a2a_protocol_server/metrics/

mod.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Metrics hooks for observing handler activity.
//!
//! Implement [`Metrics`] to receive callbacks on requests, responses, errors,
//! latency, and queue depth changes. The default no-op implementation can be
//! overridden selectively.
//!
//! # Example
//!
//! ```rust,no_run
//! use a2a_protocol_server::metrics::Metrics;
//! use std::time::Duration;
//!
//! struct MyMetrics;
//!
//! impl Metrics for MyMetrics {
//!     fn on_request(&self, method: &str) {
//!         println!("request: {method}");
//!     }
//!     fn on_latency(&self, method: &str, duration: Duration) {
//!         println!("{method} took {duration:?}");
//!     }
//! }
//! ```

use std::sync::Arc;
use std::time::Duration;

/// Statistics about the HTTP connection pool.
///
/// Exposes hyper connection pool state for monitoring dashboards and alerts.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default)]
pub struct ConnectionPoolStats {
    /// Number of active (in-use) connections.
    pub active_connections: u32,
    /// Number of idle connections waiting for reuse.
    pub idle_connections: u32,
    /// Total connections created since process start.
    pub total_connections_created: u64,
    /// Connections closed due to errors or timeouts.
    pub connections_closed: u64,
}

/// Trait for receiving metrics callbacks from the handler.
///
/// All methods have default no-op implementations so that consumers can
/// override only the callbacks they care about.
pub trait Metrics: Send + Sync + 'static {
    /// Called when a request is received, before processing.
    fn on_request(&self, _method: &str) {}

    /// Called when a response is successfully sent.
    fn on_response(&self, _method: &str) {}

    /// Called when a request results in an error.
    ///
    /// `error_kind` is a **bounded, low-cardinality** discriminant (e.g.
    /// [`ServerError::metric_label`](crate::ServerError::metric_label)), never
    /// the free-form error message. Implementations may use it as a metric
    /// label/attribute; the caller guarantees it draws from a small fixed set,
    /// so a client cannot inflate metric cardinality through it.
    fn on_error(&self, _method: &str, _error_kind: &str) {}

    /// Called when a request completes (successfully or not) with the wall-clock
    /// duration from receipt to response.
    ///
    /// This is the #1 production observability metric — use it to feed
    /// histograms, percentile trackers, or SLO dashboards.
    fn on_latency(&self, _method: &str, _duration: Duration) {}

    /// Called when the number of active event queues changes.
    fn on_queue_depth_change(&self, _active_queues: usize) {}

    /// Called with connection pool statistics when available.
    ///
    /// Useful for monitoring connection pool health and detecting exhaustion.
    fn on_connection_pool_stats(&self, _stats: &ConnectionPoolStats) {}

    /// Called when the background event processor fails to persist a task.
    ///
    /// # Why this is not just a log line
    ///
    /// This is the SDK's one path that can lose data without the client
    /// noticing. The streaming reader is a separate subscriber to the event
    /// queue, so it receives an event whether or not the store accepted it: a
    /// caller watching the stream sees the artifact arrive and the task
    /// complete, while a later `GetTask` returns a task without it.
    ///
    /// Until this callback existed, the only report of that was a
    /// `tracing::error!` — and `tracing` was not then a default feature of
    /// this crate, so a default build lost the record silently. A metrics
    /// callback is always compiled, so the signal cannot be feature-gated
    /// away.
    ///
    /// Treat any non-zero rate here as data loss in progress. The usual causes
    /// are a full disk, an unreachable database, or a store rejecting writes
    /// under its own capacity limit.
    ///
    /// `operation` and `error_kind` are both **bounded, low-cardinality**
    /// discriminants — `operation` is one of the constants in
    /// [`persistence_operation`], and `error_kind` comes from
    /// [`A2aError::metric_label`](a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError::metric_label).
    /// Neither carries a task id or a free-form message, so a client cannot
    /// inflate metric cardinality through them.
    fn on_persistence_error(&self, _operation: &str, _error_kind: &str) {}

