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feat(alerting): reliable delivery to webhook, syslog and email sinks - #291
Alerts now reach webhook, syslog and email receivers, and a dead or slow receiver no longer loses them or holds up detection: every alert is written together with one delivery row per sink, and a worker per sink delivers from those rows with retry, a circuit breaker and a bounded dead-letter queue. The detection cursor keeps advancing on persistence alone (ADR-0015).
This is ticket T7 (milestone M4). It builds on the persisted, completeness-tagged alerts from T6 (#290). The operator CLI for delivery health is T10; OS keychain credentials stay deferred.
Design decisions
Delivery state is its own table, not the cursor.alert_deliveries is keyed by sink and alert id and holds state, attempts, redrives, the last error class and timestamps. The enqueue is insert-if-absent in the same redb transaction as the alert; the write-back after a send is compare-and-set, so a redrive or an eviction that touched the row first wins over a stale worker.
At least once, with two receiver keys. The attempt is recorded before the send, so a crash between the sink accepting and the row being written redelivers. Receivers deduplicate on the alert id (retries) and on the deduplication key (a re-evaluated window): X-DaemonEye-Alert-Id / X-DaemonEye-Dedup-Key for webhooks, MSGID and a dedup SD-PARAM for syslog, Message-ID and X-DaemonEye-Dedup-Key for email. A key that is not printable ASCII or does not fit the field travels as sha256: plus the digest of the whole key, so distinct keys never collide on the wire.
The network stack lives in daemoneye-sinks, the only crate that links TLS. A daemoneye-lib feature could not keep rustls out of procmond because Cargo unifies features across a workspace build; a dependency-gate test walks the resolved graph to prove procmond, collector-core and the CLI pull in no TLS, HTTP or SMTP crate. rustls uses the ring provider and platform roots; ca_file replaces the trust store rather than extending it, and nothing can skip verification.
Network sinks and the bus get an allowlist projection.ExternalAlert carries the alert id, timestamp, severity, rule, title, description, completeness, pid, ppid, process name, executable path and hash, start time, host, agent version, ancestry and tags. The command line and the user travel only when a sink opts in. Local stdout and file sinks keep the full alert.
Failures are typed, never free text. A transport error maps to a DeliveryErrorClass; the row and the log carry the class only, so a reqwest error cannot leak a URL or a response fragment into the store.
Credentials are environment-variable names in config. They resolve into one Credentials value (None, Token, or a Basic pair) of SecretStrings when the sink is built, so a half pair or a token on the wrong scheme cannot be represented; an enabled sink whose variable is missing refuses startup. A sink name is a SinkName, parsed as non-empty with no control characters, so the delivery-key separator cannot appear in one.
Failure is visible. Every dead-letter and breaker transition logs at warn with the sink, alert id, reason and error class. A sink whose failures since its last success reach breaker_failure_threshold (permanent rejections included, which never trip the breaker) reports as failing and degrades the aggregate; the periodic health line is warn when anything is unhealthy. A sink worker that panics is logged and restarted after a tick, and the stdout sink maps a closed pipe to an error instead of panicking.
Per-sink reliability knobs (max_attempts, backoff, attempt_timeout_secs, breaker threshold and cool-down, DLQ and open-row caps, redrive cap) and their defaults are on the operator page docs/src/technical/alert-delivery.md.
Verification
just ci-check green on the final tree: 2411 tests, strict workspace clippy (pedantic/nursery/restriction, -D warnings), fmt, rustdoc -D warnings, cargo deny, cargo audit, coverage, goreleaser check.
Acceptance examples AE1 to AE12 from the plan each have a test (retry budget and jitter bounds, breaker open/probe/redrive, 401 misconfiguration, store-failure local-only delivery marked not_persisted, restart redelivery, duplicate suppression, missing credential refusing startup, sentinel never leaking through any network payload, idempotent re-enqueue, stale write-back losing to a redrive, displacement at the open-row cap, transport subscription to events.alert.new refused).
Chaos tests hold a partition on the webhook and TCP syslog sinks while the file sink keeps delivering and health reports degraded, and keep a hung sink plus a busy redb writer from stalling the runtime ticker.
Mock HTTP, SMTP and syslog servers run every transport on loopback, including TLS against a generated test PKI; new tests were mutation-checked. The dedup-window-after-commit test breaks and repairs the alerts table under the running store (a doc-hidden redb seam), so it fails if the window is recorded before the commit.
A comprehensive review pass (code, silent failures, tests, types, comments, simplification) is applied in the last commits; every finding in the list below is now applied.
Windows cfg legs validate only in CI (the macOS host cannot cross-compile blake3).
Known residuals
Recorded in ADR-0015 and the operator page: lettre keeps SMTP credentials as String; credential rotation needs a restart; delivery rows are not tamper-evident; during a store outage the same alert is re-delivered to local sinks each cycle (visible on the console by design). The email body is a fixed plain-text template; templating is deferred.
Unapplied review findings
P2 — daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/config.rs:518 — Partial SMTP credentials silently disable authentication (single reviewer, cross-model; validator confirmed under authorization-authentication)
Suggested fix: reject email specs where exactly one of username_env and password_env is present; allow a complete pair or neither.
P2 — daemoneye-lib/src/storage/deliveries.rs:198 — Enqueue decodes every sink row inside the write txn (manual: storage design)
Suggested fix: in place(), count open rows without a full decode (state-discriminant peek, or a per-sink open counter seeded at start and adjusted on enqueue/complete/evict); run the full scan only in displace() at the cap.
