feat(monitoring): hold each shared-central tenant to a write rate by scooby87 · Pull Request #4648 · cozystack/cozystack

scooby87 · 2026-10-01T11:28:18Z

What this PR does

Closes the part of the distributed tracing design that #3775 left open: the per-tenant collector rate-limits its tenant, so that a noisy or hostile tenant cannot exhaust a shared backend (cozystack/community design-proposals/distributed-tracing, Security and §2).

Why the disk cap is not enough. #3775 bounds every traces store by disk usage, but VictoriaTraces always keeps the last two days, so a tenant writing faster than the cap allows over two days fills the disk every tenant on the shared store writes to. Only a per-tenant write rate closes that.

The collector is built here. No upstream OpenTelemetry distribution or processor limits throughput, and neither the open-source vmauth nor VictoriaTraces limits a tenant's rate. Elastic's EDOT Collector registers Elastic's ratelimitprocessor among its default components, but it ships under the Elastic License 2.0 and carries far more components than the chart uses. The collector is therefore built with the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder from the upstream components the chart already uses, at the same v0.136.0, plus that ratelimitprocessor (Apache-2.0). Its v0.8.2 is the release built against collector v0.135.0, the last one before v0.137.0, and it builds against v0.136.0 unchanged. The image is versioned by the collector release with a cozystack respin counter (v0.136.0-cozystack.0), runs as the upstream image's user, and is built with the other package images.

How the rate is set and enforced. The platform sets the rate with monitoring.tracingCentralTenantBytesPerSecond, and it reaches every tenant in _cluster through the cozystack-values Secret. A change there is a change in the values every monitoring HelmRelease reads, so Flux upgrades each of them; a rate read with lookup at render time would never reach a tenant whose release is already in sync. The platform writes the key only for a positive rate, because every release in every tenant reads that Secret, and refuses to render on a value that is not a whole number of bytes per second in plain decimal digits, up to 1 TiB/s ("1Mi", 1.5, "0100"), rather than reading it as the default. Without it, or on a value that is not a positive number, the collector holds the tenant to the default of about 97 KiB/s, at which one tenant writes at most the disk cap of a default 10Gi store over two days, counted uncompressed; the store keeps spans compressed, so they take less than that. A larger store needs the rate raised with it. Each central tenant's collector splits the rate across its replicas and refuses data above it before the batch processor, so the application sees the refusal, and right after the memory limiter, ahead of the sampler, which adds a tracestate to every span it keeps, and of the tenant attribute added to every resource, so it counts a request as the receiver admitted it. The rate is therefore counted before sampling, and the store keeps only the sampled share of it. Over OTLP/HTTP it gets a 429, which OTLP exporters retry. Over OTLP/gRPC the limiter answers RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED without RetryInfo, which the OTLP specification makes final, so a gRPC exporter drops those spans; the Tenant's tracingCentral, the Monitoring tracingCollector and the platform key tell central tenants to export over HTTP. The limiter sees the requests the receiver admits, so in central mode the receiver caps a request at 3 MiB over both OTLP/HTTP and gRPC, decompressed for HTTP. The limiter counts a request as the collector re-encodes it, which can be larger than it arrived (13% for a span carrying only its IDs, the smallest valid one, and up to 1.4x for spans with empty-valued attributes), so burst is at least 5 MiB, above 1.4 times the cap, since a request larger than burst never passes. Each collector pod starts with a full bucket, so a pod start lets through above the rate up to 5 MiB or one second of the pod's share of the rate, whichever is larger, and the chart refuses to render a central tenant's collector with more than 10 replicas.

Only the collector can write. The rate holds only if the collector's login is the only way the tenant writes. Each central tenant now has two VMUsers on its one account: the collector's, which may only write, and its Grafana datasource's, which may only read, each with its own Secret. With one login for both, any user the tenant admits to its Grafana, a Viewer included, could POST through the datasource proxy to ../insert, which vmauth cleans before it picks a route, and write into the shared store past the limiter. The tenant's Grafana pod may reach the vmauth too, so its image is the platform's, like the collector's, and only the auth.ini key is mounted from the Secret a tenant names in oidc.customConfig.secretRef: an image of the tenant's choosing with the collector's Secret mounted would otherwise write past the limiter as well.

The collector image is the platform's. The apps API defaults a Monitoring spec from its schema but does not prune keys the schema leaves out, and the Monitoring chart hands its values to the inner chart as they are, so a tenant could set tracingCollector.image and run any collector it liked, one without the limiter included. That key is no longer passed through.

Trade-offs. The limiter is a vendor component, not an OpenTelemetry one, and Elastic marks it as in development; it moves with Elastic's releases, so bumping the collector means picking the matching release of it (v0.74.0 builds against collector v1.67.0), and collector v0.136.0 is a year old. It logs each refused request at error level, so a tenant held at its limit produces steady log lines in its own collector. Several tenants writing at their limits together can still exceed the cap within two days; the rate bounds each tenant, not their sum. The limiter keeps its state in each pod's memory, so a tenant admin who restarts its collector pods over and over gains, per pod start, up to 5 MiB or one second of the pod's share of the rate, whichever is larger; closing that needs a limiter with shared state (the processor's gubernator mode), which is out of scope here. A sender whose connection stays on one replica gets that replica's share of the rate. In central mode the receiver refuses a request larger than 3 MiB: over OTLP/HTTP with a 400, which senders do not retry, where the receiver default is 20 MiB, and over gRPC, where the default is 4 MiB. Changing the rate upgrades every release in every tenant once, since it travels in the Secret they all read. Until CI builds the image, tracingCollector.image in values.yaml still names the upstream distribution, which has no rate limiter, so a central-mode collector from an unbuilt tree does not start; CI and releases stamp the built image, and the image repository in the build registry has to be public before a cluster can pull it.

Upgrade. Collectors in both modes move to the built image, which carries the same components at the same version; central collectors also roll for the new processor. The replica cap fails the render of a central tenant's collector with more than 10 replicas, while a collector writing to the tenant's own store keeps any replica count; the collector has shipped only in the v1.7.0 alphas. Each central tenant's existing VMUser loses its read route, and a second VMUser and Secret appear for Grafana, whose datasource moves to the new login in the same release, so the tenant's trace reads may fail until vmauth loads the new user. Nothing else changes for clusters that do not set the rate: the platform writes no new key, so no other release upgrades.

