feat(metrics): add cache and checkpoint observability

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Context

Operators cannot currently see the physical non-meta CCMap key population or derive a correct dirty-key ratio. Checkpoint timing is also opaque, while the existing consecutive-failure signal conflates all work into node-global state and can survive an NG tenure change.

Behavior before and after

Before this change, cache key populations and checkpoint attempt/advance intervals were unavailable; checkpoint failures had no cumulative reason attribution; node-level metrics inherited an accidental core_id; and consecutive failure state was not isolated or cleaned up per node group.

After this change, the service exports per-core resident/dirty key gauges, node-level checkpoint attempt and local durable-advance histograms, cumulative failures by stable reason, and the existing alert Gauge backed by per-NG/per-term state. Leader loss, standby promotion/resubscription, and failed subscription rollback erase only the affected NG's tenure state. No metric names are removed, and existing histogram callers retain the default buckets.

Implementation

• Samples the existing O(1) CcShard resident and dirty counters on the memory-metrics cadence.
• Extends metric registration with optional per-histogram bucket bounds and adds second-to-hour checkpoint buckets.
• Gives DataSyncStatus an explicit origin, no-truncate classification, first failure stage, and exactly-once terminal checkpoint result.
• Records start-to-start attempt intervals and advance-to-advance intervals only when UpdateNodeGroupCkptTs advances locally.
• Serializes per-NG interval anchors and failure streaks behind the checkpointer mutex, with role-term validation under that same mutex.
• Fixes node meter construction so node-level metrics do not inherit the last shard's core_id.
• Documents checkpoint observability semantics in the durability/recovery architecture guide.

Design decisions and alternatives

Checkpoint task duration is intentionally not reported: TaskLimiter may coalesce targets, so a DataSyncStatus lifetime does not reliably identify when one checkpoint became durable. Attempt and durable-advance intervals have stable event boundaries. Dirty ratio remains query-derived as a ratio of summed populations, avoiding an incorrect average of shard ratios. Exported checkpoint series stay node-scoped to avoid runtime label registration; per-NG correctness is maintained internally.

Test plan

• Unit/CTest coverage
• Parent-project integration or manual validation
• Formatting/build checks
• Recovery, compatibility, or performance validation, when relevant
• Documentation updated, when behavior changed

Commands and results:

clang-format-18 --dry-run --Werror <all changed C/C++ files>
  passed
cmake --build bld-metrics --target eloqkv CheckpointMetricsState-Test --parallel 16
  passed; one pre-existing CurrentSyncedPrimaryTerm() unused-function warning
./bld-metrics/data_substrate/tx_service/tests/CheckpointMetricsState-Test
  passed: 20 assertions in 2 test cases
cmake --build bld-metrics-lib --target eloq-metrics-test --parallel 16
ctest --test-dir bld-metrics-lib --output-on-failure
  passed: 1/1
jq/dashboard structural and PromQL checks in eloqctl
  passed for both EloqKV overview variants; existing alert retained
git diff --check
  passed

Manual validation used a RelWithDebInfo three-node primary/standby/voter topology with Prometheus scraping every two seconds and the updated Grafana dashboard. A finite 1,000-SET probe produced 501/499 dirty keys on the standby shards; after the next checkpoint both returned to zero while resident counts remained. Standby checkpoint attempt/advance interval counters continued increasing after resynchronization.

Latest PR CI passed clang-format, cpplint, amd64/arm64 log-service tests, and both full unit-test matrices including RocksDB Cloud S3. The EloqKV TCL suite was not run locally; parent integration CI is tracked in eloqdata/eloqkv#563.

Risk assessment

The cache hot path adds two O(1) Gauge collections on the existing sampling cadence. Checkpoint state adds a low-frequency mutex but does not alter storage writes, WAL truncation order, or durability boundaries. The main correctness risk is stale callbacks around role changes; term invalidation plus state erasure is ordered so callbacks revalidate while holding the state mutex.

An intentionally unsustainable 64-client, 4 KiB pure-write run exposed an existing unbounded standby CcRequestPool/CcMessage high-water mark and repeated resubscription; it is not introduced or hidden by this metrics change.

