microvms_protocol/health.rs
1// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
2//! The `GET /v1/health` response.
3
4use std::borrow::Cow;
5
6use schemars::JsonSchema;
7use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
8
9/// `GET /v1/health` response.
10#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
11pub struct Health {
12 // The daemon's own version, distinct from `PROTOCOL_VERSION`. `Cow` so the
13 // daemon reports its `CARGO_PKG_VERSION` borrowed while a client deserializes
14 // into an owned string.
15 //
16 // Not a doc comment, deliberately: schemars publishes doc comments as
17 // `description` and `docs/schema.json` is byte-compared, so adding one here is a
18 // schema change. The field was undocumented before the extraction and stays so.
19 pub version: Cow<'static, str>,
20 pub bootstrapped: bool,
21 /// Free space on the daemon's working filesystem, and the reserve it is judged
22 /// against.
23 ///
24 /// Reported so disk pressure is something an orchestrator *watches* rather than
25 /// something it discovers from a failed write. anthropics/claude-code#59856
26 /// filled two 10 GB disks to 100% with never-collected session directories and
27 /// the first symptom was `useradd: No space left on device` — by which point
28 /// every writer in the sandbox was already broken. A number on a health endpoint
29 /// is what makes that curve visible while there is still time to act.
30 ///
31 /// `None` when free space could not be measured, which is deliberately distinct
32 /// from zero: unmeasurable is not full, and a monitor that conflated them would
33 /// page on a missing `statvfs`.
34 pub disk: Option<DiskHealth>,
35 /// Whether any startup identity repair step failed. True means the VM is serving
36 /// with a value from the shared image still in place — a duplicate machine-id or
37 /// boot_id — which is a security-relevant condition an operator may want to
38 /// drain the VM over, but is never a reason for the daemon to refuse to serve.
39 pub identity_degraded: bool,
40 /// False when identity repair was switched off by config. Distinguished from a
41 /// repair that ran and found nothing so a monitor can tell "opted out" from
42 /// "nothing to do".
43 pub identity_repaired: bool,
44 /// Whether any exec is still running right now.
45 ///
46 /// Here so that an orchestrator *outside* the VM can decide whether to keep the
47 /// VM alive, and the "outside" is the whole design. The platform measures
48 /// idleness by inbound traffic through the endpoint proxy, and that proxy
49 /// terminates outside the guest and forwards over loopback (measured;
50 /// `docs/PLATFORM.md`, "The platform's own hook arrives over loopback"). A
51 /// request a guest process sends to the daemon's own port never reaches the
52 /// proxy, so no amount of in-guest traffic can reset the idle timer. A route
53 /// that promised otherwise would be a keepalive that does not keep anything
54 /// alive, discovered when a multi-hour run auto-suspends mid-work.
55 ///
56 /// What does reset it is a poll from outside, and this field is what makes such
57 /// a poll *informed* rather than unconditional: the orchestrator polls, which is
58 /// itself the inbound traffic, and reads whether the workload is busy to decide
59 /// whether to keep polling. The assertion is therefore repeated and explicitly
60 /// the caller's, which is what the daemon self-keepaliving would not be — a hung
61 /// process would then bill to the 8-hour ceiling with nobody asking.
62 ///
63 /// Computed from the exec registry rather than remembered: true iff at least one
64 /// registered exec has not yet published a result. An exec that exited and is
65 /// waiting to be acked is not busy — its output is being *held*, not produced —
66 /// so an orchestrator does not keep a VM alive for a command that finished.
67 ///
68 /// `#[serde(default)]`, unlike every field above it, and the asymmetry is not an
69 /// oversight. The daemon is baked into an image while the client is installed
70 /// separately, so a current client routinely talks to a daemon from whenever that
71 /// image was built — and a required field would make `health()` fail outright
72 /// against a daemon that predates it, turning a missing signal into an
73 /// unreachable VM. False is also the right absence: a daemon that cannot say
74 /// whether it is busy has not asserted that it is.
75 #[serde(default)]
76 pub busy: bool,
77 /// How many execs are registered, in any phase.
78 ///
79 /// Alongside `busy` because the two answer different questions and a monitor
80 /// wants both: `busy: false, execs: 0` is a fresh or drained VM, while
81 /// `busy: false, execs: 7` is a VM holding seven unacked results that somebody
82 /// still has to collect. Terminating the second loses output nobody read.
