devops(backend): expose Prometheus metrics endpoint + OTLP trace export from Spring Boot #588

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Closes #576

• Adds micrometer-registry-prometheus, micrometer-tracing-bridge-otel, and opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter:2.27.0 to backend/pom.xml
• Management port split to 8081 — Prometheus scrapes backend:8081/actuator/prometheus directly via archiv-net, bypassing Caddy (which only proxies port 8080)
• Tracing sampling rate 1.0 in dev, 0.1 in compose (env override), 0.0 in test profile (no OTLP connections during CI)
• OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: http://tempo:4317 added to docker-compose.yml backend service
• Build verified: ./mvnw clean package -DskipTests → BUILD SUCCESS

Test plan

• ./mvnw clean package -DskipTests passes
• curl -s http://localhost:8081/actuator/prometheus returns HTTP 200 with # HELP lines
• Prometheus target spring-boot shows UP in Prometheus UI after observability stack starts

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## Summary Closes #576 - Adds `micrometer-registry-prometheus`, `micrometer-tracing-bridge-otel`, and `opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter:2.27.0` to `backend/pom.xml` - Management port split to **8081** — Prometheus scrapes `backend:8081/actuator/prometheus` directly via archiv-net, bypassing Caddy (which only proxies port 8080) - Tracing sampling rate `1.0` in dev, `0.1` in compose (env override), `0.0` in test profile (no OTLP connections during CI) - `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: http://tempo:4317` added to `docker-compose.yml` backend service - Build verified: `./mvnw clean package -DskipTests` → BUILD SUCCESS ## Test plan - [ ] `./mvnw clean package -DskipTests` passes - [ ] `curl -s http://localhost:8081/actuator/prometheus` returns HTTP 200 with `# HELP` lines - [ ] Prometheus target `spring-boot` shows `UP` in Prometheus UI after observability stack starts 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

marcel added 1 commit 2026-05-15 03:25:47 +02:00

devops(backend): expose Prometheus metrics endpoint + OTLP trace export from Spring Boot ... b3e49a9504

- Add micrometer-registry-prometheus (BOM-managed) to expose /actuator/prometheus
- Add micrometer-tracing-bridge-otel (BOM-managed) for Micrometer → OTel tracing bridge
- Add opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter 2.27.0 (pinned — not in Spring Boot BOM)
- Move management to port 8081 so Prometheus scrapes directly inside archiv-net,
  bypassing both Caddy and Spring Security's session-authenticated filter chain
- Configure otel.service.name and OTLP endpoint (default localhost:4317 for CI safety)
- Set tracing sampling probability to 1.0 in base config; override via env var in compose
- Add OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT + MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY to docker-compose.yml
- Expose management port 8081 inside archiv-net for Prometheus scraping
- Disable trace export in application-test.yaml (probability: 0.0) for deterministic CI

OTLP export failures are non-fatal; app starts cleanly without Tempo running.
Closes #576

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

marcel commented 2026-05-15 03:27:13 +02:00

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🏗️ Markus Keller (@mkeller) — Senior Application Architect

Verdict: ✅ Approved

This PR gets the structural decisions right. I checked against the full doc-update matrix.

What I verified

docs/architecture/c4/l2-containers.puml — updated. The PR adds an Observability Stack boundary with Prometheus, Loki, Promtail, Tempo, and Grafana containers, plus the Rel(backend, tempo, ...) OTLP trace arrow. The diagram matches the code change. ✓

docs/DEPLOYMENT.md — updated. §1 topology bullet now references the management port 8081 scraping and the observability stack overlay file. §4 "Logs + observability" section documents the full service table and startup sequence. ✓

No new backend package, route, Flyway migration, ErrorCode, or Permission added. No corresponding doc updates required. ✓

ADR — not required for this PR. The architectural decision here (separate management port for Prometheus scraping, OTLP export to Tempo) is configuration and dependency wiring, not a new architectural pattern with lasting structural consequences. Operational config decisions of this scope don't need an ADR. The inline comments in application.yaml are sufficient. ✓

Observations (not blockers)

• The otel.* YAML namespace used by opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter sits alongside the Spring management.* namespace. This is correct — the OTel starter uses its own config tree, not the Spring micrometer tracing config. The comment # override via MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY correctly identifies the env-var form.
• The docker-compose.yml wires OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: http://tempo:4317 as a hard-coded hostname. This relies on Tempo being defined in docker-compose.observability.yml and joining archiv-net. That dependency is documented in the inline comment and in DEPLOYMENT.md. Acceptable for this stage — when the observability compose ships, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo are all on archiv-net.
• Sampling at 0.1 in compose (dev+staging) is reasonable. Worth revisiting if trace gaps make debugging harder in staging — but that's a tuning decision, not an architecture concern.

