3747-2: agent Prometheus scrape (~150 LOC code)

[nikw9944]

Parent issue: #3747

Split from plan review of #3747 (estimated ~150 lines).

PR stack: this issue's branch should target nikw9944/doublezero-3793 (the previous sub-issue's branch).

---

• Creates internal/promscrape/scrape.go (fetches --agent-metrics-url,
  parses with expfmt.NewTextParser, appends to
  observer.agent_metrics.json).
• Surfaces a Snapshot() accessor with the latest counter values for the
  abort decider (decider lands in PR 4 — for now it's just exposed).
• Wires the scraper into main.go as a real goroutine replacing the PR 1
  stub.
• Updates README with the metrics-output section.

[nikw9944]

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Issue #3794: 3747-2: agent Prometheus scrape (~150 LOC code)
Repository: malbeclabs/doublezero
Branch: nikw9944/doublezero-3794 (created for you, or create it if it doesn't exist)
URL: #3794

Issue Description

Parent issue: #3747

Split from plan review of #3747 (estimated ~150 lines).

PR stack: this issue's branch should target nikw9944/doublezero-3793 (the previous sub-issue's branch).

---

• Creates internal/promscrape/scrape.go (fetches --agent-metrics-url,
  parses with expfmt.NewTextParser, appends to
  observer.agent_metrics.json).
• Surfaces a Snapshot() accessor with the latest counter values for the
  abort decider (decider lands in PR 4 — for now it's just exposed).
• Wires the scraper into main.go as a real goroutine replacing the PR 1
  stub.
• Updates README with the metrics-output section.

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[nikw9944]

Work Plan (Revision 0)

Work Plan (Revision 0)

Work plan: #3794 — agent Prometheus scrape

Parent: #3747. Stacks on top of #3793 (nikw9944/doublezero-3793 →
nikw9944/doublezero-3794).

Summary

The device-observer already has flag parsing, signal handling, and the eAPI
sampler from PR #3793; the promscrape package exists only as a Noop stub.
This PR replaces that stub with a real scraper that, on every
--sample-interval tick, fetches the doublezero-agent Prometheus endpoint at
--agent-metrics-url, parses the exposition-format response with
expfmt.NewTextParser, and appends one row per metric sample to
observer.agent_metrics.json in the working directory. It also exposes a
thread-safe Snapshot() accessor returning the latest counter values so the
abort decider that lands in PR #3796 can detect "counter incremented within a
sample" without needing its own scraper.

Approach

Package layout

internal/promscrape/scrape.go (single file, package promscrape):

type Scraper struct { /* unexported fields */ }

func New(metricsURL, workingDir string, interval time.Duration, logger *slog.Logger) *Scraper
func (s *Scraper) Run(ctx context.Context) error          // satisfies collector.Collector
func (s *Scraper) Snapshot() map[string]float64           // counter name → latest value

Scraper will hold:

• metricsURL, outPath (<workingDir>/observer.agent_metrics.json),
  interval, logger
• An *http.Client with a per-request timeout (5 s, matching the e2e prom
  client at e2e/internal/prometheus/metrics.go:46)
• A sync.RWMutex + map[string]float64 snapshot

Scrape loop

Mirror the structure of sample/eos.go:

• Immediate first tick, then time.Ticker(interval).
• On ctx.Done(), return nil.
• On a per-tick error (HTTP, parse, or write), log at WARN and continue —
  the abort decider owns "repeated failure" policy and counter values are
  intentionally allowed to go stale across a missed scrape.

Output format: NDJSON

The parent issue prescribes appending rows {t_ns, metric_name, value, labels_json} to observer.agent_metrics.json. The only sane append-safe
shape is newline-delimited JSON (one row per line); the filename is kept as
.json to match the issue text. Per tick:

1. Parse the exposition body into map[string]*prom.MetricFamily.
2. For each family/metric, emit a row. Type handling:
   • Counter / Gauge / Untyped: one row, value is the float.
   • Summary / Histogram: emit one row per _sum / _count / quantile
     / bucket, with the appropriate suffix appended to metric_name. This
     mirrors how prometheus/client_model text-encodes these types and is
     forward-compatible with future agent metrics; the current
     doublezero-agent emits only counters and gauges (see
     controlplane/agent/internal/agent/metrics.go), so this path is
     exercised only by tests.
3. labels_json is a JSON string field whose value is a compact JSON object
   of name → value pairs (empty object {} for unlabeled metrics). The
   field name in the issue (labels_json rather than labels) signals the
   "serialized JSON in a string" intent.
4. Open the file in O_APPEND|O_CREATE|O_WRONLY (0640), write all rows
   buffered in one Write so a single tick is atomic on POSIX append.

