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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWorker request and retry logging now classify expected transient errors at lower severity. Worker cancellation tests cover wrapped HTTP cancellation errors and log levels. Bazel test dependencies support the new observer-based assertions. ChangesWorker request logging
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In `@src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/retry_logger.go`:
- Around line 29-35: Update retryLogger.Error and the surrounding retryable HTTP
client wrappers so intermediate retry attempts remain warnings while terminal
non-retry and exhausted-retry failures are recorded at error level. Preserve the
existing retry behavior, add state-aware handling or a separate terminal-error
log at the point where wrappers return the final error, and test both terminal
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| // Error logs at warn level on purpose. The retryable http client calls this for | ||
| // every failed attempt inside its retry loop, including attempts it goes on to | ||
| // retry successfully, and it returns the final error to the caller regardless. | ||
| // Logging each attempt at error level reports transient conditions as failures | ||
| // and multiplies the volume by the retry count. | ||
| func (l *retryLogger) Error(msg string, keysAndValues ...interface{}) { | ||
| zap.S().Errorw(msg, keysAndValues...) | ||
| zap.S().Warnw(msg, keysAndValues...) |
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printf '\n--- %s ---\n' "$f"
cat -n "$f"
done
printf '%s\n' '--- retryLogger usages and logger construction ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- retry client construction and logger assignment ---'
rg -n -C 8 'newRetryLogger|retryablehttp\.NewClient|\.Logger\s*=|Logger\s*:' src/libraries/go/lib/pkg src/libraries/go/lib --glob '*.go' --glob '!vendor/**'
printf '%s\n' '--- retryable client request flow ---'
cat -n src/libraries/go/lib/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/client.go | sed -n '650,875p'
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printf '%s\n' '--- retry logger references outside vendor ---'
rg -n -C 6 'newRetryLogger|retryLogger|retryablehttp\.NewClient|\.Logger\s*=|Logger\s*:' src/libraries/go/lib/pkg src/libraries/go/lib --glob '*.go' --glob '!vendor/**' || true
printf '%s\n' '--- retryable client request flow ---'
cat -n src/libraries/go/lib/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/client.go | sed -n '650,875p'
printf '%s\n' '--- HTTP wrapper implementation ---'
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cat -n src/libraries/go/lib/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/client.go | sed -n '680,850p'
printf '%s\n' '--- client-side terminal error handling ---'
rg -n -C 6 'origClient|client\.Load|\.Do\(|httpClient\.|return .*err|Error\(' \
src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/http.go \
src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/http_client.go \
--glob '*.go'
printf '%s\n' '--- deterministic event classification from vendored source ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re
p = Path("src/libraries/go/lib/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/client.go")
s = p.read_text()
for msg in ("request failed", "error reading response body"):
hits = [m.start() for m in re.finditer(re.escape(f'v.Error("{msg}"'), s)]
print(f"{msg!r}: {len(hits)} call site(s)")
for pos in hits:
line = s.count("\n", 0, pos) + 1
start = max(0, s.rfind("\n", 0, max(0, pos - 900)))
end = s.find("\n", pos + 500)
context = s[start:end if end != -1 else len(s)]
print(f" line {line}:")
print("\n".join(" " + x for x in context.splitlines()[-12:]))
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from pathlib import Path
import re
retry = Path("src/libraries/go/lib/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/client.go").read_text()
legacy = Path("src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/http.go").read_text()
v2 = Path("src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/http_client.go").read_text()
def line(text, needle):
return text[:text.index(needle)].count("\n") + 1
request_failed = retry.index('v.Error("request failed"')
check_retry = retry.index("shouldRetry, checkErr = c.CheckRetry")
break_after_log = retry.index("if !shouldRetry", request_failed)
exhausted_break = retry.index("if remain <= 0", break_after_log)
final_return = retry.index("return nil, fmt.Errorf", exhausted_break)
print("request failed event ordering:")
print(f" CheckRetry line: {line(retry, 'shouldRetry, checkErr = c.CheckRetry')}")
print(f" Error line: {line(retry, 'v.Error(\"request failed\"')}")
print(f" !shouldRetry branch line: {line(retry, 'if !shouldRetry')}")
print(f" exhausted-attempt branch line: {line(retry, 'if remain <= 0')}")
print(f" terminal return line: {line(retry, 'return nil, fmt.Errorf')}")
print(" same event precedes both the non-retry and exhausted-attempt exits:",
check_retry < request_failed < break_after_log < exhausted_break < final_return)
