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What and why

Plumbs the alerting added in EduIDE-Helm#36 through to the clusters. Paired with it: this on its own configures nothing, and that on its own is never switched on.

Configuring a channel

spec:
  monitorCertManager: true
  alerting:
    enabled: true
    minSeverity: warning
    channels:
      - name: platform-slack
        type: slack
        secretKey: slack-platform
        channel: "#eduide-alerts"

Webhook URLs never appear here. They are credentials: anyone holding one can post into the channel. They come from ALERT_WEBHOOK_SLACK and ALERT_WEBHOOK_DISCORD on the cluster's GitHub Environment, and bootstrap writes them into a values file rather than a --set, which would put them in the process list and in Actions debug logs - the same rule already applied to the wildcard certificate.

A channel's secretKey prefix decides which secret is read, so it has to match the channel type. The JSON schema enforces it with a pattern, and test-deploy-logic.sh checks it again where the feedback is a PR comment rather than a failure mid-bootstrap.

Alerting that notifies nobody fails rather than proceeding, whether the channel list is empty or a channel's webhook was never supplied. Alerting nobody receives is worse than none, because it reads as covered.

spec.monitorCertManager opts a cluster into scraping cert-manager. Nothing watches certificate expiry today - including the webview wildcard, which is renewed by hand once a year and takes every preview on the cluster with it when it lapses.

All three clusters get the block with enabled: false, so this changes nothing until channels are configured.

Docs

docs/monitoring-setup.md is rewritten. It previously carried an architecture diagram showing session pods exporting metrics to Prometheus - which is precisely the belief that produced a PodMonitor that scraped them for a year and collected nothing. It now says what is actually measured and where it comes from, lists every alert and what it means, and explains the eduide_namespace silence convention.

AGENTS.md gains three traps: session pods export no metrics, the alert namespace label is a routing artifact, and a selector that matches nothing looks exactly like a healthy platform.

Verification

  • actionlint, shellcheck -S error
  • ./scripts/test-deploy-logic.sh ALL PASS, including five new alerting checks
  • The workflow's yq emission run against a sample manifest and fed to the real chart end to end, producing the expected Slack and Discord receivers. The first version used jq's if/then/end, which mikefarah yq does not parse; it now passes the channel list through as YAML, since the manifest's keys are already the chart's
  • Schema tested negatively: a secretKey of webhook-1 is rejected

Still to do

Set the webhook secrets on a cluster Environment, switch enabled: true on one cluster, and confirm a forced alert arrives with its description, runbook link and dashboard link.

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  • New Features

    • Added optional cert-manager monitoring to detect certificate issues before expiration.
    • Added configurable Slack and Discord alerting with severity filtering and optional Grafana links.
    • Alert webhook credentials are securely collected during preview and installation.
    • Added validation for alert channels, severity levels, and credential configuration.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded monitoring documentation with dashboards, alert rules, silences, alerting setup, and verification guidance.

Plumbs the eduide-cluster chart's new alerting through to the clusters.

spec.alerting names the channels but never the webhook URLs: those are
credentials and come from ALERT_WEBHOOK_SLACK and ALERT_WEBHOOK_DISCORD on the
cluster's GitHub Environment, written by bootstrap into a values file rather
than a --set, which would put them in the process list and in Actions debug
logs. A channel's secretKey prefix decides which secret is read, so it has to
match the channel type; the schema and test-deploy-logic.sh both enforce that.

Alerting on with no channels, or with a channel whose webhook was never
supplied, fails rather than firing into nowhere - alerting that notifies nobody
is worse than none, because it reads as covered.

spec.monitorCertManager opts a cluster into scraping cert-manager. Nothing
watches certificate expiry today, including the webview wildcard that is
renewed by hand once a year and takes every preview on the cluster with it when
it lapses.

Also drops monitoring.sessionNamespaces, whose PodMonitor is gone.

docs/monitoring-setup.md is rewritten. It previously described session pods as
exporting metrics, which is the belief that produced a PodMonitor that scraped
them for a year and collected nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds cert-manager monitoring and optional Slack or Discord alerting. The cluster schema and validation enforce alerting configuration rules. The bootstrap workflow injects webhook secrets into Helm values. Documentation describes setup and verification.

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Monitoring and alerting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Alerting contracts and cluster configuration
schemas/cluster.schema.json, clusters/*.yaml, scripts/test-deploy-logic.sh
The schema defines monitorCertManager and alerting. Cluster manifests enable cert-manager monitoring and set disabled alerting defaults. Validation checks enabled alerting channels, severities, types, and secret-key prefixes.
Bootstrap secret and Helm wiring
.github/workflows/bootstrap-cluster.yml
The workflow derives monitoring and alerting values, creates alert-secrets.yaml from GitHub Environment secrets, and passes the file to Helm preview and installation commands.
Monitoring and alerting reference
docs/monitoring-setup.md, AGENTS.md
The documentation describes metric sources, alert rules, silence labels, channel setup, webhook requirements, and verification steps. Repository guidance records monitoring and Prometheus query behavior.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ec08d

The PR adds per-cluster alerting and monitoring configuration, but unresolved validation and emission issues can misroute notifications, reject otherwise configured deployments, or silently omit monitoring settings. Merge should wait until these bounded correctness and deployment issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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  participant GitHubEnvironmentSecrets
  participant Helm
  ClusterManifest->>BootstrapWorkflow: provide monitoring and alerting configuration
  BootstrapWorkflow->>GitHubEnvironmentSecrets: read webhook secret
  BootstrapWorkflow->>BootstrapWorkflow: write alert-secrets.yaml
  BootstrapWorkflow->>Helm: preview or install with alert-secrets.yaml
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104-106: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Update the monitoring document references. docs/monitoring.md is absent. Point all three cluster comments to docs/monitoring-setup.md, which contains the channel setup instructions.

