fix(auditlog): reconciliation abandons only row-intrinsic failures and only when a sibling row inserted (review 2026-10-21 follow-up M1)

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Joseph Doherty
2026-10-22 09:31:26 -04:00
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commit 1f87942ce3
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@@ -329,9 +329,14 @@ batch forever, failing each set-based insert at central into the per-row fallbac
transient refusal still lands, and a genuinely poison row is recorded centrally as
a `ReconciliationAbandoned` row before its cursor retires it. A transport fault (no
answer) is never counted as a refusal. Symmetrically, the reconciliation puller counts
only non-transient failures toward its permanent-abandon threshold: a timeout,
connection loss, deadlock or throttling error holds the cursor and retries without
ever abandoning the row. A cached-lifecycle row whose tracking
only **row-intrinsic** failures (the same narrow set the push path reports as rejected:
truncation, NULL into NOT NULL, conversion/overflow, constraint) toward its
permanent-abandon threshold: a timeout, connection loss, deadlock, throttling error, or
schema drift after a missed central migration (207/208) holds the cursor and retries
without ever abandoning the row. And even a row-intrinsic failure abandons a row only on a
tick where at least one *sibling* row of the same page inserted — a page where every row
fails identically is a database problem, and abandoning it would let the site mark every
row `Reconciled` and purge it (review 2026-10-21 follow-up M1). A cached-lifecycle row whose tracking
snapshot is gone past `CachedTrackingGraceSeconds` leaves the cached drain as
`PushAbandoned` (it used to be marked `Forwarded`, which only worked because the
pull re-served every `Forwarded` row). Cadence is short (default 5 s) when
@@ -665,7 +670,8 @@ MS SQL for direct-write events). Unredacted secrets never persist.
still report a non-draining backlog after paging up to `MaxPagesPerTick`, a
`SiteAuditTelemetryStalled` event fires.
- **Permanent-abandonment record.** A reconciliation pull row that fails to
insert on every retry up to the permanent-abandon threshold is dropped and the
insert with a row-intrinsic error on every retry up to the permanent-abandon
threshold, while a sibling row of its page inserts, is dropped and the
cursor advances past it (so one broken row can't block the site forever). The
loss is not silent: alongside the Critical log line the actor writes ONE
synthetic `ReconciliationAbandoned` audit row (fresh `EventId`, `Status=Failed`,
@@ -391,7 +391,12 @@ public class SiteAuditReconciliationActor : ReceiveActor
/// when the batch throws does the page fall back to the per-row path, which keeps the
/// documented poison-row isolation: the failing row is retried up to
/// <see cref="MaxPermanentInsertAttempts"/> times with the cursor held back, then
/// permanently abandoned. Re-running rows the failed batch may already have committed is
/// permanently abandoned. Only a row-intrinsic failure
/// (<see cref="AuditIngestErrorClassifier.IsPermanentRowRejection"/>) counts toward that
/// threshold, and a row is abandoned only on a tick where at least one sibling row of the same
/// page inserted — a page where every row fails is a database problem (schema drift after a
/// missed migration, a narrowed column), and abandoning it would let the site mark every row
/// <c>Reconciled</c> and purge it (review 2026-10-21 follow-up M1). Re-running rows the failed batch may already have committed is
/// safe — every insert is idempotent on <see cref="AuditEvent.EventId"/>, which is also
/// what lets a pre-PERF-1 site that still re-serves <c>Forwarded</c> rows be pulled
/// unchanged.
@@ -449,6 +454,39 @@ public class SiteAuditReconciliationActor : ReceiveActor
}
}
// Per-row fallback (only when the set-based insert threw). Every row is attempted FIRST and
// its outcome recorded, so the abandonment decision below can see whether ANY sibling in
// this page inserted (review 2026-10-21 follow-up M1).
var rowFailures = new Dictionary<Guid, Exception>();
var anyRowInserted = false;
if (!batchCommitted)
{
foreach (var evt in response.Events)
{
if (_abandonedEventIds.Contains(evt.EventId))
{
continue;
}
try
{
// Idempotent repository write: duplicate EventIds (from a
// concurrent push, or a retry of this very pull) collapse to
// a no-op on InsertIfNotExistsAsync.