P2 — daemoneye-lib/src/storage/deliveries.rs:267 — Every worker pass decodes the whole sink table (manual: same root cause as the previous item; fix that one first)
Suggested fix: filter by state before decoding, or keep an open-rows index per sink so passes read only non-terminal rows.
P2 — daemoneye-sinks/src/webhook.rs:41 — Hand-rolled base64 duplicates reqwest::RequestBuilder::basic_auth (single reviewer)
Suggested fix: hold the auth as enum { Header(name, value), Basic { user, pass } }, call basic_auth(user, Some(pass)) in request(), delete base64() and BASE64.
P3 — daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/config.rs:410 — Loopback check accepts any hostname starting with 127. (CWE-319; single reviewer)
Suggested fix: fn is_loopback(host) { host.eq_ignore_ascii_case("localhost") || host.parse::<IpAddr>().is_ok_and(|ip| ip.is_loopback()) } plus a test that 127.example.com is rejected without allow_plaintext.
P3 — daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/config.rs — A SinkName newtype would move the U+001F and uniqueness checks to parse time (review-pr toolkit, type design)
Applied: SinkName refuses an empty name or a control character at parse time; validate_sinks keeps the cross-sink uniqueness check.
P3 — daemoneye-agent/src/alert_publisher.rs — The wake subscriber duplicates the manager's own wake_all, and the external cancel receiver is only ever dropped (review-pr toolkit, code)
Applied: both removed; AlertManager::start no longer takes a cancel receiver and ADR-0015 now describes the bus message as fan-out only.
Review run: 20261012-195131-c29ce638, artifacts at /tmp/compound-engineering-501/ce-code-review/20261012-195131-c29ce638 (8 local reviewers plus an independent Codex adversarial pass; 6 findings, all validator-confirmed; finding 1, the stranded half-open probe, is applied in this PR).
Instead of sending an alert to a receiver and then recording that it was sent, the agent records the intent to send in the same database transaction that stores the alert, and a separate worker reads those rows and performs the sends. The row, not the send, is the source of truth.
Why here, over publishing straight from the detection cycle: the embedded broker's queue is in memory, rate-limited and silently drops with no subscriber, so it cannot carry durability, and a send inside the cycle would couple the detection cursor to a receiver's uptime. With the outbox, the cycle only pays for its own write, and an outage is a backlog of rows rather than lost alerts.
In this PR: EventStore::enqueue_alert writes the alert and one alert_deliveries row per sink in one redb transaction; SinkWorker claims a due row (recording the attempt), sends, then writes the outcome back with compare-and-set. A crash between the send and the write-back is handled by delivering at least once, which is why every receiver gets an idempotency key.
When not to use it: when a lost notification is acceptable (metrics, best-effort telemetry), or when the receiver cannot deduplicate, because an outbox turns "maybe never" into "maybe twice".
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…SMTP stack
The network alert sinks need rustls, reqwest and lettre. A feature on
daemoneye-lib could not keep that stack out of procmond, because Cargo
unifies features across a workspace build, so the stack lives in a new
crate that only daemoneye-agent depends on. The crate installs `ring`
as the process-wide crypto provider; reqwest's `rustls` feature would
pull aws-lc-rs, so `rustls-no-provider` is used instead.
A dependency gate test walks the workspace resolve and fails if
aws-lc-rs, openssl or native-tls appear anywhere, or if the network
stack is reachable from procmond, collector-core, the CLI or the lib.
`alerting.rs` becomes `alerting/mod.rs` with unchanged public paths.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
…errors
A `DeliveryError` is Transient, Permanent or Misconfigured and carries a
class, never free text, so it can be persisted and logged. `RetryPolicy`
draws full-jitter exponential delays capped at the configured maximum and
honours only delta-seconds `Retry-After` values. `CircuitBreaker` counts
transient failures toward its threshold, opens at once on a misconfigured
outcome, admits one probe per cool-down, and reports when it last closed.
Time comes from tokio so the tests run under paused time.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
One agent-owned table keyed by sink and alert id is the delivery queue,
the dead-letter queue and the audit trail. An alert and its rows are
written in one transaction as an insert that never overwrites; every
write-back is a compare-and-set on state, attempts and redrives; a sink
at its open-row cap lets a critical or high alert displace the oldest
lowest-severity pending row and dead-letters anything else as
`queue_full`. Dead letters are redriven in bounded batches up to a cap,
evicted lowest-severity-first, and pruned with retention; alert rows are
never pruned. An undecodable row is counted, not fatal. The record's V1
encoding is pinned by a golden-bytes test; a new table needs no schema
bump.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
`alerting.sinks` entries parse into a `SinkSpec` per sink type with a
required unique name and unknown fields rejected, and `alerting.delivery`
carries the retry, breaker, timeout, row-cap and redrive knobs with
validated ranges. `Config::validate` now refuses a webhook URL with
user-info, a query, a fragment or an empty host, plain HTTP unless opted
in and unauthenticated, plaintext syslog to a non-loopback address unless
opted in, a `ca_file` that is missing, traverses, or holds no certificate,
and a Unix syslog socket on Windows.
