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feat(observability-proxy): include platform exporter series in the namespace root - #5277
The namespace metrics root /apis/cozystack.io/v1alpha1/namespaces/<ns>/metrics/... now also returns series that a platform exporter attributes to <ns>. Example: the ClickHouse operator's exporter runs in cozy-clickhouse-operator. vmagent scrapes it without honorLabels, so its series carry namespace="cozy-clickhouse-operator", and the tenant namespace the exporter reported moves to exported_namespace="<ns>". Until now, any client of the namespace root (kubectl, automation, the console) never saw those series.
Behavior changes
Namespace root, every endpoint (query, query_range, series, labels, label/<name>/values):
was: one proxy-set extra_filters[]={namespace="<ns>"};
now: two values, {namespace="<ns>"} and {namespace=~"cozy-.*",exported_namespace="<ns>"}. vmselect ORs them.
Label APIs without a client match[]: the proxy already repeats the scope in match[] for -search.ignoreExtraFiltersAtLabelsAPI; it now repeats both values. vmselect ANDs every match[] with every extra_filters[]. Each cross pair is narrower than one of its halves, so the result is still exactly the union.
Client extra_filters, extra_filters[] and extra_label are still dropped.
New flag --metrics-platform-namespace-prefix (default cozy-) and chart value observabilityProxy.metrics.platformNamespacePrefix. An empty value turns the second branch off and restores the single-value scope. The proxy quotes the prefix and anchors it, so the value is matched literally and cannot become a wider regex. The flag accepts only namespace name characters, because any other value would match no namespace and silently drop the exporter series.
Exporter series keep namespace="cozy-...". A query that also selects namespace="<ns>" excludes them; select them by exported_namespace or by the exporter's own labels (for ClickHouse, chi).
The branch is not specific to ClickHouse. For example, kube-state-metrics in the platform monitoring namespace sets exported_namespace from metadata.namespace on the Flux gotk_resource_info series (packages/system/monitoring-agents/values.yaml), so a namespace root now also returns the state of that namespace's own HelmReleases and Kustomizations. This is the namespace's own data, but it is a visible change with the default prefix.
Queries grouped by (namespace) can now return an extra group labelled with the exporter's platform namespace. The exporter's series also carry its own target labels (pod, instance, job) into the tenant's results.
An empty scope is refused with 500 instead of forwarding a request without extra_filters[].
Scrape path. vmagent sets namespace from service discovery, while exported_namespace is whatever the exporter wrote. Any tenant pod can write a namespace label, which arrives as exported_namespace, so the extra branch only trusts it on series scraped from platform namespaces. Tenant roles (packages/system/cozystack-basics/templates/clusterroles.yaml) grant no access to operator.victoriametrics.com and no verbs on Namespace. A tenant can therefore neither run a target in cozy-* nor point a scrape object at one.
Remote-write writers. A tenant's nested Kubernetes cluster runs its own vmagent, which remote-writes into the same store when the tenant has no monitoring of its own, and the labels it writes are not enforced. Inside that cluster the tenant can create cozy-* namespaces or any other, so it can already write namespace="<any ns>" and pass the existing single filter. This is an existing limitation that this PR neither introduces nor widens: anything that can write namespace="cozy-x",exported_namespace="<ns>" can write namespace="<ns>" directly. Closing it needs enforcement on the write path and is out of scope here.
Impact of a forged series. The scope only adds series to a namespace's results; it never lets a caller read another namespace. A forged series can spoil or flood another namespace's graphs, up to the series limits that answer 422.
Rejected alternatives
Bare {exported_namespace="<ns>"}. Every namespace is scraped by default, so any tenant pod could inject series into another namespace's root.
Relabeling the ClickHouse operator's scrape so that namespace carries the tenant namespace. It fixes one exporter at a time, each in its own chart, and it changes the label set of every existing series, which splits their history at the change and breaks any query that selects them by the operator's namespace. The proxy-side branch covers every platform exporter and leaves stored series as they are.
Scraping the ClickHouse pods directly. The metric names differ from the operator's exporter, so the shipped ClickHouse dashboard (dashboards/clickhouse/altinity-clickhouse-operator-dashboard.json), which reads the exporter's chi_clickhouse_* series, would have to be rewritten.
A free regex flag instead of a prefix. One typo (.*) would trust exported_namespace from every namespace.
Tests
Table of namespace-root requests: exactly two extra_filters[] values in order with the default prefix, one value with an empty prefix, on all five endpoints. Client extra_filters[] still dropped.
A model of vmselect's selection (OR over extra_filters[], AND with each match[]) shows that namespace=cozy-x, exported_namespace=<ns> is visible, and that namespace=tenant-y, exported_namespace=<ns> and namespace=xcozy-a, ... are not.
Escaping of <ns> in exported_namespace, literal prefix quoting, empty scope refused, flag validation, and a chart test that an empty value reaches the binary as an explicit empty flag.
