using Akka.Actor;
using Akka.Cluster.Tools.PublishSubscribe;
using Akka.Event;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Interfaces.Repositories;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Messages.Audit;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Messages.Communication;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Messages.Deployment;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Messages.Health;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Messages.Notification;
using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.HealthMonitoring;
namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication.Actors;
///
/// Central-side actor that routes messages from central to site clusters over the gRPC
/// SiteCommandService command plane (). Resolves site
/// addresses from the database on a periodic refresh cycle and reconciles the transport's per-site
/// channel pairs.
///
/// All 8 message patterns routed through this actor.
/// Ask timeout on connection drop (no central buffering). Debug streams killed on interruption.
///
public class CentralCommunicationActor : ReceiveActor
{
private readonly ILoggingAdapter _log = Context.GetLogger();
private readonly IServiceProvider _serviceProvider;
///
/// The central→site command transport (the gRPC , built by
/// the Host and injected). The handler delegates every send here, and
/// each DB refresh tick reconciles its per-site channel pairs. Assigned in the constructor body
/// before any message can arrive.
///
private ISiteCommandTransport _transport = null!;
// The previous _debugSubscriptions / _inProgressDeployments
// dictionaries existed solely to support a documented "synchronous kill streams +
// mark deployments failed on site disconnect" workflow triggered by
// ConnectionStateChanged. No production code ever emitted that message — only
// the unit test did — so the workflow was dead from end to end. Disconnect
// detection is owned by the underlying transports: the gRPC keepalive PING
// signals stream interruption in ~25s (handled by DebugStreamBridgeActor's own
// reconnection logic), and an Ask round-trip for a deploy times out at the
// CommunicationService layer (caller sees failure). The tracking dicts +
// ConnectionStateChanged record + HandleConnectionStateChanged handler are
// removed; see docs/requirements/Component-Communication.md "Connection
// Failure Behavior" for the keepalive-based contract that survives.
private ICancelable? _refreshSchedule;
///
/// Per-actor lifecycle CTS threaded into the periodic
/// repository call so a hung MS SQL
/// connection is bounded by actor shutdown rather than holding piped tasks
/// open indefinitely. Cancelled in ; never reset.
///
private readonly CancellationTokenSource _lifecycleCts = new();
///
/// Process-wide monotonic stamp for (review 2026-10-21
/// 03/M-1). Static so it stays monotonic across actor restarts: a late result piped from a
/// previous incarnation's load can never outrank a newer one.
///
private static long s_loadSequence;
/// Sequence of the DB load currently in flight; 0 when none (the overlap guard).
private long _inFlightLoadSequence;
/// A refresh requested while a load was in flight; re-run once the load completes.
private bool _refreshPending;
/// Sequence of the last result handed to the transport; older results are dropped.
private long _lastAppliedLoadSequence;
///
/// Proxy for the central NotificationOutboxActor cluster singleton.
/// Set via — the Host creates the singleton proxy
/// after this actor and registers it (mirrors how the site-side actor receives its
/// runtime s). Null until registration completes; a notification
/// arriving before then is rejected with a non-accepted ack so the site retries.
///
private IActorRef? _notificationOutboxProxy;
///
/// DistributedPubSub topic used to fan health reports out to the peer
/// central node so both per-node aggregators stay in sync. See
/// for the protocol rationale.
///
private const string HealthReportTopic = "site-health-replica";
///
/// Constructs the actor over the given central→site command transport (production injects the
/// gRPC , built by the Host from the DI
/// ; tests substitute a fake).
///
/// DI service provider for scoped repository and aggregator access.
/// The central→site command transport to route every through.
public CentralCommunicationActor(
IServiceProvider serviceProvider,
ISiteCommandTransport transport)
: this(serviceProvider)
{
_transport = transport ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(transport));
}
/// Shared wiring: sets scoped state and registers every message handler. The
/// is assigned by the delegating public constructor before any message
/// is dispatched.
