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Give each team its own dead man's switches, and the UI a team to show
The rest of #4. Two halves that belong together because they are the
same sentence from opposite ends: a team decides which of its alerts are
heartbeats, and the UI has to be able to say which team it is talking
about.

Switches were three environment variables, which made them one setting
for the whole install. That was the last piece of the alerting path a
team could not control: it could take its own alerts on its own key and
still not say which of them were heartbeats, or how long a silence had
to last. They are a row per team now, edited by an owner through
PUT /api/teams/{teamID}/deadman, and the sweeper runs each team against
its own matchers, timeout and severity.

The environment variables become the starting point rather than the
setting. Every team without a configuration is seeded from them at
startup, so an upgrade keeps watching exactly what it was watching, and
SeedDeadmanConfigs never overwrites -- a redeploy must not put the
environment's value back over an owner's edit. A team created later
watches nothing until somebody says otherwise: inheriting an
install-wide heartbeat would page a new team about a source it has never
heard of, and a switch nobody chose is the kind that gets muted rather
than fixed.

A matcher string with no alertname in it is refused at the door instead
of stored. Storing it would produce a switch that watches nothing
silently, which is the exact failure the feature exists to prevent.

NewRouter and Sweep lose their DeadmanConfig parameter -- there is no
longer one answer to hand them. The type stays, because parsing a
matcher string is still parsing a matcher string.

The UI side: rows in the queue carry a team badge, the filter row gains
a team chip per team, and "on call now" shows one card per team. All
three appear only when the viewer is in more than one team -- otherwise
they are the same word repeated down a list, which is noise rather than
information, and the single-team install reads exactly as it did before
teams existed.

Verified against a live two-team server as well as in tests: the
combined queue labelled by team, the team_id filter, a heartbeat that is
a heartbeat in one team and an ordinary alert in another, and a new
team's switches starting empty while the upgraded team keeps the
environment's.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RHPj4ggeFdEjKKfm4SHbD7
2026-09-20 15:18:22 +02:00

