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A rabbit reads the telemetry page,
Then hops through specs from stage to stage.
Guest records cross the host-side way,
While spools keep notes for another day.
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Advisory. None of this blocks the merge; the review decides. Advisory, and never a merge gate. Linter: |
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Review of spec 25 after a comparison with gominimal/arch.
Result: changes requested before merge.
These items are correct:
- the allowlist for the boot line;
- the refusal of endpoints that can contain a secret;
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TRACEPARENTgoes into boxes; - the refusal to send headers to a
MINIMAL_endpoint; - no fixed default endpoint.
All test names that the spec refers to exist in #1989.
Three problems prevent merge. Each needs a text change, an architecture decision or a known risk. No code change is necessary in this pull request.
- Guest export (TEL-034) works only because the node network allows all traffic now. Section 5.1 of the design has no collector type. minimal#1786 will stop guest export, and no message will tell the user.
- The host setting puts
TRACEPARENTinto boxes, but the box spec does not show it. This is different from the architecture and from arch#103. Also, limit TEL-023 and the rule at line 723 to the host environment. If you do not, they prevent the[otel]section and inbox#678 S16. - TEL-002 (
DO_NOT_TRACK) and TEL-009 do not agree. A daemon in operation exports spans of a command that hasDO_NOT_TRACK=1. No message tells the user.
Other necessary changes:
- refer to arch#102 for the change to AT20;
- correct the stories and two incorrect notes;
- write the risk of false spans from a box, and add the box identity to daemon spans;
- make issues for the requirements that only lab scenarios or unit tests prove.
Write these known risks in the pull request description:
- the temporary allow-all node rule (#1786);
- export of spans for a command that has
DO_NOT_TRACK=1; - false spans from a box to a collector without authentication;
- requirements that only lab scenarios or macOS unit tests prove;
http://export without encryption from the guest.
Not examined: only spec-lint ran (the Linux KVM check shows cancelled). I did not run the lab scenarios.
| crates/minimald/src/traced.rs::no_direct_tokio_spawn_blocking (a text guard; | ||
| review S15 lists spawn forms it misses) | ||
| lab: 710d, 713, 716 | ||
| - **TEL-023** WHEN a session exec or run starts in a box THE SYSTEM SHALL put |
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Must fix: the host setting puts TRACEPARENT into boxes, but the box spec does not show it.
Problem:
- The architecture says that the box spec controls the box environment (
architecture.md:1201-1202). min box specmust show all that a box gets (architecture.md:485).- gominimal/arch#103 is open. It proposes
TRACEPARENTonly when the box spec asks for it. - Lines 36-38 of this spec say that this rule is not in scope. But TEL-023, TEL-026 and TEL-005 put the variable into the box.
Example:
- A CI runner sets
MINIMAL_TELEMETRY=1for all jobs. - A reviewer reads
min box spec. It does not showTRACEPARENT. - The workload gets the host trace context.
- An OpenTelemetry library in the workload uses this context. The workload spans then join the host trace.
Do this. Select one option and record it:
- Option 1: Put
TRACEPARENTinto the box only when the box spec asks for it. This change waits for arch#103. - Option 2: Get a decision on arch#103 that the host setting is sufficient. Then make
min box specshow the variable.
For each option, correct lines 36-38.
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| verify: cargo nextest run -p minimal forwards_an_inbound_traceparent_without_exporting | ||
| test: crates/minimal/src/cmd/mod.rs::forwards_an_inbound_traceparent_without_exporting | ||
| lab: 717, 717b | ||
| - **TEL-026** WHEN `min task run` starts a task THE SYSTEM SHALL add the exec |
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Must fix: This is the same problem as TEL-023. A task environment is a box environment. Refer to the comment on TEL-023.
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Same resolution as TEL-023 (689441d): scoped to the host telemetry environment, option 2 of arch#103.
| Platforms. The same code runs on Linux (native `minimald`, and `minvmd` with | ||
| KVM) and macOS (`minvmd` with the Hypervisor framework; the daemon as the | ||
| guest's `/init`). The lab proves every requirement above on Linux (four | ||
| distributions, Cloud Hypervisor guests); macOS has unit coverage only until a |
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Must fix: make issues for the missing proof.
- macOS has only unit tests.
- Only lab scenarios prove TEL-009, TEL-034 and TEL-044. These scenarios are not in this repository.