A single t_ns captured once at the top of the tick is used for every row
in that tick so multiple metrics within one scrape share a timestamp.

Snapshot

Under the lock, on each successful scrape, replace the snapshot map with
counter totals: for each metric family of type COUNTER, key by family
name; if a family has multiple labeled series, sum the values (the
agent's counters are not labeled, so this is a defensive choice). Gauges
and other types are intentionally excluded — the abort triggers in #3747
that consume this Snapshot are counter deltas only
(doublezero_agent_apply_config_errors_total,
doublezero_agent_get_config_errors_total,
doublezero_agent_bgp_neighbors_errors_total).

Snapshot() returns a fresh copy of the map so callers can't mutate
internal state and don't need to hold the lock.

If a tick fails (HTTP error, parse error), the snapshot is not
updated — the decider sees the last successful values, which is correct
for "did the counter increment" semantics.

Wiring in main.go

Replace the promscrape.New(*agentMetricsURL, *workingDir) line in
tools/stress/device-observer/cmd/device-observer/main.go:115 with the
new four-argument constructor passing *sampleInterval and logger. No
other main.go changes are needed — the errgroup already runs the
collector.

Files to Change

File	Change
tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go	Replace stub with Scraper struct, New, Run, Snapshot, and NDJSON writer.
tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape_test.go	New. Unit tests using httptest.Server for happy path, fetch failure, parse failure, label serialization, snapshot semantics, context cancellation.
tools/stress/device-observer/cmd/device-observer/main.go	Update one call site (promscrape.New(...)) to pass *sampleInterval and logger.
tools/stress/device-observer/README.md	Add a "Metrics output" section documenting observer.agent_metrics.json (row schema + example), update the alpha banner, and remove the "PR #3794 stub" reference from the Layout block.
docs/work-plan-3794.md	New. This file.

No changes to go.mod / go.sum: prometheus/common, prometheus/client_model,
and prometheus/common/model are already pulled in (see go.mod:50-51 and
their use in e2e/internal/prometheus/metrics.go).

CHANGELOG.md / CLAUDE.md are not updated — device-observer is an
internal stress-test tool that has no changelog entry from PR #3793, and the
project-level CLAUDE.md has no device-observer section yet. Following the
convention set by #3793.

Risks & Considerations

• File grows unbounded. A 10 s sample interval × ~6 metric families = ~52k
  rows / 24 h. Each row is small (~150 B), so ~8 MB/day. Acceptable for the
  capacity-study sweep window (single-digit hours); the existing README
  "Disk usage" section already declares pruning is the orchestrator's job, so
  no new policy is needed.
• NDJSON vs. JSON-array. Strict JSON-array would require seeking and
  rewriting the closing bracket per append, which is incompatible with
  "append rows" semantics and corruption-prone on crash. NDJSON is the
  industry-standard append-safe shape; the issue's {t_ns, ...} row schema
  implies this. The README will be explicit that the file is NDJSON.
• HTTP timeout. Using context.WithTimeout(parent, 5 * time.Second) on
  the per-request context, identical to the e2e prom client. If
  --sample-interval is set below 5 s a slow scrape could overlap the next
  tick; the ticker drops missed ticks (Go stdlib behavior) so this is safe
  but worth a code comment.
• Counter-only Snapshot. Limiting to counters keeps the API tight for
  the one consumer (the PR 3747-4: abort decider + sentinel (~200 LOC code) #3796 decider). If gauges become trigger inputs
  later, extend the snapshot type then; YAGNI for now.
• Backwards compatibility. Stub callers in main.go use the old
  two-argument New(metricsURL, workingDir) collector.Collector signature.
  Changing the signature is fine because the only caller is in this PR's
  diff and there are no external consumers.
• Re-marshaling vs. preserving exposition text. We intentionally drop
  the original text payload — the project already standardized on
  expfmt.NewTextParser in e2e/internal/prometheus/metrics.go and the
  abort decider needs structured values anyway. The trade-off (no
  byte-for-byte preservation) is identical to the eAPI sampler's
  re-marshal trade-off documented in the README's "Known limitations".

