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    • Updated bounding-box validation guidance for gtfs_rt_stopped_out_of_bounds_vehicles.
    • Clarified that vehicles associated with an agency are checked against that agency’s bounding box.
    • Vehicles without a resolved agency continue to use the server-wide union bounding box.
    • Documented that the empty-agency_id series represents a looser bound than per-agency series.

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The metrics documentation now describes agency-specific bounding-box validation for resolved vehicles and server-wide fallback validation for unresolved vehicles.

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Documents RouteAgencyIndex-based agency bounding boxes and the server-wide union-box fallback for unresolved vehicles.

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The metric documentation may incorrectly state that agency-resolved vehicles use agency-specific bounding boxes when validation remains server-wide. This could lead operators to misinterpret out-of-bounds alerts; correct the documentation or align the implementation before relying on the new guidance.

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Remove the handler WaitGroup barrier. downloadGTFSBundles fetches the initial and added servers concurrently, while the /added.zip handler signals before its deferred requests.Done(). The sibling request can enter the handler after requests.Wait() starts, violating the sync.WaitGroup contract. httptest.Server.Close() already waits for outstanding requests, so rely on it for cleanup.

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In `@internal/gtfs/refresh_live_config_test.go` around lines 36 - 37, Remove the
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The alert rules are the good part of this PR and I want to keep them. I verified both expressions against the code rather than just reading them:

  • oba_api_status is declared with exactly {server_name, server_url}, and your alert references only those two.
  • gtfs_bundle_days_until_earliest_expiration carries {agency_id, agency_name, server_name, server_url}, and your annotations use agency_name, agency_id, and server_url.
  • Both land under the existing rule_files: /etc/prometheus/rules/*.yml glob and the docker-compose mount, and neither alert name collides with the three rule files already there. They also match the example expressions already recommended in docs/METRICS.md.

So the Prometheus half is ready. Three things to fix first.

Blocker: the downloadGTFSBundle context change makes TestRefreshGTFSBundlesReadsLiveConfig fail most of the time. Once the request carries ctx, the test's deferred cancel() aborts an in-flight download before the server is drained, and the handler's w.Write(bundle) fails into t.Errorf. Measured: 0 failures in 30 runs on main, 21 in 30 on this branch. CI passes only because Linux runners buffer the entire 1.8 MB response. The fix is to drain before cancelling — ts.Close() before cancel() in the deferred cleanup, or join the goroutine with a done channel.

Worth knowing: this change, both the gtfs_bundles.go hunk and the test, is byte-identical in #144. Whichever you fix first, the other's copy should be dropped so the two don't diverge.

The title doesn't describe the diff. It says "scope per-agency vehicle metrics", but that work landed in #133 and none of it is here. This PR is request cancellation for bundle downloads, a test cleanup change, an environment label, and two alert rules. Since we merge with merge commits, the wrong title goes into main's history right next to the PR that actually did that work. Please retitle.

environment: production on the local stack. prometheus/prometheus.yml is only mounted by docker-compose.yml, which is how we run the whole stack locally. This stamps environment="production" on every series on a developer's laptop, and nothing consumes the label today — alertmanager.yml groups on ["alertname", "severity"], and no rule or dashboard reads it. If the goal is labelling a real deployment, that belongs wherever the production Prometheus config lives, not here.

Fix the test and retitle, and this is good to go. The alerts themselves I'd merge as-is.

I tested two candidate fixes on this branch so you don't have to guess:

  • Just reordering the cleanup to ts.Close() before cancel() helps a lot but isn't sufficient: 21/30 failures drops to 3/30.
  • Marking the shutdown explicitly and not asserting on writes that fail because of it is clean: 0 failures in 60 runs, and clean under -race.

That second one is this:

 	var (
+		shuttingDown  atomic.Bool
 		firstTickOnce sync.Once
 		addedOnce     sync.Once
 		requests      sync.WaitGroup
@@
-		if _, err := w.Write(bundle); err != nil {
+		if _, err := w.Write(bundle); err != nil && !shuttingDown.Load() {
 			t.Errorf("write GTFS fixture: %v", err)
 		}
@@
 	defer func() {
+		shuttingDown.Store(true)
 		cancel()
 		requests.Wait()
 		ts.Close()
 		http.DefaultClient.CloseIdleConnections()
 	}()

plus "sync/atomic" in the imports. The write assertion still guards the real case it was added for in ecf8845 — a mid-test write failure — and only goes quiet once the test has deliberately begun tearing down. Take it or something equivalent, whichever you prefer.

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Correcting my earlier automated review comment on this PR: it said "No issues found", and that was wrong.

The review did flag the test-cancellation interaction internally, but scored it below its posting threshold on the assumption it might only be theoretical. It isn't. Measured on this branch:

  • main: 0 failures in 30 runs
  • this branch: 21 failures in 30 runs

Details are in the formal review I've just submitted. Sorry for the noise.

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The blocker is fixed. You applied the guard essentially as written, and the teardown now stores the shutdown flag, cancels, drains, then closes, so the write assertion still catches a genuine mid-test failure and only goes quiet once teardown has started. That's what I was after.

I re-validated the alert rules against the code rather than just re-reading them, and they're still clean:

  • oba_api_status is declared with exactly {server_name, server_url} and your annotations use only those.
  • gtfs_bundle_days_until_earliest_expiration carries {agency_id, agency_name, server_name, server_url} and your annotations use a subset.
  • Both are gauges compared against scalars, so no rate()/increase() misuse.
  • The group name and both alert names don't collide with the three existing rule files, and the file lands under the rule_files glob and the compose mount.
  • for: 2m is about four collection cycles at the default 30s fetch interval, so it won't flap. checkBundleExpiration returns early on every error path and never zeroes the gauge, so a failed fetch can't spuriously trip the < 3 threshold.