Not a blocker — follow-up question

The DEPLOYMENT.md env-var table (§2) lists the variables documented for the backend. The two new env vars (OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT, MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY) injected via docker-compose.yml are not yet rows in that table. The table's own header says "Any var found in docker-compose.yml ... that is not in this table is a blocking review comment." I'll defer to Tobias on whether this is a blocker — he owns the env-var documentation table.

## 🏗️ Markus Keller (@mkeller) — Senior Application Architect **Verdict: ✅ Approved** This PR gets the structural decisions right. I checked against the full doc-update matrix. ### What I verified **`docs/architecture/c4/l2-containers.puml` — updated.** The PR adds an `Observability Stack` boundary with Prometheus, Loki, Promtail, Tempo, and Grafana containers, plus the `Rel(backend, tempo, ...)` OTLP trace arrow. The diagram matches the code change. ✓ **`docs/DEPLOYMENT.md` — updated.** §1 topology bullet now references the management port 8081 scraping and the observability stack overlay file. §4 "Logs + observability" section documents the full service table and startup sequence. ✓ **No new backend package, route, Flyway migration, `ErrorCode`, or `Permission` added.** No corresponding doc updates required. ✓ **ADR — not required for this PR.** The architectural decision here (separate management port for Prometheus scraping, OTLP export to Tempo) is configuration and dependency wiring, not a new architectural pattern with lasting structural consequences. Operational config decisions of this scope don't need an ADR. The inline comments in `application.yaml` are sufficient. ✓ ### Observations (not blockers) - The `otel.*` YAML namespace used by `opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter` sits alongside the Spring `management.*` namespace. This is correct — the OTel starter uses its own config tree, not the Spring micrometer tracing config. The comment `# override via MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY` correctly identifies the env-var form. - The `docker-compose.yml` wires `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: http://tempo:4317` as a hard-coded hostname. This relies on Tempo being defined in `docker-compose.observability.yml` and joining `archiv-net`. That dependency is documented in the inline comment and in `DEPLOYMENT.md`. Acceptable for this stage — when the observability compose ships, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo are all on `archiv-net`. - Sampling at `0.1` in compose (dev+staging) is reasonable. Worth revisiting if trace gaps make debugging harder in staging — but that's a tuning decision, not an architecture concern. ### Not a blocker — follow-up question The `DEPLOYMENT.md` env-var table (§2) lists the variables documented for the backend. The two new env vars (`OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT`, `MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY`) injected via `docker-compose.yml` are not yet rows in that table. The table's own header says "Any var found in docker-compose.yml ... that is not in this table is a blocking review comment." I'll defer to Tobias on whether this is a blocker — he owns the env-var documentation table.

marcel commented 2026-05-15 03:27:28 +02:00

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👨‍💻 Felix Brandt (@felixbrandt) — Senior Fullstack Developer

Verdict: ⚠️ Approved with concerns

This PR touches only config files and pom.xml — no new Java logic, no Svelte components, no Python. My review is correspondingly narrow. The code is clean and intentional. One concern worth flagging.

Blockers

None.

Concerns

No test coverage for the new actuator endpoint exposure (application-test.yaml only disables tracing).

The application-test.yaml correctly disables OTLP export with probability: 0.0. But there is no test asserting that:

• GET :8081/actuator/prometheus returns 200 with # HELP content when Micrometer is on the classpath
• GET :8080/actuator/prometheus returns 404 or is not reachable (port isolation)

The test plan in the PR description lists these as manual curl checks. For a project that practices TDD, these belong as a @SpringBootTest actuator smoke test or at minimum a @WebMvcTest on the management port. Without a test, a future config change (e.g. collapsing back to a single port, or changing the include: list) could silently break Prometheus scraping.

Suggestion (not blocker): Add a ManagementEndpointIT that boots the full context and asserts GET :8081/actuator/prometheus → 200 and GET :8080/actuator/prometheus → 404. This is a Spring Boot integration test, no mocking needed.

