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  • Scopes the LogTape logging context to each individual federation operation's own OpenTelemetry span (activitypub.send_activity for outbound delivery, activitypub.inbox for inbound processing), instead of leaving it pinned to the enclosing HTTP request's or queue worker's span.
  • Warning/error logs emitted while a delivery or inbox-processing span is active now carry that span's own traceId/spanId instead of the outer worker's or request's.

Closes #1030

Why

TraceActivityRecord.spanId is extracted from the span that carries the activitypub.activity.sent/received event. LogTape's withContext(), however, was only called at the two outer boundaries — Federation.fetch()'s own HTTP request span, and the queue worker's consumer span in #runWorkerSpan/processQueuedTask() — and never refreshed when a deeper, operation-specific span was opened. A failed delivery's error log (logged from inside sendActivity()'s own span) therefore still carried the enclosing queue worker's span ID. Same issue for inbound processing inside handleInbox().

This is the federation-instrumentation half described in #1030. It doesn't touch #902's debugger log storage, serialization, or rendering, and doesn't change the trace/span hierarchy — it only adds withContext({traceId, spanId}, ...) at the two span-creation sites, reusing the pattern already used in middleware.ts's #runWorkerSpan/fetch(). LogTape 2.2's withContext() is AsyncLocalStorage-backed, so nested calls automatically restore the outer context once the inner callback settles.

Note an asymmetry that's inherent to the existing instrumentation, not something this PR changes: FedifySpanExporter only persists a TraceActivityRecord when the span carries the activitypub.activity.sent/received event.

  • Outbound: sendActivityInternal() adds that event only after a successful response, so a delivery that fails on every attempt never gets a persisted record at all. This PR's tests verify the failure log's traceId/spanId against the delivery span itself (not a record, since none exists) and explicitly assert that no record is persisted for that trace.
  • Inbound: the event is added during signature verification, before dispatch to the listener, so a record does exist even when the listener itself throws. This PR's tests verify that case against the real persisted record.

#1257 tracks persisting failed outbound delivery attempts, including typed outcome data and retry/summary semantics. #902 will use those records to display outbound failures with their related logs. This PR remains scoped to logging-context alignment; #1030's validation now compares logs with operation spans and with activity records when they exist.

Testing

Regression tests exercise real federation operations (sendActivity(), handleInbox(), FederationImpl.processQueuedTask()) and compare the logs they actually emit — captured through a real LogTape sink with AsyncLocalStorage-backed contextLocalStorage — against real OpenTelemetry spans and, where one would exist, a real TraceActivityRecord extracted via FedifySpanExporter. No test asserts on manually-matched IDs. Outer-context restoration is checked against an explicit sentinel traceId/spanId (not just “differs from the inner span”), and concurrency tests synchronize two in-flight operations via a shared gate rather than relying on timing.

  • send.test.ts: a warning logged during a successful delivery matches the resulting TraceActivityRecord; a failed delivery's error log matches its own span — not a record, since none is created for a delivery that never succeeds, which the test also confirms explicitly; outer context is restored after both a successful send and a thrown SendActivityError; two genuinely-overlapping concurrent deliveries don't leak each other's span IDs.
  • handler.test.ts: a listener failure's log matches the real inbound TraceActivityRecord; outer context is restored after both successful and failed processing; two genuinely-overlapping concurrent inbox requests don't leak context.
  • middleware.test.ts: a full processQueuedTask() run for a failing outbox message shows the delivery's own log matching the delivery span, while the worker's own retry-decision log (logged after the delivery span already ended) keeps the real outer activitypub.outbox worker span's ID — both preserve messageId and an outer custom context property.

All three test files were confirmed to fail before this fix and pass after it (verified by stashing just the send.ts/handler.ts changes and re-running).

Ran mise run check-each fedify (fmt/lint/types), mise run test-each fedify (Deno, Node.js, and Bun), and mise run check (repo-wide fmt/lint/types/markdown/sacho check) — all green.

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Inbound processing and outbound delivery now run with LogTape trace and span IDs from each operation’s active span. Tests check log IDs, context restoration, concurrent operations, and queue-worker retries. Changelog entries document the correction.

