Extends the heartbeat mechanism with a second gRPC service on the same
mTLS channel (AgentControl.CheckIn, agent-initiated on the existing
heartbeat ticker -- still push-only, no inbound port on any agent) so
an agent reports its running config and can pick up an operator-set
override. A new web UI section (/agents) lists every agent that's
checked in, shows its reported config, and lets an operator edit a
narrow, deliberately-scoped subset remotely: batch/heartbeat tuning,
and (journald sources only) the unit filter.
TLS material and the ingest endpoint are never reportable or remotely
editable, by proto shape rather than a validation rule -- a bad or
malicious edit there could permanently strand an agent or redirect
where its logs go, unlike every other editable field, which only
degrades behavior.
An override lives only in the agent's memory (agent.toml is never
rewritten) and re-syncs on the agent's own schedule; changing the
journald filter aborts and respawns the source task since there's no
other way to change what's being tailed. Building the hot-reload path
surfaced a real, independent, pre-existing bug: shutdown was using
poll_timeout(), which only drains once flush_interval has elapsed,
silently dropping anything buffered more recently on every graceful
shutdown that landed between flushes -- fixed with a new unconditional
Batcher::flush_all(), now used at both shutdown and hot-reload.
Verified live end-to-end against a real stack: an edited heartbeat
interval changed a running agent's actual send cadence within one
check-in cycle (confirmed by the real timestamps landing in
ClickHouse), and an edited journald filter triggered a real source
restart, both reflected back in the next reported-config snapshot.
See /docs/agent-management-design.md.
Agents now send an independent "still alive" record on a configurable
schedule (seconds/minutes/hours, [heartbeat] in agent.toml), separate
from real log traffic and tagged with a sentry.heartbeat attribute.
No new wire protocol -- it's an ordinary record through the same
PushBatch RPC/mTLS identity every log line already uses. Unavailability
alerting reuses the existing absence-condition alert rule type
unchanged; no new alerting code was needed. See
/docs/agent-heartbeat-monitoring.md for the design and how to build the
alert rule.
While verifying the alert rule live, found that the query language's
lexer never treated '-' as part of an identifier, so any unquoted
hyphenated filter value -- including the reference doc's own canonical
example, `host!=host-03` -- failed to parse at all. Fixed in
api/internal/querylang/lexer/lexer.go with regression tests; a leading
'-' still lexes as its own token so earliest=-1h/sort -count are
unaffected.
Extends the agent, ingest, storage, api, and web with Windows Event
Log/ETW sourcing and Tantivy-backed free-text search, per the approved
Phase 1 plan.
- CLAUDE.md: materialized on disk (never existed as a file before) with
a new Phase 1 "done looks like" section.
- agent: Windows Event Log (EvtSubscribe) and ETW sources, Windows
service wrapper (install/uninstall/run-service), both feature- and
target_os-gated so Linux builds/tests/clippy stay unaffected. Also
fixed two pre-existing Phase 0 clippy gaps (dead-code on
default-features-only builds, a type-inference edge case) found while
testing every feature combination properly for the first time.
UNVERIFIED on real Windows -- no Windows toolchain existed anywhere in
the build environment; flagged prominently in three places.
- proto/ingest: new record_id field, assigned once server-side in
ingest's gRPC front end so ClickHouse and Tantivy agree on the same ID
for the same record.
- storage: record_id column + bloom filter index, verified against a
live ClickHouse.
- search: new service, Tantivy index, rskafka consumer as an independent
second consumer group on the same Redpanda topic ingest already reads.
- api/web: new /search endpoint and page, sharing the query page's
result-table shape and component.
- hack/windows-fixture: sends realistic Windows-shaped data straight to
ingest, so the pipeline's handling of it is verifiable without a
Windows host.
Verified end-to-end on the live docker-compose stack: the same record_id
comes back from both /query and /search for the same log line, including
for windows-fixture's synthetic Windows Event Log data. Real bugs found
and fixed along the way: api/Dockerfile missing proto/ in its build
context, search's logs being completely silent (RUST_LOG gap), and
search/target/ missing from .gitignore/.dockerignore.
End-to-end log pipeline for Linux hosts, per /docs/architecture.md:
- proto: shared gRPC contract (agent <-> ingest), Go bindings checked in
- agent: Rust, musl-targeted, journald/file sourcing, RFC5424 parser,
mTLS gRPC client, no required config for the common case
- ingest: Go, single binary with --mode server|consumer|all; gRPC front
end forwards to Redpanda unchanged, consumer normalizes and
batch-writes to ClickHouse with at-least-once delivery
- storage: ClickHouse schema + a plain SQL-file migration runner
- api: minimal SELECT-only query endpoint, plain REST (not gRPC+gateway
yet -- see api/README.md)
- web: SvelteKit static SPA, one query page
- transport: Redpanda compose + topic provisioning
- cli: sentryctl ping stub
- hack/dev-certs: throwaway CA + cert generation for local mTLS
- root docker-compose.yml + docs/phase-0-runbook.md tie it together
Not yet run end-to-end against real Docker/ClickHouse/Redpanda -- see the
runbook's caveats section before relying on this working as-is.
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