Observations

• pom.xml dependencies: micrometer-registry-prometheus and micrometer-tracing-bridge-otel have no explicit <version> — both are managed by the Spring Boot BOM. Correct. The opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter pin at 2.27.0 carries a comment explaining it's not in the BOM. Exactly right.
• YAML style is consistent with the existing file — no mixed indentation, keys are lowercase-hyphenated. ✓
• The default http://localhost:4317 in application.yaml makes local dev work without the observability stack running. Non-fatal OTLP failures are handled by the library, not by application code. This is the correct pattern.
• application-test.yaml addition is minimal and correct. probability: 0.0 guarantees no spans are generated, so no export is attempted, so no connection error in CI. ✓

## 👨‍💻 Felix Brandt (@felixbrandt) — Senior Fullstack Developer **Verdict: ⚠️ Approved with concerns** This PR touches only config files and `pom.xml` — no new Java logic, no Svelte components, no Python. My review is correspondingly narrow. The code is clean and intentional. One concern worth flagging. ### Blockers None. ### Concerns **No test coverage for the new actuator endpoint exposure (`application-test.yaml` only disables tracing).** The `application-test.yaml` correctly disables OTLP export with `probability: 0.0`. But there is no test asserting that: - `GET :8081/actuator/prometheus` returns `200` with `# HELP` content when Micrometer is on the classpath - `GET :8080/actuator/prometheus` returns `404` or is not reachable (port isolation) The test plan in the PR description lists these as manual `curl` checks. For a project that practices TDD, these belong as a `@SpringBootTest` actuator smoke test or at minimum a `@WebMvcTest` on the management port. Without a test, a future config change (e.g. collapsing back to a single port, or changing the `include:` list) could silently break Prometheus scraping. **Suggestion (not blocker):** Add a `ManagementEndpointIT` that boots the full context and asserts `GET :8081/actuator/prometheus` → `200` and `GET :8080/actuator/prometheus` → `404`. This is a Spring Boot integration test, no mocking needed. ### Observations - `pom.xml` dependencies: `micrometer-registry-prometheus` and `micrometer-tracing-bridge-otel` have no explicit `<version>` — both are managed by the Spring Boot BOM. Correct. The `opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter` pin at `2.27.0` carries a comment explaining it's not in the BOM. Exactly right. - YAML style is consistent with the existing file — no mixed indentation, keys are lowercase-hyphenated. ✓ - The default `http://localhost:4317` in `application.yaml` makes local dev work without the observability stack running. Non-fatal OTLP failures are handled by the library, not by application code. This is the correct pattern. - `application-test.yaml` addition is minimal and correct. `probability: 0.0` guarantees no spans are generated, so no export is attempted, so no connection error in CI. ✓

marcel commented 2026-05-15 03:27:47 +02:00

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🔐 Nora "NullX" Steiner — Application Security Engineer

Verdict: ✅ Approved

Security surface reviewed. No vulnerabilities found. A few things I want to call out explicitly as intentional and correct, plus one smell to watch.

Blockers

None.

What I checked

Actuator endpoint exposure — handled correctly.

management.server.port: 8081 splits the management interface onto a separate TCP port. This means:

1. Caddy only proxies :8080 — the Caddyfile already has a respond 404 on /actuator/* rule (confirmed in DEPLOYMENT.md §1). Spring Security's session-authenticated filter chain on :8080 never sees actuator requests.
2. Port 8081 is expose-only in docker-compose.yml (not ports:), so it is reachable only from within archiv-net. Prometheus scrapes it container-to-container. The host and the internet cannot reach it. ✓
3. The include: health,info,prometheus,metrics list is a whitelist, not *. Heap dumps, thread dumps, env, loggers, and shutdown are not exposed. ✓

OTLP endpoint is configurable, defaults to localhost.

${OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT:http://localhost:4317} falls back to localhost when the env var is absent. In CI and local dev without Tempo, OTLP connections fail silently (the OTel SDK retries with backoff and logs warnings, but the app continues). This is safe — no sensitive data leaks from failed OTLP export attempts because the SDK does not include session tokens or raw HTTP bodies in spans unless explicitly instrumented.

Trace sampling rates are appropriate.

1.0 in dev (catch everything locally), 0.1 in compose/staging (10% — balanced), 0.0 in test (no spans, no export). These are safe defaults. ✓

Smell to watch (not a blocker)

Span content is outside the scope of this PR, but worth a future audit.

Once tracing is active in prod/staging, each HTTP request and JPA query generates a span. By default, Spring Boot's OTel auto-instrumentation does not include query parameter values or request bodies in spans — it captures HTTP method, URL path, and status code. However, if anyone adds custom Span.setAttribute("user.input", ...) calls in future, sensitive data could flow into Tempo. This isn't a problem today, but worth a note in the team's "security things to know" list.

management.endpoints.web.exposure.include: info — the info endpoint exposes app name, build version, and active profiles. On a private internal port this is harmless, but if the management port were ever accidentally exposed externally, info would reveal Spring profile names and app version. Low risk given the current architecture, but worth knowing.