/// DI service provider.
private CentralCommunicationActor(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
{
_serviceProvider = serviceProvider;
// Site address cache loaded from database
Receive(HandleSiteAddressCacheLoaded);
// Periodic refresh trigger
Receive(_ => LoadSiteAddressesFromDb());
// A faulted (or deadline-cancelled) LoadSiteAddressesFromDb task. Without this the
// failure was an unhandled message (debug-level only) and the refresh failed silently —
// operators could not distinguish "no sites configured" from "database is down". Log at
// Warning and release the overlap guard.
Receive(HandleSiteAddressLoadFailed);
// The load task converts its own faults to SiteAddressLoadFailed, so a Status.Failure
// here is unexpected — but it must still release the overlap guard, or every later
// refresh would be coalesced behind a load that never reports back.
Receive(failure =>
{
_log.Warning(failure.Cause,
"Failed to load site addresses from the database; the per-site gRPC channel "
+ "cache was not refreshed and may be stale or empty");
if (_inFlightLoadSequence != 0)
{
CompleteLoad(_inFlightLoadSequence);
}
});
// Health monitoring: heartbeats and health reports from sites
Receive(HandleHeartbeat);
Receive(HandleSiteHealthReport);
Receive(r => ProcessLocally(r.Report));
Receive(r => MarkHeartbeatLocally(r.Heartbeat));
Receive(_ => { /* DistributedPubSub subscribe confirmation */ });
// Route enveloped messages to sites
Receive(HandleSiteEnvelope);
// Notification Outbox: the Host registers the outbox singleton proxy after this
// actor is created (the proxy cannot exist before this actor's construction).
Receive(msg =>
{
_notificationOutboxProxy = msg.OutboxProxy;
_log.Info("Registered notification outbox proxy");
});
// Notification Outbox ingest: a site forwards a buffered NotificationSubmit to the
// central cluster. Forward to the outbox proxy so the original
// Sender (the site's transport path) is preserved and the NotificationSubmitAck
// routes straight back to the site.
Receive(HandleNotificationSubmit);
// Notification Outbox status query: forward to the outbox proxy, preserving Sender
// so the NotificationStatusResponse routes back to the querying site.
Receive(HandleNotificationStatusQuery);
// Audit Log site→central ingest is NOT relayed here. The central-hosted
// CentralControlGrpcService Asks the audit-log-ingest singleton proxy directly
// (as SiteStreamGrpcServer always has), so this actor no longer sits in that
// path — the relay was a second hop with an identical 30 s Ask timeout that
// could only add latency. Do not reintroduce it.
// Startup reconciliation: a site node forwards its local deployed inventory on
// startup. Resolve the scoped ReconcileService, diff the
// inventory against central's expected set, and pipe the ReconcileSiteResponse
// (gap fetch tokens + orphans) straight back to the site node.
Receive(msg => HandleReconcileSiteRequest(msg, CancellationToken.None));
// The same request as received by CentralControlGrpcService.ReconcileSite, carrying the
// gRPC call's cancellation token so central stops staging work for a site that gave up.
Receive(call => HandleReconcileSiteRequest(call.Request, call.CallCancelled));
}
private void HandleNotificationSubmit(NotificationSubmit msg)
{
if (_notificationOutboxProxy == null)
{
// No outbox proxy registered yet. A non-accepted ack makes the site's
// Store-and-Forward forwarder treat this as transient and retry later.
_log.Warning(
"Cannot route NotificationSubmit {0} — notification outbox not available",
msg.NotificationId);
Sender.Tell(new NotificationSubmitAck(
msg.NotificationId, Accepted: false, Error: "notification outbox not available"));
return;
}
_log.Debug("Routing NotificationSubmit {0} to the notification outbox", msg.NotificationId);
_notificationOutboxProxy.Forward(msg);
}
private void HandleNotificationStatusQuery(NotificationStatusQuery msg)
{
if (_notificationOutboxProxy == null)
{
// No outbox proxy registered yet. Reply Found: false so the querying site
// falls back to its local Store-and-Forward buffer to resolve the status.
