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…API proposal Add a design proposal for a read-only Kubernetes aggregation API (metrics.cozystack.io) that lets the dashboard render per-tenant, per-resource consumption graphs (CPU, memory, network) for VM instances and other resources. Tenant isolation is enforced server-side and authorization reuses the existing tenant RBAC and Keycloak groups. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
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…on and tighten input handling Fix a factual claim flagged in review: workloads.cozystack.io status.resources is a mix of categories, and S3 size is measured consumption from SeaweedFS metrics, not allocation. Also clarify PVC capacity vs requests, the oauth2-proxy vs token-proxy default, and add target.name sanitization to the security model. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
…lation, resolver Align the prior-art sentence with the Design section: authorization uses the delegated-RBAC SubjectAccessReview model, not the tenantnamespaces any-binding walk. Name the Layer-2 isolation label (per-series namespace) and state the non-spoofable invariant explicitly. Simplify tenant resolution to read the inherited namespace.cozystack.io/monitoring label directly instead of walking ancestors. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
…t-label resolver Section 5 resolves the vmselect by reading the inherited namespace.cozystack.io/monitoring label directly, so the unit-test description must not say the resolver walks the ancestry. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
…d add Decisions section The namespace.cozystack.io/monitoring label defaults to empty, not tenant-root; tenant-root is where series land via the hardcoded monitoring-agents remote-write target. State that the resolver reads the label directly and falls back to tenant-root on an empty value, and sync the testing bullet. Add the Decisions section from the proposal template. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
… console-usage wording Use the real dashboard value key _cluster.oidc-enabled. Note the existing per-tenant PVC-by-StorageClass summary and scope the gap to a per-VM consumption time-series view. Mark the billing.aenix.io reference as external and pattern-only. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
… accurately The PVC-by-StorageClass view is cluster-wide across all tenants, not per-tenant; the Capacity gauges render requested-vs-allocatable while metrics.k8s.io feeds a per-node table Used column. Describe both correctly. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
…ge and label-trust caveats State the OIDC-enabled/no-group-prefix prerequisite the group-based authz relies on as an open question. Flag that the disk-usage fallback is allocation, not measured usage. Describe the isolation invariant in terms of who attributes the namespace label per source, since honorLabels differs across scrapes (cAdvisor keeps scraped labels, kube-state-metrics does not). Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
… the phase-0 check Both rendered platform scrapes set honorLabels: true (the honorLabels:false ServiceMonitor in the kube-state-metrics subchart is gated off and never renders), so state the isolation invariant as a phase-0 confirmation per source without asserting honorLabels behavior. Correct the phase-0 example to query vmselect or the KubeVirt VMServiceScrape in tenant-root rather than a wrong kubectl invocation. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
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- Line 159: Update the disk-usage metric definition in the tenant resource
metrics API proposal to remove the allocated-capacity fallback; only use a
measured-usage source, or define allocation separately rather than reporting it
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- Line 215: Update the pod-selector construction described in the Input
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- Line 248: Update the Layer 1 authorization prerequisite in the tenant resource
metrics API proposal to explicitly require management-apiserver OIDC with a flat
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- Around line 194-195: Add or document a least-privilege grant allowing the
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Align the sample timestamps with the requested range.
The range is October 7, 2026, but these sample timestamps are October 7, 2023. Replace them with timestamps inside the specified range.
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| - the `APIService` for `v1alpha1.metrics.cozystack.io` with delegated authn/authz (`auth-delegator` ClusterRoleBinding, `auth-reader` RoleBinding), mirroring `cozystack-api`, | ||
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Grant the resolver permission to read tenant Namespaces.
The server must read the tenant Namespace label, but the listed bindings do not grant its ServiceAccount get namespaces. The aggregated ClusterRole grants users create metricqueries; it does not grant the server Namespace reads. If no separate binding exists, queries can fail with 403 Forbidden. Add or document a least-privilege Namespace-read grant.
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Add or document a least-privilege grant allowing the metrics server’s
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| - **New trust boundary:** the server issues PromQL to `vmselect` on behalf of users. The whole point of layer 2 is that the server, not the user, decides the tenant filter. Client label selectors are never forwarded verbatim. | ||
| - **Tenant-supplied input** is limited to a namespace (authorized by RBAC), a target kind/name, a metric from a fixed catalog, and a bounded range/step. There is no free-form PromQL, which removes both the cross-tenant read risk and the expensive-query risk inherent in a raw proxy. | ||
| - **Input sanitization.** `target.name` is validated against the Kubernetes resource-name grammar before it is interpolated into any PromQL matcher (for example the `virt-launcher-<vm>-.*` pod selector), so a tenant cannot inject regex metacharacters to widen the selection. Cross-tenant reads stay impossible regardless, because the server's `namespace` matcher is ANDed into every query; sanitization closes the narrower within-tenant widening. |
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Escape target.name before building the pod regex.
