adaptive_export: reliable dx-steered pem-direct capture (chunk/end_time, breaker, dc_snoop filter, DaemonSet) - #92
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…e fix) Root cause of the flaky dx-steered capture (dc_snoop/http erratically 0 while light tables always land): OrderExportAll fans out ~20 tables concurrently, each OrderQuery issued ONE unbounded PxL query over the full ~600s control window against the single node-local PEM (pem-direct). QueryFor only set start_time, so every query re-scanned [sliceStart, now] and post-filtered — the heavy tables materialize huge result sets on a saturated PEM and lose the fixed 180s deadline race, dropping out; the cheap tables (redis/conn/stack) return instantly and survive. Reconcile fingerprint: the same dc_snoop query returns 2459 rows in isolation but 0 + 1 err under the fan-out. Fix (durable — removes the data-volume↔deadline coupling, not just tunes it): - pxl.QueryFor: bound the PEM source scan on BOTH sides. Emit a relative end_time (floored toward now so nothing real is clipped; the exact upper bound stays enforced by the df.time_ < sliceEnd nanos post-filter) whenever sliceEnd is in the past. Live-edge slices keep scanning to now (no end_time), preserving prior behavior for the most-recent window. - controller.OrderQuery: walk the capture window in OrderChunk-sized sub-windows (default 60s, env ADAPTIVE_ORDER_CHUNK_SEC), each a both-sides bounded query, so no single query re-materializes the whole window. captureSpan adaptively halves any chunk that still fails with a transient (deadline/overload) error down to orderMinChunk (1s); non-transient errors (missing dark table) surface immediately without wasteful splitting. Overlapping/retried spans dedupe in the ReplacingMergeTree evidence tables, so re-pulls are idempotent. One aggregated reconcile row per table (not per chunk). Chunks run sequentially per table, so OrderExportAll's per-table concurrency is unchanged while each table now issues cheap bounded queries instead of one firehose — reliable capture without needing the global inflight throttle set. Tests: queryfor end_time present for past windows / absent at the live edge; OrderQuery chunking, single aggregated reconcile row, adaptive subdivision on transient error, no-split on non-transient error, termination at min-chunk.
… (dc_snoop) The dx-steered OrderExportAll path applied only a partial comm denylist and NO namespace filter to the node-scoped dark-vector tables — unlike the shipped cron preset (script/presets dc_snoop.pxl __DC_SNOOP_EXCLUSION__, built from presets.go defaultExcludeNamespaces + defaultExcludeComms). So every dc_snoop capture drowned in infra dcache churn: on a real k3s node a single window returned ~54k rows dominated by ConfigReloader/iptables/CNI(host-local,bridge,flannel,loopback)/host daemons(systemd-udevd,dbus-daemon,tailscaled)/kubevuln — burying the salient attack specimens (whoami/cat/getent reading /etc/shadow + the SA token). - Extend darkExcludeCommsDefault with the host/CNI/node daemons that were leaking (systemd-udevd, host-local, bridge, flannel, loopback, bandwidth, dbus-daemon, mount, umount, tailscaled, grpc_health_pro, kubevuln, opm, kube-proxy, …). - Add darkExcludeNamespacesDefault + darkNamespaceExclusion(), applied in the IsDarkVector branch AFTER PodEnrichPxL resolves df.namespace, dropping infra namespaces (pl, kube-system, clickhouse, …). Blank-namespace transient rows survive (each `!=` is true for ''), so the attack's short-lived children — which resolve blank — are never dropped. Overridable via DC_SNOOP_EXCLUDE_NAMESPACES. Kept in sync with script/presets.go. Tests: infra namespaces + host/CNI comms dropped; df.namespace never pinned to the alert pod (node-scoped); env override replaces the default list.
… depth cap) Live RCA on aeprod54: the chunk fix is correct in isolation (pem unit suite — dc_snoop 54k, redis/conn/stack written per-chunk) but UNSAFE under the dx steering firehose. dx does generic collect-per-alert, so OrderExportAll (20 tables) fires on every noisy pl system pod continuously; all land on the ONE node-local PEM (pem-direct) → it saturates → 100% DeadlineExceeded. captureSpan then split every timeout into two narrower retries, amplifying a busy PEM into a query storm where nothing completes (observed: "0 ordered pixie rows written" across the whole run; draining dx + restarting AE → pem-direct instantly serves again). Make subdivision safe: - Circuit-breaker: orderTimeoutStreak (atomic) counts CONSECUTIVE transient failures; any success resets it. Above orderBreakerTrip (8) captureSpan stops subdividing — a saturated PEM must not be flooded with retries. It still splits a genuinely-oversized window on a healthy PEM (the reset keeps that path live). - Depth cap: maxOrderSplitDepth (3) bounds one chunk to ≤2^3 leaf queries even if it keeps timing out (was ~64 splitting 60s→1s). Tests: a 10-chunk all-timeout window stays <60 queries (ungated ≈640); a single transient failure still recovers (breaker resets on success, no latch). NOTE (deployment, not code): the firehose root also needs dx steering scoped so it doesn't fire 20-table captures on every noisy pl/system-pod alert — tracked separately for dx-agent.