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Federation log context

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Inbox processing context
packages/fedify/src/federation/handler.ts, packages/fedify/src/federation/handler.test.ts
handleInbox runs processing inside a LogTape context set to the active span IDs. Tests check failure logs, context restoration after success and failure, and isolation between concurrent requests.
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packages/fedify/src/federation/send.ts, packages/fedify/src/federation/send.test.ts, packages/fedify/src/federation/middleware.test.ts, CHANGES.md, changes.d/fedify/*
sendActivity scopes delivery logs to the delivery span IDs. Tests check delivery outcomes, restored outer context, concurrent deliveries, and outbox retry logs. Changelog entries describe the inbound and outbound log context changes.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The implementation scopes logs to the delivery and inbox spans. Tests cover context restoration, concurrency, preserved context, and worker retry logs. However, [#1030] requires the queue-worker deliv… Ensure a failed outbound delivery has a corresponding TraceActivityRecord, then update the queue-worker regression test to compare the failure log’s traceId and spanId with that record.
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The source changes, regression tests, and changelog entry address [#1030] by aligning LogTape context with outbound delivery and inbound processing spans. No unrelated changes are evident.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: aligning LogTape context with activity spans.
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The implementation scopes logs to the delivery and inbox spans. Tests cover context restoration, concurrency, preserved context, and worker retry logs. However, [#1030] requires the queue-worker delivery-failure log to be checked against its activity record. The test instead compares it with the span and confirms that no record exists, so this validation requirement remains unmet.

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Please move cleanup code to finally block and add tests to check traceId.

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u-zzn added a commit to u-zzn/fedify that referenced this pull request Oct 5, 2026
CHANGES.md's generic issue-link template pointed fedify-dev#1205 at
fedify-dev/issues/1205, but fedify-dev#1205 is this change's pull request, not an issue.
Add a links frontmatter entry to the change fragment so Sacho pins
it to fedify-dev/pull/1205 instead, and resync the generated section.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
u-zzn added a commit to u-zzn/fedify that referenced this pull request Oct 5, 2026
Each step's exporter.clear()/records.length = 0/fetchMock.hardReset()
sat after its assertions, so a setup, dispatch, or assertion failure
would skip them. Since the span exporter and log buffer are shared
across all four steps, a mid-step failure would leak stale spans and
log records into the next step, which can turn one real failure into
several misleading ones.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
u-zzn added a commit to u-zzn/fedify that referenced this pull request Oct 5, 2026
Same issue as the sendActivity() alignment steps: each step's own
exporter.clear()/records.length = 0 sat after its assertions, so a
setup, dispatch, or assertion failure would skip it and leak stale
spans and log records into the next step via the shared exporter and
log buffer.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
u-zzn added a commit to u-zzn/fedify that referenced this pull request Oct 5, 2026
The concurrent-deliveries step only compared each log's spanId
against its span. Add the matching traceId check for both logs,
without assuming the two deliveries' traceIds must differ from each
other -- only that each log matches its own span.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
u-zzn added a commit to u-zzn/fedify that referenced this pull request Oct 5, 2026
Same gap as the sendActivity() concurrency test: only spanId was
checked. Add the matching traceId check for both logs, without
assuming the two inbox requests' traceIds must differ from each
other.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
u-zzn added a commit to u-zzn/fedify that referenced this pull request Oct 5, 2026
If one sendActivity() call failed before reaching the mocked
handler (e.g. an earlier validation error), its counter increment
never happened, so the other call's handler stayed blocked on
`await gate` forever -- confirmed by forcing this path, which hung
with Deno reporting a dangling pending promise. Attach
.finally(release) to each dispatch so the gate opens once either
settles, regardless of whether it ever reached the handler.
allSettled already waited for both, so this closes the only
remaining path to a stuck test.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
u-zzn added a commit to u-zzn/fedify that referenced this pull request Oct 5, 2026
Forced an early rejection on one dispatch to check this path:
Promise.all rejected as soon as it did, which would let the step's
finally clear the shared exporter/records while the other dispatch
was potentially still mid-flight, and -- separately -- that other
dispatch's listener could stay blocked on `await gate` forever if
its own counter increment never happened.