Kubernetes resource names can contain ., but PromQL =~ treats . as a wildcard. A valid name such as my.vm can therefore match pods for myXvm and return another VM’s series in the same namespace. Escape the name as a regex literal or use an exact label matcher. (kubernetes.io)
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…ubresource Following a design discussion, drop the standalone metrics.cozystack.io aggregation API with a MetricQuery kind in favor of a metrics subresource on the existing apps.cozystack.io application resource in cozystack-api, modeled on the portal logs API. The subresource reverse-proxies to the tenant vmselect and returns native Prometheus-compatible JSON with no Kubernetes envelope; RBAC is free because it shares the apps.cozystack.io group; tenant isolation is a server-forced extra_filters. Record vmauth and a Grafana deep-link as alternatives and metrics-store multi-tenancy as the foundational dependency. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
…empty-label facts Metrics-read is already covered by the existing apps.cozystack.io wildcard get grant in cozy:tenant:view:base, so no new ClusterRole is needed and metrics-read is coupled to app-read. Cozystack trace isolation uses injected AccountID/ProjectID headers, not extra_filters, so correct the precedent. State the empty monitoring-label rule explicitly (resolve to tenant-root) and note it diverges from the workloadmonitor controller. Add reverse-proxy endpoint allowlisting, the POST/create verb implication, and separate-gating as open questions; fix ancestor-group subjects and drop an unsupported tenantsecret parenthetical. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
…ion framing, move to Review Describe the subresource as one shared handler registered per plural in the existing loop rather than 'one dynamic kind defined once'. Frame the redraft as replacing an earlier draft in this PR to match the PR body. Move status to Review as the PR goes ready. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
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…cisions Close each previously-open design point with a decision or a reasoned recommendation: rest.Connecter handler, raw PromQL passthrough with forced extra_filters, store selection by retention fit, GET-only, metrics-read coupled to app-read, tenant-wide aggregate deferred as a Tenant subresource, OIDC stated as a prerequisite, guest clusters out of scope. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
…names a namespace The label names the namespace holding the tenant's data; the handler then targets a vmselect there, shortterm or longterm per the requested range, consistent with the store-selection decision. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
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…rns, drop private references Remove references to a private repository and product and reframe the prior art on public upstream Kubernetes patterns (pods/log, pods/proxy, SubjectAccessReview). Technical substance is unchanged. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
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Thanks for the rework, IvanHunters, and for the latest commit that makes the prior art stand on its own. Dropping the MetricQuery kind and returning native Prometheus JSON were the right calls, and the problem statement is clear.
First, a correction on my side. I was earlier in favour of the subresource direction, which is part of why the doc moved there. Working through the details has changed my mind, and I'm sorry for the extra round this costs you. I don't think Cozystack should grow a Kubernetes extension API for metrics, either as a new group or as a subresource on apps.cozystack.io. I'd recommend a small authorizing proxy in front of VictoriaMetrics instead. The reasoning follows.
What we actually need from Kubernetes
The reason to build this into Cozystack at all is so that Kubernetes identity and RBAC decide who can read which tenant's metrics: the same tokens, the same tenant groups, the same view<use<admin rollup, the same ancestor access. That requirement is about authentication and authorization, not about routing. Kubernetes exposes both as APIs that any component can call:
TokenReviewvalidates the bearer token the dashboard already holds. It covers OIDC and ServiceAccount tokens alike, because kube-apiserver uses its own authenticators to answer.SubjectAccessReviewasks RBAC whether that user, with their groups, may do X in namespace Y.
A proxy that makes these two calls is authorized by Kubernetes RBAC exactly as much as an aggregated API server is, which itself asks the same questions through delegated authorization. Identity and policy stay Kubernetes. Only the query traffic stays out of the API server.
What routing through the aggregation layer costs
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The query path goes through the control plane. Every chart refresh crosses kube-apiserver, the aggregator and
cozystack-api. Each request:- counts against API Priority and Fairness, alongside every other tenant's API traffic;
- is subject to the non-long-running request timeout (60s by default);
- may write an audit entry with the PromQL in the URL, depending on the audit policy.