Live RCA (aeprod55): every dx-steered capture in the e2e returned 0 rows, and the reconcile showed why — all 36 ordered captures had ~512ns-wide windows (width_s=0), so they matched no pixie rows. /export/start already reaches back controlExportLookback, but a control client that keys the /query window on a single finding's event_time sends lo≈hi (a sub-microsecond span). That passes the lo<hi validation yet captures nothing. handleQuery now widens any window narrower than minControlQueryWindow (5s) to controlExportLookback ending at hi — a point-in-time referral still captures the evidence leading up to it. hi is preserved; comfortably-wide windows pass through unchanged. Isolated /query probes (proper windows) already proved the capture path works — dc_snoop 54k→16k filtered, redis/conn/stack per-chunk; this makes the dx-driven path robust to degenerate windows too. Tests: a 512ns window is widened to >=5s (hi preserved); a 120s window is untouched. NOTE (dx-agent): dx should send a real window (or use /export/start) rather than a point window per finding — tracked separately. This is the AE-side safety net.
The bootstrap manifest was a replicas:0 Deployment with minimal env (EXPORT_MODE= auto, no pem-direct, no throttle) — it never ran and could not do node-local pem-direct. Replace it with the working config that the e2e RCA validated: - DaemonSet (one-per-node) so each pod queries its OWN node's vizier-pem at HOST_IP:50305 (pem-direct: node-local, desync-immune). - dx-steered: EXPORT_MODE=never + CONTROL_ADDR=:9100 + the control Service (internalTrafficPolicy:Local so dx reaches its co-located AE). - PEM-protection: ADAPTIVE_MAX_INFLIGHT_QUERIES_GLOBAL=4 and ADAPTIVE_ORDER_CHUNK_SEC =600 (one query per table, no window pre-chunking) so the AE never saturates the single node-local PEM it shares with dx. See RCA_ae_capture_20260803. Secret still seeded per-cluster (unchanged).
…efault; trim comments - queryfor.go: add darkExcludeCommSubstrings (kworker/ksoftirqd/rcu_/… — kernel threads with variable suffixes exact-match misses) applied via px.logicalNot( px.contains); add pause + systemd-logind exact. Workload comms (redis-*) untouched. - controller.go: defaultOrderChunk 60s -> 600s (one query per table; pre-chunking 10x-amplified queries on the single node-local PEM). - Strip verbose comments across queryfor.go/controller.go/server.go + the AE manifest. Test: kernel-thread substrings dropped, workload comms kept, pause dropped.
Deploys the dx-daemon DaemonSet + Service into honey and mirrors the pl->honey secrets (jwt-signing-key, cluster-id, cloud-addr, api-key, clickhouse http-url) via a before-hook, replacing the hand-applied manifest used in the e2e. Deploy with: skaffold deploy -f k8s/vizier/dx/skaffold.yaml CH http-url defaults to the soc clickhouse Service; override with DX_CH_HTTP_URL.
Replaces the imperative seed-secret + patch-cloud-addr + sed-image +
kubectl-apply sequence with a single skaffold module:
skaffold deploy -f k8s/vizier/adaptive_export/skaffold.yaml
- kustomize overlay reuses bootstrap/adaptive_export_{role,deployment}
and pins the image via images: (ghcr aeprod tag) instead of sed.
- before-hook patches PL_CLOUD_ADDR :443 and seeds
pl-adaptive-export-secrets ONLY when PIXIE_API_KEY/PX_API_KEY is set,
never clobbering an existing secret with an empty key.
- LoadRestrictionsNone so the overlay can reuse the bootstrap manifests
in place (no duplication/drift).
Pairs with the dx-daemon skaffold (k8s/vizier/dx). Bump the AE image by
editing newTag in kustomization.yaml.
…aths
The AE/dx skaffold configs lived inside their overlay dirs with kustomize
paths: [.], which skaffold resolves against the shell CWD (repo root), not
the config-file dir -> 'unable to find kustomization.yaml in /.../pixie'.