Testing. helm-unittest covers the platform writing the rate into _cluster only for a positive whole number and refusing a malformed one, numbers Helm reads as float64 included, the collector's limiter (the configured rate, the split across replicas, burst, the receiver's request cap in central mode and not in local mode, the default when unset and on a word, zero or a negative value, its place right after the memory limiter, with and without redaction, its absence in local mode), the replica cap for a central tenant's collector and its absence for a local one, the image key no longer passing through, the two logins (the collector's with only the write route, Grafana's with only the read route, separate Secrets and passwords), the Grafana image not passing through, and only auth.ini being mounted from a secretRef Secret for a central tenant; every term was checked by mutation. On a test cluster, with the chart's rendered VMAuth, VMUsers, VTCluster, Grafana datasource and collector: with one login for both, a Grafana Viewer's POST to ../insert through the datasource proxy landed a span in the shared store; with the two logins vmauth answered 400 missing route for every encoding of the traversal tried, reads went through, and the collector's login could write but not read. With the built collector at 100% sampling and the receiver capped at 4 MiB, a fresh pod accepted a request just under that cap made of 53-byte spans and one made of ID-only spans, refused a larger one with a 400, and answered 429 once the bucket was drained; the 53-byte spans it accepted were read back through the read-only login; the 3 MiB cap the chart renders has not been run on a cluster. A pod mounting a Secret through the chart's secretRef volume as rendered for a central tenant got only auth.ini, and one naming the collector's Secret, which has no such key, did not start. The design's Testing section also asks for a sustained span flood against a disk-capped store to show that the oldest spans are evicted and ingest is not blocked; there is no end-to-end lane for shared-central tracing yet, so that flood test is a follow-up, like the cross-tenant isolation test #3775 names. On a test cluster, under the network policies the tenant chart renders, the built image validated the rendered config in both modes and wrote and read through the shared store as before; a tenant given a small limit got 200 for its first OTLP/HTTP requests and 429 for the rest of a burst, with the processor logging each refusal, while another tenant under the default rate got 200 for all of the same requests.

Screenshots

No UI changes.

Downstream repositories

The new platform key monitoring.tracingCentralTenantBytesPerSecond belongs in the hand-written platform-package.md reference on the website, tracked in cozystack/website#729. The Monitoring schema and the Tenant's tracingCentral change only descriptions; the provider models neither, so it needs nothing. The central-mode section #3772 adds to the tracing guide covers the rate.

Release note

feat(monitoring): hold each shared-central tracing tenant to a write rate. The platform sets the rate with monitoring.tracingCentralTenantBytesPerSecond, and each central tenant's collector refuses spans above it, which bounds what one tenant writes into the store every tenant shares. The traces collector is now built by cozystack from the upstream components plus Elastic's rate-limit processor, and its image can no longer be set from a Monitoring application. A central tenant's Grafana reads the shared store with a login that cannot write, and its image can no longer be set from a Monitoring application.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Central tracing now applies a configurable per-tenant write-rate limit shared across collector replicas. The default is approximately 97 KiB per second, and collector replica counts are limited to 10.
- Each starting replica can temporarily exceed its rate share by up to 5 MiB, or by one second of that share when it is larger. Tenants share central storage, so combined writes can fill the store and cause older traces to be evicted.
Documentation
- OTLP/HTTP is recommended for central tracing: excess traffic is retried over HTTP, while OTLP/gRPC traffic may be dropped.

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Walkthrough

The platform now validates and publishes a per-tenant tracing write-rate setting. Central-mode collectors enforce rate and request-size limits. Central tracing uses separate read and write credentials. The monitoring package builds the tracing collector image and filters image values from rendered HelmRelease values.

Changes

Central tracing and monitoring integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure and publish tenant rates `packages/core/platform/values.yaml`, `packages/core/platform/templates/apps.yaml`, `packages/core/platform/tests/apps_tracing_central_rate_wiring_test.yaml`, `packages/extra/monitoring/README.md`, `packages/extra/monitoring/values.schema.json`, `packages/extra/monitoring/values.yaml`, `packages/system/monitoring-rd/cozyrds/monitoring.yaml`, `api/apps/v1alpha1/tenant/types.go`, `packages/apps/tenant/...`, `packages/system/tenant-rd/cozyrds/tenant.yaml`	The platform validates and publishes positive tenant rate values. Configuration descriptions document rate limits, shared storage, replica behavior, request-size handling, and sender responses.
Enforce limits in central mode `packages/system/monitoring/templates/vtraces/collector.yaml`, `packages/system/monitoring/tests/vtraces_central_ratelimit_test.yaml`, `packages/system/monitoring/tests/vtraces_collector_test.yaml`, `packages/extra/monitoring/tests/tracing_collector_replicas_test.yaml`	Central collectors divide the tenant rate across replicas, set bursts, limit request sizes, and apply a byte rate limiter before sampling. Tests cover rate values, replica limits, processor order, and local-mode behavior.
Separate central tracing read and write credentials `packages/system/monitoring/templates/_helpers.tpl`, `packages/system/monitoring/templates/vtraces/{central-credentials.yaml,vmuser.yaml,grafana-datasource.yaml,vmauth.yaml}`, `packages/system/monitoring/tests/vtraces_central_*.yaml`	Central tracing uses separate credentials and VMUsers for trace inserts and Jaeger reads. Grafana uses the reader credentials, and hosting-removal checks account for both VMUsers.
Build the tracing collector image `packages/system/monitoring/Makefile`, `packages/system/monitoring/images/otelcol-tracing/*`, `Makefile`	The monitoring build targets build and tag the collector image. The Containerfile builds a target-platform collector into a scratch runtime image.
Filter image values in the HelmRelease `packages/extra/monitoring/templates/helmrelease.yaml`, `packages/extra/monitoring/tests/helmrelease_test.yaml`	The HelmRelease renders a copy of values without the tracing collector and Grafana image keys. Tests check that other configured values pass through.
Limit the Grafana OIDC Secret projection `packages/system/monitoring/templates/grafana/grafana.yaml`, `packages/system/monitoring/tests/oidc_test.yaml`	The Grafana OIDC volume projects only the Secret’s `auth.ini` key, and the test checks the key mapping.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Platform as Platform values
  participant ValuesSecret as Shared values Secret
  participant Collector as Central tracing collector
  participant RateLimiter as ratelimit/tenant
  Platform->>ValuesSecret: Publish validated positive tenant rate
  ValuesSecret->>Collector: Provide tracing-central-tenant-bytes-per-second
  Collector->>RateLimiter: Apply replica rate and burst

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a731f

Resolve the open storage-rate concerns before merging: an accepted storage value may block Monitoring rendering, and an oversized disk cap may let the shared store fill too quickly. Also clarify both request-size limits so tenants can size trace batches correctly.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a731f