Range queries over large windows are exactly the slow, bulky requests this machinery isn't built for.
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It shares a failure domain with all application CRUD.
cozystack-apiserves every application kind and rolls out whenever an ApplicationDefinition changes. Graphs would drop out during each rollout, and a slowvmselectholds connections in the server that handles all application reads and writes. -
It isn't really a Prometheus endpoint. A Kubernetes path can carry a Prometheus API tail only under a connect subresource of a specific object. That means one datasource per application here, or per namespace with a placeholder object invented to anchor the path. Grafana's metric browser and autocomplete also need
labels,label/<name>/valuesandseries. And Grafana sends queries as POST by default, which Kubernetes authorizes ascreate, a verb the tenant view role doesn't grant onapps.cozystack.io. -
The object in the path can't be enforced. The series these graphs need (cAdvisor, kube-state-metrics,
kubevirt_vmi_*) carrynamespacebut no release or application label (see line 113). The boundary that can actually be enforced is the namespace, which matches how tenant roles are bound anyway. Hanging the endpoint off each application object adds API surface for a scope it can't guarantee. -
The tenant-wide view doesn't fit. A
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metricssubresource on every application kind becomes part of theapps.cozystack.iocontract and shows up in discovery. Later replacing it, say once the metrics store gets native multi-tenancy, means removing API surface clients depend on. A proxy is an implementation detail behind a URL and can be swapped freely.
What it buys, and the proxy equivalent
| Aggregation layer gives | Proxy equivalent |
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| Token authentication | TokenReview, cached |
| Namespace-scoped RBAC decision | SubjectAccessReview, cached |
| No new host to expose | A path on the dashboard's existing nginx (next to /apis), plus an in-cluster Service for Grafana |
| No new Deployment | Not matched: the proxy is one small stateless Deployment |
The one thing the aggregation layer genuinely saves is a Deployment. Given the costs above, that isn't a good trade.
Suggested design
dashboard / tenant Grafana
│ Authorization: Bearer <same token used for kube-apiserver>
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metrics proxy GET|POST /namespaces/<ns>/api/v1/{query,query_range,labels,label/<name>/values,series}
1. TokenReview(token) → user, groups (cached)
2. SubjectAccessReview(get <virtual resource> in <ns>) → allow / 403 (cached)
3. rebuild the upstream request: allowlisted params only,
namespace="<ns>" injected into every selector and every match[]
4. per-user concurrency / rate limits, range / step / timeout caps
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vmselect in tenant-root (shortterm or longterm chosen by range)
- Off-the-shelf parts: kube-rbac-proxy (TokenReview + SubjectAccessReview) in front of prom-label-proxy (label enforcement for queries,
match[], and the labels endpoints). OpenShift serves per-project metrics to users with the view role the same way. A single small Go service doing the same steps is also fine. Either way, it is far less code than an API-server subresource plus its tests. - RBAC: one rule naming a virtual resource that no API server serves. The rule is aggregated into
cozy:tenant:viewvia the existingrbac.cozystack.io/aggregate-to-tenant-viewlabel. Ancestor access comes for free from the existing bindings. Because the rule is its own, metrics-read can later be gated separately from app-read (line 179 currently has to rule that out). - Dashboard: the same token and a standard Prometheus client. Per-app graphs are just queries scoped by
pod/nameinside the tenant's namespace. "All my databases" is the same endpoint with a wider query, so no second mechanism is needed. - Tenant Grafana: can use the same endpoint as a datasource, one per namespace, with the user's forwarded identity or a ServiceAccount token.
Much of the current doc carries over unchanged: Context, Problem, goals other than the "in cozystack-api" one, the GET/raw-PromQL reasoning, the Phase 0 KubeVirt scrape check, the store selection by range, and most of Security and Testing.
Issues that apply whichever shape we pick
Details are in the inline comments:
- What the forced filter can match on (line 113).
- Stripping caller-supplied
extra_filters/extra_label. vmselect ORs repeatedextra_filtersvalues; CodeRabbit raised this and it's still open (line 113). - Store resolution points monitoring-enabled tenants at a store without their resource metrics (line 117).
- Where the labels in the shared store come from (line 141).
- Concrete query-cost limits (line 144).
Smaller items:
- The PR title and description still describe the earlier
metrics.cozystack.io/MetricQuerydesign and "Draft" status. - A few passages still lean on a design discussion readers weren't part of (line 23).