print("response-body drain event contexts:")
drain_calls = [m.start() for m in re.finditer(r"c\.drainBody\(resp\.Body\)", retry)]
for pos in drain_calls:
print(f" drainBody call line {retry[:pos].count(chr(10)) + 1}")
print(f" drain logger line: {line(retry, 'v.Error(\"error reading response body\"')}")
print(" drain calls occur before retry and during final cleanup:", len(drain_calls) == 2)
print("wrapper-side error logging:")
for name, text in (("HTTPClient", legacy), ("HTTPClientV2", v2)):
do_returns = len(re.findall(r"return (?:nil, )?c?\.?(?:client\.)?Do\(", text))
nearby_error_logs = len(re.findall(r"(?i)(?:zap|logrus|logger)\S*\.(?:Error|Errorf|Errorw)\(", text))
print(f" {name}: direct Do returns={do_returns}, error log calls={nearby_error_logs}")
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retry = Path("src/libraries/go/lib/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/client.go").read_text()
legacy = Path("src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/http.go").read_text()
v2 = Path("src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/http_client.go").read_text()
def line(text, needle):
return text[:text.index(needle)].count("\n") + 1
check_needle = "shouldRetry, checkErr = c.CheckRetry"
request_needle = 'v.Error("request failed"'
nonretry_needle = "if !shouldRetry"
exhausted_needle = "if remain <= 0"
terminal_needle = "return nil, fmt.Errorf"
check_pos = retry.index(check_needle)
request_pos = retry.index(request_needle)
nonretry_pos = retry.index(nonretry_needle, request_pos)
exhausted_pos = retry.index(exhausted_needle, nonretry_pos)
terminal_pos = retry.index(terminal_needle, exhausted_pos)
print("request failed event ordering:")
print(f" CheckRetry line: {line(retry, check_needle)}")
print(f" Error line: {line(retry, request_needle)}")
print(f" !shouldRetry branch line: {line(retry, nonretry_needle)}")
print(f" exhausted-attempt branch line: {line(retry, exhausted_needle)}")
print(f" terminal return line: {line(retry, terminal_needle)}")
print(
" same event precedes both the non-retry and exhausted-attempt exits:",
check_pos < request_pos < nonretry_pos < exhausted_pos < terminal_pos,
)
print("response-body drain event contexts:")
drain_calls = [m.start() for m in re.finditer(r"c\.drainBody\(resp\.Body\)", retry)]
for pos in drain_calls:
print(f" drainBody call line {retry[:pos].count(chr(10)) + 1}")
print(f" drain logger line: {line(retry, 'v.Error(\"error reading response body\"')}")
print(" drain calls occur before retry and during final cleanup:", len(drain_calls) == 2)
print("wrapper-side error logging:")
for name, text in (("HTTPClient", legacy), ("HTTPClientV2", v2)):
direct_do_returns = len(re.findall(r"return [^\n]*Do\(req\)", text))
error_log_calls = len(re.findall(r"(?i)(?:zap|logrus|logger)\S*\.(?:Error|Errorf|Errorw)\(", text))
print(f" {name}: direct Do returns={direct_do_returns}, error log calls={error_log_calls}")
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from pathlib import Path
import re
retry = Path("src/libraries/go/lib/vendor/github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp/client.go").read_text()
legacy = Path("src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/http.go").read_text()
v2 = Path("src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/http_client.go").read_text()
def line(text, needle):
return text[:text.index(needle)].count("\n") + 1
check_needle = "shouldRetry, checkErr = c.CheckRetry"
request_needle = 'v.Error("request failed"'
nonretry_needle = "if !shouldRetry"
exhausted_needle = "if remain <= 0"
terminal_needle = "return nil, fmt.Errorf"
drain_needle = "v.Error(\"error reading response body\""
check_pos = retry.index(check_needle)
request_pos = retry.index(request_needle)
nonretry_pos = retry.index(nonretry_needle, request_pos)
exhausted_pos = retry.index(exhausted_needle, nonretry_pos)
terminal_pos = retry.index(terminal_needle, exhausted_pos)
print("request failed event ordering:")
for label, needle in (
("CheckRetry", check_needle),
("Error", request_needle),
("!shouldRetry branch", nonretry_needle),
("exhausted-attempt branch", exhausted_needle),
("terminal return", terminal_needle),
):
print(f" {label} line: {line(retry, needle)}")
print(" event precedes both exits:", check_pos < request_pos < nonretry_pos < exhausted_pos < terminal_pos)
print("response-body drain event contexts:")
drain_calls = [m.start() for m in re.finditer(r"c\.drainBody\(resp\.Body\)", retry)]
for pos in drain_calls:
print(f" drainBody call line {retry[:pos].count(chr(10)) + 1}")
print(" drain logger line:", line(retry, drain_needle))
print(" drain calls occur before retry and during final cleanup:", len(drain_calls) == 2)
print("wrapper-side error logging:")
for name, text in (("HTTPClient", legacy), ("HTTPClientV2", v2)):
direct_do_returns = len(re.findall(r"return [^\n]*Do\(req\)", text))
error_log_calls = len(re.findall(r"(?i)(?:zap|logrus|logger)\S*\.(?:Error|Errorf|Errorw)\(", text))
print(f" {name}: direct Do returns={direct_do_returns}, error log calls={error_log_calls}")
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Preserve terminal request failures at error level.
