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observability: add the estate's first alerting; supervise Postfix
The estate had zero alert rules. The only contact point was Grafana's factory
default pointing at the literal string <example@email.com>, and beta's
untracked compose override routed Grafana's SMTP at prod's Postfix — so
alerts, had any existed, would have been delivered by the box most likely to
be on fire. Prod served 86 5xx in 24h including five /healthz failures and
nobody was told.

Alerting (deploys to beta, which is where Grafana runs):
- 12 Loki-based rules. There is no Prometheus in this estate and Loki is the
  only datasource, so every rule is log-derived.
- Thresholds come from a 24h backtest that happens to contain a real ~20min
  prod outage at 04:20Z. Absolute counts, not ratios: prod runs ~7 req/min, so
  one bad request is 1.4% and a ratio alert would scream all night. The 5xx
  burst rule fires on the outage's 45 and 22 buckets and on nothing else in
  the day; the largest benign bucket all day was 5.
- Routed to a new private #ops-alerts channel, not to any existing channel —
  #weather-events, #announcements and #prod are product surfaces that notify
  real subscribers.
- AlertingWatchdog is a dead-man's switch; its value is its absence.
- Delivery is proven, not assumed: the rules were provisioned into a throwaway
  Grafana against beta's live Loki and a real alert arrived in Discord. This
  matters because GET /api/v1/provisioning/contact-points returns [REDACTED]
  for the URL — a contact point holding an uninterpolated env var looks
  perfectly healthy and pages nobody. The only proof is a message arriving.

CI gains a structural check, because the existing one only proves YAML parses:
an alert rule whose condition names a missing refId is valid YAML, provisions
cleanly, and never fires. It also hard-fails on a literal Discord webhook in
the repo. Verified against all three breakages deliberately introduced.

Postfix supervision:
- The 13h outage was a boot-ordering race, not a Docker renumbering: postfix
  started at 08:09:49, wg0 came up at :51, postfix fataled at :52 on a missing
  docker_gwbridge address, and dockerd did not finish starting until 08:10:16.
  Stock postfix@.service is ordered only After=network-online.target and ships
  no Restart=, so one lost race became a permanent outage.
- An ExecStartPre gate now blocks up to 60s until every inet_interfaces
  address actually exists, which absorbs the transient case inside a single
  start attempt. That makes bounded retry correct: 5 attempts in 600s, then
  failed — a genuinely broken config reaches a visible failed state in ~100s
  instead of re-fataling every 15s forever.
- A 5-minute watchdog timer retries indefinitely and runs reset-failed, so
  "failed" still self-heals. Worst case is ~5 minutes, not 13 hours.
- Wants=, not Requires=: a dockerd failure must not take down the loopback and
  mesh listeners that do not depend on Docker at all.

Health checks must read config with `postconf -c`, never postmulti/postqueue/
postfix — those three RESOLVE inet_interfaces and so fatal precisely when an
address is missing, which made the first version of this check report
status=ok bound=0/0. A health check that fails open is worse than none.

DEPLOY.md carries the monitoring contract, including that systemctl is-active
postfix is a known-false signal: postfix.service is a wrapper whose
ExecStart=/bin/true, so it reports active forever while the real postfix@-
instance is failed with zero listeners. Reproduced live.

