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• add fluentbit_processor_accounting_errors_total metric
• add fluentbit_processor_items_held_current and items_held_total metrics
• add hot reload processor validation section with halt log messages
• note that filters used as processors skip startup checks when inactive

This is the missing docs PR for fluent/fluent-bit#12731.

Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell eric@schabell.org

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The documentation describes processor validation during hot reload and adds Prometheus metric definitions for processor errors, invocations, item counts, and retained log records.

Changes: Hot-reload processor validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document processor preflight administration/hot-reload.md	The documentation describes processor validation in Fluent Bit 5.2 and later. Invalid configuration or preflight failure stops the reload and leaves the previous pipeline running. It also describes property checks and startup checks for processor filters, except those with active: false.

Processor metrics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document processor metrics administration/monitoring.md	The v2 metrics table adds metrics for invalid retention-accounting operations, currently held log records, and total log records admitted for retention. It clarifies that existing processor metrics measure processor units and that held-record metrics apply to log processors attached to inputs.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~4 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: edsiper

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to f4aa5

Correct the reload safety guarantee before merging: some processor startup failures can leave no pipeline running. Also clarify the accounting metric’s input-only scope so monitoring queries do not expect unavailable output series.

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The title names the two areas the PR documents: processor hold metrics in the monitoring page and processor reload validation in the hot-reload page. Both match the raw summary and the PR objectives. The title is specific and uses the same terms as the changes, so it describes the main change.

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Review comments at @administration/hot-reload.md:
- Line 63: Update the reload guarantee in the validation section to clarify that
preflight does not catch every processor initialization error; if a processor
such as a native content_modifier with an invalid regex fails later during
startup, the previous pipeline has already been destroyed and no pipeline may be
running.

Review comments at @administration/monitoring.md:
- Line 239: Update the description of
`fluentbit_processor_accounting_errors_total` to state that it is reported only
for log processors attached to inputs, not output-attached processors. Keep the
existing explanation of what the counter measures.

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@patrick-stephens ready for review.

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