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In `@clusters/eduide.yaml` around lines 104 - 106, Update the monitoring document
reference in the comments at clusters/eduide.yaml lines 104-106,
clusters/tum-production.yaml lines 89-91, and clusters/tum-student.yaml lines
55-57 from docs/monitoring.md to docs/monitoring-setup.md; no other changes are
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/bootstrap-cluster.yml:
- Around line 283-307: The listener configuration generation must enable
monitoring when per-cluster features such as monitorCertManager or alerting are
configured, even if namespaces.txt has no monitored namespaces. Update the
surrounding monitoring-generation logic to set monitoring.enabled true whenever
monitored namespaces or either feature requires it, and emit targetNamespaces
only when namespace values are available; preserve the existing certManager and
alerting output.

In `@schemas/cluster.schema.json`:
- Around line 110-121: Update the schema’s channel object containing type and
secretKey with conditional constraints that require slack types to use a
secretKey beginning with slack- and discord types to use one beginning with
discord-. Preserve the existing type enum and secretKey string validation while
rejecting mismatched combinations.

In `@scripts/test-deploy-logic.sh`:
- Around line 282-284: The channel parsing in the read loop must preserve spaces
within a valid channel name. Replace the space-delimited extraction around
ctype, ckey, and ctype assignment with independent field parsing or a lossless
structured representation, while retaining correct channel type and key
validation.
- Around line 289-299: Restrict channel secretKey validation consistently in the
scripts/test-deploy-logic.sh checks and the bootstrap-cluster.yml validation to
keys matching ^(slack|discord)-[A-Za-z0-9._-]*$ and no longer than 253
characters. Update the corresponding secretKey definition in
schemas/cluster.schema.json with the same pattern and maxLength 253, while
preserving the existing Slack/Discord type-prefix matching behavior.

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In `@clusters/eduide.yaml`:
- Around line 104-106: Update the monitoring document reference in the comments
at clusters/eduide.yaml lines 104-106, clusters/tum-production.yaml lines 89-91,
and clusters/tum-student.yaml lines 55-57 from docs/monitoring.md to
docs/monitoring-setup.md; no other changes are needed.
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bootstrap-cluster.yml gated the whole monitoring block on namespaces.txt, so a
cluster whose environments all set monitoring.enabled: false lost its
cert-manager scraping and its alerting as well. Those are cluster-scoped and
have nothing to do with environments: certificate expiry is about the Gateway's
secrets, not about anyone's namespace. Monitoring is now switched on when
environments ask for it or when the cluster does, and targetNamespaces is
emitted only when there are any. The chart already handles the empty list - the
namespace regex becomes ^$ - so per-environment rules match nothing while the
cluster-scoped ones still fire.

The schema accepted type: slack with secretKey: discord-alerts, which would
have sent Slack-formatted payloads to a Discord webhook. Added a conditional
per channel type.

test-deploy-logic.sh split channel fields on spaces, so a schema-valid name like
"platform alerts" shifted every field along, parsed the type as "alerts" and
blocked validation on a correct manifest. Reads @TSV now.

secretKey was checked only for its slack-/discord- prefix, so slack-a/b passed
and would then be written into a Secret data key, which Kubernetes rejects -
partway through a bootstrap, after the Gateway had been reconciled. The schema,
the script and the workflow now all require ^(slack|discord)-[A-Za-z0-9._-]*$
and at most 253 characters.

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Both installations share the eduide cluster and belong to different people, so
each gets its own Discord and neither sees the other's incidents. Cluster-scoped
alerts - a certificate expiring, the conversion webhook failing - affect both and
go to both.

The webhook secret is now looked up by name rather than one per type:
secretKey `discord-mannheim` reads ALERT_WEBHOOK_DISCORD_MANNHEIM. A single
ALERT_WEBHOOK_DISCORD per cluster could not express two installations wanting
different channels. GitHub expressions cannot index secrets by a computed name,
so the map is passed in as JSON and one key is picked out with jq.

test-deploy-logic.sh checks every scoped namespace against the environments
actually on that cluster. A typo there would match nothing, and the channel
would quietly receive only cluster-scoped alerts while the installation's own
alerts went to whoever was unscoped - invisible at render time, since the
matcher is just a regex.

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# whole map is passed in and one key is picked out with jq. Nothing in
# this step echoes it, and Actions masks secret values in logs
# regardless.
ALL_SECRETS: ${{ toJSON(secrets) }}
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