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Expose a Prometheus gauge metric whose value is the activeAt Unix
timestamp for every effective alert (firing, pending, silenced).

Labels include all alerts labels after relabeling plus enrichment labels
and alertstate.

Annotations are excluded since they are available from the alert rule definition.

Signed-off-by: Shirly Radco sradco@redhat.com
Co-authored-by: AI Assistant noreply@cursor.com

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  • New Features

    • Added a /metrics endpoint exposing effective alert activity timestamps, alert state, source, backend, and classification labels.
    • Metrics are available only from the elected leader, with an empty response when alert management is disabled.
    • Alert activity timestamps now align with Prometheus alert data, including user-workload alerts.
    • Added automatic cleanup of orphaned alert relabeling configurations while preserving live and GitOps-managed configurations.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved alert identity handling so injected metadata does not create duplicate alert identities.

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Expose a Prometheus gauge metric whose value is the activeAt Unix
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Labels include all alerts labels after relabeling plus enrichment labels
and alertstate.

Annotations are excluded since they are available from the alert rule definition.

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The change adds effective alert metrics with ActiveAt enrichment and leader election. It adds conditional garbage collection for orphaned AlertRelabelConfigs, exposes /metrics, updates direct dependencies, and adds unit, server, and end-to-end coverage.

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Alert management changes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Alert timestamp and identity enrichment
pkg/k8s/prometheus_alerts.go, pkg/k8s/enrich_active_at_test.go
Matching Prometheus ActiveAt values now enrich Alertmanager alerts. Fingerprints use sorted labels and exclude injected source and backend labels.
Orphaned ARC garbage collection
pkg/k8s/alert_relabel_config_gc.go, pkg/k8s/relabeled_rules.go, pkg/k8s/alert_relabel_config_gc_test.go, test/e2e/orphan_arc_gc_test.go
Initial and PrometheusRule syncs collect live rule IDs and delete orphaned plugin-created ARCs. GitOps-managed and unannotated ARCs remain.
Alert metrics collector and leadership
pkg/management/metrics/*
The collector exposes effective ActiveAt gauges, filters Thanos alerts, adds classification labels, refreshes periodically, and emits metrics only on the leader.
Metrics API and server route
go.mod, pkg/management/*, pkg/server/*, test/e2e/alerts_effective_metric_test.go
The management client provides MetricsHandler. The server registers /metrics with either the management handler or an empty handler. Prometheus modules are direct dependencies. End-to-end tests validate metric labels, values, filtering, and ARC relabeling.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Server
  participant MetricsHandler
  participant LeaderElection
  participant AlertsCollector
  participant ManagementClient
  Server->>MetricsHandler: initialize /metrics
  MetricsHandler->>LeaderElection: start election
  AlertsCollector->>LeaderElection: check leadership
  AlertsCollector->>ManagementClient: EnrichAlerts
  ManagementClient-->>AlertsCollector: enriched alerts
  AlertsCollector-->>Server: expose effective alert metrics
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 02eb5

A transient lease failure can stop a replica from publishing the new metrics until restart, so the change should be corrected before merge.


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No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ❌ Error The pull request adds sensitive dynamic values to production logs. In pkg/management/metrics/leader_election.go, os.Hostname() becomes the Lease identity, and OnNewLeader logs that identity with… Do not log the raw leader identity or ARC namespace, name, or rule ID. Use static messages or approved redacted/opaque identifiers. Review the new error logging paths and avoid emitting raw wrapped API errors when they can contain response …
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Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The added e2e tests use standard Go Test... functions, not Ginkgo specs. They create namespaces, alert rules, AlertRelabelConfigs, and HTTP metric requests. They do not inspect nodes, schedule acros…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request does not introduce topology-sensitive scheduling constraints. The authoritative diff changes Go logic, tests, dependency metadata, an HTTP /metrics route, and Lease-based lead…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed No changed process-level stdout write was found. The new runtime logs use logrus, whose default output is os.Stderr. The new client-go leader-election path uses klog, which defaults to logtostderr=tru…
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The pull request adds sensitive dynamic values to production logs. In pkg/management/metrics/leader_election.go, os.Hostname() becomes the Lease identity, and OnNewLeader logs that identity with metricsLog.Infof; this can expose an internal pod hostname. In pkg/k8s/alert_relabel_config_gc.go, warning and info logs include ARC namespace, name, and rule ID. ARC names are derived from PrometheusRule names, so these logs can expose customer resource identifiers. These statements are new in this pull request and run at normal warning/info levels.

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Do not log the raw leader identity or ARC namespace, name, or rule ID. Use static messages or approved redacted/opaque identifiers. Review the new error logging paths and avoid emitting raw wrapped API errors when they can contain response bodies or customer data.

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@sradco sradco changed the title CNV-80608: add alerts_effective_active_at_timestamp_seconds metric CNV-87536: add alerts_effective_active_at_timestamp_seconds metric Aug 24, 2026
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@sradco: This pull request references CNV-87536 which is a valid jira issue.

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In response to this:

Expose a Prometheus gauge metric whose value is the activeAt Unix
timestamp for every effective alert (firing, pending, silenced).

Labels include all alerts labels after relabeling plus enrichment labels
and alertstate.

Annotations are excluded since they are available from the alert rule definition.

