feat(anomaly): detect live endpoint collision and loopback flip (valkey#2768) - #387
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…ey#2768) - Add live_endpoint_collision and loopback_flip reasons to the ghost-membership detector; the dead-twin stale_twin path is unchanged - Treat handshaking ids as live but not established, so a normal re-MEET is never reported as a collision - Flag loopback endpoints only when peers are routable, so an all-loopback local dev cluster stays silent - Carry self-replication as corroboration and escalate a collision to CRITICAL when a node replicates from itself - Include the reason in the finding signature so a stale twin and a collision on one endpoint cannot dedupe each other out - Add the missing anomaly metric labels to the dashboard Closes #383
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 3 reviews per rolling hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe ghost-membership detector identifies stale twins, live endpoint collisions, and loopback endpoint flips. The anomaly service emits reason-specific severity and remediation messages. Tests cover detection, suppression, persistence, and cleanup. The dashboard labels the supported anomaly metrics. ChangesGhost membership endpoint detection
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The detector may classify a legitimate handshaking state as proof that a loopback-flipped node has a healthy peer, potentially producing a persistent high-severity alert and misleading operators; merge should wait for this classification issue to be fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ClusterNodes
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ClusterNodes->>GhostMembershipDetector: provide node identities and endpoints
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AnomalyService->>AnomalyDashboard: render severity, value, and remediation message
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In `@proprietary/anomaly-detection/anomaly.service.ts`:
- Around line 3232-3244: The ghost-membership event ID created in the anomaly
mapping flow must be a valid UUID instead of the composite
connection/signature/timestamp string. Update the `id` assignment in the
`describeGhostFinding` result mapping to generate a UUID, while leaving the
other event fields unchanged.
In `@proprietary/anomaly-detection/ghost-membership-detector.ts`:
- Around line 197-203: Update the hasRoutablePeer predicate to exclude ghost
nodes, including fail and noaddr records, before evaluating their canonical
endpoint and routability. Preserve the existing live-node endpoint checks, and
add a regression case covering live loopback nodes alongside a dead routable
node without producing a loopback_flip finding.
- Around line 141-145: Update preferredOccupant to select from the established
candidate set in deterministic ID order, while preserving the existing fallback
to a live node when none are established. Add a test that reverses live-node
ordering and verifies identical stale_twin signatures.
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- Require loopback nodes to be the odd one out: routable ESTABLISHED members must outnumber loopback ones, so a mostly-local cluster that gains one routable peer no longer reports every healthy node as flipped - Exclude ghost ids from the routable tally, so one dead fail/noaddr record carrying a routable address cannot make an all-loopback dev cluster look mixed - Pick the endpoint occupant from an id-sorted list, so an identical snapshot in a different order cannot change the signature - Build the signature from established ids only, so a handshaking twin on a flipped endpoint cannot restart the persistence window - Distinguish the deprecated slowlog_count label from slowlog_last_id
- Count distinct endpoints, not nodes, so two ids colliding on one loopback address count once instead of tipping the census and demoting a CRITICAL flip to a WARNING collision - Count members regardless of flags, so a peer that is briefly PFAIL or restarting cannot tie the census and silence an ongoing flip - Keep the dead-record guard by requiring at least one ESTABLISHED routable member before any loopback finding
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Review round summary (whole stack)All bot findings across #387–#393 are now answered inline. 16 fixed, 1 dismissed Two things need a human call:
One dismissal worth recording: CodeRabbit flagged the composite event id as a The pattern in what the bots caught. Almost every real finding was a case Test totals across the stack: 2651 passing (up from 2613 at first review), Merge order is unchanged and still bottom-up: #387 → #388 → #389 → #390 → #391 → |
…UID id - Count only addresses that describe the live cluster: a fail/noaddr record's address is not evidence of the addressing scheme, while a fail? peer is a real member that must keep its vote. Leftover dead ids could otherwise mark healthy local nodes as flipped, or mask a real one - Emit a UUID event id. anomaly_events.id is UUID PRIMARY KEY on Postgres, so the composite string id was rejected and the finding was silently kept in memory only
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In `@proprietary/anomaly-detection/ghost-membership-detector.ts`:
- Around line 233-243: Update the census tracking around countsForCensus and
censusEndpoints to maintain a separate hasEstablishedRoutablePeer flag that is
set only by an established, non-loopback routable peer; exclude ghost and
handshaking records from satisfying it. Require this flag in the
loopbackIsOddOneOut decision while preserving the existing endpoint counting
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A handshaking line is an id we are still MEETing, so its address is our own proposal rather than an agreed cluster address. Counting it let two stuck handshakes outvote the only established member and report that member as a loopback flip. A PFAIL peer keeps its vote as before.
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Looks good overall. A few things to fix before merging
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WARNING→CRITICAL escalation can be silently suppressed. ghostMemberSignature is reason|endpoint|stableIds - it excludes selfReplicatingIds and severity, and ghost findings dedupe via active.has(signature). So if a live_endpoint_collision fires as WARNING first and self-replication appears later (same colliding ids → identical signature), the escalation to CRITICAL never emits and the operator keeps seeing WARNING. The escalation test only covers self-replication present from the first poll, so this path is unverified. Fix is small - fold selfReplicatingIds.length > 0 (or severity) into the signature, plus a test that transitions WARNING→CRITICAL across polls.