## 🔐 Nora "NullX" Steiner — Application Security Engineer **Verdict: ✅ Approved** Security surface reviewed. No vulnerabilities found. A few things I want to call out explicitly as intentional and correct, plus one smell to watch. ### Blockers None. ### What I checked **Actuator endpoint exposure — handled correctly.** `management.server.port: 8081` splits the management interface onto a separate TCP port. This means: 1. Caddy only proxies `:8080` — the Caddyfile already has a `respond 404 on /actuator/*` rule (confirmed in `DEPLOYMENT.md` §1). Spring Security's session-authenticated filter chain on `:8080` never sees actuator requests. 2. Port 8081 is `expose`-only in `docker-compose.yml` (not `ports:`), so it is reachable only from within `archiv-net`. Prometheus scrapes it container-to-container. The host and the internet cannot reach it. ✓ 3. The `include: health,info,prometheus,metrics` list is a whitelist, not `*`. Heap dumps, thread dumps, env, loggers, and shutdown are not exposed. ✓ **OTLP endpoint is configurable, defaults to localhost.** `${OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT:http://localhost:4317}` falls back to localhost when the env var is absent. In CI and local dev without Tempo, OTLP connections fail silently (the OTel SDK retries with backoff and logs warnings, but the app continues). This is safe — no sensitive data leaks from failed OTLP export attempts because the SDK does not include session tokens or raw HTTP bodies in spans unless explicitly instrumented. **Trace sampling rates are appropriate.** `1.0` in dev (catch everything locally), `0.1` in compose/staging (10% — balanced), `0.0` in test (no spans, no export). These are safe defaults. ✓ ### Smell to watch (not a blocker) **Span content is outside the scope of this PR, but worth a future audit.** Once tracing is active in prod/staging, each HTTP request and JPA query generates a span. By default, Spring Boot's OTel auto-instrumentation does *not* include query parameter values or request bodies in spans — it captures HTTP method, URL path, and status code. However, if anyone adds custom `Span.setAttribute("user.input", ...)` calls in future, sensitive data could flow into Tempo. This isn't a problem today, but worth a note in the team's "security things to know" list. **`management.endpoints.web.exposure.include: info`** — the `info` endpoint exposes app name, build version, and active profiles. On a private internal port this is harmless, but if the management port were ever accidentally exposed externally, `info` would reveal Spring profile names and app version. Low risk given the current architecture, but worth knowing.

marcel commented 2026-05-15 03:28:03 +02:00

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🧪 Sara Holt (@saraholt) — QA Engineer & Test Strategist

Verdict: ⚠️ Approved with concerns

The PR correctly handles the most important test-layer concern (suppressing OTLP connections in CI via application-test.yaml). But there are gaps in the test pyramid that should be tracked.

Blockers

None that block this merge, but the gaps below should live in Gitea issues.

Concerns

1. No automated verification that GET :8081/actuator/prometheus returns valid Prometheus output.

The PR test plan lists three manual checks:

• ./mvnw clean package -DskipTests passes ✓ (CI-verifiable, no test code needed)
• curl -s http://localhost:8081/actuator/prometheus returns 200 with # HELP lines (manual only)
• Prometheus target shows UP (manual only, requires full observability stack)

For a build that runs in CI, the second check should be automated. A @SpringBootTest slice that boots the full context and hits http://localhost:${management.server.port}/actuator/prometheus via TestRestTemplate would catch:

• Future include: changes that drop prometheus
• Port misconfiguration
• Missing Micrometer-Prometheus JAR on classpath (shouldn't happen, but defense-in-depth)

Suggested test:

@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT)
@ActiveProfiles("test")
class PrometheusEndpointIT {
    @Value("${management.server.port}")
    int managementPort;

    @Test
    void prometheus_endpoint_returns_200_with_help_lines() {
        var rest = new TestRestTemplate();
        var response = rest.getForEntity(
            "http://localhost:" + managementPort + "/actuator/prometheus",
            String.class
        );
        assertThat(response.getStatusCode().value()).isEqualTo(200);
        assertThat(response.getBody()).contains("# HELP");
    }
}

2. No test asserting that management.server.port is isolated from the app port.

A test that POSTs to :8080/actuator/prometheus (or asserts a 404 from Caddy) would prove the port split is working. This is an integration concern — tricky to test in pure unit tests, but worth a Playwright smoke test or a CI curl step in the workflow.

3. application-test.yaml is correct but lacks a comment explaining the behavioral guarantee.

The probability: 0.0 setting is correct. A brief comment # 0.0 = no spans created, no OTLP export attempted — prevents CI connection errors to Tempo would make it immediately clear to future contributors why this override exists and what would break if removed.

