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ACM-42873 When ACM import MCE standalone, search errors show up in the MCE console pod of the stanadlone MCE cluster - #6789

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Standalone MCE has no Search API, so the console should not ping search-search-api and spam ENOTFOUND errors in the MCE console pods.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Application aggregation now pauses when a MultiClusterHub resource is unavailable and resumes when it becomes available.
    • Prevented unnecessary aggregation searches while the required resource is absent.
    • Improved aggregation reliability by waiting for the search process to complete.
    • Improved search request handling for timeouts, failed requests, response-stream errors, and malformed responses.
    • Timed-out requests are now stopped promptly, preventing duplicate completion and unnecessary waiting.

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The aggregation loop now checks MultiClusterHub availability before Search API work. Search requests now collect response bodies through a shared pipeline, guard settlement, handle stream failures, and destroy timed-out requests.

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Application aggregation resilience

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Aggregation lifecycle
backend/src/routes/aggregators/applications.ts, backend/test/routes/aggregator.test.ts
searchLoop checks MultiClusterHub on each iteration, waits five minutes when it is absent, logs availability changes, and skips Search API work. Startup now awaits the loop. Tests cover missing and present MultiClusterHub states.
Search request handling
backend/src/lib/search.ts, backend/test/lib/search.test.ts
getSearchResults and pingSearchAPI use shared response-body collection and settlement guards. Request errors, stream failures, parse errors, and timeouts are handled explicitly. Timed-out requests are destroyed. Tests cover these paths.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d9c75

The standalone-MCE behavior avoids unavailable Search API calls, but it can delay shutdown by five minutes and corrupt Search metadata when UTF-8 characters span response chunks. These issues should be fixed before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title identifies ACM-42873 and clearly describes the standalone MCE Search API error problem. It contains a spelling error in "stanadlone," but remains specific and related to the main change.
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backend/src/routes/aggregators/applications.ts (1)

200-200: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use a descriptive variable name.

Rename mch to multiClusterHub. mch is an abbreviation.

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Standalone MCE has no Search API, so the console should not ping
search-search-api and spam ENOTFOUND errors in the MCE console pods.

Signed-off-by: Enrique Mingorance Cano <emingora@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Cancel pending timeouts when pingSearchAPI or getSearchResults fail and
destroy the request on timeout to avoid duplicate rejections.

Signed-off-by: Enrique Mingorance Cano <emingora@redhat.com>
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logs for commit f3643ce
f3643ce1111fe7f479ee5dd145049d3747668cd3.log
no traces of pingSearchAPI, ping searchAPI timeout o search API missing, instead one single line for search aggregation skipped: MultiClusterHub not found

getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND search-search-api.multicluster-engine.svc.cluster.local still present

Next step, to work on cleaning timeout from pingSearchAPI

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backend/src/lib/search.ts (1)

97-97: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use descriptive names for added local variables.

  • backend/src/lib/search.ts#L97-L97: rename id to requestTimeoutId.
  • backend/src/lib/search.ts#L162-L162: rename id to requestTimeoutId.
  • backend/test/lib/search.test.ts#L43-L43: rename req to clientRequest.

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In `@backend/src/lib/search.ts` at line 97, Rename the timeout handle local
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In `@backend/src/lib/search.ts`:
- Around line 91-93: Clear the original request timer in the response
end/parse-error path before scheduling the delayed rejection, so malformed JSON
rejects with its parse error without the request timeout firing or destroying
the completed request. Add a regression test covering malformed response data
and verifying the parse-error rejection.
- Around line 83-95: Update the response handling in the search request function
to use node:stream pipeline() for both response streams, replacing manual
data/end listeners with a writable body collector. Ensure pipeline errors reach
finish, cleanup is centralized, and the existing resolve/reject behavior is
preserved.

In `@backend/src/routes/aggregators/applications.ts`:
- Line 200: Update the getMultiClusterHub and startAggregatingApplications flow
to distinguish a confirmed empty result from a Cluster API lookup failure.
Ensure failed lookups clear or invalidate the cached promise so later calls can
retry, and only skip application aggregation when the API successfully confirms
that no MultiClusterHub exists.

