fix(ratelimit): bind the listeners when the shared Redis is down at startup - #1218
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…tartup A gateway configured with `ratelimit.backend: redis` never bound its listeners when that Redis was unreachable at process start. It logged `connecting shared rate-limit backend` and then answered nothing at all — no `/livez`, no `/metrics`, no error line, no exit — for eight minutes (measured at `timeout_secs: 2`), and only then exited with `timed out`. `timeout_secs` was set natively on the driver, which bounds one connection ATTEMPT but not the call: the single-node connection manager retries the initial connect on a schedule of its own, unrelated to anything the operator configured, and the boot awaited it before opening any port. A Redis that stops answering without closing the socket is the only shape that reaches it — a refused connection fails fast, and a Redis that goes down after a successful start was already handled by the request-path breaker. The startup connect is now bounded in aggregate by `ratelimit.redis.timeout_secs`, and failing it is no longer fatal: the limiter starts in the same fail-open state a mid-flight outage puts it in (per-replica in-memory counting, so cluster-wide limits are not enforced), one WARN names the backend and which Redis, and a background task attaches the shared backend as soon as Redis answers. It is not a permanent demotion to the `memory` backend — the operator asked for shared counting and gets it the moment it is available, which is the node-reboot case where Redis comes up after the gateway. The same unbounded schedule ran on the two cache Redis connects, which are awaited on the same boot path; both are bounded now. The exact cache stays fatal on an unreachable Redis at startup (deliberate: a `backend: redis` policy would otherwise serve silently uncached) — it now reports and exits within the budget instead of hanging for minutes. The semantic store already degraded rather than aborting. Also audited, unchanged: the etcd DNS probe and the etcd dial run earlier on the same path and are unbounded when `etcd.dial_timeout_ms` is unset, which is the documented shipped default with its own operator knob. No telemetry exporter, guardrail client, embedding client or control-plane HTTP call is connected at boot. Behaviour change on upgrade: a deployment whose rate-limit Redis is down when the gateway starts now serves traffic with per-replica limits and one WARN, where it previously served nothing. Nothing has to be edited.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds bounded etcd dialing, aggregate Redis startup budgets, shared connection slots, deferred Redis recovery, and degraded cache and rate-limit behavior. Configuration and tests document and validate startup outages, fallback operation, warning redaction, and recovery. ChangesRedis connection and timeout foundation
Server integration and validation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Gateway
participant RedisStore
participant RedisCache
participant Redis
Gateway->>RedisStore: start rate limiting
Gateway->>RedisCache: start cache stores
RedisStore->>Redis: attempt bounded connection
RedisCache->>Redis: attempt bounded connection
Redis-->>RedisStore: unavailable
Redis-->>RedisCache: unavailable
RedisStore-->>Gateway: local counting continues
RedisCache-->>Gateway: cache misses continue
RedisStore->>Redis: retry attachment
RedisCache->>Redis: retry attachment
Redis-->>RedisStore: recovered connection
Redis-->>RedisCache: recovered connection
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Full details: E2e Test Quality ReviewExplanation Major scenario-coverage gaps remain in the changed E2E tests. The startup cache test is gated by Resolution Decouple the cache startup test from vector capability so exact Redis startup behavior always runs. Add a vector-capable branch that sends a semantic-policy request while the Redis relay is black-holed, asserts exact-only behavior and no embedding call, then heals Redis and verifies probe publication, semantic cache use, and upstream suppression. Start replica B before healing in the rate-limit startup test; assert that B can enforce its own local RPM window while A is degraded, then heal Redis and assert that a request on B observes A's shared counter after both attachment events. ✨ Finishing Touches📝 Generate docstrings
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…alks A flat one-budget bound on the whole startup connect was wrong for `cluster` and `sentinel`: both walk their configured lists SERIALLY, and a list whose first entry is unreachable is the normal case those topologies exist for — so the bound would have failed a boot that was working exactly as designed, in the one deployment shape built to survive a dead node. It would also have pre-empted the budget `connect_with` already applies to sentinel discovery (`timeout_secs` per sentinel plus one for the master), making that inner bound unreachable. The boot budget is now `timeout_secs × (configured endpoints + 1)`, which is `timeout_secs` for `single` and matches sentinel's existing inner product exactly. Still derived entirely from operator config, and still the driver's own retry schedule that it replaces.
