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uptime kuma: remove every live reference, repoint the probes to Gatus Nothing in the repo pushes to, authenticates against, or is gated by Uptime Kuma any more. ── The sixth instance of the banner bug ──────────────────────────────────── memos had `Restart memos` guarded by `uptime_kuma_enabled`, because the deprecation banner was placed immediately above it and swept it in. It is a HANDLER, so every memos config change since 2026-09-11 applied to disk and silently never restarted the service. Ungated. That is the same failure found in forgejo-runner's self-assert, phoenixd's timer enable, mempool's three timer enables, fulcrum's restart handler and bitcoind's restart handler. Every guard was read and asked "monitoring or deployment?" before being deleted, which is the only reason this was caught. ── What was removed ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 30 uptime_kuma_enabled guards across 7 unconverted service playbooks, and the 29 Kuma monitor-creation tasks they gated (embedded Python that drove the Kuma API, temp credential files, cleanup) 7 dead uptime_kuma_api_url definitions 7 stale DEPRECATED banners uptime_kuma_enabled and subdomains.uptime_kuma from group_vars/all healthcheck_push_urls from the vault - 30 push tokens services/ntfy/setup_ntfy_uptime_kuma_notification.yml -> archive/ The explanatory comments in the six converted roles are KEPT on purpose. They record why a handler is ungated, and deleting the explanation invites someone to helpfully re-add the guard. ── The probes moved rather than died ─────────────────────────────────────── Eight per-service health checks were still pushing to Kuma. They are not superseded by infra/401: that answers "is the unit running", these answer "does the service actually respond" - an RPC call to bitcoind, a TCP connect to Fulcrum's Electrum port, an HTTP fetch from Mempool's backend. A process can be perfectly `active` and useless. So they were repointed, not deleted. Gatus external endpoints take a POST with a bearer token and success=true|false where Kuma took a GET with ?status=up, so report() now maps up/down to true/false internally and no call site changed. Registered by infra/403 as the `probe` group, one token per host. Two bugs fixed while in there: * forgejo-runner's check only ever reported SUCCESS - it exited before pushing when the runner was down, so a failure was invisible until the heartbeat window expired. Reporting the failure is the entire point of a check. * All six healthcheck .service units were mode 0644 and now carry a bearer token. They are 0600. Verified: 91 endpoints, 91 UP, 0 DOWN. Every probe triggered by hand and confirmed arriving. Zero Kuma URLs left in the vault, zero live references in any playbook or role. Still standing, deliberately: the Kuma container on watchtower, its Caddy vhost, and the uptime.contrapeso.xyz DNS record. Turning the service off is a separate decision from removing the code that talked to it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 10:30:28 +02:00