83 ///
84 /// Defaulted for the same reason as `busy`: a client routinely talks to a daemon
85 /// baked into an older image, and zero is the honest reading of a daemon that
86 /// does not report a count.
87 #[serde(default)]
88 pub execs: usize,
89 /// Hook requests kept in the daemon's capped log, oldest first.
90 ///
91 /// Each entry records the requested hook path and the daemon's clock when
92 /// it recorded the request. The platform writes no CloudWatch logs for the
93 /// validate hook, so a kept entry provides a record of its receipt.
94 ///
95 /// Hook routes are unauthenticated and reachable over loopback from inside
96 /// the guest. An entry shows receipt, not the request's source identity.
97 /// The log keeps its earliest entries and counts later requests in
98 /// `hooks_dropped` without storing them, including later platform requests.
99 ///
100 /// Defaulted for `busy`'s reason: an older daemon omits the field, and an empty
101 /// list is the honest reading of a daemon that reports no observations.
102 #[serde(default)]
103 pub hooks: Vec<HookObservation>,
104 /// How many hook invocations were dropped once the log reached its cap.
105 ///
106 /// The log preserves its earliest entries. Later requests are counted here
107 /// without being stored or running a workload handler. Their routes still
108 /// perform other work and return their normal status.
109 ///
110 /// Defaulted like `hooks`: an older daemon omits it, and zero is the honest
111 /// reading of a daemon that dropped nothing it could tell us about.
112 #[serde(default)]
113 pub hooks_dropped: u64,
114 /// Each identity-repair step and its outcome, in the order they ran.
115 ///
116 /// Empty until repair runs, which is at the first successful run hook: repair at
117 /// daemon start would run in the image-build VM and be captured by the snapshot,
118 /// giving every VM the same "repaired" identity. `identity_degraded` says whether
119 /// any step failed; this says which one and why.
120 ///
121 /// Defaulted for `busy`'s reason: an older daemon omits it.
122 #[serde(default)]
123 pub identity_steps: Vec<IdentityStep>,
124 /// How many variables the daemon's image-environment snapshot holds, or `None` when
125 /// it holds no snapshot.
126 ///
127 /// The snapshot is the environment the daemon inherited as the container `CMD`, minus
128 /// every `AGENTD_*` variable, taken once at startup; a start request with
129 /// `inherit_image_env` starts its child from it. A count and never the values: this
130 /// route answers without the agent token, and an image's `ENV` can hold anything its
131 /// author put there.
132 ///
133 /// Defaulted for `busy`'s reason, and `None` is also what a daemon that predates
134 /// `inherit_image_env` reads as, which is how a caller tells whether the flag will be
135 /// honoured: such a daemon ignores the flag rather than refusing it.
136 #[serde(default)]
137 pub image_env_keys: Option<usize>,
138}
139
140/// One identity-repair step, as the daemon ran it.
141#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Eq, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
142pub struct IdentityStep {
143 /// `machine-id`, `hostname`, `boot-id`, `random-seed`, or `cached-credential`.
144 pub name: String,
145 /// `repaired`, `not_applicable`, or `failed`.
146 pub outcome: String,
147 /// The OS error for a failed step. Names a path or an errno, never a value.
148 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
149 pub error: Option<String>,
150}
151
152/// What a workload's handler for a lifecycle hook did.
153///
154/// The daemon runs `<hooks dir>/<hook>` when the image carries one. Output is not
155/// here: `/v1/health` is readable without the agent token, so a handler's output
156/// goes to the daemon's log instead.
157#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Eq, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
158pub struct HandlerOutcome {
159 /// The handler's exit code, or `None` when it was killed or never started.
160 pub exit_code: Option<i32>,
161 /// The signal that ended it, if one did.
162 #[serde(default)]
163 pub signal: Option<i32>,
164 /// Whether the daemon killed it for exceeding its time budget.
165 #[serde(default)]
166 pub timed_out: bool,
167 /// Wall-clock milliseconds from spawn to exit or kill.
168 pub duration_ms: u64,
169 /// Why the handler could not run at all: not executable, or spawn failed.
170 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
171 pub error: Option<String>,
172}
173
174impl HandlerOutcome {
175 /// Whether the handler ran and exited 0.
176 pub fn succeeded(&self) -> bool {
177 self.exit_code == Some(0) && !self.timed_out && self.error.is_none()
178 }
179}
180
181/// One lifecycle-hook invocation, as the daemon observed it.
182///
183/// A daemon-reported fact in the same trust class as an exec's exit code: the
184/// daemon's word about a request it served, carrying nothing the guest printed.
