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jcoffey-dev cd8aa290ca Phase 1: Windows log collection + full-text search
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.
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# ingest
Go service sitting between the Rust agent and ClickHouse. Two halves in one
binary, selected with `--mode`:
- **server** — mTLS gRPC front end (`LogIngest.PushBatch`) that agents
connect to. Assigns each record a server-side `record_id` (a UUID,
overwriting whatever the agent sent — agents always send it empty) and
otherwise forwards records proto-encoded onto Redpanda unchanged. Still
kept thin — one field assignment, no real normalization — so agent-
facing latency isn't coupled to ClickHouse write performance.
`record_id` has to be assigned exactly once, here, rather than
independently by each downstream consumer: Phase 1's Tantivy indexer
and the ClickHouse writer both read the same Redpanda messages and need
to agree on the same ID for the same record to join search hits back to
rows — two consumers generating their own IDs would produce mismatched
ones for what's supposed to be the same record.
- **consumer** — reads back off Redpanda, normalizes into the ClickHouse row
shape (`internal/normalize`), and batch-writes via the native protocol
driver. Commits Redpanda offsets only after a successful ClickHouse
write, so a ClickHouse outage causes redelivery on restart rather than
data loss.
- **all** (default) — both, in one process. This is what docker-compose
runs. Splitting into two deployments later (e.g. to scale them
independently in k8s) is a manifest change, not a code change — see
`--mode`.
## Why Redpanda stays in the path
Confirmed with the project owner during Phase 0 planning: the gRPC front
end produces to Redpanda rather than writing ClickHouse directly. This
exercises the pinned transport layer from day one and keeps agents from
ever needing Kafka credentials — mTLS to `ingest` is the only network
egress an agent has. See `/docs/architecture.md`.
## Dependencies worth knowing about
- **github.com/segmentio/kafka-go** — pure Go, no cgo, chosen over
franz-go/confluent-kafka-go specifically to keep the distroless build
simple (confirmed with the project owner; see git history / PR
discussion for the tradeoffs considered).
- **github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-go/v2** — official client, native
protocol, pure Go (no cgo).
- **golang.org/x/sync/errgroup** — used in `cmd/ingest/main.go` to run the
server and consumer halves concurrently and propagate the first error.
- **github.com/google/uuid** — was already in the dependency graph
transitively (via clickhouse-go); promoted to a direct dependency for
`record_id` generation in `internal/grpcserver`, so not a new addition
to the transitive tree.
## Configuration
All via environment variables (see `internal/config/config.go` for the
full list and defaults) — no config file format for Phase 0:
| Var | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| `GRPC_LISTEN_ADDR` | `:4317` | Agent-facing gRPC listen address |
| `TLS_CERT_FILE` / `TLS_KEY_FILE` | `/etc/sentry-ingest/server{,-key}.pem` | ingest's own mTLS identity |
| `TLS_CLIENT_CA_FILE` | `/etc/sentry-ingest/ca.pem` | CA used to verify agent client certs |
| `REDPANDA_BROKERS` | `localhost:9092` | Comma-separated broker list |
| `REDPANDA_TOPIC` | `sentry.logs.raw` | Must match the topic provisioned in `/transport` |
| `REDPANDA_CONSUMER_GROUP` | `sentry-ingest` | Consumer group id |
| `CLICKHOUSE_ADDR` | `localhost:9000` | Native protocol port, not HTTP |
| `CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE` / `_USERNAME` / `_PASSWORD` | `sentry` / `default` / `` | |
| `CONSUMER_BATCH_MAX_SIZE` | `500` | Records per ClickHouse batch insert |
| `CONSUMER_BATCH_FLUSH_INTERVAL_MS` | `2000` | Max time a partial batch waits before flushing |
## Building & testing
```sh
go build ./...
go vet ./...
go test ./...
```
Requires `google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go` and
`google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc` only if you're
regenerating `/proto`'s Go bindings — ingest itself just imports the
already-generated `github.com/sentry/sentry/proto` module (see the
`replace` directive in `go.mod`, pointing at `../proto`).
```sh
# from the repo root, not ingest/
docker build -f ingest/Dockerfile -t sentry-ingest .
```
## Testing notes
`internal/consumer` and `internal/grpcserver` depend on Redpanda and
ClickHouse only through small interfaces (`reader`/`chWriter` in consumer,
`batchProducer` in grpcserver), so the flush/commit/error-handling logic is
unit-tested against fakes — no embedded broker or database needed. What's
*not* covered by these tests: the real `kafka.Reader`/`kafka.Writer`
wiring and the ClickHouse native-protocol driver itself. Those are only
exercised by the docker-compose end-to-end flow described in
`/docs/phase-0-runbook.md`.