// IngestedAtUtc is a DetailsJson field on the canonical record —
// stamp it via the projection helper.
var ingested = AuditRowProjection.WithIngestedAtUtc(evt, nowUtc);
await repository.InsertIfNotExistsAsync(ingested).ConfigureAwait(false);
_failedInsertAttempts.Remove(evt.EventId);
anyRowInserted = true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
rowFailures[evt.EventId] = ex;
}
}
}
foreach (var evt in response.Events)
{
var advanceForThisRow = false;
@@ -464,78 +502,72 @@ public class SiteAuditReconciliationActor : ReceiveActor
// row collapse into the existing one anyway.
advanceForThisRow = true;
}
else if (batchCommitted)
else if (batchCommitted || !rowFailures.TryGetValue(evt.EventId, out var ex))
{
advanceForThisRow = true;
}
else
{
try
// Per-row verdict so one bad event does not abandon the rest of the batch.
// Only a ROW-INTRINSIC failure (AuditIngestErrorClassifier.IsPermanentRowRejection
// — the same narrow set the push path reports back as rejected) counts toward
// MaxPermanentInsertAttempts; below the threshold the cursor is HELD BACK so the
// next tick re-pulls and retries; at the threshold the row is permanently
// abandoned (LogCritical + cursor advances past) to keep a truly broken row from
// blocking all subsequent progress for the site.
if (!AuditIngestErrorClassifier.IsPermanentRowRejection(ex))
{
// Idempotent repository write: duplicate EventIds (from a
// concurrent push, or a retry of this very pull) collapse to
// a no-op on InsertIfNotExistsAsync.
// IngestedAtUtc is a DetailsJson field on the canonical record —
// stamp it via the projection helper.
var ingested = AuditRowProjection.WithIngestedAtUtc(evt, nowUtc);
await repository.InsertIfNotExistsAsync(ingested).ConfigureAwait(false);
_failedInsertAttempts.Remove(evt.EventId);
advanceForThisRow = true;
// A database problem (timeout, connection loss, deadlock, throttling, a
// maintenance window) or anything not provably about THIS row — e.g. schema
// drift after a missed central migration (207 / 208 invalid column/object) —
// is not a verdict about the row: hold the cursor and retry, but never count
// it toward permanent abandonment. Abandoning such rows flips the site's
// cursor past them, the site marks them Reconciled, and its retention purge
// deletes them — a silent loss of every row of the outage (review 2026-10-21
// 06/PERF-1 adversarial follow-up; follow-up M1).
_logger.LogWarning(
ex,
"Reconciliation ingest of AuditEvent {EventId} from site {SiteId} failed with a non-row-specific error; cursor held back, not counted toward abandonment.",
evt.EventId,
site.SiteId);
hasUnresolvedFailure = true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
else
{
// Per-row catch so one bad event does not abandon
// the rest of the batch. Track the failure count per EventId —
// below MaxPermanentInsertAttempts the cursor is HELD BACK so
// the next tick re-pulls and retries; at the threshold the row
// is permanently abandoned (LogCritical + cursor advances past)
// to keep a truly broken row from blocking all subsequent
// progress for the site.
if (AuditIngestErrorClassifier.IsTransient(ex))
var attempts = _failedInsertAttempts.GetValueOrDefault(evt.EventId) + 1;
_failedInsertAttempts[evt.EventId] = attempts;
if (attempts >= MaxPermanentInsertAttempts && anyRowInserted)
{
// A database problem (timeout, connection loss, deadlock, throttling, a
// maintenance window) is not a verdict about this row: hold the cursor
// and retry, but never count it toward permanent abandonment — a long
// outage must not turn healthy rows into ReconciliationAbandoned losses
// (review 2026-10-21 06/PERF-1 adversarial follow-up).
