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jcoffey-dev 9435115ab7 Phase 3: dashboards and alerting
Saved, shareable multi-panel dashboards (table/line/bar/single-stat
panels via gridstack + uPlot, global + per-panel time range, JSON
export/import) and threshold/absence alert rules with an
ok/pending/firing evaluator and webhook/Slack/PagerDuty delivery.

- New /metadata component: Postgres control-plane store for dashboards,
  panels, notification targets, alert rules/state, and delivery log --
  see docs/phase-3-dashboard-design.md for why ClickHouse's MergeTree
  family isn't a fit for this access pattern (needs real row-level
  locking and read-your-writes consistency).
- api/internal/dashboards: dashboard/panel CRUD, pure -- panel query
  execution stays client-side, reusing the existing /query endpoint.
- New /alerting service: rule/target CRUD, a ticker-driven evaluator
  (claim-then-evaluate concurrency control, transactional-outbox
  delivery, query errors and threshold zero-rows never coerced into a
  false transition) and webhook/Slack/PagerDuty delivery with
  retry/backoff. See docs/phase-3-alerting-design.md for the full
  state-machine design and the four correctness properties it
  implements.
- web: /dashboards and /alerts UIs; cli: sentryctl dashboards/alerts
  list/get/apply, seeding a future Terraform provider's JSON contract.
- hack/alert-load-test: 500 rules against real ClickHouse data, real
  measured results in docs/phase-3-runbook.md.

Five real bugs found by actually running this against a live stack
(documented in the runbook, not just fixed silently): a latent Phase 2
bug where ClickHouse rejected the timestamp format used for
earliest=/latest= queries; a "now" literal token injected into query
text; a GridStack/uPlot layout-timing race; JS's Date.parse being too
lenient to use as a timestamp-detection heuristic; a rule's "enabled"
field silently defaulting to false when omitted; and the evaluator's
claim-batch-size and worker-pool-concurrency defaulting to the same
value, causing 500 concurrently-due rules to take 125s to cycle through
instead of the configured 60s.
2026-08-13 17:29:38 -07:00

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package evaluator
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/sentry/sentry/alerting/internal/queryclient"
"github.com/sentry/sentry/alerting/internal/rulestore"
)
// evaluateCondition implements fixes 3 and 4 from
// /docs/phase-3-alerting-design.md: a threshold rule's query must
// resolve to exactly one row, and zero (or more than one) rows is
// returned as an error, never coerced to a value -- "nothing ran" and
// "ran and found nothing" are different failure/success modes, and
// conflating them can hide the more alarming case. This function never
// itself decides "condition false" on an error; it returns an error, and
// the caller (evaluator.go) routes that to rulestore.RecordError, never
// to ComputeTransition.
func evaluateCondition(rule rulestore.Rule, result *queryclient.Result) (conditionTrue bool, value *float64, err error) {
switch rule.ConditionType {
case rulestore.ConditionAbsence:
// The window is whatever earliest=/latest= the rule's own query
// already expresses -- no separate window field, per the design doc.
return len(result.Rows) == 0, nil, nil
case rulestore.ConditionThreshold:
if len(result.Rows) != 1 {
return false, nil, fmt.Errorf("threshold rule query returned %d rows, want exactly 1", len(result.Rows))
}
row := result.Rows[0]
if len(row) == 0 {
return false, nil, fmt.Errorf("threshold rule query returned a row with no columns")
}
v, ok := toFloat64(row[0])
if !ok {
return false, nil, fmt.Errorf("threshold rule's first column value %v is not numeric", row[0])
}
if rule.Comparator == nil || rule.ThresholdValue == nil {
return false, nil, fmt.Errorf("threshold rule is missing comparator or threshold_value")
}
return compare(v, *rule.Comparator, *rule.ThresholdValue), &v, nil
default:
return false, nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown condition_type %q", rule.ConditionType)
}
}
func compare(value float64, comparator rulestore.Comparator, threshold float64) bool {
switch comparator {
case rulestore.Gt:
return value > threshold
case rulestore.Gte:
return value >= threshold
case rulestore.Lt:
return value < threshold
case rulestore.Lte:
return value <= threshold
case rulestore.Eq:
return value == threshold
case rulestore.Ne:
return value != threshold
default:
return false
}
}
// toFloat64 handles the one shape /query responses actually come back
// as: Go's encoding/json always decodes JSON numbers into interface{}
// as float64, regardless of whether ClickHouse serialized an integer or
// a float -- there's no separate int64 case to handle.
func toFloat64(v any) (float64, bool) {
f, ok := v.(float64)
return f, ok
}