fix(host): h2 keepalive on site gRPC listener (arch-review 2026-08-19 P4-3)

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Joseph Doherty
2026-08-19 14:49:37 -04:00
parent e63ffd90ee
commit b68f553f1e
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// metrics listener never collides with the Akka remoting port on site nodes.
var metricsPort = configuration.GetValue<int>("ScadaBridge:Node:MetricsPort", 8084);
// Configure Kestrel for HTTP/2 only on the gRPC port
// Configure Kestrel for HTTP/2 only on the gRPC port (plus the h2 keepalive that
// makes a half-open inbound stream detectable) — see SiteKestrelSetup.
builder.WebHost.ConfigureKestrel(options =>
{
options.ListenAnyIP(grpcPort, listenOptions =>
{
listenOptions.Protocols = Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.HttpProtocols.Http2;
});
// Dedicated HTTP/1.1 (and HTTP/2) listener for the Prometheus /metrics
// scrape endpoint, reachable by an HTTP/1.1 scraper.
options.ListenAnyIP(metricsPort, listenOptions =>
{
listenOptions.Protocols = Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core.HttpProtocols.Http1AndHttp2;
});
});
SiteKestrelSetup.Configure(options, grpcPort, metricsPort));
// gRPC server registration. Two interceptors, two disjoint service prefixes, two
// separate keys — neither one's absence weakens the other:
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core;
namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host;
/// <summary>
/// Kestrel configuration for a Site node: the h2c gRPC listener, the HTTP/1.1 metrics listener, and
/// the HTTP/2 keepalive that governs both.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Extracted from <c>Program.cs</c>'s Site branch so the keepalive settings are assertable — the
/// existing Host wiring tests re-declare their own <c>ConfigureKestrel</c> lambda and therefore
/// prove nothing about the one that ships.
/// </remarks>
internal static class SiteKestrelSetup
{
/// <summary>
/// How long an HTTP/2 connection may sit idle before Kestrel sends a keepalive PING.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// Kestrel's default is <see cref="TimeSpan.MaxValue"/> — no server-initiated pings at all — and
/// every long-lived stream this port carries is legitimately silent for long stretches: the
/// LocalDb replication sync stream on a converged pair, and a <c>SiteStreamService</c>
/// subscription for an idle site. A hard crash or network partition of the peer therefore leaves
/// this node holding a half-open stream that will never produce another byte and never fail
/// either. For LocalDb sync that is the expensive one: the handler sits inside its single-stream
/// guard, so the rebooted peer's reconnects are refused while this node still reports itself
/// replication-connected (ScadaBridge arch-review 2026-08-19, P4-3).
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// 60s costs one frame per idle minute per connection and bounds detection at roughly
/// <see cref="Http2KeepAlivePingDelay"/> + <see cref="Http2KeepAlivePingTimeout"/>. Pings are
/// ordinary HTTP/2 frames, so this is unrelated to the listener being h2c rather than TLS.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
internal static readonly TimeSpan Http2KeepAlivePingDelay = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60);
/// <summary>How long Kestrel waits for a keepalive PING ack before closing the connection.</summary>
internal static readonly TimeSpan Http2KeepAlivePingTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20);
/// <summary>
/// Binds the site node's two listeners and applies the server-wide HTTP/2 keepalive.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// The keepalive lives on <c>Limits</c>, which is per-server rather than per-listener, so it
/// governs the gRPC port and the metrics port alike. That is the intent: the metrics listener
/// also speaks HTTP/2, and a scrape connection has nothing to lose from a ping.
/// </remarks>
public static void Configure(KestrelServerOptions options, int grpcPort, int metricsPort)
{
options.Limits.Http2.KeepAlivePingDelay = Http2KeepAlivePingDelay;
options.Limits.Http2.KeepAlivePingTimeout = Http2KeepAlivePingTimeout;
options.ListenAnyIP(grpcPort, listenOptions =>
{
listenOptions.Protocols = HttpProtocols.Http2;
});
// Dedicated HTTP/1.1 (and HTTP/2) listener for the Prometheus /metrics
// scrape endpoint, reachable by an HTTP/1.1 scraper.
options.ListenAnyIP(metricsPort, listenOptions =>
{
listenOptions.Protocols = HttpProtocols.Http1AndHttp2;
});
}
}
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using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host;
namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests;
/// <summary>
/// The site node's Kestrel configuration, asserted against the code that actually ships (the other
/// Host startup tests re-declare their own <c>ConfigureKestrel</c> lambda, which can never catch a
/// regression in <c>Program.cs</c>'s).
/// </summary>
public class SiteKestrelSetupTests
{
[Fact]
public void SiteListener_EnablesHttp2Keepalive()
{
// Arch-review 2026-08-19 P4-3. Kestrel's default KeepAlivePingDelay is TimeSpan.MaxValue —
// no server-initiated pings — so a half-open HTTP/2 connection is never detected on a
// stream that is legitimately silent. The LocalDb sync stream is exactly that: with the
// dialling node crashed or partitioned, this node's handler stays parked on a dead stream
// holding the single-stream guard, refusing the reconnect that would heal the pair.
var options = new KestrelServerOptions();
SiteKestrelSetup.Configure(options, grpcPort: 8083, metricsPort: 8084);
Assert.NotEqual(TimeSpan.MaxValue, options.Limits.Http2.KeepAlivePingDelay);
Assert.Equal(SiteKestrelSetup.Http2KeepAlivePingDelay, options.Limits.Http2.KeepAlivePingDelay);
Assert.Equal(SiteKestrelSetup.Http2KeepAlivePingTimeout, options.Limits.Http2.KeepAlivePingTimeout);
// Detection has to be quick enough to matter, and a ping must not be its own timeout.
Assert.True(SiteKestrelSetup.Http2KeepAlivePingTimeout < SiteKestrelSetup.Http2KeepAlivePingDelay);
Assert.True(
SiteKestrelSetup.Http2KeepAlivePingDelay + SiteKestrelSetup.Http2KeepAlivePingTimeout
<= TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2));
}
[Fact]
public void SiteListener_KeepsGrpcHttp2Only_AndMetricsHttp1Capable()
{
// The keepalive change must not disturb the protocol split: h2c-only on the gRPC port so
// Grpc.AspNetCore can serve it without TLS ALPN, HTTP/1.1-capable on the metrics port so a
// standard Prometheus scraper can reach /metrics.
var options = new KestrelServerOptions();
SiteKestrelSetup.Configure(options, grpcPort: 8083, metricsPort: 8084);
var endpoints = options.GetType()
.GetProperty("CodeBackedListenOptions", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance
| System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public)!
.GetValue(options) as System.Collections.IEnumerable;
Assert.NotNull(endpoints);
var protocols = endpoints!.Cast<ListenOptions>().Select(o => o.Protocols).ToList();
Assert.Equal(2, protocols.Count);
Assert.Equal(HttpProtocols.Http2, protocols[0]);
Assert.Equal(HttpProtocols.Http1AndHttp2, protocols[1]);
}
}