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Go

package api
import (
"context"
"database/sql"
"encoding/json"
"log"
"sort"
"strings"
"time"
)
// deadmanGroupPrefix namespaces the incidents this file opens. Alertmanager
// group keys always contain braces, so this can never collide with one, and the
// partial unique index on open group_key (see 008_incidents.sql) gives one open
// incident per switch for free.
const deadmanGroupPrefix = "deadman:"
// DeadmanMatcher selects the alerts that are heartbeats rather than problems.
// Every condition has to match, and Name — the alertname label — is mandatory:
// it is what lets the sweeper find candidate rows through alerts_name_idx
// instead of JSON-extracting labels from every row in the table.
type DeadmanMatcher struct {
Name string
Labels map[string]string
}
// String renders the matcher the way it was configured, which is also how it
// reads in an incident title.
func (m DeadmanMatcher) String() string {
if len(m.Labels) == 0 {
return m.Name
}
parts := make([]string, 0, len(m.Labels))
for k, v := range m.Labels {
parts = append(parts, k+"="+v)
}
sort.Strings(parts)
return m.Name + " (" + strings.Join(parts, ", ") + ")"
}
// matches reports whether an alert's labels satisfy every condition.
func (m DeadmanMatcher) matches(labels map[string]string) bool {
if labels["alertname"] != m.Name {
return false
}
for k, v := range m.Labels {
if labels[k] != v {
return false
}
}
return true
}
// DeadmanConfig inverts the handling of the alerts it matches: receiving one
// opens nothing, and the absence of one opens an incident.
//
// The unit of monitoring is the fingerprint, not the matcher — two clusters
// sending the same heartbeat alertname are two independent switches, so one
// healthy cluster cannot mask a dead one.
type DeadmanConfig struct {
Matchers []DeadmanMatcher
// Timeout is how long a matched alert may go without a refreshing webhook
// before it is declared dead. It must be shorter than Alertmanager's
// repeat_interval for the heartbeat's route, which is what refreshes it.
// Zero disables dead man's switch handling entirely.
Timeout time.Duration
// Severity is the severity every dead man's switch incident opens at. These
// incidents have no member alerts to derive one from, and the heartbeat's
// own severity label is meaningless — Watchdog ships as "none".
Severity string
}
// enabled reports whether there is anything to watch.
func (c DeadmanConfig) enabled() bool { return c.Timeout > 0 && len(c.Matchers) > 0 }
// match returns the first matcher an alert satisfies.
func (c DeadmanConfig) match(labels map[string]string) (DeadmanMatcher, bool) {
if !c.enabled() {
return DeadmanMatcher{}, false
}
for _, m := range c.Matchers {
if m.matches(labels) {
return m, true
}
}
return DeadmanMatcher{}, false
}
// isDeadman is match without the matcher, for the ingest path.
func (c DeadmanConfig) isDeadman(labels map[string]string) bool {
_, ok := c.match(labels)
return ok
}
// names lists the distinct alertnames worth loading from the database.
func (c DeadmanConfig) names() []string {
seen := map[string]bool{}
out := make([]string, 0, len(c.Matchers))
for _, m := range c.Matchers {
if !seen[m.Name] {
seen[m.Name] = true
out = append(out, m.Name)
}
}
return out
}
// ParseDeadmanConfig reads the matcher list from its configured form:
// ";" separates matchers, "," separates the conditions within one, and "=" is
// exact label equality — `alertname=Watchdog,cluster=prod; alertname=Heartbeat`.
//
// A malformed or alertname-less entry is dropped rather than fatal, following
// config.duration's rule that one bad tuning knob should not take the server
// down. Silence would be worse here than elsewhere, though — a typo that
// disarms the switch is exactly the failure this feature exists to catch — so
// the matchers that survived are logged.
func ParseDeadmanConfig(matchers string, timeout time.Duration, severity string) DeadmanConfig {
cfg := DeadmanConfig{Timeout: timeout, Severity: severity}
for _, entry := range strings.Split(matchers, ";") {
entry = strings.TrimSpace(entry)
if entry == "" {
continue
}
m := DeadmanMatcher{Labels: map[string]string{}}
malformed := false
for _, cond := range strings.Split(entry, ",") {
k, v, ok := strings.Cut(cond, "=")
k, v = strings.TrimSpace(k), strings.TrimSpace(v)
if !ok || k == "" || v == "" {
log.Printf("deadman: ignoring matcher %q: %q is not label=value", entry, strings.TrimSpace(cond))
malformed = true
break
}
if k == "alertname" {
m.Name = v
continue
}
m.Labels[k] = v
}
if malformed {
continue
}
if m.Name == "" {
log.Printf("deadman: ignoring matcher %q: no alertname condition", entry)
continue
}
cfg.Matchers = append(cfg.Matchers, m)
}
switch {
case timeout <= 0:
log.Print("deadman: disabled (timeout is zero)")
case len(cfg.Matchers) == 0:
log.Print("deadman: disabled (no usable matchers)")
default:
rendered := make([]string, 0, len(cfg.Matchers))
for _, m := range cfg.Matchers {
rendered = append(rendered, m.String())
}
log.Printf("deadman: watching %s, timeout %s, severity %s",
strings.Join(rendered, "; "), timeout, severity)
}
return cfg
}
// deadmanAlert is one switch: the alert row carrying its last heartbeat.
type deadmanAlert struct {
id int64
teamID int64
fingerprint string
labels map[string]string
matcher DeadmanMatcher
resolved bool
receivedAt int64
}
// groupKey is the switch's identity as an incident. Per fingerprint, so each
// source is tracked on its own.
