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Summary

This branch instruments the two configuration-loading phases so operators can
identify failures, compare outcomes, and inspect startup latency without
unbounded telemetry labels.

Closes #304.

Review walkthrough

  • Start with src/observability.rs for the bounded metric vocabulary, error categorization, process recorder, and isolated recorder-backed tests.
  • Review src/main.rs for the configuration phase timing, outcome recording, and contextual error events at the CLI composition root.
  • Check src/main_tests.rs for the structured log-field contract, then docs/developers-guide.md for its maintenance contract.

Validation

  • make check-fmt: passed
  • make typecheck: passed
  • make lint: passed
  • make test: passed (1,913 nextest tests and doctests)
  • make markdownlint: passed
  • make nixie: passed
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Summary by Sourcery

Instrument configuration loading phases with bounded metrics, structured error logging, and a process-wide metrics recorder to improve observability of config-load behavior and failures.

New Features:

  • Add a process-level observability module that records configuration load outcomes and durations with bounded phase labels.
  • Emit a debug metrics snapshot at process shutdown when verbose CLI output is enabled.

Enhancements:

  • Augment configuration load error logging with operation and categorized error fields while preserving human-readable messages.
  • Wrap diagnostic-mode resolution and configuration merging in observability recording to track phase-level success and failure.
  • Ensure exit handling consistently routes through a common finish function that can emit observability snapshots.

Documentation:

  • Extend the developers guide with the configuration observability contract, including metric names, labels, and structured log field expectations.

Tests:

  • Add observability-focused tests verifying metric recording for each config load phase and structured log fields for configuration errors.

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Summary

  • Add bounded metrics for configuration-load phases, outcomes, and durations.
  • Add structured error fields for operation and coarse error category.
  • Cache discovered configuration layers to avoid repeated discovery and preserve deferred diagnostics.
  • Prevent raw configuration paths and filenames from appearing in discovery traces.
  • Install a process-wide metrics recorder and emit snapshots during verbose shutdown paths.
  • Add binary-level and unit tests for failure paths, metric labels, snapshots, error classification, and structured logging.
  • Document the observability contract in the user, developer, and design guides.
  • Move metrics-util to regular dependencies.

Validation

  • Pass formatting, type checking, linting, tests, Markdown linting, Nixie, and CodeRabbit validation.

Walkthrough

Instrument configuration loading with bounded metrics, phase timing, structured error fields, deferred diagnostics, cached layers, recorder initialisation, and verbose snapshots. Add tests and documentation for observability and privacy contracts.

Changes

Configuration observability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define observability contracts
Cargo.toml, src/observability.rs, docs/developers-guide.md, docs/netsuke-design.md
Add phase-labelled counters, duration histograms, bounded error categories, recorder lifecycle, snapshots, and observability documentation.
Cache discovery and defer diagnostics
src/cli/discovery*.rs, src/cli/discovery_layers.rs, src/cli/discovery_trace.rs, src/cli/discovery_unit_tests.rs
Retain discovered layers and bounded diagnostic metadata. Replay events without repeated environment or filesystem access.
Reuse layers during resolution and merging
src/cli/diag.rs, src/cli/merge.rs, src/cli/mod.rs, src/main.rs, docs/users-guide.md, docs/v0-1-0-migration-guide.md
Resolve JSON mode from cached layers, merge supplied layers, record both configuration phases, emit structured failure fields, and produce verbose snapshots.
Validate observable behaviour
src/main_tests.rs, tests/advanced_usage_tests.rs, tests/logging_stderr/config_tracing.rs
Validate failure metadata, path privacy, metrics snapshots, precedence, discovery replay, and early-exit behaviour.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant main
  participant discovery
  participant merge
  participant observability
  main->>observability: init_metrics()
  main->>discovery: resolve_json_and_layers_outcome_with_env()
  discovery-->>main: DiscoveryOutcome and DiscoveredLayers
  main->>merge: merge_with_cached_file_layers()
  merge-->>main: merged configuration or error
  main->>observability: emit_metrics_snapshot() when verbose
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Suggested labels: Issue

Suggested reviewers: leynos, codescene-access

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Start metrics at launch.
Cache each discovered layer.
Hash paths, classify errors.
Replay diagnostics later.
Snapshot verbose runs.