Do this:
- Make an issue for each item. Alternatively, add an end-to-end
not_runorknown_gapthat refers to the issue. - Write each item as a known risk in the pull request description.
| the lab harness, not in this repository, and are cited so a reviewer can ask | ||
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| Kani harnesses run with `just kani`. A test marked "known gap" fails |
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Minor: No requirement is marked as a known gap. The requirement tests do not use TEST_KNOWN_GAPS. Remove this paragraph, or name each gap and refer to an issue.
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Made true in 689441d: the paragraph names each gap with its issue, and the tests read them through TEST_KNOWN_GAPS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Second pass, after the review of 2026-10-05. Two questions: does this spec let users get telemetry from the software in their box, and how does it connect to min bug?
Summary:
- The spec covers Minimal's own processes well. It gives the software in a box only a trace id, and only when Minimal's own export is on. A separate issue tracks telemetry from the software in a box.
- TEL-023 conflicts with the proposed opt-in rule in gominimal/arch#103. Get a ruling before this spec leaves draft.
- TEL-044 is the link to
min bug, and it is the right first step. It disagrees with the Non-goals about the guest spool, it has no test in the repository, and the bundle does not record whether telemetry was on.
| crates/minimald/src/traced.rs::no_direct_tokio_spawn_blocking (a text guard; | ||
| review S15 lists spawn forms it misses) | ||
| lab: 710d, 713, 716 | ||
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Must fix: TEL-023 conflicts with the proposed arch rule for trace propagation.
Problem:
- TEL-023 puts
TRACEPARENTinto every box when host telemetry is on. The box spec has no control over it. - gominimal/arch#103 proposes that propagation into a box is opt-in per Box Spec (a key such as
propagate_trace = true). - If this spec merges first, the box behaviour changes again when arch#103 is decided. Boxes that read
TRACEPARENTtoday will then stop getting it.
Do this:
- Get a ruling on arch#103 before this spec leaves draft.
- If the ruling is opt-in per spec, change TEL-023 to: "WHEN a session exec or run starts in a box whose spec opts in to trace propagation THE SYSTEM SHALL put the exec span's
TRACEPARENTinto the box's environment, and no otherOTEL_*,BAGGAGEor exporter header variable." - If the ruling keeps the host switch, record the ruling in the TEL-023 annotation and cite it.
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Agreed, and Mike rules on arch#103. Until then this spec stays draft. The TEL-023 annotation (5b73df8) records the pending ruling and the exact opt-in-per-Box-Spec wording TEL-023 takes if that is the ruling. Behaviour is unchanged meanwhile.
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@norrietaylor, thanks for the review. All 21 threads have replies; here is the summary. Blocker 1 (guest export rode the node allow-all): fixed by design rather than by text. Guest telemetry now goes over vsock to Verification of the whole stack, rebased on Known risks: requirements proved only in the lab or by unit tests on macOS (issues above); a box-supplied trace context is still a parent, not a link (#2038). |
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All findings in this review are addressed at eed80b0. The remaining block is the ruling on gominimal/arch#103. Refer to the PR comment.
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Review of eed80b0. All findings from the two earlier reviews are addressed. I dismissed my "changes requested" review. Must fix: get a ruling on gominimal/arch#103 before this spec leaves draft. Problem:
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Minor: the PR description is out of date. Problem:
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Findings from the reviews of the implementation PRs (#1994 to #2039) that apply to this spec. I checked them against this PR's head (eed80b0) and the top of the stack (#2039). Should fix: three Problem:
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Should fix: TEL-034's Problem:
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Should fix: the known-gap table does not agree with the spec. The table is Problem:
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Reviewed: 2 findings, none blocking at Address the comments on the diff. Clobber: none: the only non-new file edited (10-spec-diagnostics.md) is a two-line cross-link addition; |
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- Line 98: Update the telemetry documentation sentence to clarify that
configured headers are sent to the selected collector, never enter a VM or box,
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| Headers stay on your machine. They never reach a VM or a box. |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
State where request headers go.
Configured headers leave the machine in requests to the selected collector. This sentence incorrectly says they stay on the machine. Say instead that headers never enter a VM or box, and that users should trust the collector and transport that receive them.
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| `min` always adopts a valid inbound `TRACEPARENT` for its ids and forwards a | ||
| trace context to its daemon, whether or not it exports. Adopting is not |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Correct the off-state trace rule.
When the host min has telemetry off, TEL-045 requires it to send an opt-out and no TRACEPARENT. These lines instead say that it always forwards trace context, including when it does not export. Limit this description to the in-box helper’s behavior, and state the host CLI rule separately.
