fix(host): rate-limit dead-letter warnings (10/min + suppression summary); metric counting unchanged

src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/Actors/DeadLetterMonitorActor.cs

@@ -8,12 +8,31 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Actors;
 /// <summary>
 /// Subscribes to Akka.NET dead letter events, logs them, and tracks count
 /// for health monitoring integration.
+///
+/// Warning logging is rate-limited to <see cref="MaxWarningsPerWindow"/> per
+/// <see cref="WarningWindow"/>: a failover/undeploy storm can produce thousands
+/// of dead letters, and one Warning per letter is an unbounded log flood
+/// (review 01 [Low]). Once the per-window cap is hit, per-letter warnings are
+/// suppressed and a single summary of the suppressed count is logged when the
+/// window rolls over. The health-metric count is <b>never</b> throttled — every
+/// dead letter is counted.
 /// </summary>
-public class DeadLetterMonitorActor : ReceiveActor
+public class DeadLetterMonitorActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
 {
+    /// <summary>Maximum per-letter Warning logs emitted within one <see cref="WarningWindow"/>.</summary>
+    public const int MaxWarningsPerWindow = 10;
+
+    /// <summary>Rolling window over which <see cref="MaxWarningsPerWindow"/> applies.</summary>
+    internal static readonly TimeSpan WarningWindow = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1);
+
     private long _deadLetterCount;
+    private int _warningsThisWindow;
+    private long _suppressedThisWindow;
     private readonly ISiteHealthCollector? _healthCollector;
 
+    /// <summary>Akka timer scheduler (assigned by the runtime via <see cref="IWithTimers"/>).</summary>
+    public ITimerScheduler Timers { get; set; } = null!;
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Initializes the actor and registers dead-letter message handlers.
     /// </summary>
@@ -25,13 +44,39 @@ public class DeadLetterMonitorActor : ReceiveActor
 
         Receive<DeadLetter>(dl =>
         {
+            // Metric counting is never throttled.
             _deadLetterCount++;
             _healthCollector?.IncrementDeadLetter();
-            logger.LogWarning(
+
-                "Dead letter: {MessageType} from {Sender} to {Recipient}",
+            if (_warningsThisWindow < MaxWarningsPerWindow)
-                dl.Message.GetType().Name,
+            {
-                dl.Sender,
+                _warningsThisWindow++;
-                dl.Recipient);
+                logger.LogWarning(
+                    "Dead letter: {MessageType} from {Sender} to {Recipient}",
+                    dl.Message.GetType().Name,
+                    dl.Sender,
+                    dl.Recipient);
+
+                if (_warningsThisWindow == MaxWarningsPerWindow)
+                    logger.LogWarning(
+                        "Dead-letter warning limit ({Limit}) reached — suppressing per-letter warnings for {Window}",
+                        MaxWarningsPerWindow, WarningWindow);
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                _suppressedThisWindow++;
+            }
+        });
+
+        Receive<WindowTick>(_ =>
+        {
+            if (_suppressedThisWindow > 0)
+                logger.LogWarning(
+                    "Suppressed {Count} dead-letter warnings in the last {Window}",
+                    _suppressedThisWindow, WarningWindow);
+
+            _warningsThisWindow = 0;
+            _suppressedThisWindow = 0;
         });
 
         Receive<GetDeadLetterCount>(_ => Sender.Tell(new DeadLetterCountResponse(_deadLetterCount)));
@@ -41,6 +86,7 @@ public class DeadLetterMonitorActor : ReceiveActor
     protected override void PreStart()
     {
         Context.System.EventStream.Subscribe(Self, typeof(DeadLetter));
+        Timers.StartPeriodicTimer("dl-window", WindowTick.Instance, WarningWindow);
     }
 
     /// <inheritdoc />
@@ -48,6 +94,13 @@ public class DeadLetterMonitorActor : ReceiveActor
     {
         Context.System.EventStream.Unsubscribe(Self, typeof(DeadLetter));
     }
+
+    /// <summary>Periodic self-message that rolls the warning-rate-limit window.</summary>
+    private sealed class WindowTick
+    {
+        public static readonly WindowTick Instance = new();
+        private WindowTick() { }
+    }
 }
 
 /// <summary>

tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests/DeadLetterMonitorTests.cs

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+using System.Linq;
 using Akka.Actor;
 using Akka.Event;
 using Akka.TestKit.Xunit2;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
+using NSubstitute;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Actors;
 
 namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests;
@@ -48,6 +50,33 @@ public class DeadLetterMonitorTests : TestKit
         });
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task DeadLetterStorm_LogsAtMostWindowLimit_ButCountsAll()
+    {
+        // Review 01 [Low]: a failover/undeploy storm produced one Warning per
+        // dead letter — unbounded log flood. Health metric counting is untouched.
+        var logger = Substitute.For<ILogger<DeadLetterMonitorActor>>();
+        var monitor = Sys.ActorOf(Props.Create(() => new DeadLetterMonitorActor(logger, null)));
+
+        // Ensure the actor has started before the storm.
+        monitor.Tell(GetDeadLetterCount.Instance);
+        ExpectMsg<DeadLetterCountResponse>();
+
+        for (var i = 0; i < 50; i++)
+            monitor.Tell(new DeadLetter($"m{i}", TestActor, TestActor));
+
+        var count = await monitor.Ask<DeadLetterCountResponse>(GetDeadLetterCount.Instance);
+        Assert.Equal(50, count.Count); // every dead letter still counted
+
+        var warnings = logger.ReceivedCalls().Count(c =>
+            c.GetMethodInfo().Name == "Log"
+            && (Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.LogLevel)c.GetArguments()[0]!
+                == Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.LogLevel.Warning);
+        // The per-letter cap plus the one "limit reached" notice.
+        Assert.True(warnings <= DeadLetterMonitorActor.MaxWarningsPerWindow + 1,
+            $"expected <= {DeadLetterMonitorActor.MaxWarningsPerWindow + 1} warnings, got {warnings}");
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public void DeadLetterMonitor_CountAccumulates()
     {

tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests.csproj

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.InMemory" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" />
+    <PackageReference Include="NSubstitute" />
     <PackageReference Include="Serilog" />
     <PackageReference Include="xunit" />
     <PackageReference Include="xunit.runner.visualstudio" />