quicproquo/docs/operations/monitoring.md

# Monitoring Guide

This document covers metrics collection, alerting, and dashboards for quicprochat.

## Enabling Metrics

The server exports Prometheus metrics via HTTP when configured:

```bash
# Environment variables
QPC_METRICS_LISTEN=0.0.0.0:9090
QPC_METRICS_ENABLED=true

# Or in qpc-server.toml
metrics_listen = "0.0.0.0:9090"
metrics_enabled = true
```

Metrics are served at `http://<metrics_listen>/metrics` in Prometheus exposition format.

## Available Metrics

### Counters

| Metric | Description | Labels |
|--------|-------------|--------|
| `enqueue_total` | Total messages enqueued | - |
| `enqueue_bytes_total` | Total bytes enqueued | - |
| `fetch_total` | Total message fetches completed | - |
| `fetch_wait_total` | Total long-poll fetch waits | - |
| `key_package_upload_total` | Total MLS key package uploads | - |
| `auth_login_success_total` | Successful OPAQUE login completions | - |
| `auth_login_failure_total` | Failed login attempts | - |
| `rate_limit_hit_total` | Rate limit rejections | - |

### Gauges

| Metric | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| `delivery_queue_depth` | Current delivery queue depth (sampled) |

## Prometheus Configuration

```yaml
# prometheus.yml
global:
  scrape_interval: 15s
  evaluation_interval: 15s

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'qpc-server'
    static_targets:
      - targets: ['qpc-server:9090']
    scrape_interval: 10s
```

## Alert Rules

```yaml
# prometheus-alerts.yml
groups:
  - name: qpc-server
    rules:
      # Server down
      - alert: QpqServerDown
        expr: up{job="qpc-server"} == 0
        for: 1m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "qpc-server is down"
          description: "Prometheus cannot scrape qpc-server metrics for > 1 minute."

      # High auth failure rate (potential brute force)
      - alert: QpqHighAuthFailureRate
        expr: rate(auth_login_failure_total[5m]) > 10
        for: 2m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "High authentication failure rate"
          description: "{{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }} auth failures/sec over 5 minutes."

      # Rate limiting active
      - alert: QpqRateLimitActive
        expr: rate(rate_limit_hit_total[5m]) > 5
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Rate limiting is actively rejecting requests"
          description: "{{ $value | printf \"%.1f\" }} rate limit hits/sec."

      # Delivery queue growing
      - alert: QpqDeliveryQueueHigh
        expr: delivery_queue_depth > 10000
        for: 10m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Delivery queue depth is high"
          description: "Queue depth: {{ $value }}. Clients may not be fetching."

      - alert: QpqDeliveryQueueCritical
        expr: delivery_queue_depth > 100000
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: critical
        annotations:
          summary: "Delivery queue depth is critical"
          description: "Queue depth: {{ $value }}. Investigate immediately."

      # No enqueue activity (service may be stuck)
      - alert: QpqNoEnqueueActivity
        expr: rate(enqueue_total[15m]) == 0
        for: 30m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "No messages enqueued in 30 minutes"
          description: "Check if the service is accepting connections."

      # Auth success ratio too low
      - alert: QpqLowAuthSuccessRatio
        expr: >
          rate(auth_login_success_total[5m])
          / (rate(auth_login_success_total[5m]) + rate(auth_login_failure_total[5m]))
          < 0.5
        for: 10m
        labels:
          severity: warning
        annotations:
          summary: "Auth success ratio below 50%"
          description: "More than half of login attempts are failing."
```

## Key Dashboard Panels

See `dashboards/qpc-overview.json` for the full Grafana dashboard. Key panels:

### Message Throughput
- **Enqueue rate**: `rate(enqueue_total[5m])`
- **Fetch rate**: `rate(fetch_total[5m])`
- **Enqueue bandwidth**: `rate(enqueue_bytes_total[5m])`

### Authentication
- **Login success rate**: `rate(auth_login_success_total[5m])`
- **Login failure rate**: `rate(auth_login_failure_total[5m])`
- **Success ratio**: `rate(auth_login_success_total[5m]) / (rate(auth_login_success_total[5m]) + rate(auth_login_failure_total[5m]))`

### Delivery Queue
- **Queue depth**: `delivery_queue_depth`
- **Queue growth rate**: `deriv(delivery_queue_depth[10m])`

### Rate Limiting
- **Rate limit hits**: `rate(rate_limit_hit_total[5m])`

### Infrastructure (Node Exporter)
- CPU, memory, disk, network from `node_exporter`

## Grafana Dashboard

Import the dashboard from `dashboards/qpc-overview.json`:

1. Open Grafana -> Dashboards -> Import
2. Upload `docs/operations/dashboards/qpc-overview.json`
3. Select your Prometheus data source
4. Save

## Log Monitoring

The server uses `tracing` with `RUST_LOG` environment variable:

```bash
# Production: info level with structured JSON output
RUST_LOG=info

# Debug specific modules
RUST_LOG=info,quicprochat_server::node_service=debug

# Verbose debugging
RUST_LOG=debug
```

### Key Log Messages to Monitor

| Log Pattern | Meaning | Action |
|-------------|---------|--------|
| `"TLS certificate expires within 30 days"` | Cert expiring soon | Rotate certificate |
| `"TLS certificate is self-signed"` | Self-signed cert in use | Replace with CA-signed cert in production |
| `"connection rate limit exceeded"` | IP being rate limited | Check for DDoS |
| `"running without QPC_AUTH_TOKEN"` | Insecure mode | Must not appear in production |
| `"db_key is empty; SQL store will be plaintext"` | Unencrypted DB | Must not appear in production |
| `"shutdown signal received"` | Graceful shutdown started | Expected during deploys |
| `"generated and persisted new OPAQUE ServerSetup"` | Fresh OPAQUE setup | Expected on first start only |

### Log Aggregation

For production, pipe logs to a log aggregator:

```bash
# Systemd -> journald -> Loki/Elasticsearch
journalctl -u qpc-server -f --output=json | \
  promtail --stdin --client.url=http://loki:3100/loki/api/v1/push

# Docker -> Loki driver
docker run --log-driver=loki \
  --log-opt loki-url="http://loki:3100/loki/api/v1/push" \
  qpc-server
```

## Health Checking

The Docker image includes a basic health check (TLS cert file exists). For deeper health checks:

```bash
# Simple: check the process is running and port is open
ss -ulnp | grep 7000

# Metrics endpoint (if enabled)
curl -sf http://localhost:9090/metrics > /dev/null

# Full client connection test
qpc-client --server 127.0.0.1:7000 --auth-token "$TOKEN" --ping
```