go-retryablehttp emits "request failed" before both non-retry and exhausted-retry exits. retryLogger.Error lacks retry state, so message filtering cannot demote only retry attempts. The client wrappers return terminal errors without logging them separately. Use state-aware logging or add a separate terminal-error record. Test both failure paths.
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In `@src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/retry_logger.go` around lines 29 - 35,
Update retryLogger.Error and the surrounding retryable HTTP client wrappers so
intermediate retry attempts remain warnings while terminal non-retry and
exhausted-retry failures are recorded at error level. Preserve the existing
retry behavior, add state-aware handling or a separate terminal-error log at the
point where wrappers return the final error, and test both terminal failure
paths.
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TL;DR
Two expected conditions in the utils container were logged at error level. The
retry logger now reports per-attempt failures at warn, and an upstream cancel is
no longer reported as a request failure. Real errors are unaffected.
Additional Details
During a recent incident these two lines accounted for roughly 3 million log
entries in an 8 hour window, against about 60 thousand that actually explained
the incident, which made the real signal very hard to find.
Neither line represents a fault:
inside the retry loop, including attempts it goes on to retry successfully, and
it returns the final error to the caller regardless. Logging each attempt at
error level reports transient conditions as failures and multiplies the volume
by the retry count.
aborts the in-flight send by design, and handleCancelMessage already records the
cancellation at info, so the error line duplicated an expected event.
How the pieces connect: a cancel sets the cause on the per-request context, the
in-flight POST is built from that context, and net/http surfaces the cause inside
a *url.Error. The new logWorkRequestResult matches that with errors.Is on the
sentinel and sends it to debug, leaving every other failure at error.
Worth knowing: errors.Is against context.Canceled does not match this error, so
the intuitive "check for context.Canceled" approach would catch nothing. The
sentinel check is required.
Limitations:
error-level lines from that logger stops firing for retried requests. That is the
intent, since the terminal error still reaches the caller, but it is a
behaviour change beyond this one service.
reaches that container only once go-lib is repinned.
address why the underlying requests fail. One known source is a periodic health
check against a service that does not resolve in some clusters, and the client
performing that poll is not part of this repository. That caller needs a
separate follow-up from the team that owns it.
For the Reviewer
Closest look at src/libraries/go/lib/pkg/nvkit/clients/retry_logger.go. It is the
shared change and affects worker-utils, worker-task, grpc-proxy, ratelimiter,
nvkit/servers, and the go/worker health, nvcf, and nvct packages. If anyone is
alerting on error-level lines from that logger, they should know before this
merges.
The worker change is in cancel.go and one call site in worker.go. The levels were
chosen against the log level contract in AGENTS.md, so they are worth a
deliberate look:
away is a normal state transition rather than a degraded condition. Raising it
to warn would make it visible at higher log levels, but that would use severity
to buy prominence rather than to describe the event, which is the same mistake
that produced this bug.
outright, so the detail is still available when debugging without costing
anything in production.
For QA
No functional QA needed. The change affects log severity only. The error value at
the changed call site was previously used solely for the log call, so ack/nak
behaviour, retries, and returned errors are unchanged.
Verified:
//src/libraries/go/lib:golangci_lint
request cancelled through a cause, so errors.Is is exercised against the actual
error type rather than a hand-wrapped sentinel
without the change. For these paths error lines go from 4 to 0 and emitted log
volume drops about 81 percent, since the logger attaches a stack trace to every
error line and those go away too
in 10 on an unmodified tree, due to a goroutine calling t.Error after its test
completes, and passed 10 of 10 with this change applied
Observability check for the reviewer rather than QA:
or on "failed to handle request" for cancellations. Those rules match on level,
so they would go silent rather than fail loudly.
which matches the log level contract for a normal state transition. A deployment
running at warn or above will not see them, which is the intended behaviour for
an expected event.
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