The changes strengthen tenant isolation and write-rate enforcement. However, protection of the shared tracing store depends on credential isolation, network enforcement, the deployed collector image, and coordinated upgrades. These runtime guarantees are not fully established by the available evidence.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

inferred — VMUser dispatch intends to confine each tenant credential to its fixed account, but storage capacity and retention remain shared across central tenants. Store exhaustion can affect all tenants using that backend. Tenant-root remains inside the privileged store boundary; this exposure predates the PR.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

inferred — A party that obtains writer credentials and can reach shared VMAuth can submit inserts without passing through the collector-local limiter. The direct writer route already existed at the base, so this is not an established PR-introduced concern. Whether an untrusted tenant can obtain those credentials remains unresolved: inspected base roles do not directly grant Kubernetes Secret access, but aggregated permissions and the custom tenantsecrets reader were not fully traced.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — The writer principal targets only trace inserts, while the reader principal targets only Jaeger selection paths; both declare the same tenant-derived AccountID and ProjectID headers. Existing tracing egress policies permit collector-labelled and Grafana-labelled sources to the shared VMAuth proxy port rather than directly permitting tracing backend endpoints. Effective header replacement, route normalization, and live policy composition remain unverified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

inferred — The intended completed migration removes Grafana's insert authority. Missing reader resources would ordinarily cause authentication or query failure rather than grant writer access. However, an interrupted migration or rollback can retain the former combined authorization until reconciliation completes; that is baseline authority, not demonstrated new privilege escalation.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Validate the deployed enforcement chain with untrusted tenant identities: writer-Secret visibility, rejection of reader inserts, tenant-header replacement, direct-backend denial, limiter behavior during restarts and mixed-version upgrades, and cleanup after disablement or rollback. Verify that the published collector image registers and starts the configured processor.

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The guide was written ahead of the backend and collector and flagged its names as non-normative; both have since landed, and shared-central tracing (#3775, #4648) needs a home for what an operator must know that the field descriptions cannot carry: hosting and opting in, the shared disk and per-tenant write rate, the trust boundary, the lifecycle windows, and the order to stop hosting in. It also fixes claims the code no longer bears out: the datasource is a Jaeger one, PostgreSQL now has a preload allowlist without pg_tracing, the ClickHouse chart removes the span log with no setting to restore it, head sampling keeps whole traces, and the resource attribute example uses the current deployment.environment.name. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

…3775) ## What this PR does Adds the opt-in shared-central traces topology from the distributed tracing design (cozystack/community `design-proposals/distributed-tracing`, rollout item 4): a tenant can send its spans to one VictoriaTraces store in tenant-root instead of running its own, with both write and read isolation between the tenants that share it. **Switching it on.** A tenant opts in with the new Tenant field `tracingCentral`, which needs the tenant's own Monitoring. The tenant chart publishes it to the tenant's monitoring charts as `_namespace.tracingCentral` in the `cozystack-values` Secret, which the apps API does not let an application write, and renders the two network paths the topology needs under the same condition. tenant-root decides whether it hosts the store, with the new Monitoring field `tracingCentralHost` next to a cluster-mode `tracingStorages` entry named `generic`. **Isolation.** VictoriaTraces takes the tenant account from the `AccountID`/`ProjectID` headers and does no authorization of its own, so other tenants reach the shared store only through a vmauth in tenant-root. Each central tenant gets a VMUser that pins an account derived from its namespace name and UID, for both its collector's writes and its Grafana reads, and vmauth overrides any account a client sends. The collector and Grafana log in with credentials the chart generates and keeps. The tenant egress rules allow only pods carrying the collector's or Grafana's label to reach the vmauth proxy port, and a pod that carries such a label without the tenant's credentials gets only 401 from it; the vmauth internal routes, whose `/metrics` lists every tenant's user, are served on a port tenants cannot reach. The tenant-root namespace itself is inside the trust boundary, as it already is for the metrics of tenants that rely on a parent's monitoring: its workloads reach the store directly, and one that learns a tenant's account ID can read and write that account, and whoever tenant-root admits to its Grafana reads the store through a datasource that bypasses vmauth (with the System oidc mode, tenant-root's own groups, which already hold the same access level in every tenant under it); the `tracingCentralHost` description says so. **Sharing the store.** Each tenant's VMUser is capped at four requests in flight per vmauth replica, reads and writes together, and each collector replica exports with two senders, so more collector replicas do not raise a tenant's throughput; above the cap vmauth queues for up to 10s and answers 429, which the exporter retries. The store has one disk and one retention for all of its tenants and nothing reserves space per tenant; `tracingCentralHost` states that, since hosting is tenant-root's decision. The vmauth runs two replicas spread across nodes under a PodDisruptionBudget, so draining one node does not stop every central tenant at once. Every traces store is also disk-bounded now, as the design requires: without `retentionDiskUsageBytes` it drops its oldest day once its filesystem is 80% full. That alone does not keep one tenant from filling the shared disk, since VictoriaTraces always keeps the last two days. **States that would drop spans silently are refused, one race aside.** A live render fails, with a message naming the prerequisite, when a tenant turns central on while tenant-root hosts nothing, and when tenant-root stops hosting while central tenants remain; tenant-root's render also refuses `tracingCentralHost` without a store to host. The second check does not wait on a VMUser that is already being deleted, since its tenant is leaving. Each check reads the other side's objects when it renders, so a tenant turning central on while tenant-root stops hosting can pass both and export to a vmauth that is gone; the `tracingCentralHost` description names this race and its recovery. At runtime, tenant-root's Monitoring release is not Ready while the vmauth has failed. These checks run on a render, so removing the tenant-root Monitoring altogether is not refused, and from then on every Monitoring render of a central tenant fails until it turns central off; the `tracingCentralHost` description says to turn central off on the tenants first. Turning central on keeps the tenant's own local stores and their datasources, so traces stored before the switch stay readable until the tenant removes them; turning it off again leaves the spans written meanwhile in the shared store, unreadable from the tenant until it turns central on again, and spans sent while the collector switches back may be dropped; a deleted tenant's spans likewise stay until retention drops them. Right after a tenant turns central on, or after its credentials Secret is re-created, spans its collector sends before the vmauth has loaded the new login get a 401, which the exporter does not retry, so they are dropped; the tracing guide in #3772 covers it. **Where this departs from the design.** The design has the per-tenant collector inject the account headers and adds exactly one egress rule. Here the account is pinned by the tenant's VMUser at the vmauth and the collector sends none, because the collector runs in the tenant namespace and whatever runs with its pod label could otherwise choose an account; vmauth is also what the design already requires for reads, so both directions go through it. That needs a second egress rule, for the tenant's Grafana to reach the vmauth, beside the collector's. The per-tenant write rate the design gives the collector is not in this PR: no OpenTelemetry distribution has a rate-limiting processor, so #4648 builds the collector with one and holds each central tenant to a rate tenant-root publishes. Until it lands, a tenant writing faster than the disk cap allows over two days can fill the disk the other tenants share. **Consent is per host, not per tenant.** `tracingCentralHost` lets every tenant that sets `tracingCentral` in, nested tenants included, and each gets its own VMUser and its own request cap; there is no allow-list. A tenant-root that needs to limit who shares its store keeps `tracingCentralHost` off. **Upgrade.** Tenants that do not opt in render the same objects as before, and their `cozystack-values` Secret is unchanged. The monitoring charts render the same objects too, with one exception: a VTSingle or VTCluster without `retentionDiskUsageBytes` gains `retention.maxDiskUsagePercent: "80"` in its `extraArgs`, so its spec changes and its storage pods restart once, and a store already more than 80% full drops its oldest days when it starts. The inner monitoring HelmRelease's values gain the new `tracingCentralHost: false` default, as with any new field, and its `healthCheckExprs` gain a `VMAuth` entry, which matches nothing outside a hosting tenant-root. Both change the HelmRelease spec, so every tenant's monitoring release upgrades once, rendering the same objects. A tenant-root that has a cluster-mode `generic` store gets no vmauth until it sets `tracingCentralHost`. **Testing.** helm-unittest covers the three charts the change touches (tenant, monitoring, extra monitoring) and every guard was checked by mutation; a bats test covers what helm-unittest cannot, that the generated password and the collector's rollout checksum agree on a first install. On a test cluster: a spoofed `AccountID` from a tenant is overridden by vmauth, one tenant cannot read another's spans, the vmauth starts under the real tenant network policies (and stays in init without its apiserver label), the guards refuse as described, and the rendered collector config passes `otelcol validate` in the pinned image. There is no end-to-end test yet; one that covers cross-tenant isolation is planned as a follow-up. ### Screenshots No UI changes. ### Downstream repositories - [ ] No downstream repository is affected by this change - [x] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) - follow-up: covered by #3772, the tracing guide - [x] [cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack) - follow-up: cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#64 - [ ] [cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/community](https://github.com/cozystack/community) - follow-up: The Tenant gains the user-facing field `tracingCentral` (bool, default false), which the trigger map sends to terraform-provider-cozystack: its hand-written Tenant schema and model need the field. The follow-up is cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#64. The Monitoring gains `tracingCentralHost` (bool, default false); the provider's `cozystack_tenant_module` is a marker without values, so it needs no change. The website reference pages for both are generated from the READMEs on release. The tracing user guide in #3772 covers the per-tenant backend only. A central-mode section in the tracing guide of #3772 (hosting and opting in, the shared disk and retention, turning central off on the tenants before tenant-root stops hosting, and the recovery from the opt-in/stop-hosting race) also takes the lifecycle details the `tracingCentral` description no longer carries. ### Release note ```release-note feat(monitoring,tenant): add an opt-in shared-central traces store. A tenant sets tracingCentral to send its spans to one VictoriaTraces store in tenant-root instead of its own, and tenant-root opts in to hosting it with tracingCentralHost on its Monitoring. Tenants sharing the store are isolated on write and read through a vmauth in tenant-root, and each is capped in the requests it can hold in flight. ```

