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feat(observability): alert on an unhealthy Crossplane provider fleet - #5026
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Flux does not gate on Provider health, so a whole provider fleet can be down while every surface reads green. A read-only CronJob now pages when a Provider has not been Healthy for longer than 15 minutes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What changed: a new crossplane-provider-unhealthy-alert CronJob in observability, with its ServiceAccount, webhook Secret, ClusterRole and binding. It is registered in the coroot kustomization and listed in the GitOps-managed CronJob exception. A contract test is wired into CI, the alerting doc is updated, and the authorization ledger gains two entries with a history section.
Checks I made:
- Grant: the ClusterRole is
get/listonpkg.crossplane.io/providersonly, bound to one ServiceAccount. The ledger change is exactly those two added lines, and the validator suite passes (350 tests). - Predicate: an alert fires only when
Healthyis notTrue(False, Unknown or missing) and the condition'slastTransitionTimeis older than the grace, withcreationTimestampas the clock when the condition is missing. The clock was measured on prod at 17:31Z and again 50 s later: HealthylastTransitionTimewas byte-identical across both samples. The v1.1.2 upgrade earlier today was not healthy for about 61 s, well inside the 900 s grace. - Silent-zero guards are the CNPG check's: 404 means Crossplane is absent and exits 0; any other non-200 response fails; the
itemsarray shape is required; onlyexample.invalidskips delivery; a failed delivery fails the Job; the webhook reaches curl on stdin, never through argv or env. - Contract test:
test-crossplane-provider-unhealthy-alert.shpasses 16 scenarios. Five mutations are each killed: inverted grace, a dropped status check, a dropped creation-time fallback, a shape guard weakened tohas("items"), and|| trueon delivery. The CNPG and stranded-volume tests still pass. - Shell: the extracted script parses under
dash, andshellcheck -s shreports only the intended literal backticks in the Slack text. The image's/bin/shis not bash, so this matters. - Render:
kubectl kustomizeof the Hetzner controllers renders all five resources, andksail workload validate(prod and local) passes.
Findings: none.
Verdict: GREEN at 8a4ee97
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What changed: the Headlamp Kubescape exception mirror was regenerated with go run ./scripts/generate-kubescape-exceptions -format headlamp-configmap. The required Go helper suite had failed at the previous head with TestCommittedMirrorIsUpToDate, because the C-0026 exception's reason text gained "unhealthy Crossplane provider".
Checks I made: the generated diff is that one reason string and nothing else. No namespace, control or resource changes. The generator package's tests pass (59), and the CI log at the previous head shows no other failing package.
Findings: none.
Verdict: GREEN at 1b2beaa
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Issue #3457 requires the Healthy.lastTransitionTime measurement for healthy and unhealthy fleets and the Crossplane version used for the measurement in the manifest header. The manifest records both… |
Record the exact production Crossplane and crossplane-runtime version used for the timestamp measurement in the manifest header. Include the Healthy condition reason in each alert entry and extend the contract test to verify it. |
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Docstring coverage is 30.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 1 files. (12 skipped:… | Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold. |
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding observability alerting for an unhealthy Crossplane provider fleet. Description check The description explains the motivation, scheduled health check, 15-minute grace period, Slack alerting, and independence from deployment health gates. It directly matches the changeset. Out of Scope Changes check The changed manifests, Kustomize wiring, RBAC, documentation, CI test, security exception records, and approved authorization-surface records support the independent provider-health alert requested by… Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
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Explanation
The changed manifests, Kustomize wiring, RBAC, documentation, CI test, security exception records, and approved authorization-surface records support the independent provider-health alert requested by issue
#3457. No unrelated functional change is demonstrated.
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Issue
#3457requires theHealthy.lastTransitionTimemeasurement for healthy and unhealthy fleets and the Crossplane version used for the measurement in the manifest header. The manifest records both fleet observations, but it does not record a Crossplane orcrossplane-runtimeversion. Issue#3457also requires alerts to include the provider name and condition reason. The script includes the provider name, status, and message, but it does not include.reason. The CronJob, independent RBAC,example.invalidskip, both-direction contract scenarios, and delivery-failure behavior are present.Resolution
Record the exact production Crossplane and
crossplane-runtimeversion used for the timestamp measurement in the manifest header. Include the Healthy conditionreasonin each alert entry and extend the contract test to verify it.
