feat(blocks): add instrumentWorkflowRun for Cloudflare Workflow tracing

[hugo-ccabral]

Summary

• instrumentWorker assumes a {fetch}/ctx.waitUntil request lifecycle that Cloudflare Workflow run(event, step) entrypoints don't have, so Workflow-heavy consumers currently have no way to reuse the observability stack for background jobs.
• Exports bootObservability (already transport/lifecycle-agnostic — it never itself calls ctx.waitUntil) and extracts flushObservability() out of instrumentWorker's finally block into its own function, preserving the existing "only call ctx.waitUntil when an adapter is actually configured" behavior.
• Adds instrumentWorkflowRun<T>(env, options, fn): boots observability and runs fn, flushing with a plain await on the way out (no ctx.waitUntil — Workflows have no such hook and aren't latency-sensitive). Deliberately does not open a root span around fn(), since code outside step.do/step.sleep in run() re-executes on every hibernate/wake replay — a span opened there would get a new random trace ID per replay leg instead of one coherent trace. Consumers should span individual step.do(...) callbacks with the existing withTracing, tagged with event.instanceId.

Test plan

• bun run --filter='./packages/blocks' typecheck passes
• packages/blocks/src/sdk/otel.test.ts — 28/28 passing, including 4 new tests covering flushObservability's no-op case, instrumentWorkflowRun's return/rethrow/flush behavior, and OTLP metrics wiring through the new entrypoint
• Full packages/blocks suite run — no new failures (23 pre-existing failures in cms/loader.test.ts/layoutCacheRace.test.ts are unrelated URLPattern Web API gaps in this local Bun/Node runtime, not caused by this change)

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Summary by cubic

Adds instrumentWorkflowRun to enable OTLP metrics/logs/traces in Cloudflare Workflow run(event, step) without ctx.waitUntil. Also exports bootObservability and a new flushObservability for reuse across non-Worker entrypoints.

• New Features

  • instrumentWorkflowRun<T>(env, options, fn): boots observability, runs fn, and flushes with await on exit. No root span is opened; span individual step.do(...) with withTracing and tag event.instanceId.
  • Exported bootObservability and flushObservability() for direct control in Workflow and other non-fetch contexts.

• Refactors

  • Extracted flushObservability() and updated instrumentWorker to call it via ctx.waitUntil only when any adapter is configured (meter/log/tracer).

^{Written for commit 949ae42. Summary will update on new commits.}

[cubic-dev-ai]

3 issues found across 3 files

Prompt for AI agents (unresolved issues)

Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.


<file name="packages/blocks/src/sdk/otel.test.ts">

<violation number="1" location="packages/blocks/src/sdk/otel.test.ts:554">
P3: The test name promises "and still flushes", but the body only asserts the rejection and configures no OTLP adapter, so the flush-on-error behavior it claims to cover is never actually verified. Either rename it to reflect that it only checks error propagation, or configure a metrics fetch impl and assert the POST fires after rejection as the name implies.</violation>
</file>

<file name="packages/blocks/src/sdk/otel.ts">

<violation number="1" location="packages/blocks/src/sdk/otel.ts:517">
P2: A synchronous exception from `fn` skips the flush and escapes synchronously, so buffered telemetry from earlier workflow work can be lost. Start the callback in a promise chain so both synchronous throws and rejected promises reach the same `finally`.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="packages/blocks/src/sdk/otel.ts:517">
P2: Workflow runs get one explicit flush on the way out, but the OTLP meter (and by extension the same per-isolate pattern) enforces a 5s flush cooldown in `flush()`. When a workflow replays legs within that window, the final `await flushObservability()` is a silent no-op, so spans/metrics logged in the last leg can be lost when the isolate is torn down — exactly the durability this `finally` flush is meant to provide. Consider exposing a force/ignore-cooldown flush path (or raising the cap) for the Workflow entrypoint so the on-exit flush actually ships buffered data.</violation>
</file>

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[cubic-dev-ai]

P2: A synchronous exception from fn skips the flush and escapes synchronously, so buffered telemetry from earlier workflow work can be lost. Start the callback in a promise chain so both synchronous throws and rejected promises reach the same finally.

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/blocks/src/sdk/otel.ts, line 517:

<comment>A synchronous exception from `fn` skips the flush and escapes synchronously, so buffered telemetry from earlier workflow work can be lost. Start the callback in a promise chain so both synchronous throws and rejected promises reach the same `finally`.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -446,34 +446,77 @@ export function instrumentWorker(
+): Promise<T> {
+  configureTracer(buildOtelApiTracer());
+  bootObservability(options ?? {}, env);
+  return fn().finally(() => flushObservability());
+}
+
</file context>

Suggested change

	return fn().finally(() => flushObservability());
	return Promise.resolve().then(fn).finally(() => flushObservability());

[cubic-dev-ai]

P2: Workflow runs get one explicit flush on the way out, but the OTLP meter (and by extension the same per-isolate pattern) enforces a 5s flush cooldown in flush(). When a workflow replays legs within that window, the final await flushObservability() is a silent no-op, so spans/metrics logged in the last leg can be lost when the isolate is torn down — exactly the durability this finally flush is meant to provide. Consider exposing a force/ignore-cooldown flush path (or raising the cap) for the Workflow entrypoint so the on-exit flush actually ships buffered data.

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/blocks/src/sdk/otel.ts, line 517:

<comment>Workflow runs get one explicit flush on the way out, but the OTLP meter (and by extension the same per-isolate pattern) enforces a 5s flush cooldown in `flush()`. When a workflow replays legs within that window, the final `await flushObservability()` is a silent no-op, so spans/metrics logged in the last leg can be lost when the isolate is torn down — exactly the durability this `finally` flush is meant to provide. Consider exposing a force/ignore-cooldown flush path (or raising the cap) for the Workflow entrypoint so the on-exit flush actually ships buffered data.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -446,34 +446,77 @@ export function instrumentWorker(
+): Promise<T> {
+  configureTracer(buildOtelApiTracer());
+  bootObservability(options ?? {}, env);
+  return fn().finally(() => flushObservability());
+}
+
</file context>

[cubic-dev-ai]

P3: The test name promises "and still flushes", but the body only asserts the rejection and configures no OTLP adapter, so the flush-on-error behavior it claims to cover is never actually verified. Either rename it to reflect that it only checks error propagation, or configure a metrics fetch impl and assert the POST fires after rejection as the name implies.

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At packages/blocks/src/sdk/otel.test.ts, line 554:

<comment>The test name promises "and still flushes", but the body only asserts the rejection and configures no OTLP adapter, so the flush-on-error behavior it claims to cover is never actually verified. Either rename it to reflect that it only checks error propagation, or configure a metrics fetch impl and assert the POST fires after rejection as the name implies.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -524,3 +529,60 @@ describe("instrumentWorker — OTLP/HTTP error-log channel wiring", () => {
+    expect(fn).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+  });
+
+  it("rethrows fn's error and still flushes", async () => {
+    const fn = vi.fn().mockRejectedValue(new Error("workflow step failed"));
+
</file context>