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Review comments at @packages/system/monitoring/templates/_helpers.tpl:
- Around line 313-315: Update the quantity-prefix regex used by the helper to
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+{{- $m := regexFind "^[0-9]+(\\.[0-9]+)?" $q -}}
+{{- $unit := trimPrefix $m $q -}}
+{{- if or (not $m) (not (hasKey $units $unit)) -}}


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Accept the quantity forms allowed by the storage schema.

When generic.storage is .5Gi, the storage schema accepts the value, but this expression finds no numeric prefix. The default-rate path then fails the entire Monitoring render. Match leading-decimal quantities, or reject them in the storage schema before they reach this helper.

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+{{-       if .retentionDiskUsageBytes -}}
+{{-         $cap = include "monitoring.bytesStringBytes" .retentionDiskUsageBytes | float64 -}}
+{{-       else -}}
+{{-         $cap = mulf 0.8 (include "monitoring.quantityBytes" .storage) -}}


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Do not derive a rate from more disk than the store has.

If generic.storage is 10Gi and retentionDiskUsageBytes is 100GiB, this branch publishes a rate based on 100GiB per storage replica. The PVC has only 10Gi per replica, so one tenant can fill the available disk well before the intended two-day window. VictoriaTraces treats the absolute disk limit as an alternative to its percentage-based limit, not as an additional filesystem safeguard. Reject a cap above the usable volume size, or bound the derived rate by that size. (docs.victoriametrics.com)

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Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei)

scooby87 NOT LGTM. The limiter itself works, but a rate tenant-root publishes after a central tenant was last installed never reaches that tenant's collector.

The collector reads the rate with lookup on tenant-root's VMAuth annotation, so the value is fixed at the moment the tenant's own release renders. Flux does not re-render an in-sync release when a looked-up object changes; the header of vtraces/vmauth.yaml already relies on that. Two cases follow from it:

An operator lowers tracingCentralTenantBytesPerSecond to stop a noisy tenant, or resizes the generic store. The VMAuth annotation changes, every existing central collector keeps its old rate, and nothing reports it. That is the main thing the knob exists for, and the README says each tenant "is held to" it.
On the upgrade that ships this, every Monitoring release upgrades once, in no particular order. A central tenant that renders before tenant-root gets the 10Gi fallback rate and keeps it, whatever store size or explicit rate tenant-root has.

The fix needs a path that changes the tenant release's values, so Flux sees a new digest and upgrades. One option is to carry the rate in the cozystack-values Secret next to _namespace.tracingCentral, since valuesFrom content is part of what Flux compares. If you keep lookup, the README for the knob has to say that a change only applies to a central tenant after its Monitoring is upgraded again, and how to force that.

The PR body and the first commit say no OpenTelemetry distribution has a rate limiter. Elastic's EDOT Collector registers this same ratelimitprocessor in its default components (internal/edot/otelcol/components/default.go in elastic/elastic-agent). Building our own image still looks right to me: elastic-agent is under the Elastic License 2.0, and EDOT carries far more components than we need. The sentence should say that instead, and the commit message too, since both land in main. "Stacked on #3775 ... retargeted to main once it lands" is stale now.

