hyperhive/nix/module-eval/bao-otel-collector.nix
atlas c0c031a5e4 swarm-bao: let the journald receiver read the host-linked journal
The container's collector has never shipped a line. `journalctl --follow`
— which the journald receiver passes unconditionally — scopes itself to
the current boot unless `--merge` is given too, and `--link-journal=host`
makes /var/log/journal the HOST's journal tree, where this container's
current boot has no entry. journalctl exited 1 with "No journal boot
entry found for the specified boot (+0)" and the receiver respawned it
every ~2s, so nothing was ever read and nothing was ever exported.

`merge = true` is the receiver's key for `--merge` (buildArgs() in
pkg/stanza/operator/input/journald/config_linux.go at tag
receiver/journaldreceiver/v0.151.0, the deployed collector's version),
and --merge is what clears the implicit boot scope in journalctl.c
(systemd v260.4, the version on the host).

The module-eval arm pins both halves: the boot filter is gone AND the
directory is still the host-linked one — either alone is satisfiable by
the broken config.
2026-09-23 23:19:31 +02:00

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# `checks.module-eval-bao-otel-collector` — see ./lib.nix for the shared
# rationale (why this suite exists, naming convention, "evaluates
# not executes").
{
pkgs,
lib,
self,
nixosSystem,
}:
let
inherit
(import ./lib.nix {
inherit
pkgs
lib
self
nixosSystem
;
})
hive
runGroup
baoSettings
;
baoTwoAddresses = hive {
deploy.bao.enable = true;
deploy.bao.extraListenAddresses = [ "10.0.0.1" ];
# Pinned, not incidental: the case counting these listeners is about the
# declared API addresses. ⚠️ Since the store got its own collector, this no longer keeps the METRICS
# listener out of the count — that one is a function of the store, not of
# a collector's placement — so the case below subtracts it by name rather
# than by leaving the swarm tier off.
deploy.swarm-otel.enable = false;
};
# The store with and without a collector on the same host. `scrapeTargets`
# is only ever read by a local collector, so the metrics endpoint is a
# function of the pairing rather than of the store.
baoWithCollector = hive {
deploy.bao.enable = true;
deploy.swarm-otel.enable = true;
# A second job declared as bare `host:port`, so the pair of cases below
# reads one rendered scrape list: the store's entry carries a path, this
# one carries none.
swarm.otel.scrapeTargets.plain = "127.0.0.1:9999";
};
# The SPLIT topology, and the reason it is not called `baoNoCollector` any
# more: a swarm always runs every swarm-level service somewhere, so this host
# having `deploy.swarm-otel.enable = false` means the collector is on ANOTHER
# host, never that the swarm has none. Both of those read the same locally,
# and only one of them is a real deployment — which is what the two gates
# this PR removed each mistook for "there is nothing to forward to".
baoOtelElsewhere = hive {
deploy.bao.enable = true;
deploy.swarm-otel.enable = false;
};
# The same split, plus a HIVE collector on the store's host — the pairing the
# first gate read as permission to forward. It is a third collector with a
# different job, so it changes neither whether the store forwards nor where.
# `clientSecretFile` is what ../host-modules/otel.nix's identity assertion
# demands of any hive with the tier on.
baoWithHiveOtel = hive {
deploy.bao.enable = true;
otel.enable = true;
otel.clientSecretFile = "/var/lib/hive-otel-oidc/client.secret";
};
# The forwarder INSIDE the store's container, not the host's collector and
# not the swarm tier's — three collectors in this tree, and only this one can
# see the store's journal.
baoForwarder = machine: machine.containers.swarm-bao.config.services.opentelemetry-collector;