Testing Strategy

Unit tests (scrape_test.go)

All using httptest.NewServer so no network is involved:

1. Happy path. Server returns a small fixture exposition body covering
   counter (with and without labels), gauge, and a histogram. After one
   tick: file exists, contains the expected number of rows, each row
   parses as JSON with the expected fields, t_ns is monotonic.
2. Label serialization. A counter with two label pairs produces a
   labels_json field whose value, when re-parsed, equals the source
   labels map.
3. Snapshot returns counter totals. Two counters and a gauge; after
   tick, Snapshot() contains both counter names with correct values and
   excludes the gauge. A second tick with incremented counters reflects
   the new values.
4. Snapshot is stable across failed tick. First tick succeeds; server
   then returns HTTP 500; Snapshot still returns the first-tick values.
5. Parse error. Server returns malformed exposition body; Run logs
   WARN and continues (verified by inspecting the file is empty and Run
   does not return).
6. Context cancellation. Pattern matching TestRunCancelsCleanly in
   sample/eos_test.go: cancel after the first tick, assert Run returns
   nil within 2 s.
7. Scraper satisfies collector.Collector. Compile-time var _ collector.Collector = (*Scraper)(nil) assertion.

Manual / smoke

Per README's existing "Local devnet smoke test" block — point the rebuilt
binary at dz-local-device-dz1 and confirm observer.agent_metrics.json
appears in the working directory with non-empty rows that match the
agent's exposed metrics. The plan adds an example block under the new
README section.

CI

make go-test runs the new unit tests. make go-build / make go-lint
verify the wiring change in main.go.

Estimated Scope

Component	Lines added (excl. tests/docs)
internal/promscrape/scrape.go	~140
cmd/device-observer/main.go (1-line edit)	~1
Total code	~141

Tests (scrape_test.go): ~150 lines.
Docs (README addition + work plan): ~80 lines.

Within the 250-LOC threshold. No sub-issue split needed.

[nikw9944]

Work Log — waiting_review

Now I have enough context to write the work plan. Let me create it.

Plan written. Here is the full plan for review:

---

Work plan: #3794 — agent Prometheus scrape

Parent: #3747. Stacks on top of #3793 (nikw9944/doublezero-3793 → nikw9944/doublezero-3794).

Summary

The device-observer already has flag parsing, signal handling, and the eAPI sampler from PR #3793; the promscrape package exists only as a Noop stub. This PR replaces that stub with a real scraper that, on every --sample-interval tick, fetches the doublezero-agent Prometheus endpoint at --agent-metrics-url, parses the exposition-format response with expfmt.NewTextParser, and appends one row per metric sample to observer.agent_metrics.json in the working directory. It also exposes a thread-safe Snapshot() accessor returning the latest counter values so the abort decider that lands in PR #3796 can detect "counter incremented within a sample" without needing its own scraper.

Approach

Package layout

internal/promscrape/scrape.go (single file, package promscrape):

type Scraper struct { /* unexported fields */ }

func New(metricsURL, workingDir string, interval time.Duration, logger *slog.Logger) *Scraper
func (s *Scraper) Run(ctx context.Context) error          // satisfies collector.Collector
func (s *Scraper) Snapshot() map[string]float64           // counter name → latest value

Scraper will hold:

• metricsURL, outPath (<workingDir>/observer.agent_metrics.json), interval, logger
• An *http.Client with a per-request timeout (5 s, matching the e2e prom client at e2e/internal/prometheus/metrics.go:46)
• A sync.RWMutex + map[string]float64 snapshot

Scrape loop

Mirror the structure of sample/eos.go:

• Immediate first tick, then time.Ticker(interval).
• On ctx.Done(), return nil.
• On a per-tick error (HTTP, parse, or write), log at WARN and continue — the abort decider owns "repeated failure" policy and counter values are intentionally allowed to go stale across a missed scrape.

Output format: NDJSON

The parent issue prescribes appending rows {t_ns, metric_name, value, labels_json} to observer.agent_metrics.json. The only sane append-safe shape is newline-delimited JSON (one row per line); the filename is kept as .json to match the issue text. Per tick:

1. Parse the exposition body into map[string]*prom.MetricFamily.
2. For each family/metric, emit a row. Type handling:
   • Counter / Gauge / Untyped: one row, value is the float.
   • Summary / Histogram: emit one row per _sum / _count / quantile / bucket, with the appropriate suffix appended to metric_name. Mirrors text-encoding; current agent emits only counters/gauges so this is test-exercised.
3. labels_json is a JSON string field whose value is a compact JSON object of name → value pairs (empty object {} for unlabeled metrics).
4. Open the file O_APPEND|O_CREATE|O_WRONLY (0640), write all rows buffered in one Write so a single tick is atomic on POSIX append.

A single t_ns captured once at the top of the tick is used for every row in that tick.

Snapshot

Under the lock, on each successful scrape, replace the snapshot map with counter totals: for each metric family of type COUNTER, key by family name; if a family has multiple labeled series, sum the values. Gauges and other types are excluded — the abort triggers in #3747 are counter deltas only (doublezero_agent_apply_config_errors_total, doublezero_agent_get_config_errors_total, doublezero_agent_bgp_neighbors_errors_total).