_log.Warning(
"Cannot route NotificationStatusQuery {0} — notification outbox not available",
msg.NotificationId);
Sender.Tell(new NotificationStatusResponse(
msg.CorrelationId, Found: false, Status: "Unknown",
RetryCount: 0, LastError: null, DeliveredAt: null));
return;
}
_log.Debug("Routing NotificationStatusQuery {0} to the notification outbox", msg.NotificationId);
_notificationOutboxProxy.Forward(msg);
}
///
/// Startup reconciliation (site→central): resolve the scoped
/// in a DI scope, diff the node's reported inventory
/// against central's expected set, and pipe the
/// back to the site node's transport path. The actor stays thin — all the diff
/// and staging logic lives in the service. Mirrors the DB-access pattern used by
/// (Task.Run + CreateScope + PipeTo) and the
/// Sender-preservation pattern of .
///
/// On a faulted task PipeTo delivers a to the node; its
/// Ask faults and it simply retries reconcile on the next startup — reconcile is
/// best-effort, so the fault is allowed to propagate rather than being swallowed.
///
/// The site node's reconcile request.
///
/// The originating gRPC call's token (review 2026-10-21 03/P-1b): when the site's deadline
/// expires or it disconnects, the reconcile stops instead of staging pending rows for a caller
/// that is gone. for an in-process caller.
///
private void HandleReconcileSiteRequest(ReconcileSiteRequest msg, CancellationToken callCancelled)
{
// Capture Sender before the async/PipeTo — Akka resets Sender between dispatches.
var replyTo = Sender;
// Bound the DB work by the actor lifecycle. The CTS may have
// been disposed by PostStop on a racing late message; treat that as "actor gone".
CancellationToken ct;
try
{
ct = _lifecycleCts.Token;
}
catch (ObjectDisposedException)
{
return;
}
_log.Debug(
"Handling ReconcileSiteRequest from site {0} node {1} ({2} local instance(s))",
msg.SiteIdentifier, msg.NodeId, msg.LocalNameToRevisionHash.Count);
Task.Run(async () =>
{
using var linked = CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(ct, callCancelled);
using var scope = _serviceProvider.CreateScope();
var service = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService();
return await service.ReconcileAsync(msg, linked.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
}).PipeTo(replyTo);
}
private void HandleHeartbeat(HeartbeatMessage heartbeat)
{
// Synthetic heartbeats carry no liveness meaning — today only
// CentralChannelProvider's failback probe, which reuses this RPC to ask whether the
// preferred central endpoint answers again. It is emitted by a site's TRANSPORT layer,
// not by any node's heartbeat timer, so stamping it would let a site whose real
// heartbeats had stopped keep looking alive on the health dashboard for as long as its
// transport kept probing. Dropped before the local mark AND before the peer fan-out,
// so neither central node's aggregator ever sees it.
if (heartbeat.Synthetic)
{
_log.Debug(
"Ignoring synthetic heartbeat from site {0} (node '{1}') — probe traffic, not liveness",
heartbeat.SiteId, heartbeat.NodeHostname);
return;
}
MarkHeartbeatLocally(heartbeat);
// Fan the heartbeat out to the peer central node so BOTH aggregators mark
// it, regardless of which central node the site delivered
// to. Without this, a heartbeat that only ever reaches one node leaves the
// other node's aggregator blind to that site's liveness after a failover
// (arch review 02, Low). MarkHeartbeat is idempotent (timestamp overwrite),
// so self-delivery via pub-sub is harmless.
try
{
DistributedPubSub.Get(Context.System).Mediator.Tell(
new Publish(HealthReportTopic, new SiteHeartbeatReplica(heartbeat)));
}
catch
{
// No-op in non-clustered hosts (TestKit).
}
}
///
/// Marks a site heartbeat on the local aggregator without re-broadcasting.
/// Used for both site-originated heartbeats and peer-replicated ones.
/// A synthetic heartbeat is never marked — already drops it
/// before the fan-out, so a replica can only carry one if a peer node predates the flag;
/// the guard here is belt-and-braces on the last hop before the aggregator.
///
private void MarkHeartbeatLocally(HeartbeatMessage heartbeat)
{
if (heartbeat.Synthetic)
{
return;
}
var aggregator = _serviceProvider.GetService();
aggregator?.MarkHeartbeat(heartbeat.SiteId, heartbeat.Timestamp);
}
///
/// Handles a report delivered directly from a site:
/// process locally, then fan out to the peer central node so its
/// aggregator stays in sync.