---
# The per-service health probes.
#
# These are NOT the same thing as the systemd checks in infra/401. Those answer
# "is the unit running"; these answer "does the service actually respond" - an
# RPC call to bitcoind, a TCP connect to Fulcrum's Electrum port, an HTTP fetch
# from the Mempool backend. A process can be perfectly `active` and useless,
# which is precisely the gap these close.
#
# The checks themselves live in each service's own role, deployed by that
# service's playbook. This play only registers where they report, because the
# endpoints must exist in Gatus before the first push arrives.
#
# They used to push to Uptime Kuma. The scripts now POST with a bearer token
# instead of GETting ?status=up, and each host uses its own token.
alerting: Signal via signal-cli-rest-api, and faster failure detection Three changes: detection windows tightened, a Signal transport deployed, and alerts attached to all 84 non-transport endpoints. ── Failing faster ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The heartbeat is a TICKER, not a deadline: Gatus wakes every interval and asks "did anything arrive in the last interval", so real detection is 1-2x the window. And a window can only ever be as tight as the push frequency - which is why two checks moved rather than just having their numbers changed. liveness, cpu, ups, service-health, probes 16m -> 11m disk, zfs daily/30h -> 6-hourly/7h backup store + pull job daily/30h -> 6-hourly/7h DNS records 24h -> 6h backup dump 30h -> 26h backup-dump stays slow because the dump genuinely is daily. The store-side check catches the same fault within 6h by reading the source's dump timestamp out of the artefact filename, so 26h is a backstop rather than the primary signal. ── Thresholds differ by check type, deliberately ─────────────────────────── `failure-threshold` counts consecutive failures, but "consecutive" is a different amount of wall-clock time per check: a push endpoint produces one failure per heartbeat window, a pulled one per interval. The default of 3 would mean 33 minutes on an 11m heartbeat and over a day on a 7h one. More importantly the heartbeat window ALREADY encodes the tolerance - an 11m window on a 5-minute push is exactly "one missed push forgiven" - so stacking a threshold of 3 triples a tolerance that was already chosen. Hence: push/heartbeat endpoints failure-threshold 1 pulled, 5m (public) failure-threshold 3 (= 15 minutes) pulled, 6h/24h (dns, domain) failure-threshold 1 ── The Signal transport ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── roles/signal_api runs signal-cli-rest-api on the observability host, pinned by digest, MODE=native. It publishes NO PORTS. The API has no authentication of any kind - anything that reaches it can send messages as you and read your Signal. Gatus talks to it over a shared docker network by service name, which is also WHY the network exists: Gatus runs in a container, so the host's loopback is unreachable from it and a port published on 127.0.0.1 would not have worked. MODE=native and not json-rpc because this VPS has 464MB of RAM and already runs Gatus and Caddy. The json-rpc modes hold a resident JVM; native runs a binary per request, and alerts are rare enough that startup cost per alert is the right trade. Monitored - Gatus polls /v1/health over the same network path the alerts take, so it proves the delivery route rather than mere container liveness. Deliberately NOT backed up: the data directory holds Signal private keys and the recovery path is to link the device again from the phone. Neither the signal-api endpoint nor Gatus's self-check carries a Signal alert. If either is down, Signal is precisely what cannot deliver the alert. ── Four traps hit while linking, all now in the role README ──────────────── * /v1/qrcodelink is BROKEN in native mode - returns "no data to encode" while the binary itself emits a perfectly good URI. Not worked around by switching MODE, which would put a JVM in the path of every alert permanently. * The data dir must be owned by uid 1000, not root. A root-owned 0700 dir cannot be traversed by the container user, so linking silently never completes and /v1/accounts returns "Failed to read local accounts list". * `docker exec` runs as ROOT while the service runs as uid 1000, so without --config the account is written to /root/... on the container's ephemeral layer. It reports success and is destroyed on the next recreate. * The phone reporting "network error" was IPv6: chat.signal.org resolves to dualstack AAAA records first, the container has no IPv6 address, and this host's IPv6 path is broken - the same edge that 404'd the Go tarball. Fixed with a mounted gai.conf that prefers IPv4. Verified: provider loads (configuredProviders=[signal]), a test message was delivered and confirmed received, 84 endpoints carry alerts, 86 UP / 0 DOWN. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 21:40:37 +02:00
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Alerting thresholds, and why they differ by check type.
