series is excluded while the request still succeeds. A local handler test confirms that the lookup ends an hour before the requested samples.

Fixed in "cover forward-shifted samples in the app lookup". The lookup now ends at the latest instant the query reads: the window end plus the sum of the query's negative offsets (summing covers nesting). Your case is TestServerApplicationLookupCoversNegativeOffset: an instant query evaluated two hours ago with offset -1h now looks pods up until one hour ago. A query whose latest sample cannot be bounded (any @, WITH with a negative offset, or an offset that is not a plain duration) answers 422 on the application root; the namespace root has no lookup and still serves it. For range queries the lookup also reaches one step past end, because vmselect rounds end up to a whole step ("reach the aligned end in the app lookup"). In the same spirit, a failed pod or PVC lookup now fails the request (502, or 504 when the request deadline cuts it, including while the lookup answer is being read) instead of dropping the branch and answering 200 without the application's cAdvisor and volume series ("fail an application query whose lookup failed"). The backward side is handled the same way ("refuse app queries that read past the lookup"): the lookup starts where the query's own lookback estimate starts, and a query that reads further back than --metrics-app-lookback, or by an unknown amount (@, WITH, step-multiple windows), answers 422 instead of 200 with series missing. Because that estimate is a loose upper bound, the default is now 720h and the chart exposes it as observabilityProxy.metrics.appLookback, so a day's increase and month-long panels at a dashboard step are still served. A store 422 from the lookup reaches the client as 422 only for vmselect's series-limit message; its timeout is 504 and other store errors 502, since vmselect answers 422 to any error without its own status.

Please reject unsupported offset forms instead of accepting a duration prefix. offset -1h-30m is valid MetricsQL and shifts samples forward by 90 minutes, but the scan stops at the second minus and covers only 60. Evidence: the pinned parser returns -5400000ms, and a local handler test returns 200 with newly created pod/PVC series missing; the equivalent plain duration covers them. offset 1h-2h also shifts forward by an hour but is counted as a positive offset. Parse the complete duration or return 422.

Fixed in "refuse compound offsets on the app root". In the pinned metricsql a duration such as 1h-30m is one token, and DurationValue makes every part after the first negative one subtract, so -1h-30m is -90m and 1h-2h is -1h, while the scan stopped at the second sign. Any minus directly after an offset's duration now makes the scan unknown, which answers 422 on the application root; your two examples are in TestQueryLookahead and TestServerApplicationRefusesForwardReads (422, nothing sent upstream). metricsql continues a duration token in more forms than a pattern after the minus can follow (-1.h, -.5h, and a trailing $__interval, which makes offset -1h$__interval mean -(1h + step)), so only what certainly ends the token is accepted after an offset's duration: whitespace, a closing bracket or separator, or a binary operator other than minus ("accept only a token end after an offset"). Anything else answers 422; offset 1h-1 is refused too, a deliberate over-refusal. A plus or a spaced sign (offset 1h+30m, offset 1h - 30m) is an operator after the offset in metricsql, so those keep their plain reading and are pinned as such. I also checked the lookback used for the store choice in #5219: a compound offset can only make it longer than the true one there, since the first part is the largest positive and later parts subtract, so that PR is unchanged.

Please account for the forward step added by candlestick queries, or reject them on the application root. rollup_candlestick automatically reads one step ahead even with no negative offset, while this function returns zero lookahead. Evidence: the pinned evaluator returns a future time() value at the original evaluation timestamp, and the handler test sends ownership lookups only through evaluation time. A pod created during that step is omitted while the request returns 200.

Fixed in "refuse rollup_candlestick on the app root". evalRollupFuncWithoutAt moves the window of rollup_candlestick one step forward with no offset in the query, and the step is the one in effect where the call sits, which is a subquery's step when it is nested, so the application root refuses it with 422 rather than size that step. Covered in TestQueryLookahead (including upper case and nested in a subquery) and TestServerApplicationRefusesForwardReads. Going through the pinned evaluator for other forward reads found one more: a subquery is evaluated up to its end plus one subquery step, rounded up to the step (evalRollupFuncWithSubquery), and range_* transforms and keep_next_value carry those later values back onto earlier points, so a pod created within that reach can appear at the evaluation time. Rather than refuse subqueries, which would refuse most dashboard queries, the lookahead now adds two steps per subquery level, counting every ( as a possible implicit subquery as the lookback already does ("reach the subquery steps in the app lookup"); overreaching only widens the lookup over the application's own pods. A subquery step the scan cannot read answers 422.

Please pass the default evaluation time to the store too. Without time, the ownership lookup ends at the proxy's initial clock reading, but the final query uses vmselect's later clock reading. If the lookups take 50s, which fits the default 60s deadline, the query evaluates 20s beyond that end after the 30s latency adjustment. Evidence: I reproduced the later evaluation with the pinned upstream handler, and a real temporary VM index excludes a pod first sampled across the UTC-day boundary from the earlier lookup. The proxy check fails with omitted time and passes when it forwards the timestamp used to size the lookup.

Thanks, confirmed and fixed in 16cee4d. An instant query now always forwards time: the client's value when given, otherwise the proxy's clock reading that sized the ownership lookup, in the same millisecond RFC3339 form, so the lookup end and the evaluation time match byte for byte. TestServerApplicationForwardsDefaultTime fails on the previous head (time = "", want the lookup's instant) and passes now.

I checked the other endpoints for the same gap: query_range requires start, end and step and forwards them, and the series and label endpoints already forwarded their default start and end. The namespace root shares the instant path, so it forwards the default time too. With no lookup there, the result is unchanged, because vmselect still applies the latency offset to a time within the offset of its clock.

While reviewing this I also corrected the comments on why an application root needs the namespace root in e67f95f (comments only). Both roots take identity from lineage labels, and the webhook keeps the labels set by a pod's creator when it finds no owner. The tenant ClusterRole comment now mentions that the application roots depend on the same rule.