Credentials are referenced only by environment-variable name and resolved
into `SecretString` at sink build by a `CredentialResolver` with an
injected lookup, so a missing or empty variable on an enabled sink refuses
startup and no secret can reach `Debug` or serialised configuration. The
old `SinkConfig` and string-map factory path are gone.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
`AlertManager::start` owns one worker task per sink. Enqueue writes the
alert and its rows in one transaction, publishes, and records the
deduplication window only after the commit; a store failure returns
`NotPersisted`, which the agent delivers once to local sinks. Workers
wake on a notify or a five-second tick, claim rows (writing the attempt
before the send), run the sink under a timeout, classify the outcome
through the circuit breaker, and write back with compare-and-set; every
store call runs on a blocking thread. Dead letters are redriven in
bounded batches once a tripped breaker has stayed closed for a full
cool-down, evicted after each dead-letter transition, and a misconfigured
outcome opens the breaker so the rows behind it wait. Per-sink health
carries breaker state, counters and a sliding success rate; the aggregate
is degraded, not unhealthy, while every local sink works.
The row's `last_error` is the typed error class; the pinned V1 encoding
moves with it. The factory builds local sinks itself and delegates the
network arms to a registered builder. The agent enqueues each alert
instead of delivering inline, keeps the cursor rule unchanged, and shuts
the manager down before the broker.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
…hey are stored
`enrich` walks the parent chain through a new `EventStore::latest_by_pid`
that scans buckets newest-first and returns the newest record for a pid
that did not start after its child, so a recycled pid cannot name an
unrelated lineage. Up to sixteen ancestors, the host name, the agent
version and the executable hash land in the alert's context; a chain that
cannot complete marks the alert `enrichment=partial` and never drops it or
touches its deduplication key or completeness. Values are capped at 256
bytes on a character boundary. A bench case measures a sixteen-deep chain
over 168 buckets.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
…sink
`ExternalAlert::project` builds, field by field, the only shape that
leaves the host: identifiers, severity, rule, title, description,
completeness, the process identity, hash and start time, the enriched
host, agent version and ancestry, and tags. The command line and the user
id appear only when the sink opts in. `sanitise_control` strips control
characters for the line-oriented sinks that follow.
`WebhookSink` POSTs the projection with one client per sink: no
redirects, no proxy, a per-attempt timeout, the OS trust store or a
configured CA file that replaces it, an authorisation header built once
and marked sensitive, and both idempotency keys as headers. It reads only
the status line and `Retry-After` and never the body, and classifies every
failure into the typed delivery error without keeping a URL or reply text.
A loopback mock server with a generated test CA proves the behaviour,
including that an unlisted private CA is refused.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
…ay subscribe
The broker delivered raw subscribers only on control topics; publishes on
`events.` topics now reach them too through one shared delivery helper,
with the typed decode path untouched. `events.alert.new` is a restricted
topic and `subscribe_client` refuses any transport pattern that matches a
restricted entry, so a wire client cannot read alert payloads while
in-process raw subscribers are unaffected.
The agent publishes each stored alert's masked projection on that topic
and runs one raw subscriber that wakes the sink workers, so a stored row
is delivered before the next tick. A rejected publish is logged and
counted, never a delivery failure.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
Syslog sends one RFC 5424 line per alert over UDP, TCP (octet-counted),
TLS or a Unix datagram socket. The rule, pid, completeness and dedup key
ride as structured data; MSGID is the alert id without hyphens. Lines over
max_message_bytes are cut from the end of MSG (opt-in fields go first) and
flagged truncated="1". TCP and TLS detect a peer close before each write
and reconnect, so a dropped collector loses nothing silently. UDP is
fire-and-forget and always reports success.
Email sends through lettre over STARTTLS or implicit TLS; a server without
STARTTLS is misconfigured, never downgraded. Message-ID is
<alert-id@daemoneye> and X-DaemonEye-Dedup-Key carries the re-evaluation
key. Certificate failures wrapped by lettre are unwrapped to TLS
verification so the breaker opens at once.
Both are built through NetworkSinkBuilder. Mock SMTP and syslog servers in
tests/support exercise every transport on loopback, including TLS against
a generated PKI.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
The detection cycle enriches each batch of alerts with ancestry and host
context before enqueueing it; an enrichment failure warns and enqueues the
alert unenriched rather than dropping it. build_sinks resolves credentials
and builds every enabled sink through NetworkSinkBuilder, falling back to
stdout only when no sink is configured at all.
An hourly sweep inside the scan branch prunes terminal delivery rows past
database.retention_days; alert rows are never pruned. Delivery health is
logged every tenth iteration. Shutdown drains in-flight sends, then
unsubscribes the wake subscriber before the broker goes down.
Integration tests cover AE4 (store failure delivers locally, unpersisted),
AE5 (restart redelivery), retention and shutdown ordering. Chaos tests hold
a partition on the webhook and TCP syslog sinks while the file sink keeps
delivering and health reports degraded, and keep a hung sink plus a busy
redb writer from stalling the runtime ticker.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
Add the operator page for alert delivery (sink configuration, projection,
reliability, dead-letter queue, receiver deduplication, health) and
ADR-0015 recording that delivery state lives in its own outbox rows and
never gates the detection cursor. Point the core-monitoring page and
AGENTS.md at the shipped behaviour, add the delivery vocabulary to
CONCEPTS.md, and rename the alert topic to events.alert.new in the ticket
and requirements.
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A half-open probe that claimed a row and then failed to load its alert
returned without releasing the probe, so the breaker stayed half-open and
denied every later send until restart. Treat it like the other probes that
sent nothing: record the failure so the breaker reopens and the next
cool-down probes again.
