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Let a quarantine expire, and stop two tasks spending one budget
A house's inverter broker dropped at 04:27 and the power flow was quarantined
20 seconds later. Quarantine was terminal — the supervised task returned and
only a publish or an engine restart could bring it back — so five hours of
power and battery readings are missing, and what ended it was an unrelated
`git pull` restarting uvicorn.

Two changes, both in that path:

- the failure budget is per task, not per flow. `power` runs an MQTT subscriber
  and a Victron keepalive publisher against the same broker; they died together
  and spent one shared budget in 41s, giving up before the 60s backoff step was
  ever reached.
- quarantine is now a rest. The task sits out 5min, then 15, then an hour, and
  each time gets its budget back and tries again, so a broker that comes back
  is picked up without anyone watching. `quarantined` reads from whichever
  tasks are currently resting.

The alert for it says when it will try again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C5H4uLCCpsbipL1R7WKCee
2026-08-28 10:35:13 +02:00

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"""Failing loudly: engine failures reach a person, not just a log line.
Everything that goes wrong already travels the event bus — a node raising, a
connection dropping, a flow being quarantined, the queue going away. Until now
the only subscriber was the editor's websocket, so a failure at three in the
morning was invisible.
The alert manager subscribes to the same bus and forwards what matters to a
channel the operator configured. What it mostly does is *not* send: the same
node failing every second is one alert, not thirty-six thousand.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import asyncio
import logging
import time
from collections import deque
from collections.abc import Callable
from typing import Any, Literal
import httpx
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from fluksio.flow.events import EventBus
from fluksio.flow.secrets import resolve_params
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# What is worth waking someone for. Everything else on the bus is traffic.
ALERTING_EVENTS = {
"node_error",
"node_health",
"flow_quarantined",
"task_crashed",
"engine_degraded",
"cascade_dropped",
"queue_unavailable",
}
# The same fault repeating is the same alert.
DEFAULT_COOLDOWN_S = 900.0
# A connection flapping is one story, not one alert per transition.
FLAP_WINDOW_S = 600.0
FLAP_THRESHOLD = 3
# However bad it gets, this is the most anyone is told per hour.
RATE_LIMIT = 10
RATE_WINDOW_S = 3600.0
class Channel(BaseModel):
"""Somewhere to send an alert."""
name: str
kind: Literal["ntfy", "smtp", "webhook", "dashboard"]
enabled: bool = True
# ntfy: server + topic + optional token. smtp: to. webhook: url.
# dashboard: message — the record a notification widget reads.
config: dict[str, Any] = Field(default_factory=dict)
class Rule(BaseModel):
"""Which events go to which channels."""
events: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
channels: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
cooldown_s: float = DEFAULT_COOLDOWN_S
def matches(self, event_type: str) -> bool:
# No list means every alerting event.
return not self.events or event_type in self.events
class AlertsConfig(BaseModel):
"""The whole alerting setup, as stored and as the API sees it."""
enabled: bool = True
channels: list[Channel] = Field(default_factory=list)
rules: list[Rule] = Field(default_factory=list)
class Alert(BaseModel):
"""What a channel is asked to deliver."""
title: str
body: str
severity: Literal["warning", "error"] = "error"
flow: str = ""
node: str = ""
def describe(event: dict[str, Any]) -> Alert | None:
"""Turn an engine event into something worth reading, or nothing."""
kind = event.get("type")
flow = str(event.get("flow") or "")
node = str(event.get("node") or "")
error = str(event.get("error") or event.get("reason") or "")
if kind == "node_error":
return Alert(
title=f"{node or 'A node'} failed",
body=error or "The node raised while running.",
flow=flow,
node=node,
)
if kind == "node_health":
if event.get("health") != "down":
return None
return Alert(
title=f"{node or 'A node'} lost its connection",
body=str(event.get("detail") or "Reported itself down."),
severity="warning",
flow=flow,
node=node,
)
if kind == "flow_quarantined":
retry = event.get("retry_in_s")
again = f" Trying again in {round(float(retry) / 60)} min." if retry else ""
return Alert(
title=f"Flow '{flow}' was quarantined",
body=(
f"It kept crashing, so the engine stood it down. {error}{again}"
).strip(),
flow=flow,
)
if kind == "task_crashed":
return Alert(
title=f"{event.get('task') or 'A background task'} crashed",
body=f"{error} Restarting it.",
severity="warning",
flow=flow,
)
if kind == "engine_degraded":
return Alert(title="The engine is struggling", body=error or "Degraded.")
if kind == "cascade_dropped":
return Alert(
title="Work was given up on",
body=(
f"An item for {node or 'a node'} came back "
f"{event.get('deliveries')} times and was set aside."
),
flow=flow,
node=node,
)
if kind == "queue_unavailable":
return Alert(title="The work queue is unreachable", body=error or "")
return None
def dedup_key(event: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
"""What counts as "the same alert again"."""
return f"{event.get('type')}:{event.get('node') or event.get('flow') or ''}"
class AlertManager:
"""Watches the event bus and tells someone when it matters."""
def __init__(
self,
events: EventBus,
config: AlertsConfig | None = None,
now: Any = time.monotonic,
) -> None:
self._events = events
self.config = config or AlertsConfig()
self._now = now
#: How a "dashboard" channel puts its alert into the graph. Bound after
#: construction, because the controller that publishes does not exist
#: yet when the manager is built.
self.publish: Callable[[str, Any], None] | None = None
self._last_sent: dict[str, float] = {}
self._suppressed: dict[str, int] = {}