_logger.LogWarning(
_logger.LogCritical(
ex,
"Reconciliation ingest of AuditEvent {EventId} from site {SiteId} hit a transient database fault; cursor held back, not counted toward abandonment.",
"Permanently abandoning AuditEvent {EventId} from site {SiteId} after {Attempts} consecutive insert failures; cursor will advance past it.",
evt.EventId,
site.SiteId);
hasUnresolvedFailure = true;
site.SiteId,
attempts);
_failedInsertAttempts.Remove(evt.EventId);
RememberAbandoned(evt.EventId);
advanceForThisRow = true;
await EmitAbandonmentRecordAsync(repository, evt, site.SiteId, ex, nowUtc)
.ConfigureAwait(false);
}
else
{
var attempts = _failedInsertAttempts.GetValueOrDefault(evt.EventId) + 1;
_failedInsertAttempts[evt.EventId] = attempts;
if (attempts >= MaxPermanentInsertAttempts)
{
_logger.LogCritical(
ex,
"Permanently abandoning AuditEvent {EventId} from site {SiteId} after {Attempts} consecutive insert failures; cursor will advance past it.",
evt.EventId,
site.SiteId,
attempts);
_failedInsertAttempts.Remove(evt.EventId);
RememberAbandoned(evt.EventId);
advanceForThisRow = true;
await EmitAbandonmentRecordAsync(repository, evt, site.SiteId, ex, nowUtc)
.ConfigureAwait(false);
}
else
{
_logger.LogError(
ex,
"Reconciliation ingest failed for AuditEvent {EventId} from site {SiteId} (attempt {Attempts}/{Max}); cursor held back for retry.",
evt.EventId,
site.SiteId,
attempts,
MaxPermanentInsertAttempts);
hasUnresolvedFailure = true;
}
// At the threshold but no sibling in this page inserted: every row failing
// identically is a DATABASE problem (e.g. a column narrowed by a migration
// that 245/8114s every row), not one poison row — hold, never abandon. The
// row is abandoned on a later tick whose page also carries a row that
// inserts, which proves the database itself accepts writes.
_logger.LogError(
ex,
"Reconciliation ingest failed for AuditEvent {EventId} from site {SiteId} (attempt {Attempts}/{Max}{NoSibling}); cursor held back for retry.",
evt.EventId,
site.SiteId,
attempts,
MaxPermanentInsertAttempts,
anyRowInserted ? string.Empty : ", no sibling row inserted this tick");
hasUnresolvedFailure = true;
}
}
}
@@ -78,15 +78,15 @@ public class AuditIngestRejectionTests : TestKit
private sealed class OneRowClient : IPullAuditEventsClient
{
private readonly AuditEvent _row;
public OneRowClient(AuditEvent row) => _row = row;
private readonly AuditEvent[] _rows;
public OneRowClient(params AuditEvent[] rows) => _rows = rows;
public System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentQueue<DateTime> Since { get; } = new();
public Task<ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Messages.Integration.PullAuditEventsResponse> PullAsync(
string siteId, DateTime sinceUtc, string? afterId, int batchSize, CancellationToken ct)
{
Since.Enqueue(sinceUtc);
return Task.FromResult(new ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Messages.Integration.PullAuditEventsResponse(
new[] { _row }, MoreAvailable: false));
_rows, MoreAvailable: false));
}
}
@@ -129,4 +129,95 @@ public class AuditIngestRejectionTests : TestKit
Arg.Is<AuditEvent>(e => e.Action.EndsWith(".ReconciliationAbandoned", StringComparison.Ordinal)),
Arg.Any<CancellationToken>());
}
private SiteAuditReconciliationOptions FastOptions() => new()
{
ReconciliationIntervalOverride = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(30),
};
private void RunTicks(IAuditLogRepository repo, OneRowClient client, int ticks)
{
var actor = Sys.ActorOf(Props.Create(() => new SiteAuditReconciliationActor(
new OneSite(), client, StubAuditRepositoryProvider.Build(repo),
Microsoft.Extensions.Options.Options.Create(FastOptions()),
NullLogger<SiteAuditReconciliationActor>.Instance)));
AwaitCondition(() => client.Since.Count >= ticks, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
Watch(actor);
Sys.Stop(actor);
ExpectTerminated(actor);
}
/// <summary>
/// Follow-up M1: schema drift after a missed central migration (207 invalid column name on
/// every insert) is not a ROW verdict — it never counts toward abandonment, so the site's
/// rows are never flipped Reconciled and purged.
