Component-AuditLog.md has always required "we over-redact, never under-redact,
on configuration faults", but the body / SQL-parameter redactors violated it.
AuditRegexCache rejects a pattern that is malformed OR whose compile exceeds a
100 ms budget, caching the rejection for the process lifetime.
ScadaBridgeAuditRedactor then simply dropped the rejected pattern from its
redactor set and emitted the payload anyway — publishing precisely the values
the operator configured it to suppress, onto a row that looks entirely normal
downstream. Recovery required a process restart and the only signal was one
Warning line. The SQL path was worse: TryGetSqlParamRedactor returned a bare
false for both "no redactor configured for this connection" and "the configured
one will not compile", and CLAUDE.md records SQL parameter capture as on by
default.
Two changes:
1. Fail closed. A pattern that is CONFIGURED but unavailable now over-redacts
the whole payload and increments AuditRedactionFailure, reusing the existing
safety-net path. "Not configured at all" stays permissive — conflating those
two states is the actual defect, so both are pinned by tests.
2. Precompile off the hot path. The audit-log roadmap specifies patterns are
"precompiled at startup; rejected if compile takes >100ms"; the implementation
had drifted to compiling lazily on first event, which put a wall-clock budget
on a hot path under production load. RegexOptions.Compiled emits IL during
construction, so a busy node could blow the budget on a perfectly valid
pattern. Warm-up now runs at construction and on every options reload. The
residual window between a reload and its warm-up is safe because that path
now fails closed.
Warm-up deliberately does not fail the boot — an unusable pattern degrades the
node to over-redaction (safe, loud) rather than refusing to start. Reading
CurrentValue happens inside the warm-up try so an options provider that throws
still surfaces via Apply's over-redact path, not the constructor
(OuterCatch_OptionsThrows_NeverLeaks_AllSensitiveFieldsOverRedacted).
Also de-flakes GrpcCentralTransportTests.DeadlineExceeded_IsNotRetriedOnThePeer,
which is how this was found. It black-holed node A behind a 300 ms deadline, but
on a saturated machine the call could fail to even START — a genuinely-unsent
failure that IsConnectFailure correctly fails over on, so node B's ack arrived
instead of the expected Status.Failure. The test read as a flake while actually
reporting that its own premise had not held. Split in two: the hard rule now
injects an explicit DeadlineExceeded via a trailers-only response (deterministic,
load-independent), and a new BlackHoledNode_DoesNotHang covers the
deadline-is-actually-applied half with both nodes black-holed so no ack can
arrive down any path.
Verified: both fixes were confirmed to fail before they pass — reverting the
fail-closed guard fails exactly the 5 fail-closed tests while the 4 controls
still pass, and adding DeadlineExceeded to IsConnectFailure fails the rewritten
transport test. AuditLog 367/367, Host.Tests GrpcCentralTransport 8/8, solution
build clean. The previously-intermittent
Filter_PicksUp_NewBodyRedactor_OnConfigReload is green in a full sweep for the
first time.
Not addressed here, and noted on #35: the 100 ms wall-clock budget remains a
weak proxy for catastrophic backtracking (RegexOptions.Compiled defers JIT to
first match, so construction time measures the wrong thing), and a rejection is
still cached permanently. Both are now safe rather than dangerous, so they are
hardening rather than a leak.
M5.4 T4 threaded a `parentExecutionId` parameter through
AlarmActor.SpawnAlarmExecution → AlarmExecutionActor → ScriptRuntimeContext,
but every call site passed null — so alarm on-trigger runs were silently always
execution-tree roots, contradicting the "tag-cascade coverage is complete"
claim in CLAUDE.md and Component-AuditLog.md.
Source the id where a spawner genuinely exists: a static attribute write issued
by a site script (`Instance.SetAttribute`) or by an inbound API request
(`Route.To(...).SetAttributes(...)`, whose ParentExecutionId was already carried
to the site and then dropped). The id rides site-locally through three additive,
nullable fields — no wire, proto or central schema change:
ScriptRuntimeContext.SetAttribute / RouteToSetAttributesRequest.ParentExecutionId
→ SetStaticAttributeCommand.SourceExecutionId
→ AttributeValueChanged.SourceExecutionId (InstanceActor static-write path)
→ AlarmActor.SpawnAlarmExecution → AlarmExecutionActor → ScriptRuntimeContext
All four computed trigger types participate. Expression triggers evaluate off
the dispatcher, so the writer of the newest value folded into the snapshot is
captured *with* the snapshot and echoed home on ExpressionEvalResult /
ExpressionEvalFailed — a change arriving mid-flight cannot mis-attribute the
raise.
Deliberately still roots (documented, not deferred): alarms fired by Data
Connection Layer values (external device data has no spawning execution — this
includes the device echo of a script write to a *data-sourced* attribute, so
only static writes cascade), and ScriptActor value-change/conditional/
expression/timer trigger runs (a timer tick has no spawner; a WhileTrue/interval
run has no single identifiable write).
