fix(metrics): make the tracking counters name the character, and stop one lying - #152
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… one lying The #146 counters answered their own question and no other. Read against production they are unambiguous: repaired=22, skipped=0 over the 50h since deploy, so the (is_online: true, track_location: false) freeze is fixed and nothing is currently in it. Users still report intermittently losing tracking, and the instrumentation cannot say anything about why. It cannot because it throws the answer away. All three counters ship `tags: []` with a `get_empty_tag_values/1`, while every call site already supplies `character_id` in the event metadata. The result is a number that says a freeze happened N times but never to whom — and every report these exist to serve names one pilot. There is no log drain (`fly logs` retains ~1 minute), so nothing else survives long enough to answer it after the fact either. Four neighbouring events were emitted with no handler attached anywhere, so they never reached Prometheus at all: [:character, :tracking, :stopped] presence/ACL/user untrack [:character, :tracking, :permission_revoked] ACL sweep, no grace period [:character, :tracker, :untracked_from_map] delayed untrack queue [:token, :refresh_failed] 3 invalid_grants wipe a token, after which every poll for that character skips silently Tags them by character_id and registers the four, so Fly's existing scrape turns "why did this pilot lose tracking last night" into a query instead of a live debugging session. Two of these were actively misleading rather than merely absent: `untrack_character/3` hardcoded `reason: :presence_expired`, but three unrelated causes converge on it — genuine presence expiry, the ACL sweep via `remove_and_untrack_characters/2`, and a user clicking untrack in the UI. The label sent a reader to investigate browser disconnects for what was a permissions change. The reason is now threaded from the caller. `permission_revoked` fires once per batch carrying the batch size in its :count measurement, and `Telemetry.Metrics.Counter` ignores measurements entirely — a sweep removing 40 characters incremented it by 1, while :stopped fired 40 times for that same sweep. The two are meant to be read against each other, so it is a sum. Adds one emit that did not exist: update_online/1 rewrites track_location on every online transition with no telemetry, which is the last writer of that flag with no trace. A genuine EVE logout lands there too and is not a defect, so the counter is a lead rather than an alert — it exists to show the rate and to make a spurious offline reading from ESI visible at all. [:character, :tracker, :stopped] is deliberately NOT re-declared: it is already registered by character_event_metrics/0, and a duplicate metric name is resolved by the registry logging a warning and silently skipping one definition. It gains the tags instead, and a test now asserts no two metrics share a name. Cardinality is roughly (characters x ~10). Series are never reclaimed, so this is not free and the comment says where to revisit it.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds telemetry for online transitions and tracking lifecycle events. It propagates explicit untracking reasons through map-server APIs and registers tagged PromEx metrics with coverage for metadata, fallbacks, and aggregation. ChangesTracking lifecycle instrumentation
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In `@test/unit/metrics/prom_ex_plugin_test.exs`:
- Around line 161-173: Add a direct test for
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Add a direct update_online/1 telemetry test.
This test validates the PromEx metric definition only. It does not verify that WandererApp.Character.Tracker.update_online/1 emits [:wanderer_app, :character, :tracking, :online_transition]. Add a test that attaches a telemetry handler, forces an online-state transition, and asserts the measurement and metadata after the state write succeeds.
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In `@test/unit/metrics/prom_ex_plugin_test.exs` around lines 161 - 173, Add a
direct test for WandererApp.Character.Tracker.update_online/1 that attaches a
handler to [:wanderer_app, :character, :tracking, :online_transition], forces an
online-state transition, and asserts the emitted measurement and metadata only
after the state write succeeds. Keep the existing metric-definition tag test
unchanged.