Rollback plan

Revert this PR. It adds no persisted schema, migration, or wire-format dependency.

Reviewer guide

Start with checkpoint_metrics_state.h and checkpointer.cpp for the per-NG/term invariants, then data_sync_task.{h,cpp} for exactly-once outcome classification. Review local_cc_shards.cpp for node-meter labels and standby lifecycle call sites, and cc_shard.cpp for the cache gauges.

Follow-up work

Bound standby replication in-flight request/message pool memory under workloads that exceed follower capacity.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added configurable histogram buckets for more precise metrics.
  • Added resident and dirty data-key gauges.
  • Added checkpoint attempt and advancement interval metrics, plus categorized failure counters.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved checkpoint outcome reporting, including stalled and empty-task rounds.
  • Improved checkpoint handling across leadership and standby transitions.
  • Prevented duplicate checkpoint finalization.
• Documentation
  • Clarified standby bootstrap, backup behavior, and checkpoint metric lifecycle guarantees.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for custom histogram buckets and checkpoint metric state transitions.

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Walkthrough

Checkpoint processing now records term-scoped attempts, advances, outcomes, and failure stages. Data-sync operations identify their origins and finalize checkpoint observability once. Metrics support custom histogram buckets and new checkpoint and cache gauges.

Changes

Checkpoint observability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configurable histogram registration eloq_metrics/include/*.h, eloq_metrics/src/*	Histogram bucket configuration now flows from Meter::Register through MetricsRegistry and Metric to the Prometheus collector.
Checkpoint state and operation contracts tx_service/include/checkpoint_metrics_state.h, tx_service/include/data_sync_task.h	Checkpoint state is tracked per node group and leadership term. DataSyncStatus records origin, failure reason, truncation state, and exactly-once finalization.
Checkpoint metric definitions and data-sync wiring tx_service/include/tx_service_metrics.h, tx_service/src/cc/*, tx_service/src/remote/*, tx_service/src/store/*, tx_service/src/tx_index_operation.cpp	New key-count, interval, failure, and continuous-failure metrics are wired into shard and data-sync paths. Standby and leader term validation use role-aware logic.
Checkpoint execution and outcome reporting tx_service/include/checkpointer.h, tx_service/src/checkpointer.cpp, tx_service/src/data_sync_task.cpp	Checkpoint attempts and timestamp advances are recorded. Completed operations report success, failure, neutral, or canceled outcomes through one finalization path.
Leadership cleanup and validation tx_service/src/fault/cc_node.cpp, tx_service/tests/*	Leadership and standby transitions clear active checkpoint metrics. Tests cover interval tracking, failure thresholds, erasure, and term resets.
Durability documentation and metric sampling docs/07-durability-and-recovery.md, tx_service/include/tx_service.h, tx_service/src/tx_index_operation.cpp	Documentation describes checkpoint lifecycle and data-sync origins. Empty-round metric sampling changes from every 1,000 rounds to every 10,000 rounds. Log wrapping does not change emitted text.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 536d8

The change adds cache and checkpoint visibility without altering durability boundaries or external access, but duplicate checkpoint completion callbacks could make failure and timing metrics inaccurate. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up to guard terminal task updates against repeated callbacks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Checkpointer
  participant DataSyncStatus
  participant LocalCCShards
  participant MetricsState
  Checkpointer->>MetricsState: Record checkpoint attempt
  Checkpointer->>DataSyncStatus: Start checkpoint-origin sync
  LocalCCShards->>DataSyncStatus: Record failure stage
  DataSyncStatus->>Checkpointer: Return finalized outcome
  Checkpointer->>MetricsState: Record success or failure

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Poem

I am a rabbit with metrics to tune
Buckets now bloom from the registry rune
Checkpoints count attempts and leaps
Failures wake from term-scoped sleeps
One final outcome, neatly spun
Hop, hop—the observability work is done!

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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (2)

tx_service/include/tx_service.h (1)

1052-1052: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the new empty-round sampling cadence.

empty_round_threshold_{10000} changes when NAME_EMPTY_ROUND_RATIO is emitted, but the member has no comment that records this operational constraint or the reason for the higher threshold. Add a short rationale so future tuning does not silently change metric resolution.