Tests: new SiteRuntime.Tests/Actors/AlarmCascadeParentExecutionTests pins all
three hops — SetAttribute stamps the run's ExecutionId, InstanceActor publishes
it on the change (and publishes null when absent), and ValueMatch/HiLo/
Expression alarms parent the on-trigger run to the writer while a DCL-originated
change leaves it a root.
Docs: CLAUDE.md and Component-AuditLog.md corrected from "complete" to the true
behaviour; Component-SiteRuntime.md gains an "Audit correlation of an on-trigger
run" section with the hop table and the by-design root cases.
SiteEntry gains an additive FallbackGrpcEndpoint; SiteEnumerator now picks NodeA
else NodeB as primary (a NodeB-only site is no longer skipped) and carries a
distinct NodeB as the fallback. Both GrpcPull{AuditEvents,SiteCalls} clients dial
the primary first and, on a transport fault (Unavailable/DeadlineExceeded/
Cancelled/HttpRequestException/SocketException/OperationCanceled), fail over to
NodeB once before collapsing to empty — a mapping/unexpected fault does NOT fail
over. Keeps the reconciliation loss-recovery net available during a NodeA outage.
When a pulled AuditEvent fails to insert on every retry up to the permanent-
abandon threshold, the reconciliation actor now writes ONE synthetic
ReconciliationAbandoned row (new AuditKind) alongside the Critical log line —
fresh EventId, Status=Failed, channel preserved from the lost row, Extra carrying
the abandoned EventId + source site + final error — via the same
ScadaBridgeAuditEventFactory the ingest path uses. Best-effort in its own
try/catch so it never blocks the cursor twice. The permanent loss is now
queryable in the Audit Log, not only in a rotating log file.
Reconciliation cursor becomes composite (UpdatedAtUtc, TrackedOperationId);
IPullSiteCallsClient/GrpcPullSiteCallsClient forward the Task-15 after_id keyset
(additive param, null preserves the legacy inclusive >= contract). A burst
sharing one exact UpdatedAtUtc now drains via the id tiebreak instead of pinning
forever. A legacy site that ignores after_id is latched + published as
SiteCallReconciliationPinnedChanged on the EventStream (transition-only),
replacing the prior silent log line.
SiteAuditRetentionService (site-only IHostedService) ticks PurgeExpiredAsync on
InitialDelay(5m)/PurgeInterval(24h, clamped >=1m), cutoff = UtcNow - RetentionDays.
Registered site-only in AddAuditLogHealthMetricsBridge; options bound from
AuditLog:SiteRetention. Per-tick failures swallowed. Added a test-only
PurgeIntervalOverride (mirrors SiteCallAuditOptions) so the ms-cadence tick test
can bypass the 1-min production clamp. Doc updated. (PLAN-04 Task 3, S1/U2)
Remediation from the full per-module code review at 4307c381 (findings recorded
separately in code-reviews/).
Highs fixed:
- DeploymentManager-025/SiteRuntime-031: stop broadcasting notification lists + SMTP
configs (incl. credentials) to sites; site purges already-persisted rows on apply
(enforces the central-only delivery design; clears plaintext SMTP creds at rest).
- DataConnectionLayer-023: guard the native-alarm subscribe path against the
mid-flight-unsubscribe adapter-feed leak (mirrors the DCL-021 tag-path fix).
- SiteEventLogging-024: normalize From/To query bounds to UTC (the -016 fix the
audit trail claimed but never committed).
- KpiHistory-001: add an in-flight guard to the recorder sample tick.
- ScriptAnalysis-001: harden the trust analyzer's TPA-absent fallback (resolve
forbidden anchors in the minimal reference set; warn on degraded mode) — anchors
added to validation references only, never the compile gate.
(InboundAPI-026 left to the feat/ipsen-movein effort per owner decision.)
Medium/Low: DM-026 deterministic deploy-status tiebreaker; SR-027/028/029/030
native-alarm leak/phantom-active/delete-during-redeploy fixes; AL-013/014/016;
TE-024 (folder-mutation audit rows now persisted)/025; SF-025 gauge-provider
clear-on-stop; ESG-025/026; SEC-023/024/025; SCA-007/008/009; plus doc/test
accuracy COM-023/024, HOST-025/026, HM-024/025, NS-027/028.
Full-solution build 0 warnings; ~3560 tests across 18 touched suites green.
- Adds SourceNode varchar(64) NULL to AuditLog, Notifications, and SiteCalls
tables with role-name semantics: node-a/node-b for site rows (qualified by
SourceSiteId), central-a/central-b for central direct-write rows.
- New IX_AuditLog_Node_Occurred (SourceNode, OccurredAtUtc) index.
- Reframes CLAUDE.md from documentation-only to implementation project.
- Adds docs/plans/2026-05-23-audit-source-node.md + tasks.json companion.