    /// Called after each attempt to deliver a push notification.
    ///
    /// `outcome` is one of `delivered`, `failed`, or `timeout`.
    ///
    /// Push delivery is outward-facing and asynchronous: nothing in the
    /// request path observes it, and a webhook that has been refusing every
    /// delivery for a day looks exactly like one that was never configured.
    /// As with [`on_persistence_error`](Metrics::on_persistence_error), the
    /// previous report was a `tracing` macro that a default build compiles
    /// away.
    fn on_push_delivery(&self, _outcome: &str) {}

    /// Called once per inbound A2A call, on every binding, when it finishes —
    /// with what the OpenTelemetry semantic conventions'
    /// `rpc.server.call.duration` records. See [`RpcCall`].
    ///
    /// Unlike [`on_request`](Metrics::on_request) and its siblings, this sees
    /// a call the handler never reached: a body that is not JSON-RPC, an
    /// unknown method, a call the peer abandoned. Those are the failures a
    /// dashboard built on the handler's callbacks alone could not show.
    fn on_rpc_call(&self, _call: &RpcCall<'_>) {}
}

/// One finished inbound call, as [`Metrics::on_rpc_call`] reports it.
///
/// Every field is a **bounded, low-cardinality** value, safe as a metric
/// attribute: nothing here is a task id, a message, or a string the peer
/// chose.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub struct RpcCall<'a> {
    /// The binding, as `rpc.system.name`: `jsonrpc` (JSON-RPC over HTTP or
    /// WebSocket), `a2a_http_json`, or `grpc`.
    pub system: &'a str,
    /// The method, as `rpc.method`: fully qualified
    /// (`lf.a2a.v1.A2AService/SendMessage`) or `_OTHER` for one the server
    /// does not serve. `None` when the request was refused before it named
    /// one — a body that is not JSON-RPC, a batch over the limit.
    pub method: Option<&'a str>,
    /// From receipt to the response, or to the stream being established for
    /// a streaming method — not to the stream's end.
    pub duration: Duration,
    /// The status the binding answered with, as `rpc.status_code`: the
    /// JSON-RPC error code (`-32001`), the HTTP status (`404`), or the gRPC
    /// status name (`NOT_FOUND`, and `OK` on success). `None` on success for
    /// the bindings that send no status code for one.
    pub status_code: Option<&'a str>,
    /// Set if and only if the call failed, as `error.type`: the failing
    /// `status_code`, or `cancelled` for a call dropped before it finished.
    pub error_type: Option<&'a str>,
}

/// Operation labels passed to [`Metrics::on_persistence_error`].
///
/// Named constants rather than string literals at the call sites, so the set
/// stays bounded and greppable — an operator building a dashboard needs to know
/// every value this can take, and a typo at one call site would otherwise
/// create a silent second series.
pub mod persistence_operation {
    /// Persisting a task status transition.
    pub const STATUS_UPDATE: &str = "status_update";
    /// Persisting parts appended to an existing artifact.
    pub const ARTIFACT_APPEND: &str = "artifact_append";
    /// Persisting a newly added artifact.
    pub const ARTIFACT_PUSH: &str = "artifact_push";
    /// Appending one event to a task's event log.
    pub const EVENT_APPEND: &str = "event_append";
    /// Persisting a whole-task snapshot event.
    pub const TASK_SNAPSHOT: &str = "task_snapshot";
    /// Persisting the failed state after an invalid transition was rejected.
    pub const FAILED_STATE: &str = "failed_state";
    /// Persisting an agent message appended to the task's history.
    pub const HISTORY_APPEND: &str = "history_append";
    /// Waiting for a task's event log to catch up with what was already
    /// broadcast, on a resubscribe that asked to resume.
    ///
    /// Reported when the wait bounded by
    /// [`HandlerLimits::subscribe_replay_catchup`](crate::handler::HandlerLimits::subscribe_replay_catchup)
    /// expired with the log still short of the writer's position. The replay
    /// was served with what the log held, so the subscriber is missing the
    /// shortfall — this is the only signal that it happened.
    pub const EVENT_LOG_CATCHUP: &str = "event_log_catchup";
    /// Handing an event from the executor's queue to the persistence processor.
    ///
    /// Reported with `error_kind = "channel_closed"` when the processor is
    /// gone and the event was dropped: the stream still serves live
    /// subscribers, but the task's stored state stops advancing, and until
    /// 0.12 a default build said nothing about it.
    pub const QUEUE_HANDOFF: &str = "queue_handoff";
}

