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fix(health): name the snapshot in the alert, not the /healthz that is green - #141
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… green A snapshot failure pages under the LAN half's marker but got the LAN half's words: "cotel prod /healthz is red", which names the one part of production that is still working. The reader starts at the container. The pager already receives the probe verdict, so the subject and lead are classified from it when the caller passes none: a snapshot verdict titles the alert after the snapshot and leads with "the application is alive; its backup is not", pointing at /api/v1/health and the worker's logs instead of a restart. An explicit PC_ALERT_SUBJECT/PC_ALERT_LEAD — the edge half's — still wins. The dedup marker is untouched: both subjects share one alert slot, so two red ticks of this half still dedup into one ticket in either order. Co-Authored-By: Wayland <wayland@agents.flopbut.local> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe paging script now selects alert subjects and leads from probe verdicts unless explicit values override them. Snapshot failures receive snapshot-specific wording. The script reuses the pre-read verdict for alert raises and recovery wakes, and tests cover wording, overrides, and deduplication. ChangesHealth alert wording
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Alert wording for unverified snapshots and for snapshot recovery can be misleading. Paging, dedup and overrides still work, so this is mergeable with a small follow-up. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change preserves alert permissions and destinations, but concurrent failures with different classifications could create duplicate alerts and split their recovery lifecycle. The risk is localized and depends on overlapping callers. Retained concerns
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Review comments at @scripts/page-cotel-health.sh:
- Line 356: Update the lead selected for “snapshots are required on this
instance” in the health probe so it does not claim the worker stopped or the
restore point is aging out when the snapshot report is unknown or unreadable;
instead direct operators to verify the snapshot report and configuration. Make
the corresponding description change in the health-probe documentation and
assert the diagnostic lead in the required-snapshot test.
- Line 359: Update the resolve flow that assigns SUBJECT so an unset
PC_ALERT_SUBJECT preserves the open alert’s subject, or uses neutral recovery
wording, instead of inferring prod /healthz from the green snapshot verdict. Add
an assertion covering snapshot recovery when PC_ALERT_SUBJECT is unset.
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| case "$VERDICT" in | ||
| *"no current database snapshot"*|*"snapshots are required on this instance"*) | ||
| DEFAULT_SUBJECT="prod database snapshot" | ||
| DEFAULT_LEAD="**The application is alive; its backup is not.** cotel is answering \`/healthz\`, so the process and the live database are fine — what has stopped is the snapshot worker, and the newest restore point is aging out. Nothing is down for users right now; what is gone is the ability to recover if something does go down. Read the \`snapshot\` object in \`/api/v1/health\` on the host for the worker's own report (\`status\`, \`last_run_at\`, \`last_error\`), then the container logs for the snapshot worker. Do **not** restart cotel on the assumption that production is down — it is not, and a restart neither fixes the worker nor produces a restore point." |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Distinguish an unverified snapshot from a stopped worker.
When SNAPSHOT_CHECK=require and the snapshot report is unknown or unreadable, the probe emits snapshots are required on this instance. That verdict selects this lead, which states that the worker stopped and the restore point is aging out. The probe has not established either fact. Give the required-but-unverified verdict a diagnostic lead that directs the reader to check the snapshot report and configuration. Update the corresponding lead description in docs/operations/health-probe.md and assert it in the required-snapshot test.
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Review comment at @scripts/page-cotel-health.sh at line 356:
Update the lead selected for “snapshots are required on this instance” in the
health probe so it does not claim the worker stopped or the restore point is
aging out when the snapshot report is unknown or unreadable; instead direct
operators to verify the snapshot report and configuration. Make the
corresponding description change in the health-probe documentation and assert
the diagnostic lead in the required-snapshot test.
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| DEFAULT_LEAD="**The application is alive; its backup is not.** cotel is answering \`/healthz\`, so the process and the live database are fine — what has stopped is the snapshot worker, and the newest restore point is aging out. Nothing is down for users right now; what is gone is the ability to recover if something does go down. Read the \`snapshot\` object in \`/api/v1/health\` on the host for the worker's own report (\`status\`, \`last_run_at\`, \`last_error\`), then the container logs for the snapshot worker. Do **not** restart cotel on the assumption that production is down — it is not, and a restart neither fixes the worker nor produces a restore point." | ||
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| SUBJECT="${PC_ALERT_SUBJECT:-$DEFAULT_SUBJECT}" |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve the snapshot subject when resolving its alert.
When a snapshot recovers, its green verdict does not contain a snapshot failure phrase. This line therefore selects prod /healthz. The recovery instruction and wake reason then say /healthz recovered, although /healthz was healthy during the snapshot failure. If PC_ALERT_SUBJECT is unset, use the open alert’s subject or neutral recovery wording in resolve. Add a snapshot-recovery assertion.
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Review comment at @scripts/page-cotel-health.sh at line 359:
Update the resolve flow that assigns SUBJECT so an unset PC_ALERT_SUBJECT
preserves the open alert’s subject, or uses neutral recovery wording, instead of
inferring prod /healthz from the green snapshot verdict. Add an assertion
covering snapshot recovery when PC_ALERT_SUBJECT is unset.
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The snapshot subject is classified from two substrings of the probe's verdict, and nothing on the probe's side held that wording: rewording the prefix left all 97 pager assertions and all 27 probe assertions green while the alert silently went back to titling a dead backup as a dead /healthz. Three assertions pin both phrases from the probe end, so a reword has to pass through a red test. Co-Authored-By: Daedalus <daedalus@agents.flopbut.local> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A snapshot failure pages under the LAN half's dedup marker, and so inherited the LAN half's words:
cotel prod /healthz is red. That titles the alert after the one part of production that is still working — the process is up,/healthzis green, the backup is dead — and the woken reader starts at the container.What changed
scripts/page-cotel-health.shalready receives the probe verdict (the wrapper callsraise "$out"), so the subject and lead defaults are now classified from it:no current database snapshot/snapshots are required …cotel prod database snapshot is red [<marker>]snapshotobject in/api/v1/healthand the worker's logs; do not restart cotelcotel prod /healthz is red [<marker>](unchanged)Production cotel /healthz probe is red.(unchanged)An explicit
PC_ALERT_SUBJECT/PC_ALERT_LEAD— what the edge half passes — still wins over the classification.The dedup marker is untouched. Both subjects share one alert slot, so two consecutive red ticks of this half still land in one ticket, in either order. Had the subject entered the dedup key, one watcher's consecutive reds would mint an alert each.
No change in
~/ops: the timer materializes this script fromorigin/main, so the merge reaches it with no sync step.Verified
bash scripts/page-cotel-health_test.sh— 97 passed, 0 failed (28 new assertions: snapshot title/lead, both wake reasons, therequirevariant, three plain reds unchanged character-for-character, explicit-subject precedence on a snapshot verdict, and dedup across subjects).Live alert path, not just the check —
~/ops/cotel-healthz.sh --half localat this branch, against a loopback endpoint serving a green/healthzand asnapshot: {status: error}, under the drill marker:and an ordinary red under its own marker, for the no-change half:
Both drill alerts cancelled,
stateandstate-edgeback to0, loopback server stopped.Docs
docs/operations/health-probe.md— the classification table and the "the marker stays out of it" rule in The two halves are classified apart, a pointer from the snapshot-verdict section, and thePC_ALERT_SUBJECT/PC_ALERT_LEADrows in the env table now read "classified from the verdict" instead of a fixed default.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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/healthzalert wording.