/// </summary>
[Fact]
public void Reconciliation_SchemaDriftOnEveryRow_NeverAbandons()
{
var a = NewEvent();
var b = NewEvent();
var repo = Substitute.For<IAuditLogRepository>();
repo.InsertManyIfNotExistsAsync(Arg.Any<IReadOnlyList<AuditEvent>>(), Arg.Any<TimeSpan?>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
.ThrowsAsync(SqlExceptionFactory.Create(207));
repo.InsertIfNotExistsAsync(Arg.Any<AuditEvent>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
.ThrowsAsync(SqlExceptionFactory.Create(207));
var client = new OneRowClient(a, b);
RunTicks(repo, client, 12);
Assert.All(client.Since, s => Assert.Equal(DateTime.MinValue, s));
repo.DidNotReceive().InsertIfNotExistsAsync(
Arg.Is<AuditEvent>(e => e.Action.EndsWith(".ReconciliationAbandoned", StringComparison.Ordinal)),
Arg.Any<CancellationToken>());
}
/// <summary>
/// Follow-up M1: a ROW-classified error (8114 conversion) that hits EVERY row of the page —
/// e.g. a column whose type a migration changed — is a database problem, not one poison row.
/// With no sibling inserting, nothing is abandoned however many ticks pass.
/// </summary>
[Fact]
public void Reconciliation_PermanentErrorOnEveryRow_NoSiblingSucceeds_NeverAbandons()
{
var a = NewEvent();
var b = NewEvent();
var repo = Substitute.For<IAuditLogRepository>();
repo.InsertManyIfNotExistsAsync(Arg.Any<IReadOnlyList<AuditEvent>>(), Arg.Any<TimeSpan?>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
.ThrowsAsync(SqlExceptionFactory.Create(8114));
repo.InsertIfNotExistsAsync(Arg.Is<AuditEvent>(e => e.EventId == a.EventId || e.EventId == b.EventId), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
.ThrowsAsync(SqlExceptionFactory.Create(8114));
var client = new OneRowClient(a, b);
RunTicks(repo, client, 12);
Assert.All(client.Since, s => Assert.Equal(DateTime.MinValue, s));
repo.DidNotReceive().InsertIfNotExistsAsync(
Arg.Is<AuditEvent>(e => e.Action.EndsWith(".ReconciliationAbandoned", StringComparison.Ordinal)),
Arg.Any<CancellationToken>());
}
/// <summary>
/// Follow-up M1, positive half: the same row-classified error on ONE row while a sibling in the
/// page inserts IS a poison row — it is abandoned (synthetic row written) after the threshold.
/// </summary>
[Fact]
public void Reconciliation_PermanentErrorOnOneRow_WithSiblingSuccess_Abandons()
{
var ok = NewEvent();
var poison = NewEvent();
var repo = Substitute.For<IAuditLogRepository>();
repo.InsertManyIfNotExistsAsync(Arg.Any<IReadOnlyList<AuditEvent>>(), Arg.Any<TimeSpan?>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
.ThrowsAsync(SqlExceptionFactory.Create(8114));
repo.InsertIfNotExistsAsync(Arg.Is<AuditEvent>(e => e.EventId == poison.EventId), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
.ThrowsAsync(SqlExceptionFactory.Create(8114));
var client = new OneRowClient(ok, poison);
RunTicks(repo, client, 8);
repo.Received().InsertIfNotExistsAsync(
Arg.Is<AuditEvent>(e => e.Action.EndsWith(".ReconciliationAbandoned", StringComparison.Ordinal)),
Arg.Any<CancellationToken>());
}
}
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.AuditLog.Central;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.AuditLog.Tests.TestSupport;
using ZB.MOM.WW.Audit;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.ConfigurationDatabase.Entities;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Interfaces.Repositories;
@@ -254,13 +255,29 @@ public class SiteAuditReconciliationActorTests : TestKit, IClassFixture<MsSqlMig
/// <summary>Gets the audit events recorded by this stub.</summary>
public List<AuditEvent> Inserted { get; } = new();