Non-blocking:

The image was pushed to the e2e registry (CI stamped otelcol-tracing:v0.136.0-cozystack.0@sha256:72b2c587…), but anonymous reads of that repository return 403 while cozystack/redis-backup returns 200, so it looks private. No e2e suite deploys the traces collector, so CI passing does not show the image pulls. A maintainer has to make the repository public before anything pulls it there.
Collector v0.136.0 is a year old now. The pin is not new, but this image makes us its owner, and moving it forward means picking a matching ratelimitprocessor release (v0.74.0 builds against collector v1.67.0).
The "2" in tracingCentralRateFromCap is the vtstorage replicaCount: 2 in vtraces.yaml. If one changes, the other silently stays.

On a trial merge with main both charts pass helm unittest (297 and 28). Mutating the pipeline position, the replica split, the burst floor, the annotation regex, the cap factor and the explicit-rate branch each turns a test red.

The per-tenant write rate moved from tenant-root's Monitoring to the platform's monitoring.tracingCentralTenantBytesPerSecond in #4648, so that a change reaches every tenant's collector through the cozystack-values Secret instead of a render-time lookup that an in-sync release never repeats. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei)

scooby87 NOT LGTM. The rate now reaches existing tenants, but the warning about gRPC senders was lost when the knob moved, and the PR body still describes an earlier revision.

Both points from my last review are fixed. The collector reads the rate from _cluster, which the platform writes into cozystack-values, so a change alters what every monitoring HelmRelease reads and Flux upgrades it. A tenant can't override it: the apps API rejects top-level _ keys (validateNoInternalKeys in pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go), and a child tenant's cozystack-values copies the parent's _cluster as is. The EDOT sentence is correct now. Dropping tracingCollector.image from the inner values also closes a real bypass, because an image the tenant picks would run with the VMUser password and the egress label.

Blocking:

Nothing a tenant reads says to export over HTTP anymore. In the previous revision the tracingCentralTenantBytesPerSecond description in the Monitoring values.yaml said that a gRPC sender gets RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED without RetryInfo and drops those spans. That sentence went away together with the knob. Now grpc matches nothing in the Monitoring values or README, the Tenant values or README, or the platform values.yaml, only a template comment in collector.yaml. A central tenant whose apps export over gRPC loses every span above the limit, and no doc tells it why. The PR body also says "the values text tells central tenants to export over HTTP", which is not true on this head. Please put the sentence back where a tenant reads it, for example in the tracingCollector typedef or the Tenant's tracingCentral description.
The PR body becomes the merge commit message, and two phrases in it only make sense with this PR's history. One is "as an earlier revision did" about lookup. The other is "tenant-root's vmauth no longer publishes a rate" in Testing, and main never had that annotation. The test behind it, publishes no rate on tenant-root's vmauth in vtraces_central_ratelimit_test.yaml:128, checks for the absence of something that existed only in an earlier push. Please drop both phrases and that test. The commit message already explains why lookup doesn't work without mentioning a revision.

Non-blocking:

The image repository is still private. CI pushed otelcol-tracing:pr-4648-052a73ce… to the build registry, but an anonymous token still gets 403 on its tags/list, while cozystack/redis-backup gets 200 with the same flow. Someone has to make it public before release.
The positive-number check is only half tested. If I change the regex in collector.yaml to ^-?[0-9]+$, all 288 tests still pass, because the malformed-value case uses only "fast". A negative value can arrive: apps.yaml writes the key for any non-zero int64, so -1 gets through. Cases for "0" and "-1" would pin it.

On a trial merge with main (a7ac37b), helm unittest passes for system/monitoring (288), core/platform (224) and extra/monitoring (28). Each of these mutations turns a test red: changing the _cluster key the collector reads, removing the replica split, keeping tracingCollector.image in the inner values. All checks except E2E are green on this head, E2E is still running.

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+| `host`            | The hostname used to access tenant services (defaults to using the tenant name as a subdomain for its parent tenant host).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | `string`              | `""`    |
+| `etcd`            | Deploy own Etcd cluster.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | `bool`                | `false` |
+| `monitoring`      | Deploy own Monitoring Stack.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | `bool`                | `false` |
+| `tracingCentral`  | Send this tenant's traces to the shared VictoriaTraces store in tenant-root instead of a per-tenant backend; its Grafana reads them through a vmauth there that pins the tenant's own account, so tenants sharing the store cannot read each other's traces. It needs the tenant's own Monitoring (`monitoring: true`) and tenant-root hosting the store (`tracingCentralHost: true` on its Monitoring, with a `cluster`-mode tracingStorages entry named `generic`); without that the tenant's monitoring render fails rather than dropping spans. tenant-root, and whoever it admits to its Grafana, are inside the store's trust boundary. Applications should export over OTLP/HTTP, in requests below 4 MiB: spans above the platform's per-tenant write rate are retried over HTTP but dropped over gRPC, and a larger request is refused and not retried. | `bool`                | `false` |


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In **OpenTelemetry Collector `v0.136.0`**, the OTLP/HTTP receiver’s `max_request_body_size` is applied to the **decompressed body**, not just the compressed bytes received over HTTP. The source is in [`config/confighttp`](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/v0.136.0/config/confighttp): - `server.go` wraps the handler with the decompressor, passing it the configured limit. ([github.com](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/v0.136.0/config/confighttp/server.go)) - In `compression.go`, the decompressor replaces `r.Body` with the decoded stream wrapped in `http.MaxBytesReader(..., maxRequestBodySize)`. That is the size check on the decoded body. ([github.com](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/v0.136.0/config/confighttp/compression.go)) - The server also wraps the request body in a size limiter outside the decompressor, so the incoming compressed body is limited too. **Inference from the handler order:** the configured limit constrains both the compressed request stream and the decompressed body. ([github.com](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/v0.136.0/config/confighttp/server.go)) The server config defines a **20 MiB default**. Setting `max_request_body_size` to zero or less does not disable the limit; `ToServer` substitutes that default. ([github.com](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/v0.136.0/config/confighttp/server.go)) Citations: - 1: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/v0.136.0/config/confighttp/server.go - 2: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/v0.136.0/config/confighttp/compression.go - 3: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/v0.136.0/config/confighttp/server.go - 4: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/v0.136.0/config/confighttp/server.go

State both 4 MiB body limits.

The pinned Collector receiver limits the received HTTP body and its decompressed form. A compressed request under 4 MiB can still be refused if it expands beyond 4 MiB. State both limits so users do not size batches only by compressed bytes.

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-Applications should export over OTLP/HTTP, in requests below 4 MiB: spans above the platform's per-tenant write rate are retried over HTTP but dropped over gRPC, and a larger request is refused and not retried. +Applications should export over OTLP/HTTP, with both the received and decompressed request bodies below 4 MiB: spans above the platform's per-tenant write rate are retried over HTTP but dropped over gRPC, and a request exceeding either limit is refused and not retried.