/// Error kinds passed to [`Metrics::on_persistence_error`] for
/// [`persistence_operation::EVENT_LOG_CATCHUP`].
pub mod event_log_catchup_error {
    /// The bounded wait expired with the log still behind the position the
    /// writer had already broadcast. The replay was served short.
    pub const TIMED_OUT: &str = "timed_out";
}

/// Error kinds passed to [`Metrics::on_persistence_error`] for
/// [`persistence_operation::EVENT_APPEND`].
///
/// # Why an append that raised nothing is reported here
///
/// An append is `INSERT ... ON CONFLICT (task_id, seq) DO NOTHING`, because
/// `seq` is a *position*: writing one twice must leave one row. That is the
/// safety property, and it is also a way to lose an event without an error.
/// Two replicas each running their own in-process event queue number one
/// task's events from the same place — nothing here hands out a
/// database-backed lease — so replica B's event *n* lands on the position
/// replica A already wrote, and the row that stays is A's. Until these labels
/// existed the store returned `Ok(())` and nothing anywhere said so.
///
/// Both kinds mean **an event the agent emitted is not in the log**, which is
/// what [`Metrics::on_persistence_error`] is for. A retried append of the
/// *same* event is not reported here: see
/// [`POSITION_CONFLICT`](event_append_error::POSITION_CONFLICT).
pub mod event_append_error {
    /// The position was already held, and the store could not establish that
    /// the row already there is this same event.
    ///
    /// On a collision the store reads the stored payload back and compares it
    /// with what it was asked to write. Identical bytes mean a replay of the
    /// event already recorded, which loses nothing and is **not** counted.
    /// This label covers the rest: the stored event is a different one, or the
    /// comparison could not be made (the read-back failed, or the event would
    /// not serialize). It errs towards reporting.
    ///
    /// A non-zero rate is the shape the design has no other defence against:
    /// two writers numbering one task's log. Look for a second replica
    /// serving the same task id.
    pub const POSITION_CONFLICT: &str = "position_conflict";

    /// The store held no such task, so there was nowhere to put the event.
    ///
    /// Only the two in-memory stores raise this: they keep the log on the task
    /// entry, so eviction takes the log with it and the event processor can
    /// outlive the sweep that removed the task it is still writing for. The
    /// append stays a success on purpose — failing it would turn a swept task
    /// into a failed agent — and this is the report that it happened.
    pub const TASK_ABSENT: &str = "task_absent";
}

/// Error kinds passed to [`Metrics::on_persistence_error`] for
/// [`persistence_operation::QUEUE_HANDOFF`].
pub mod queue_handoff_error {
    /// The persistence channel's receiver was dropped; the event was not
    /// persisted.
    pub const CHANNEL_CLOSED: &str = "channel_closed";
}

/// Outcome labels passed to [`Metrics::on_push_delivery`].
pub mod push_outcome {
    /// The webhook accepted the delivery.
    pub const DELIVERED: &str = "delivered";
    /// The webhook was reached and refused it, or the sender errored.
    pub const FAILED: &str = "failed";
    /// The delivery did not complete within the configured timeout.
    pub const TIMEOUT: &str = "timeout";
    /// The delivery was cut short by `push_delivery_timeout` while the sender's
    /// own schedule still had attempts left.
    ///
    /// Distinct from [`TIMEOUT`], which is a webhook that did not answer inside
    /// the time it was given. This one is a *configuration* result: the sender
    /// reports (via `PushSender::max_delivery_duration`) that it wanted longer
    /// than the handler allows, so retries it advertises can never run. At the
    /// shipped defaults that is exactly the case — 98 seconds of schedule
    /// against a 5-second bound, measured at one attempt of three — and it is
    /// worth its own label because the fix is a config change, not a webhook
    /// investigation.
    pub const TIMEOUT_TRUNCATED: &str = "timeout_truncated";
    /// The per-event delivery budget ran out before this config was reached,
    /// so nothing was sent to it at all.
    ///
    /// Distinct from [`TIMEOUT`], which means a delivery was attempted and did
    /// not finish. A skipped config was never contacted. The two need separate
    /// labels because they call for different responses: a timeout points at
    /// one webhook, a run of skips points at the arithmetic between
    /// `max_push_configs_per_task`, `push_delivery_timeout` and the 30-second
    /// per-event budget.
    pub const SKIPPED: &str = "skipped";
}

