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Problem

The e2e (vitest, thread-per-core) + coverage job has been failing
intermittently on main, a different test each run:

  • client-cancel-usage-1571-e2e › "an ordinary completed request names its target on the line too" — no 200 access-log line for <request_id>
  • ratelimit-e2e › "suspension window pauses the policy; leaving it resumes the same bucket" — expected 200 to be 429
  • upstream-header-context-e2e › "default_headers render request-context variables; unresolved ones are dropped" — expected 401 to be 200

All three assert on something that no wait in the spec ever covered. Two
recent changes made the windows wide enough to hit: configuration applies
now run on a background-priority thread, and log events now go through a
queue drained by a dedicated writer thread instead of being written from
the thread that produced them.

Mechanism

The two configuration failures are the race tests/e2e/AGENTS.md
already names.
Seeded resources reach the gateway as watch events
applied in revision order, so gating on resource N proves only that
everything written up to N has landed.

  • ratelimit-e2e wrote its rate-limit policy after the caller key and
    gated on the key. When the policy was still in flight, the burst that
    must go 200 then 429 came back 200 twice.
  • upstream-header-context-e2e seeds two caller keys and asserts with
    both, but gated on the first — TEAMLESS_PLAINTEXT is written after it
    and had not authenticated yet, so the request was refused with 401.
    That gate was also a chat() call, which the same file forbids: it
    exercises the behaviour under test.

The third is a log-visibility race. The gateway hands every event to a
bounded queue drained by a dedicated writer thread, so the request path
never blocks on the log descriptor (crates/aisix-obs/src/log_writer.rs),
and the harness then drains the child's pipe from its own event loop.
Neither hop is ordered against the HTTP response. The spec read
app.output() once, immediately after the request; the failure dump shows
the captured output ending at the previous test's line.

Fix

Seed order and gates, so each gate implies what its spec asserts: the
rate-limit policy now precedes the caller key, and the header-context gate
is the later of its two keys, moved into beforeAll as a
ProxyClient.listModels() probe.

For the log race, one shared waitForLogLine / waitForLogLines in the
harness. Four specs had already grown a private copy of that poll loop,
each carrying the same comment about the delivery lag; those four now use
the shared helper, and the remaining sites that read a line their own
request produced are converted — the drain-complete assertions (the exit
event can precede the last of the pipe), the cooldown exclusion and
attempt-failure lines, the custom-guardrail unknown-action diagnostic, the
guardrail-index rebuild counts, and the cache-degradation warning. A
single output() read is still correct for a line written before
spawnApp resolved (boot warnings, a configuration rejected at startup),
and the specs that assert only those are unchanged.

tests/e2e/AGENTS.md gains the log-visibility rule next to the readiness
one.

Behaviour change

None. This is test-side only. The data plane stores the new snapshot
before anything that reports it advances, so no surface — /status/config,
readiness, the control-plane status report, the aisix_config_* series —
ever claimed a configuration the gateway was not already serving.

Test

waitForLogLine / waitForLogLines are covered by
tests/e2e/src/harness/logs.test.ts, against a gateway whose output gains
the line only after a delay — the shape a real one always has. Replacing
the poll with the single bare read this PR removes turns two of its four
cases red.

The gate fixes are structural rather than statistical: the assertion that
failed now sits behind a gate that provably implies it, by the ordering
rule the harness documents. The three specs were run locally against a
real binary and etcd under E2E_THREAD_PER_CORE=true, together with every
other spec this PR touches.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Tests
    • Improved end-to-end test reliability by waiting for asynchronous log output before validating requests, shutdown behavior, guardrail events, rate limits, and configuration propagation.
    • Added coverage for delayed and incomplete log messages, multiple matching entries, existing output, and timeout diagnostics.
    • Standardized log-waiting behavior across scenarios to reduce timing-related test failures.
    • Improved request and response tracking in test scenarios, including access-log correlation and configuration readiness checks.

…before it

Three specs have been failing intermittently on the thread-per-core leg,
a different one each run, and all three assert on something no wait ever
covered.

`ratelimit-e2e` seeded its rate-limit policy AFTER the caller key and
gated on the key, so the policy could still be in flight when the first
burst ran and both calls came back 200. `upstream-header-context-e2e`
gated on the first of two caller keys and then asserted with the second,
which is seeded after it — a 401. Both are the race `tests/e2e/AGENTS.md`
already names: a readiness gate proves only that everything written up to
the gated resource has landed. The policy now precedes the key, and the
gate is the later key.

`client-cancel-usage-1571-e2e` read `app.output()` once, immediately
after the request, looking for that request's access-log line. The
gateway hands every event to a bounded queue drained by a dedicated
writer thread so the request path never blocks on the log descriptor,
and the harness then drains the child's pipe from its own event loop;
neither hop is ordered against the HTTP response. The failure dump shows
the captured output ending at the previous test's line.

Four specs had already grown their own private polling helper for that
second race, with the same comment on each. This adds one
`waitForLogLine` / `waitForLogLines` to the harness, replaces the four
copies, and converts the remaining sites that read a line their own
request produced: the drain-complete assertions (the exit event can
precede the last of the pipe), the cooldown exclusion and attempt-failure
lines, the custom-guardrail diagnostic, the guardrail-index rebuild
counts and the cache-degradation warning. A single `output()` read is
still correct for a line written before `spawnApp` resolved, and the
specs that only assert those are left alone.

