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Two deploy-lane slices. One rewrites the staging observability surface for v2.
One binds the front's Cloudflare trust to this zone.

deploy: rewrite the staging dashboard for v2 and re-check the Kubo caveat

Mechanism. The provisioned dashboard was still the v1 one. Every metric name
it queried starts with cipherbox_, and no such series exists anywhere in the
v2 tree. The seven provisioned alert rules were dead the same way. So the
dashboard showed "No data" in every API panel, and no alert could fire.

What landed.

  • docker/grafana/dashboards/cipherbox-staging.json is rewritten over the v2
    series that apps/api/src/ops/metrics.service.ts actually registers. The
    TEE Republishing row is deleted: v2 has no TEE, and the republisher is a
    keyless re-PUT module inside the API.
  • New rows cover the republisher inventory walk and re-PUT counts, mailbox
    depth and cap rejections, auth attempts and throttle rejections, and the
    read-accelerator gate.
  • docker/grafana/alerts/ gets its v2 disposition: five v1 rules retire, two
    are ported to v2 series, and two new rules land.
  • docker/alloy-config.river pins the job label and corrects the keep-list.
  • docker/MONITORING.md is brought back in step with the code.

Upstream health. The forward_auth deny-on-any-non-204 obligation means an
upstream-down condition on the two gated vhosts reaches no Caddy error line —
both vhosts discard their logs. Metrics are the only signal. So up now
survives the keep-list, the accelerator row plots it, and a new rule fires when
either accelerator stays down.

The Kubo caveat, re-checked. The caveat said Kubo emitted no libp2p metrics.
That held on v0.34. Staging runs ipfs/kubo:v0.42.0 today. I ran that exact
image and read /debug/metrics/prometheus: it exports 197 metric families,
including the full libp2p_* set. The caveat is retired.

One correction came out of the same probe. libp2p_network_in_bytes_total and
libp2p_network_out_bytes_total — which both the v1 dashboard and the old
Alloy keep-list named — do not exist in v0.42.0 at all. Bandwidth now comes
from process_network_receive_bytes_total and its transmit counterpart, which
the probe confirms. ghcr.io/ipfs/someguy:v0.11.1 was probed the same way.

The staging VPS has 2 vCPU and the Grafana Cloud tier is small, so the keep-list
stays tight: no kubo histogram families, and the two dead names are removed
rather than joined by more.

Closes #1395.

deploy: authenticate Cloudflare to this zone, not to Cloudflare at large

Mechanism. trusted_proxies carries Cloudflare's published ranges. Those
ranges are shared infrastructure. Any Cloudflare tenant can point a proxied
record at the staging origin address, override the origin Host so Caddy routes
to a fronted vhost, and arrive from inside a trusted range. The front then
treats an unauthenticated proxy as trusted, which is the premise every IP-keyed
limit below it rests on.

What landed. A new (origin_tls) snippet in docker/Caddyfile replaces the
three repeated tls lines. It adds:

client_auth {
	mode require_and_verify
	trust_pool file {
		pem_file /etc/caddy/certs/cloudflare-zone-origin-pull-ca.pem
	}
}

Why require_and_verify. It is the one Caddy mode that fails closed. request
asks for a certificate and ignores the answer. require demands one but does not
check it, so any self-signed certificate passes. verify_if_given verifies only
what is offered, so a caller that offers nothing is admitted. Only
require_and_verify refuses both a missing certificate and one that does not
chain to the pool.

Why every vhost, and not only the two fronted ones. Caddy selects a TLS
connection policy by SNI, then routes the request by its Host header. A caller
that presents an unauthenticated SNI and then writes Host: gateway-staging…
walks around a partial gate. Two consequences:

  • all four vhosts import the same snippet;
  • a catch-all https:// site imports it too. Without that site Caddy appends a
    matcher-less connection policy of its own, and that policy carries no
    client_auth — so an unmatched SNI would reach Host-based routing with no
    certificate presented. The Lint gate holds every adapted policy, which catches
    the catch-all's removal as well.

The trust pool is pinned to exactly one PEM path. A change that adds Cloudflare's
shared origin-pull CA beside the zone CA re-opens the hole, so the assertion
compares the set rather than testing for membership.

Nothing in CI reaches the staging origin directly, so the gate does not affect
the deploy pipeline or the e2e suites.

Part of #1507.

Human steps before this merges

  • Mint the zone-specific origin-pull certificate
  • Enable per-hostname Authenticated Origin Pulls for the zone
  • Place the certificate key on the VPS

This PR does not merge until these steps are done and the front is verified
against the real certificate.

Test surface and mutation evidence

scripts/check-accelerator-front.mjs gains two assertions over every adapted TLS
connection policy: the mode, and the exact trust-pool path. The script runs in
the Lint gate. Each assertion was mutation-checked against a real
caddy adapt under the pinned image:

Mutation Assertion that fired
The docker/Caddyfile from main, unchanged mode and trust-pool, on both the named policy and the SNI fallback
mode require_and_verify to mode verify_if_given mode, on both policies
Cloudflare's shared origin-pull CA added beside the zone CA trust-pool, on both policies
The catch-all https:// site removed mode and trust-pool, on the appended fallback policy

The dashboard JSON round-trips through jq, survives the deploy workflow's
placeholder rewrite with no ${DS_…} left, and names only series that exist.