# The scrape list prometheus is handed, not the option a service declared:
# the address, the path and the query are one string on the way in and three
# fields on the way out, and only the second shape is what gets requested.
#
# ⚠️ Two of these now, aimed at two different containers, and the split is
# the point: the store's own job left the swarm collector for the
# one inside its container, so a case that looked in the old place would
# find `null` and a case that only looked in the new one would not notice
# the store still being declared to both.
scrapeJobIn =
container: machine: job:
lib.findFirst (c: c.job_name == job) null (
machine.containers.${container}.config.services.opentelemetry-collector.settings.receivers.prometheus.config.scrape_configs
or [ ]
);
scrapeJob = scrapeJobIn "swarm-otel";
baoScrapeJob = scrapeJobIn "swarm-bao";
cases = [
{
# Same gap one tier up, and it needs its own arm: this collector
# already had six scrape targets, so a pass here is about the seventh
# rather than about the receiver existing at all.
name = "the swarm collector scrapes its own telemetry endpoint";
ok =
let
j = scrapeJob baoWithCollector "collector";
in
j != null && j.static_configs == [ { targets = [ "127.0.0.1:8889" ]; } ];
}
{
# The store stays behind the passthrough rather than beside it: loopback
# plus whatever was declared, never the bridge. A store that also bound
# the bridge itself would collide with the listener above, and the
# colliding one is nginx — the whole gateway, not just this port.
name = "the store binds loopback and its declared addresses, never the bridge";
ok =
let
l = (baoSettings baoTwoAddresses).listener;
in
l.loopback.address == "127.0.0.1:8200" && l.extra-1.address == "10.0.0.1:8200";
}
{
# Control for the case above: these settings are rendered per deployment,
# not constants a passing case could be indifferent to. The metrics
# listener is excluded by name — it answers on a port of its own and is
# not one of the API addresses this case is counting.
name = "a declared extra address renders a second listener beside loopback";
ok =
builtins.length (
builtins.filter (n: n != "metrics") (builtins.attrNames (baoSettings baoTwoAddresses).listener)
) == 2;
}
{
# Retention is what serves the endpoint at all, so the listener alone
# would be a port that answers 404.
name = "a store beside a collector serves metrics on its own listener";
ok =
let
s = baoSettings baoWithCollector;
in
s.listener ? metrics && (s.telemetry.prometheus_retention_time or "0s") != "0s";
}
{
# openbao serves no `/metrics` at all, so a scrape of the default path
# 404s: the store looks like a dead exporter, and every panel built on
# it renders empty rather than erroring. The query is the other half —
# `/v1/sys/metrics` answers JSON without it, which parses as no series
# rather than as an error.
name = "the store's scrape asks for the path openbao serves";
ok =
let
j = baoScrapeJob baoWithCollector "bao";
in
j != null
&& (j.metrics_path or "") == "/v1/sys/metrics"
&& (j.params.format or [ ]) == [ "prometheus" ];
}
{
# 🎯 This move's deliverable, and it needs BOTH halves or it is not a move:
# the job is in the store's own container, and it is no longer declared
# to the swarm collector. Only the second half can catch a "move" that
# left the original behind — two scrapers of one endpoint, double-counted
# and neither obviously wrong.
name = "the store's metrics are scraped by its own collector, not the swarm's";
ok = baoScrapeJob baoWithCollector "bao" != null && scrapeJob baoWithCollector "bao" == null;
}
{
# The scrape target is the loopback listener, not the API one: dialing
# the API listener would need a client certificate the collector has no
# way to present, and the fix for that would be relaxing
# `tls_require_and_verify_client_cert` — which is the trade this address
# exists to avoid. Pinned so a later edit has to argue with it.
name = "the store's collector scrapes loopback, never a wider address";
ok =
let
j = baoScrapeJob baoWithCollector "bao";
s = baoSettings baoWithCollector;
in
j.static_configs == [ { targets = [ "127.0.0.1:8202" ]; } ]
&& s.listener.metrics.address == "127.0.0.1:8202";
