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jcoffey-dev 13cf9a30cb Rebrand: Sentry -> Cairn OBS
Full rebrand across cosmetic branding, code identifiers, and
infrastructure/data-plane naming, using the supplied Cairn OBS logo
package. Cosmetic: favicon/logo swap (also closes a stale license-audit
finding -- the old favicon was SvelteKit's unreplaced scaffold logo),
new centered welcome landing page, larger/legible sidebar logo, page
titles, CLAUDE.md/README/docs prose.

Code identifiers: Go module path github.com/sentry/sentry ->
github.com/cairnobs/cairnobs across all 13 modules and ~91 files (protoc
regenerated); Rust crates sentry-agent/sentry-parser/sentry-search ->
cairnobs-*; CLI sentryctl -> cairnobsctl; Terraform provider fully
renamed (sentry_dashboard etc. -> cairnobs_dashboard, provider type,
env vars); every session/auth cookie name; agent config paths and
Windows service identity.

Deliberately preserved: the gRPC wire protocol's protobuf packages
(sentry.logs.v1, sentry.agent.v1) and their Go import directory
(proto/sentry/...) -- renaming the wire-level package would break every
currently-deployed agent binary (confirmed two real hosts, including
mail.inbuxa.com, are actively streaming through this exact contract)
until rebuilt and redeployed in lockstep with an ingest cutover. Only
the Go module path wrapping the generated code changes.

Infrastructure: every docker-compose container name (root and three
component-level compose files); the Helm chart (directory, Chart.yaml,
named-template helpers, all templates, values.yaml image repos);
Kubernetes Operator (CRD group sentry.io -> cairnobs.io, both CRD YAML
files, Go identifiers, RBAC markers); the coupled enterprise/tenantcrd
package. Caught and fixed real path-coupling bugs along the way: the
Helm chart's search/ingest volume mounts and the dev-only-credential
detection constant vs. docker-compose.yml's literal values had to move
together or a security warning would have silently stopped firing.

Data plane: Postgres database sentry_metadata -> cairnobs_metadata and
role sentry -> cairnobs; ClickHouse database sentry -> cairnobs; Kafka
topic sentry.logs.raw -> cairnobs.logs.raw and its consumer groups.
Source-level defaults, docker-compose.yml, and every migrate.sh/
provision script default updated together; already-applied migration
files left untouched per this repo's immutable-migration convention.

Verified at every layer: all 13 Go modules build/vet/test clean, both
Rust workspaces (agent, search) build/clippy/test clean, npm run check/
build clean, docker compose config validates on all four compose files.
Live-verified against a real docker stack multiple times through this
work, including a final fresh-volume run confirming the actual renamed
Postgres database/role, ClickHouse database, and Kafka topic all work
end to end with a real login and query, zero console errors.
2026-08-21 20:53:32 -07:00

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api

Cairn OBS's query API: a single POST /query endpoint accepting either the pipe syntax or raw SQL, compiled and routed across ClickHouse and Tantivy by internal/querylang. Replaces Phase 0/1's two separate placeholder endpoints (raw-SQL-only /query, free-text-only /search) — see /docs/query-language-design.md for the grammar, IR, and routing design, and /docs/query-language-reference.md for the user-facing syntax.

Why plain REST, not gRPC + REST gateway

CLAUDE.md pins the control plane to "Go, gRPC + REST gateway." This service is plain net/http instead — a deliberate simplification, not a change to the pinned stack. Wiring up a .proto service, google.api.http annotations, and protoc-gen-grpc-gateway codegen for one endpoint doesn't buy much at this size. api does speak gRPC internally — to /search — this simplification is about the public-facing surface only.

Endpoint

POST /query — body {"query": "...", "language": ""}, response {"columns": [...], "rows": [[...], ...]} or {"error": "..."}.

  • query is either pipe syntax (service=api | where status>=500 | stats count by host) or raw SQL (SELECT ...). Auto-detected by whether the query starts with SELECT (case-insensitive).
  • language optionally overrides detection: "sql" or "spl". Exists for the rare case a pipe query legitimately starts with the literal word "select" as a bare search term.
  • Both syntaxes compile to the same querylang/ir.Plan and execute through the same code path — see internal/querylang/executor for the four routing cases (pure ClickHouse; Tantivy prefilter + ClickHouse rows; Tantivy prefilter + ClickHouse aggregation; raw SQL passthrough).

GET /healthz — for docker-compose/k8s liveness checks.

No auth. Not scoped yet — don't expose this beyond a trusted dev/homelab network.

Configuration

Environment variables (see internal/config/config.go):

Var Default Purpose
HTTP_LISTEN_ADDR :8080
CLICKHOUSE_ADDR localhost:9000 Native protocol port
CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE / _USERNAME / _PASSWORD sentry / default / ``
SEARCH_GRPC_ADDR localhost:50052 Must match /search's GRPC_LISTEN_ADDR
QUERY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS 30 Per-request timeout
CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGIN * Wide open by default since there's no auth yet; tighten together

searchclient.Dial connects to /search over plain TCP, no TLS — same trust boundary as api's existing plain-TCP connection to ClickHouse. mTLS in this project is specifically the agent↔ingest edge boundary, not every internal hop.

Building & testing

go build ./...
go vet ./...
go test ./...
# from the repo root, not api/
docker build -f api/Dockerfile -t sentry-api .

Testing notes

internal/queryapi's HTTP handler depends on ClickHouse and /search only through the narrow interfaces querylang/executor defines (SQLRunner, SearchClient), so routing, compilation, JSON encoding, and error-status mapping are all unit-tested against fakes — no live ClickHouse or /search instance needed, and the real lexer/parser/ planner run unmocked in these tests, only the backends are faked. See internal/querylang's own package docs for how compilation and execution are tested independently of each other. executor.ChRunner (the reflection-based row scanning against ClickHouse's driver.Rows) and internal/searchclient's actual gRPC dial are not unit-tested — the former because faking driver.Rows fully would be significant test-only scaffolding the driver's own docs say isn't meant to be implemented by adopters; the latter because it's a thin wrapper with nothing but wiring to test. Both are exercised end-to-end via the docker-compose flow in /docs/phase-2-runbook.md.