- Who owns the per-kind PromQL (CNPG pods,
kubevirt_vmi_*, Redis, …)? The SPA, or something declared on the ApplicationDefinition? Line 97's "per-kind cost: none" doesn't cover this.
| - **Complements, does not replace, Grafana.** Grafana stays the place for deep exploration; this serves embedded, basic per-resource graphs for tenants who do not run their own Grafana. | ||
| - **Billing is out of scope.** This proposal exposes measured consumption for graphs; it does not meter, price, or produce invoices. | ||
| - **Alert management is a separate proposal.** Managing alert rules and routing is read-write and stateful; unlike metrics, it likely does need an aggregation API. Deferred (see Non-goals). | ||
| - **Foundational dependency: multi-tenancy for the metrics store.** The real underlying work flagged in the discussion is proper per-tenant isolation of the metrics backend, whatever it is. This proposal's forced-filter and store resolution are the per-tenant access layer on top of that (see Design and Rollout). |
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Thanks for removing the external references. A few passages still point to a conversation community readers weren't part of:
- "after a design discussion" (line 14);
- "flagged in the discussion" (line 23);
- "the team-flagged underlying work" (line 168);
- "Rejected in the design discussion" (line 185);
- "Decision criterion from the discussion" (line 187).
Please state the reasoning itself, so the document doesn't refer to a conversation its readers weren't part of. For example: "per-tenant isolation of the metrics store is the underlying prerequisite".
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| - **Aggregated-API streaming resources (the mechanism).** An aggregated API server can serve a virtual, non-etcd resource that streams a backend's native response rather than a Kubernetes object, the way upstream `pods/log` streams container logs and `pods/proxy` reverse-proxies to a pod. A resource whose authorization lives in a different API group than the objects it reports on needs a **custom `SubjectAccessReview`** in the handler, so its RBAC is not free; this proposal avoids that by exposing metrics as a subresource in the same `apps.cozystack.io` group as its target. | ||
| - **cozystack-api (the host).** `cozystack-api` is the aggregated API server for `apps.cozystack.io`, registering one storage per application kind from the `ApplicationDefinition` set, with delegated authentication and authorization. It has no subresource today, so this adds the first one. | ||
| - **Kubernetes subresource precedents.** Upstream `pods/log` uses `GetterWithOptions` + `ResourceStreamer` to stream a non-JSON body; `pods/proxy` uses `rest.Connecter` to return an `http.Handler` that reverse-proxies arbitrary methods and response bodies. The latter is the closer fit for a Prometheus passthrough. |
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Small correction to the reasoning. A resource in a different API group doesn't need a custom SubjectAccessReview just because it's in another group. It needs one RBAC rule naming it, aggregated into the tenant roles like any other. A handler-side SubjectAccessReview is only needed when the object being authorized arrives in the request instead of the URL path. That matters for the comparison in section 2 and at line 187: "RBAC is not free" here means one ClusterRole rule, not a custom authorization layer.
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| Add a `metrics` subresource to each `apps.cozystack.io` application kind in `cozystack-api`, registered under the storage key `"<plural>/metrics"` and implemented as a `rest.Connecter` (the `pods/proxy` pattern): the handler returns an `http.Handler` that reverse-proxies to the tenant's `vmselect`. |
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This is the part I'd change, per the top-level comment. The section would become "an authorizing proxy in front of vmselect":
TokenReview+SubjectAccessReviewfor identity and RBAC;- label enforcement in the proxy;
- served on a path behind the dashboard's nginx.
cozystack-api and apps.cozystack.io would stay untouched.
| | new components | none (handler in existing `cozystack-api`) | a new aggregated API server | a new aggregated API server | | ||
| | per-kind cost | none: one shared handler, registered per plural in the existing loop, no per-kind code or recompile | one resource for all | one resource, but per-target SAR wiring | | ||
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| The decisive points: RBAC is genuinely free because the subresource shares the `apps.cozystack.io` group with its target, so it inherits the existing wildcard `get apps.cozystack.io/*` grant (a separate-group resource could not); the response is the backend's own Prometheus JSON, so the dashboard reuses a standard client instead of a second kube-style API; and because `cozystack-api` builds its application storages in one loop over `ApplicationDefinition`, the `metrics` subresource is one shared handler registered per plural in that loop rather than hand-written per application type, avoiding a per-kind recompile. |
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It's free here only because the view role has a wildcard over apps.cozystack.io. The same decision is one SubjectAccessReview away for any component, and a dedicated rule costs one aggregated ClusterRole entry. That rule also buys the ability to gate metrics-read separately later, which line 179 has to rule out because the subresource rides on the wildcard.