#
# `failure-threshold` counts CONSECUTIVE failures, but "consecutive" means a
# different amount of wall-clock time per check:
#
# push/heartbeat endpoints a failure is produced once per heartbeat window
# pulled endpoints a failure is produced once per interval
#
# So the default of 3 would mean 33 minutes on an 11m heartbeat and over a day
# on a 7h one - and the heartbeat window ALREADY encodes the tolerance. An 11m
# window on a 5-minute push is precisely "one missed push forgiven"; stacking a
# threshold of 3 on top triples a tolerance that was already chosen.
#
# Hence: push endpoints alert on the FIRST heartbeat failure. Pulled endpoints
# have no built-in tolerance, so the threshold is where it belongs for them.
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
uptime kuma: remove every live reference, repoint the probes to Gatus Nothing in the repo pushes to, authenticates against, or is gated by Uptime Kuma any more. ── The sixth instance of the banner bug ──────────────────────────────────── memos had `Restart memos` guarded by `uptime_kuma_enabled`, because the deprecation banner was placed immediately above it and swept it in. It is a HANDLER, so every memos config change since 2026-09-11 applied to disk and silently never restarted the service. Ungated. That is the same failure found in forgejo-runner's self-assert, phoenixd's timer enable, mempool's three timer enables, fulcrum's restart handler and bitcoind's restart handler. Every guard was read and asked "monitoring or deployment?" before being deleted, which is the only reason this was caught. ── What was removed ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 30 uptime_kuma_enabled guards across 7 unconverted service playbooks, and the 29 Kuma monitor-creation tasks they gated (embedded Python that drove the Kuma API, temp credential files, cleanup) 7 dead uptime_kuma_api_url definitions 7 stale DEPRECATED banners uptime_kuma_enabled and subdomains.uptime_kuma from group_vars/all healthcheck_push_urls from the vault - 30 push tokens services/ntfy/setup_ntfy_uptime_kuma_notification.yml -> archive/ The explanatory comments in the six converted roles are KEPT on purpose. They record why a handler is ungated, and deleting the explanation invites someone to helpfully re-add the guard. ── The probes moved rather than died ─────────────────────────────────────── Eight per-service health checks were still pushing to Kuma. They are not superseded by infra/401: that answers "is the unit running", these answer "does the service actually respond" - an RPC call to bitcoind, a TCP connect to Fulcrum's Electrum port, an HTTP fetch from Mempool's backend. A process can be perfectly `active` and useless. So they were repointed, not deleted. Gatus external endpoints take a POST with a bearer token and success=true|false where Kuma took a GET with ?status=up, so report() now maps up/down to true/false internally and no call site changed. Registered by infra/403 as the `probe` group, one token per host. Two bugs fixed while in there: * forgejo-runner's check only ever reported SUCCESS - it exited before pushing when the runner was down, so a failure was invisible until the heartbeat window expired. Reporting the failure is the entire point of a check. * All six healthcheck .service units were mode 0644 and now carry a bearer token. They are 0600. Verified: 91 endpoints, 91 UP, 0 DOWN. Every probe triggered by hand and confirmed arriving. Zero Kuma URLs left in the vault, zero live references in any playbook or role. Still standing, deliberately: the Kuma container on watchtower, its Caddy vhost, and the uptime.contrapeso.xyz DNS record. Turning the service off is a separate decision from removing the code that talked to it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 10:30:28 +02:00
- name: Register the per-service probes with Gatus
hosts: observability
become: yes
vars:
probes:
- {name: bitcoin-knots, host: knots_box_local}
- {name: datum-gateway, host: knots_box_local}
- {name: fulcrum, host: fulcrum_box_local}
- {name: phoenixd, host: vipy}
- {name: forgejo-runner, host: forgejo_runner_local}
- {name: mempool-mariadb, host: mempool_box_local}
- {name: mempool-backend, host: mempool_box_local}
- {name: mempool-frontend, host: mempool_box_local}