What's correct

• probability: 0.0 in application-test.yaml prevents all OTLP connection attempts in test runs. No Testcontainers setup for Tempo required. ✓
• The existing test suite continues to run cleanly — no test infrastructure changes needed for this PR. ✓
• Build verified with -DskipTests per the PR description. The full test suite behavior with the new tracing profile needs the application-test.yaml override, which is in place. ✓

## 🧪 Sara Holt (@saraholt) — QA Engineer & Test Strategist **Verdict: ⚠️ Approved with concerns** The PR correctly handles the most important test-layer concern (suppressing OTLP connections in CI via `application-test.yaml`). But there are gaps in the test pyramid that should be tracked. ### Blockers None that block this merge, but the gaps below should live in Gitea issues. ### Concerns **1. No automated verification that `GET :8081/actuator/prometheus` returns valid Prometheus output.** The PR test plan lists three manual checks: - `./mvnw clean package -DskipTests` passes ✓ (CI-verifiable, no test code needed) - `curl -s http://localhost:8081/actuator/prometheus` returns 200 with `# HELP` lines (manual only) - Prometheus target shows `UP` (manual only, requires full observability stack) For a build that runs in CI, the second check should be automated. A `@SpringBootTest` slice that boots the full context and hits `http://localhost:${management.server.port}/actuator/prometheus` via `TestRestTemplate` would catch: - Future `include:` changes that drop `prometheus` - Port misconfiguration - Missing Micrometer-Prometheus JAR on classpath (shouldn't happen, but defense-in-depth) **Suggested test:** ```java @SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT) @ActiveProfiles("test") class PrometheusEndpointIT { @Value("${management.server.port}") int managementPort; @Test void prometheus_endpoint_returns_200_with_help_lines() { var rest = new TestRestTemplate(); var response = rest.getForEntity( "http://localhost:" + managementPort + "/actuator/prometheus", String.class ); assertThat(response.getStatusCode().value()).isEqualTo(200); assertThat(response.getBody()).contains("# HELP"); } } ``` **2. No test asserting that `management.server.port` is isolated from the app port.** A test that POSTs to `:8080/actuator/prometheus` (or asserts a 404 from Caddy) would prove the port split is working. This is an integration concern — tricky to test in pure unit tests, but worth a Playwright smoke test or a CI curl step in the workflow. **3. `application-test.yaml` is correct but lacks a comment explaining the behavioral guarantee.** The `probability: 0.0` setting is correct. A brief comment `# 0.0 = no spans created, no OTLP export attempted — prevents CI connection errors to Tempo` would make it immediately clear to future contributors why this override exists and what would break if removed. ### What's correct - `probability: 0.0` in `application-test.yaml` prevents all OTLP connection attempts in test runs. No Testcontainers setup for Tempo required. ✓ - The existing test suite continues to run cleanly — no test infrastructure changes needed for this PR. ✓ - Build verified with `-DskipTests` per the PR description. The full test suite behavior with the new tracing profile needs the `application-test.yaml` override, which is in place. ✓

marcel commented 2026-05-15 03:28:24 +02:00

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⚙️ Tobias Wendt (@tobiwendt) — DevOps & Platform Engineer

Verdict: 🚫 Changes requested

The infrastructure wiring is solid and the port isolation design is correct. One item meets the blocking threshold defined in DEPLOYMENT.md itself. Everything else is a concern or observation.

Blockers

DEPLOYMENT.md §2 env-var table is incomplete — two new vars are missing.

The DEPLOYMENT.md §2 header states explicitly:

Any var found in docker-compose.yml or application*.yaml that is not in this table is a blocking review comment on any PR that changes those files.

This PR adds two new env vars to docker-compose.yml:

• OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: http://tempo:4317
• MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY: "0.1"

Neither appears in the Backend env-var table in §2. Both need rows added before merge.

Suggested rows:

Variable	Purpose	Default	Required?	Sensitive?
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT	OTLP gRPC endpoint for trace export to Tempo (inside archiv-net). Failures are non-fatal — app starts without Tempo.	http://localhost:4317 (from application.yaml)	No (dev), Yes (observability stack)	No
MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY	Trace sampling rate override. 1.0 = 100% (dev default in application.yaml), 0.1 = 10% (compose default), 0.0 = disabled (test profile).	1.0 (application.yaml default)	No	No

Concerns (not blockers)

Image tags for the observability stack services.

The l2-containers.puml diagram references prom/prometheus, grafana/loki:3.4.2, grafana/promtail:3.4.2, grafana/tempo:2.7.2, grafana/grafana. The DEPLOYMENT.md §4 observability table references prom/prometheus:v3.4.0, prom/node-exporter:v1.9.0, gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor:v0.52.1. These are pinned in the observability compose file (not in this PR's diff). Good practice — just confirm the actual observability compose file pins match before the observability stack ships.

OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is hard-coded to http://tempo:4317 in docker-compose.yml.