185#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Eq, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
186pub struct HookObservation {
187 /// Which hook, spelled the way the platform's routes spell it: `ready`,
188 /// `validate`, `run`, `suspend`, `resume`, or `terminate`.
189 pub hook: String,
190 /// Seconds since the epoch on the daemon's clock when the invocation arrived.
191 ///
192 /// The daemon's clock rather than any caller's, and recorded before the handler
193 /// does any work — a run hook that was invoked and refused still fired.
194 pub fired_at: u64,
195 /// The workload handler's outcome, when the image carries a handler for this
196 /// hook. Absent on the wire otherwise, so an entry without one reads exactly as
197 /// it did before handlers existed.
198 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
199 pub handler: Option<HandlerOutcome>,
200}
201
202/// The disk half of [`Health`].
203#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, JsonSchema, Serialize)]
204pub struct DiskHealth {
205 /// Bytes available to an unprivileged writer, from `statvfs` `f_bavail`.
206 pub available_bytes: u64,
207 /// Bytes that must stay free before a write is refused. Zero means the guard is
208 /// disabled.
209 pub reserve_bytes: u64,
210 /// Whether a write would be refused right now. Precomputed rather than left to
211 /// the client, so every consumer applies the same comparison the write path does.
212 pub under_pressure: bool,
213}
214
215#[cfg(test)]
216mod tests {
217 use super::*;
218
219 /// `disk: null` is not `disk` absent: unmeasurable free space is distinct from
220 /// zero, and a client that read a missing key as zero would page on a missing
221 /// `statvfs`.
222 #[test]
223 fn health_reports_an_unmeasurable_disk_as_an_explicit_null() {
224 let written = serde_json::to_string(&Health {
225 version: Cow::Borrowed("0.1.0"),
226 bootstrapped: true,
227 disk: None,
228 identity_degraded: false,
229 identity_repaired: true,
230 busy: false,
231 execs: 0,
232 hooks: Vec::new(),
233 hooks_dropped: 0,
234 identity_steps: Vec::new(),
235 image_env_keys: None,
236 })
237 .expect("serializes");
238 assert!(written.contains(r#""disk":null"#), "{written}");
239
240 let read: Health = serde_json::from_str(&written).expect("deserializes");
241 assert_eq!(read.version, "0.1.0");
242 assert!(read.disk.is_none());
243 }
244
245 /// `busy` and `execs` round-trip, and they are separate facts: a VM holding
246 /// unacked results is not busy, and an orchestrator that conflated the two would
247 /// either keep a finished VM alive or terminate one whose output nobody read.
248 #[test]
249 fn health_carries_busy_and_the_exec_count_as_two_separate_facts() {
250 let written = serde_json::to_string(&Health {
251 version: Cow::Borrowed("0.1.0"),
252 bootstrapped: true,
253 disk: None,
254 identity_degraded: false,
255 identity_repaired: true,
256 busy: false,
257 execs: 7,
258 hooks: Vec::new(),
259 hooks_dropped: 0,
260 identity_steps: Vec::new(),
261 image_env_keys: None,
262 })
263 .expect("serializes");
264 assert!(written.contains(r#""busy":false"#), "{written}");
265 assert!(written.contains(r#""execs":7"#), "{written}");
266
267 let read: Health = serde_json::from_str(&written).expect("deserializes");
268 assert!(!read.busy);
269 assert_eq!(read.execs, 7);
270 }
271
272 /// The hook observations round-trip, spelled as the routes spell them, with the
273 /// dropped count beside them.
274 #[test]
275 fn health_carries_hook_observations_and_the_dropped_count() {
276 let written = serde_json::to_string(&Health {
277 version: Cow::Borrowed("0.1.0"),
278 bootstrapped: true,
279 disk: None,
280 identity_degraded: false,
281 identity_repaired: true,
282 busy: false,
283 execs: 0,
284 hooks: vec![
285 HookObservation {
286 hook: "validate".to_string(),
287 fired_at: 1_756_500_000,
288 handler: None,
289 },
290 HookObservation {
291 hook: "run".to_string(),
292 fired_at: 1_756_500_100,
293 handler: None,
294 },
295 ],
296 hooks_dropped: 3,
297 identity_steps: Vec::new(),
298 image_env_keys: None,
299 })
300 .expect("serializes");
301 // The wire keys are pinned to the response's own convention — snake_case,
302 // like `identity_degraded` beside them. The CLI's history line respells
303 // `fired_at` as `firedAt` because the history file is camelCase; a spelling
304 // only one side writes fails exactly when someone reads it.
