fix(siteeventlog): scope the storage cap to site_events' own pages (register rows 81, 84)

Row 81 — the cap could not be enforced on a replicated node. MaxStorageMb was
compared against page_count-freelist_count over the WHOLE consolidated LocalDb
file, which since Phase 1/2 holds ten tables plus __localdb_oplog /
__localdb_row_version / __localdb_snapshot_state. Every 1000-row trim batch freed
~390 KB of site_events pages and added ~1000 oplog rows + ~1000 tombstones to the
same file, so the measured size did not fall, the "size did not decrease" guard
fired, and the trim stopped 2.5x over a 64 MB cap with 226 k rows still present.
A node whose peer was down could not enforce its cap at all, and the event log's
budget was in practice shared with bookkeeping it does not own.

The cap now measures site_events AND ITS FOUR INDEXES only, so replication
bookkeeping can neither consume nor block the budget — and the cap stops being a
function of the peer's health, which was the wrong direction of coupling: an
inflated oplog is a replication fault, and letting it drive event deletion would
destroy operational history in response to one.

dbstat — the exact per-table measurement the register proposed — is NOT usable
here, verified before implementing. It is a compile-time option and the bundled
SQLitePCLRaw.lib.e_sqlite3 (SQLite 3.53.3) does not enable it: PRAGMA
compile_options lists no ENABLE_DBSTAT_VTAB, pragma_module_list returns ten
modules with neither dbstat nor sqlite_dbpage, and selecting from dbstat fails
with "no such table". Switching SQLite builds was rejected — the provider is
shared with ZB.MOM.WW.LocalDb and every other consumer, so it trades cap accuracy
for fleet-wide version skew. The footprint is therefore modelled from sampled row
width (500 rows each end, octet_length so multi-byte UTF-8 is not under-counted)
through a page-layout model; whole pages rather than a flat rate, because page
fill collapses once rows approach half a page and a linear model underestimates
that by ~40%. Clamped by whole-file logical size, a true upper bound that can only
correct an over-estimate and never binds on a replicated node.

Index pages count against the cap deliberately: measured at ~34% of the table's
footprint, and the 1 GB default was sized against a 393 B/row figure that already
included them.

Guard semantics restated — two backstops replace the single on-disk check:
(1) row width unsampleable => refuse to trim (checked before the cap comparison,
since a zero width makes "over cap" unanswerable rather than false; the old loop's
answer to an unanswerable cap was to keep deleting); (2) estimated size not
falling across a batch => stop. (2) is the old guard re-based onto the
table-scoped metric, so it can no longer be tripped by replication bookkeeping and
now means exactly one thing: events are arriving as fast as the trim removes them.
For that to be observable the loop re-reads the row count each batch, while
bytes-per-row is sampled once per tick and held fixed — re-sampling per batch
would jitter the estimate as the trim eats the head of the table and could stall
the loop through guard (2), the same self-defeating measurement as row 81 itself.

Row 84 — LogReplicationBacklogNote moved from per-phase to once per tick, driven
by the shared PurgeBudget. A tick where retention AND the cap trim both deleted
used to emit two identical Information notes; the tick total is also the more
useful number beside an oplog spike.

Measured model error: -0.8% / +8.4% / +12.8% across representative workloads,
biased high on purpose (an early cap forfeits budget; a low one fails at its only
job). Independently cross-checks row 34's harness at 397.2 vs 393 B/row.

Fail-before: reverting the estimator to whole-file semantics fails 5 of the new
tests and reproduces the original signature exactly (remaining=2000
estimate=21725184 cap=11534336 — rows destroyed, cap still unmet); restoring
per-phase notes fails the row-84 test with "collection contained 2 matching items".

No config keys added or renamed, so no rig/deploy changes. Decision record:
docs/plans/2026-08-17-site-event-log-cap-semantics-decision.md

Tests: SiteEventLogging 104/104 (was 93), Host 520/520, solution build clean.
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- Debug view: real-time streaming via DebugStreamBridgeActor + gRPC (events via `SiteStreamGrpcClient`, snapshot via the `SiteCommandService` query surface — `QueryReply.DebugViewSnapshot`). Health dashboard: 10s polling timer. Deployment status: real-time push via SignalR.
- Health reports: 30s interval, 60s offline threshold, monotonic sequence numbers, raw error counts per interval.
- Dead letter monitoring as a health metric.
- Site Event Logging: 30-day retention, 1GB storage cap, daily purge, paginated queries with keyword search.
- Site Event Logging: 30-day retention, 1GB storage cap, daily purge, paginated queries with keyword search. **The cap measures `site_events` + its four indexes, NOT the consolidated LocalDb file** (register row 81, 2026-08-17): whole-file measurement made the trim unwinnable on a replicated node — each batch freed event pages while adding an equal count of oplog rows + tombstones to the same file, so it stopped 2.5x over a 64 MB cap and a node with a down peer could not enforce the cap at all. `dbstat` (the exact per-table measurement) is **NOT compiled into the bundled `SQLitePCLRaw.lib.e_sqlite3`** — probed and pinned by `SqliteCapabilityTests`, so don't reach for it — the footprint is modelled from sampled row width instead (−0.8%…+12.8%, biased high). Consequence: `MaxStorageMb` no longer bounds the data volume alone; LocalDb bookkeeping is separate overhead bounded by `MaxOplogRows`/`TombstoneRetention` and is deliberately not this component's job. Decision: `docs/plans/2026-08-17-site-event-log-cap-semantics-decision.md`.
- Notification Outbox KPIs are central-computed point-in-time from the `Notifications` table (global + per-source-site): queue depth, stuck count, parked count, delivered-last-interval, oldest-pending age.
- Stuck = `Pending`/`Retrying` older than a configurable age threshold (default 10 min) — display-only (KPI count + row badge), no escalation/alerting.
- Headline KPI tiles surface on the Health dashboard; a new Central UI Notification Outbox page offers a queryable list with Retry/Discard actions on parked notifications.