monero: a full node on its own box, reachable from Feather over the WAN monerod v0.18.5.1 on monerod-box (VMID 2400), Debian 13, systemd, no Docker. Syncing at 24% as of this commit, 0 restarts, 0 OOM kills. ── The build-from-source requirement could not be met ────────────────────── The intent was to build it ourselves and check the result against the published checksums. That is not achievable for this release, and the role's README says so at length so nobody re-derives it: contrib/guix - the reproducible build that yields a byte-identical tarball - exists ONLY on monero master. At tag v0.18.5.1 contrib/ contains `gitian`, whose README wants an Ubuntu 18.04 host (EOL 2023) and python-cheetah. A plain `make release-static` is not reproducible at all, so it produces a binary whose hash matches nothing - failing both halves of the ask. So we install the published binary and prove its provenance instead: 1. binaryFate's key is VENDORED at files/binaryfate.asc. A trust root fetched over the network at the moment you need it is not a trust root. Its fingerprint is asserted after import regardless. 2. hashes.txt is verified, and the assertion is on gpg's `VALIDSIG <fpr>` status line - NOT on the string "Good signature", which is what bitcoin_knots greps for and which passes for any key in the keyring. 3. The hash is looked up in the output of `gpg --decrypt`, not in the raw clearsigned file, so nothing unsigned is ever searched. 4. The lookup requires hash AND filename on one line. Tested with a positive and a negative control before deploying: the real tarball matches, a corrupted hash correctly fails. monero_sha256 in defaults/ is a second in-git assertion so a version bump cannot happen without the checksum moving in the same diff. When v0.19 ships with guix on the release branch this gets easier, and the README records why: the published monero-linux-x64 tarball unpacks to monero-x86_64-linux-gnu-v0.18.5.1/, i.e. it IS the guix DISTNAME renamed, so sha256(guix output) will equal the hashes.txt entry exactly. ── The 500 GB disk is provisioned in code ────────────────────────────────── knots-box mounts /mnt/knots_data (~875 GB of chain) entirely by hand; that mount appears nowhere in Ansible and a rebuild of that host would come up with the blockchain silently missing. tasks/storage.yml does not repeat it. Whole device, no partition table. Everything after mkfs goes by UUID, because /dev/sdX is assigned by the kernel at boot and this estate has been bitten eight times by an identifier written down once whose thing then moved. monero_data_device is used ONLY to create the filesystem. Guards refuse to touch the root disk or to overwrite an unrecognised filesystem, and a final assert confirms the data directory is not still on /. fstab gets `nofail` so a missing disk cannot drop a headless VM into an emergency shell - and the unit gets `RequiresMountsFor=`, without which monerod would then start, find an empty directory, and write a 300 GB chain onto a 10 GB root disk. With it the unit refuses to start and infra/401 says so within five minutes. The mount-point task and the ownership task deliberately share owner and mode. Writing the obvious root:root 0755 on the first made them disagree and every run flipped the directory back and forth; caught by re-running --check. ── Exposure: one HTTPS vhost, zero new open ports ────────────────────────── Two RPC servers, not one: unrestricted on 127.0.0.1:18081 for administration and the health check, restricted on :18089 for everything else. That is `rpc-restricted-bind-port` and deliberately NOT `restricted-rpc=1`, which would restrict the loopback server too. Verified live: the restricted port reports restricted=true and blanks version and start_time. --rpc-login is HTTP Digest (contrib/epee/src/http_auth.cpp) and core_rpc_server::init hands the same login to both servers. Caddy on vipy does TLS and routing only - no caddy_site_basic_auth, because a Basic challenge would collide with the Digest challenge Feather answers. Verified end to end from the WAN: 401 unauthenticated, get_block_count over /json_rpc when authenticated, 401 again with a wrong password. No UFW rule, and that is correct: tailnet traffic bypasses UFW entirely because `-A INPUT -j ts-input` sits ahead of every ufw-* chain. Confirmed on mempool-box before relying on it here. P2P is outbound only. Nothing forwards 18080, so the node dials out, syncs and serves us without relaying for strangers; no-igd follows from that. ── Monitoring: infra, systemd, public. No backups ────────────────────────── Six Gatus endpoints, all green: liveness, disk, services/monerod-box-local/ monerod, probe/monerod, dns/monero.contrapeso.xyz, public/monero. The probe does NOT assert `synchronized`. A full sync takes days and a check requiring it would report DOWN for every one of them - an alarm with the batteries taken out. Height and sync state go in the message instead. The timer carries no `Requires=monerod.service`. Fulcrum's did, and sat active+enabled for seven months without firing once. public/monero asserts 401, not 200, so it goes red if rpc-login ever stops being enforced. No backups, deliberately, following the phoenixd precedent: the chain is re-syncable public data and there is no wallet on this node. ── Known constraint ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The VM has 2 GB and no swap; monerod's RSS is ~1.3 GB mid-sync. It is holding (0 OOM kills, ~1 GB available, kernel reclaiming cache) but 8 GB is the recommendation once the initial sync is done. out-peers/in-peers are held at 16/8 partly for this reason. Bumping it is a Proxmox resize plus memory_mb here, since the vm resource sets ignore_changes = all. The 500 GB data disk is likewise invisible to tofu - it was attached in the UI and the vm resource ignores it - so vms.auto.tfvars now carries a comment saying where it is and what mounts it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 17:50:46 +02:00