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The diff touches only cmd/observability-proxy, internal/observabilityproxy and the system package packages/system/observability-proxy (a new value and flag, no app, platform values, CRD, hack/ or naming change). None of the triggers in docs/agents/contributing.md under "Downstream Repositories" apply.
Release note
feat(observability-proxy): the namespace metrics root also returns series that exporters in platform (`cozy-*`) namespaces attribute to the namespace through `exported_namespace`, such as the ClickHouse operator's. The prefix is set by `--metrics-platform-namespace-prefix` / `observabilityProxy.metrics.platformNamespacePrefix`; an empty value disables it.
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New Features
Metrics queries now include series attributed to a tenant namespace by exporters in platform namespaces with the configured prefix. The default prefix is cozy-; setting it to an empty value disables this behavior.
Namespace scoping is applied across supported metrics endpoints, including label lookups.
…mespace root
A platform exporter such as the ClickHouse operator's runs in its own
cozy-* namespace and reports on objects in tenant namespaces. vmagent
labels its series with the exporter's namespace and moves the
namespace the exporter reported to exported_namespace, so the
namespace root, scoped to namespace="<ns>" alone, never returned them.
The scope gains a second extra_filters[] value matching
exported_namespace="<ns>" only on series scraped from a namespace with
the platform prefix. A bare exported_namespace condition would let any
tenant pod that writes a namespace label inject series into another
tenant's namespace root. vmselect ORs the two values, and the label
APIs repeat both in match[], where the match[] and extra_filters[]
cross join still selects exactly their union. An empty prefix keeps
the previous single-value scope.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Maxim Belyy <[email protected]>
…x flag
The prefix decides which namespaces are trusted to attribute series
to another namespace, so it defaults to cozy-, the prefix of every
platform namespace, and can be emptied to turn that off. It is
limited to namespace name characters: a regex metacharacter or an
upper case letter would match namespaces other than the ones named.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Maxim Belyy <[email protected]>
…e chart
The value is always passed, also when empty, so that clearing it in
the values turns the exporter series off instead of falling back to
the binary's default.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Maxim Belyy <[email protected]>
The cozy-* condition holds only for series the platform's vmagent
scraped. A tenant's nested Kubernetes cluster remote-writes into the
same store and picks its own namespace labels, cozy-* among them, so
the comment must not promise that tenants can never produce such a
series. That writer could already pass the namespace="<ns>" branch,
and the exporter branch gives it nothing more.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Maxim Belyy <[email protected]>
The prefix is quoted before it reaches the regex, so a metacharacter
or an upper case letter cannot widen the scope. Such a prefix matches
no namespace at all and silently drops the exporter series, which is
what the flag check guards against.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Maxim Belyy <[email protected]>
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Walkthrough
The metrics proxy now includes platform-exported series attributed to a tenant when a platform namespace prefix is configured. The prefix defaults to cozy- and can be disabled with an empty value.
The command adds and validates the prefix flag. Helm values default the prefix to cozy-, and the deployment passes the configured value to the proxy. Tests cover default, custom, and empty values.
Namespace scope and request parameters internal/observabilityproxy/metricsparams.go, internal/observabilityproxy/metricsparams_test.go, internal/observabilityproxy/metricsscope_test.go
namespaceScope selects tenant series and, when the prefix is nonempty, platform series attributed to that tenant. BuildMetricsParams copies the selectors into extra_filters[] and uses them for match[] when the client provides none. Tests cover selector construction, copying, and modeled series visibility.
Server metrics scope integration internal/observabilityproxy/server.go, internal/observabilityproxy/server_metrics_test.go, internal/observabilityproxy/server_app_test.go, internal/observabilityproxy/server_test.go
serveMetrics passes the configured scope for the route namespace to BuildMetricsParams. Tests check complete selector slices, namespace-only lookup filters, and the default prefix in the test harness.
The change adds platform-exporter series to namespace metrics roots when a platform namespace prefix is configured, and it can be disabled with an empty value. No concrete merge-blocking defect was found in the supplied changes.
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internal/observabilityproxy/auth.go: 1
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Unauthenticated callers can make the proxy send TokenReviews with no limit.
Every request with a new bearer token causes one TokenReview to kube-apiserver. The negative cache only covers tokens it has already seen, so a stream of random tokens is never served from it. In server.go, the per-user rate limiter and concurrency limits run only after authorize succeeds, so they do not cover this traffic. ttlCacheMaxEntries bounds memory. It does not bound the number of reviews sent.
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Rate-limit requests before authentication, for example per client IP or with a global token bucket for review calls.
Confirm that API Priority and Fairness assigns the proxy's ServiceAccount to a limited priority level, so an attack cannot starve other apiserver clients.
Enforce rate limits at the nginx console ingress, and restrict who can reach the pod directly with a NetworkPolicy.
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Bound the rate of TokenReview requests made through the TokenReviews().Create call, which runs before authorization and is not covered by the per-user limits. Establish and apply an effective control for this traffic—at the proxy, ingress, or API Priority and Fairness—and verify it also covers requests with previously unseen tokens; do not rely on the negative cache’s entry limit.