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In `@config.example.yaml`:
- Around line 277-330: Update the timeout documentation in both the cache.redis
and ratelimit.redis sections to state that cluster startup may consume
timeout_secs once per configured node plus one final connection attempt, so the
aggregate startup budget is (number of nodes + 1) budgets. Add this
qualification alongside the existing sentinel startup explanation without
changing configuration behavior.
In `@crates/aisix-ratelimit/src/store/redis.rs`:
- Around line 310-312: Update the Redis store startup and attachment flow around
with_slot and spawn_attach to share an Arc<AtomicBool> degraded_logged flag:
initialize it false for successful stores, true when startup connection fails,
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after slot.attach succeeds so subsequent failures can log normally without
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…taches Review findings on the boot-degraded path. A reservation whose `acquire` fell back to the local store still holds a local concurrency slot, and a `commit` that reaches the shared backend instead was releasing nothing: the Redis ZSET never held that member, and `LocalStore` has no ttl on `in_flight`. The slot was therefore never given back, permanently raising the local in-flight baseline for that bucket by the number of requests in flight when the backend attached — so a LATER Redis outage would refuse traffic, failing CLOSED on the one path whose whole contract is to fail open. `commit` now drops the local slot exactly as `release` already did, and for the same reason. The defect predates the boot-degraded state (it needed the instant a breaker closed), but an empty slot has no window at all, so every cold start that precedes its Redis hit it. Also from review: - A connect that outran its whole budget reported `redis.timeout_secs (20s)` for a 3-sentinel deployment configured with `5` — a number the operator cannot find in their config. The message now names the aggregate and the field it was derived from, and the same expression bounds sentinel discovery inside `connect_with`, so the two cannot drift. - The boot-budget comment claimed cluster discovery walks its seed list serially. It dials the seeds concurrently and then walks the resulting connection map serially for `CLUSTER SLOTS`; the product is unchanged but it is an approximation rather than a ceiling, since the slot map can name more nodes than the seeds do. - `endpoint_label` now cuts the authority before stripping userinfo, so an `@` after the host cannot be read as credentials. - The store started degraded no longer repeats the boot WARN on its first request, and the attach re-arms that one-shot so a later outage still warns even if no operation succeeded in between. - A permanent misconfiguration used to announce itself by killing the boot. The retry now re-states the degradation at WARN every five minutes, leaving individual attempts at debug — `/livez` is healthy and `aisix_redis_failures_total` only moves while limited traffic arrives. - The slot is an `ArcSwapOption`, so an operation no longer deep-clones the driver's connection info on its way to `acquire`, which makes one of its own. - The e2e's boot-duration bound could not fail: it equalled the harness's own 10s readiness budget, so `spawnApp` threw first. It now asserts the WARN names `redis.timeout_secs = 2s`, which is what distinguishes the configured budget from the 5s default and from a multi-minute ladder. New Rust coverage for what was previously e2e-only: a store that never connected fails open across all five operations while still enforcing per replica, and attaches the shared backend on its own; and the handover returns the local slot. Both gates judge attach by an effect only the shared backend can produce, because `peek` and a successful `acquire` both answer from the local fallback — the first versions of both gates fell through immediately, which a mutation check caught.
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In `@crates/aisix-redis/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 765-769: Update configured_endpoints to count only non-empty
trimmed entries in both RedisMode::Cluster and RedisMode::Sentinel, matching the
filtering performed by connect_with; keep RedisMode::Single returning zero.
