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Why

402 responses are already countable via http_request_duration_seconds_count{status_code="402"}. Nothing records what happens after one — so an operator cannot tell a paywall nobody pays from one whose payments are failing to settle.

That failure mode is not hypothetical; config.ts already warns about it:

[x402] MAINNET IS ENABLED WITHOUT COMPLETE CDP CREDENTIALS. Falling back to X_402_USDC_FACILITATOR_URL. Unless that facilitator supports Base mainnet, EVERY payment will fail verification and the gateway will earn nothing while still returning 402s.

Today that state is invisible in metrics. It looks exactly like a paywall nobody has paid yet. We hit this question on our own gateways — ~30k 402s/day served, and no way to answer "did any of them convert?" from the node.

What this adds

Two counters, incremented in processPaymentAndTopUp so both the browser paywall redirect and the data path are covered:

Metric Labels
x402_payment_total outcome, target
x402_payment_settled_usdc_total target

outcome is the stage that ended the attempt: no_payment_header, invalid_target, missing_host, verify_failed, unsupported_processor, unsupported_payload, settle_failed, topup_failed, error, settled.

The USDC counter converts from atomic units (6 decimals) and skips a non-finite result, so a malformed amount cannot poison it.

# paid attempts that never settled
sum by (outcome) (rate(x402_payment_total{outcome!="settled"}[1h]))

# settled payments per 402 served
sum(increase(x402_payment_total{outcome="settled"}[24h]))
  / sum(increase(http_request_duration_seconds_count{status_code="402"}[24h]))

No behaviour change: nothing about payment processing, pricing or rate limiting is altered.

Testing

New src/payments/payment-processor-utils.test.ts — 4 tests:

  • a settled payment counts once and records $0.25 from 250000 atomic units
  • settlement failure and verification failure are counted distinctly (the case that motivated this)
  • a request with no payment header is counted
  • nothing is added to the USDC counter unless a payment actually settled

yarn test:file src/payments/x402-usdc-processor.test.ts — 6 pass (untouched).
yarn lint:check clean; tsc --noEmit diffed against an unmodified tree, no new errors.

Documented in docs/x402-and-rate-limiting.md under a new Metrics section.

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402 responses are already countable via
http_request_duration_seconds_count{status_code="402"}, but nothing records what
happens after one. An operator cannot currently tell a paywall nobody pays from
one whose payments are failing to settle.

That is not hypothetical. config.ts already warns that a mainnet deployment with
incomplete CDP credentials silently falls back to X_402_USDC_FACILITATOR_URL,
where the commonly configured facilitators (facilitator.x402.rs, x402.org)
support testnets only -- "EVERY payment will fail verification and the gateway
will earn nothing while still returning 402s". Today that state is invisible in
metrics; it looks exactly like nobody paying.

Adds two counters, incremented in processPaymentAndTopUp so both the browser
paywall redirect and the data path are covered:

- x402_payment_total{outcome,target} -- outcome is the stage that ended the
  attempt: no_payment_header, invalid_target, missing_host, verify_failed,
  unsupported_processor, unsupported_payload, settle_failed, topup_failed,
  error, settled.
- x402_payment_settled_usdc_total{target} -- USDC actually settled, converted
  from atomic units (6 decimals), guarded against a non-numeric amount
  poisoning the counter.

Documented in docs/x402-and-rate-limiting.md with example queries, including
settled-per-402 conversion.

Tests: a settled payment counts once and records its amount; settlement failure
and verification failure are counted distinctly; a request with no payment
header is counted; nothing is added to the USDC counter unless a payment
settled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012NWDKc9pST69qTEha4AGaB
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The change adds x402 payment outcome and settled-USDC Prometheus counters. The payment processor records specific outcomes across payment, settlement, and top-up paths. Documentation and unit tests describe and validate the metrics.

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x402 payment metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Metric definitions and documentation
src/metrics.ts, docs/x402-and-rate-limiting.md
Added counters for payment outcomes and settled USDC by target. Documented labels, outcome values, settlement semantics, and PromQL queries.
Payment outcome instrumentation
src/payments/payment-processor-utils.ts
Records specific outcomes for payment-processing paths. Records settled USDC immediately after successful settlement, including when a later top-up fails. Prevents specific outcomes from also being recorded as error.
Metrics processing tests
src/payments/payment-processor-utils.test.ts
Tests successful settlement, verification and settlement failures, top-up failures, missing payment headers, and settled-USDC exclusion after failed settlement.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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The payment behavior is implemented, but its exported API documentation should be updated to describe the new outcome and top-up semantics before merging.