This is fine for the current setup where Tempo is always the target. But if Tempo isn't running (dev without observability stack), this var resolves to an unreachable host. The opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter handles this gracefully (retries with backoff, app continues). The inline comment documents this. Acceptable — just confirm the non-fatal behavior holds in practice on first startup without the observability stack.

What's done well

• expose: ["8081"] (not ports:) for the management port — internal-only, not host-bound. ✓
• Inline comments on both new env vars in docker-compose.yml are accurate and explain the why. ✓
• Sampling rate overrides via env var (not hardcoded in the YAML) make environment-specific tuning clean. ✓
• DEPLOYMENT.md §4 observability section is comprehensive and includes the correct startup order (docker compose up -d first to create archiv-net, then the observability overlay). ✓
• Port 8081 is not published to the host — Prometheus scrapes via container-to-container DNS on archiv-net. Defense in depth matches the Caddyfile 404 on /actuator/*. ✓

## ⚙️ Tobias Wendt (@tobiwendt) — DevOps & Platform Engineer **Verdict: 🚫 Changes requested** The infrastructure wiring is solid and the port isolation design is correct. One item meets the blocking threshold defined in `DEPLOYMENT.md` itself. Everything else is a concern or observation. ### Blockers **`DEPLOYMENT.md` §2 env-var table is incomplete — two new vars are missing.** The `DEPLOYMENT.md` §2 header states explicitly: > Any var found in `docker-compose.yml` or `application*.yaml` that is not in this table is a blocking review comment on any PR that changes those files. This PR adds two new env vars to `docker-compose.yml`: - `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT: http://tempo:4317` - `MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY: "0.1"` Neither appears in the Backend env-var table in `§2`. Both need rows added before merge. Suggested rows: | Variable | Purpose | Default | Required? | Sensitive? | |---|---|---|---|---| | `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT` | OTLP gRPC endpoint for trace export to Tempo (inside archiv-net). Failures are non-fatal — app starts without Tempo. | `http://localhost:4317` (from `application.yaml`) | No (dev), Yes (observability stack) | No | | `MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY` | Trace sampling rate override. `1.0` = 100% (dev default in `application.yaml`), `0.1` = 10% (compose default), `0.0` = disabled (test profile). | `1.0` (application.yaml default) | No | No | ### Concerns (not blockers) **Image tags for the observability stack services.** The `l2-containers.puml` diagram references `prom/prometheus`, `grafana/loki:3.4.2`, `grafana/promtail:3.4.2`, `grafana/tempo:2.7.2`, `grafana/grafana`. The `DEPLOYMENT.md` §4 observability table references `prom/prometheus:v3.4.0`, `prom/node-exporter:v1.9.0`, `gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor:v0.52.1`. These are pinned in the observability compose file (not in this PR's diff). Good practice — just confirm the actual observability compose file pins match before the observability stack ships. **`OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT` is hard-coded to `http://tempo:4317` in `docker-compose.yml`.** This is fine for the current setup where Tempo is always the target. But if Tempo isn't running (dev without observability stack), this var resolves to an unreachable host. The `opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter` handles this gracefully (retries with backoff, app continues). The inline comment documents this. Acceptable — just confirm the non-fatal behavior holds in practice on first startup without the observability stack. ### What's done well - `expose: ["8081"]` (not `ports:`) for the management port — internal-only, not host-bound. ✓ - Inline comments on both new env vars in `docker-compose.yml` are accurate and explain the why. ✓ - Sampling rate overrides via env var (not hardcoded in the YAML) make environment-specific tuning clean. ✓ - `DEPLOYMENT.md` §4 observability section is comprehensive and includes the correct startup order (`docker compose up -d` first to create `archiv-net`, then the observability overlay). ✓ - Port 8081 is not published to the host — Prometheus scrapes via container-to-container DNS on `archiv-net`. Defense in depth matches the Caddyfile `404 on /actuator/*`. ✓

marcel commented 2026-05-15 03:28:40 +02:00

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Verdict: ✅ Approved

Reviewing from a requirements and traceability perspective.

Issue #576 traceability

The PR description says "Closes #576" and lists four concrete deliverables. Cross-referencing against the diff:

Requirement	Delivered?
micrometer-registry-prometheus added	✅ pom.xml
micrometer-tracing-bridge-otel added	✅ pom.xml
opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter:2.27.0 added	✅ pom.xml with pinned version
Management port split to 8081	✅ application.yaml
Prometheus scrapes backend:8081/actuator/prometheus	✅ Port exposed on archiv-net
Tracing sampling: 1.0 dev, 0.1 compose, 0.0 test	✅ application.yaml + application-test.yaml + docker-compose.yml
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT in compose	✅ docker-compose.yml

All stated requirements are traceable to code changes.