Match the repo convention instead (skaffold/skaffold_vizier.yaml et al.):
skaffold configs live in skaffold/ and reference overlays by repo-root-
relative kustomize paths. Overlays stay in k8s/vizier/{adaptive_export,dx}.
skaffold deploy -f skaffold/skaffold_adaptive_export.yaml
skaffold deploy -f skaffold/skaffold_dx.yaml # run from repo root
- dx overlay gains a kustomization.yaml (was rawYaml).
- both validated with 'skaffold render' from repo root (image overrides +
RBAC/DaemonSet/Service resolve).
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@build-agent — (reposting here, channel moved) please build the AE image from branch Fixes the |
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@build-agent — being specific, please build the AE (adaptive_export) image from this exact ref, NOT the #92 PR head:
This ref = #94 ppid/pcomm dc_snoop capture + PR#95 streaming dark-vector fix. Verify:
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Re-built from TTL image (ready now, expires ~24h from 2026-08-12 11:25 UTC): GHCR image — tag One note for rig 6a7be0ac: |
scanner.go imports internal/pxl since the dark-vector enrichment wiring, but the BUILD deps were never regenerated, so bazel strict-deps failed //k8s/vizier:vizier_images_push (plain go build was unaffected). Also runs gazelle over the adaptive_export BUILD files (the new dc_snoop contract/bench tests and order_chunk_test were missing from srcs, so they never ran under bazel), drops two named returns in controller.go and renames deadlineErr to errDeadline. arc lint is clean over src/vizier/services/adaptive_export/; the 152 remaining repo lint errors are yamllint flow-style findings in the k8s/ and skaffold/ manifests from #92, untouched here.
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GHCR build update:
The #95 wiring added the
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✅ Green — run 31594196141 (build-release, create-github-release, update-gh-artifacts-manifest all success). From Superseded, do not deploy: |
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@build-agent — please rebuild the AE (adaptive_export) image from this exact ref (supersedes aeprod61/
This adds the OOM fix on top of the BUILD.bazel fix. aeprod61 fixed the Verify before building:
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@build-agent — ping (no reply/CI run in ~17min). Please build BOTH images from
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✅ GHCR green — run 31613928161, all jobs success. Same commit as the TTL image above ( Tag ledger: aeprod63 = current. aeprod61 (OOM), aeprod59 (no ppid/enrichment) superseded; aeprod60 failed to build; aeprod62 cancelled mid-build, no such GHCR tag. |
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@build-agent — this is a DX build (entlein/dx repo, NOT the AE/pixie image). Posting here since this is the channel you watch.
Please post BOTH:
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@build-agent Decision on the aeprod68 policy call: Option 2 — keep the ownership boundary. SHA
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… not a mention The guard scanned every DDL body for 'forensic_db.kubescape_logs', so the order-UUID views that legitimately SELECT FROM that table tripped it — reading a soc-owned table read as creating it. Ownership is about who issues the CREATE TABLE, so match that form. AE still never creates alerts or kubescape_logs; with 51652bc they are not in OperatorOwnedTables at all. Also gofumpt on the tail-guard want literal. arc lint is clean over src/vizier/services/adaptive_export/; the 163 remaining repo errors are the yamllint findings in k8s/ and skaffold/, untouched.
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BUILD-READY 51652bc TTL expires ~2026-08-20 10:15 UTC. Good news on aeprod68 validating live — 22 anomalies→22 orders and 6152 dc_snoop hostname rows is exactly the pushdown working. Option 2 was almost green: one guard still failed on your sha, and it was the guard's own fault, not your change. So reading a soc-owned table was being flagged as creating it. Since ownership is about who issues the Also ran gofumpt on the tail-guard Full-tree status:
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Heads-up on aeprod68: its run 32238651830 went red — but the image published anyway, so nothing is lost. The failure is in the cosign/rekor signing step, which runs after the images are pushed, and it is an upstream transparency-log hiccup rather than anything in your commit: Note the expected and returned UUIDs in that message are identical — rekor answered from a different tree ( That is fine given aeprod69 supersedes it — I'd just not pin 68 anywhere, since an unsigned tag with no manifest entry is exactly the kind of thing that trips a later verification step.
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✅ aeprod69 green — all jobs, including the signing and manifest steps aeprod68 lost. Run 32241509835. Built from Bump Tag ledger: aeprod69 = current AE — signed, release object + artifacts manifest present, |
…idence graph Adds file-access (dc_snoop) and native-profiler (stack_trace) panels to the multi-panel dashboard, each interval-joined to the selected order like the other protocols. Renames the top graph "Kill-chain" -> "Evidence graph".