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| | `DO_NOT_TRACK` | Any non-empty value vetoes export and spool, `0` and `false` included. | | ||
| | `OTEL_SDK_DISABLED` | `true` (any case) vetoes export and spool. `1` does not. | | ||
| | `MINIMAL_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT`, then `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT` | Base endpoint. `/v1/traces` and `/v1/logs` are appended. | | ||
| | `MINIMAL_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_{TRACES,LOGS}_ENDPOINT`, then the `OTEL_` names | Per-signal endpoint, used as given. A per-signal endpoint under either name wins over a base endpoint under either name. | |
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Give prefixed endpoints the documented precedence.
A plain per-signal endpoint does not win over MINIMAL_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT. TEL-004 and the reference page put every MINIMAL_ endpoint before every plain endpoint. Correct this table row so it does not direct an implementation to send records to the wrong collector.
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| only to the endpoints you name and to the spool on your own disk. | ||
| `DO_NOT_TRACK` and `OTEL_SDK_DISABLED=true` always win over every other | ||
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Correct the request-header privacy statement.
The Authentication section says configured headers go to the selected collector, but this line says they stay on the machine. That can mislead users about credential egress. State that configured OTLP headers go only to the selected collector and never enter a VM or box. This repeats the prior review finding on header egress.
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addressed in aad857f: headers sentences (both), host off-rule, TEL-004 row
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| collector is down, slow or unreachable. Each bound names the constant it | ||
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| | `min` | process exit, `exit()` hand-offs, `atexit` | 200 ms (the wait gives up after 450 ms) | `mlog::otel::CLI_EXIT_FLUSH` | | ||
| | `minimald` | process exit | runtime shutdown 2 s, then flush 5 s | `crates/minimald/src/main.rs` | | ||
| | `minvmd` | every process exit | 2 s | `crates/minvmd/src/main.rs` | | ||
| | `minvmd run` | VM ready (non-terminal flush) | 2 s | `SupervisorStart::READY_FLUSH` | | ||
| | guest `minimald` | before the Shutdown ack (non-terminal) | 1500 ms (the handler stops waiting at 2 s) | `CLEAN_STOP_TELEMETRY_FLUSH` | | ||
| | every exporter | one export request | 3 s | `mlog::otel::EXPORT_TIMEOUT` | | ||
| | guest `minimald` | records queued for the host | 1024 lines, then the newest is dropped | `mlog::otel::forward::QUEUE_LINES` | | ||
| | `minvmd run` | guest batches waiting for the forwarder | 16 batches, then a batch is dropped (the lines are spooled) | `minvmd::guest_telemetry::FORWARD_QUEUE_BATCHES` | | ||
| | `minvmd run` | one forwarded batch to the host's endpoint | 3 s, on the forwarder's own thread | `mlog::otel::EXPORT_TIMEOUT` | |
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The Non-functional bounds table claims 'The bounds below are the whole cost telemetry can add to a process' but omits the two exit-time drains the same spec requires and the reference documents: TEL-049 ('minvmd stop' waits up to 3 s for the guest to power off after it acknowledges) and TEL-050 ('minvmd run' waits up to 2 s for the door to drain when the VMM child exits). The table's own 'guest minimald | before the Shutdown ack | 1500 ms' row (TEL-037) is the same kind of unconditional shutdown bound, so the omission is an inconsistency, not an intentional collector-health scoping. docs/reference/telemetry.md:263-270 lists both (3 s and 2 s). An implementer reading the spec's 'whole cost' table would understate the worst-case shutdown wait by up to 5 s.
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25-spec-telemetry.md:915 'The bounds below are the whole cost telemetry can add...' — table rows cover TEL-037 (guest shutdown flush) but not TEL-049 (3 s stop grace) nor TEL-050 (2 s exit drain); reference telemetry.md:268/270 lists both.
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The Non-functional bounds table claims 'The bounds below are the whole cost telemetry can add to a process' but omits the two exit-time drains the same spec requires and the reference documents: TEL-049 ('minvmd stop' waits up to 3 s for the guest to power off after it acknowledges) and TEL-050 ('minvmd run' waits up to 2 s for the door to drain when the VMM child exits). The table's own 'guest minimald | before the Shutdown ack | 1500 ms' row (TEL-037) is the same kind of unconditional shutdown bound, so the omission is an inconsistency, not an intentional collector-health scoping. docs/reference/telemetry.md:263-270 lists both (3 s and 2 s). An implementer reading the spec's 'whole cost' table would understate the worst-case shutdown wait by up to 5 s.