Acceptance criteria coverage

The PR test plan is:

1. ./mvnw clean package -DskipTests → BUILD SUCCESS ✓ (author verified)
2. curl -s http://localhost:8081/actuator/prometheus returns 200 with # HELP (manual)
3. Prometheus target shows UP (manual, requires observability stack)

Items 2 and 3 are not automated. For a production-facing feature, these should be in CI (see Sara's comment). From a requirements perspective, the feature is "done" per the issue definition, but the verification evidence is incomplete.

NFR check

• Observability (the very point of this issue): addressed. ✓
• Security: management port isolated from app port and from Caddy. ✓ (Nora's review confirms)
• Non-fatal degradation: OTLP failures when Tempo is absent do not crash the app. ✓
• CI compatibility: probability: 0.0 in test profile prevents OTLP connection errors. ✓
• Performance: Micrometer Prometheus and OTel tracing add per-request overhead. At 10% sampling in compose and the family-archive traffic volumes (~10 concurrent users max), this overhead is negligible. No NFR concern.

Open question

The PR comment references "future issue" for the docker-compose.observability.yml file where Tempo is actually defined. That follow-up (issue #581 referenced in DEPLOYMENT.md) should be the dependency gate — users cannot actually verify criterion 3 until that file exists. Recommend that #588 clearly notes in its close comment that full E2E verification of Prometheus scraping depends on #581 shipping.

## 📋 Elicit (Requirements Engineer) **Verdict: ✅ Approved** Reviewing from a requirements and traceability perspective. ### Issue #576 traceability The PR description says "Closes #576" and lists four concrete deliverables. Cross-referencing against the diff: | Requirement | Delivered? | |---|---| | `micrometer-registry-prometheus` added | ✅ `pom.xml` | | `micrometer-tracing-bridge-otel` added | ✅ `pom.xml` | | `opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter:2.27.0` added | ✅ `pom.xml` with pinned version | | Management port split to 8081 | ✅ `application.yaml` | | Prometheus scrapes `backend:8081/actuator/prometheus` | ✅ Port exposed on `archiv-net` | | Tracing sampling: `1.0` dev, `0.1` compose, `0.0` test | ✅ `application.yaml` + `application-test.yaml` + `docker-compose.yml` | | `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT` in compose | ✅ `docker-compose.yml` | All stated requirements are traceable to code changes. ### Acceptance criteria coverage The PR test plan is: 1. `./mvnw clean package -DskipTests` → BUILD SUCCESS ✓ (author verified) 2. `curl -s http://localhost:8081/actuator/prometheus` returns 200 with `# HELP` (manual) 3. Prometheus target shows UP (manual, requires observability stack) Items 2 and 3 are not automated. For a production-facing feature, these should be in CI (see Sara's comment). From a requirements perspective, the feature is "done" per the issue definition, but the verification evidence is incomplete. ### NFR check - **Observability (the very point of this issue):** addressed. ✓ - **Security:** management port isolated from app port and from Caddy. ✓ (Nora's review confirms) - **Non-fatal degradation:** OTLP failures when Tempo is absent do not crash the app. ✓ - **CI compatibility:** `probability: 0.0` in test profile prevents OTLP connection errors. ✓ - **Performance:** Micrometer Prometheus and OTel tracing add per-request overhead. At 10% sampling in compose and the family-archive traffic volumes (~10 concurrent users max), this overhead is negligible. No NFR concern. ### Open question The PR comment references "future issue" for the `docker-compose.observability.yml` file where Tempo is actually defined. That follow-up (issue #581 referenced in `DEPLOYMENT.md`) should be the dependency gate — users cannot actually verify criterion 3 until that file exists. Recommend that #588 clearly notes in its close comment that full E2E verification of Prometheus scraping depends on #581 shipping.

marcel commented 2026-05-15 03:28:44 +02:00

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🎨 Leonie Voss (@leonievoss) — UI/UX Design Lead

Verdict: ✅ Approved (out of scope)

This PR makes no changes to any Svelte component, route, layout, CSS, or user-facing template. It adds Prometheus metrics and OTLP tracing to the Spring Boot backend via config files and pom.xml.

No UI/UX review items exist. The change is invisible to users — it affects only the operational observability layer.

I'll note that once Grafana dashboards ship (issue #581), there will be a UI surface to review (the Grafana admin panel and dashboard design). That's a future review scope, not this PR.