func (a deadmanAlert) groupKey() string { return deadmanGroupPrefix + a.fingerprint }
// sweepDeadman is the whole point of the feature: it opens an incident for every
// switch that has stopped chirping, and closes one whose switch came back.
//
// It returns the ids of the alerts it owns, because the generic staleness
// expiry must leave them alone — staleAfter and ends_at would otherwise resolve
// a heartbeat long before its own, much tighter, timeout ever fired.
// Each team is swept against its own configuration: its own matchers, its own
// timeout, its own severity. A team watching nothing is skipped entirely, which
// is most of them.
func sweepDeadman(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, notify NotifyConfig) map[int64]bool {
owned := map[int64]bool{}
configs, err := deadmanConfigs(ctx, db)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("deadman: load configs: %v", err)
return owned
}
now := time.Now()
for teamID, cfg := range configs {
switches, err := deadmanAlerts(ctx, db, teamID, cfg)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("deadman: load switches for team %d: %v", teamID, err)
continue
}
cutoff := now.Add(-cfg.Timeout).Unix()
for _, sw := range switches {
owned[sw.id] = true
// An explicit resolved from Alertmanager is a stronger death signal
// than mere absence: the sender is telling us the heartbeat
// stopped, so there is nothing left to wait out.
if sw.resolved || sw.receivedAt < cutoff {
if err := deadmanDied(ctx, db, cfg, notify, sw, now); err != nil {
log.Printf("deadman: open incident for %s: %v", sw.matcher.Name, err)
}
continue
}
if err := deadmanRecovered(ctx, db, sw); err != nil {
log.Printf("deadman: resolve incident for %s: %v", sw.matcher.Name, err)
}
}
}
return owned
}
// deadmanAlerts loads every alert row that a matcher claims. The candidate query
// is narrowed by alertname so it rides alerts_name_idx; the rest of the matching
// happens in Go, which keeps one implementation of the rules. The rows are read
// in full before the caller writes, so the writes do not run against an open
// cursor over the same table.
func deadmanAlerts(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, teamID int64, cfg DeadmanConfig) ([]deadmanAlert, error) {
names := cfg.names()
args := &sqlArgs{}
nameList := make([]any, len(names))
for i, n := range names {
nameList[i] = n
}
rows, err := db.QueryContext(ctx, `
SELECT id, team_id, fingerprint, labels, status, received_at
FROM alerts
WHERE team_id = `+args.add(teamID)+`
AND name IN (`+args.addList(nameList)+`)
AND archived_at IS NULL`, args.all()...)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer rows.Close()
var out []deadmanAlert
for rows.Next() {
var a deadmanAlert
var labelsJSON, status string
if err := rows.Scan(&a.id, &a.teamID, &a.fingerprint, &labelsJSON, &status, &a.receivedAt); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
json.Unmarshal([]byte(labelsJSON), &a.labels) //nolint:errcheck
m, ok := cfg.match(a.labels)
if !ok {
continue
}
a.matcher = m
a.resolved = status == "resolved"
out = append(out, a)
}
return out, rows.Err()
}
// deadmanDied raises the incident for a switch that has gone quiet.
//
// Two conditions gate it, and both matter. There must be no open incident for
// the switch already — the partial unique index enforces that anyway, but a
// second one would be a wasted page. And the heartbeat must have been seen since
// the last incident was raised, which is the re-arm rule: resolving a dead man's
// switch incident sticks, exactly as resolving an alert-backed one does (see
// incidentForGroup), and a source that is gone for good is a one-time page
// rather than a nag. Only a heartbeat that comes back and dies again earns a new
// incident.
func deadmanDied(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, cfg DeadmanConfig, notify NotifyConfig, sw deadmanAlert, now time.Time) error {
var lastTriggered, open int64
if err := db.QueryRowContext(ctx, `
SELECT COALESCE(MAX(triggered_at), 0),
COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE resolved_at IS NULL)
FROM incidents WHERE team_id = $1 AND group_key = $2`,
sw.teamID, sw.groupKey()).Scan(&lastTriggered, &open); err != nil {
return err
}
if open > 0 || sw.receivedAt <= lastTriggered {
return nil
}
tx, err := db.BeginTx(ctx, nil)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer tx.Rollback() //nolint:errcheck
// A heartbeat nobody has heard from is not firing, and saying otherwise in
// the alert list would be a lie. An Alertmanager-sourced resolution keeps its
// own source: it told us the truth first.
if !sw.resolved {
if _, err := tx.ExecContext(ctx, `
UPDATE alerts
SET status = 'resolved',
resolution_source = $1,
ends_at = COALESCE(ends_at, `+nowEpoch+`)
WHERE id = $2 AND status = 'firing'`, resolutionDeadman, sw.id); err != nil {
return err
}
}
severity := cfg.Severity
var sev *string
if severity != "" {
sev = &severity
}
// The incident opens in the team whose integration received the heartbeat:
// the switch belongs to whoever is watching that source, not to the install.
incidentID, err := openIncident(ctx, tx, notify, sw.teamID, sw.groupKey(),
"No heartbeat from "+sw.matcher.String(), sw.labels, sev)
if err != nil {
return err
}
alertID := sw.id
detail := "last heartbeat " + humanDuration(now.Sub(time.Unix(sw.receivedAt, 0))) + " ago"
if err := logEvent(ctx, tx, incidentID, evDeadmanSilent, nil, &alertID, &detail); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := tx.Commit(); err != nil {
return err
}