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| **Layer 1 (RBAC), free and already granted.** Because the subresource is in `apps.cozystack.io`, the kube-apiserver and `cozystack-api`'s delegated authorizer check `get <plural>/metrics` in the request namespace with no custom code. And it needs no new rule: the existing `cozy:tenant:view:base` ClusterRole already grants `get` on `apps.cozystack.io` with resources `["*"]`, and an RBAC resource wildcard matches subresources, so `get <plural>/metrics` is already authorized at tenant `view` and above through the existing `<tenant>-view` group bindings. Metrics-read therefore inherits app-read, with zero new ClusterRole, no new Keycloak group, and no tenant-chart change. The consequence is that metrics-read cannot be gated separately from app-read while that wildcard stands: gating it differently would mean narrowing the existing wildcard, which is out of scope here (see Open questions). | ||
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| **Layer 2 (forced filter), the isolation hinge.** The handler takes the tenant from the request namespace (already authorized) and the release from the object name, and appends a mandatory `extra_filters` label matcher to the forwarded query. In VictoriaMetrics `extra_filters` is ANDed into every selector of the query, so even a raw client-supplied PromQL cannot escape the tenant's own `namespace` (and release) scope. Always adding a scope filter and rejecting an empty one is the standard way to make a shared backend safe; `extra_filters` is VictoriaMetrics' documented mechanism for it. Because the filter is forced server-side, raw Prometheus passthrough is isolation-safe and no fixed metric catalog is required. |
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Two concerns. Both apply to a proxy just as much as to the subresource.
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What "the release" filter matches on. cAdvisor series carry
namespace,podandcontainer.kubevirt_vmi_*carriesnamespaceandname. Neither has a release label, and the only generic link from an application to its pods is a join withkube_pod_labels, whichextra_filterscan't express. Stamping an application label onto per-app scrape objects wouldn't help either, because these series come from node-level scrapes (kubelet/cAdvisor, virt-handler). So the enforced filter should be namespace-only, stated explicitly. Per-app scoping is then a matter of which query the dashboard sends, which is fine because tenant roles are namespace-wide. -
Stripping caller parameters. Repeated
extra_filters/extra_filters[]values are OR-ed by vmselect, so a caller-suppliedextra_filters[]={namespace=~".+"}would widen the scope. Please build the upstream request from scratch:- copy only allowlisted parameters (
query,start,end,step,time,match[], a clampedtimeout); - inject the namespace matcher server-side;
- add a test where the caller tries
extra_filters,extra_filters[]andextra_label.
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Please add a note on where the labels come from. The forced filter keeps reads safe, but a namespace label in the shared store doesn't prove where a series came from. tenant-root's vminsert accepts remote-write at account 0 from tenant workloads; nested Kubernetes clusters write their metrics there by design, and their tenants administer those agents. So a tenant can write series labelled with another tenant's namespace. That can't leak data, but it can make another tenant's graphs show fabricated numbers, or push their queries over the series limits.
At minimum, state this and link it to the "foundational multi-tenancy" item. Better, say which write-path control would close it: a vmauth on the write path, per-writer accounts, or similar.
| - **Trust boundary:** `cozystack-api` issues queries to `vmselect` on behalf of users. The forced `extra_filters` is server-decided; a client-supplied query is passed through only after the tenant filter is ANDed into every selector, so it cannot widen past the tenant. | ||
| - **Why not `services/proxy` to `vmselect`:** coarse authz, no forced filter, leaks across tenants on the shared store. | ||
| - **No stored credentials:** `cozystack-api` reaches `vmselect` with its own identity and authorizes callers by delegated kube authn, unlike a `vmauth` path which would require per-tenant tokens. | ||
| - **Query cost:** since raw PromQL is accepted, the handler must bound it (max range, step, series, timeout) to protect `vmselect`; this replaces a fixed catalog as the abuse control. |
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Could this list concrete defaults and where each one is enforced: max range, minimum step or max points per series, max series, timeout and per-user concurrency? Some can only be set as vmselect flags, which are global. Others the proxy can check per request. The tenant-root vmselect also serves platform Grafana, alerting, opencost, VPA and KEDA, so tenant raw-PromQL competes with autoscaling and alerting. A dedicated proxy is the natural place for per-user concurrency and rate limits. A separate vmselect for tenant queries is worth considering too.
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Following on from line 117: the empty-label case is effectively unreachable. The failure that does happen is a tenant with its own monitoring stack whose resource metrics aren't in that stack. Please cover that case instead.