- Around line 812-815: Update endpoint_label to parse each Redis URL and derive
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…own at boot The two remaining startup dependencies that could hold the listeners closed, brought in line with the rate-limit backend. **`cache.redis` unreachable at startup no longer exits.** Every cache operation already fails open to a miss, and a RUNNING gateway rides out an unbounded cache-Redis outage that way — only boot was fatal, which made it the odd one out. It also took down precisely the deployment this change is about: `config.example.yaml` says the rate limiter may point at the same Redis as the cache, so with both blocks on one unreachable server the limiter degraded correctly and the cache killed the process anyway. Both cache connections now live in slots that may be empty, every `backend: redis` policy is served as a miss while they are, one WARN names the backend and which Redis, and a single background task attaches both once Redis answers, restating the degradation at WARN every five minutes until it does. One task, not two, because the exact-KV and vector-search connections are one subsystem addressing one server. A vector-search probe that RAN and said no still leaves the semantic store out of the wiring entirely: the answer is decided once per successful connect, and a registered store with an empty slot would instead spend a failed acquire on every semantic lookup for the life of the process. A connection that never landed has not answered that question, so the store is wired and the attach task probes when it gets there. **`etcd.dial_timeout_ms` now defaults to 5000 ms; an explicit `0` keeps the unbounded behaviour.** The boot awaits this dial before binding ANY listener, and the snapshot cache that exists for exactly a control-plane outage is restored behind the same await — so an endpoint that accepted the connection and then answered nothing held `:3000` and `:9090` closed and the cache unread, indefinitely. Only a credentialed deployment reached it (`Client::connect` does no I/O without `etcd.user`, so managed mode was never affected), which is why this is narrower than the Redis case. After the timeout the existing `Unreachable` path applies unchanged: WARN, start anyway, restore from cache, retry in the background. `request_timeout_ms` is untouched and still defaults to unbounded — a bound there would abort the configuration range read, whose cost scales with the configuration set. The budget is spent once per provider, and the environment prefix and the shared pricing catalog are dialled one after the other, so a blackholed etcd now binds after roughly two budgets rather than one. Both are covered by e2e cases that fail on the pre-change binary: a cache Redis black-holed from the first SYN with `ratelimit.redis` pointed at the same relay (the gateway must come up, serve, and start caching once Redis is healed), and an authenticated etcd that accepts and never answers with no `dial_timeout_ms` written anywhere (the metrics port must open). The case pinning the old unbounded dial now pins it under an explicit `dial_timeout_ms: 0`, since that is the only way to ask for it. `ConnSlot` moved to `aisix-redis`, which already owns the "no connection yet" error, so the limiter and both cache stores share one implementation instead of three.
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🟡 Minor · Correct the cache Redis startup-failure documentation. · config.example.yaml:285-298
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the cache Redis startup-failure documentation.
config.example.yaml:293-295says that an unreachable cache Redis at startup is fatal and that the gateway exits. The server instead continues startup, binds listeners, servesbackend: redispolicies as cache misses, logs a warning, and retries attachment in the background. Replace the fatal-startup statement with this non-fatal behavior. Keep this correction separate from the aggregate timeout-budget documentation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 1654-1665: Update the semantic Redis connection handling in
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In `@config.example.yaml`:
- Around line 285-298: Update the cache Redis startup-failure comments in
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redis policies serve as cache misses, a warning is logged, and attachment
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Review findings on the boot fail-open. The semantic store was wired into `CacheBackends` speculatively whenever the cache connect failed at boot, because the vector-search question cannot be answered without a live connection. If the answer then turned out to be no — a plain Redis with no search module — the store stayed wired with a permanently empty slot, and every semantic-policy request paid a real embedding call to the upstream, got a connectivity error from the slot, and counted a failure. Forever. That is the exact cost the previous commit claimed to avoid, and it was worse than the pre-change behaviour, where a probe that said no simply left the store unwired. The store is now built where the probe runs and published only when the probe passes. `CacheBackends::semantic_redis` is a write-once cell rather than a field fixed at construction, so the boot path and the background attach give the same answers through the same door: published means yes, empty means no — and no is exactly what it has always meant, one WARN per policy and then exact-only, with no embedding call and no Redis round trip per request. `RedisSemanticCache` goes back to holding a live connection; only the exact-KV store needs a slot. The `semantic_wired` flag is gone. Also from review: - A Redis config the driver can never use — a malformed `url`, TLS material that will not read — is still fatal at boot, for the limiter and the cache both. Everything else here is now retried forever in the background, and retrying a typo would turn a boot that said exactly what was wrong into a gateway that comes up healthy and is quietly never going to enforce a shared limit or cache anything. - `config.example.yaml` still said an unreachable cache Redis at startup is fatal, which the previous commit made false. - Two doc comments in `aisix-etcd` still said an unset `dial_timeout_ms` waits forever; it is now an explicit `0` that does. - `CACHE_DEGRADED_REMINDER` had been inserted under `probe_etcd_dns`'s doc comment, leaving that function undocumented and the constant described as a DNS probe. - The probe ran on a store built without `with_metrics`, so its failures were invisible to a scrape. Moot now that the probe store is the store. - The new cache e2e spent two connect budgets of the harness's ten-second readiness gate, which is a flake waiting to happen; it waits for `/livez` itself, as the etcd case already did for the same arithmetic.
