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feat(metrics): expose filter activity and retained body bytes - #1515
Adds two resource-attribution gauges that help explain retained bodies and filter concurrency during normal traffic or overload investigations:
praxis_filter_active{filter} counts HTTP and TCP hooks while they run or await external work, including branch request hooks and response trailers. Scope guards decrement on return, error, and cancellation.
praxis_body_buffer_bytes counts accumulated body payload and preserves accounting through buffer freezing and shared Bytes ownership. Clones do not double-count; the final owner releases the gauge.
Extracted from #1487 at review request. This PR is based directly on main and can merge independently. It does not require overload feature/runtime flags or enable the existing optional duration histogram.
Implementation and boundaries
Activity guards wrap each hook invocation. Response-body gauges are resolved lazily and cached in request extensions so later chunks reuse the handle; new requests resolve handles from their own recorder. Branch guards end before nested branch dispatch so the parent hook is not counted while only its child is running. Body accounting retains the recorder handle in a frozen owner and preserves the existing buffering limit and allocation policy.
Filter labels are registered type names. The body gauge measures retained payload, excluding capacity, allocator overhead, private filter allocations, and transport buffers. Hook concurrency includes I/O waits and is not CPU usage.
CI regression fix
Rebased onto main at 8a74b7b9. The failing Hyper tracing target reported Address already in use while registering a proxy listener. Its multi-proxy fixtures now hold port reservations until each listener starts, preventing later sockets from claiming future listener addresses. The intentionally unavailable upstream is released immediately before the retry request. Retry routes also exclude the harness readiness probe so it cannot advance the round-robin selector before the traced request. The existing Hyper parity exclusions are unchanged.
Validation
Rebase regression checks: the Hyper collector target passed twice (four active tests; its existing 103-response exclusion retained), and all five collector tests passed on Pingora. The Pingora collector target passed Clippy with warnings denied, and workspace formatting passed.
All 3,181 filter unit tests passed, including body freeze/clone/abandonment ownership and a branch hook observed while suspended and after cancellation.
Dedicated probes check TCP connect/disconnect, request-head, and response-trailer activity inside each hook and after return. A counting recorder proves two response chunks register one handle per request and that new requests use their own recorder.
Complete make lint passed for the extraction. The final handle-reuse and lifecycle follow-up passed all-feature and lean filter Clippy checks plus workspace formatting.
The isolated subprocess example passed on both Pingora and Hyper, including the Hyper shared-harness selection.
The example README index was regenerated and checked.
The new observability/filter-resource-metrics.yaml example rewrites a buffered JSON request with both gauges available through the metrics listener. Its subprocess test observes retained bytes during a partial upload, verifies the rewrite succeeds, and checks that body bytes and hook activity return to zero.
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New Features
Added metrics for active HTTP and TCP filter hooks and bytes retained in request-body buffers. Buffer usage remains tracked while shared payload data is in use.
Added an observability example that demonstrates these metrics during JSON request rewriting.
Documentation
Documented the new metrics, their scope, and how they relate to existing observability metrics.
The change adds gauges for active filter hooks and retained body payload bytes. It instruments HTTP, TCP, and branch request hooks, tracks body bytes through shared ownership, and adds documentation, an example configuration, and integration coverage. It also updates port handling and retry routing in an OpenTelemetry integration test.
A FilterActivity guard tracks active filter hooks across HTTP, TCP, and branch request paths. Tests check activity during a suspended hook and after the guard or future is dropped.
BodyBuffer updates praxis_body_buffer_bytes as payload is added. Frozen payload accounting remains active across Bytes clones and ends when the final owner drops.
Metrics documentation and example docs/operating/observability.md, CHANGELOG.md, examples/configs/observability/filter-resource-metrics.yaml, examples/README.md, tests/integration/tests/suite/examples/filter_resource_metrics.rs, tests/integration/tests/suite/examples/mod.rs
Documentation and the changelog describe both gauges. The example and integration test exercise JSON request buffering and check metric values.
OpenTelemetry integration test setup
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Summary
Port reservation and retry routing tests/integration/tests/otel_cross_gateway.rs
The test reserves listener ports until proxy startup and releases the dead-endpoint port before the retry request. The retry route is narrowed to /retry.
sequenceDiagram
participant Pipeline as Filter pipeline
participant Guard as FilterActivity
participant Hook as Filter hook
participant Gauge as praxis_filter_active gauge
Pipeline->>Guard: create guard for filter
Guard->>Gauge: increment active count
Pipeline->>Hook: invoke hook
Hook-->>Pipeline: complete, error, or suspend
Pipeline->>Guard: drop guard on completion or cancellation
Guard->>Gauge: decrement active count
The gauges have a remaining test-coverage gap for recorder isolation through a shared pipeline. This is a bounded follow-up rather than a demonstrated runtime failure, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness.
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Review comments at @crates/filter/src/pipeline/http_utils.rs:
- Line 649: Update the response-body processing flow around FilterActivity::new
so eligible filters reuse the labeled activity gauge handle across chunks
instead of registering it for each chunk. Keep the handle and its guard valid
for the required recorder and streaming lifetimes, preserving existing metrics
behavior.
Review comments at @crates/filter/src/pipeline/tcp.rs:
- Line 43: Extend the activity tests for the TCP, request-head, and
response-trailer hooks to observe praxis_filter_active while each hook is
running and after it exits. Locate the TCP guard at
FilterActivity::new(tcp_filter.name()) and identify the corresponding
request-head and response-trailer guards; ensure the tests independently verify
each hook’s activity lifecycle so removing any one guard causes a test failure.
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Review comments at @crates/filter/src/pipeline/tests/activity_metrics.rs:
- Around line 26-49: Update
response_body_activity_reuses_handles_within_each_request_and_recorder to run
two requests with separate recorders through one shared pipeline. Adapt
HookProbe to inspect the handle associated with each request’s recorder, then
verify each recorder’s registration count and active value independently while
preserving the within-request handle reuse check.
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#!/bin/bashset -e
echo'=== response activity and recorder references across repository ==='
rg -n -F --glob '*.rs' -e 'praxis_filter_active' -e 'body_activity_probe' -e 'with_local_recorder' -- crates tests ||test"$?" -eq 1
echo'=== activity metrics tests and fixtures ==='
nl -ba crates/filter/src/pipeline/tests/activity_metrics.rs | sed -n '1,280p'echo'=== response body implementation ==='
nl -ba crates/filter/src/metrics.rs | sed -n '140,205p'echo'=== pipeline metric calls ==='
nl -ba crates/filter/src/pipeline/http.rs | sed -n '675,755p'
nl -ba crates/filter/src/pipeline/http_utils.rs | sed -n '635,680p'
Repository: praxis-proxy/praxis
Length of output: 22919
Test recorder isolation through a shared pipeline.
This test rebuilds the pipeline for each request, so it cannot detect a pipeline-scoped gauge reused across requests. Run two requests with separate recorders through the same pipeline. Check each recorder’s registration and active value, and adapt the probe to inspect each request’s recorder.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @crates/filter/src/pipeline/tests/activity_metrics.rs around
lines 26 - 49:
Update response_body_activity_reuses_handles_within_each_request_and_recorder to
run two requests with separate recorders through one shared pipeline. Adapt
HookProbe to inspect the handle associated with each request’s recorder, then
verify each recorder’s registration count and active value independently while
preserving the within-request handle reuse check.
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What changes and why
Adds two resource-attribution gauges that help explain retained bodies and filter concurrency during normal traffic or overload investigations:
praxis_filter_active{filter}counts HTTP and TCP hooks while they run or await external work, including branch request hooks and response trailers. Scope guards decrement on return, error, and cancellation.praxis_body_buffer_bytescounts accumulated body payload and preserves accounting through buffer freezing and sharedBytesownership. Clones do not double-count; the final owner releases the gauge.Extracted from #1487 at review request. This PR is based directly on main and can merge independently. It does not require overload feature/runtime flags or enable the existing optional duration histogram.
Implementation and boundaries
Activity guards wrap each hook invocation. Response-body gauges are resolved lazily and cached in request extensions so later chunks reuse the handle; new requests resolve handles from their own recorder. Branch guards end before nested branch dispatch so the parent hook is not counted while only its child is running. Body accounting retains the recorder handle in a frozen owner and preserves the existing buffering limit and allocation policy.
Filter labels are registered type names. The body gauge measures retained payload, excluding capacity, allocator overhead, private filter allocations, and transport buffers. Hook concurrency includes I/O waits and is not CPU usage.
CI regression fix
Rebased onto main at
8a74b7b9. The failing Hyper tracing target reportedAddress already in usewhile registering a proxy listener. Its multi-proxy fixtures now hold port reservations until each listener starts, preventing later sockets from claiming future listener addresses. The intentionally unavailable upstream is released immediately before the retry request. Retry routes also exclude the harness readiness probe so it cannot advance the round-robin selector before the traced request. The existing Hyper parity exclusions are unchanged.Validation
Rebase regression checks: the Hyper collector target passed twice (four active tests; its existing 103-response exclusion retained), and all five collector tests passed on Pingora. The Pingora collector target passed Clippy with warnings denied, and workspace formatting passed.
All 3,181 filter unit tests passed, including body freeze/clone/abandonment ownership and a branch hook observed while suspended and after cancellation.
Dedicated probes check TCP connect/disconnect, request-head, and response-trailer activity inside each hook and after return. A counting recorder proves two response chunks register one handle per request and that new requests use their own recorder.
Complete
make lintpassed for the extraction. The final handle-reuse and lifecycle follow-up passed all-feature and lean filter Clippy checks plus workspace formatting.The isolated subprocess example passed on both Pingora and Hyper, including the Hyper shared-harness selection.
The example README index was regenerated and checked.
The new
observability/filter-resource-metrics.yamlexample rewrites a buffered JSON request with both gauges available through the metrics listener. Its subprocess test observes retained bytes during a partial upload, verifies the rewrite succeeds, and checks that body bytes and hook activity return to zero.Summary by CodeRabbit