Dropping the environment: production label was the right call.

Two things left, neither of them about the alerts.

The title still describes #133's work. It says "scope per-agency vehicle metrics", and none of that is in this diff — it landed in #133. What's actually here is a one-line request-context change, its test fallout, and two alert rules. We merge with merge commits, so this title goes into main's history right next to the PR that did the thing it names. Please retitle to something like "add Prometheus operational alert rules".

This and #144 have now diverged on the same code. Both change downloadGTFSBundle to http.NewRequestWithContext and both rewrite the same var block and defer in refresh_live_config_test.go, but differently: you drain with a requests sync.WaitGroup here, and join the refresh goroutine with a done channel in #144. Those hunks overlap textually, so whichever merges second will conflict, and we'd end up with two different rationales for one teardown.

#144's version is the one to keep. It's the goroutine join I suggested, and it drops the WaitGroup I asked you to delete — httptest.Server.Close() already blocks until outstanding handlers return, so requests.Wait() isn't buying anything, and Add(1) in the handler while Wait() has a waiter registered is the documented misuse even though the window is tiny.

So: drop internal/gtfs/gtfs_bundles.go and internal/gtfs/refresh_live_config_test.go from this PR entirely and let #144 carry them. This becomes an alerts-only PR of one new file, which is a much easier thing to merge, and the conflict disappears.

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Retitle, drop the two internal/gtfs files, and the alerts are good to merge as-is.

@0xaboomar 0xaboomar changed the title fix: scope per-agency vehicle metrics and add Prometheus operational alerts feat: add Prometheus operational alerts, environment-labeled metrics, fix GTFS refresh cancellation, and race-test teardown Sep 8, 2026
@0xaboomar 0xaboomar changed the title feat: add Prometheus operational alerts, environment-labeled metrics, fix GTFS refresh cancellation, and race-test teardown feat(prometheus): add operational alerting rules Sep 8, 2026
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Hey @aaronbrethorst, I’ve reverted the changes in internal/gtfs/gtfs_bundles.go and internal/gtfs/refresh_live_config_test.go, as suggested, since they’ll be handled in #144. I’ve also updated the PR title to reflect the changes included in this PR.

This PR is ready to be merged now.

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In `@docs/METRICS.md`:
- Line 115: Update the bounding-box accuracy documentation to state that
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```
In agency-mode (an entry with an `agency_id`) every vehicle belongs to the configured agency by definition, so no empty-`agency_id` series is emitted and `gtfs_rt_unattributed_vehicles_count` is not published at all.
- **The bounding box is still server-wide:** `gtfs_rt_stopped_out_of_bounds_vehicles` is attributed per agency, but the box it tests against is computed over the union of *every* configured static feed's stops. On a multi-agency server a vehicle stopped in one agency's territory is validated against a rectangle covering all of them, so treat this metric as a loose bound rather than a precise one.
- **Bounding box accuracy depends on attribution:** A vehicle can be resolved to its owning agency when its `route_id` is found in the `RouteAgencyIndex` (built from GTFS static bundles). Resolved vehicles are validated against their own agency's bounding box (the geographic bounds of that agency's stops). Unresolved vehicles — those whose `route_id` could not be mapped to an `agency_id` — fall back to the server-wide union box covering all agencies' stops, so the empty-`agency_id` series is a looser bound than the per-agency ones.

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Document the server-wide bounding-box contract.

trackInvalidVehiclesAndStoppedOutOfBounds reads one bounding box with boundingBoxStore.Get(server.ServerKey()) before vehicle attribution. attributeVehicle changes only the metric bucket. Therefore, resolved vehicles in server-scoped feeds are labeled by agency but are checked against the server-wide union box, just like unresolved vehicles. Update the documentation to state this behavior, or implement per-agency lookup and add a regression test with different agency and server boxes.

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Both asks from last time are done: the title now describes the diff, and dropping internal/gtfs/gtfs_bundles.go and refresh_live_config_test.go leaves this as an alerts-only PR of one new file, which removes the textual conflict with #144. Thanks for taking the deletion route rather than patching around it — that was the cleaner of the two options.

I re-validated the rules against the code a third time rather than trusting my earlier passes:

  • oba_api_status is declared with exactly {server_name, server_url} and the annotations use only those two. server_ping.go writes 0 on failure and 1 on success, so == 0 is the right comparison and reachable in both directions.
  • gtfs_bundle_days_until_earliest_expiration carries {agency_id, agency_name, server_name, server_url}; the annotations use a subset.
  • Both are gauges compared against scalars, so there's no counter-without-rate() problem.
  • watchdog-operational and both alert names don't collide with feed-staleness, watchdog-meta, or prediction-quality, and the file lands under the rule_files glob and the compose mount.
  • checkBundleExpiration returns early on every error path and never zeroes the gauge, so a failed fetch can't spuriously trip < 3.

One thing I'm fixing on the way in rather than sending back: the PR body is still a CodeRabbit summary of #141's bounding-box work and describes nothing in this diff. Since we merge with merge commits, that would land in main's history. I'll override the merge commit body — no action needed from you, but worth clearing stale auto-summaries before a merge in future.

Merging.

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