`endpoint_label` sliced the authority out of the configured URL and trusted what was left to be a host. For `redis://user:pw/x@host:6379` the authority is `user:pw` by RFC 3986 — the `@` is inside the path — so the label became the password, and the label goes straight into the boot WARN and the background retry lines. It now emits only text shaped like `host`, `host:port` or `[v6]:port`, and a fixed placeholder for anything else. The input is never echoed: what makes such a URL unparseable is usually an unescaped character in the password. Also: `configured_endpoints` counted the blank entries that `validate` tolerates and `connect_with` then filters out, so each one bought a startup budget the discovery walk was never going to spend.
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**The etcd boot dial gets a budget per endpoint**, the same shape the
Redis side already uses here: `dial_timeout_ms × max(1, configured
endpoints)`, blanks not counted because `validate` tolerates them and
nothing dials them. The client opens ONE balanced channel over every
endpoint and then makes a single authentication call across it, so the
worst case is that call failing over from endpoint to endpoint — each one
worth a budget. A flat bound would have cut a dial working exactly as
designed, on the one topology built to survive a dead member.
No `+1`, unlike Redis: a sentinel or cluster walk ends in a connection to
a node the walk merely pointed at, and that extra hop needs paying for.
Here the channel IS the endpoints. `dial_timeout()` stays the per-attempt
value the connector gets for one TCP connect; `dial_budget()` is the new
whole-dial bound.
**A failing redis cache reports the outage once, not once per request.**
`cache lookup failed` and `cache write failed` were logged per request,
which used to be bounded by the fact that the gateway could not start
without its cache Redis. It can now, so an unreachable backend meant two
WARN lines per cached-policy request for as long as the outage lasted —
six across the three requests the e2e drives — burying every other line
in the log. The first failure of an outage logs at WARN and the rest at
debug, re-armed by the next success so a second outage is reported again.
How hard and how long the backend is failing stays on
`aisix_redis_failures_total{operation}`; the log line only has to say
that it started.
Two latches, not one: the exact-KV and vector-search halves fail and
recover independently, and only the semantic one costs an embedding call.
Within a half, the read and the write share a latch — one degradation,
whichever operation reaches it first.
Audited the siblings on the same degraded paths. The rate limiter already
does exactly this (`RedisStore::warn_degraded`, re-armed by `mark_ok`),
which is where the shape comes from; its per-request signal has always
been the counter alone. The semantic-cache store failures are the other
two sites and are covered here. `aisix_redis_failures_total` is untouched
everywhere — it is what keeps the per-request count.
… hit Two gaps in the previous commit, found reading back over every path. `cache backfill write failed` is a fifth per-request WARN on the same degraded path — the exact-half write a semantic hit makes to backfill L1 — and it was left unthrottled. It reports under the exact latch like the other two now. And a semantic lookup that HIT did not re-arm the semantic latch, only one that missed did. A semantic cache that recovered and went straight to serving hits would have left the latch set for the life of the process, so the next outage's first failure would have reported at debug — the swallowed-second-outage shape this whole latch exists to avoid.