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Verdict

LGTM with non-blocking notes

The tenant-isolation core holds. A tenant has no RBAC path to the write credential (no raw secrets, no pods/exec, no raw pod/Deployment create, only apps.cozystack.io/* CRs); the Grafana datasource login is write-less by construction (its VMUser carries only a vtselect targetRef); and the Elastic ratelimitprocessor config is valid against pinned upstream. The notes below are non-blocking.

Findings

[MINOR] packages/system/monitoring/templates/vtraces/collector.yaml:107, 8-line narrative comment ships into every rendered collector ConfigMap

[MINOR] no e2e exercises the runtime rate enforcement or the read/write login split

helm-unittest only asserts the rendered config/VMUsers; nothing exercises that the limiter actually refuses over-rate spans or that the reader login is denied ../insert at vmauth. The PR body's cluster-test evidence is author narrative, not reproduced here. The split is sound by construction (reader VMUser has no vtinsert targetRef), but the rate behaviour has no regression lane. Acknowledged by the author as a follow-up; noted so a green unittest run is not read as runtime coverage.

Caveats

CI "Require API owner review for sizeable API changes" is red on head a731fb2f, step "Check for an API owner approval": a governance gate, not a code failure. The only api/ change is a doc-comment on TracingCentral. Merge is blocked until an API owner (lllamnyp or kvaps) approves.
Upgrade: existing central tenants that never set a rate get the collector default (~97 KiB/s) after this lands; a tenant currently writing faster starts shedding spans (HTTP 429 retried, gRPC dropped). Intended safety behaviour, documented in values.yaml/README; low blast radius as shared-central tracing has shipped only in v1.7.0 alphas. Raise monitoring.tracingCentralTenantBytesPerSecond with the store size.
The per-tenant rate does not compose across nested tenants. cozy:tenant:base grants apps.cozystack.io/* (packages/system/cozystack-basics/templates/clusterroles.yaml:33-35), so a tenant admin can create child tenants each with tracingCentral: true, and each child's collector gets its own full rate into the same shared store. This is the single-actor form of the PR's own "bounds each tenant, not their sum": one principal multiplies the write rate it controls by self-replication. Non-blocking (child creation spends the actor's own compute budget and the disk cap still evicts), but the "one hostile tenant cannot exhaust the backend" goal has this gap.
Upgrade: a central tenant's Grafana trace reads may fail transiently until vmauth loads the new traces-central-reader VMUser (datasource moves to the read login in the same release). Self-heals; documented.
The committed tracingCollector.image is still upstream otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib (no rate limiter); a central collector built from an unreleased tree does not start. The Makefile stamps the cozystack-built image at release build. Verified both modes' components are covered by builder-config.yaml.
Setting tracingCollector.image / grafana.image on a Monitoring app is now silently stripped (undeclared passthrough keys, no admission warning). The release note names them as no longer settable, which satisfies the inert-field bar.

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Add a shared-central e2e lane (span flood against a disk-capped store; cross-tenant isolation) per the design's Testing section and #3775.

IvanHunters · 2026-10-05T07:41:52Z

      - key: cozystack.tenant
        value: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
        action: upsert
+  # Holds the tenant to the rate the platform sets, so no tenant fills the


[MINOR] 8-line narrative comment ships into every rendered collector ConfigMap

These eight # lines sit inside the monitoring.tracingCollectorConfig define, so they are copied verbatim into data["config.yaml"] of every central tenant's collector ConfigMap and drift as the code changes. Keep the one load-bearing sentence (ordering: the limiter runs right after memory_limiter, before sampling, so it counts what the receiver admitted) as a single clarifying line and move the 429/gRPC narrative to the cozystack docs site.

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei)

scooby87 NOT LGTM. Two things are left: the second Grafana login breaks an existing bats test, which is why Unit & controller tests is red and E2E never ran, and one commit message describes a revision that never lands in history.

Both points from my last review are fixed. The gRPC warning is back where a tenant reads it: the Tenant's tracingCentral, the Monitoring tracingCollector typedef and param, and the platform key. The PR body no longer mentions the earlier lookup revision or the vmauth annotation, and the orphaned test is gone. The "0" and "-1" cases pin the collector's regex now: with ^-?[0-9]+$ three tests go red.

The new commits are sound. I looked for a way for the tenant to reach the collector's write login and found none. The tenant roles grant no core Secrets, no exec and no pod create. The Monitoring ApplicationDefinition exposes only grafana-admin-password as a TenantSecret, the GrafanaDatasource references only the reader Secret, and a secretRef Secret mounts only auth.ini. With the limiter right after memory_limiter, it counts what the receiver admitted, before the sampler's tracestate and the tenant attribute. The local limiter uses AllowN, which takes no tokens when it refuses, so a retried request is counted only once it passes.

Blocking:

The credentials bats test now compares the wrong password. It reads select(.kind == "Secret") | .stringData.password from central-credentials.yaml, and since 385fb8d that template renders two Secrets. The test gets both passwords, so the hash no longer matches the collector's checksum. This is the only failure in Unit & controller tests on this head (run 37275861174), and it is why E2E (in-tree) was skipped and E2E Tests is red. It reproduces locally on a merge with main. Selecting the Secret by name (.metadata.name == "traces-central-credentials") should fix it.
One commit body describes a version that is not in history. a34a687 says "The warning lived in the description of the Monitoring knob that moved to the platform and went with it". No commit in this PR has that knob in the Monitoring chart, because 052a73c already reads the rate from the platform. Please reword it to say what the commit changes. A history rewrite is needed for that anyway, so it is a good moment to fold the fixups into the commits they fix. 518a224 goes into a731fb2: the first says "nothing ahead of it makes a request larger", and the second then says the sampler ahead of it does. 8ee9435 and a34a687 go into 052a73c.

Non-blocking:

The 5 MiB per pod start holds only up to 5 MiB/s per replica. Burst is max 5242880 $rate, so above that a pod start lets one second of rate through. The platform key comment, the replicas description and the PR body say "up to 5 MiB" without that condition.
The CodeRabbit summary at the end of the PR body still says 4 MiB per starting replica, and it becomes part of the merge commit too.
The collector image is still private in the build registry. The build job on this head pushed otelcol-tracing:pr-4648-a731fb2f…@sha256:1a371d45…, but an anonymous token gets 403 on both tags/list and that manifest, while redis-backup gets 200. Someone has to make it public before release.