///
private void HandleSiteHealthReport(SiteHealthReport report)
{
ProcessLocally(report);
try
{
DistributedPubSub.Get(Context.System).Mediator.Tell(
new Publish(HealthReportTopic, new SiteHealthReportReplica(report)));
}
catch
{
// No-op in non-clustered hosts (TestKit).
}
// Ack the site so its AkkaHealthReportTransport Ask completes and the
// report-loss counter-restore path can observe delivery (review 01
// [Medium]). Guarded so the peer-replica path (SiteHealthReportReplica,
// which arrives without an Ask sender) never dead-letters an ack.
if (!Sender.IsNobody())
{
Sender.Tell(new SiteHealthReportAck(report.SiteId, report.SequenceNumber, Accepted: true));
}
}
///
/// Applies a report to the local aggregator without re-broadcasting.
/// Used for both site-originated reports and peer-replicated ones — the
/// aggregator is idempotent via sequence-number comparison.
///
private void ProcessLocally(SiteHealthReport report)
{
var aggregator = _serviceProvider.GetService();
if (aggregator != null)
{
aggregator.ProcessReport(report);
}
else
{
_log.Warning("ICentralHealthAggregator not available, dropping health report from site {0}", report.SiteId);
}
}
// HandleConnectionStateChanged removed — no production
// caller emitted ConnectionStateChanged, so the workflow ran only in tests.
// Disconnect detection is owned by the transport layers (gRPC keepalive +
// Ask timeout).
private void HandleSiteEnvelope(SiteEnvelope envelope)
{
// Below-the-seam routing: the gRPC transport owns the "no route for this site ⇒ warn +
// drop, caller's Ask times out" contract. Sender is the temporary Ask actor (or the
// debug-bridge actor) and is preserved for reply routing.
_transport.Send(envelope, Sender);
}
private void LoadSiteAddressesFromDb()
{
// Overlap guard (review 2026-10-21 03/M-1): a wedged DB used to stack one Task.Run + DI
// scope + DbContext per 60 s tick, and their late completions could land out of order.
// A tick (or an admin-change refresh) that arrives mid-load is coalesced into ONE re-run
// once the current load finishes, so an on-demand refresh is never lost.
if (_inFlightLoadSequence != 0)
{
_refreshPending = true;
return;
}
var self = Self;
// Pass the actor's lifecycle CT into the repository
// call so a hung database query is cancelled when the actor stops
// rather than leaving the piped task to accumulate. Captured locally
// because the lifecycle CTS may have been disposed by PostStop on a
// racing late tick; treat that as "actor gone, give up".
CancellationToken lifecycle;
try
{
lifecycle = _lifecycleCts.Token;
}
catch (ObjectDisposedException)
{
return;
}
var sequence = Interlocked.Increment(ref s_loadSequence);
_inFlightLoadSequence = sequence;
_refreshPending = false;
// Per-load deadline: a hung read is abandoned instead of pinning the overlap guard.
var deadline = _serviceProvider.GetService>()?.Value.QueryTimeout
?? TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30);
Task.Run(async () =>
{
CancellationTokenSource? loadCts = null;
try
{
// Inside the try: a throw here (e.g. a lifecycle CTS disposed by a racing
// PostStop) must still report back, or the overlap guard would never release.
loadCts = CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource(lifecycle);
loadCts.CancelAfter(deadline);
using var scope = _serviceProvider.CreateScope();
var repo = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService();
var sites = await repo.GetAllSitesAsync(loadCts.Token).ConfigureAwait(false);
// gRPC-endpoint cache (the GrpcNodeA/BAddress columns, NOT the legacy Akka
// NodeA/BAddress ones, which no longer drive cross-cluster dialling).
var grpcContacts = new Dictionary();
foreach (var site in sites)
{
var grpcA = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(site.GrpcNodeAAddress) ? null : site.GrpcNodeAAddress;
var grpcB = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(site.GrpcNodeBAddress) ? null : site.GrpcNodeBAddress;
if (grpcA is not null || grpcB is not null)
grpcContacts[site.SiteIdentifier] = new SiteGrpcEndpoints(grpcA, grpcB);
}
// Carry the full configured-site identifier set (not just the
// gRPC-address-bearing subset) so the aggregator prunes only
// genuinely-deleted sites and never an addressless-but-configured one.