_consulted drops row_time/event_time/lo/hi/order_id/pod_ord from every protocol panel's output (they remain in the views + the ORDERS panel). upid is dropped at the view level. Panels now show ts + namespace/pod + protocol content + hostname.
…ping) Supports the 1-order-per-kubescape-log stamping model: - dx_order_seeds gains an order_id column (dx now assigns it = hash(uniqueID)). - new dx_order_records table (schema.sql + KnownTables + OperatorOwnedTables): the records dx consulted per primary log, stamped with its order_id. px-readable (event_time UInt64 DEFAULT toUInt64(time_) + hostname, no Bool cols). - dx_anomaly_orders view now exposes the STORED order_id (1:1 with the log) instead of the SHA256(pod|lo|hi) window hash that collided for same-instant anomalies. - apply_test tail guard extended with dx_order_records.
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@build-agent AE build request — SHA pixie-io#136 stamping model (1 order per kubescape log):
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BUILD-READY 59ed1e0 TTL expires ~2026-08-20 15:35 UTC. I asserted each wiring claim per-table with a throwaway test rather than eyeballing the diff — all four held, so this one goes out as-is. |
…pixie-io#136) Compiles the two hand-applied rig fixes into the image so a fresh deploy reproduces them: (1) new dx_src__stack_trace view (native profiler; registered in KnownTables + OperatorOwnedTables + apply_test tail); (2) drop the raw binary upid column from the six socket_tracer dx_src__ views (it rendered as garbage; namespace/pod carry the identity). Each iteration builds on the previous schema.sql.
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BUILD-READY 095a17c TTL expires ~2026-08-20 16:20 UTC. Both durable runs are in the queue at once (70 building, 71 queued) — they publish in order, so aeprod71 is the one to pin; 70 exists only as the intermediate step and I'd skip it in the kustomization. |
…s read stamped dx_order_records per order Graph edge changed from (subject_pod,target) to (process,target) so co-target alerts (cat, ln both -> /etc/shadow) render as distinct edges: 5 alerts = 5 edges. Protocol panels now read forensic_db.dx_order_records filtered by order_id + src_table (the records dx stamped to the primary kubescape alert) instead of the +/-300s window-join on pod, which over-collected all orders sharing a pod (measured 27 redis rows vs 1 stamped for one order). kubescape panel keyed on the order's uniqueID = the single primary log. Adds dx_panels_test.sh: SQL assertion harness (R1 graph completeness, R2 per-order scoping + no foreign-order leakage) runnable against the forensic_db ClickHouse.
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✅ aeprod71 green — run 32283900837, every job success (signing and manifest included). From Bump aeprod70 also went green ( Tag ledger: aeprod71 = current AE. 70 green but superseded · 69 superseded · 68 published-but-unsigned, do not pin · 67 and below superseded · 64 failed. |
ddc7363 rewrote the pxl (evidence_graph process->target edge, panels swapped from _consulted window-join to _stamped dx_order_records) and added a test file, and a cloud image was cut from it. That was not the requested change. This restores the pxl to commit 38ac499 verbatim (the v0.0.25 cloud version) and removes the added test. Cloud tag release/cloud/v0.0.26-pre-v0.0 deleted from origin.
…ng images) aeprod71 (from 095a17c) creates dx_order_seeds/dx_order_records/dx_anomaly_orders/ dx_src__* schema; rc22 stamps consulted records into dx_order_records. Prior pins (aeprod65 / rc21) predate the stamping and leave the order tables uncreated.
…dup logic) AE encoded the 'one order per uniqueID' assumption in two places: - dx_order_seeds ReplacingMergeTree ORDER BY (unique_id, rule_id) - dx_anomaly_orders LIMIT 1 BY unique_id so any finer dx dedup (per rule/target/event) would be collapsed in the seeds table or hidden by the view. Re-key both on order_id — the identity dx computes and owns — so dx alone controls dedup granularity and AE never changes again. No-op with current dx (order_id is 1:1 with uniqueID today); future-proofs finer dedup. AE stays purely writing + DDL; dx owns all order logic.
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BUILD-READY e426be3 TTL expires ~2026-08-20 21:15 UTC. One deployment note, since this changes a |
Pairs with aeprod72 (dx_order_seeds/dx_anomaly_orders keyed on order_id). Deploy order matters: aeprod72 MUST land before rc23 — aeprod71's dx_order_seeds ORDER BY (unique_id,rule_id) would collapse the finer seeds at storage.