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🟠 Major · Classify rejected top-ups as topup_failed. · payment-processor-utils.ts:217-267

src/payments/payment-processor-utils.ts:217-267
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Classify rejected top-ups as topup_failed.

Either awaited top-off call can reject, but the outer catch currently records error. Since settled and x402PaymentSettledUsdcCounter run after those calls, a successfully settled payment that cannot top up is misclassified and omitted from the settled-USDC total.

Catch only the top-off calls, record topup_failed, and return the existing failure result. Record the settled-USDC counter immediately after successful settlement, before top-up. Keep settled after top-up completes. Add tests for rejected IP and resource top-offs.

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In `@src/payments/payment-processor-utils.ts` around lines 217 - 267, Update the
top-up flow around topOffPaidTokens and topOffPaidTokensForResource to catch
either rejection locally, record topup_failed, and return the existing failure
result instead of letting the outer catch record error. Move settled-USDC
counter recording immediately after successful settlement and before either
top-off call, while keeping countOutcome('settled') after top-up completion. Add
coverage for rejected IP and resource top-offs.
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src/payments/payment-processor-utils.ts (1)

59-59: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add TSDoc for processPaymentAndTopUp.

This exported function now defines payment outcome and settled-USDC metric behavior. Add TSDoc that describes its payment-processing result and emitted metrics.

As per coding guidelines, “Add or improve TSDoc comments on code you touch.”

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In `@src/payments/payment-processor-utils.ts` at line 59, Add TSDoc to the
exported processPaymentAndTopUp function describing its payment-processing
result and the settled-USDC metrics it emits, following the project’s existing
documentation conventions.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/metrics.ts`:
- Around line 1583-1585: Update the TSDoc outcome list for
processPaymentAndTopUp to include error alongside the existing emitted outcome
labels, keeping the metric contract aligned with countOutcome('error').

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In `@src/payments/payment-processor-utils.ts`:
- Around line 217-267: Update the top-up flow around topOffPaidTokens and
topOffPaidTokensForResource to catch either rejection locally, record
topup_failed, and return the existing failure result instead of letting the
outer catch record error. Move settled-USDC counter recording immediately after
successful settlement and before either top-off call, while keeping
countOutcome('settled') after top-up completion. Add coverage for rejected IP
and resource top-offs.

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In `@src/payments/payment-processor-utils.ts`:
- Line 59: Add TSDoc to the exported processPaymentAndTopUp function describing
its payment-processing result and the settled-USDC metrics it emits, following
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The counters were both recorded after the rate-limiter top-up, so a payment that
settled on-chain and then failed to grant access was filed as outcome="error"
with no revenue recorded at all. That is the worst case to misreport: the funds
moved. It also defeated the purpose of the change, since the resulting metrics
understated income and hid the failure.

- x402_payment_settled_usdc_total is now incremented immediately after a
  successful settlement, which is when the funds actually move. A later failure
  cannot erase revenue that was really collected.
- A throwing top-up is attributed to outcome="topup_failed" rather than falling
  through to the generic catch.
- countOutcome records that an outcome was already set, so the outer catch only
  reports "error" when nothing more specific was recorded. No attempt is counted
  twice.

The consequence is a deliberate asymmetry, documented in both the TSDoc and
docs/x402-and-rate-limiting.md: revenue counts every payment collected, while
outcome="settled" additionally requires access to have been granted. The gap
between them, outcome="topup_failed", is money taken without access -- worth
alerting on.

Also documents the "error" outcome, which the metric TSDoc omitted.

Test: a settlement followed by a throwing top-up records the USDC, counts
topup_failed, and counts neither "error" nor "settled".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012NWDKc9pST69qTEha4AGaB

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51-58: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Improve the existing TSDoc for processPaymentAndTopUp.

The function already has a TSDoc block. Extend it to document outcome recording and the post-settlement top-up failure behavior. The guideline applies because this exported function was modified and requires adding or improving TSDoc on touched code.

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In `@src/payments/payment-processor-utils.ts` around lines 51 - 58, Improve the
existing TSDoc for processPaymentAndTopUp by documenting that it records the
payment outcome and describing the behavior when the top-up fails after
settlement. Keep the current parameter and return documentation intact.

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In `@src/payments/payment-processor-utils.ts`:
- Around line 51-58: Improve the existing TSDoc for processPaymentAndTopUp by
documenting that it records the payment outcome and describing the behavior when
the top-up fails after settlement. Keep the current parameter and return
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