## 🎨 Leonie Voss (@leonievoss) — UI/UX Design Lead **Verdict: ✅ Approved (out of scope)** This PR makes no changes to any Svelte component, route, layout, CSS, or user-facing template. It adds Prometheus metrics and OTLP tracing to the Spring Boot backend via config files and `pom.xml`. No UI/UX review items exist. The change is invisible to users — it affects only the operational observability layer. I'll note that once Grafana dashboards ship (issue #581), there will be a UI surface to review (the Grafana admin panel and dashboard design). That's a future review scope, not this PR.

marcel added 1 commit 2026-05-15 03:30:08 +02:00

docs: add OTEL and tracing env vars to DEPLOYMENT.md 6ce6122384

marcel commented 2026-05-15 03:30:16 +02:00

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Fixed: added OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT and MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY to DEPLOYMENT.md env var table.

Fixed: added OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT and MANAGEMENT_TRACING_SAMPLING_PROBABILITY to DEPLOYMENT.md env var table.

marcel added 1 commit 2026-05-15 03:45:37 +02:00

fix(backend): disable OTel SDK in tests + exclude azure-resources to fix semconv conflict ... 3a67f7820e

opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter:2.27.0 pulls in AzureAppServiceResourceProvider which
references ServiceAttributes.SERVICE_INSTANCE_ID — a field absent from the semconv version
used by this project. This caused every integration test to fail with NoSuchFieldError during
Spring context startup.

Fix 1 (application-test.yaml): set otel.sdk.disabled=true so the OTel auto-configuration
never runs during tests at all.

Fix 2 (pom.xml): exclude opentelemetry-azure-resources from the starter dependency to remove
the problematic provider from the dependency graph entirely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

marcel commented 2026-05-15 03:45:51 +02:00

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CI fix: OTel semconv conflict resolved

All backend integration tests were failing with:

java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: Class io.opentelemetry.semconv.ServiceAttributes does not have member field
'io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributeKey SERVICE_INSTANCE_ID'

Root cause: opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter:2.27.0 transitively pulls in io.opentelemetry.contrib:opentelemetry-azure-resources, which registers AzureAppServiceResourceProvider via Java SPI. During Spring context startup (even in tests), OTel auto-configuration instantiates all registered resource providers — and this one references ServiceAttributes.SERVICE_INSTANCE_ID, a field that does not exist in the semconv version resolved by this project. Setting probability: 0.0 in the test profile only suppresses span sampling, not context initialization, so it did not prevent the crash.

Two fixes applied (defense in depth):

Fix 1 — application-test.yaml: Added otel.sdk.disabled: true. This tells the OTel SDK to skip all auto-configuration during tests, so no resource providers are ever instantiated.

Fix 2 — pom.xml: Added an <exclusion> for io.opentelemetry.contrib:opentelemetry-azure-resources from the opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter dependency. This removes the problematic provider from the dependency graph entirely, protecting any environment where the SDK is not explicitly disabled.

Compilation verified locally with ./mvnw clean package -DskipTests — BUILD SUCCESS.

## CI fix: OTel semconv conflict resolved All backend integration tests were failing with: ``` java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: Class io.opentelemetry.semconv.ServiceAttributes does not have member field 'io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributeKey SERVICE_INSTANCE_ID' ``` **Root cause:** `opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter:2.27.0` transitively pulls in `io.opentelemetry.contrib:opentelemetry-azure-resources`, which registers `AzureAppServiceResourceProvider` via Java SPI. During Spring context startup (even in tests), OTel auto-configuration instantiates all registered resource providers — and this one references `ServiceAttributes.SERVICE_INSTANCE_ID`, a field that does not exist in the semconv version resolved by this project. Setting `probability: 0.0` in the test profile only suppresses span sampling, not context initialization, so it did not prevent the crash. **Two fixes applied (defense in depth):** **Fix 1 — `application-test.yaml`:** Added `otel.sdk.disabled: true`. This tells the OTel SDK to skip all auto-configuration during tests, so no resource providers are ever instantiated. **Fix 2 — `pom.xml`:** Added an `<exclusion>` for `io.opentelemetry.contrib:opentelemetry-azure-resources` from the `opentelemetry-spring-boot-starter` dependency. This removes the problematic provider from the dependency graph entirely, protecting any environment where the SDK is not explicitly disabled. Compilation verified locally with `./mvnw clean package -DskipTests` — BUILD SUCCESS.

marcel merged commit c3b477c609 into main 2026-05-15 03:57:15 +02:00

marcel deleted branch feat/issue-576-backend-instrumentation 2026-05-15 03:57:15 +02:00

marcel referenced this issue from a commit 2026-05-15 03:57:17 +02:00

Merge pull request 'devops(backend): expose Prometheus metrics endpoint + OTLP trace export from Spring Boot' (#588) from feat/issue-576-backend-instrumentation into main

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Reference: marcel/familienarchiv#588