var knownSiteIds = sites.Select(s => s.SiteIdentifier).ToList();
return (object)new SiteAddressCacheLoaded(knownSiteIds, grpcContacts, sequence);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
var stopping = lifecycle.IsCancellationRequested;
var timedOut = ex is OperationCanceledException && !stopping;
return new SiteAddressLoadFailed(sequence, ex, timedOut ? deadline : null, ActorStopping: stopping);
}
finally
{
loadCts?.Dispose();
}
}).PipeTo(self);
}
private void CompleteLoad(long sequence)
{
if (sequence != _inFlightLoadSequence)
{
return; // a previous incarnation's / superseded load — the guard belongs to another one
}
_inFlightLoadSequence = 0;
if (_refreshPending)
{
LoadSiteAddressesFromDb();
}
}
private void HandleSiteAddressLoadFailed(SiteAddressLoadFailed failed)
{
if (failed.ActorStopping)
{
// Cancelled because the (previous incarnation of the) actor stopped or restarted —
// expected, not a database problem.
_log.Debug("Site-address load {0} cancelled by actor shutdown/restart", failed.Sequence);
}
else if (failed.TimedOutAfter is { } after)
{
_log.Warning(
"Loading site addresses from the database did not complete within {0}; the per-site "
+ "gRPC channel cache was not refreshed and may be stale or empty", after);
}
else
{
_log.Warning(failed.Cause,
"Failed to load site addresses from the database; the per-site gRPC channel "
+ "cache was not refreshed and may be stale or empty");
}
CompleteLoad(failed.Sequence);
}
private void HandleSiteAddressCacheLoaded(SiteAddressCacheLoaded msg)
{
CompleteLoad(msg.Sequence);
// Never let an older read overwrite a newer one (review 2026-10-21 03/M-1): applying
// stale addresses would park freshly built channels and rebuild from the old endpoints.
if (msg.Sequence <= _lastAppliedLoadSequence)
{
_log.Debug("Dropping stale site-address load {0} (last applied {1})",
msg.Sequence, _lastAppliedLoadSequence);
return;
}
_lastAppliedLoadSequence = msg.Sequence;
// Per-site transport resource reconciliation (build/drop gRPC channel
// pairs). Runs on the actor thread each refresh tick. Guarded (review 2026-10-21 03/R-1):
// a throw here would restart this actor, whose PreStart re-reads the Sites table at
// TimeSpan.Zero — a restart loop for as long as a bad row persists — and would skip the
// aggregator prune below.
try
{
_transport.ReconcileSites(msg);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_log.Error(ex, "Reconciling site gRPC channels from the refreshed address cache failed; "
+ "existing channels are kept until the next refresh");
}
// Self-healing eviction: a site deleted from configuration would otherwise
// linger in the aggregator as a permanently-offline tile (and live KPI
// sample source) forever. Prune on every refresh so it disappears within
// one refresh interval without needing a dedicated deletion event. Transport-agnostic.
_serviceProvider.GetService()?.PruneUnknownSites(msg.KnownSiteIds);
}
// TrackMessageForCleanup removed — the dicts it fed
// existed solely to support the dead ConnectionStateChanged workflow.
///
protected override SupervisorStrategy SupervisorStrategy()
{
return new OneForOneStrategy(
maxNrOfRetries: -1,
withinTimeRange: Timeout.InfiniteTimeSpan,
decider: Decider.From(ex =>
{
_log.Warning(ex, "Child actor of CentralCommunicationActor faulted, resuming (state preserved)");
return Directive.Resume;
}));
}
///
protected override void PreStart()
{
_log.Info("CentralCommunicationActor started");
// Subscribe to the peer-replication topic so we receive health reports
// delivered to the other central node and keep our local aggregator
// in sync (a site may deliver its report to either central node).