Snapshot() returns a fresh copy of the map. On a failed tick the snapshot is not updated — the decider sees the last successful values, which is correct for "did the counter increment" semantics.

Wiring in main.go

Replace the promscrape.New(*agentMetricsURL, *workingDir) line in tools/stress/device-observer/cmd/device-observer/main.go:115 with the new four-argument constructor passing *sampleInterval and logger. No other main.go changes.

Files to Change

File	Change
tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go	Replace stub with Scraper struct, New, Run, Snapshot, and NDJSON writer.
tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape_test.go	New. Unit tests using httptest.Server.
tools/stress/device-observer/cmd/device-observer/main.go	Update one call site (promscrape.New(...)) to pass *sampleInterval and logger.
tools/stress/device-observer/README.md	Add "Metrics output" section documenting observer.agent_metrics.json (row schema + example), update alpha banner, remove "PR #3794 stub" from Layout block.
docs/work-plan-3794.md	New. This plan.

No changes to go.mod / go.sum: prometheus/common, prometheus/client_model, and prometheus/common/model are already pulled in (see go.mod:50-51 and use in e2e/internal/prometheus/metrics.go).

CHANGELOG.md / CLAUDE.md not updated — device-observer is an internal stress-test tool with no changelog entry from PR #3793, and CLAUDE.md has no section for it. Following the convention set by #3793.

Risks & Considerations

• File grows unbounded. 10 s × ~6 families = ~52k rows / 24 h, ~8 MB/day. README already declares pruning is the orchestrator's job.
• NDJSON vs JSON-array. JSON-array would require seek-and-rewrite per append, corruption-prone on crash. NDJSON is industry-standard append-safe; README will be explicit.
• HTTP timeout. 5 s per-request context timeout matching the e2e prom client. If --sample-interval < 5 s, slow scrape could overlap next tick; Go's ticker drops missed ticks, safe — adding a code comment.
• Counter-only Snapshot. Tight API for the one consumer (PR 3747-4: abort decider + sentinel (~200 LOC code) #3796 decider). YAGNI for gauges.
• Backwards compatibility. Old two-arg New(metricsURL, workingDir) only called in this PR's diff; signature change is fine.
• Re-marshaling. Drops original text payload, same trade-off the eAPI sampler documents in README "Known limitations".

Testing Strategy

Unit (scrape_test.go), all httptest.NewServer-based:

1. Happy path — counter (labeled + unlabeled), gauge, histogram fixture; verify file row count, field shape, monotonic t_ns.
2. Label serialization — re-parsed labels_json equals source labels map.
3. Snapshot() returns counter totals; gauge excluded; second tick reflects new values.
4. Snapshot stable across failed tick — first tick OK, then 500, snapshot keeps first-tick values.
5. Parse error — malformed body logs WARN, file stays empty, Run does not return.
6. Context cancellation — pattern from TestRunCancelsCleanly in sample/eos_test.go, returns nil within 2 s.
7. Compile-time var _ collector.Collector = (*Scraper)(nil).

Manual: Existing README "Local devnet smoke test" against dz-local-device-dz1; confirm observer.agent_metrics.json appears with non-empty rows.

CI: make go-test, make go-build, make go-lint.

Estimated Scope

Component	Lines added (excl. tests/docs)
internal/promscrape/scrape.go	~140
cmd/device-observer/main.go (1-line edit)	~1
Total code	~141

Tests: ~150 lines. Docs (README addition + plan): ~80 lines.

Within the 250-LOC threshold. No sub-issue split needed.

---

STATUS: COMPLETE — Plan written to docs/work-plan-3794.md and ready for review.

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[nikw9944]

Approved Work Plan (Revision 0)

Approved Work Plan (Revision 0)

Work plan: #3794 — agent Prometheus scrape

Parent: #3747. Stacks on top of #3793 (nikw9944/doublezero-3793 →
nikw9944/doublezero-3794).

Summary

The device-observer already has flag parsing, signal handling, and the eAPI
sampler from PR #3793; the promscrape package exists only as a Noop stub.
This PR replaces that stub with a real scraper that, on every
--sample-interval tick, fetches the doublezero-agent Prometheus endpoint at
--agent-metrics-url, parses the exposition-format response with
expfmt.NewTextParser, and appends one row per metric sample to
observer.agent_metrics.json in the working directory. It also exposes a
thread-safe Snapshot() accessor returning the latest counter values so the
abort decider that lands in PR #3796 can detect "counter incremented within a
sample" without needing its own scraper.

