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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.
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# search
Tantivy-backed full-text search over log messages. Phase 1's answer to
"grep across everything," separate from ClickHouse's structured/
aggregation queries.
## Why a separate service, not embedded in ingest
Tantivy is a Rust library with no maintained Go bindings — using it from
`ingest` (Go) would mean cgo-bridging to a compiled Rust cdylib, exactly
the fragile FFI complexity CLAUDE.md's "prefer boring, well-understood
dependencies... operators need to trust it" principle steers away from.
It would also couple ClickHouse-write latency to Tantivy-write latency in
the same request path. See `/docs/architecture.md` for the fuller
tradeoff writeup (dual-write vs. second-consumer-group) from Phase 1
planning.
## How it fits together
```
ingest (gRPC front end) --> Redpanda (sentry.logs.raw) --> ingest's ClickHouse-writer consumer --> ClickHouse
\
`--> search's own consumer --> Tantivy index
```
`search` reads the *same* Redpanda topic `ingest`'s ClickHouse-writer
consumer reads, as an independent consumer in spirit (own offset
tracking, own failure domain — see "Offset tracking" below) even though
it's a completely separate process/service. If Tantivy indexing lags or
crashes, ClickHouse ingestion is completely unaffected.
`api` (or, for a multi-tenant deployment, `enterprise-api` — see
`/enterprise/README.md`) calls `search`'s `SearchService.Search` gRPC RPC
(see `/proto/sentry/search/v1/search.proto`) to resolve a free-text
query into matching `record_id`s, then joins those back against
ClickHouse's `logs.record_id` column (see
`/storage/migrations/0002_add_record_id.sql`) to get full rows. `search`
only ever returns IDs, never row data — it stays a pure text index, not
a second copy of the row.
## Per-tenant indices (Phase 4) — read and write
`SearchRequest.tenant_id` (empty by default) selects which index
`src/registry.rs`'s `IndexRegistry` searches: empty resolves to the
single default index every deployment already had; a non-empty value
opens (on first use) a dedicated index under `TENANTS_INDEX_PATH`
(default `/var/lib/cairnobs-search/tenants/<tenant_id>`, matching
`deploy/operator`'s and `enterprise/internal/rbacstore`'s existing path
convention). `tenant_id` is set only by a trusted server-side caller
(`enterprise/internal/searchclient`, from the authenticated request
identity) — never a value a browser/client controls.
`consumer.rs`'s Redpanda consumer resolves the *same* registry now,
keyed by each Kafka message's `tenant_id` header — attached server-side
by `ingest/internal/grpcserver` after validating an agent's per-tenant
credential, mirroring exactly how `enterprise/cmd/enterprise-ingest`
routes the ClickHouse write side (see `/enterprise/README.md`'s "Ingest
write-routing" section). No import boundary to work around here, unlike
Go: `IndexRegistry` already lives in this AGPL-core binary, so both the
read and write paths share one registry directly, with no "second
binary" needed. The periodic Tantivy commit (`COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS`) now
commits every tenant index that's actually seen a write, plus the
default index, via `IndexRegistry::commit_all`, not just one index.
**The active-tenant gap is closed too, the same way the read side closes
it**: `src/tenants.rs`'s `ActiveTenantTracker` polls a new
`GET /internal/active-tenants` endpoint on `enterprise-auth` (this
process has no Postgres access, so unlike `enterprise/internal/
searchclient`'s `TenantChecker` — a direct `rbacstore.TenantIsActive`
call, since that code runs in `enterprise/` — this needed a network
call instead), and `consumer.rs` refuses (logs and skips, never falls
back to the default or another tenant's index) any tagged record whose
`tenant_id` isn't in the polled allowlist. Off unless
`ENTERPRISE_AUTH_URL`/`ENTERPRISE_AUTH_SERVICE_TOKEN` are both set (see
Configuration below) — when they aren't, write-routing behaves exactly
as it did before this tracker existed, trusting any syntactically-valid
`tenant_id`. When they are, startup blocks on the first fetch succeeding
(fail-closed cold start — see `tenants.rs`'s doc comment for why a
partial/degraded startup isn't the safer choice, and for the
last-known-good behavior periodic refresh failures fall back to).
Verified with real HTTP round trips against a hand-rolled TCP test
server (no mocking crate needed for one endpoint) — the Bearer token
actually sent, the initial-fetch-fails-closed path, and an unreachable
server also failing closed. See `src/registry.rs`'s doc comment on
`resolve` for how the mechanism (index lifecycle) and policy (who gets
gated) responsibilities are split.
## Offset tracking: why this isn't a Kafka consumer group
`rskafka` (chosen for being pure Rust, no cgo — consistent with why
`ingest` chose `segmentio/kafka-go` over `confluent-kafka-go`) is a
low-level client: it doesn't implement Kafka's broker-side consumer-group
coordination protocol the way `kafka-go` or `librdkafka` do. So `search`
tracks its own per-partition offsets in a plain JSON file next to the
Tantivy index (`offsets.rs`), persisted after each fetched batch.
This is deliberately best-effort, not exactly-once: if the process dies
between processing a record and persisting its offset, that record gets
reprocessed after restart. This is safe because `SearchIndex::upsert` is
**delete-then-add on `record_id`** — Tantivy segments are immutable, so
this is the standard idiom for updates anyway, and it happens to make
reprocessing idempotent for free. Partition count is read from
`REDPANDA_TOPIC_PARTITIONS` (must match what
`/transport/provision-topics.sh` actually created — same kind of
documented cross-component contract as the topic name itself), not
discovered dynamically.
## Query syntax
Whatever Tantivy's own `QueryParser` supports against the `message`
field: plain terms, `"exact phrase"` queries, and `foo*` wildcards. Not
documented further here because it's Tantivy's syntax, not Cairn OBS's — see
[Tantivy's query parser docs](https://docs.rs/tantivy/latest/tantivy/query/struct.QueryParser.html)
for the full grammar. No unified query language yet; that's Phase 2.
## Configuration
Environment variables (see `src/config.rs`):
| Var | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| `GRPC_LISTEN_ADDR` | `0.0.0.0:50052` | Full socket address — Rust's parser needs one, unlike Go's `:PORT` shorthand `ingest`/`api` use |
| `REDPANDA_BROKERS` | `localhost:9092` | Comma-separated broker list |
| `REDPANDA_TOPIC` | `sentry.logs.raw` | Must match `/ingest`'s topic |
| `REDPANDA_TOPIC_PARTITIONS` | `6` | Must match what `/transport/provision-topics.sh` created |
| `INDEX_PATH` | `/var/lib/cairnobs-search/index` | Default (non-tenant) Tantivy index directory |
| `TENANTS_INDEX_PATH` | `/var/lib/cairnobs-search/tenants` | Per-tenant index directories live under here, one subdirectory per tenant_id (Phase 4) |
| `OFFSETS_PATH` | `/var/lib/cairnobs-search/offsets.json` | Offset tracking file |
| `COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS` | `2000` | How often buffered writes become searchable |
| `ENTERPRISE_AUTH_URL` | (empty) | Enables `tenants::ActiveTenantTracker` -- empty means write-routing has no active-tenant gate, same as every deployment before Phase 4. Must be set together with `ENTERPRISE_AUTH_SERVICE_TOKEN` below, or `Config::load` fails |
| `ENTERPRISE_AUTH_SERVICE_TOKEN` | (empty) | RoleService Bearer credential for `GET /internal/active-tenants`, minted via `enterprise-auth -mint-service-token search` |
## Building & testing
```sh
cargo build --release
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test
```
`index.rs`'s tests run against a real (temp-directory) Tantivy index —
no external service needed, unlike ClickHouse. They cover the
delete-then-add idempotency, phrase queries, result limits, and the
before-commit/after-commit visibility boundary. `registry.rs`'s tests
are the same shape and cover the actual adversarial claim: real per-
tenant indices, real documents, and a search scoped to one tenant
returning zero results for another tenant's matching document
(`tenant_index_is_isolated_from_default_and_other_tenants`), plus
`commit_all_commits_default_and_every_opened_tenant_index` proving the
write-routing commit path actually makes every tenant's buffered writes
searchable, not just the default index's — all of this, unlike almost
everything else in Phase 4, was genuinely run in the environment this
was built in, not just written. `consumer.rs`'s Kafka/rskafka wiring
itself is still not unit-tested — that needs a real Redpanda, same
category of gap as `/ingest`'s `kafka.Reader`/`kafka.Writer` wiring, and
is exercised by the docker-compose end-to-end flow instead — but the
pure `tenant_id_from_headers` header-extraction helper it uses is
factored out and unit-tested the same way `ingest/consumer`'s Go
equivalent is, including a guard test
(`test_tenant_id_header_key_matches_go`) against the header-key literal
drifting from the Go side's. `tenants.rs`'s tests genuinely exercise
`reqwest` against a real (if hand-rolled, dependency-free) TCP server —
the actual `Authorization: Bearer` header construction, JSON response
parsing, and both fail-closed paths (a rejected first fetch, an
unreachable server), not a fake HTTP client substituted in.
```sh
# from the repo root, not search/
docker build -f search/Dockerfile -t cairnobs-search .
```