feat: configure alerting per cluster and document what is monitored - #132
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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> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019qeiQRFu8xAMRYWPdZewjG
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe 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. ChangesMonitoring and alerting
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 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. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ClusterManifest
participant BootstrapWorkflow
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 winUpdate the monitoring document references.
docs/monitoring.mdis absent. Point all three cluster comments todocs/monitoring-setup.md, which contains the channel setup instructions.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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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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Review feedback. 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019qeiQRFu8xAMRYWPdZewjG
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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019qeiQRFu8xAMRYWPdZewjG
| # 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 | ||
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| ALL_SECRETS: ${{ toJSON(secrets) }} |
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
Webhook URLs never appear here. They are credentials: anyone holding one can post into the channel. They come from
ALERT_WEBHOOK_SLACKandALERT_WEBHOOK_DISCORDon 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
secretKeyprefix decides which secret is read, so it has to match the channel type. The JSON schema enforces it with a pattern, andtest-deploy-logic.shchecks 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.monitorCertManageropts 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.mdis 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 theeduide_namespacesilence convention.AGENTS.mdgains three traps: session pods export no metrics, the alertnamespacelabel 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.shALL PASS, including five new alerting checksyqemission 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'sif/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'ssecretKeyofwebhook-1is rejectedStill to do
Set the webhook secrets on a cluster Environment, switch
enabled: trueon one cluster, and confirm a forced alert arrives with its description, runbook link and dashboard link.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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