No product change: the data plane publishes the snapshot before it
advances anything that reports it, so no surface ever claimed a
configuration it was not already serving.
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The E2E harness now waits for complete, asynchronously delivered log lines and exposes response request IDs. E2E cases use shared waits and FIFO barriers for log assertions. Selected setup tests wait for policy or configuration propagation.

Changes

E2E synchronization updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared log-waiting harness
tests/e2e/src/harness/logs.ts, tests/e2e/src/harness/logs.test.ts, tests/e2e/src/harness/proxy.ts, tests/e2e/src/harness/index.ts, tests/e2e/AGENTS.md
The harness matches newline-terminated lines, refreshes timeout output, returns gateway request IDs, exports the shared helpers and response type, and documents FIFO barriers for exact-count assertions.
E2E log assertion migration
tests/e2e/src/cases/cache-*.test.ts, tests/e2e/src/cases/client-cancel-usage-1571-e2e.test.ts, tests/e2e/src/cases/cooldown-opt-in-e2e.test.ts, tests/e2e/src/cases/graceful-drain*.test.ts, tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-*.test.ts, tests/e2e/src/cases/mcp-request-logging-e2e.test.ts, tests/e2e/src/cases/provider-request-id-logging-e2e.test.ts, tests/e2e/src/cases/realtime-ws-e2e.test.ts
The cases use shared waits for access, warning, drain, diagnostic, rebuild, cooldown, and WebSocket log lines. Request IDs and completed follow-up requests provide FIFO barriers where exact counts are checked.
E2E setup synchronization
tests/e2e/src/cases/ratelimit-e2e.test.ts, tests/e2e/src/cases/upstream-header-context-e2e.test.ts
Rate-limit setup writes the policy before API-key seeding. Upstream-header setup waits for the teamless key to list models before requests run.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6fa65

The cancellation E2E test can scan logs before its synchronization barrier is reached, leaving a narrow source of flaky or inaccurate test results. Tighten the predicate before merging.

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E2e Test Quality Review ⚠️ Warning Major issue: the new tests/e2e/src/harness/logs.test.ts still uses wall-clock timing for its failure-path test. lateOutput() releases hit two after 300 ms, while the first waitForLogLines() ca… Replace lateOutput() timing with deterministic fake-output state. Make the fake return the second line only after a controlled number of output() reads, or expose an explicit test-controlled release. Assert the read count and keep timeo…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: E2E tests now synchronize with the behavior they assert instead of relying on earlier output or events.
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Explanation

Major issue: the new tests/e2e/src/harness/logs.test.ts still uses wall-clock timing for its failure-path test. lateOutput() releases hit two after 300 ms, while the first waitForLogLines() call must time out after 100 ms. Under a busy CI worker, the event loop can be delayed past 300 ms, so the call can succeed and make the test fail intermittently. This conflicts with the PR objective to make helper tests deterministic.

Resolution

Replace lateOutput() timing with deterministic fake-output state. Make the fake return the second line only after a controlled number of output() reads, or expose an explicit test-controlled release. Assert the read count and keep timeout tests independent of elapsed wall-clock scheduling.

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In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/cooldown-opt-in-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 295-298: In the cooldown opt-in test, replace the one-shot
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Comment thread tests/e2e/src/cases/cooldown-opt-in-e2e.test.ts Outdated
Comment thread tests/e2e/src/harness/logs.test.ts Outdated
Review findings on the first commit, all of the same shape as the bug it
fixes: a wait that settles earlier than the claim it is supposed to
support.

`waitForLogLines(…, n, …)` returns the instant the nth line is visible, so
it bounds a count from below and never from above — three assertions of
the form "exactly n" were therefore incapable of failing. The
cache-degradation one was worse: the WARN it waited for was written six
requests earlier, so the wait was satisfied before the requests the count
is actually about had reached the log at all.

The barrier that settles all of them is a later request's own access-log
line — everything its predecessors wrote is ahead of it in a queue that is
FIFO end to end. `ProxyClient` now returns the gateway's request id so a
spec can name that line, `cache-redis-outage` pins its last request,
`client-cancel-usage-1571` issues one plain request after the abandoned
stream, and `guardrail-index-invalidation` gets it from its own `chat`
helper — which also fixes the reverse direction there, where the
AISIX-Cloud#1542 assertion (thirty unrelated writes must rebuild nothing)
was reading a count the rebuild line may not have reached yet.

Two more from the same pass: `waitForLogLine` was matching against a
buffer with no line framing, so a predicate anchored on an early field
could return a half-delivered line whose later fields are simply missing —
a false pass for the specs that assert a field is absent. It now considers
only newline-terminated lines. And the helper's own test asserted a
wall-clock bound; it counts `output()` calls instead.

`tests/e2e/AGENTS.md` states the upper-bound rule and the FIFO exemption
it rests on, so the next spec does not re-derive either.

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The per-attempt `provider call completed` line renders `request_id` the
same way the access log does — deliberately, so an operator greps the two
alike (`crates/aisix-obs/src/usage.rs`) — so a predicate that only names
the id matches it too, and it is written first. The barrier then means
less than its name says.
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