- {name: monerod, host: monerod_box_local}
uptime kuma: remove every live reference, repoint the probes to Gatus Nothing in the repo pushes to, authenticates against, or is gated by Uptime Kuma any more. ── The sixth instance of the banner bug ──────────────────────────────────── memos had `Restart memos` guarded by `uptime_kuma_enabled`, because the deprecation banner was placed immediately above it and swept it in. It is a HANDLER, so every memos config change since 2026-09-11 applied to disk and silently never restarted the service. Ungated. That is the same failure found in forgejo-runner's self-assert, phoenixd's timer enable, mempool's three timer enables, fulcrum's restart handler and bitcoind's restart handler. Every guard was read and asked "monitoring or deployment?" before being deleted, which is the only reason this was caught. ── What was removed ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 30 uptime_kuma_enabled guards across 7 unconverted service playbooks, and the 29 Kuma monitor-creation tasks they gated (embedded Python that drove the Kuma API, temp credential files, cleanup) 7 dead uptime_kuma_api_url definitions 7 stale DEPRECATED banners uptime_kuma_enabled and subdomains.uptime_kuma from group_vars/all healthcheck_push_urls from the vault - 30 push tokens services/ntfy/setup_ntfy_uptime_kuma_notification.yml -> archive/ The explanatory comments in the six converted roles are KEPT on purpose. They record why a handler is ungated, and deleting the explanation invites someone to helpfully re-add the guard. ── The probes moved rather than died ─────────────────────────────────────── Eight per-service health checks were still pushing to Kuma. They are not superseded by infra/401: that answers "is the unit running", these answer "does the service actually respond" - an RPC call to bitcoind, a TCP connect to Fulcrum's Electrum port, an HTTP fetch from Mempool's backend. A process can be perfectly `active` and useless. So they were repointed, not deleted. Gatus external endpoints take a POST with a bearer token and success=true|false where Kuma took a GET with ?status=up, so report() now maps up/down to true/false internally and no call site changed. Registered by infra/403 as the `probe` group, one token per host. Two bugs fixed while in there: * forgejo-runner's check only ever reported SUCCESS - it exited before pushing when the runner was down, so a failure was invisible until the heartbeat window expired. Reporting the failure is the entire point of a check. * All six healthcheck .service units were mode 0644 and now carry a bearer token. They are 0600. Verified: 91 endpoints, 91 UP, 0 DOWN. Every probe triggered by hand and confirmed arriving. Zero Kuma URLs left in the vault, zero live references in any playbook or role. Still standing, deliberately: the Kuma container on watchtower, its Caddy vhost, and the uptime.contrapeso.xyz DNS record. Turning the service off is a separate decision from removing the code that talked to it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 10:30:28 +02:00
tasks:
- name: Build the probe endpoint list
ansible.builtin.set_fact:
probe_endpoints: "{{ probe_endpoints | default([]) + [{
'name': item.name,
'group': 'probe',
'token': gatus_push_tokens[item.host],
alerting: Signal via signal-cli-rest-api, and faster failure detection Three changes: detection windows tightened, a Signal transport deployed, and alerts attached to all 84 non-transport endpoints. ── Failing faster ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The heartbeat is a TICKER, not a deadline: Gatus wakes every interval and asks "did anything arrive in the last interval", so real detection is 1-2x the window. And a window can only ever be as tight as the push frequency - which is why two checks moved rather than just having their numbers changed. liveness, cpu, ups, service-health, probes 16m -> 11m disk, zfs daily/30h -> 6-hourly/7h backup store + pull job daily/30h -> 6-hourly/7h DNS records 24h -> 6h backup dump 30h -> 26h backup-dump stays slow because the dump genuinely is daily. The store-side check catches the same fault within 6h by reading the source's dump timestamp out of the artefact filename, so 26h is a backstop rather than the primary signal. ── Thresholds differ by check type, deliberately ─────────────────────────── `failure-threshold` counts consecutive failures, but "consecutive" is a different amount of wall-clock time per check: a push endpoint produces one failure per heartbeat window, a pulled one per interval. The default of 3 would mean 33 minutes on an 11m heartbeat and over a day on a 7h one. More importantly the heartbeat window ALREADY encodes the tolerance - an 11m window on a 5-minute push is exactly "one missed push forgiven" - so stacking a threshold