As per coding guidelines, document non-obvious operational constraints and explain why.

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+    // Sample NAME_EMPTY_ROUND_RATIO every 10,000 rounds as a low-frequency
+    // diagnostic metric.
     size_t empty_round_threshold_{10000};

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In `@tx_service/include/tx_service.h` at line 1052, Add a concise explanatory
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eloq_metrics/include/metrics.h (1)

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Validate histogram bucket bounds before Prometheus registration.

Document that non-empty HistogramBuckets must be strictly increasing, and reject invalid bounds before PrometheusCollector::SetMetric registers the histogram. The current path passes them unchanged to HistogramFamily::Add, which can throw std::invalid_argument for unsorted or duplicate bounds.

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Inline comments:
In `@tx_service/include/checkpoint_metrics_state.h`:
- Around line 134-137: Document the public query methods ConsecutiveFailures and
Contains, specifying their return behavior when the node group is absent and
that retained state is cleared by Erase or term changes. Keep the documentation
focused on the callers’ observable semantics and place it with these public
declarations.

In `@tx_service/src/fault/cc_node.cpp`:
- Around line 881-886: In tx_service/src/fault/cc_node.cpp lines 881-886 and
1213-1218, add comments documenting that ClearCheckpointMetricsForNodeGroup is
required after clearing an active standby term, while candidate standby terms
have not collected checkpoint metrics and need no cleanup; explain this
invariant and its rollback rationale at both sites.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@eloq_metrics/include/metrics.h`:
- Around line 58-60: Document that non-empty HistogramBuckets must be strictly
increasing, then validate the bounds before PrometheusCollector::SetMetric
registers the histogram. Reject unsorted or duplicate values rather than passing
them to HistogramFamily::Add, preserving empty buckets as the collector-default
case.

In `@tx_service/include/tx_service.h`:
- Line 1052: Add a concise explanatory comment above empty_round_threshold_
documenting that it controls the NAME_EMPTY_ROUND_RATIO sampling cadence and
recording the rationale for the higher 10000 threshold, so future tuning
preserves the intended metric resolution.

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• docs/07-durability-and-recovery.md
• eloq_metrics/include/meter.h
• eloq_metrics/include/metrics.h
• eloq_metrics/include/metrics_registry_impl.h
• eloq_metrics/src/metrics_registry_impl.cpp
• eloq_metrics/src/prometheus_collector.cc
• eloq_metrics/tests/metrics_collector_test.cc
• tx_service/include/checkpoint_metrics_state.h
• tx_service/include/checkpointer.h
• tx_service/include/data_sync_task.h
• tx_service/include/tx_service.h
• tx_service/include/tx_service_metrics.h
• tx_service/src/cc/cc_shard.cpp
• tx_service/src/cc/local_cc_shards.cpp
• tx_service/src/checkpointer.cpp
• tx_service/src/data_sync_task.cpp
• tx_service/src/fault/cc_node.cpp
• tx_service/src/remote/cc_node_service.cpp
• tx_service/src/store/snapshot_manager.cpp
• tx_service/src/tx_index_operation.cpp
• tx_service/tests/CMakeLists.txt
• tx_service/tests/CheckpointMetricsState-Test.cpp

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[liunyl]

Addressed the two summary-only review suggestions in d258420:

• Histogram buckets now document the strict-ordering contract and reject descending or duplicate bounds before Prometheus family registration. The regression test also verifies that a valid metric can reuse the same name after a rejected registration.
• empty_round_threshold_ is restored to 10,000 as agreed. Its comment distinguishes per-loop accumulation from publishing the ratio once per 10,000 rounds.

Focused verification:

• eloq-metrics-test '[HistogramBuckets]': 2 test cases, 14 assertions passed.
• CheckpointMetricsState-Test: 2 test cases, 20 assertions passed.
• Both focused targets rebuilt successfully.
• clang-format-18 --dry-run --Werror passed on all changed C/C++ files.
• The four cpplint findings attached to this PR no longer reproduce. The local full-file cpplint run still reports unrelated pre-existing findings outside the changed lines.