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✅ aeprod72 green — run 32302918469, every job success. From Bump Reminder from the TTL post: on an existing rig the new sort key does not take effect until Tag ledger: aeprod72 = current AE. 71 · 70 · 69 superseded · 68 published-but-unsigned, do not pin · ≤67 superseded · 64 failed. |
… popup - evidence_graph joins dx_anomaly_orders (uniqueID,rule) and emits an order_link px.script_reference; clicking it re-runs the script with order_id set so every panel snaps to that order. - orders() renders order_id as a clickable deep-link and drops raw lo/hi; ORDERS panel moves directly under the graph. - vis.json edgeHoverInfo restores 'alert' (kubescape message header) and adds order_link. - graph.tsx: ST_SCRIPT_REFERENCE columns in edgeHoverInfo render as a ScriptReference link at the top of the pinned edge popup instead of a tooltip text line; popup drag skips anchor clicks.
Panels behind the order_id deep-link now read the stamped dx_order_records rows for that order (order_id + src_table filter, identity columns vector/source/pod/remote_addr/path/comm/dns_name) instead of reconstructing an approximate pod +/-300s window over the dx_src__* views. This is the dx#136 stamping model the dx_order_records DDL documents as the intended panel read path. kubescape panel joins dx_src__kubescape_logs on (uniqueID, RuleID) of the selected order, keeping the full anomaly rows (alert, cmdline, process tree) for the seed. evidence_graph/orders deep-links and vis.json unchanged from e168d19.
…ueID orders() joins the graph source (dx_kubescape_anomalies) on (uniqueID, rule) to carry the human-readable alert message (e.g. 'Unexpected process launched: cat ...') into the ORDERS panel — the same description the graph popup shows. uniqueID dropped from the display (no analyst value; it remains the join key internally). Columns: order (deep-link) / rule / alert / pod.
….29 regression) v0.0.29 swapped every protocol panel (redis/conn/http/dns/pgsql/mysql/ dc_snoop/stack_trace) from reading its dx_src__<table> view to reading dx_order_records filtered by a bare src_table name. That dropped the panels to 7 fixed identity columns AND left them empty wherever dx_order_records isn't stamped with a matching order_id/src_table - breaking all protocol tables in the panel. Restore _consulted (reads the dx_src__ views, order lo/hi window) for all 8 protocol panels. Keeps the v0.0.29 graph order_link deep-link, the ORDERS alert-text column, and the kubescape uniqueID+RuleID join (all unaffected - they already read the correct tables). Tradeoff: back to the +/-300s window scoping (not the stamped-exact set). Exact-records WITH full protocol columns needs a hybrid join (stamped identities back to the dx_src__ views) - separate follow-up, not another broken release.
…ck vs baseline) Adds stack_diff() + a full-width StackTraceFlameGraph panel below the existing panels. For the selected order it diffs the pod's stacks DURING the attack window [lo,hi] against its BASELINE stacks before the attack (row_time < lo), keyed off dx_anomaly_orders. delta = attack - baseline drives the differential colouring (red = frames that spiked during the attack, e.g. mal.sh / kustomize --enable-exec / head -> /etc/shadow). Reuses Pixie's StackTraceFlameGraph widget (semicolon-folded stacks, differenceColumn). Groupby over the ClickHouse-DSN source compiles and runs. Validated live via paste on the user's cluster.
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Stacked on #89 (dark-vector tables). Makes the dx-steered
OrderExportAll/OrderQuerycapture reliable on a single node-local PEM, and turns the AE bootstrap into a functional pem-direct DaemonSet. Validated e2e on a reproducible skaffold stack (soc-stack + bob redis-apps pixie-io#184 + this): kubescape → dx → AE,redis_events/dc_snoop/stack_trace/conn_stats/dns_eventscaptured, deduped via ReplacingMergeTree.Commits (each independent, tested):
QueryForbounds the source scan on both sides;OrderQuerywalks the window in sub-windows,captureSpansubdivides only on timeout. Default is one query/table (OrderChunk=600s) — pre-chunking every table 10x-amplified queries on the one PEM.px.logicalNot(px.contains(...))substring drop for kernel threads (kworker/…) that exact-match misses; workload comms (redis-*) kept.replicas:0Deployment never ran and couldn't do node-local pem-direct; replaced with the working config (EXPORT_MODE=never, control surface,MAX_INFLIGHT=4) + control Service.RCA + numbers: biz/PoC/OTel/RCA_ae_capture_20260803.md (internal).
Known follow-up: node-scoped tables (dc_snoop, dx_*) are re-pulled once per steered pod on a node, so
raw > FINALwhen multiple pods on a node are steered (RMT still dedups). Fix = per-(node,window) dedup of node-scoped pulls inOrderExportAll.