…ting mechanisms the drivers do not have Review findings. **A memory-backed policy was re-arming the redis latch.** The latch lives on `CacheBackends`, but what fed it success and failure was whatever `for_policy_backend` returned — and for a `backend: memory` policy that is the memory cache, which essentially cannot fail. So in any deployment running both kinds of policy the sequence was memory-ok (re-arm), redis-fail (WARN), memory-ok, redis-fail… and the per-request flood this change exists to remove came straight back. The matched policy's backend is threaded down and only `redis` participates. The e2e now interleaves a memory-backed policy with the failing redis ones. **A refused credential is permanent, like a malformed url.** `WRONGPASS` arrives as `AuthenticationFailed`, and the server ANSWERED — it is not the unreachable case the background retry exists for, and no amount of waiting turns a wrong password into a right one. Same judgement the etcd side already makes. A refusal the budget cut short still arrives as a timeout and is still retried, which is the safe direction for a misclassification. **Two comments asserted invariants the code does not have**, which this repo has been bitten by before: - The etcd budget rustdoc said one authentication call fails over from endpoint to endpoint, each worth a budget. It does not: the client opens one balanced channel and the transport keeps independent lazy connections per endpoint. The scaling stands as headroom for a cluster with unreachable members — the driver exposes no per-endpoint bound to set instead — and the text now says that rather than inventing a mechanism. Both config files say the same, and both now state the thing an operator actually plans around: the window with no listener bound is `dial_timeout_ms × endpoints × 2`, because boot dials two providers. - The same rustdoc said blank endpoints are "dropped before anything is dialled". Nothing trims that list; a blank entry fails URI parsing and ends the boot. Excluding them from the count is still right — you cannot dial them — but for that reason, not the one written. Also: the expired-dial message named `etcd.dial_timeout_ms` and printed the aggregate, so a three-endpoint cluster reported a 15000 nobody had configured; it now shows the product. `commit`'s local release said it was a no-op for a bucket that never acquired locally — `LocalStore` ignores `member`, so it returns A slot, not necessarily THIS one, and the comment now says so and why that is accepted. Two gaps in the tests the findings exposed. Nothing pinned the re-arm, which is the only direction of this latch that can cause silence and had already been got wrong once — deleting it left every test green. And the e2e's "exactly one WARN" could not tell throttling from a request that never reached the cache gate; `aisix_redis_failures_total`, which is deliberately not throttled, supplies the lower bound. `note_*_success` reads before writing: it runs on every cache miss, and an unconditional store is a cross-core line invalidation per request.
An empty semantic cell now means one of two things — the probe ran and the server has no vector search, or `cache.redis` was unreachable at startup so the probe has not run — and the gate named only the first. It is warn-once per policy, so the misleading line is never corrected once the background attach publishes the store.
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🟠 Major · Semantic-connect failures are treated as terminal, unlike exact-connect… · main.rs:1651-1662
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftSemantic-connect failures are treated as terminal, unlike exact-connect failures.
attach_cache_backendspropagates the EXACT connection's error with?(line 1642), so a failed exact connect keepsspawn_cache_attach's retry loop running. The SEMANTIC connection's ownconnect_boundedcall at line 1651 does not: onErr(e)it logs a WARN and returnsOk(())— the sameOk(())used when the probe genuinely answers "no vector search."Trigger: Redis is reachable for the exact connect but the separate, sequential semantic connect hits a transient failure (connection-limit blip, brief network hiccup, or a restart landing between the two dials).