Approach

Package layout

internal/promscrape/scrape.go (single file, package promscrape):

type Scraper struct { /* unexported fields */ }

func New(metricsURL, workingDir string, interval time.Duration, logger *slog.Logger) *Scraper
func (s *Scraper) Run(ctx context.Context) error          // satisfies collector.Collector
func (s *Scraper) Snapshot() map[string]float64           // counter name → latest value

Scraper will hold:

• metricsURL, outPath (<workingDir>/observer.agent_metrics.json),
  interval, logger
• An *http.Client with a per-request timeout (5 s, matching the e2e prom
  client at e2e/internal/prometheus/metrics.go:46)
• A sync.RWMutex + map[string]float64 snapshot

Scrape loop

Mirror the structure of sample/eos.go:

• Immediate first tick, then time.Ticker(interval).
• On ctx.Done(), return nil.
• On a per-tick error (HTTP, parse, or write), log at WARN and continue —
  the abort decider owns "repeated failure" policy and counter values are
  intentionally allowed to go stale across a missed scrape.

Output format: NDJSON

The parent issue prescribes appending rows {t_ns, metric_name, value, labels_json} to observer.agent_metrics.json. The only sane append-safe
shape is newline-delimited JSON (one row per line); the filename is kept as
.json to match the issue text. Per tick:

1. Parse the exposition body into map[string]*prom.MetricFamily.
2. For each family/metric, emit a row. Type handling:
   • Counter / Gauge / Untyped: one row, value is the float.
   • Summary / Histogram: emit one row per _sum / _count / quantile
     / bucket, with the appropriate suffix appended to metric_name. This
     mirrors how prometheus/client_model text-encodes these types and is
     forward-compatible with future agent metrics; the current
     doublezero-agent emits only counters and gauges (see
     controlplane/agent/internal/agent/metrics.go), so this path is
     exercised only by tests.
3. labels_json is a JSON string field whose value is a compact JSON object
   of name → value pairs (empty object {} for unlabeled metrics). The
   field name in the issue (labels_json rather than labels) signals the
   "serialized JSON in a string" intent.
4. Open the file in O_APPEND|O_CREATE|O_WRONLY (0640), write all rows
   buffered in one Write so a single tick is atomic on POSIX append.

A single t_ns captured once at the top of the tick is used for every row
in that tick so multiple metrics within one scrape share a timestamp.

Snapshot

Under the lock, on each successful scrape, replace the snapshot map with
counter totals: for each metric family of type COUNTER, key by family
name; if a family has multiple labeled series, sum the values (the
agent's counters are not labeled, so this is a defensive choice). Gauges
and other types are intentionally excluded — the abort triggers in #3747
that consume this Snapshot are counter deltas only
(doublezero_agent_apply_config_errors_total,
doublezero_agent_get_config_errors_total,
doublezero_agent_bgp_neighbors_errors_total).

Snapshot() returns a fresh copy of the map so callers can't mutate
internal state and don't need to hold the lock.

If a tick fails (HTTP error, parse error), the snapshot is not
updated — the decider sees the last successful values, which is correct
for "did the counter increment" semantics.

Wiring in main.go

Replace the promscrape.New(*agentMetricsURL, *workingDir) line in
tools/stress/device-observer/cmd/device-observer/main.go:115 with the
new four-argument constructor passing *sampleInterval and logger. No
other main.go changes are needed — the errgroup already runs the
collector.

Files to Change

File	Change
tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go	Replace stub with Scraper struct, New, Run, Snapshot, and NDJSON writer.
tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape_test.go	New. Unit tests using httptest.Server for happy path, fetch failure, parse failure, label serialization, snapshot semantics, context cancellation.
tools/stress/device-observer/cmd/device-observer/main.go	Update one call site (promscrape.New(...)) to pass *sampleInterval and logger.
tools/stress/device-observer/README.md	Add a "Metrics output" section documenting observer.agent_metrics.json (row schema + example), update the alpha banner, and remove the "PR #3794 stub" reference from the Layout block.
docs/work-plan-3794.md	New. This file.

No changes to go.mod / go.sum: prometheus/common, prometheus/client_model,
and prometheus/common/model are already pulled in (see go.mod:50-51 and
their use in e2e/internal/prometheus/metrics.go).

CHANGELOG.md / CLAUDE.md are not updated — device-observer is an
internal stress-test tool that has no changelog entry from PR #3793, and the
project-level CLAUDE.md has no device-observer section yet. Following the
convention set by #3793.