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In `@backend/src/lib/search.ts`:
- Line 97: Rename the timeout handle local variable from id to requestTimeoutId
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export async function startAggregatingApplications() {
await discoverSystemAppNamespacePrefixes()
void searchLoop()
const multiClusterHub = await getMultiClusterHub()

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not treat a lookup failure as a confirmed absent MultiClusterHub.

getMultiClusterHub() resolves undefined for an empty list and for a failed Cluster API request. Its cached promise also remains assigned after a failure. A transient lookup failure therefore makes startAggregatingApplications() return without retrying, and remote application aggregation stays disabled until restart.

Return or handle a distinct lookup-error state. Skip aggregation only when the API confirms that no MultiClusterHub exists.

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getMultiClusterHub and startAggregatingApplications flow to distinguish a
confirmed empty result from a Cluster API lookup failure. Ensure failed lookups
clear or invalidate the cached promise so later calls can retry, and only skip
application aggregation when the API successfully confirms that no
MultiClusterHub exists.

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it would require a big refactoring of startAggregatingApplications and I guess it over-exceeds ticket mitigation purposes

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@Ginxo, agreed. This retry behavior is outside the mitigation scope of #6789.

The current change correctly skips Search aggregation when MultiClusterHub is not found. The lookup-error distinction can be handled in a follow-up. Would you like me to open a GitHub issue for it?

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File: backend/src/routes/aggregators/applications.ts:200-200
Timestamp: 2026-09-02T04:56:08.696Z
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after latest changes, no traces of search apart from aggregation skipped: MultiClusterHub not found
console-mce-console-6756fbcf6f-krnw5.log
console-mce-console-6756fbcf6f-qb49n.log

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- Line 37: Update collectResponseBody to retain each response chunk as a Buffer
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covering a multibyte character split across chunks.

In `@backend/src/routes/aggregators/applications.ts`:
- Line 365: Make the five-minute delay in the application aggregation loop
cancellable when stopAggregatingApplications() sets stopping. Replace the raw
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Comment thread backend/src/lib/search.ts
let body = ''
const collector = new Writable({
write(chunk: Buffer, _encoding, callback) {
body += chunk.toString()

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Decode the response after all chunks are collected.

collectResponseBody decodes each Buffer chunk separately. A multibyte UTF-8 character split across chunks becomes replacement characters, while JSON.parse still succeeds and returns corrupted metadata. Collect the buffers and decode Buffer.concat(chunks) after pipeline() completes. Add a regression test for a split multibyte character.

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@Ginxo thanks for the updates on this. I did some testing and it's working pretty well, but the logs were still a little noisy. The cluster Almen provided didn't seem to be working well, and it was using the QE method of installation, which I found hard to work with for what I needed. So I created cluster kevin-421 instead with OpenShift 4.21. Here's what I did:

  1. Cherry-picked your commits to a branch off of release-2.16 and opened a new PR to get testing builds for ACM 2.16 / MCE 2.11
  2. Installed MCE 2.11 from the Software Catalog and created the MultiClusterEngine
  3. Patched the MCE CSV to point OPERAND_IMAGE_CONSOLE_MCE at quay.io/stolostron/console-mce:2.16.0-PR6807-ef74a993053e9541992981232cf91b67d0d2caf5
  4. Observed the logs of the console-mce pods and made some additional changes and repatched
  5. Installed ACM 2.16 and created a MultiClusterHub
  6. Observed that the Applications list started working after 5 minutes
  7. Deleted the MultiClusterHub again for further testing.

Here are the changes I made on the PR I opened:

  • Reduced logging for MCH not found to DEBUG level
  • Requests to /multiclusterhub/components were giving 500 errors and littering the logs because of a missing optional chaining in getMultiClusterHubComponents(). TypeScript should help us find this type of error, but unfortunately we do not have strictNullChecks enabled in the backend - I was working on getting that turned on awhile back, but had to abandon for other priorities. Not sure if I should attempt again given possible migration to Go.
  • There were search queries being made from the UI when ACM is not installed, also causing a lot of errors in the log. These are related to showing alerts to promote virtualization support. I disabled these when search is not available, and I also updated one of the queries to use a count query rather than getting the full list of VMs. (We could include that one for main only and backport only what is essential.)

I'll leave kevin-421 in place so you can test yourself and see if any further changes are needed.

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