docs(telemetry): state the crash-repair export semantics for resumed streams
Review finding: synthetic turn closers written by SessionPersistence .load() at crash-resume sit below firstLiveSeq and are never exported, leaving the remote turn unbalanced. Kept deliberately — exporting a synthetic closer cannot complete a turn whose real tail records died in the crashed process's queue; it can only make an incomplete turn look closed. The OTel README now states the receiver rule (a never-closed turn on a resumed stream marks the previous process dying inside it; a later clean shutdown marker attests only to the resumed process's exit), and the revival Agent Note records why the repair suffix stays local.
This commit is contained in:
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The boundary axiom holds: the harness's aspect ends at `emit()`. Batching, retry
|
||||
|
||||
**Map onto OTel spans (GenAI semantic conventions) instead of logs.** Rejected for this revival: the branch implementation's log mapping is reviewed and shipped-shaped; the span model is lossy for forkable, interruptible sessions and belongs to a future consumer with real span queries to serve.
|
||||
|
||||
**Full-log replay when no handoff cursor survived (re-export constructor seeds).** Shipped in the first revival round, then narrowed: adoption now replays from the session's construction boundary (`Session.firstLiveSeq`, the constructor-seed length — a fact the session already validated but did not expose; `header.seedLength` cannot serve, it is the durable fork-lineage value and a resumed session's constructor seed is its full stored log). A resumed session's history already shipped from the previous process under the same id, and a fork's inherited prefix already shipped in the parent's stream — re-exporting either re-billed every resume for its full history and doubled query-time counts on OTLP backends with no native ingest dedupe. Receivers stitch fork lineage via `session.parent_id` + `session.seed_length`. What the narrowing gives up, consistently with the at-most-once stance: a resume no longer backfills records the previous process failed to deliver (telemetry unmounted then, or queued at crash) — the full replay's only real benefit, bought at the common case's expense. A deployment that states a backfill requirement needs the deferred outbox above, not replay.
|
||||
**Full-log replay when no handoff cursor survived (re-export constructor seeds).** Shipped in the first revival round, then narrowed: adoption now replays from the session's construction boundary (`Session.firstLiveSeq`, the constructor-seed length — a fact the session already validated but did not expose; `header.seedLength` cannot serve, it is the durable fork-lineage value and a resumed session's constructor seed is its full stored log). A resumed session's history already shipped from the previous process under the same id, and a fork's inherited prefix already shipped in the parent's stream — re-exporting either re-billed every resume for its full history and doubled query-time counts on OTLP backends with no native ingest dedupe. Receivers stitch fork lineage via `session.parent_id` + `session.seed_length`. What the narrowing gives up, consistently with the at-most-once stance: a resume no longer backfills records the previous process failed to deliver (telemetry unmounted then, or queued at crash) — the full replay's only real benefit, bought at the common case's expense. A deployment that states a backfill requirement needs the deferred outbox above, not replay. The boundary also swallows the synthetic turn closers `SessionPersistence.load()` writes when repairing a crash-interrupted log (they sit below `firstLiveSeq` despite never existing in the previous process) — deliberate, not incidental: exporting a synthetic closer cannot complete the remote turn whose real tail records died in the crashed process's queue, it can only make an incomplete turn look closed. The wire stream stays faithful to what the crashed process actually shipped; receivers read a never-closed turn on a resumed stream as "the previous process died inside it" (the OTel README states the rule), and a later clean `shutdown` marker attests only to the resumed process's exit. Threading the pre-repair boundary through load/prepare so repairs export as live events would couple three packages to un-ship that signal.
|
||||
|
||||
**Forwarding the seam's turn-boundary `flush()` hint to the OTel provider's `forceFlush()`.** Shipped in the first revival round, then removed after three review rounds each found a new silent-loss path in the same wrapper state: a dispose racing an in-flight flush (the SDK's concurrent-flush guard makes shutdown's internal drain skip), overlapping hints displacing the retained promise, and the provider's fixed 30-second flush timeout rejecting while the processor still drains. Every path exists only because the forwarding made this backend the process's second flusher against undocumented SDK internals from the upstream experimental tree; with no `flush()` implemented, the batch processor is the only flusher, its `scheduledDelayMillis` (already deployment-tunable through the `processor` passthrough) governs export cadence, and `shutdown()`'s drain is complete by construction. Reinstate only if a deployment states a turn-boundary latency requirement `scheduledDelayMillis` cannot meet — and then by calling the retained `BatchLogRecordProcessor`'s own `forceFlush()`, never the provider's timeout-wrapped one.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user