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Correlated multi-node flips evade the "odd one out" rule. routableEndpoints > loopbackEndpoints means an even split or loopback-majority stays silent - including a host-wide misconfig that flips several nodes to loopback at once, arguably the most severe case. Defensible precision trade-off, but it's not in the PR's documented limitations and there's no telemetry when a near-parity census suppresses a finding. Worth a comment in the code and a line in the limitations list.
The dedupe signature carried reason, endpoint and ids but not self-replication, which is what raises a finding to CRITICAL. A collision alerted as WARNING and later gaining a self-replicating member produced an identical signature, so the escalation deduped against the active WARNING and never reached the operator. Carry the flag in the signature and cover the cross-poll transition. Also record the correlated-flip blind spot in the loopback census, which stays silent by design.
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Both fixed in 1. Escalation suppression — confirmed and fixed. You were right that the path was unverified. One behavioural detail worth knowing: because the escalation carries a new signature, it re-enters the 30s persistence gate and alerts on the poll after the grace window rather than immediately. I kept that rather than special-casing escalations past the gate — a self-replication that appears for one poll is exactly the transient the gate exists to filter — but say the word if you want escalations to bypass it. The test asserts the delay explicitly so the behaviour is pinned either way. I carried the boolean rather than the ids, as you suggested, so severity is what re-alerts and churn in which member self-replicates does not. 2. Correlated flips — documented. Added a comment at the 576 anomaly tests pass, |
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Closes #383.
Extends the ghost-membership detector to catch the valkey#2768 fault: two or
more distinct LIVE cluster node-ids advertising the same
ip:port, with adedicated high-severity case for a node whose address has flipped to loopback.
The current detector fires only on the dead-twin signature — a
fail/noaddrghost sharing an endpoint with a live id. #2768 is a different shape (both twins
are live), so it slips through the existing logic by construction.
Approach
A
reasondiscriminator (stale_twin|live_endpoint_collision|loopback_flip) rather than a newMetricType, so the correlator and the UIkeep treating these as one topology family. The dead-twin path is behaviourally
untouched — every pre-existing detector test passes unmodified.
The reason is part of
ghostMemberSignature, so a stale twin and a livecollision on the same endpoint can't dedupe each other out.
Three calls the issue left open
Handshaking ids don't count toward a collision. The existing spec covers a
ghost + an established node + a handshaking node on one endpoint. Counting
handshake as "live" would fire on every legitimate re-MEET. Collision grouping
requires established ids (non-ghost, non-handshake); loopback detection uses
the looser live set, since a flipped node caught mid-handshake is still the
smoking gun.
An all-loopback cluster stays silent.
loopback_fliponly fires when atleast one peer is routable — otherwise every local dev cluster on
127.0.0.1:700xwould alert on startup. Covers127.0.0.0/8,::1,localhost.A collision escalates to CRITICAL on self-replication. The issue specifies
CRITICAL only for the loopback case and treats self-replication as
corroboration. A node replicating from itself is proof the endpoint resolves to
the wrong node, so it lifts the collision from WARNING to CRITICAL.
The advice text for both live-twin reasons explicitly says do not run
CLUSTER FORGET— both ids are healthy, and forgetting one evicts a good node.That is the opposite of the stale-twin remedy sharing the same metric.
Tests
and severity is decided in the service, so the CRITICAL criterion was
otherwise unverifiable. They cover the 30s persistence gate, transient
suppression, and state cleanup in
onConnectionRemoved.311/311 web;
tsc --noEmitclean on both packages.Pre-existing and untouched: the
license.servicekeyless-validation failure andthe entitlement suites that fail to run.
Also included
METRIC_LABELSin the anomaly dashboard was missingghost_membership,lagging_promotion,cluster_state,cluster_topology,persistence_child,cpu_utilization, andslowlog_count— those events rendered as raw metrickeys. Added, since this PR is the first to surface a ghost-membership event with
a severity worth reading.
Note for reviewers
proprietary/is not covered by either package's ESLint run (eslint .fromapps/apinever reaches it), which is why house-style violations hadaccumulated in this file. Fixed in the file this PR touches; nothing will catch
new ones.
#384 (stateful Layer 2, forget-rejoin) stacks on this branch — same file.
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Medium Risk
Changes cluster topology anomaly logic and operator remediation guidance; impact is alerting-only but misclassification could mislead failover/incident response.
Overview
Extends ghost membership detection beyond stale
fail/noaddrtwins (valkey#1757) to cover live endpoint collisions and loopback address flips (valkey#2768), still under the sameghost_membershipmetric with areasondiscriminator (stale_twin|live_endpoint_collision|loopback_flip).ghost-membership-detectornow classifies established id collisions, loopback-vs-routable census logic (all-loopback dev clusters stay quiet), and self-replication corroboration; signatures include reason, stable established ids, and a self-rep flag so WARNING→CRITICAL escalations re-alert.AnomalyServiceroutes findings throughdescribeGhostFindingfor tailored severity and operator text—CLUSTER FORGETonly for stale twins; live-twin cases warn against FORGET and point atcluster-announce-ip/ CPU steal.The anomaly dashboard
METRIC_LABELSmap gains several missing keys (includingghost_membership) so events show human-readable names. Broad unit and service tests cover persistence gating, transients, escalation, and connection teardown.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 854edc7. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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