feat(diag): `min bug` carries the telemetry spool and redacts telemetry settings (5/7, spec 25) by bryan-minimal · Pull Request #1997 · gominimal/minimal

bryan-minimal · 2026-10-05T20:52:52Z

feat(diag): min bug carries the telemetry spool and redacts telemetry settings (5/7, spec 25)

Stack: spec #1988 → test hardening → mlog export → CLI+daemon → minvmd+guest → this → requirement tests → guest telemetry over vsock (7/7). Base: otel/4-minvmd-guest.

Small (4 files, +341/−12). The diagnostic bundle gains the local spool, so a crash or hang report carries the spans that finished before it; and privacy holds (TEL-045 and the PV-* rows of the spec): telemetry settings appear by name only, header values and endpoints are redacted (endpoints as origins), git remotes scrubbed. The daemon-side bundle includes its own spool; the host-side min bug step adds the CLI's.

Lab evidence (job 00244, four distros): 782 (min bug oracle — redaction holds, spool present), 754's argv-redaction case stays fixed.

Plan: #1992 (the spec's plan comment). Plan tasks in this PR: T17 min bug carries the spool, redacted.

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New Features
- Diagnostic bundles now include telemetry status and recent telemetry records, alongside existing diagnostic information.
- Bundles report whether telemetry is enabled, exporter status, and endpoint origins.
Privacy and Security
- Telemetry records are scrubbed for exporter credentials and sensitive attributes. Malformed records are withheld.
- Exporter endpoints and header values are excluded from captured environment settings.

coderabbitai · 2026-10-05T20:53:00Z

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Host and daemon diagnostic bundles now collect telemetry spool files. Spool lines are scrubbed for exporter header values and sensitive attributes. Host bundles also include telemetry state, including exporter status and the newest CLI command trace ID.

Changes: Telemetry Diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Spool-line redaction `crates/diagnostics/src/redact.rs`, `crates/diagnostics/src/bundle.rs`	The bundle writer adds spool tails through a shared tail-reading path. Redaction replaces configured exporter header values, masks sensitive OTLP attribute values, and withholds malformed lines.
Host spool collection `crates/minimal/src/diag/collect.rs`, `crates/minimal/src/diag/mod.rs`	The host collector resolves the spool directory, selects up to five newest JSONL files per producer, and adds capped tails. Diagnostic collection now runs the spool collector.
Host telemetry state `crates/minimal/src/diag/collect.rs`, `crates/minimal/src/diag/redact.rs`	The host bundle records telemetry settings, exporter status, endpoint origins, spool details, and the newest CLI command trace ID. Environment values for exporter settings and header names are denied by the allowlist.
Daemon spool collection and environment filtering `crates/minimald/src/diag.rs`	The daemon collector adds eligible capped JSONL spool tails. Its environment-value allowlist rejects telemetry exporter settings and names ending in `_HEADERS`.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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  participant SpoolCollector
  participant BundleWriter
  participant scrub_spool_lines
  participant scrub_spool_line
  SpoolCollector->>BundleWriter: add_spool_tail with header_values
  BundleWriter->>scrub_spool_lines: scrub tail lines
  scrub_spool_lines->>scrub_spool_line: scrub line with header_values
  scrub_spool_line-->>scrub_spool_lines: return redacted or withheld line
  scrub_spool_lines-->>BundleWriter: return scrubbed tail

Suggested reviewers: norrietaylor

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c9674

Telemetry spool tails in diagnostic bundles are scrubbed of exporter header values. That scrubbing can miss a value containing quote or backslash characters. This is a narrow edge case, so the change is mergeable, but the author should fix it as a follow-up.

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crates/diagnostics/src/bundle.rs
crates/diagnostics/src/redact.rs
crates/minimal/src/diag/collect.rs
crates/minimal/src/diag/mod.rs
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norrietaylor

Review of the TEL-044 and TEL-051 implementation.

Summary:

The scrub design is good: header values are replaced, OTLP attributes with secret-shaped keys are masked at any depth, and a line that is not JSON is withheld. The files are opened with no-follow, and the spool directory is checked to be a real directory. The per-producer cap is correct.
The test names on the TEL-044 and TEL-051 test: lines exist in this PR.
Two gaps weaken the TEL-044 claim that no bundle contains an exporter header value. The host collector scrubs minvmd's spool files with the header values of the min bug shell, not of minvmd. A token without its Bearer word is not replaced.
The daemon collector ignores MINIMAL_OTEL_SPOOL_DIR, so a daemon with a pinned spool reports "telemetry never ran here".

Verdict: ready after the Should-fix items, or after TEL-044 states the limits and the gaps have tracking issues.

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mitodrummer · 2026-10-07T18:39:03Z

Review pass (read-only, head of #1997): close; nits below. CodeRabbit's JSON-escaped header item is fixed with a test, and the per-producer cap, the listing errors and the host spool-dir override are handled. The bundled spool is bounded and endpoints appear only as origins.

diag/collect.rs:440 (+1 to @norrietaylor's open thread) — header values to scrub come from the environment of the shell running min bug, but they're also used for minvmd's spool; if minvmd was started with headers that shell lacks, a header value it recorded reaches the bundle (TEL-044).
diagnostics/src/redact.rs:521 — only the whole value and its decoded form are scrubbed, so the bare token from authorization=Bearer%20<tok> survives unless scrub_secrets happens to match its shape. Scrub the token part too.
minimald/src/diag.rs:585 — the daemon reads a hard-coded <state>/telemetry/spool, so a daemon started with MINIMAL_OTEL_SPOOL_DIR produces a bundle saying telemetry never ran.