Regression test corrupts one stored alert, trips the breaker with another,
and asserts the probe on the corrupt row reopens the breaker and is retried
after the following cool-down.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
Fold the copies that grew across the delivery units into one place each:
DeliveryRecord::dead_letter, DeliveryError::transient, DeliveryResult::since,
millis/to_u64 in the delivery module, the lib's host_of reused by the syslog
sink (its own copy mis-split a bare [::1]), and HEALTH_TIMEOUT/config_error
shared inside daemoneye-sinks. Export DAILY_MS from storage instead of a
second constant in the agent, drop the unused TryFrom<&AlertSinkConfig>,
move the csv_field doc onto csv_field, and rename the main.rs local that
shadowed the alert_publisher module.
Two small cost trims ride along: evict_dead_letters returns before opening
a commit when nothing is over the cap, and the syslog octet-count frame is
built only for the stream transports. No behaviour change intended; the
workspace suite is green.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
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New Features
Added configurable alert delivery to stdout, file, webhook, syslog, and email sinks.
Alerts are stored before delivery, with independent per-sink retries, health reporting, circuit breakers, and dead-letter recovery.
Added queue limits and duplicate suppression to help manage delivery backlogs.
Alerts can include host and process context, with controls over sharing sensitive fields.
Broker announcements provide fan-out only; delivery continues from stored alerts if announcements are dropped.
Documentation
Added an alert delivery guide covering sink configuration, security, and delivery behavior.
Updated the documented broker topic to events.alert.new.
Walkthrough
The pull request adds a stored-row alert delivery system with configurable local and network sinks. It adds enrichment, retry and breaker controls, dead-letter handling, masked broker announcements, retention, and delivery-health reporting.
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Alert delivery system
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Delivery contracts and configuration daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/*, daemoneye-lib/src/config.rs, daemoneye-lib/src/models/*, Cargo.toml
Adds sink configuration and credential resolution, delivery models, external projections, enrichment, retry and breaker policies, delivery settings, and network dependencies.
Resolve the delivery-worker starvation paths before merging: a failing alert or sink can hold up later alerts for that receiver. Bound sink names and correct the remaining stdout, wire-key, and documentation concerns as well.
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…y gaps (#291)
- eventbus: a transport client's subscription is accepted only when a Public
registry entry covers every topic the pattern can match
(TopicPattern::contains, TopicRegistry::pattern_is_public); privileged,
unregistered and broad patterns are refused, the restricted-overlap check
stays as a second guard
- storage/worker: redrive_batch reports how many eligible dead letters it
left behind, and the worker keeps redrive pending while any remain, so a
batch cut short by the open-row cap is retried after the cool-down
- manager: enqueue is serialized by an async gate so two concurrent enqueues
with one dedup key cannot both pass the window check; the window is still
recorded only after the commit
- tests: gate the PathBuf import in the syslog tests to unix so the Windows
leg compiles (it is used only by the Unix datagram test)
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
A network sink that returns a permanent error (for example HTTP 404 or SMTP recipient rejection) leaves the breaker closed and misconfigured false, so this reports the sink and aggregate as healthy despite dead-lettering the alert. Network failures should also degrade health until a successful send clears consecutive_failures.
…ytes, seed dead-letter depth
Review round four on PR #291.
- manager: commit the alert in its own store call; run overflow
eviction as a second call whose failure is logged and counted, never
turned into NotPersisted. Publish on events.alert.new through a
bounded mpsc queue drained by a background task in the worker
JoinSet; wake workers right after the commit so enqueue returns on
persistence alone (ADR-0015). Enqueue-path evictions now decrement
the dead-letter gauge.
- worker: startup redrive loops over batches until none remain or
the open-row cap is reached; dead-letter depth is seeded from the
store so a restart does not report zero while rows wait.
- storage: dead_letter_count via the state-prefix peek.
- syslog: hostname and SD-value caps are byte caps on the escaped
UTF-8 with char-boundary cuts; the backstop drops dedup then rule
before any cut, so four-byte chars cannot push a datagram past the
480-byte floor.
- config: syslog udp/tcp/tls addresses must be host:port.
- agent: delivery health log carries breaker state, counters and the
last error per sink.
- docs/spec: R5 AC6 and the operator page describe the stored-first
flow and the dedup window start.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
…tream
Review round five on PR #291.
- key: a deduplication key is sent as is only when it is printable
ASCII without `"`, `\` or `]` and fits the field (96 bytes in syslog
structured data, 256 in the webhook header); any other key travels
as `sha256:` plus the hex digest of the whole key, so two distinct
keys never share a wire value and a receiver cannot suppress one
alert on another's prefix.
- syslog transport: the cached stream leaves the slot for the duration
of a write and is put back only after a complete one, so a write the
worker's timeout cancels drops the connection instead of leaving a
partial octet-counted frame for the next attempt to append to.
- docs: the operator page states the wire form.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
… path
Two Windows-only failures on the T7 CI matrix.
- eventbus: off Unix the spawn-token directory ignored the socket
directory and sat at one fixed per-user path, so every store on the
account shared `procmond.spawn-token`; under nextest the admission
tests raced on it (AlreadyExists, PermissionDenied, NotFound across
retries). The directory now has a subdirectory keyed by the socket
directory's hash under the same private root, so two agents or two
tests on one account never share a token file. The ACL placement
argument in the platform note is unchanged.
- lib: the ca_file validation test built the path with a `/`, which a
verbatim `\\?\` Windows path treats as part of the file name, so the
empty-PEM file was reported unreadable instead of lacking a
certificate. The test joins the path instead.