The M1 implementation (Bundle A) committed concrete AuditChannel /
AuditKind / AuditStatus enums that reflect CLAUDE.md's locked
cached-call lifecycle decisions. The older alog.md and
Component-AuditLog.md narratives still used pre-M1 vocabulary
(Success / TransientFailure / PermanentFailure / Enqueued / Retrying /
SyncCall / CachedEnqueued / Attempt / Terminal / Completed). This
commit reconciles both docs to the M1 vocabulary:
AuditChannel : ApiOutbound, DbOutbound, Notification, ApiInbound
AuditKind (10): ApiCall, ApiCallCached, DbWrite, DbWriteCached,
NotifySend, NotifyDeliver, InboundRequest,
InboundAuthFailure, CachedSubmit, CachedResolve
AuditStatus(8): Submitted, Forwarded, Attempted, Delivered, Failed,
Parked, Discarded, Skipped
Updates:
- Status column description + worked examples use the new 8 values.
- Kind table flattened from per-channel groupings to a single flat
list of the 10 discriminators (no more SyncCall / Cached* /
Attempt / Terminal / Completed).
- Cached-call lifecycle examples rewritten to the
CachedSubmit -> Forwarded -> Attempted... -> CachedResolve shape.
- Notification lifecycle examples rewritten to
NotifySend(Submitted) -> NotifyDeliver(Attempted) ->
NotifyDeliver(Delivered/Parked/Discarded).
- Inbound API examples split into InboundRequest (success path) and
InboundAuthFailure (401 path).
- 'Errors only' UI toggle, audit-error-rate KPI, and payload-cap
decision (#6 in §16) all switched from 'non-Success' to
Status IN ('Failed', 'Parked', 'Discarded').
- Per-site event-rate table in §13.1 renamed to the new kinds.
Pure design correction; no operational behavior change. Per the
goal-prompt invariant #6, alog.md may change when a design correction
is committed before the affected code change — this commit is that
correction, landed ahead of the M1 merge so the merge order reads
design-first, code-second.
No code, test, or infra file changes.
Final cross-bundle reviewer identified 7 inconsistencies that the per-bundle
reviewers couldn't see; all fixed in one logical commit.
Critical:
- HighLevelReqs AL-3: drop 'then upsert-on-newer-status' — AuditLog is
strictly append-only (correct for SiteCalls/Notifications, wrong for
the immutable AuditLog shadow).
- Component-AuditLog Error rate KPI: align with HealthMonitoring's
exclusion list (Success/Delivered/Enqueued) rather than just non-Success;
otherwise every Delivered notification or Enqueued cached call would be
counted as an error.
Important:
- Component-AuditLog line 154: ISiteAuditWriter -> IAuditWriter (canonical
name per Commons and the rest of this doc).
- Component-AuditLog Central direct-write paragraph: convert remaining
slash notation (ApiInbound/Completed, Notification/Attempt,
Notification/Terminal) to dot notation used everywhere else.
- Component-ClusterInfrastructure: scope SiteCallAuditActor to
reconciliation + KPIs + Retry/Discard relay; cached-telemetry ingest is
AuditLogIngestActor's role per Combined Telemetry contract.
- Component-CentralUI Audit Log page: state the OperationalAudit read
permission and the read-vs-export split (matching CLI doc).
- Component-NotificationOutbox: add never-fail-the-action invariant for
dispatcher audit writes.
Minor:
- Component-InboundAPI: 'Non-blocking semantics' was ambiguous (could be
read as async); reword to 'Fail-soft' — the write is still synchronous
before flush, but failures are caught and don't change the response.
- Component-CLI: realign audit-query/audit-export flags to actually match
the Central UI Audit Log filter set (channel, kind, status, site,
instance, target, actor, correlation-id, errors-only); drop --user and
--entity-id which are IAuditService concepts, not Audit Log columns.
- Component-AuditLog KPI tile names: 'Volume/Error rate/Backlog' ->
'Audit volume/Audit error rate/Audit backlog' (matches Central UI and
Health Monitoring); drop the two orphan KPIs (Top inbound callers, Top
outbound 5xx) that were never surfaced anywhere.
- Component-AuditLog Interactions: re-attribute DbOutbound emissions to
ESG (where Database.* lives) with a note that Site Runtime is the API
surface for scripts.
- HighLevelReqs AL-12: drop 'and reconciliation operations' (CLI has no
reconcile command; reconciliation is an internal self-healing pull).
Add note that verify-chain becomes operational once AL-11's hash chain
ships.
Code-review feedback on c334de0:
- Ingestion Paths intro said 'Three write paths' but the section has four
subsections (site hot-path append + 3 central writers). Reword to 'Four
paths feed the central AuditLog -- one site originator and three central
writers'.
- Purpose: 'dashboards plus drilldowns plus filter queries' read awkwardly;
switch to standard comma list.
Joseph Doherty