Known gap, documented not fixed: Alloy ships Docker stdout, Caddy files and
app JSONL, not journald — so no Postfix line reaches Loki and the mail rules
cannot fire until loki.source.journal is added.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0182KTMrsTHJc3TcewCatJFY
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.claude/skills/key-gaps Subtree-merge thermograph-infra (origin/main) into infra/ 2026-07-22 22:01:11 -07:00
deploy observability: add the estate's first alerting; supervise Postfix 2026-07-24 13:19:19 -07:00
lake-iceberg Iceberg conversion container for the ERA5 lake (infra/lake-iceberg) (#24) 2026-07-23 22:56:27 +00:00
ops ops/iceberg.sh: read-only Iceberg lake queries across all environments (#23) 2026-07-24 19:34:30 +00:00
terraform Log hygiene: Alloy CPU, Loki chunks/limits, Caddy field-stripping (#36) 2026-07-24 04:37:41 +00:00
.env.example daemon: move the Discord gateway and scheduler out of the web process into Go (#21) 2026-07-23 22:49:54 +00:00
.gitignore Iceberg conversion container for the ERA5 lake (infra/lake-iceberg) (#24) 2026-07-23 22:56:27 +00:00
.sops.yaml Subtree-merge thermograph-infra (origin/main) into infra/ 2026-07-22 22:01:11 -07:00
ACCESS.md Subtree-merge thermograph-infra (origin/main) into infra/ 2026-07-22 22:01:11 -07:00
CLAUDE.md Subtree-merge thermograph-infra (origin/main) into infra/ 2026-07-22 22:01:11 -07:00
DEPLOY-DEV.md Subtree-merge thermograph-infra (origin/main) into infra/ 2026-07-22 22:01:11 -07:00
DEPLOY.md observability: add the estate's first alerting; supervise Postfix 2026-07-24 13:19:19 -07:00
docker-compose.dev.yml Reconcile: merge main (shellcheck guard, Go daemon) into dev 2026-07-23 17:06:52 -07:00
docker-compose.openmeteo.yml Subtree-merge thermograph-infra (origin/main) into infra/ 2026-07-22 22:01:11 -07:00
docker-compose.yml Reconcile: merge main (shellcheck guard, Go daemon) into dev 2026-07-23 17:06:52 -07:00
docker-stack.yml Subtree-merge thermograph-infra (origin/main) into infra/ 2026-07-22 22:01:11 -07:00
Makefile Subtree-merge thermograph-infra (origin/main) into infra/ 2026-07-22 22:01:11 -07:00
README.md Subtree-merge thermograph-infra (origin/main) into infra/ 2026-07-22 22:01:11 -07:00

thermograph-infra

Infrastructure for Thermograph: Terraform host provisioning, the SOPS+age secrets vault, Docker Swarm/WireGuard networking, Forgejo, Caddy, and the deploy scripts that run the already-built app image on each host. Extracted from the app monorepo (emi/thermograph) — the app repo owns building and testing the app; this repo owns running it.

  • terraform/ — provisions/configures hosts (SSH-driven by default; an optional GCP-creating module is scaffolded, no live resources yet) and triggers each deploy. See terraform/README.md.
  • deploy/secrets/ — the git-native SOPS+age secrets vault (every app secret, encrypted at rest, rendered at deploy time). See deploy/secrets/README.md.
  • deploy/swarm/, deploy/forgejo/ — the 3-node WireGuard/Swarm cluster that hosts Forgejo (git + CI + registry); does not run the app itself. See ACCESS.md and the READMEs under each directory.
  • deploy/deploy.sh — pulls the pinned app image (IMAGE_TAG) and rolls the compose stack; invoked by Terraform and by the app repo's .forgejo/workflows/deploy.yml over SSH.
  • docker-compose*.yml, docker-stack.yml — how the app image runs (compose in production today; docker-stack.yml is a design record for a possible future Swarm-based app deploy, not currently live).

The app's own source, Dockerfile, and build/test CI stay in the app repo — this repo never checks out app source; hosts only pull tagged images from the registry. See ACCESS.md for host access and the Swarm/Forgejo topology, and terraform/README.md for the day-to-day plan/apply workflow.

Branches & how changes reach each environment

  • main — what prod and beta run: their /opt/thermograph checkouts git reset --hard origin/main at the start of every deploy (deploy/deploy.sh). A merge to main reaches those hosts on the next app deploy (or a by-hand deploy.sh run); there is no separate infra deploy trigger.
  • dev — what LAN dev runs: ~/thermograph-dev resets to it via deploy/deploy-dev.sh. Keep it fast-forwarded to main (infra changes are not environment-staged today; the branches exist so LAN dev can trail or lead when needed).
  • release — currently consumed by nothing (prod tracks main, not release). It exists to mirror the app repos' dev→main→release promotion shape if per-environment infra staging is ever wanted; until then, treat main as live-everywhere.

Note the asymmetry with the app repos: app code IS environment-staged (dev→main→release maps to LAN→beta→prod via image tags), infra is not.