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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 9 inconclusive)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Rust Compiler Lint Integrity ❌ Error Added layer.clone().into_value() in the cached-layer loop; MergeLayer owns a serde_json::Value, so this copies each configuration tree to satisfy a consuming API. Inspect layers without cloning: add a borrowed value accessor or cache the JSON preference during discovery, then retain the original MergeLayer values for merge.
Testing (Overall) ❓ Inconclusive Investigation is still in progress; the full pull-request test evidence has not yet been reviewed. Inspect changed tests and their assertions against the new observability and cached-discovery behaviour.
Testing (Unit And Behavioural) ❓ Inconclusive Investigation is still in progress; no final assessment has been made. Inspect the changed unit and behavioural tests and compare them with the configuration-loading boundaries.
Testing (Property / Proof) ❓ Inconclusive Investigation started; no final assessment yet. Inspect the pull-request diff and determine whether it introduces a range-based invariant that requires property or proof testing.
Testing (Compile-Time / Ui) ❓ Inconclusive The working tree has no diff, so pull-request causality is not yet established. Provide the pull-request base revision or a usable diff, then verify the added compile-time and output tests.
Unit Architecture ❓ Inconclusive Investigation is still in progress; no verdict yet. Await repository diff and architecture evidence.
Domain Architecture ❓ Inconclusive I am still inspecting the changed boundaries and the parent-to-HEAD diff. Await source-level evidence for whether the change leaks infrastructure concerns into domain logic.
Security And Privacy ❓ Inconclusive Investigation started; no final assessment yet. Inspect the pull-request diff and observability paths before deciding.
Performance And Resource Use ❓ Inconclusive Investigation in progress; no verdict yet. Continue code and diff review before deciding.
Concurrency And State ❓ Inconclusive Investigation has not yet established whether the new process-wide recorder has safe ownership, synchronisation, and test reset behaviour. Inspect the pull-request diff and observability implementation before deciding.
✅ Passed checks (10 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title describes configuration-load observability and includes the linked issue number (#304).
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly covers the observability changes, validation results, documentation, tests, and linked issue.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes implement [#304] requirements for structured fields, bounded metrics, phase timing, caller context, and developer documentation.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The discovery, cached-layer, deferred-diagnostic, privacy, documentation, and test changes support the observability objectives in [#304].
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.
User-Facing Documentation ✅ Passed placeholder
Developer Documentation ✅ Passed Accept the documentation: the developer guide records cached discovery, APIs, metric labels, histogram policy, recorder lifecycle and structured fields; the design document records the architecture...
Module-Level Documentation ✅ Passed The PR adds or changes no undocumented Rust module: every changed file has //! documentation, and new observability and discovery modules state their purpose and component relationships.
Observability ✅ Passed Investigation started; no verdict should be recorded yet.
Architectural Complexity And Maintainability ✅ Passed The outcome, trace, and cached-layer types address the real two-phase discovery seam, have concrete consumers and documented contracts; recorder lifecycle is explicit and reuses the existing metric...
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Adds process-level observability around the two configuration-loading phases by introducing bounded metrics, error categorization, and structured logging, and wires this into the CLI composition root and developer documentation.

Sequence diagram for configuration-load observability and metrics snapshot

sequenceDiagram
    participant Main
    participant Observability
    participant MetricsRecorder
    participant Tracing

    Main->>Tracing: init_tracing
    Main->>Observability: init_metrics
    Observability->>MetricsRecorder: DebuggingRecorder::install

    Main->>Observability: record_config_load(DIAG_MODE_PHASE)
    Observability->>MetricsRecorder: counter!(CONFIG_LOAD_COUNTER)
    Observability->>MetricsRecorder: histogram!(CONFIG_LOAD_DURATION)

    Main->>Observability: record_config_load(MERGE_PHASE)
    Observability->>MetricsRecorder: counter!(CONFIG_LOAD_COUNTER)
    Observability->>MetricsRecorder: histogram!(CONFIG_LOAD_DURATION)

    Main->>Observability: classify_error
    Main->>Tracing: tracing::error

    Main->>Observability: emit_metrics_snapshot
    Observability->>MetricsRecorder: Snapshotter::snapshot
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File-Level Changes

Change Details Files
Introduce a dedicated observability module for configuration loading with bounded metrics, error classification, and recorder-backed tests.
  • Define stable metric names and phase/operation constants for configuration-load observability.
  • Install a process-wide DebuggingRecorder and snapshotter, and expose init_metrics/emit_metrics_snapshot helpers.
  • Implement record_config_load to wrap each configuration phase, timing it and recording success/failure counters and durations.
  • Implement classify_error to map OrthoError variants into low-cardinality error categories without exposing paths or messages.
  • Add unit tests validating error classification and the recorded metric shapes and labels using a local DebuggingRecorder.
src/observability.rs
Wire configuration observability into the CLI startup and config-loading paths, and emit structured error events with bounded context.
  • Register observability metrics immediately after tracing initialization in run_with_args.
  • Refactor run_with_args to capture verbose mode early and route all exit paths through a new finish_run helper that optionally emits a metrics snapshot.
  • Extend config_err_to_exit to accept an operation identifier and emit structured tracing errors including operation and error_category fields.
  • Wrap diagnostic-mode resolution and full configuration merge calls in record_config_load to capture per-phase metrics.
  • Propagate appropriate operation constants (diag_mode_resolution and config_merge) into error handling paths.
src/main.rs
Add tests to enforce the structured log-field contract for config-load errors and ensure operation/category fields are present.
  • Import OrthoError into main_tests to construct representative validation and file errors.
  • Exercise config_err_to_exit in human-readable mode for both diagnostic-mode and merge operations under a tracing subscriber with a buffering writer.
  • Assert that emitted logs contain the expected operation and error_category field values for each error type.
  • Verify that both error paths produce ExitCode::FAILURE.
src/main_tests.rs
Document the configuration observability contract and recorder usage in the developer guide.
  • Describe the ownership of configuration observability by src/observability.rs and its role at the CLI boundary.
  • Specify the metric names, label vocabulary, and outcome semantics for config_load_total and config_load_duration_seconds.
  • Explain init_metrics and emit_metrics_snapshot behavior, including process-wide recorder installation and verbose-only snapshot emission.
  • Clarify the structured logging fields (operation, error_category, error) and the requirement to keep labels low-cardinality and avoid configuration detail.
docs/developers-guide.md
Promote metrics-util from a dev-only dependency to a main dependency aligned with metrics 0.24 for production observability.
  • Move metrics-util with the debugging feature from dev-dependencies into the main dependencies section of Cargo.toml.
  • Remove the now-redundant dev-dependency comment about DebuggingRecorder being used only in tests, since it is now application-owned.
  • Ensure the metrics-util version and features remain compatible with the existing metrics crate version.
Cargo.toml

Assessment against linked issues

Issue Objective Addressed Explanation
#304 Add structured log fields to configuration-load error paths, including operation (diag_mode_resolution or config_merge) and error_category (io, parse, validation) in the handle_config_load_error / config-load error logging in src/main.rs.
#304 Introduce metrics counters for configuration-load outcomes, incremented for each config-load attempt and labeled by phase (diag_mode vs merge) and outcome (success / failure).
#304 Instrument startup latency for the configuration-load phases (from cli::resolve_merged_diag_json through cli::merge_with_config) using a duration histogram labeled by phase, and document the configuration observability contract (metric names, label conventions, buckets, and structured log fields) in docs/developers-guide.md.

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src/observability.rs (1)

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 2 warnings)

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Testing (Overall) ❌ Error New metric tests cover only diag_mode/success and merge/failure; integration helpers use independent contains checks, so incorrect phase/outcome or histogram-label pairing can pass. Assert all four phase/outcome records and exact label sets per record, including successful and failed binary snapshots for both configuration phases.
User-Facing Documentation ⚠️ Warning The PR removes path_file_name from tracing, but docs/users-guide.md:790 still says the file name is visible; the user guide therefore contradicts changed behaviour. Update the user guide to document that discovery diagnostics expose only bounded path_hash/presence fields and never expose configuration file names or raw paths.
Developer Documentation ⚠️ Warning The PR adds cached discovery and deferred-diagnostic APIs, but the developer guide still documents the old discovery helpers and omits DiscoveredLayers/DiscoveryOutcome and merge_with_cached_file_l... Update the developer guide and relevant design record to describe the one-pass discovery, cached-layer merge, and deferred diagnostic replay; refresh any affected execplan interfaces.

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ast-grep outline src/observability.rs --items all --view expanded
ast-grep outline tests/advanced_usage_tests.rs --items all --view expanded
ast-grep outline tests/logging_stderr/config_tracing.rs --items all --view expanded

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rg -n -A260 -B20 \
  '\b(?:records_each_config_load_phase_and_outcome|assert_one_counter_record|is_counter_record|has_label|has_phase_label|has_outcome_label|assert_one_single_sample_duration_record|count_single_sample_duration_records|is_single_sample_duration_record|MetricSnapshotRecord|assert_config_metrics_snapshot|explicit_load_failure_traces_failure_kind|environment_validation_failure_identifies_config_merge)\b' \
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rg -n -i -C6 \
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  docs/users-guide.md

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  '\b(?:push_file_layers_with_env|collect_file_layers|DiscoveredLayers|DiscoveryOutcome|merge_with_cached_file_layers|resolve_json_and_layers_outcome_with_env|discover_file_layers|one.pass|cached|deferred diagnostic|replay)\b' \
  docs/developers-guide.md docs/netsuke-design.md docs/execplans src/cli/mod.rs src/cli/discovery.rs src/cli/diag.rs src/cli/merge.rs \
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Check Status Verified evidence
Testing (Overall) Resolved src/observability.rs now requires exact label sets and exact series counts. The binary-test helpers isolate each CompositeKey record. They require the metric name, all expected labels in that same record, the exact label count, and Counter(1) where required. The tests cover diag_mode/success, diag_mode/failure, merge/success, and merge/failure, plus phase-labelled histograms.
User-Facing Documentation Resolved docs/users-guide.md now states that discovery diagnostics expose bounded path_hash and presence fields. It states that diagnostics do not expose raw configuration paths or configuration file names.
Developer Documentation Resolved docs/developers-guide.md and docs/netsuke-design.md now document one-pass discovery, DiscoveredLayers, DiscoveryOutcome, deferred diagnostic replay, and merge_with_cached_file_layers.

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Learning: Applies to docs/**/*.rs : Both the `tracing` events and the `metrics` labels are drawn from a closed,
fixed vocabulary — values such as `accepted`, `empty`, `unset`, `not_found`,
or bounded source/category names. They never carry environment variable
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File: docs/design.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-15T00:15:59.316Z
Learning: Applies to docs/ortho_config/src/discovery/**/*.rs : Neither the events nor the metric labels ever
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configuration value, file contents, or a raw error string.

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Repo: leynos/ortho-config PR: 0
File: docs/v0-9-0-migration-guide.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-15T00:16:37.527Z
Learning: Applies to docs/**/*.rs : Discovery now emits `tracing` events at `DEBUG` level at each decision point:

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In `@docs/developers-guide.md`:
- Around line 2509-2513: Reconcile the tracing privacy documentation and
implementation around the discovery diagnostics and terminal configuration-load
failure records: either limit the no-raw-fields statement to deferred discovery
diagnostics, or redact the terminal error before the tracing call that records
it as error = %err. Ensure the documentation consistently describes the
behavior, including the ConfigLoadFailureKind classification and bounded
path_hash contract.

In `@src/cli/diag.rs`:
- Around line 185-201: Update assert_bounded_path_event to validate that the
event’s path_hash matches the canonical hash derived from path, using the
existing EventAssertion helper if applicable. Reject incorrect or constant
hashes while retaining checks that the raw path and filename are not exposed; do
not treat field presence alone as sufficient.
- Around line 257-258: Import rstest::rstest and replace both affected #[test]
attributes, including the tests
resolve_merged_json_replays_missing_explicit_config_diagnostics and the other
indicated test, with #[rstest]. Preserve their existing bodies and
anyhow::Result<()> signatures.

In `@src/observability.rs`:
- Around line 51-60: Define bounded ConfigLoadPhase and ConfigLoadOutcome enums
and update record_config_load to accept ConfigLoadPhase instead of a free-form
&'static str. Convert the enums to the existing metric label strings only at
counter! and histogram! recording, preserving the diag_mode, merge, success, and
failure values and the current Result behavior.
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fn assert_bounded_path_event(event: &str, path: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
ensure!(
event.contains("path_hash="),
"event should contain a bounded path hash: {event}"
);
ensure!(
!event.contains(path.to_string_lossy().as_ref()),
"event should not expose the raw configuration path: {event}"
);
if let Some(file_name) = path.file_name() {
ensure!(
!event.contains(file_name.to_string_lossy().as_ref()),
"event should not expose the configuration file name: {event}"
);
}
Ok(())
}

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Assert the canonical path hash.

Replace assert_bounded_path_event with the existing EventAssertion helper, or
compare path_hash with the value derived from path. Reject an incorrect or
constant hash. Do not accept field presence alone because it lets both new tests
pass when path correlation is broken.

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In `@src/cli/diag.rs` around lines 185 - 201, Update assert_bounded_path_event to
validate that the event’s path_hash matches the canonical hash derived from
path, using the existing EventAssertion helper if applicable. Reject incorrect
or constant hashes while retaining checks that the raw path and filename are not
exposed; do not treat field presence alone as sufficient.

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leynos and others added 17 commits August 16, 2026 04:27
Record bounded configuration-load outcomes and durations at the CLI
boundary, and include the failing startup operation and error category in
human-readable error logs. Install the application-owned debugging recorder
so verbose runs emit a shutdown snapshot without affecting isolated tests.
Define the stable configuration-load metrics, structured log fields, recorder
lifecycle, and raw-sample histogram policy so future changes preserve the
operator-facing contract.
Satisfy the module-level test documentation contract enforced by Whitaker
so the configuration observability suite remains lint-clean.
Extract snapshot predicates from the configuration-load metric test so
each expected record remains explicit while the test scenario stays
straightforward to read.
Emit the shutdown metrics snapshot when verbosity is enabled through
configuration or the environment, while retaining parsed verbosity for
configuration-load failure exits.
Describe verbose metrics snapshots, JSON suppression, and structured\nconfiguration-load diagnostics across the user, design, and developer\nguides.
Exercise both configuration-loading callers through the binary and
verify verbose completion and early-exit snapshots. Bind metric label
keys to their bounded values in the recorder test.
Retain bounded selector, file-layer, and project-scope diagnostics with
the first discovery pass. Replay them after startup enables verbose tracing
and reuse the discovered layers for the subsequent merge so configuration
environment lookup, discovery, and file loading are not repeated.
Retain only correlation hashes and presence state in deferred
configuration diagnostics so verbose startup tracing cannot expose
configuration file names.
Keep metric assertion labels grouped in test-local expectations so the
contract remains exact without string-heavy helper signatures.
Explain the optional discovery-and-merge hand-off and preserve the
accurate compatibility status of the existing environment seam.
Require exact bounded metric records in unit and binary tests, and align
the configuration discovery documentation with the cached one-pass design.
Remove duplicate blank lines introduced while resolving the migration-guide
and configuration documentation rebase conflicts.
Emit retained discovery diagnostics before standalone JSON-resolution wrappers
consume their outcome, while leaving startup replay at the tracing boundary.
Reject rendered configuration metric records that include labels beyond the
phase and outcome contract asserted by the verbose-output tests.
Retain JSON preferences during the single discovery pass without cloning
configuration values, and constrain configuration metric labels to bounded
phase and outcome vocabularies.

Verify deferred diagnostic hashes exactly, preserve replay-only environment
access, and distinguish their bounded privacy contract from terminal errors.
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