self._health_flips: dict[str, deque[float]] = {}
self._flapping: dict[str, float] = {}
self._recent: deque[float] = deque()
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The loop
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
async def run(self) -> None:
"""Consume the bus until cancelled."""
async with self._events.subscribe() as queue:
while True:
event = await queue.get()
try:
await self.handle(event)
except Exception:
logger.exception("Alerting failed for %s", event.get("type"))
async def handle(self, event: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
if not self.config.enabled:
return
kind = str(event.get("type") or "")
if kind not in ALERTING_EVENTS:
return
if self._flaps(event):
return
alert = describe(event)
if alert is None:
return
rules = [r for r in self.config.rules if r.matches(kind)]
if not rules:
return
key = dedup_key(event)
cooldown = min(r.cooldown_s for r in rules)
if not self._due(key, cooldown):
return
if not self._within_rate_limit():
return
held = self._suppressed.pop(key, 0)
if held:
alert = alert.model_copy(
update={"body": f"{alert.body} ({held} more since the last alert.)"}
)
names = {name for rule in rules for name in rule.channels}
for channel in self.config.channels:
if channel.enabled and channel.name in names:
await self.send(channel, alert)
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Deciding whether to speak
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _due(self, key: str, cooldown: float) -> bool:
now = self._now()
last = self._last_sent.get(key)
if last is not None and now - last < cooldown:
self._suppressed[key] = self._suppressed.get(key, 0) + 1
return False
self._last_sent[key] = now
return True
def _within_rate_limit(self) -> bool:
now = self._now()
while self._recent and self._recent[0] < now - RATE_WINDOW_S:
self._recent.popleft()
if len(self._recent) >= RATE_LIMIT:
logger.warning("Alert rate limit reached; holding back")
return False
self._recent.append(now)
return True
def _flaps(self, event: dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
"""Is this health event part of a connection flapping up and down?
A device dropping every ten seconds should produce one alert, then
silence until it settles.
"""
if event.get("type") != "node_health":
return False
key = str(event.get("node") or "")
now = self._now()
muted_until = self._flapping.get(key)
if muted_until is not None:
if now < muted_until:
# Still flapping — push the window out and stay quiet.
if event.get("health") == "down":
self._flapping[key] = now + FLAP_WINDOW_S
return True
del self._flapping[key]
flips = self._health_flips.setdefault(key, deque())
flips.append(now)
while flips and flips[0] < now - FLAP_WINDOW_S:
flips.popleft()
if len(flips) >= FLAP_THRESHOLD * 2:
self._flapping[key] = now + FLAP_WINDOW_S
logger.info("Node '%s' is flapping; muting its health alerts", key)
return False
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Delivery
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
async def send(
self, channel: Channel, alert: Alert, raise_on_error: bool = False
) -> None:
"""Deliver one alert.
A failure is logged and swallowed, because one dead channel must not
stop the others hearing about the same fault. The test button passes
``raise_on_error``: telling a working channel from a broken one is the
only thing it exists for.
"""
try:
config = resolve_params(channel.config)
except Exception as exc:
if raise_on_error:
raise
logger.error("Channel '%s' has unusable settings: %s", channel.name, exc)
return
try:
if channel.kind == "ntfy":
await self._send_ntfy(config, alert)
elif channel.kind == "webhook":
await self._send_webhook(config, alert)
elif channel.kind == "dashboard":
await self._send_dashboard(config, alert)
else:
await self._send_email(config, alert)
except Exception as exc:
if raise_on_error:
raise
logger.error("Could not alert through '%s': %s", channel.name, exc)
async def _send_ntfy(self, config: dict[str, Any], alert: Alert) -> None:
server = str(config.get("server") or "https://ntfy.sh").rstrip("/")
topic = config.get("topic")
if not topic:
raise ValueError("ntfy needs a topic")
headers = {
"Title": alert.title,
"Priority": "high" if alert.severity == "error" else "default",
"Tags": "warning" if alert.severity == "warning" else "rotating_light",
}
if config.get("token"):
headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {config['token']}"
async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=10) as client:
response = await client.post(
f"{server}/{topic}", content=alert.body.encode(), headers=headers
)
response.raise_for_status()
async def _send_dashboard(self, config: dict[str, Any], alert: Alert) -> None:
"""Put the alert into the graph, where a notification widget shows it.
The message has to be one a flow declares, like any other a dashboard
writes to — so a panel that shows engine faults says so in a flow
rather than appearing from nowhere.
"""
message = str(config.get("message") or "")
if not message:
raise ValueError("a dashboard channel needs a message name")
if self.publish is None:
raise RuntimeError("nothing is wired up to publish this")
# Blocking: it reads the store to find the declared message.
await asyncio.to_thread(self.publish, message, alert.model_dump())
async def _send_webhook(self, config: dict[str, Any], alert: Alert) -> None:
url = config.get("url")
if not url:
raise ValueError("a webhook channel needs a url")
async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=10) as client:
response = await client.post(str(url), json=alert.model_dump())
response.raise_for_status()
async def _send_email(self, config: dict[str, Any], alert: Alert) -> None:
from fluksio.core.config import settings
from fluksio.utils import send_email
recipient = config.get("to")
if not recipient:
raise ValueError("an smtp channel needs a recipient")
if not settings.emails_enabled:
raise RuntimeError("no SMTP configuration")
await asyncio.to_thread(
send_email,
email_to=str(recipient),
subject=alert.title,
html_content=f"<p>{alert.body}</p>",
)