On a merge with main (2ddd55c, merges cleanly), helm unittest passes for system/monitoring (297), core/platform (239), extra/monitoring (31) and apps/tenant (72). Twelve of thirteen mutations across the new commits turn tests red: the datasource back on the write Secret, a vtinsert route for the reader, the whole secretRef Secret mounted, the Grafana image passed through, the limiter after the sampler, burst at the 4 MiB cap, no HTTP body cap, ^[0-9]+$ for a platform string, no ceiling, a fractional float accepted, the loosened collector regex, and no replica maximum. The one that survives, gt to ne 0 on the platform write, is equivalent once negatives fail the render. What landed on main since doesn't conflict: the Cilium guard on the two traces policies, and the new monitoring e2e, whose secretRef Secret carries only auth.ini. Verify generated code is green on this head, and the API Review Gate is waiting for an API owner.

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei)

scooby87 the code is ready: the credentials test reads the right Secret now, the fixups are folded, and the tests for all four charts pass on this head.

One sentence in the body is left. "How the rate is set and enforced" still says a pod start lets at most 5 MiB through above the rate, while the trade-offs paragraph and the values comment say up to 5 MiB or one second of the pod's share of the rate, whichever is larger. The body becomes the merge commit, so please align that sentence and I'll approve.

The red Unit job on this head is not from this PR: TestChainsawSuitesReadHistoryThroughTheSharedName and the negated-assertion audit fail on main as well.

A shared-central traces store needs each tenant held to a write rate, or one tenant can fill the disk every tenant shares. No upstream OpenTelemetry distribution or processor limits throughput. Elastic's EDOT Collector registers Elastic's ratelimitprocessor among its default components, but it ships under the Elastic License 2.0 and carries far more components than the chart uses. The collector is therefore built here with the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder from the upstream components the chart already uses, at the same v0.136.0, plus that ratelimitprocessor (Apache-2.0). Its v0.8.2 is the release built against v0.135.0, the last before v0.137.0. The image is versioned by the collector release with a cozystack respin counter, runs as the upstream image's user, and is built with the other package images. The builder stage is alpine, which has no git, so a proxy error during its go install would have had neither the direct fallback nor a retry; the stage installs git. The module-fetch contract saw only go build, so it now checks go install too, and takes only git as cover for a versioned go install, which resolves outside the stage's module. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

The apps API defaults a Monitoring spec from its schema but does not prune keys the schema leaves out, and the Monitoring chart hands its values to the inner chart as they are. A tenant could therefore set tracingCollector.image and run any collector it liked in its namespace; with a per-tenant rate limit in that collector, the same key would let a tenant drop the limit. The image is the platform's, so it is no longer passed through. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

The design has the per-tenant collector rate-limit its tenant, so that a noisy or hostile tenant cannot exhaust a shared backend. The disk cap alone does not do that: VictoriaTraces always keeps the last two days, so a tenant writing faster than the cap allows over two days fills the disk for every tenant on the store. The platform sets the rate with monitoring.tracingCentralTenantBytesPerSecond, and it reaches every tenant in _cluster through the cozystack-values Secret. A change there is a change in the values each monitoring HelmRelease reads, so Flux upgrades them all; a rate read with lookup at render time would never reach a tenant whose release is already in sync. The platform writes the key only when it is set, since every release in every tenant reads that Secret. Without it the collector holds the tenant to the rate of a default 10Gi store. Each central tenant's collector splits the rate across its replicas and refuses data above it before the batch processor, so the sender sees the refusal. An OTLP/HTTP sender gets a 429 and retries; the limiter answers gRPC with RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED and no RetryInfo, which the OTLP specification makes final, so central tenants should export over HTTP. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

apps.yaml wrote the rate for any non-zero value, so a negative one reached every tenant's cozystack-values Secret and upgraded every release in every tenant, while the collectors ignored it and kept the default. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

Each collector pod starts with a full token bucket, and burst was at least 64 MiB, the largest request vtinsert accepts. A tenant controls when its collector pods start, through any Monitoring change or by deleting them, and how many there are, so it could write tens of mebibytes above its rate per pod start and gigabytes per rollout of many replicas, which the two-day bound does not survive. The limiter only sees requests the receiver admits, so in central mode the receiver now caps them at 4 MiB, decompressed for HTTP, and burst drops to that floor; a pod start lets at most 4 MiB through above the rate. The replica count is capped at 10. The texts now say what the default rate guarantees: one tenant writes at most a default store's disk cap over two days counted uncompressed, rather than that it cannot fill it, and they name the per-pod-start allowance and that a sender pinned to one replica gets that replica's share. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

A rate written as a quantity or a fraction ("1Mi", "100KiB", 1.5) was read as zero, so the platform wrote no key and every collector kept the default without a word. The platform render now fails on anything but a whole number of bytes per second. Helm reads a number from values as a float64, which prints a million as 1e+06, so a whole number is checked as a number and written as int64 digits. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

Sprig's int64 reads a string with a leading zero as octal and turns a parse error into 0, so "0100" would reach the collectors as 64, and "08" or digits beyond int64 would leave the default in place without a word. A float beyond int64 converts differently on each CPU architecture, and the collector adds its replica count to the rate before splitting it. A string rate must now be plain decimal digits, and any rate above 1 TiB/s fails the render; the collector also falls back to the default on digits it cannot hold rather than start with a rate of zero, which the processor refuses. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

…write The collector holds a central tenant to its write rate, but the one login it writes with was also the login of the tenant's Grafana datasource, and it could both read and write. vmauth cleans the request path before it picks a route, so any user the tenant admits to its Grafana, a Viewer included, could POST through the datasource proxy to ../insert and write into the shared store past the limiter. Each central tenant now has two VMUsers on its one account: the collector's, which may only write, and Grafana's, which may only read, each with its own chart-owned Secret and password. A namespace name holds no dot, so the reader's username never matches another tenant's. On upgrade the datasource moves to the new login in the same release that creates it, so reads may fail until vmauth loads the new user. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

A tenant's Grafana pod may reach the shared traces store's vmauth, and the Secret a tenant names in oidc.customConfig.secretRef was mounted into it whole. The apps API does not prune keys the Monitoring schema leaves out, so a tenant could also set grafana.image: an image of its choosing, with the collector's Secret mounted, writes past the rate limit the collector enforces. Grafana's image is the platform's, like the collector's, and for a central tenant only the auth.ini key Grafana reads is mounted from the named Secret. Other tenants have no collector login to keep out and keep the whole Secret, which an auth.ini reading a sibling key with $__file{} relies on. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