/// A no-op [`Metrics`] implementation that discards all events.
#[derive(Debug, Default)]
pub struct NoopMetrics;

impl Metrics for NoopMetrics {}

/// A shareable [`Metrics`] a store can hold, and discard into by default.
///
/// The task stores all `#[derive(Debug)]` and `dyn Metrics` does not implement
/// it, so this wrapper carries the `Debug` rather than six hand-written impls
/// each of which is a chance to forget a field.
///
/// [`Default`] is [`NoopMetrics`], so a store built the way every existing
/// caller builds one keeps working. `with_metrics`, which every task store in
/// this crate has, is how an operator opts in.
#[derive(Clone)]
pub struct MetricsHandle(Arc<dyn Metrics>);

impl MetricsHandle {
    /// Wraps a metrics implementation.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn new<M: Metrics>(metrics: M) -> Self {
        Self(Arc::new(metrics))
    }

    /// Wraps an already-shared metrics implementation, so a process with one
    /// exporter hands the same one to every store.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn from_arc(metrics: Arc<dyn Metrics>) -> Self {
        Self(metrics)
    }
}

impl Default for MetricsHandle {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self(Arc::new(NoopMetrics))
    }
}

impl std::fmt::Debug for MetricsHandle {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        // No `Debug` on the callee, and nothing useful to print if there were:
        // the value is behaviour, not state.
        f.write_str("MetricsHandle(..)")
    }
}

impl std::ops::Deref for MetricsHandle {
    type Target = dyn Metrics;

    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
        &*self.0
    }
}

impl<M: Metrics> From<Arc<M>> for MetricsHandle {
    fn from(metrics: Arc<M>) -> Self {
        Self(metrics)
    }
}

/// Blanket implementation: `Arc<T>` implements [`Metrics`] if `T` does.
///
/// This eliminates the need for wrapper types like `MetricsForward` when
/// sharing a metrics instance across multiple handlers or tasks.
impl<T: Metrics + ?Sized> Metrics for Arc<T> {
    fn on_request(&self, method: &str) {
        (**self).on_request(method);
    }

    fn on_response(&self, method: &str) {
        (**self).on_response(method);
    }

    fn on_error(&self, method: &str, error: &str) {
        (**self).on_error(method, error);
    }

    fn on_latency(&self, method: &str, duration: Duration) {
        (**self).on_latency(method, duration);
    }

    fn on_queue_depth_change(&self, active_queues: usize) {
        (**self).on_queue_depth_change(active_queues);
    }

    fn on_connection_pool_stats(&self, stats: &ConnectionPoolStats) {
        (**self).on_connection_pool_stats(stats);
    }

    // The two hooks below were missing from this impl until 0.12, so a handler
    // built with `Arc<dyn Metrics>` (which `RequestHandlerBuilder::with_metrics`
    // accepts through this very impl) silently dropped every persistence error
    // and every push outcome on the floor. Found while wiring the queue
    // hand-off report: the test that asserted it moved a counter passed
    // against a bare implementation and failed against an `Arc` of the same.
    fn on_persistence_error(&self, operation: &str, error_kind: &str) {
        (**self).on_persistence_error(operation, error_kind);
    }

    fn on_push_delivery(&self, outcome: &str) {
        (**self).on_push_delivery(outcome);
    }

    fn on_rpc_call(&self, call: &RpcCall<'_>) {
        (**self).on_rpc_call(call);
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests;