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[ENHANCEMENT] notify: Add receiver as a structured log field on notification failures

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When a notification send fails, the dispatcher logs Notify for alerts failed with only aggrGroup, num_alerts, and err as structured fields. The receiver name and integration (e.g. slack[0]) are present only inside the free-text err string, which makes log aggregation (Loki/ELK) brittle.

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  • Introduce notify.ErrorWithIntegration to annotate RetryStage failures with receiver and integration
  • Attach receiver (from the aggregation group) and integration (when available via errors.As) as structured fields on the dispatch failure log
  • Extend RetryStage tests to assert the annotated error fields

Channel is intentionally out of scope here: it is integration-specific and already appears in some integration error messages (e.g. Slack). Receiver/integration alone cover the main operator need from #5396.

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The dispatcher no longer extracts the integration identifier from notification errors. Notification-failure logs retain the aggregation group, alert count, receiver, and error fields.

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Notification failure logging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dispatcher logging update
dispatch/dispatch.go
The errors.AsType[*notify.ErrorWithIntegration] branch was removed. Logs no longer include integration when notification errors carry that metadata.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed [#5396] The dispatcher now logs the structured receiver field. RetryStage preserves integration metadata with notify.ErrorWithIntegration and logs retry failures with the integration information…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes support [#5396]. They add notification failure metadata, add the receiver to dispatcher logging, retain integration metadata for retry logging, and test the error fields. No unrelated chan…
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dispatch/dispatch.go (1)

582-584: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use errors.AsType for the typed error lookup.

The configured modernize linter reports this errors.As pattern for Go 1.26. Use the existing errors.AsType form.

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-			var ie *notify.ErrorWithIntegration
-			if errors.As(err, &ie) {
+			if ie, ok := errors.AsType[*notify.ErrorWithIntegration](err); ok {
 				logger = logger.With("integration", ie.Integration)
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🟡 Minor · Add a dispatcher log assertion. · dispatch/dispatch.go:579-584

579-584: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a dispatcher log assertion. recordStage.Exec returns no error, so dispatch/dispatch_test.go does not exercise runAG's failure logger. The notify tests assert ErrorWithIntegration metadata before dispatch, but a regression in the dispatcher extraction could still pass. Return notify.ErrorWithIntegration from a focused dispatcher stage and assert both receiver and integration.

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Keep the test scoped to the dispatcher logging path so it catches regressions in
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…ures

When notification delivery fails, the dispatcher error log only exposed
receiver/integration inside the free-text err string. Annotate RetryStage
failures with ErrorWithIntegration and attach receiver/integration as
structured fields on the dispatch failure log so operators can group by
them in log aggregators without regex-parsing err.

Fixes prometheus#5396

Signed-off-by: Dean Chen <862469039@qq.com>
golangci-lint modernize flags errors.As here.

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🟡 Minor · Validate the delay before converting it. · util.go:254

notify/util.go:254
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Validate the delay before converting it. On 64-bit builds, strconv.Atoi accepts values such as 18446744074, but time.Duration(secs) * time.Second wraps that value to a positive duration. The Webex retry path now passes this result to notify.Retry for every retryable status, including 5xx responses. This can produce a delay unrelated to the header value. Check the upper bound before multiplication and return zero for an unrepresentable value.

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Hi @locker95 ,

thanks for updating the PR. However, I'm afraid that we have an issue here, which cannot be resolved easily:

func (fs FanoutStage) Exec(ctx context.Context, l *slog.Logger, alerts ...*alert.Alert) (context.Context, []*alert.Alert, error) {
	var (
		wg   sync.WaitGroup
		mtx  sync.Mutex
		errs []error
	)
	wg.Add(len(fs))

	for _, s := range fs {
		go func(s Stage) {
			if _, _, err := s.Exec(ctx, l, alerts...); err != nil {
				mtx.Lock()
				errs = append(errs, err)
				mtx.Unlock()
			}
			wg.Done()
		}(s)
	}
	wg.Wait()

	// Joining once keeps one element per stage. Joining pairwise as the errors
	// arrive would nest them, and callers could no longer tell which stage each
	// one came from.
	return ctx, alerts, errors.Join(errs...)
}

This code will join the error, and thus the logging in the dispatcher is not reliable with respect to integration specific code. The correct thing to do is to log the integration specific code in the RetryStage. However, we already have that for retry codes. So, the only thing that is available is the receiver at the dispatcher level. I looked at some other possibilities:

  • Walk the joined error to recover the information. This get's a definite no from me, since it is adding complexity, where we should be remove complexity.
  • Don't log an error in the dispatcher at all, just log in the respective notification stages. This one is very error prone in the current setup. Due to the stages, we can't log the errors once before the fanout, and once per fanout stage. Thus, I'm not comfortable with such a change either.

So, for now please just add the receiver label to the dispatcher. Don't close the original issue with a fixes trailer.

Fanout joins errors, so an integration field on the dispatcher line
isn't reliable. Leave integration in the error text; RetryStage already
logs it on retries.

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yeah, the joined fanout error makes the integration field a mess. dropped that wrapper and the extra field — dispatcher now just logs receiver from the aggregation group.

also took the Fixes trailer off so this doesn't close the issue.

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