of 3 triples a tolerance that was already chosen. Hence: push/heartbeat endpoints failure-threshold 1 pulled, 5m (public) failure-threshold 3 (= 15 minutes) pulled, 6h/24h (dns, domain) failure-threshold 1 ── The Signal transport ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── roles/signal_api runs signal-cli-rest-api on the observability host, pinned by digest, MODE=native. It publishes NO PORTS. The API has no authentication of any kind - anything that reaches it can send messages as you and read your Signal. Gatus talks to it over a shared docker network by service name, which is also WHY the network exists: Gatus runs in a container, so the host's loopback is unreachable from it and a port published on 127.0.0.1 would not have worked. MODE=native and not json-rpc because this VPS has 464MB of RAM and already runs Gatus and Caddy. The json-rpc modes hold a resident JVM; native runs a binary per request, and alerts are rare enough that startup cost per alert is the right trade. Monitored - Gatus polls /v1/health over the same network path the alerts take, so it proves the delivery route rather than mere container liveness. Deliberately NOT backed up: the data directory holds Signal private keys and the recovery path is to link the device again from the phone. Neither the signal-api endpoint nor Gatus's self-check carries a Signal alert. If either is down, Signal is precisely what cannot deliver the alert. ── Four traps hit while linking, all now in the role README ──────────────── * /v1/qrcodelink is BROKEN in native mode - returns "no data to encode" while the binary itself emits a perfectly good URI. Not worked around by switching MODE, which would put a JVM in the path of every alert permanently. * The data dir must be owned by uid 1000, not root. A root-owned 0700 dir cannot be traversed by the container user, so linking silently never completes and /v1/accounts returns "Failed to read local accounts list". * `docker exec` runs as ROOT while the service runs as uid 1000, so without --config the account is written to /root/... on the container's ephemeral layer. It reports success and is destroyed on the next recreate. * The phone reporting "network error" was IPv6: chat.signal.org resolves to dualstack AAAA records first, the container has no IPv6 address, and this host's IPv6 path is broken - the same edge that 404'd the Go tarball. Fixed with a mounted gai.conf that prefers IPv4. Verified: provider loads (configuredProviders=[signal]), a test message was delivered and confirmed received, 84 endpoints carry alerts, 86 UP / 0 DOWN. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 21:40:37 +02:00
'heartbeat': '11m'}] }}"
uptime kuma: remove every live reference, repoint the probes to Gatus Nothing in the repo pushes to, authenticates against, or is gated by Uptime Kuma any more. ── The sixth instance of the banner bug ──────────────────────────────────── memos had `Restart memos` guarded by `uptime_kuma_enabled`, because the deprecation banner was placed immediately above it and swept it in. It is a HANDLER, so every memos config change since 2026-09-11 applied to disk and silently never restarted the service. Ungated. That is the same failure found in forgejo-runner's self-assert, phoenixd's timer enable, mempool's three timer enables, fulcrum's restart handler and bitcoind's restart handler. Every guard was read and asked "monitoring or deployment?" before being deleted, which is the only reason this was caught. ── What was removed ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 30 uptime_kuma_enabled guards across 7 unconverted service playbooks, and the 29 Kuma monitor-creation tasks they gated (embedded Python that drove the Kuma API, temp credential files, cleanup) 7 dead uptime_kuma_api_url definitions 7 stale DEPRECATED banners uptime_kuma_enabled and subdomains.uptime_kuma from group_vars/all healthcheck_push_urls from the vault - 30 push tokens services/ntfy/setup_ntfy_uptime_kuma_notification.yml -> archive/ The explanatory comments in the six converted roles are KEPT on purpose. They record why a handler is ungated, and deleting the explanation invites someone to helpfully re-add the guard. ── The probes moved rather than died ─────────────────────────────────────── Eight per-service health checks were still pushing to Kuma. They are not superseded by infra/401: that answers "is the unit running", these answer "does the service actually respond" - an RPC call to bitcoind, a TCP connect to Fulcrum's Electrum port, an HTTP fetch from Mempool's backend. A process can be perfectly `active` and useless. So they were repointed, not deleted. Gatus external endpoints take a POST with a bearer token and success=true|false where Kuma took a GET with ?status=up, so report() now maps up/down to true/false internally and no call site changed. Registered by infra/403 as the `probe` group, one token per host. Two bugs fixed while in there: * forgejo-runner's check only ever reported SUCCESS - it exited before pushing when the runner was down, so a failure was invisible until the heartbeat window expired. Reporting the failure is the entire point of a check. * All six healthcheck .service units were mode 0644 and now carry a bearer token. They are 0600. Verified: 91 endpoints, 91 UP, 0 DOWN. Every probe triggered by hand and confirmed arriving. Zero Kuma URLs left in the vault, zero live references in any playbook or role. Still standing, deliberately: the Kuma container on watchtower, its Caddy vhost, and the uptime.contrapeso.xyz DNS record. Turning the service off is a separate decision from removing the code that talked to it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 10:30:28 +02:00