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Docstring coverage is 30.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 1 files. (12 skipped: 12 unsupported.)
Resolution
Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Review comments at
@k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/coroot/cron-job-crossplane-provider-unhealthy-alert.yaml:
- Around line 18-35: Update the grace-period header comment near the Healthy
lastTransitionTime measurements to record the Crossplane version running during
at least the 2026-10-17 measurements, and note that measurements should be
repeated after a Crossplane minor upgrade.
Review comments at @scripts/tests/test-crossplane-provider-unhealthy-alert.sh:
- Around line 214-257: Add a checked-in ProviderList response captured from
Crossplane and use it in an exercised scenario through setup_scenario() and
run_scenario(), with assertions matching the captured state. Keep provider() and
fleet() synthetic fixtures for boundary cases, but ensure the curl stub serves
the captured response in that scenario.
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.350Z
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3017
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/coroot/components/crossplane-sync-exporter/deployment.yaml:13-21
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.350Z
Learning: For Kubernetes manifests under k8s/bases/, keep workload-related Checkov exception annotations (checkov.io/skip*) in the base manifest when the checked condition is defined there and CI scans that source manifest directly. Do not move these annotations to overlays solely because the base is immutable; keeping them with the workload ensures the disposition applies consistently to every consumer of the base.
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📚 Learning: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.349Z
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Repo: devantler-tech/platform PR: 3017
File: k8s/bases/infrastructure/coroot/components/crossplane-sync-exporter/deployment.yaml:13-21
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T15:10:00.349Z
Learning: In the devantler-tech/platform repository, Checkov CI scans source manifests with `--skip-framework kustomize` rather than rendered Kustomize overlays. To suppress a Checkov finding on a base manifest, place the appropriate `checkov.io/skip*` annotation directly in that base YAML file; an overlay patch will not suppress findings reported for the source file.
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…viderList shape Record the Crossplane version the grace-period measurements were taken on, and run the alert script against a ProviderList with every field a real response carries, not only the fields it reads (CodeRabbit review on #5026). The fixture's structure was read from prod; its values are invented. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This review covers the one commit after 1b2beaa7, which fixed CodeRabbit's two findings from its 18:51Z review.
Reviewed commit: 75198ac
What changed:
- The CronJob header now says the clock samples were taken on Crossplane v2.4.2 and should be re-measured after a Crossplane minor upgrade.
- A new fixture,
scripts/tests/fixtures/crossplane-provider-list/provider-list-api-shape.json, holds a four-ProviderProviderListwith the full field structure of a real API response and invented values (xpkg.example.invalidpackages, zero UUIDs). No production data is committed. - Scenario 11 in the contract test checks that the full shape reads as four healthy Providers, and that flipping one
Healthycondition alerts and names only that Provider. - The CI path filter now includes the fixture directory, so a fixture-only change still runs the test.
Checks I made:
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scripts/tests/test-crossplane-provider-unhealthy-alert.shat this head: all 19 assertions pass, including the two new full-shape scenarios and the CI wiring check. - The fixture guard (
kind == ProviderList, 4 items, all Healthy=True) fails loudly if the fixture is edited into something the scenario does not describe, so the quiet verdict cannot pass on an empty or reshaped list. - The negative assertion checks that the three healthy Provider names are absent from the delivered payload, so an alert that lists the whole fleet would fail.
Findings: none.
Verdict: no P0/P1 findings
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Why
In August every Crossplane provider in production was down for more than 18 hours and nothing noticed, because the cluster's health gates do not check provider health. While that lasted, the cluster's cloud and GitHub resources, including the access that lets CI reach AWS, were not being kept in step.
What
A small read-only scheduled check now looks at every provider directly and posts to the same Slack alert channel as the database checks when one has not been healthy for more than 15 minutes. A normal provider upgrade is unhealthy for about a minute, so it stays quiet. The check works on its own, so later changes to the deployment health gates cannot remove it.
Fixes #3457