log.Printf("deadman: %s went silent, opened incident %d", sw.matcher.String(), incidentID)
return nil
}
// deadmanRecovered closes the incident for a switch that started chirping again.
//
// It cannot go through resolveIfSettled: a dead man's switch incident has no
// member alerts (linking the heartbeat would have the settled-incident cascade
// close it on the very same sweep that opened it), so the alert-driven cascade
// ignores it entirely and recovery is the only automatic way out.
func deadmanRecovered(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, sw deadmanAlert) error {
var incidentID int64
switch err := db.QueryRowContext(ctx, `
SELECT id FROM incidents
WHERE team_id = $1 AND group_key = $2 AND resolved_at IS NULL`,
sw.teamID, sw.groupKey()).Scan(&incidentID); {
case err == sql.ErrNoRows:
return nil
case err != nil:
return err
}
tx, err := db.BeginTx(ctx, nil)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer tx.Rollback() //nolint:errcheck
if _, err := tx.ExecContext(ctx, `
UPDATE incidents
SET status = 'resolved', resolved_at = $1, resolution_source = $2
WHERE id = $3 AND resolved_at IS NULL`,
time.Now().Unix(), incidentResolutionRecovered, incidentID); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := logEvent(ctx, tx, incidentID, evResolved, nil, nil, nil); err != nil {
return err
}
// The all-clear goes to whoever was paged, which enqueueResolved works out
// from the incident's own notification history.
if err := enqueueResolved(ctx, tx, incidentID); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := tx.Commit(); err != nil {
return err
}
log.Printf("deadman: %s is back, resolved incident %d", sw.matcher.String(), incidentID)
return nil
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Per-team configuration
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// deadmanConfigForTeam reads one team's switches. A team with no row, or with
// nothing configured, gets a disabled config — which is the right answer rather
// than an error: most teams watch no heartbeat at all.
func deadmanConfigForTeam(ctx context.Context, q querier, teamID int64) (DeadmanConfig, error) {
var matchers, severity string
var timeout int64
err := q.QueryRowContext(ctx,
"SELECT matchers, timeout_seconds, severity FROM deadman_configs WHERE team_id = $1",
teamID).Scan(&matchers, &timeout, &severity)
if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
return DeadmanConfig{}, nil
}
if err != nil {
return DeadmanConfig{}, err
}
return parseDeadmanQuietly(matchers, time.Duration(timeout)*time.Second, severity), nil
}
// deadmanConfigs reads every team's switches in one query, for the sweeper.
func deadmanConfigs(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB) (map[int64]DeadmanConfig, error) {
rows, err := db.QueryContext(ctx,
"SELECT team_id, matchers, timeout_seconds, severity FROM deadman_configs")
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer rows.Close()
out := map[int64]DeadmanConfig{}
for rows.Next() {
var teamID, timeout int64
var matchers, severity string
if err := rows.Scan(&teamID, &matchers, &timeout, &severity); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
cfg := parseDeadmanQuietly(matchers, time.Duration(timeout)*time.Second, severity)
if cfg.enabled() {
out[teamID] = cfg
}
}
return out, rows.Err()
}
// SeedDeadmanConfigs gives every team without a row the server's environment
// configuration, so the install that upgrades into per-team switches keeps
// watching exactly what it was watching before.
//
// Idempotent, and never overwrites: once a team has a row it owns its own
// configuration, and a redeploy must not quietly put the environment's value
// back over an owner's edit.
//
// A team created after startup gets no row and therefore watches nothing until
// its owner says otherwise. That is deliberate: inheriting an install-wide
// heartbeat would page a new team about a source it has never heard of, and a
// switch nobody chose is the kind that gets muted rather than fixed.
func SeedDeadmanConfigs(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, cfg DeadmanConfig) error {
matchers := make([]string, 0, len(cfg.Matchers))
for _, m := range cfg.Matchers {
parts := []string{"alertname=" + m.Name}
for k, v := range m.Labels {
parts = append(parts, k+"="+v)
}
sort.Strings(parts[1:])
matchers = append(matchers, strings.Join(parts, ","))
}
_, err := db.ExecContext(ctx, `
INSERT INTO deadman_configs (team_id, matchers, timeout_seconds, severity)
SELECT id, $1, $2, $3 FROM teams
ON CONFLICT (team_id) DO NOTHING`,
strings.Join(matchers, "; "), int64(cfg.Timeout.Seconds()), cfg.Severity)
return err
}
// parseDeadmanQuietly is ParseDeadmanConfig without the startup logging: a
// team's configuration is read on every sweep and every webhook, and logging it
// each time would bury everything else.
func parseDeadmanQuietly(matchers string, timeout time.Duration, severity string) DeadmanConfig {
cfg := DeadmanConfig{Timeout: timeout, Severity: severity}
for _, entry := range strings.Split(matchers, ";") {
entry = strings.TrimSpace(entry)
if entry == "" {
continue
}
m := DeadmanMatcher{Labels: map[string]string{}}
malformed := false
for _, cond := range strings.Split(entry, ",") {
k, v, ok := strings.Cut(cond, "=")
k, v = strings.TrimSpace(k), strings.TrimSpace(v)
if !ok || k == "" || v == "" {
malformed = true
break
}
if k == "alertname" {
m.Name = v
continue
}
m.Labels[k] = v
}
if malformed || m.Name == "" {
continue
}
cfg.Matchers = append(cfg.Matchers, m)
}
return cfg
}