}
{
# A pipeline is typed: a prometheus receiver named in `logs` is rejected
# at startup, and metrics with no pipeline at all are collected and
# dropped. The exporter is pinned alongside because "no otel bypass"
# means both signals leave by the one hop.
name = "the store's collector has a metrics pipeline out the same hop as its logs";
ok =
let
s = (baoForwarder baoWithCollector).settings;
m = s.service.pipelines.metrics;
in
m.receivers == [ "prometheus" ]
&& m.exporters == [ "otlphttp" ]
&& m.exporters == s.service.pipelines.logs.exporters;
}
{
# Presence control for the case above: both fields are omitted rather
# than defaulted, so a target declared as bare `host:port` renders what
# it rendered before the path grammar existed.
name = "a target with no path renders neither metrics_path nor params";
ok =
let
j = scrapeJob baoWithCollector "plain";
in
j != null && !(j ? metrics_path) && !(j ? params);
}
{
# 🩸 This case USED to be the absence arm — "a store with no collector
# beside it serves no metrics" — and this inverts it deliberately
# rather than deleting it, because the condition it asserted is the bug.
#
# The old reasoning was sound for the old reader: the endpoint is
# unauthenticated, so it should not exist where nothing reads it, and
# the only reader was a swarm collector that had to be on this host.
# What that rendered on every OTHER host was a store whose metrics went
# nowhere, indistinguishably from a store nobody had asked to scrape.
#
# The reader now ships inside the container, so "no collector beside it"
# describes no host that exists. The endpoint is still not exposed to
# anything new: it is loopback in a netns whose only other occupants are
# the store and its collector.
name = "a store whose swarm collector is elsewhere still serves and scrapes its metrics";
ok =
let
s = baoSettings baoOtelElsewhere;
in
s.listener.metrics.address == "127.0.0.1:8202"
&& (s.telemetry.prometheus_retention_time or "0s") != "0s"
&& baoScrapeJob baoOtelElsewhere "bao" != null;
}
{
# The store's journal reaches a reader through a collector of its own,
# and every one of these fields is silent when wrong: the runtime journal
# is the receiver's own default and is empty here, an unlisted extension
# is inert so the cursor silently stops persisting, and a pipeline is
# free to name none of it.
name = "the store's container forwards its own journal";
ok =
let
s = (baoForwarder baoWithCollector).settings;
p = s.service.pipelines.logs;
in
s.receivers.journald.directory == "/var/log/journal"
&& s.receivers.journald.storage == "file_storage"
&&
s.service.extensions == [
"file_storage"
"oauth2client/swarm-bao"
]
&& p.receivers == [ "journald" ]
&& p.exporters == [ "otlphttp" ]
&& s ? exporters.otlphttp;
}
{
# 🩸 The receiver read NOTHING before this, on every deploy there has
# ever been: `journalctl --follow` (the receiver passes `--follow`
# unconditionally) scopes itself to the current boot unless `--merge` is
# also given, and under `--link-journal=host` the directory below is the
# HOST's journal tree, where this container's current boot has no entry.
# journalctl exited 1 with "No journal boot entry found for the specified
# boot (+0)" and the receiver restarted it every ~2s forever.
#
# Both halves, because each alone is satisfiable by the broken config:
# `merge` is only a fix while the directory stays the host-linked one,
# and the directory is only readable while `merge` clears the boot scope.
name = "the store's forwarder reads the host-linked journal without a boot filter";
ok =
let
j = (baoForwarder baoWithCollector).settings.receivers.journald;
in
(j.merge or false) == true && j.directory == "/var/log/journal";
}
{
# The whole journal, which is what the shared collector's unit allowlist
# is not. A `units` list here would render and deploy perfectly while
# shipping only the units someone remembered to name — the failure this
# forwarder exists to end.
name = "the store's forwarder filters no units";
ok = !((baoForwarder baoWithCollector).settings.receivers.journald ? units);
}
{
# Both ends of the hop, because a mismatch between them is silent in both
# directions: the exporter retries into a 404 and the receiver never
# hears from it. Not "on one host" any more — the far end is the gateway
# vhost the swarm collector serves its name on, which is the whole point
# of addressing it by name rather than by a bridge address.
name = "the store's forwarder exports to the swarm collector's own route";
ok =
let
otel = baoWithCollector.services.hyperhive.swarm.otel;
vhost = baoWithCollector.services.nginx.virtualHosts.${otel.domain};
in
(baoForwarder baoWithCollector).settings.exporters.otlphttp.endpoint
== "https://${otel.domain}/${otel.storeProducerName}"
&& vhost.locations ? "/${otel.storeProducerName}/";
}
{
# The case the old hive-tier gate got wrong: this host runs the swarm's
# collector and no hive collector at all, and the forwarder still exists
# with an address that resolves. Gated on `otel.enable` it rendered
# nothing here, so the store's journal left no trace anywhere.
name = "a store on a host with no hive collector still forwards";
ok =
!baoWithCollector.services.hyperhive.otel.enable
&& (baoForwarder baoWithCollector).enable
&& (baoForwarder baoWithCollector).settings.exporters.otlphttp.endpoint != "";
}
{
# 🎯 The split topology, which is what both removed gates got wrong and
# neither earlier test could see: the swarm's collector runs on ANOTHER
# host, so nothing local says it exists — and it exists anyway, because
# every swarm-level service runs somewhere in the swarm. The forwarder
# has to render here and has to be addressed by the collector's swarm
# name, which is reachable from a host that serves no vhost for it.
#
# Both halves matter. Without `enable` this is the old bug; without the
# endpoint it is a forwarder that renders unconditionally and points at
# nothing. The `!(vhost ? domain)` conjunct is what makes the fixture
# genuinely remote rather than a co-located host in disguise — the
# premise the co-located fixtures cannot test.
name = "a store forwards by name from a host that does not run the swarm collector";
ok =
let
otel = baoOtelElsewhere.services.hyperhive.swarm.otel;
route = "https://${otel.domain}/${otel.storeProducerName}";
in
!(baoOtelElsewhere.services.nginx.virtualHosts ? ${otel.domain})
&& (baoForwarder baoOtelElsewhere).enable
&& (baoForwarder baoOtelElsewhere).settings.exporters.otlphttp.endpoint == route
# …and a hive collector standing beside the store neither supplies the
# reason to forward nor changes the addressee: same route, same tier.
&& (baoForwarder baoWithHiveOtel).enable
&& (baoForwarder baoWithHiveOtel).settings.exporters.otlphttp.endpoint == route;
}
{
# 🎯 The credential half of this move, and the arm that says the hop
# DELIVERS rather than merely resolves. The receiver at the far end
# takes an OIDC token and nothing else, so an exporter with no
# authenticator is a forwarder that retries into 401s while every other
# case here passes. Both halves: the extension has to exist AND the
# exporter has to name it.
name = "the store's forwarder presents a credential on the hop it exports over";
ok =
let
s = (baoForwarder baoWithCollector).settings;
auth = "oauth2client/swarm-bao";
in
s.exporters.otlphttp.auth.authenticator == auth
&& s.extensions ? ${auth}
&& lib.elem auth s.service.extensions;
}
{
# Its OWN client, never the swarm collector's and never the
# controller's: one identity per principal, and this one runs on a host
# neither of those two does. The audience is the same id because the
# receiver checks exactly that — a token minted without ASKING for it
# carries `aud: []` and is refused with a config that reads correctly at
# both ends.
name = "the forwarder authenticates as a principal of its own";
ok =
let
bao = baoWithCollector.services.hyperhive.swarm.bao;
e = (baoForwarder baoWithCollector).settings.extensions."oauth2client/swarm-bao";
in
e.client_id == bao.otel.clientId
&& e.endpoint_params.audience == bao.otel.clientId
&& bao.otel.clientId != baoWithCollector.services.hyperhive.swarm.otel.clientId
&& bao.otel.clientId != baoWithCollector.services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.queueClientId;
}
{
# A path systemd resolves at runtime, never a value and never a store
# path: the collector runs under `DynamicUser` and opens this file
# itself, so the credential arrives through `LoadCredential` and the
# config names only the directory systemd exports.
name = "the forwarder's client secret reaches it as a credential, not a value";
ok =
let
container = baoWithCollector.containers.swarm-bao.config;
e = (baoForwarder baoWithCollector).settings.extensions."oauth2client/swarm-bao";
unit = container.systemd.services.opentelemetry-collector.serviceConfig;
in
e.client_secret_file == "\${env:CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY}/oidc-client-secret"
&&
unit.LoadCredential == [
"oidc-client-secret:/var/lib/swarm-bao-otel-oidc/swarm-bao-collector.secret"
];
}
{
# Same 403-not-a-miss property the grafana and matrix readers are pinned
# for: the reader's grant covers the `services` prefix, so a secret
# filed under the hive that happens to run the store would be refused
# rather than missing, however correct the path reads.
name = "the forwarder's secret is read from the prefix the publisher writes";
ok =
let
s = baoWithCollector.systemd.services.swarm-bao-forwarder-oidc.script;
in
lib.hasInfix "secret/swarm/services/swarm-bao-collector/oidc/client" s
&& !(lib.hasInfix "secret/swarm/hives/" s);
}
{
# The delivery unit is ordered AFTER the store's container, not before
# it: the store it reads lives in the container it delivers into, so a
# `before` edge is a wait on a process that cannot start until this
# finishes. Pinned because the unit it was copied from does the
# opposite, and copying that line too would deadlock every cold boot.
name = "the delivery unit waits for the store rather than blocking it";
ok =
let
u = baoWithCollector.systemd.services.swarm-bao-forwarder-oidc;
in
lib.elem "container@swarm-bao.service" u.after
&& !(lib.elem "container@swarm-bao.service" (u.before or [ ]))
&& lib.elem "swarm-bao-pki.service" u.requires;
}
{
# The far end of the credential. An authenticator checks ONE audience,
# so the store's forwarder gets a receiver of its own rather than a
# second sender into the route whose audience belongs to
# `swarm-controller` — and every one of these four is silent when
# wrong: an unlisted extension is inert, a receiver in no pipeline
# drops what it accepts, and a mismatched audience is a healthy 401.
name = "the swarm collector admits this principal on a receiver of its own";
ok =
let
otel = baoWithCollector.services.hyperhive.swarm.otel;
s = baoWithCollector.containers.swarm-otel.config.services.opentelemetry-collector.settings;
name = otel.storeProducerName;
in
s.receivers."otlp/${name}".protocols.http.auth.authenticator == "oidc/${name}"
&&
s.extensions."oidc/${name}".audience == baoWithCollector.services.hyperhive.swarm.bao.otel.clientId
&& lib.elem "oidc/${name}" s.service.extensions
&& lib.elem "otlp/${name}" s.service.pipelines."metrics/${otel.producerName}".receivers
&& lib.elem "otlp/${name}" s.service.pipelines."logs/${otel.producerName}".receivers;
}
{
# A client authelia has never heard of mints nothing, so the publisher
# has nothing to copy and the delivery unit reads an empty path
# forever. Registered where AUTHELIA runs, which is why it is a glue
# module and not a line in the store's own config — this fixture runs
# no store at all and still has to register it.
name = "the forwarder's client is registered wherever authelia runs";
ok =
let
autheliaOnly = hive { deploy.authelia.enable = true; };
clients = autheliaOnly.services.hyperhive.swarm.authelia.oidc.clients;
c = lib.findFirst (c: c.id == "swarm-bao-collector") null clients;
in
!autheliaOnly.services.hyperhive.deploy.bao.enable
&& c != null
&& c.audience == [ "swarm-bao-collector" ]
# ⚠️ What makes the token READABLE by the receiver at all: authelia's
# default is an opaque handle, and an `oidc` extension verifies
# offline against the provider's JWKS.
&& c.accessTokenSignedResponseAlg == "RS256";
}
];
in
runGroup "bao-otel-collector" cases