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mitodrummer · 2026-10-07T21:15:53Z

Verified at 074c029: items 2 and 3 fixed (bare token scrubbed, spool_dir_or live→pinned→default). Item 1 is Linux-only: the per-producer lookup reads /proc/<pid>/environ and the non-Linux arm returns an empty set, and both tests are cfg(target_os = "linux"). minvmd's main host is macOS, so on a Mac a header only minvmd's environment has is caught only by the attribute-name rule or free-text scrubbing. Pick one: scope the claim to Linux in the docs and the thread; add a macOS read (KERN_PROCARGS2); or, cleaner, have each producer record its header values (or a hash) in its own spool file so the bundle can scrub without procfs or a live process. Also HEADER_VALUE_MIN = 8 means a short custom shared secret slips the value match; fine for real keys, worth a sentence in the doc.

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Three small test-only changes that the telemetry series relies on, kept separate so they can land on their own: - the walked-publication probe waits for the publication to settle - bep_stub tolerates EPIPE when the client hangs up first - the fresh-streak test waits for the streak counter to advance No product code changes.

The telemetry core for every minimal process (spec 25 TEL-001 to TEL-020, principles 1, 2, 7 and 8). Off unless MINIMAL_TELEMETRY=1; when off nothing starts: no thread, no exporter, no file. When on: - spans and logs leave over OTLP/HTTP (opentelemetry 0.33) to the endpoint the MINIMAL_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_* variables name, base or per signal, and the plain OTEL_* ones only when no MINIMAL_ endpoint is set; per-signal endpoints and `*_EXPORTER=none` are honoured; - DO_NOT_TRACK (any non-empty value) and OTEL_SDK_DISABLED=true always win; - the exporter's own HTTP stack and the SDK never produce telemetry, errors never reach a console, and the exit flush is bounded (200 ms in the CLI); - every finished span and log record is appended synchronously to an OTLP/JSON spool under <state>/telemetry/spool (0700/0600, 4 MiB segments, pruned to 50 MiB / 7 days, torn lines contained), so a crash or SIGKILL keeps what was already written; - the endpoint and the switches have one recognizer each (url::Url, a byte-exact flag grammar), ambient OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS are refused when the endpoint came from a MINIMAL_ variable, and secrets never appear in the init summary or the logs. The switch decision and the spool prune plan are pure functions with Kani harnesses beside their unit tests.

Wire mlog's telemetry into the CLI and the daemon (spec 25 TEL-021 to TEL-029). - The CLI mints or adopts a TRACEPARENT, exports its `cmd` span, and ends and flushes it before any hand-off; the daemon adopts the context from the channel environment and records `rpc` and `exec` spans under it. - `min session exec` / `run` relays ssh rather than exec()ing it (#1881), so every way out of a command is an exit or signal hand-off and the `cmd` span covers the command; `run` finishes the hand-off once the span has ended and been flushed. - Work the daemon does for a request stays in that request's trace: actor mailboxes carry the sender's span, the blocking pool, spawned tasks (`traced::spawn`, with a guard test against bare spawns), package fetches, orchestrator and check tasks, checkouts (remotes scrubbed), git upload and receive, and the periodic cache clean in its own root. - Boxes receive only the exec span's TRACEPARENT (never headers, baggage or OTEL_* variables), and only when that span is recorded; a nested `min` inside a box, a task run and the in-box helper socket forward it, so daemon-side work for them joins the outer trace. - `min net forward` carries the context on the direct-tcpip open; attach adopts it; SIGHUP and exit paths flush within the shutdown bound.

…nto the guest minvmd exports a bounded root per command with `net.switch.start`, `vm.boot`, `vm.stop` and `guest.shutdown` as children, in the CLI's trace (spec 25 TEL-032 to TEL-036). The host decides the telemetry switches and writes them onto the guest's boot line with one byte-exact writer under a fixed budget: the opt-in, the spool and filter settings, the exporter switches and TRACEPARENT, never an endpoint, headers, resource attributes or baggage (TEL-033), because everything in the guest can read the boot line as /proc/cmdline. With no endpoint the guest exports nothing here: both signals are `none` and its records stay in its own spool until the VM channel carries them to the host. The whole set is forwarded or dropped, so a guest never boots with a partial configuration, and the logged boot line names the telemetry tokens by key only. The guest daemon builds its OTLP client without platform CA roots (an http:// collector needs none) and flushes before it powers off. RUST_LOG filters the console per layer, so it never gates export. A failed `minvmd boot` marks `vm.boot` with an error status, as `run` does. The boot line's alphabet, budget and all-or-none rules are proven with Kani.

…ry settings Spec 25 TEL-044: the daemon's bundle carries the newest spool files under telemetry/spool/, tail-capped and line-scrubbed like a log; the host bundle does the same for the CLI's and minvmd's spool, which on a VM host exists nowhere else. MINIMAL_OTEL_* endpoint and header values are reported by name only, in both bundles.

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