305 assert!(
306 written.contains(r#""hooks":[{"hook":"validate","fired_at":1756500000}"#),
307 "{written}"
308 );
309 assert!(written.contains(r#""hooks_dropped":3"#), "{written}");
310
311 let read: Health = serde_json::from_str(&written).expect("deserializes");
312 assert_eq!(read.hooks.len(), 2);
313 assert_eq!(read.hooks[0].hook, "validate");
314 assert_eq!(read.hooks[0].fired_at, 1_756_500_000);
315 assert_eq!(read.hooks_dropped, 3);
316 }
317
318 /// An old daemon's envelope — no `hooks`, no `hooks_dropped` — still parses, with
319 /// the empty defaults. The daemon is baked into an image while the client is
320 /// installed separately, so this is the compatibility floor, not an edge case.
321 #[test]
322 fn an_old_daemons_envelope_parses_with_no_hook_fields() {
323 let read: Health = serde_json::from_str(
324 r#"{"version": "0.1.0", "bootstrapped": true, "disk": null,
325 "identity_degraded": false, "identity_repaired": true}"#,
326 )
327 .expect("deserializes");
328 assert!(read.hooks.is_empty());
329 assert_eq!(read.hooks_dropped, 0);
330 assert!(!read.busy);
331 assert_eq!(read.execs, 0);
332 }
333
334 /// A handler outcome and the identity steps round-trip, and a hook with no
335 /// handler keeps the exact spelling older clients parse.
336 #[test]
337 fn handler_outcomes_and_identity_steps_round_trip() {
338 let written = serde_json::to_string(&Health {
339 version: Cow::Borrowed("0.1.0"),
340 bootstrapped: true,
341 disk: None,
342 identity_degraded: true,
343 identity_repaired: true,
344 busy: false,
345 execs: 0,
346 hooks: vec![
347 HookObservation {
348 hook: "run".to_string(),
349 fired_at: 1,
350 handler: None,
351 },
352 HookObservation {
353 hook: "suspend".to_string(),
354 fired_at: 2,
355 handler: Some(HandlerOutcome {
356 exit_code: None,
357 signal: Some(9),
358 timed_out: true,
359 duration_ms: 20_000,
360 error: None,
361 }),
362 },
363 ],
364 hooks_dropped: 0,
365 identity_steps: vec![IdentityStep {
366 name: "boot-id".to_string(),
367 outcome: "failed".to_string(),
368 error: Some("EPERM: Operation not permitted".to_string()),
369 }],
370 image_env_keys: None,
371 })
372 .expect("serializes");
373 assert!(
374 written.contains(r#"{"hook":"run","fired_at":1}"#),
375 "{written}"
376 );
377 let read: Health = serde_json::from_str(&written).expect("deserializes");
378 let handler = read.hooks[1].handler.as_ref().expect("a handler outcome");
379 assert!(handler.timed_out && !handler.succeeded());
380 assert_eq!(read.identity_steps[0].outcome, "failed");
381 }
382
383 /// AGENTD-13 on the wire: a count, and an older daemon's missing key reads as `None`,
384 /// the same answer as a daemon with no snapshot, so a caller cannot mistake a daemon
385 /// that would ignore `inherit_image_env` for one that honours it.
386 #[test]
387 fn the_image_env_count_round_trips_and_an_older_daemon_reads_as_none() {
388 let written = serde_json::to_value(Health {
389 version: Cow::Borrowed("0.1.0"),
390 bootstrapped: true,
391 disk: None,
392 identity_degraded: false,
393 identity_repaired: true,
394 busy: false,
395 execs: 0,
396 hooks: Vec::new(),
397 hooks_dropped: 0,
398 identity_steps: Vec::new(),
399 image_env_keys: Some(4),
400 })
401 .expect("serializes");
402 assert_eq!(written["image_env_keys"], 4);
403 let read: Health = serde_json::from_value(written).expect("deserializes");
404 assert_eq!(read.image_env_keys, Some(4));
405
406 let older: Health = serde_json::from_str(
407 r#"{"version":"0.9.0","bootstrapped":true,"disk":null,"identity_degraded":false,"identity_repaired":true}"#,
408 )
409 .expect("an older daemon's body deserializes");
410 assert_eq!(older.image_env_keys, None);
411 }
412}