Risks & Considerations

• File grows unbounded. A 10 s sample interval × ~6 metric families = ~52k
  rows / 24 h. Each row is small (~150 B), so ~8 MB/day. Acceptable for the
  capacity-study sweep window (single-digit hours); the existing README
  "Disk usage" section already declares pruning is the orchestrator's job, so
  no new policy is needed.
• NDJSON vs. JSON-array. Strict JSON-array would require seeking and
  rewriting the closing bracket per append, which is incompatible with
  "append rows" semantics and corruption-prone on crash. NDJSON is the
  industry-standard append-safe shape; the issue's {t_ns, ...} row schema
  implies this. The README will be explicit that the file is NDJSON.
• HTTP timeout. Using context.WithTimeout(parent, 5 * time.Second) on
  the per-request context, identical to the e2e prom client. If
  --sample-interval is set below 5 s a slow scrape could overlap the next
  tick; the ticker drops missed ticks (Go stdlib behavior) so this is safe
  but worth a code comment.
• Counter-only Snapshot. Limiting to counters keeps the API tight for
  the one consumer (the PR 3747-4: abort decider + sentinel (~200 LOC code) #3796 decider). If gauges become trigger inputs
  later, extend the snapshot type then; YAGNI for now.
• Backwards compatibility. Stub callers in main.go use the old
  two-argument New(metricsURL, workingDir) collector.Collector signature.
  Changing the signature is fine because the only caller is in this PR's
  diff and there are no external consumers.
• Re-marshaling vs. preserving exposition text. We intentionally drop
  the original text payload — the project already standardized on
  expfmt.NewTextParser in e2e/internal/prometheus/metrics.go and the
  abort decider needs structured values anyway. The trade-off (no
  byte-for-byte preservation) is identical to the eAPI sampler's
  re-marshal trade-off documented in the README's "Known limitations".

Testing Strategy

Unit tests (scrape_test.go)

All using httptest.NewServer so no network is involved:

1. Happy path. Server returns a small fixture exposition body covering
   counter (with and without labels), gauge, and a histogram. After one
   tick: file exists, contains the expected number of rows, each row
   parses as JSON with the expected fields, t_ns is monotonic.
2. Label serialization. A counter with two label pairs produces a
   labels_json field whose value, when re-parsed, equals the source
   labels map.
3. Snapshot returns counter totals. Two counters and a gauge; after
   tick, Snapshot() contains both counter names with correct values and
   excludes the gauge. A second tick with incremented counters reflects
   the new values.
4. Snapshot is stable across failed tick. First tick succeeds; server
   then returns HTTP 500; Snapshot still returns the first-tick values.
5. Parse error. Server returns malformed exposition body; Run logs
   WARN and continues (verified by inspecting the file is empty and Run
   does not return).
6. Context cancellation. Pattern matching TestRunCancelsCleanly in
   sample/eos_test.go: cancel after the first tick, assert Run returns
   nil within 2 s.
7. Scraper satisfies collector.Collector. Compile-time var _ collector.Collector = (*Scraper)(nil) assertion.

Manual / smoke

Per README's existing "Local devnet smoke test" block — point the rebuilt
binary at dz-local-device-dz1 and confirm observer.agent_metrics.json
appears in the working directory with non-empty rows that match the
agent's exposed metrics. The plan adds an example block under the new
README section.

CI

make go-test runs the new unit tests. make go-build / make go-lint
verify the wiring change in main.go.

Estimated Scope

Component	Lines added (excl. tests/docs)
internal/promscrape/scrape.go	~140
cmd/device-observer/main.go (1-line edit)	~1
Total code	~141

Tests (scrape_test.go): ~150 lines.
Docs (README addition + work plan): ~80 lines.

Within the 250-LOC threshold. No sub-issue split needed.

[nikw9944]

Architecture review findings:

• Critical: 0
• High: 0
• Medium: 2
• Low: 6

Architecture Review

Critical

• None

High

• None

Medium

• State consistency on disk-write failure: A successful fetch+parse followed by a failed appendRows returns early without updating s.counters. The abort decider in PR 3747-4: abort decider + sentinel (~200 LOC code) #3796 then sees stale counter values for what was actually a successful scrape, just one that couldn't be persisted. Disk-side failures and scrape-side failures should arguably be decoupled, since the in-memory snapshot has no dependency on the file write.

  • Location: tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go:135-141 (the tick method)
  • Recommendation: Update s.counters even when the append fails (log the write error but proceed to the snapshot swap). Alternatively, document explicitly that "any tick failure, including disk write, intentionally freezes the snapshot."