Consequence:
attach_cache_backendsreturnsOk(())because exact succeeded.spawn_cache_attach's loop seesOk(())and returns, ending all future retries. The semantic cell is never populated again, and everybackend=redispolicy with asemanticblock stays exact-only for the life of the process, even after Redis fully recovers — contradicting the "background attachment" behavior this PR describes for the semantic cache.Distinguish "semantic connect failed" (retryable) from "semantic connected but
probe()reported no vector-search support" (a genuine, terminal capability answer). Propagate the connect error so the outer loop keeps retrying just the semantic leg; also avoid re-dialing the already-attachedexactslot on every subsequent retry once it has succeeded, sinceexact.attach(...)currently runs unconditionally at the top of the function on every call.🔧 Suggested fix direction
async fn attach_cache_backends( exact: &aisix_redis::ConnSlot, semantic: Option<&aisix_proxy::SemanticRedisCell>, cfg: &aisix_core::RedisConnConfig, policy: &aisix_cache::FailurePolicy, env_id: &str, metrics: &Metrics, ) -> Result<(), aisix_redis::ConnectError> { - exact.attach(aisix_redis::connect_bounded(cfg, policy).await?); + if !exact.is_attached() { + exact.attach(aisix_redis::connect_bounded(cfg, policy).await?); + } let Some(cell) = semantic else { return Ok(()); }; if cell.get().is_some() { return Ok(()); } // Its own connection — same policy, so the two share one cool-off, // but separate so they do not serialize on one pipeline. - let conn = match aisix_redis::connect_bounded(cfg, policy).await { - Ok(conn) => conn, - Err(e) => { - tracing::warn!( - target: "aisix::cache", - error = %e, - "redis semantic cache connect failed; semantic matching \ - on backend=redis policies stays exact-only" - ); - return Ok(()); - } - }; + // Only a genuine connect failure is retryable; propagate it so the + // background loop keeps trying the semantic leg specifically. + let conn = aisix_redis::connect_bounded(cfg, policy).await?;(
ConnSlot::is_attachedis illustrative — use whatever accessor the type already exposes, or track exact/semantic attachment state independently so a semantic-only retry never re-dials a healthy exact connection.)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/aisix-server/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 1651-1662: Update attach_cache_backends so semantic
connect_bounded failures propagate as errors, allowing spawn_cache_attach to
retry, while preserving Ok(()) for a successful connection whose probe reports
no vector-search support. Guard the exact.attach call using the existing
attachment-state API, or equivalent state tracking, so retries of the semantic
leg do not re-dial an already attached exact connection.
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…a verdict The background attach gave up on the vector-search half after one try. `attach_cache_backends` propagated the EXACT connection's failure, so the retry loop kept going for it. The SEMANTIC connection's failure returned the same `Ok(())` that a probe answering "no vector search" returns, and the loop treated that as done — so a transient failure on the second dial (a connection-limit blip, a restart landing between the two) left every `backend: redis` policy with a `semantic` block exact-only for the life of the process, even after Redis fully recovered. Exactly the "attaches in the background" promise this PR makes, not kept for that half. The two now have distinct answers: `CacheAttach::Settled` when the vector-search question has a real answer, `SemanticPending` when it does not, and the loop stops only on the first. Neither half is re-dialled once it has landed, and the "cache backend attached" line is announced once — on the round that gets the exact connection up, which is when `backend: redis` policies start being served again — rather than on every subsequent semantic retry. The same defect sat one step further in, in the probe itself. Its own comment already said an I/O failure "does not mean the server lacks vector search" and that "a wrong attribution here is what the operator reads for the life of the pod" — but `Result<(), CacheError>` could not carry that, so the distinction lived only in the message text while the caller recorded both as a permanent no. `probe_outcome` returns three states, and only a server that ANSWERED settles the question; a probe that never reached one is retried like a failed connect. `probe` stays as the flattening wrapper its existing callers use. The classification is a free function so it can be tested against a constructed error rather than a live server: the integration suite already pins the "plain Redis 7 says no" side against a real one, and the unit test pins the side that has no cheap live equivalent.
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Confirmed first-hand and fixed in 06ffa32 — this was a real one, thank you. You had the mechanism exactly right: The two have distinct answers now: Following the thread one step further turned up the same defect inside the probe. Its own comment already said an I/O failure "does not mean the server lacks vector search", but |
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Problem
Three startup connections could hold the gateway's listeners closed indefinitely. The reported one was the shared rate-limit Redis; the audit that followed found the cache Redis on the same boot path and the etcd dial ahead of both.
A gateway configured with
ratelimit.backend: redisnever bound its listeners when that Redis was unreachable at process start. The log ended atconnecting shared rate-limit backendand the process then answered nothing at all — no/livez, no/metrics, no error line, no exit — for eight minutes (measured attimeout_secs: 2), before finally exiting withredis rate-limit connect failed (ratelimit.redis): timed out. Found during release QA against 1.4.0-rc.1; present in 1.3.0.ratelimit.redis.timeout_secswas set natively on the driver, which bounds one connection attempt but not the call: the single-node connection manager retries the initial connect on a schedule of its own, unrelated to anything the operator configured, and the boot awaits that call before opening any port.Only one failure shape reaches this. A refused connection fails fast, and a Redis that goes down after a successful start was already handled by the request-path circuit breaker with background probing. What was uncovered is a Redis that accepts or silently drops packets without ever answering — a stopped container, a downed host, a partitioned network — which is exactly the node-reboot case where Redis comes up after the gateway.