The limiter refuses for good any request it counts above burst, and burst was the receiver's 4 MiB cap. A request grows on its way to the limiter: the sampler adds a tracestate to every span it keeps, and the limiter counts a request as the collector re-encodes it, which writes the empty value of every attribute the wire may omit, so a valid request of spans with empty-valued attributes is counted 1.4x. A request the receiver admitted near its cap was therefore refused on every retry. The limiter now runs right after memory_limiter, so it counts the request before sampling. The receiver caps a request at 3 MiB and burst stays at 5 MiB, which holds 1.4x the cap; a larger burst would also be what each pod start lets through above the rate. The rate is counted before sampling, so the store keeps only the sampled share of it. The texts say that a request above the cap gets a 400, which senders do not retry, and that each collector rollout a tenant causes lets that burst through again on every pod. The replica bound that keeps that allowance small now applies only to a central tenant's collector, whose render fails above ten replicas: a collector writing to the tenant's own store has no rate, and the replica counts it shipped with stay valid. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei)

scooby87 the code at e63b9e4 is ready, and the sentence about what a pod start lets through now matches the trade-offs. I'm requesting changes only because the body, which becomes the merge commit message, still describes the previous push in a few places:

"How the rate is set": the receiver caps a central request at 3 MiB now (max_recv_msg_size_mib: 3 and max_request_body_size: 3145728 in collector.yaml), not 4 MiB. Burst is no longer "a quarter above the cap": it stays at 5 MiB, which holds the 1.4x re-encoding of a request at the cap. The same paragraph ends with "the replica count is capped at 10", and that cap now applies only to a central tenant's collector.
"Trade-offs": "an OTLP/HTTP request larger than 4 MiB is refused with a 400 ... gRPC already capped requests at 4 MiB". Both are 3 MiB now, so gRPC senders also lose 1 MiB against the receiver default.
"Upgrade": "The replica cap refuses a Monitoring with more than 10 collector replicas". Only the central-mode collector render fails above 10 now. A local collector with 12 replicas renders, and tracing_collector_replicas_test.yaml pins that.
"Downstream": "The Monitoring schema gains a maximum on tracingCollector.replicas". That @maximum 10 is gone, and the schema only has minimum: 1.
"Testing": "only auth.ini being mounted from a secretRef Secret" is true only for a central tenant now. The cluster run "just under the 4 MiB cap" tested a cap the chart no longer renders, so say it ran at 4 MiB, or rerun it at 3 MiB.

The new commits pass helm unittest for system/monitoring, extra/monitoring, core/platform and apps/tenant, plus tracing-central-credentials.bats and go-module-fetch-contract.bats. Every new term fails a test when I mutate it: the 3 MiB caps on both receivers, the replica bound at 9 and at 11, the items condition in both directions, git in the builder stage, and the go install ...@ rule. Moving the limiter after the sampler still fails four tests.

I also checked the 1.4x figure. I built requests by hand and re-encoded them with pdata v1.42.0: spans with only their IDs came out at 1.13x, one-character keys with no value at 1.40x, nested kvlists at 1.39x. Empty keys reach 1.99x, but the spec calls those invalid. So 5 MiB covers every valid request under 3 MiB.

Nothing regressed in what I verified before. A tenant still cannot set the rate or the images, and the Grafana restriction is rendered under the same monitoring.tracingCentral condition as the collector's Secret. The monitoring Chainsaw suite on main checks only the secret name and the mount path, so the conditional items doesn't conflict with it.

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scooby87 I updated the body to match this push: the 3 MiB cap, the burst, the central-only replica cap and auth.ini mount, and a note that the cluster run used 4 MiB. The code was already verified on this head, so LGTM.

## What this PR does Adds `docs/observability/distributed-tracing.md`, the operator and tenant guide for distributed tracing (epic #3761, design cozystack/community `design-proposals/distributed-tracing`). The guide covers the per-tenant backend and collector (#3762, #3763): the in-namespace OTLP endpoints, the standard `OTEL_*` variables to point an instrumented workload at them, sampling, redaction and tenancy, and a per-engine table of what each managed engine can emit itself. Verification against the engines (#3766) showed that none of them pushes OTLP spans server-side, so the guide's answer for every engine is client-side instrumentation, with the ClickHouse span table as the one partial exception. It also covers shared-central tracing (#3775, with the per-tenant write rate in #4648): hosting the store in tenant-root, opting a tenant in, the shared disk and the write rate with its limits (counted before sampling, a 3 MiB request cap, the allowance a pod start lets through, at most 10 collector replicas), the trust boundary with the collector's write-only and Grafana's read-only logins, the lifecycle windows on enabling and disabling, and the order to stop hosting in. Those details used to live in the `tracingCentral` field description, which #3775 cut to a few sentences because it ships as field help in the dashboard. Both #3775 and #4648 are merged, and every figure and refusal the guide quotes was checked against the charts on `main`. ### Screenshots No UI changes. ### Downstream repositories - [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change - [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) - follow-up: - [ ] [cozystack/community](https://github.com/cozystack/community) - follow-up: The guide is a file under `docs/` in this repository and changes no package, values key or API, so no trigger in the downstream map applies. ### Release note ```release-note docs(observability): add a distributed tracing guide covering the per-tenant collector, client-side instrumentation per managed engine, and shared-central tracing in tenant-root. ```  ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Documentation** * Added a distributed-tracing guide covering tenant-local VictoriaTraces storage, OTLP collectors, workload configuration, engine tracing limitations, sampling, and optional attribute redaction. * Documented shared-central tracing prerequisites, including tenant-root hosting and tenant opt-in, plus write-rate, request-size, and replica limits; credentials and network rules; tenant isolation and lifecycle behavior; and conditions that stop hosting. * Clarified that cross-signal correlation is not configured.

cozystack/cozystack#4648 adds monitoring.tracingCentralTenantBytesPerSecond, the write rate each shared-central tracing tenant is held to. Operators running a traces store larger than the default need to raise it with the store, and need to know that a malformed value fails the render and that a change upgrades every tenant release once. The reference had no monitoring section at all, so monitoring.rootEnabled is added too: it has to match the root Tenant's spec.monitoring, or fluent-bit silently drops logs. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>

## What this PR does Adds a Monitoring section to the `next/` Platform Package reference with the two `monitoring.*` platform values: - `monitoring.tracingCentralTenantBytesPerSecond`, added by cozystack/cozystack#4648: the per-tenant write rate for shared-central tracing, its default of about 97 KiB/s, how a refused request looks over OTLP/HTTP and gRPC, the accepted value format, and that a change upgrades every tenant release once. - `monitoring.rootEnabled`, which the reference did not cover: it must match the root Tenant's `spec.monitoring`, and the slim variants default it to `false`. Only `next/` changes: the rate key is not in any released version yet. Closes #729

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