// Tolerant of non-clustered hosts (TestKit) where the extension is absent.
try
{
DistributedPubSub.Get(Context.System).Mediator.Tell(
new Subscribe(HealthReportTopic, Self));
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_log.Debug("DistributedPubSub not available — peer health replication disabled: {0}", ex.Message);
}
// Schedule periodic refresh of site addresses from the database
_refreshSchedule = Context.System.Scheduler.ScheduleTellRepeatedlyCancelable(
TimeSpan.Zero,
TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60),
Self,
new RefreshSiteAddresses(),
ActorRefs.NoSender);
}
///
protected override void PostStop()
{
_log.Info("CentralCommunicationActor stopped");
_refreshSchedule?.Cancel();
// Cancel any in-flight LoadSiteAddressesFromDb so a
// hung MS SQL query does not outlive the actor.
try
{
_lifecycleCts.Cancel();
}
catch (ObjectDisposedException)
{
// Double-stop is benign.
}
_lifecycleCts.Dispose();
}
}
///
/// Command to trigger a refresh of site addresses from the database.
///
public record RefreshSiteAddresses;
///
/// Message carrying the loaded site contact data from the database. Per-transport resource
/// reconciliation happens on the actor thread in HandleSiteAddressCacheLoaded, which hands this
/// straight to . In-process only (never on the
/// wire); the payload is exposed through read-only collection types so the Akka.NET "messages are
/// immutable" convention is enforced at the type level.
///
/// Every configured site id, address-bearing or not, for aggregator pruning.
/// gRPC endpoint pairs per site (from GrpcNodeA/GrpcNodeBAddress).
///
/// Monotonic load stamp; the actor drops a result whose sequence is not newer than the last one it
/// applied, so an out-of-order completion never re-applies stale addresses.
///
public sealed record SiteAddressCacheLoaded(
IReadOnlyCollection KnownSiteIds,
IReadOnlyDictionary GrpcContacts,
long Sequence);
///
/// In-process envelope (never on the wire) pairing a site's
/// with the cancellation token of the gRPC call that carried it, so the central reconcile stops
/// when the site abandons the call (review 2026-10-21 03/P-1b).
///
/// The reconcile request.
/// The gRPC call's ServerCallContext.CancellationToken.
internal sealed record ReconcileSiteCall(ReconcileSiteRequest Request, CancellationToken CallCancelled);
/// A failed (or deadline-cancelled) site-address DB load, piped back to release the overlap guard.
/// The failed load's sequence stamp.
/// The failure.
/// The per-load deadline when the load was cancelled by it; otherwise null.
/// True when the actor's lifecycle token was cancelled (stop/restart) — logged at Debug.
internal sealed record SiteAddressLoadFailed(long Sequence, Exception Cause, TimeSpan? TimedOutAfter, bool ActorStopping = false);
///
/// A site's gRPC node-pair endpoints, as loaded from Site.GrpcNodeAAddress/
/// GrpcNodeBAddress. Either may be null when only one node has a gRPC address configured.
///
/// NodeA gRPC base address (e.g. http://scadabridge-site-a-node-a:8083), or null.
/// NodeB gRPC base address, or null.
public readonly record struct SiteGrpcEndpoints(string? NodeA, string? NodeB);
///
/// Peer-replication envelope for a site heartbeat, fanned out over the same
/// DistributedPubSub topic as so both
/// central aggregators mark heartbeats regardless of which node the site
/// delivered to. Only ever travels central↔central (same assembly
/// version, rolled together), so the default reflective serializer is safe.
///
public sealed record SiteHeartbeatReplica(HeartbeatMessage Heartbeat);
///
/// Notification sent to debug view subscribers when the stream is terminated
/// due to site disconnection.
///
public record DebugStreamTerminated(string SiteId, string CorrelationId);
///
/// Registers the central NotificationOutboxActor singleton proxy with the
/// so site-forwarded
/// and messages can be routed to it. Sent by the Host
/// after the outbox singleton proxy is created.
///
public record RegisterNotificationOutbox(IActorRef OutboxProxy);
// NOTE: there is deliberately no RegisterAuditIngest counterpart. The audit-log-ingest
// singleton proxy goes STRAIGHT to the two gRPC servers that need it
// (CentralControlGrpcService.SetAuditIngestActor);
// routing audit batches through this actor was a redundant hop and was removed.