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… vsock guest path, trust model The review round's spec and reference text (stories from the epic, the per-request opt-out TEL-045, the host-telemetry-environment scope, TEL-047 and TEL-048, the known gaps), with the guest vsock path described as it is in the tree now that the mechanism commit precedes this one: TEL-033 names the allowlist and no endpoint, TEL-034 the vsock port, the provenance stamp and the host-side forward, TEL-046 the unreachable receiver and the reconnect after a refused frame, TEL-049 and TEL-050 the stop ordering (the guest's spans reach the host within a 3 s grace after the ack, not before it, and the door drains its forward at exit); the interim network-shape notes are gone, the invariants and the trust model cover the relay's bounds, and the design note guest-vsock.md is the mechanism's authority, with the stop ordering and the 715k observation (a 7.6 s volume trim inside the stop). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit ad8cdb8ae5f6a4b76b8710f747230c524fd4e6b1)
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| epic: gominimal/inbox#515 | ||
| arch: gominimal/arch (architecture.md AT7, AT20, the Box Spec `[otel]` block; specs/networking/deployment-and-egress-gateway.md §5.1) | ||
| arch_sha: "5c1201517ba07347344fb9725efb06ee39d5c03e" | ||
| updated: 2026-10-06 |
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LOW · correctness · confidence 0.85
The frontmatter updated: 2026-10-06 is one day older than the newest dated content in the body: the known-gaps paragraph states 'These are the known gaps on 2026-10-07'. The updated field is the reader's canonical last-modified stamp for a draft spec; it now understates the document by a day, so someone trusting it to judge how current the draft is gets the wrong answer. Either bump updated to 2026-10-07 (the later date also matches the commit that added the known-gaps wording) or correct the body date if 2026-10-07 was aspirational.
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The frontmatter `updated: 2026-10-06` is one day older than the newest dated content in the body: the known-gaps paragraph states 'These are the known gaps on 2026-10-07'. The `updated` field is the reader's canonical last-modified stamp for a draft spec; it now understates the document by a day, so someone trusting it to judge how current the draft is gets the wrong answer. Either bump `updated` to 2026-10-07 (the later date also matches the commit that added the known-gaps wording) or correct the body date if 2026-10-07 was aspirational.
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The opener 'Design for the eighth commit of the spec 25 series' narrates the PR's commit sequence rather than the design. The ordinal will be meaningless to any future reader once the series lands (and wrong if the series is amended), and the sentence adds nothing the 'Spec 25 changes' and 'Lab scenario changes' sections below do not already say. Drop the 'eighth commit' framing and start with the substantive sentence ('The microVM guest daemon stops exporting over the guest's network.')
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Design for the eighth commit of the spec 25 series. The microVM guest daemon stops exporting over the guest's network.
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File: docs/specs/25-spec-telemetry/guest-vsock.md
Lines: 10-10
Category: style
Severity: nit (reviewer confidence 0.75)
Finding:
The opener 'Design for the eighth commit of the spec 25 series' narrates the PR's commit sequence rather than the design. The ordinal will be meaningless to any future reader once the series lands (and wrong if the series is amended), and the sentence adds nothing the 'Spec 25 changes' and 'Lab scenario changes' sections below do not already say. Drop the 'eighth commit' framing and start with the substantive sentence ('The microVM guest daemon stops exporting over the guest's network.')
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docs: spec 25 — opt-in OpenTelemetry traces, logs and a local spool (inbox#515)
Spec 25 is the OTel runtime spec that spec 10 (diagnostics) deferred. It turns gominimal/inbox#515's stories and principles into EARS requirements (
TEL-001…045, two non-goals), each with the proof that holds it (an in-tree test, a Kani harness, or a lab scenario), a Design reasoning section, non-goals, and the first slice.Decisions recorded in the spec:
MINIMAL_TELEMETRY=1; ambientOTEL_*never enables anything (principles 3 and 5);OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERStowards aMINIMAL_endpoint is refused with a fixed message;MINIMAL_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERSis the explicit way;MINIMAL_TELEMETRY(a daemon can be opted out while a CLI is not);TRACEPARENT, and only on opt-in; a nestedmincontinues the trace without exporting itself;minvmdand the guest daemon join the CLI's trace over the boot line; only switches, endpoints andTRACEPARENTcross it, never headers, resource attributes or baggage.Alignment: written against gominimal/arch
5c120151; arch#101–105 (filed from the epic) are unchanged and still open. The implementation PR follows, stacked on this one; the proof table's test names resolve there.Lint:
spec-lintreports 0 findings on the implementation tree (onmainalone the named tests do not exist yet, which the linter reports as P004, the normal state of a spec ahead of its code).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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