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Bound the truncated-response test with a timeout context.
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Resolve the overlap with the per-application roots: the namespace root
keeps its platform exporter branch, the application root still replaces
the whole scope with its own selectors, and the label APIs mark the
repeated scope so that replacement reaches match[] as well.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Maxim Belyy <[email protected]>
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Maxim Kitsunoff (@kitsunoff) LGTM, CI and E2E are green on this head. The main merge keeps the application roots of #5220 and the flags of #5267 intact, and the exporter-scope guards still fail their tests when reverted.
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What this PR does
Builds on #5219 and #5220, both merged.
The namespace metrics root
/apis/cozystack.io/v1alpha1/namespaces/<ns>/metrics/...now also returns series that a platform exporter attributes to<ns>. Example: the ClickHouse operator's exporter runs incozy-clickhouse-operator. vmagent scrapes it withouthonorLabels, so its series carrynamespace="cozy-clickhouse-operator", and the tenant namespace the exporter reported moves toexported_namespace="<ns>". Until now, any client of the namespace root (kubectl, automation, the console) never saw those series.Behavior changes
query,query_range,series,labels,label/<name>/values):extra_filters[]={namespace="<ns>"};{namespace="<ns>"}and{namespace=~"cozy-.*",exported_namespace="<ns>"}. vmselect ORs them.match[]: the proxy already repeats the scope inmatch[]for-search.ignoreExtraFiltersAtLabelsAPI; it now repeats both values. vmselect ANDs everymatch[]with everyextra_filters[]. Each cross pair is narrower than one of its halves, so the result is still exactly the union.extra_filters,extra_filters[]andextra_labelare still dropped.--metrics-platform-namespace-prefix(defaultcozy-) and chart valueobservabilityProxy.metrics.platformNamespacePrefix. An empty value turns the second branch off and restores the single-value scope. The proxy quotes the prefix and anchors it, so the value is matched literally and cannot become a wider regex. The flag accepts only namespace name characters, because any other value would match no namespace and silently drop the exporter series.namespace="cozy-...". A query that also selectsnamespace="<ns>"excludes them; select them byexported_namespaceor by the exporter's own labels (for ClickHouse,chi).exported_namespacefrommetadata.namespaceon the Fluxgotk_resource_infoseries (packages/system/monitoring-agents/values.yaml), so a namespace root now also returns the state of that namespace's own HelmReleases and Kustomizations. This is the namespace's own data, but it is a visible change with the default prefix.by (namespace)can now return an extra group labelled with the exporter's platform namespace. The exporter's series also carry its own target labels (pod,instance,job) into the tenant's results.extra_filters[].Threat model
namespacefrom service discovery, whileexported_namespaceis whatever the exporter wrote. Any tenant pod can write anamespacelabel, which arrives asexported_namespace, so the extra branch only trusts it on series scraped from platform namespaces. Tenant roles (packages/system/cozystack-basics/templates/clusterroles.yaml) grant no access tooperator.victoriametrics.comand no verbs onNamespace. A tenant can therefore neither run a target incozy-*nor point a scrape object at one.cozy-*namespaces or any other, so it can already writenamespace="<any ns>"and pass the existing single filter. This is an existing limitation that this PR neither introduces nor widens: anything that can writenamespace="cozy-x",exported_namespace="<ns>"can writenamespace="<ns>"directly. Closing it needs enforcement on the write path and is out of scope here.Rejected alternatives
{exported_namespace="<ns>"}. Every namespace is scraped by default, so any tenant pod could inject series into another namespace's root.namespacecarries the tenant namespace. It fixes one exporter at a time, each in its own chart, and it changes the label set of every existing series, which splits their history at the change and breaks any query that selects them by the operator's namespace. The proxy-side branch covers every platform exporter and leaves stored series as they are.dashboards/clickhouse/altinity-clickhouse-operator-dashboard.json), which reads the exporter'schi_clickhouse_*series, would have to be rewritten..*) would trustexported_namespacefrom every namespace.Tests
extra_filters[]values in order with the default prefix, one value with an empty prefix, on all five endpoints. Clientextra_filters[]still dropped.extra_filters[], AND with eachmatch[]) shows thatnamespace=cozy-x, exported_namespace=<ns>is visible, and thatnamespace=tenant-y, exported_namespace=<ns>andnamespace=xcozy-a, ...are not.<ns>inexported_namespace, literal prefix quoting, empty scope refused, flag validation, and a chart test that an empty value reaches the binary as an explicit empty flag.Screenshots
Not a UI change.
Downstream repositories
The diff touches only
cmd/observability-proxy,internal/observabilityproxyand the system packagepackages/system/observability-proxy(a new value and flag, no app, platform values, CRD,hack/or naming change). None of the triggers indocs/agents/contributing.mdunder "Downstream Repositories" apply.Release note
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cozy-; setting it to an empty value disables this behavior.