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… one lying (#152) The #146 counters answered their own question and no other. Read against production they are unambiguous: repaired=22, skipped=0 over the 50h since deploy, so the (is_online: true, track_location: false) freeze is fixed and nothing is currently in it. Users still report intermittently losing tracking, and the instrumentation cannot say anything about why. It cannot because it throws the answer away. All three counters ship `tags: []` with a `get_empty_tag_values/1`, while every call site already supplies `character_id` in the event metadata. The result is a number that says a freeze happened N times but never to whom — and every report these exist to serve names one pilot. There is no log drain (`fly logs` retains ~1 minute), so nothing else survives long enough to answer it after the fact either. Four neighbouring events were emitted with no handler attached anywhere, so they never reached Prometheus at all: [:character, :tracking, :stopped] presence/ACL/user untrack [:character, :tracking, :permission_revoked] ACL sweep, no grace period [:character, :tracker, :untracked_from_map] delayed untrack queue [:token, :refresh_failed] 3 invalid_grants wipe a token, after which every poll for that character skips silently Tags them by character_id and registers the four, so Fly's existing scrape turns "why did this pilot lose tracking last night" into a query instead of a live debugging session. Two of these were actively misleading rather than merely absent: `untrack_character/3` hardcoded `reason: :presence_expired`, but three unrelated causes converge on it — genuine presence expiry, the ACL sweep via `remove_and_untrack_characters/2`, and a user clicking untrack in the UI. The label sent a reader to investigate browser disconnects for what was a permissions change. The reason is now threaded from the caller. `permission_revoked` fires once per batch carrying the batch size in its :count measurement, and `Telemetry.Metrics.Counter` ignores measurements entirely — a sweep removing 40 characters incremented it by 1, while :stopped fired 40 times for that same sweep. The two are meant to be read against each other, so it is a sum. Adds one emit that did not exist: update_online/1 rewrites track_location on every online transition with no telemetry, which is the last writer of that flag with no trace. A genuine EVE logout lands there too and is not a defect, so the counter is a lead rather than an alert — it exists to show the rate and to make a spurious offline reading from ESI visible at all. [:character, :tracker, :stopped] is deliberately NOT re-declared: it is already registered by character_event_metrics/0, and a duplicate metric name is resolved by the registry logging a warning and silently skipping one definition. It gains the tags instead, and a test now asserts no two metrics share a name. Cardinality is roughly (characters x ~10). Series are never reclaimed, so this is not free and the comment says where to revisit it.
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… one lying (#152) The #146 counters answered their own question and no other. Read against production they are unambiguous: repaired=22, skipped=0 over the 50h since deploy, so the (is_online: true, track_location: false) freeze is fixed and nothing is currently in it. Users still report intermittently losing tracking, and the instrumentation cannot say anything about why. It cannot because it throws the answer away. All three counters ship `tags: []` with a `get_empty_tag_values/1`, while every call site already supplies `character_id` in the event metadata. The result is a number that says a freeze happened N times but never to whom — and every report these exist to serve names one pilot. There is no log drain (`fly logs` retains ~1 minute), so nothing else survives long enough to answer it after the fact either. Four neighbouring events were emitted with no handler attached anywhere, so they never reached Prometheus at all: [:character, :tracking, :stopped] presence/ACL/user untrack [:character, :tracking, :permission_revoked] ACL sweep, no grace period [:character, :tracker, :untracked_from_map] delayed untrack queue [:token, :refresh_failed] 3 invalid_grants wipe a token, after which every poll for that character skips silently Tags them by character_id and registers the four, so Fly's existing scrape turns "why did this pilot lose tracking last night" into a query instead of a live debugging session. Two of these were actively misleading rather than merely absent: `untrack_character/3` hardcoded `reason: :presence_expired`, but three unrelated causes converge on it — genuine presence expiry, the ACL sweep via `remove_and_untrack_characters/2`, and a user clicking untrack in the UI. The label sent a reader to investigate browser disconnects for what was a permissions change. The reason is now threaded from the caller. `permission_revoked` fires once per batch carrying the batch size in its :count measurement, and `Telemetry.Metrics.Counter` ignores measurements entirely — a sweep removing 40 characters incremented it by 1, while :stopped fired 40 times for that same sweep. The two are meant to be read against each other, so it is a sum. Adds one emit that did not exist: update_online/1 rewrites track_location on every online transition with no telemetry, which is the last writer of that flag with no trace. A genuine EVE logout lands there too and is not a defect, so the counter is a lead rather than an alert — it exists to show the rate and to make a spurious offline reading from ESI visible at all. [:character, :tracker, :stopped] is deliberately NOT re-declared: it is already registered by character_event_metrics/0, and a duplicate metric name is resolved by the registry logging a warning and silently skipping one definition. It gains the tags instead, and a test now asserts no two metrics share a name. Cardinality is roughly (characters x ~10). Series are never reclaimed, so this is not free and the comment says where to revisit it.
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… one lying (#152) The #146 counters answered their own question and no other. Read against production they are unambiguous: repaired=22, skipped=0 over the 50h since deploy, so the (is_online: true, track_location: false) freeze is fixed and nothing is currently in it. Users still report intermittently losing tracking, and the instrumentation cannot say anything about why. It cannot because it throws the answer away. All three counters ship `tags: []` with a `get_empty_tag_values/1`, while every call site already supplies `character_id` in the event metadata. The result is a number that says a freeze happened N times but never to whom — and every report these exist to serve names one pilot. There is no log drain (`fly logs` retains ~1 minute), so nothing else survives long enough to answer it after the fact either. Four neighbouring events were emitted with no handler attached anywhere, so they never reached Prometheus at all: [:character, :tracking, :stopped] presence/ACL/user untrack [:character, :tracking, :permission_revoked] ACL sweep, no grace period [:character, :tracker, :untracked_from_map] delayed untrack queue [:token, :refresh_failed] 3 invalid_grants wipe a token, after which every poll for that character skips silently Tags them by character_id and registers the four, so Fly's existing scrape turns "why did this pilot lose tracking last night" into a query instead of a live debugging session. Two of these were actively misleading rather than merely absent: `untrack_character/3` hardcoded `reason: :presence_expired`, but three unrelated causes converge on it — genuine presence expiry, the ACL sweep via `remove_and_untrack_characters/2`, and a user clicking untrack in the UI. The label sent a reader to investigate browser disconnects for what was a permissions change. The reason is now threaded from the caller. `permission_revoked` fires once per batch carrying the batch size in its :count measurement, and `Telemetry.Metrics.Counter` ignores measurements entirely — a sweep removing 40 characters incremented it by 1, while :stopped fired 40 times for that same sweep. The two are meant to be read against each other, so it is a sum. Adds one emit that did not exist: update_online/1 rewrites track_location on every online transition with no telemetry, which is the last writer of that flag with no trace. A genuine EVE logout lands there too and is not a defect, so the counter is a lead rather than an alert — it exists to show the rate and to make a spurious offline reading from ESI visible at all. [:character, :tracker, :stopped] is deliberately NOT re-declared: it is already registered by character_event_metrics/0, and a duplicate metric name is resolved by the registry logging a warning and silently skipping one definition. It gains the tags instead, and a test now asserts no two metrics share a name. Cardinality is roughly (characters x ~10). Series are never reclaimed, so this is not free and the comment says where to revisit it.
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The #146 counters proved their own fix works — production reads
repaired=22, skipped=0over the 50h since deploy — but they can't say anything about the reports that are still coming in. This makes them able to.They ship
tags: []with aget_empty_tag_values/1, while every call site already putscharacter_idin the event metadata. So they produce a number that says a freeze happened N times and never to whom, which is the only form the question is ever asked in. With no log drain (fly logsretains ~1 minute), nothing else survives long enough to answer it after the fact.Four neighbouring events were firing into the void with no handler attached anywhere —
tracking.stopped,permission_revoked,tracker.untracked_from_map, andtoken.refresh_failed. They're registered now, so Fly's existing scrape makes "why did this pilot lose tracking last night" a query rather than a live debugging session.Two of these were lying, not just missing
reasonwas a constant that pointed away from the cause.untrack_character/3hardcodedreason: :presence_expired, but three unrelated causes converge on it: genuine presence expiry, the ACL sweep viaremove_and_untrack_characters/2, and a user clicking untrack in the UI. You'd have seenpresence_expiredon a dashboard and gone hunting browser disconnects for what was a permissions change. The reason is now threaded from the caller.permission_revokedundercounted batches ~40x. It fires once per sweep carrying the batch size in:count, andTelemetry.Metrics.Counterignores measurements entirely — a sweep removing 40 characters incremented it by 1, while:stoppedfired 40 times for the same sweep. The two are meant to be read against each other. It's asumnow.One new emit
update_online/1rewritestrack_locationon every online transition and was the last writer of that flag with no telemetry at all. A genuine EVE logout lands there too and is not a defect, so this is a lead rather than something to alert on — it exists to show the rate and make a spurious offline reading from ESI visible at all.Reviewer focus
[:character, :tracker, :stopped]is deliberately not re-declared. It's already registered bycharacter_event_metrics/0, and a duplicate metric name is resolved by the registry logging a warning and silently skipping one definition. It gains the tags in place instead, and a test now asserts no two metrics share a name.untrack_characters/2became/3, touching four files. Behaviour-neutral — only telemetry metadata and log text change — and nothing intest/referenced it. This is the one part that goes beyond "attach the handlers."Verification
mix test— 1818 tests, 0 failuresmix compile --warnings-as-errorsclean,mix format --check-formattedcleanmix credo— only pre-existing findings on these filestags: [:character_id]to[]fails the new tests, so they aren't decorativeNot covered: the
:online_transitionemit itself has no test. There's no Mox behaviour forEsi.get_character_online, so drivingupdate_online/1isn't cheaply reachable — the metric definition is tested, the emit is verified by reading only.Summary by CodeRabbit