The shipped
config.managed.yamlcomments claimed the opposite contract ("the limiter fails open to per-replica counting when Redis errors", "timeout_secsbounds one Redis round trip and one connection attempt"); neither held on the boot path.Change
The startup connect is bounded by the budget the operator configured, and failing it is no longer fatal:
aisix_redis_failures_total{operation="ratelimit_*"}rises per request as it already does during an outage./livezwith no cluster-wide limit in force.memorybackend. The operator asked for shared counting and gets it the moment it is available.The boot budget is
timeout_secs × (configured endpoints + 1), not a flat one:sentineldiscovery walks its sentinel list serially, andclusterdials its seeds concurrently but then walks the resulting connection map serially forCLUSTER SLOTS. A flat bound would have failed a connect that is working exactly as designed, in the one deployment shape built to survive a dead node. One expression now serves both this bound and sentinel's own discovery bound.A reservation that took its concurrency slot on the local fallback and then committed against the newly attached backend was leaving that slot behind —
LocalStorehas no ttl onin_flight— permanently raising the local baseline for that bucket, so a later outage would fail closed on a path whose contract is to fail open.commitnow returns the local slot exactly asreleasealready did.Whole class, not just the reported site
Every startup-path connection to an external dependency that runs before the listener bind was audited:
ratelimit.redis)cache.redis, exact-KV)etcd.dial_timeout_msnow defaults to 5000 ms. Only a credentialed deployment reached the unbounded case:Client::connectperforms no I/O withoutetcd.user, so managed mode was never affectedThere is no pgvector/Postgres cache backend in this repository; the semantic store is Redis-only.
The cache, and why it fails open rather than exits
Every cache operation already fails open to a miss, and a running gateway rides out an unbounded cache-Redis outage that way. Only boot was fatal, which made it the odd one out — and it took down precisely the deployment this change is about:
config.example.yamlsays the rate limiter may point at the same Redis as the cache, so with both blocks on one unreachable server the limiter degraded correctly and the cache killed the process anyway.The exact-KV connection now lives in a slot that may be empty, and one background task fills it. The vector-search half is not a slot: that store is built where the capability probe runs and published into a write-once cell only once the probe has passed, so the boot path and the background attach answer the same question through the same door. An empty cell means what it has always meant — one WARN per policy and then exact-only, with no embedding call and no Redis round trip per request — which is why nothing is published speculatively.
A Redis config the driver can never use is the one failure that stays fatal at boot, for the limiter and the cache both: a malformed
url, TLS material that will not read. Everything else here is retried forever in the background, and retrying a typo would turn a boot that said exactly what was wrong into a gateway that comes up healthy and is quietly never going to enforce a shared limit or cache anything.The etcd dial
etcd.dial_timeout_msnow defaults to5000; an explicit0keeps the unbounded behaviour, which is now something an operator asks for rather than something they get by omission.request_timeout_msis untouched and still defaults to unbounded — the two keys bound different things, and a default bound on the range read would abort the one call whose cost scales with the size of the configuration set.This mattered more than a closed port:
Supervisor::restore_from_cache()runs after the dial, so the snapshot cache that exists for exactly a control-plane outage sat unread behind the same await.The value bounds one connection attempt; the whole dial gets it once per configured endpoint —
dial_timeout_ms × max(1, endpoints), blanks not counted — because the client opens one balanced channel over all of them and a single authentication call may have to fail over across the set. There is no+1, unlike the Redis side: a sentinel or cluster walk ends in a connection to a node the walk merely pointed at, and that extra hop needs paying for, whereas here the channel is the endpoints. The budget is also spent once per provider, and the environment prefix and the shared pricing catalog are dialled one after the other, so a single-endpoint blackholed etcd binds after roughly two budgets.A failing cache reports the outage once
cache lookup failed,cache write failed,cache backfill write failedand the two semantic equivalents were logged per request. That used to be bounded by the fact that the gateway could not start without its cache Redis; now that it can, an unreachable backend meant two WARN lines per cached-policy request for as long as the outage lasted. The first failure of an outage logs at WARN and the rest at debug, re-armed by the next success so a second outage is reported again.aisix_redis_failures_total{operation}is untouched and is what keeps the per-request count.Two latches, because the exact-KV and vector-search halves fail and recover independently and only the semantic one costs an embedding call. The rate limiter already worked this way (
RedisStore::warn_degraded, re-armed bymark_ok), which is where the shape comes from.Test
tests/e2e/src/cases/ratelimit-cluster-e2e.test.tsgains a case that starts the existing TCP relay black-holed from the first SYN and only then spawns the gateway, so the boot connect is what meets the silence. It asserts, each worthless without the others:maintimes out after 10s with the binary still running and its log ending atconnecting shared rate-limit backend.redis://, and reportsredis.timeout_secs = 2s— which is what distinguishes the configured budget from the 5s default and from a multi-minute ladder.crates/aisix-ratelimit/tests/redis_integration.rscovers at the Rust layer what the e2e cannot reach: a store that never connected fails open across all fiveRateStoreoperations, and the handover returns the local concurrency slot. Both attach gates judge by an effect only the shared backend can produce, becausepeekand a successfulacquireboth answer from the local fallback — the first version of each gate fell through immediately, which a mutation check caught.tests/e2e/src/cases/cache-redis-outage-e2e.test.tsdoes the same for the cache, withratelimit.redispointed at the same black-holed relay — the shared-Redis deployment. The gateway must come up and serve; everybackend: redispolicy must be a miss while degraded (the same prompt reaches the upstream twice, which is also what rules out the in-process memory cache serving it); and once Redis is healed the cache must attach and actually cache.tests/e2e/src/cases/etcd-auth-connect-e2e.test.tsgains a case where an authenticated etcd accepts the connection and never answers, with nodial_timeout_mswritten anywhere: the metrics port must open. The case that pinned the old unbounded dial now pins it under an explicitdial_timeout_ms: 0, since that is the only way to ask for it.Verified to fail on
4875c2d3and pass with this change, with each fix mutation-checked individually.Observability
The Redis circuit-breaker state is not exposed in
/metricsor/status/config— onlyaisix_redis_failures_total{operation}, which moves only while rate-limited traffic actually arrives. No metric is added here: the boot WARN plus the five-minute reminder are what make a permanently degraded gateway visible.Behaviour changes on upgrade
Nothing has to be edited for any of these.
A rate-limit Redis that is down at startup no longer stops the gateway. Before: the listeners never bound, and after about eight minutes the process exited. After: the listeners bind, the limiter counts per replica — so cluster-wide limits are not enforced while degraded — one WARN names the backend, the degradation is restated at WARN every five minutes, and the shared backend is attached automatically once Redis answers.
A cache Redis that is down at startup no longer stops the gateway. Before: the process exited (after the same multi-minute wait). After: the listeners bind and every
backend: rediscache policy is served as a miss until Redis answers, with the same WARN, restatement and background attach. An operator who wanted a boot to fail on an unreachable cache no longer gets one — acache.redisthe driver cannot parse, or TLS material it cannot read, still ends the boot.etcd.dial_timeout_msdefaults to5000where it was previously unbounded. Only a deployment that setsetcd.useris affected — without credentials the dial performs no I/O. Before: an etcd that accepted the connection and then went silent held every listener closed for as long as it stayed quiet, with the snapshot cache unread. After: the dial is abandoned afterdial_timeout_ms × max(1, endpoints)and the existing unreachable path runs — WARN, bind, serve from the snapshot cache, retry in the background. Writedial_timeout_ms: 0to keep the old behaviour.A failing redis cache logs one WARN per outage instead of one per request. Before: two lines per cached-policy request for the whole outage. After: one at the start, the rest at debug, re-armed on recovery. Nothing else changes, and
aisix_redis_failures_total{operation}still counts every failed operation.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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