The gate was also exercised at runtime, not only in the adapted config. I ran
the pinned image with a throwaway zone CA, a throwaway rogue CA that stands in
for another Cloudflare tenant, and the same client_auth block:

Request Result
No client certificate TLS handshake refused
Client certificate from the rogue CA TLS handshake refused
Client certificate from the zone CA 200, upstream reached
Unknown SNI, forged Host, no client certificate TLS handshake refused
Unknown SNI, forged Host, zone certificate 421, gated vhost not reached

Gates

/simplify and /security-review ran on git diff main...HEAD. pnpm lint,
pnpm lint:tracker-refs, pnpm lint:accelerator-front, caddy fmt --diff, and
a live alloy run config load are all clean. No workflow file changed.

Note

Rewrite staging Grafana dashboard for v2 metrics and enforce Cloudflare zone mTLS on all Caddy sites

  • Rewrites cipherbox-staging.json to show API/Kubo/someguy liveness, HTTP rates and error rates by route, latency quantiles, auth outcomes, throttle rejections, gateway verify ratios, republisher activity, and node health. Legacy IPNS/TEE/file/storage/user panels are removed.
  • Adds an origin_tls snippet to Caddyfile that requires and verifies client certificates against /etc/caddy/certs/cloudflare-zone-origin-pull-ca.pem. All staging sites and a new HTTPS catch-all import it, so unauthenticated connections are rejected at TLS handshake.
  • Updates check-accelerator-front.mjs to lint that every TLS connection policy uses require_and_verify mode and references exactly the zone origin-pull CA.
  • Retargets alerts in api-endpoint-latency.json to /auth/login, /auth/refresh, and /auth/gateway/verify routes; adds gateway-verify-failures.json; deletes ipns-publish-latency.json.
  • Sets explicit job_name values (api, kubo, someguy) in alloy-config.river so scrape series carry stable labels.
  • Behavioral Change: unmatched SNI HTTPS connections now require a valid client cert and are aborted after handshake; sites no longer accept unauthenticated TLS. Alert coverage shifts from upload/download/IPNS/Vault to auth and gateway-verify routes.

Macroscope summarized 7f6031d.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security

    • Strengthened staging gateway protection by requiring verified Cloudflare client certificates.
    • Unmatched HTTPS connections are now refused instead of routed by hostname.
  • Monitoring

    • Updated dashboards, metrics, and alerts for the v2 API and current service health.
    • Added authentication and gateway verification latency/failure alerts.
    • Added upstream availability monitoring for supporting services.
    • Removed outdated IPNS, pinning, and legacy metric alerts.

… Cloudflare zone

The provisioned dashboard and all seven alert rules queried `cipherbox_*`
metrics that no v2 series carries, so every API panel read "No data" and no
rule could fire. Rewrite both over the series `apps/api/src/ops/metrics.service.ts`
registers, delete the TEE Republishing row, and give the seven v1 rules their
disposition: five retire, two port to v2 series, two new ones land.

Both fronted vhosts discard their logs and deny on any non-204 from
`forward_auth`, so an upstream-down condition surfaces in metrics alone. Keep
`up` through the Alloy relabel, plot it, and alert on it.

Re-check the Kubo caveat against the v0.42.0 the stack now runs: it emits 197
metric families including the full libp2p set, so the caveat retires. It does
not emit `libp2p_network_in_bytes_total` or its out counterpart, which both the
old keep-list and the v1 dashboard named; bandwidth moves to the process
counters.

Also require a client certificate on every vhost. Cloudflare's published ranges
are shared infrastructure, so `trusted_proxies` authenticates Cloudflare rather
than this zone. `client_auth { mode require_and_verify }` against the zone's own
origin-pull CA closes that. Caddy routes on Host and not on SNI, so the gate
covers every vhost and the matcher-less fallback policy that Caddy would
otherwise append without one.

Closes #1395
Part of #1507
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The change secures staging Caddy hosts with Cloudflare origin-pull client certificates and updates Alloy, Grafana alerts, the staging dashboard, and monitoring documentation for the v2 API and infrastructure metrics.

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Staging deployment and monitoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Origin TLS authentication
docker/Caddyfile, scripts/check-accelerator-front.mjs, blueprint/deploy.md
Caddy now reuses a verified Cloudflare origin-pull client-auth policy for staging hosts and aborts unmatched HTTPS connections. The accelerator-front check enforces the TLS policy and the blueprint records the updated trust model.
V2 metrics collection and documentation
docker/alloy-config.river, docker/MONITORING.md
Alloy assigns stable api, kubo, and someguy job labels and keeps the v2 infrastructure series. Monitoring documentation describes the updated metrics, scrape configuration, Kubo version, queries, and troubleshooting sections.
V2 alert rules
docker/grafana/alerts/*, docker/MONITORING.md
Alerts now cover authentication latency, gateway verification refusals, accelerator upstream health, and the updated test-login metric. Obsolete v1 alert definitions are removed.
V2 staging dashboard
docker/grafana/dashboards/cipherbox-staging.json, docker/MONITORING.md
The dashboard now shows API, authentication, throttling, accelerator, republisher, mailbox, node-health, uptime, and log panels using v2 PromQL and Loki queries.