Signed-off-by: Shirly Radco sradco@redhat.com
Co-authored-by: AI Assistant noreply@cursor.com

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In `@pkg/management/metrics/alerts_collector_test.go`:
- Line 61: Replace the fixed time.Sleep in the alert collector test with
deterministic synchronization: have mockAlertsFetcher.EnrichAlerts signal
completion, or poll until that expected synchronization occurs before gathering
metrics. Ensure the test waits for the enrichment goroutine rather than relying
on a timing assumption.

In `@pkg/management/metrics/alerts_collector.go`:
- Line 218: Update buildAlertMetric to skip the source alert.Labels entry named
alertstate before appending dynamic label names, reserving the collector-owned
labelAlertState exactly once so descriptor construction and metric collection
succeed.

In `@pkg/management/metrics/leader_election.go`:
- Line 85: Update the goroutine invoking LeaderElector.Run to handle its return
from lease loss: while the parent ctx remains active, re-enter leader election
using the existing elector configuration, or explicitly terminate the process so
Kubernetes restarts it. Ensure the current single-replica metrics publishing
flow does not remain stopped after transient renewal failure.

In `@test/e2e/alerts_effective_metric_test.go`:
- Line 385: Update the Regex value in the alert rule configuration to anchor
alertName to the complete string, preserving the existing alertName value while
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  • go.mod
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  • pkg/k8s/prometheus_alerts.go
  • pkg/k8s/relabeled_rules.go
  • pkg/management/management.go
  • pkg/management/metrics/alerts_collector.go
  • pkg/management/metrics/alerts_collector_test.go
  • pkg/management/metrics/leader_election.go
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t.Helper()
ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
collector := metrics.NewAlertsCollector(ctx, mock, 1*time.Hour, func() bool { return true })
time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the fixed sleep with synchronization.

The goroutine has no guarantee that it completes within 100 ms. A loaded CI worker can gather before the initial synchronization and fail valid tests.

Signal from mockAlertsFetcher.EnrichAlerts, or poll until the expected synchronization occurs.

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In `@pkg/management/metrics/alerts_collector_test.go` at line 61, Replace the
fixed time.Sleep in the alert collector test with deterministic synchronization:
have mockAlertsFetcher.EnrichAlerts signal completion, or poll until that
expected synchronization occurs before gathering metrics. Ensure the test waits
for the enrichment goroutine rather than relying on a timing assumption.

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labelNames = append(labelNames, k)
}
sort.Strings(labelNames)
labelNames = append(labelNames, labelAlertState)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reserve the alertstate label before descriptor construction.

If alert.Labels contains alertstate, buildAlertMetric adds that name twice. prometheus.NewDesc records a duplicate-label error, and Collect omits the metric when prometheus.NewConstMetric returns that error. This affects only specially labeled alerts.

Skip the source label so the collector-owned value takes precedence.

Proposed fix
 	for k := range alert.Labels {
+		if k == labelAlertState {
+			continue
+		}
 		labelNames = append(labelNames, k)
 	}
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In `@pkg/management/metrics/alerts_collector.go` at line 218, Update
buildAlertMetric to skip the source alert.Labels entry named alertstate before
appending dynamic label names, reserving the collector-owned labelAlertState
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return nil, fmt.Errorf("create leader elector: %w", err)
}

go le.Run(ctx)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restart leader election after lease loss.

LeaderElector.Run returns when the client stops holding the lease. This goroutine then exits permanently. (github.com)

A single-replica deployment stops publishing metrics after a transient renewal failure until the pod restarts. Re-enter election while ctx remains active, or terminate the process so Kubernetes restarts it.

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In `@pkg/management/metrics/leader_election.go` at line 85, Update the goroutine
invoking LeaderElector.Run to handle its return from lease loss: while the
parent ctx remains active, re-enter leader election using the existing elector
configuration, or explicitly terminate the process so Kubernetes restarts it.
Ensure the current single-replica metrics publishing flow does not remain
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Configs: []osmv1.RelabelConfig{
{
SourceLabels: []osmv1.LabelName{"alertname"},
Regex: alertName,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Anchor the ARC regex to the complete alert name.

The current regex also matches alert names that contain alertName as a substring. The cluster-scoped test ARC can modify unrelated near-match alerts.

Proposed fix
-					Regex:        alertName,
+					Regex:        "^" + regexp.QuoteMeta(alertName) + "$",

As per path instructions, “Normalize Unicode and anchor regexes (^$).”

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In `@test/e2e/alerts_effective_metric_test.go` at line 385, Update the Regex value
in the alert rule configuration to anchor alertName to the complete string,
preserving the existing alertName value while preventing substring matches
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sradco and others added 2 commits September 14, 2026 17:50
Detect and remove orphan
AlertRelabelConfig resources that no
longer have a matching PrometheusRule,
preventing stale relabel configs from
accumulating.

Cover orphan deletion and keeper cases
in e2e (live rule, GitOps, unannotated).

Signed-off-by: Shirly Radco <sradco@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: AI Assistant <noreply@cursor.com>
Expose a Prometheus gauge metric whose
value is the activeAt Unix timestamp
for every effective alert (firing,
pending, silenced).

Labels include all alerts labels after
relabeling plus enrichment labels
and alertstate.

Annotations are excluded since they
are available from the alert rule
definition.

Always serve /metrics as valid
Prometheus text so scrapes succeed
when alert-management-api is off.

Signed-off-by: Shirly Radco <sradco@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: AI Assistant <noreply@cursor.com>
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