private readonly HashSet<Guid> _seen = new();
private readonly Guid _poisonId;
private readonly Guid _healthyId;
/// <summary>Initializes the stub.</summary>
/// <param name="poisonId">The row that fails with a row-intrinsic (permanent) SQL error.</param>
/// <param name="healthyId">The one non-synthetic row that inserts; every other row fails transiently.</param>
public AlwaysFailUnlessSyntheticRepo(Guid poisonId, Guid healthyId)
{
_poisonId = poisonId;
_healthyId = healthyId;
}
/// <inheritdoc />
public Task InsertIfNotExistsAsync(AuditEvent evt, CancellationToken ct = default)
{
if (!evt.Action.EndsWith(".ReconciliationAbandoned", StringComparison.Ordinal))
if (evt.EventId == _poisonId)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException("simulated permanent insert failure");
throw SqlExceptionFactory.Create(8152);
}
if (evt.EventId != _healthyId
&& !evt.Action.EndsWith(".ReconciliationAbandoned", StringComparison.Ordinal))
{
throw new TimeoutException("simulated transient insert failure");
}
if (_seen.Add(evt.EventId))
{
@@ -900,12 +917,15 @@ public class SiteAuditReconciliationActorTests : TestKit, IClassFixture<MsSqlMig
// Five pulls each returning the same poison row so its per-EventId attempt
// counter reaches MaxPermanentInsertAttempts (5); afterwards the scripted
// client returns empty and the actor settles.
// A healthy sibling (earlier timestamp) rides every page: it proves the database
// accepts writes, which is what lets the poison row be abandoned at all (follow-up M1).
// The poison fault is a ROW-intrinsic SQL error (8152 string truncation).
var healthy = NewEvent(siteId, poisonTime.AddSeconds(-1));
var responses = Enumerable.Range(0, 5)
.Select(_ => new PullAuditEventsResponse(new[] { poison }, MoreAvailable: false))
.Select(_ => new PullAuditEventsResponse(new[] { healthy, poison }, MoreAvailable: false))
.ToArray();
var client = new ScriptedPullClient().Script(siteId, responses);
var repo = new PoisonInsertRepo(
poison.EventId, new InvalidOperationException("poison row will never insert"));
var repo = new PoisonInsertRepo(poison.EventId, SqlExceptionFactory.Create(8152));
var actor = CreateActor(sites, client, repo, FastTickOptions());
@@ -965,6 +985,9 @@ public class SiteAuditReconciliationActorTests : TestKit, IClassFixture<MsSqlMig
var siteId = "siteReabandon";
var poisonTime = new DateTime(2026, 5, 20, 10, 5, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
var poison = NewEvent(siteId, poisonTime);
// A row that always inserts rides every page so the poison row is abandonable
// (an all-rows-failing page is a database problem and never abandons — follow-up M1).
var healthy = NewEvent(siteId, poisonTime.AddSeconds(-1));
// 10 scripted responses: enough for exactly two 5-attempt abandon
// cycles of the poison row (the cursor never advances between them,
@@ -974,12 +997,12 @@ public class SiteAuditReconciliationActorTests : TestKit, IClassFixture<MsSqlMig
// row count is bounded and deterministic.
var responses = Enumerable.Range(0, 10)
.Select(i => new PullAuditEventsResponse(
new[] { poison, NewEvent(siteId, poisonTime.AddSeconds(i + 1)) },
new[] { healthy, poison, NewEvent(siteId, poisonTime.AddSeconds(i + 1)) },
MoreAvailable: false))
.ToArray();
var client = new ScriptedPullClient().Script(siteId, responses);
var sites = new StaticEnumerator(new SiteEntry(siteId, "http://x:8083"));
var repo = new AlwaysFailUnlessSyntheticRepo();
var repo = new AlwaysFailUnlessSyntheticRepo(poison.EventId, healthy.EventId);
var actor = CreateActor(sites, client, repo, FastTickOptions());