Switch to Promise.allSettled so cleanup only runs after both
dispatches actually finish, and attach .finally(release) to each so
the gate opens regardless of how either settles. These two changes
have to land together: allSettled alone still leaves the gate
closed if one side fails early, and .finally(release) alone doesn't
stop Promise.all from moving on while the other call is still
running.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
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u-zzn requested a review from 2chanhaeng October 5, 2026 08:37

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Could you rebase your commits on the latest main branch? Thanks!

u-zzn added 9 commits October 6, 2026 09:35
LogTape's withContext() was only refreshed at the two outer
boundaries of federation processing: Federation.fetch()'s own HTTP
request span, and the queue worker's consumer span opened by
#runWorkerSpan()/processQueuedTask(). It was never refreshed when a
deeper, operation-specific span was opened for an individual
delivery (activitypub.send_activity) or inbox request
(activitypub.inbox), so logs emitted inside those spans still
carried the enclosing worker's or request's traceId/spanId instead
of their own -- the same IDs a TraceActivityRecord derived from that
span would carry.

Scope the LogTape context to those two span-creation sites using the
same withContext({traceId, spanId}, ...) pattern already used at the
outer boundaries. AsyncLocalStorage-backed withContext() restores
the outer context automatically once the inner callback settles, so
no manual save/restore was needed.

Add regression tests that exercise real sendActivity(), handleInbox(),
and processQueuedTask() calls and compare the logs they actually
emit against real OpenTelemetry spans and, where one exists, a real
TraceActivityRecord extracted via FedifySpanExporter -- including
restoration after success and after a thrown error, isolation
between genuinely concurrent operations, and preservation of
existing context properties such as requestId and messageId. A
delivery that never succeeds has no persisted record at all, since
FedifySpanExporter only derives one from the "sent" event that
sendActivityInternal() adds on success; that failure case is
verified against the delivery span itself instead, with the record's
absence asserted explicitly.

See fedify-dev#1030

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
These comments restated what the surrounding code and test names
already make clear, and the design rationale they carried (event
timing for TraceActivityRecord creation, outer-context restoration
semantics) is already covered in the pull request description.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
CHANGES.md's generic issue-link template pointed fedify-dev#1205 at
fedify-dev/issues/1205, but fedify-dev#1205 is this change's pull request, not an issue.
Add a links frontmatter entry to the change fragment so Sacho pins
it to fedify-dev/pull/1205 instead, and resync the generated section.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
Each step's exporter.clear()/records.length = 0/fetchMock.hardReset()
sat after its assertions, so a setup, dispatch, or assertion failure
would skip them. Since the span exporter and log buffer are shared
across all four steps, a mid-step failure would leak stale spans and
log records into the next step, which can turn one real failure into
several misleading ones.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
Same issue as the sendActivity() alignment steps: each step's own
exporter.clear()/records.length = 0 sat after its assertions, so a
setup, dispatch, or assertion failure would skip it and leak stale
spans and log records into the next step via the shared exporter and
log buffer.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
The concurrent-deliveries step only compared each log's spanId
against its span. Add the matching traceId check for both logs,
without assuming the two deliveries' traceIds must differ from each
other -- only that each log matches its own span.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
Same gap as the sendActivity() concurrency test: only spanId was
checked. Add the matching traceId check for both logs, without
assuming the two inbox requests' traceIds must differ from each
other.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
If one sendActivity() call failed before reaching the mocked
handler (e.g. an earlier validation error), its counter increment
never happened, so the other call's handler stayed blocked on
`await gate` forever -- confirmed by forcing this path, which hung
with Deno reporting a dangling pending promise. Attach
.finally(release) to each dispatch so the gate opens once either
settles, regardless of whether it ever reached the handler.
allSettled already waited for both, so this closes the only
remaining path to a stuck test.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
Forced an early rejection on one dispatch to check this path:
Promise.all rejected as soon as it did, which would let the step's
finally clear the shared exporter/records while the other dispatch
was potentially still mid-flight, and -- separately -- that other
dispatch's listener could stay blocked on `await gate` forever if
its own counter increment never happened.

Switch to Promise.allSettled so cleanup only runs after both
dispatches actually finish, and attach .finally(release) to each so
the gate opens regardless of how either settles. These two changes
have to land together: allSettled alone still leaves the gate
closed if one side fails early, and .finally(release) alone doesn't
stop Promise.all from moving on while the other call is still
running.

fedify-dev#1205 (comment)

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5
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Could you rebase your commits on the latest main branch? Thanks!

Rebased onto the latest main and pushed the updated commits. Thanks!

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Good job, thanks!

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