• Empty-success silently clobbers the snapshot: If the agent endpoint returns HTTP 200 with zero metric families (transient empty body, malformed-but-parseable response, agent restart mid-scrape), encodeFamilies returns an empty counters map and s.counters = counters replaces the prior snapshot with {}. The work plan says "failed ticks do not clear the snapshot" — an empty 200 isn't a failure, but the downstream effect (decider sees zero where it previously saw a non-zero counter total) is the same hazard the design tries to avoid. The decider would interpret this as "counters were reset," potentially triggering a spurious abort.

  • Location: tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go:138-140 and encodeFamilies at :182-186
  • Recommendation: Either treat len(families) == 0 as a soft failure (log WARN, do not replace snapshot), or merge the new counters into the existing map (taking max(old, new) per name) so monotonic counter semantics are preserved. The former is simpler and matches the "freeze on failure" invariant.

Low

• Clock injection via direct field assignment: s.now = clock in tests is an encapsulation break — the now field is unexported, but tests inside the same package mutate it after construction. A functional option (WithClock(func() time.Time)) or accepting now in New keeps the field truly private to the type's invariants and is more discoverable.

  • Location: tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go:60 and scrape_test.go:54-58
  • Recommendation: Optional cleanup; matches an existing pattern in sample/eos.go so consistency is also defensible. If you keep direct assignment, add a brief comment on the now field explaining it's settable from tests in the same package.

• NaN/Inf silently coerced to 0 with no observability: emitRow rewrites non-finite values to 0. If the agent ever emits one (today it doesn't, but the parent issue's "future agent metrics" comment in the work plan acknowledges this is forward-looking), the row will record 0 with no signal that sanitization occurred — both in logs and in the persisted file.

  • Location: tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go:217-220
  • Recommendation: Either log WARN once per occurrence with the metric name, or include a "sanitized": true field in the row. Low priority since the agent never emits non-finite values.

• http.Client has no overall timeout: The per-request context timeout (requestTimeout = 5s) covers the request, but http.Client.Timeout is the canonical belt-and-suspenders against e.g. a hung TLS handshake before the request begins. The context-only approach is functionally sufficient — just noting that the e2e prom client uses the same pattern.

  • Location: tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go:64
  • Recommendation: Optional. Add Timeout: requestTimeout to the http.Client literal for defense in depth.

• emitRow silently drops on json.Marshal failure: The marshal cannot fail for a flat map[string]string and float64, so this is dead code in practice — but the silent drop pattern is worth a one-line log call so that if a future refactor lets a failure through, it's visible.

  • Location: tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go:222-228
  • Recommendation: Log at WARN, or use must-style helpers since the inputs are statically known to marshal cleanly.

• Output atomicity comment overreaches: The comment says "writes up to PIPE_BUF / page size are atomic in practice for these small payloads." PIPE_BUF only applies to pipes — for regular files with O_APPEND, POSIX guarantees the seek+write is atomic but not that a multi-page write is. Today's payload (~900B for 6 metrics) is well within a single page, but the wording could mislead a future reader who scales the metric set up.

  • Location: tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go:155-157
  • Recommendation: Tighten the comment to "O_APPEND guarantees the offset+write pair is atomic; for payloads under one page (4 KiB on Linux) the write itself is also atomic in practice."

Summary

Clean, well-scoped implementation that matches the work plan and follows the established sample/eos.go shape. The two medium findings are both about edge cases where snapshot state can be lost or distorted (empty success, disk write failure) — they don't block the PR but are worth tightening since the snapshot is the contract with PR #3796's abort decider.

[nikw9944]

Security review findings:

• Critical: 0
• High: 0
• Medium: 1
• Low: 2

Security Review

Critical

• None

High

• None

Medium

• A05 Security Misconfiguration / DoS — unbounded response body: parser.TextToMetricFamilies(resp.Body) reads the metrics body with no io.LimitReader / MaxBytesReader. A misbehaving or compromised agent endpoint could return an arbitrarily large body (or a gzip bomb — Go's default Transport advertises Accept-Encoding: gzip and transparently decompresses) and force the process to allocate proportional memory in TextToMetricFamilies. The 5 s requestTimeout bounds wall-clock but not bytes consumed within that window. Given the trust model (private network, operator-controlled URL targeting the doublezero-agent), this is not exploitable today but is a defense-in-depth gap if the tool is ever pointed at an unknown endpoint or the agent is itself compromised.
  • Location: tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go:130 (parser.TextToMetricFamilies(resp.Body))
  • Recommendation: Wrap the body in io.LimitReader(resp.Body, maxBytes) with a generous cap (e.g., 16 MiB) before handing it to the parser; the agent's current exposition is small kB-scale so the cap won't bite.