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The PR’s main dashboard and Cloudflare protection changes are mergeable, but two small dashboard correctness issues need owner follow-up: matching log entries may lose their displayed text, and gateway verification ratios may appear blank instead of zero for absent outcomes.

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In `@docker/grafana/dashboards/cipherbox-staging.json`:
- Around line 1954-1956: Update the dashboard query expression identified by
refId A to preserve the matched log text: remove the line_format "{{ .message
}}" stage or replace it with formatting that outputs the raw line, such as {{
line }}. Do not add JSON parsing unless the API logs are confirmed to be JSON.
- Line 1008: Update the gateway verification PromQL in
docker/grafana/dashboards/cipherbox-staging.json at lines 1008-1008 so the
accepted-outcome numerator and total denominator each use `or vector(0)` before
any `clamp_min`, returning zero when the relevant series are absent. Apply the
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…lanking its lines

The accept-ratio stat divided by a numerator that exists only once an accepted
outcome has been counted, so a total refusal read as No data — the same as no
traffic at all. The numerator now falls back to vector(0).

The Recent API Errors panel formatted each line as {{ .message }}. Alloy ships
each Docker line unparsed, so no such field exists and every row rendered empty.
The template is removed, which matches the Republisher Logs panel beside it.
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CodeRabbit posted 2 actionable comments and no nitpick section. Both were real. Both are fixed in 7c5ed3f41. Every finding was checked against the code on this branch before any edit.

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1. Gateway verify accept ratio reads No data during a total refusaldocker/grafana/dashboards/cipherbox-staging.json, panel Gateway verify accept ratio.

gateway_verify_total{outcome="accepted"} gets a labelled series only after observeGatewayVerify() counts an accepted outcome. So a front that refuses everything leaves the numerator empty, and an empty numerator makes the whole division empty. The stat then reads No data — exactly what a quiet front reads. The most alarming condition and the idle condition looked identical.

The numerator now falls back:

(sum(rate(gateway_verify_total{outcome="accepted"}[5m])) or vector(0)) / sum(rate(gateway_verify_total[5m]))

vector(0) carries no labels and sum() drops all of them, so the two sides still match on the empty label set.

docker/MONITORING.md takes the same fallback on its refusal-share query, for the mirror-image reason: refusals are the rare outcome, so there the healthy all-accepted state was the one that read as no data.

2. Recent API Errors rendered every row blank — same file, panel Recent API Errors.

The query ended in | line_format "{{ .message }}". docker/alloy-config.river runs discovery.docker to loki.source.docker to loki.write with no loki.process stage, so no line is parsed. The relabel rules set only container, service, and project. There is no message field, and LogQL renders an unknown template variable as an empty string rather than as an error. So the panel showed timestamps with no text.

The stage is removed. The Republisher Logs panel beside it already queried without one and worked, so the two panels now agree. | json was not added: the API logs through the stock NestJS logger, which writes plain text.

docker/MONITORING.md gains one note under Useful LogQL Queries naming the three available labels, so the next query written against this stack does not repeat the mistake.

Not changed, and why

The denominator of the accept ratio. CodeRabbit asked for or vector(0) on both sides. With no traffic at all the denominator is empty and an accept ratio is genuinely undefined, so No data is the honest reading. A fallback there makes the quiet case 0/0, which is NaN, so it fixes nothing and costs the distinction between "no traffic" and "everything refused" that fix 1 just bought.

docker/grafana/alerts/gateway-verify-failures.json. It carries the same shape, and it is correct as it stands. It is a threshold on refusals, gated by and on() (sum(increase(gateway_verify_total[10m])) >= 20). An empty result there means "does not fire", which is the wanted behaviour, and its noDataState is OK.

The Out of Scope Changes pre-merge warning. CodeRabbit read the Cloudflare origin-authentication half as unrelated to #1395 and asked for a split or a linked issue. That half is already linked: the PR body carries Part of #1507, and the two halves share scripts/check-accelerator-front.mjs and the deploy blueprint, so splitting them would put two edits to one gate script in two open branches. The check reads only the Closes line, which names #1395 alone and is correct.

Gates on 7c5ed3f41

pnpm lint, pnpm lint:tracker-refs, prettier --check, and markdownlint-cli2 are clean, and the dashboard JSON parses. pnpm lint:accelerator-front and caddy fmt --diff need the Docker daemon, which is down on this machine; neither the Caddyfile nor the check script changed in this push, and the CI Lint leg runs both.

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