The 2026-08-18 metrics-storage outage exposed two defects in the
availability pipeline that distorted the figure in opposite directions at
once.
The Overview panel fell back to a live one-hour Traefik ratio whenever the
yearly rollup sample went stale for 48h, and rendered it under the same
"365d" title. When the rollup stopped publishing on 2026-08-18 the panel
quietly swapped a 365-day measurement for a 60-minute one and read 99.74%
instead of the recorded 99.95%. The fallback is removed: a stale rollup now
renders no value, and a new atlas-availability-rollup-stale alert pages at
26h, well before the panel goes blank at 48h.
The yearly ratio also silently excluded the 34-hour telemetry gap, because
missing days contribute zero requests and zero failures. Absent data was
read as "nothing happened" — had Atlas genuinely been down in that window,
the figure would still have said 99.95%. Availability keeps its
measured-days-only definition, which is correct, but coverage is now
published alongside it and shown in a new panel, so a telemetry gap lowers
disclosed coverage instead of vanishing. The title reads "365d window" to
stop implying 365 days of data exist; request-v4 begins 2026-05-01.
The rollup job reported healthy runs across a day and a half of lost
publishes: a read-only VictoriaMetrics accepts an import and discards it.
It now reads each sample back and fails loudly when the write did not
survive.
Not addressed here: availability is still measured from inside the platform
via Traefik counters, so it cannot distinguish "Atlas down" from "telemetry
down", and misses failures that never reach Traefik (DNS, TLS, node dead).
An external synthetic prober is the real fix and needs a hosting decision.
Exercise the mailu sync retry, attribute, and skip branches, the
listener non-object JSON path, and the hygiene conftest skip; drop the
unreachable inverted-range clamp in the semgrep report (the line helper
already floors the end line) and pin that behavior with a test. Exclude
the mailu __main__ guards from measurement.
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Three fenced worker Pods claim Hermes Kanban runs through a coordinator that
owns every state transition, with per-ordinal HMAC authority, a mediated
broker-only SCM path, and durable per-ordinal workspaces.
Content is the reviewed head of PR #18 (689bcb6e) with PR 16's and PR 19's
contributions removed: they were merged in only to validate co-existence and are
not prerequisites, so this branch no longer carries them as ancestors. Only PR 14
and PR 15 remain, because the broker boundary and the cli_lane_* decomposition
are load-bearing for two of the fixed P0 boundaries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The distributed worker pool stacks on exactly two open pull requests, in this
order: PR 14 supplies the broker-only SCM boundary the mediators route through
and the hermes-scm-boundary-v2 ConfigMap they mount, and PR 15 supplies the
cli_lane_* decomposition -- including canonical_run_id and the eligibility
predicate on claim_ready -- that the coordinator depends on. Neither can be
dropped without breaking a fixed P0 boundary, so both are carried here as
prerequisites and this branch must not merge before them.
PR 16 (agent image release lane) and PR 19 (full-handoff acceptance harness)
are NOT prerequisites and are deliberately absent, so reviewing this branch no
longer means approving them.
PR 14 and PR 15 conflict with each other in nine paths. Each is resolved to the
resolution already reviewed on this branch at 4d4cf1bd.
The cassandra pipelineJob had no trigger, so Gitea's notifyCommit
webhook found no matching job and pushes only built when started
manually. Poll every 5 minutes like lesavka/typhon so pushes build
within one poll cycle and the webhook race disappears.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>