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A config test formatted `jail.directory()` with `/`; on the Windows CI
leg that directory is a verbatim `\\?\` path where `/` is not a
separator, so the test named a file that did not exist and failed on
Windows only. Captures the diagnosis and the join-not-format rule as a
build-errors learning and a GOTCHAS §1.1 bullet.
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The Windows leg finishes in about 45 minutes (44m35s on the previous
green run) and was cancelled by the job's own 45-minute cap during
the release build after its tests had passed. Match the 60-minute
budget the workflow already gives its other long job.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
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Review comments at @daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/delivery/worker.rs:
- Around line 273-285: Update the alert-loading logic in `attempt` to treat
`StorageError::Codec` as a missing alert, routing it through `alert_missing` so
the row is dead-lettered and the pass continues. Preserve the existing stop
behavior for other storage errors, and update the named breaker test plus add
coverage that a local sink proceeds to a valid row after a corrupt one.
Review comments at @docs/src/technical/alert-delivery.md:
- Line 106: Update the deduplication-key rule in the documentation so its code
span shows a single backslash as a forbidden character. Leave the surrounding
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- worker read_open and storage-failure bookkeeping ---'
sed -n '175,215p' daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/delivery/worker.rs
sed -n '80,110p' daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/health.rs
sed -n '145,175p' daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/delivery/mod.rs
printf'%s\n''--- open_deliveries implementation ---'
sed -n '315,345p' daemoneye-lib/src/storage/deliveries.rs
printf'%s\n''--- focused regression test ---'
sed -n '1055,1140p' daemoneye-lib/tests/alerting_delivery.rs
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Dead-letter codec failures instead of stopping the sink.
StorageError::Codec is the decode-failure variant. records::get_alert propagates decode_value(...) failures as StorageError::Codec.
The current attempt branch claims the row, leaves it Retrying, and returns Flow::Stop without writing an outcome. claim increments attempts and sets next_attempt_ms to now, so the same oldest row can be reclaimed on every pass. max_attempts applies only to transient send results, not alert-load failures. Because pass stops after Flow::Stop, later rows are not attempted. This also affects local sinks.
Handle codec failures as terminal rows and continue the pass. Other storage errors must still stop the pass.
Proposed fix
--- "a/daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/delivery/worker.rs"+++ "b/daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/delivery/worker.rs"@@ -270,19 +270,22 @@
Ok(claimed) => claimed,
Err(error) => return self.unclaimed(probe, &error),
};
- let alert = match self- .shared- .blocking(move |store| store.get_alert(&id.to_string()))- .await- {- Ok(Some(alert)) => alert,- Ok(None) => return self.alert_missing(id, claimed, probe).await,- Err(error) => {+ let loaded = self+ .shared+ .blocking(move |store| match store.get_alert(&id.to_string()) {+ Err(crate::storage::StorageError::Codec(_)) => Ok(None),+ other => other,+ })+ .await;+ let alert = match loaded {+ Ok(Some(alert)) => alert,+ Ok(None) => return self.alert_missing(id, claimed, probe).await,+ Err(error) => {
error!(sink = %name, %error, "loading the alert failed");
self.release_probe(probe);
return Flow::Stop;
}
};
let sent = tokio::time::timeout(
self.shared.settings.attempt_timeout,
self.runtime.sink.send(&alert),
Ok(None) uses the existing alert_missing path, which dead-letters the claimed row and returns Flow::Continue. Update a_probe_that_cannot_load_its_alert_reopens_the_breaker to expect DeadLettered, and add a local-sink regression case with a corrupt row followed by a valid row.
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Update the alert-loading logic in `attempt` to treat `StorageError::Codec` as a
missing alert, routing it through `alert_missing` so the row is dead-lettered
and the pass continues. Preserve the existing stop behavior for other storage
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Four advisories against 0.23.45 landed on 2026-10-14 (Debug impls
exposing client session secrets, buffered data sent after an ECH
rejection, 1 GiB brotli certificate decompression before
authentication, and a ServerHello downgrade to classical key exchange);
0.23.46 fixes all four, and cargo audit refuses the lockfile until it is
in. The lockfile also re-resolves prost-build's itertools range to the
0.14 already in the graph.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
…aker and credentials
A network sink answering every alert with a permanent rejection stayed
Healthy, dead-letter and breaker transitions were never logged, and a
panic in a sink send killed its worker for good while rows piled up as
Pending. Every dead-letter and breaker transition now logs at warn, a
sink whose failures since its last success reach the breaker threshold
reports as failing, undecodable rows count as unhealthy, the health log
line is warn when anything is unhealthy, and a worker that panics is
logged and restarted after a tick. StdoutSink writes through a locked
handle and maps the io error instead of panicking on a closed pipe.
Breaker: a permanent rejection answering a probe closes it (the sink is
up), a probe that never went out is abandoned back to open, and the
worker no longer has to special-case either. The alert is loaded before
the row is claimed, so a store fault costs no attempt. classify maps a
serialization error to a permanent Payload failure, a configuration
error to Misconfigured (new Config class) and an io error by its kind;
health probes share it.
Store and config: the open-row scan also counts the sink's dead letters
so the gauge cannot drift after a prune, redrive or eviction; the
manager's redrive decrements it; prune reports dead letters separately
and the sweep logs them; a redrive cap of zero no longer rewrites the
dead-letter reason; eviction runs per sink so one failure does not hide
another's count; queue-full drops and evictions log with the sink and
alert id; the publisher counts announcements dropped by a full queue or
at shutdown. AlertManager::start validates the delivery config, the
loader refuses initial_backoff_ms above max_backoff_secs, RetryPolicy
and CircuitBreaker floor their counts and the policy fields are private.
Credentials are one enum (None, Token, Basic) so a half pair or a token
on the wrong scheme cannot be built; PublishError's field is private and
the bus projection returns an error instead of an empty payload. The
unpersisted path logs the alert id, warns when no local sink exists,
counts the loss in health and records a telemetry error.
Sinks: a UDP datagram the receiver refused is a transient connect
failure, not a success; an unknown syslog facility refuses startup; the
cached TCP/TLS stream is probed through the TLS layer so TLS 1.3 session
tickets do not force a handshake per alert; one classify_tls helper
replaces three copies; Retry-After parsing is a free function.
HealthSummary and its roll-up are gone in favour of DeliveryHealth,
which brings alerting/mod.rs under the size guideline. DeliveryRecord
gains transition helpers so every state change sets its fields together.
Tests: the dedup-window-after-commit test can now fail (the alerts table
is broken and repaired under the running store through a doc-hidden
redb seam); new coverage for the full publish queue, enqueue-path
eviction past the cap, a permanent probe answer, Retry-After in the
worker, a panicking sink, a local startup redrive cut short by the cap,
displacement edges, prune and open-scan counts, TLS reuse across sends,
a ca_file for the wrong authority, a resend's alert-id header, four-byte
message truncation and facility refusal. The response-body test no
longer asserts wall-clock time.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
…gged
The spec, ticket and requirements no longer say sinks consume from the
broker; the operator page scopes the sha256 wire form to webhook and
syslog, states the queue-full rule for high and critical alerts, the
bounded announcement queue and the new unhealthy rules; ADR-0015 names
the real backoff and timeout bounds; CONCEPTS and the code comments on
redrives, terminal rows, consecutive failures, ca_file, host_of,
DAILY_MS, the spawn-token store, the syslog header arithmetic (now
pinned by a const assert), subscribe_client's errors and the overlap
test match the code. Rustdoc covers the breaker and sink contracts, the
solutions write-up drops its line numbers, and the Cargo manifests cite
the AGENTS.md section that exists.
Signed-off-by: UncleSp1d3r <unclesp1d3r@evilbitlabs.io>
An unloadable alert row still blocks the sink indefinitely.
The load now happens before the claim. A StorageError::Codec from get_alert therefore costs no attempt. This branch still releases the probe and returns Flow::Stop. As a result:
The row stays Pending with attempts == 0. It never reaches max_attempts and is never dead-lettered.
pass stops at this row on every pass. Rows later in the open_deliveries iteration order are never attempted. This also happens on local sinks, which have no breaker to throttle the loop.
Each failure calls store_failed(). The aggregate stays Unhealthy until the next successful enqueue clears it, and then the next pass sets it again.
a_probe_that_cannot_load_its_alert_reopens_the_breaker now asserts this behavior. The test covers only a sink with a breaker and one open row, so it does not show the head-of-line stall. Handle a decode failure as a terminal row: dead-letter it through alert_missing (or a dedicated DeliveryReason) and return Flow::Continue. Other storage errors must still stop the pass. Add a regression test for a local sink with a corrupt row followed by a valid row.
Proposed fix
let alert = match self
.shared
- .blocking(move |store| store.get_alert(&id.to_string()))+ .blocking(move |store| match store.get_alert(&id.to_string()) {+ // An undecodable alert can never be sent; dead-letter it instead of stalling the sink.+ Err(crate::storage::StorageError::Codec(_)) => Ok(None),+ other => other,+ })
.await
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Update the alert-loading error branch in the worker so a `StorageError::Codec`
dead-letters the row through `alert_missing` (or an equivalent delivery reason)
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- Around line 502-504: Update the panic-recovery path in supervise so a
panicking sink cannot leave its claimed row eligible for endless retries. Before
restarting the worker, either have claim dead-letter Retrying rows whose
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claim that a low-severity flood can never keep a critical alert off the wire;
accurately state that retrying rows cannot be displaced under the described
policy and a new critical alert may be dead-lettered when no lower-severity
pending row is available.
- Line 106: Update the deduplication-key description so literal keys cannot
share a wire value with hashed keys by reserving or escaping the `sha256:`
prefix, and remove the claim that distinct keys always have distinct wire
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- Line 285: Update the alert-loading error branch in the worker so a
`StorageError::Codec` dead-letters the row through `alert_missing` (or an
equivalent delivery reason) and returns `Flow::Continue`; keep other storage
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set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- delivery record transitions ---'
nl -ba daemoneye-lib/src/models/delivery.rs | sed -n '100,180p'printf'%s\n''--- worker write-back and classification ---'
nl -ba daemoneye-lib/src/alerting/delivery/worker.rs | sed -n '425,570p'
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Persist or dead-letter the claimed row when a sink panics.
supervise restarts the worker after WORKER_TICK. A panic from runtime.sink.send(alert) occurs before apply and write_back, so the row remains Retrying with its incremented attempt count and next_attempt_ms set to the claim time. claim accepts that row again without checking max_attempts.
A sink that panics for one alert can therefore retry that row indefinitely and prevent later rows from being processed. Each restart also calls redrive() before the cooldown-gated redrive_when_able(), so restarts can move additional dead letters back to Pending while capacity and redrive budgets remain.
Bound this path before restarting the worker. For example, make claim dead-letter a Retrying row with attempts >= max_attempts using AttemptsExhausted, and do not send it. Alternatively, record the in-flight row and dead-letter it with complete after catch_unwind catches the panic.
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Update the panic-recovery path in supervise so a panicking sink cannot leave its
claimed row eligible for endless retries. Before restarting the worker, either
have claim dead-letter Retrying rows whose attempts reach max_attempts with
AttemptsExhausted and exclude them from sending, or track the in-flight row and
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StdoutSink::send writes to stdout synchronously on a Tokio worker thread. The attempt timeout cannot interrupt that write.
The trait contract at Lines 109-116 says the worker wraps send in the attempt timeout. tokio::time::timeout can only cancel at an .await point. writeln! and flush() on a locked std::io::Stdout block the thread until the write finishes.
This can happen when the agent's stdout is a pipe and the reader stops reading or lags, for example journald under pressure, a stuck log shipper, or a full container log pipe. In that case the write blocks for the whole stall. The timeout never fires. One runtime worker thread stays held. The detection cycle and the other sink workers then share fewer threads.
FileSink was already moved to run_blocking_io for this exact reason. Route the stdout write through the same helper so both local sinks behave the same way. A timed-out write can still finish later on the blocking pool. Local sinks already have that same at-least-once behaviour.
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letmut stdout = std::io::stdout().lock();
writeln!(stdout,"{output}")?;
stdout.flush()?;
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letmut stdout = std::io::stdout().lock();
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Dead letters are bounded per sink by `dlq_max_rows_per_sink`; the lowest-severity, oldest rows are evicted first and the eviction is counted and logged. They are redriven automatically, a hundred at a time, once a tripped breaker has stayed closed for a full cool-down, and once at agent start, up to `dlq_max_redrives` per row; a startup redrive that the open-row cap cut short continues as rows free up. With `dlq_max_redrives = 0` nothing is redriven and each row keeps its original reason.
Open rows (pending or retrying) are capped per sink by `max_open_rows_per_sink`. At the cap a critical or high alert displaces the oldest lowest-severity pending row, which is dead-lettered as `queue_full`; otherwise (including a high or critical alert with no lower-severity pending row to displace) the new row is dead-lettered as `queue_full`. A flood of low-severity alerts therefore cannot keep a critical one off the wire.
If low-severity alerts fill the open-row cap in retrying state, no lower-severity pending row exists to displace. This paragraph says the new critical row is then dead-lettered, so a low-severity flood can keep it off the wire. Remove the absolute assurance or change the queue policy to support it. As per path instructions, docs/**/*.md must “ensure clarity, accuracy, and completeness.”
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Revise the paragraph about max_open_rows_per_sink so it does not claim that a
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In webhook and syslog, a deduplication key is sent as is when it is printable ASCII (no `"`, `\` or `]`) and fits the field: 96 bytes in syslog structured data, 256 in the webhook header. Any other key is sent as `sha256:` followed by the hex SHA-256 of the whole key, so distinct keys never share a wire value. The email header carries the key with control characters stripped.
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Remove the claim that distinct keys always have distinct wire values.
For an invalid key such as a], the encoded value is sha256: plus its digest. That encoded value is also a valid, 71-byte literal key, which this rule sends unchanged. A receiver that deduplicates on the wire value can therefore treat two different keys as one alert. Reserve or escape the encoded prefix, and describe hash collisions as a residual possibility rather than promising uniqueness. As per path instructions, docs/**/*.md must “ensure clarity, accuracy, and completeness.”
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Update the deduplication-key description so literal keys cannot share a wire
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- `SinkName` newtype: a sink name is parsed as non-empty with no control
characters, so the delivery-key separator cannot appear in one; the
config validator keeps only the cross-sink uniqueness check.
- The webhook sink sends basic auth through reqwest's `basic_auth`, which
encodes the pair and marks the header sensitive; the hand-rolled base64
is gone.
- The agent's bus wake subscriber and the external cancel receiver are
removed: the manager wakes its workers after the commit, and `shutdown`
is the one way to stop them. ADR-0015, CONCEPTS, the spec and the T7
ticket now describe `events.alert.new` as fan-out only.
- The two storage findings (enqueue and the worker pass decoding whole
sink tables) were already closed by the peeked-state scans; the PR body
is updated to tick them.
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SinkName::try_from accepts arbitrarily long names, and delivery_key embeds each name before enqueue_alert persists the key. An oversized configured name can therefore make every persisted delivery key for that sink arbitrarily large. This violates the mandatory length-limit requirement.
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Summary
Alerts now reach webhook, syslog and email receivers, and a dead or slow receiver no longer loses them or holds up detection: every alert is written together with one delivery row per sink, and a worker per sink delivers from those rows with retry, a circuit breaker and a bounded dead-letter queue. The detection cursor keeps advancing on persistence alone (ADR-0015).
This is ticket T7 (milestone M4). It builds on the persisted, completeness-tagged alerts from T6 (#290). The operator CLI for delivery health is T10; OS keychain credentials stay deferred.
Design decisions
alert_deliveriesis keyed by sink and alert id and holds state, attempts, redrives, the last error class and timestamps. The enqueue is insert-if-absent in the same redb transaction as the alert; the write-back after a send is compare-and-set, so a redrive or an eviction that touched the row first wins over a stale worker.X-DaemonEye-Alert-Id/X-DaemonEye-Dedup-Keyfor webhooks, MSGID and adedupSD-PARAM for syslog,Message-IDandX-DaemonEye-Dedup-Keyfor email. A key that is not printable ASCII or does not fit the field travels assha256:plus the digest of the whole key, so distinct keys never collide on the wire.daemoneye-sinks, the only crate that links TLS. Adaemoneye-libfeature could not keep rustls out of procmond because Cargo unifies features across a workspace build; a dependency-gate test walks the resolved graph to prove procmond, collector-core and the CLI pull in no TLS, HTTP or SMTP crate. rustls uses theringprovider and platform roots;ca_filereplaces the trust store rather than extending it, and nothing can skip verification.ExternalAlertcarries the alert id, timestamp, severity, rule, title, description, completeness, pid, ppid, process name, executable path and hash, start time, host, agent version, ancestry and tags. The command line and the user travel only when a sink opts in. Local stdout and file sinks keep the full alert.DeliveryErrorClass; the row and the log carry the class only, so a reqwest error cannot leak a URL or a response fragment into the store.Credentialsvalue (None,Token, or aBasicpair) ofSecretStrings when the sink is built, so a half pair or a token on the wrong scheme cannot be represented; an enabled sink whose variable is missing refuses startup. A sink name is aSinkName, parsed as non-empty with no control characters, so the delivery-key separator cannot appear in one.breaker_failure_threshold(permanent rejections included, which never trip the breaker) reports as failing and degrades the aggregate; the periodic health line is warn when anything is unhealthy. A sink worker that panics is logged and restarted after a tick, and the stdout sink maps a closed pipe to an error instead of panicking.Per-sink reliability knobs (
max_attempts, backoff,attempt_timeout_secs, breaker threshold and cool-down, DLQ and open-row caps, redrive cap) and their defaults are on the operator pagedocs/src/technical/alert-delivery.md.Verification
just ci-checkgreen on the final tree: 2411 tests, strict workspace clippy (pedantic/nursery/restriction,-D warnings), fmt, rustdoc-D warnings,cargo deny,cargo audit, coverage, goreleaser check.not_persisted, restart redelivery, duplicate suppression, missing credential refusing startup, sentinel never leaking through any network payload, idempotent re-enqueue, stale write-back losing to a redrive, displacement at the open-row cap, transport subscription toevents.alert.newrefused).alertstable under the running store (a doc-hidden redb seam), so it fails if the window is recorded before the commit.cfglegs validate only in CI (the macOS host cannot cross-compileblake3).Known residuals
Recorded in ADR-0015 and the operator page: lettre keeps SMTP credentials as
String; credential rotation needs a restart; delivery rows are not tamper-evident; during a store outage the same alert is re-delivered to local sinks each cycle (visible on the console by design). The email body is a fixed plain-text template; templating is deferred.Unapplied review findings
Suggested fix: reject email specs where exactly one of
username_envandpassword_envis present; allow a complete pair or neither.Suggested fix: in
place(), count open rows without a full decode (state-discriminant peek, or a per-sink open counter seeded at start and adjusted on enqueue/complete/evict); run the full scan only indisplace()at the cap.Suggested fix: filter by state before decoding, or keep an open-rows index per sink so passes read only non-terminal rows.
reqwest::RequestBuilder::basic_auth(single reviewer)Suggested fix: hold the auth as
enum { Header(name, value), Basic { user, pass } }, callbasic_auth(user, Some(pass))inrequest(), deletebase64()andBASE64.127.(CWE-319; single reviewer)Suggested fix:
fn is_loopback(host) { host.eq_ignore_ascii_case("localhost") || host.parse::<IpAddr>().is_ok_and(|ip| ip.is_loopback()) }plus a test that127.example.comis rejected withoutallow_plaintext.SinkNamenewtype would move the U+001F and uniqueness checks to parse time (review-pr toolkit, type design)Applied:
SinkNamerefuses an empty name or a control character at parse time;validate_sinkskeeps the cross-sink uniqueness check.wake_all, and the external cancel receiver is only ever dropped (review-pr toolkit, code)Applied: both removed;
AlertManager::startno longer takes a cancel receiver and ADR-0015 now describes the bus message as fan-out only.Review run:
20261012-195131-c29ce638, artifacts at/tmp/compound-engineering-501/ce-code-review/20261012-195131-c29ce638(8 local reviewers plus an independent Codex adversarial pass; 6 findings, all validator-confirmed; finding 1, the stranded half-open probe, is applied in this PR).New concepts
Transactional outbox. (explainer: https://github.com/EvilBit-Labs/DaemonEye/tree/T7/docs/explainers/2026-10-12-transactional-outbox.md)
Instead of sending an alert to a receiver and then recording that it was sent, the agent records the intent to send in the same database transaction that stores the alert, and a separate worker reads those rows and performs the sends. The row, not the send, is the source of truth.
Why here, over publishing straight from the detection cycle: the embedded broker's queue is in memory, rate-limited and silently drops with no subscriber, so it cannot carry durability, and a send inside the cycle would couple the detection cursor to a receiver's uptime. With the outbox, the cycle only pays for its own write, and an outage is a backlog of rows rather than lost alerts.
In this PR:
EventStore::enqueue_alertwrites the alert and onealert_deliveriesrow per sink in one redb transaction;SinkWorkerclaims a due row (recording the attempt), sends, then writes the outcome back with compare-and-set. A crash between the send and the write-back is handled by delivering at least once, which is why every receiver gets an idempotency key.When not to use it: when a lost notification is acceptable (metrics, best-effort telemetry), or when the receiver cannot deduplicate, because an outbox turns "maybe never" into "maybe twice".
AI disclosure
Used Claude Code (Claude Fable 5.1) for the plan, implementation, simplification and review passes, with an independent Codex adversarial review; all code reviewed, mutation-checked and verified locally.