loop: "{{ probes }}"
- name: Register the probe endpoints
ansible.builtin.include_role:
name: gatus_endpoint
vars:
alerting: Signal via signal-cli-rest-api, and faster failure detection Three changes: detection windows tightened, a Signal transport deployed, and alerts attached to all 84 non-transport endpoints. ── Failing faster ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The heartbeat is a TICKER, not a deadline: Gatus wakes every interval and asks "did anything arrive in the last interval", so real detection is 1-2x the window. And a window can only ever be as tight as the push frequency - which is why two checks moved rather than just having their numbers changed. liveness, cpu, ups, service-health, probes 16m -> 11m disk, zfs daily/30h -> 6-hourly/7h backup store + pull job daily/30h -> 6-hourly/7h DNS records 24h -> 6h backup dump 30h -> 26h backup-dump stays slow because the dump genuinely is daily. The store-side check catches the same fault within 6h by reading the source's dump timestamp out of the artefact filename, so 26h is a backstop rather than the primary signal. ── Thresholds differ by check type, deliberately ─────────────────────────── `failure-threshold` counts consecutive failures, but "consecutive" is a different amount of wall-clock time per check: a push endpoint produces one failure per heartbeat window, a pulled one per interval. The default of 3 would mean 33 minutes on an 11m heartbeat and over a day on a 7h one. More importantly the heartbeat window ALREADY encodes the tolerance - an 11m window on a 5-minute push is exactly "one missed push forgiven" - so stacking a threshold of 3 triples a tolerance that was already chosen. Hence: push/heartbeat endpoints failure-threshold 1 pulled, 5m (public) failure-threshold 3 (= 15 minutes) pulled, 6h/24h (dns, domain) failure-threshold 1 ── The Signal transport ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── roles/signal_api runs signal-cli-rest-api on the observability host, pinned by digest, MODE=native. It publishes NO PORTS. The API has no authentication of any kind - anything that reaches it can send messages as you and read your Signal. Gatus talks to it over a shared docker network by service name, which is also WHY the network exists: Gatus runs in a container, so the host's loopback is unreachable from it and a port published on 127.0.0.1 would not have worked. MODE=native and not json-rpc because this VPS has 464MB of RAM and already runs Gatus and Caddy. The json-rpc modes hold a resident JVM; native runs a binary per request, and alerts are rare enough that startup cost per alert is the right trade. Monitored - Gatus polls /v1/health over the same network path the alerts take, so it proves the delivery route rather than mere container liveness. Deliberately NOT backed up: the data directory holds Signal private keys and the recovery path is to link the device again from the phone. Neither the signal-api endpoint nor Gatus's self-check carries a Signal alert. If either is down, Signal is precisely what cannot deliver the alert. ── Four traps hit while linking, all now in the role README ──────────────── * /v1/qrcodelink is BROKEN in native mode - returns "no data to encode" while the binary itself emits a perfectly good URI. Not worked around by switching MODE, which would put a JVM in the path of every alert permanently. * The data dir must be owned by uid 1000, not root. A root-owned 0700 dir cannot be traversed by the container user, so linking silently never completes and /v1/accounts returns "Failed to read local accounts list". * `docker exec` runs as ROOT while the service runs as uid 1000, so without --config the account is written to /root/... on the container's ephemeral layer. It reports success and is destroyed on the next recreate. * The phone reporting "network error" was IPv6: chat.signal.org resolves to dualstack AAAA records first, the container has no IPv6 address, and this host's IPv6 path is broken - the same edge that 404'd the Go tarball. Fixed with a mounted gai.conf that prefers IPv4. Verified: provider loads (configuredProviders=[signal]), a test message was delivered and confirmed received, 84 endpoints carry alerts, 86 UP / 0 DOWN. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 21:40:37 +02:00
gatus_endpoint_default_alerts:
- type: signal
# 1, not 3: the heartbeat window is the tolerance. See the note above.
failure-threshold: 1
success-threshold: 2
send-on-resolved: true
minimum-reminder-interval: 6h
uptime kuma: remove every live reference, repoint the probes to Gatus Nothing in the repo pushes to, authenticates against, or is gated by Uptime Kuma any more. ── The sixth instance of the banner bug ──────────────────────────────────── memos had `Restart memos` guarded by `uptime_kuma_enabled`, because the deprecation banner was placed immediately above it and swept it in. It is a HANDLER, so every memos config change since 2026-09-11 applied to disk and silently never restarted the service. Ungated. That is the same failure found in forgejo-runner's self-assert, phoenixd's timer enable, mempool's three timer enables, fulcrum's restart handler and bitcoind's restart handler. Every guard was read and asked "monitoring or deployment?" before being deleted, which is the only reason this was caught. ── What was removed ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 30 uptime_kuma_enabled guards across 7 unconverted service playbooks, and the 29 Kuma monitor-creation tasks they gated (embedded Python that drove the Kuma API, temp credential files, cleanup) 7 dead uptime_kuma_api_url definitions 7 stale DEPRECATED banners uptime_kuma_enabled and subdomains.uptime_kuma from group_vars/all healthcheck_push_urls from the vault - 30 push tokens services/ntfy/setup_ntfy_uptime_kuma_notification.yml -> archive/ The explanatory comments in the six converted roles are KEPT on purpose. They record why a handler is ungated, and deleting the explanation invites someone to helpfully re-add the guard. ── The probes moved rather than died ─────────────────────────────────────── Eight per-service health checks were still pushing to Kuma. They are not superseded by infra/401: that answers "is the unit running", these answer "does the service actually respond" - an RPC call to bitcoind, a TCP connect to Fulcrum's Electrum port, an HTTP fetch from Mempool's backend. A process can be perfectly `active` and useless. So they were repointed, not deleted. Gatus external endpoints take a POST with a bearer token and success=true|false where Kuma took a GET with ?status=up, so report() now maps up/down to true/false internally and no call site changed. Registered by infra/403 as the `probe` group, one token per host. Two bugs fixed while in there: * forgejo-runner's check only ever reported SUCCESS - it exited before pushing when the runner was down, so a failure was invisible until the heartbeat window expired. Reporting the failure is the entire point of a check. * All six healthcheck .service units were mode 0644 and now carry a bearer token. They are 0600. Verified: 91 endpoints, 91 UP, 0 DOWN. Every probe triggered by hand and confirmed arriving. Zero Kuma URLs left in the vault, zero live references in any playbook or role. Still standing, deliberately: the Kuma container on watchtower, its Caddy vhost, and the uptime.contrapeso.xyz DNS record. Turning the service off is a separate decision from removing the code that talked to it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 10:30:28 +02:00
gatus_endpoint_name: probes
gatus_endpoint_external: "{{ probe_endpoints }}"