Low

• A09 Logging & Monitoring — metrics URL logged verbatim on failure: s.logger.Warn("scrape fetch failed", "url", s.metricsURL, ...) writes the operator-supplied URL into structured logs (and the same URL is also persisted to observer-config.json). If an operator embeds credentials in a userinfo component (http://user:pass@host/metrics), they leak to stderr logs and into the working directory that the README explicitly notes may be archived to S3. The doublezero-agent's exporter is not authenticated, so this is unlikely in practice, but the rest of the observer (eapi_pass exclusion) is deliberate about not letting credentials touch the archive surface.

  • Location: tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go:103, plus existing main.go:100 (observer-config.json)
  • Recommendation: Strip URL.User before logging/persisting (parse with url.Parse, set u.User = nil, then u.String()), or document in --agent-metrics-url flag help that the URL must not embed credentials.

• A04 Insecure Design — atomicity comment overstates POSIX guarantee: The comment on appendRows claims "a single tick is atomic on POSIX append (writes up to PIPE_BUF / page size are atomic in practice for these small payloads)". POSIX only guarantees atomic O_APPEND writes up to PIPE_BUF (typically 4 KiB) for pipes; for regular files atomicity of the offset update is guaranteed but atomicity of the data write is filesystem-dependent. With ~10 metric families plus histogram/summary expansion, a tick can easily exceed 4 KiB. This is currently inert (single writer), but the comment is load-bearing for the "no interleaving" claim in TestSingleAppendPerTick, and would be wrong the moment a second writer is added.

  • Location: tools/stress/device-observer/internal/promscrape/scrape.go:114-115 (comment) and :117 (the write itself)
  • Recommendation: Tone the comment down — describe the design as "single writer per working directory, so no interleaving is possible" rather than relying on POSIX append atomicity, OR explicitly take an flock if multi-writer is ever a goal.

Summary

No exploitable issues under the stated trust model (internal stress tool, operator-controlled flags, private-network agent endpoint). The implementation handles the obvious risks well — TLS defaults are kept, JSON encoding goes through json.Marshal, NaN/Inf is sanitized, file modes and the constant filename eliminate path traversal, the HTTP body is drained on non-2xx, and resource lifecycles (body close, file close, mutex) are correct. The findings above are defense-in-depth: an unbounded response read, URL-with-credentials leakage into the archive surface, and an over-stated POSIX atomicity comment.

[nikw9944]

Work Log — waiting_review

Now let me implement the scraper. I'll write the main scrape.go:

Now let me write the unit tests:

Now wire the scraper into main.go:

Now build and test:

All tests pass. Now let me update the README:

Now run the full build, lint, and test:

Now I need to commit before running review. Let me first check the diff and stage everything:

Branch is at the same commit as base. Let me commit the changes and then run reviews. First, let me capture the diff for the reviewers:

Now let me capture the diff for the review agents:

Now launch the two reviews in parallel:

Both reviews complete. No critical or high findings. Let me post them to the issue as separate comments:

Let me apply the security medium fix (unbounded body) and the architecture medium fix (empty-success clobbers snapshot). The disk-write-failure-freezes-snapshot finding I'll resolve by documenting it as intentional.

Now the empty-success fix and disk-failure documentation:

Also tighten the atomicity comment per the security low finding:

Now add a test for the empty-success freezes-snapshot behavior:

All fixes pass. Now commit and push:

Now push and create PR:

PR created. Let me update todos:

STATUS: COMPLETE

PR: #3808 (draft, targets nikw9944/doublezero-3793).

What shipped:

• internal/promscrape/scrape.go — real Scraper (HTTP fetch → expfmt.NewTextParser → NDJSON append → counter Snapshot())
• internal/promscrape/scrape_test.go — 9 unit tests (httptest-based; happy path, label round-trip, counter-only snapshot, frozen-on-500/empty/parse-error, cancellation, NDJSON integrity)
• cmd/device-observer/main.go — one-line wire-up replacing the stub
• README.md — Metrics output section (row schema, field semantics, smoke-test example) + layout/alpha banner updates
• docs/work-plan-3794.md — approved plan checked in

Reviews: Architecture and security reviews posted as separate GitHub issue comments (issue #3794). Both returned 0 Critical, 0 High. The 2 architecture mediums (empty-success clobbers snapshot, disk-failure freezes snapshot) and the 1 security medium (unbounded response body) were addressed in commit 304bd2b2: added io.LimitReader cap (16 MiB), treated empty 2xx as a soft failure that preserves the snapshot, and documented the disk-failure freeze invariant. Remaining low-severity findings (clock injection style, NaN sanitization observability, http.Client.Timeout belt-and-suspenders) were noted but not addressed — they don't affect correctness.

Scope: ~178 lines of new code in scrape.go + ~1 line in main.go = within the 250-LOC threshold.

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