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| - **Handler mechanism: decided `rest.Connecter`.** The goal is a native Prometheus passthrough (GET, forward the `api/v1/query_range` tail, return the backend body unchanged), which is exactly what `Connecter` (the `pods/proxy` pattern) does. `GetterWithOptions` + `ResourceStreamer` is for a single self-produced stream, the right tool for logs, not for proxying a request and its response. | ||
| - **Tenant-wide aggregate ("all my databases"): deferred, as a `Tenant` subresource.** The first cut is per-object only. A tenant-wide view is a follow-up implemented as a `metrics` subresource on the `Tenant` (also `apps.cozystack.io`), which keeps the free RBAC and avoids the `list` field-selector quirk; a top-level resource is rejected for losing both. |
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This doesn't keep the free RBAC. A Tenant object lives in its parent's namespace: tenant foo is an application in tenant-root, and it creates namespace tenant-foo. The tenant chart binds foo's groups only inside tenant-foo. So get tenants/metrics would be checked in tenant-root, where foo's own users have no binding. Only ancestors could read it. With a namespace-scoped proxy, the tenant-wide view is just a wider query on the same endpoint.
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| - **Standalone aggregation API with a `MetricQuery` kind (this proposal's earlier revision).** A new `metrics.cozystack.io` API server, storage-less, returning structured series in a Kubernetes object. Rejected in the design discussion: it wraps every response in a kube `apiVersion`/`kind` envelope, forces a second kube-style API spec and a second dashboard client to maintain, and adds a new server and E2E surface, for no benefit over a reverse-proxy subresource that returns native Prometheus JSON. | ||
| - **A separate-group virtual resource.** A dedicated `metrics.*` virtual resource in its own API group. Rejected: being in a different group from the target resource means RBAC is not free (it would need a custom `SubjectAccessReview` and two-rule roles), which is exactly the cost the subresource avoids. | ||
| - **vmauth or a thin self-written proxy to Victoria, bypassing the Kubernetes API.** The simplest infrastructure, and `vmauth` can force per-tenant isolation via `extra_filters`. Rejected as the primary because its authorization is `vmauth`-native (its own tokens or a JWT with a tenant claim), not Kubernetes RBAC, so it needs per-tenant credentials or an OIDC-JWT-to-tenant mapping and a second auth path in the dashboard. Kept as a fallback if the subresource wiring proves too awkward; cozystack already runs `vmauth` for traces. Decision criterion from the discussion: take the subresource route only if it buys Kubernetes RBAC cheaply (it does) and `vmauth` cannot isolate per tenant without bespoke credentials (it cannot, cleanly). |
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These two shouldn't be grouped together. It's true that vmauth can't do Kubernetes RBAC on its own. A thin proxy can:
- it accepts the same bearer token the dashboard already sends to kube-apiserver, so the dashboard needs no second auth path;
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TokenReview; - it authorizes with a
SubjectAccessReviewagainst a namespaced permission; - it enforces the namespace label itself.
The rejection criterion here only tests vmauth. Per the top-level comment, I think this should be the chosen design, with the subresource moved into Alternatives along with the costs listed there.
…front of vmselect Per maintainer review, drop the Kubernetes aggregated-API/subresource shape and route metrics through a small stateless authorizing proxy (TokenReview + SubjectAccessReview + prom-label-proxy label enforcement) instead, keeping Kubernetes identity and RBAC while keeping query traffic out of the control plane. Fix the store resolution (resource metrics always live in tenant-root, not a tenant's own stack), enforce a namespace-only matcher built from an allowlist (caller extra_filters/extra_label are dropped), document the write-path trust gap and concrete query-cost limits, and move the subresource and MetricQuery shapes into Alternatives with their costs. State reasoning directly instead of referring to an off-list discussion. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: IvanHunters <xorokhotnikov@gmail.com>
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- Line 162: Update the rollout wording for the Design 6 write-path control to
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| `GET|POST /namespaces/<ns>/api/v1/{query,query_range,series,labels,label/<name>/values}`. These are the native VictoriaMetrics read endpoints the dashboard and a Grafana datasource need (a Grafana metric browser needs `labels`, `label/<name>/values`, and `series`). The proxy does its own authentication and authorization, so a POST query, which Grafana sends by default, is fine: it is not subject to the Kubernetes rule that a POST through the API server authorizes as `create`. The response is the `vmselect` Prometheus JSON, unchanged. |
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| `/api/v1/query` | GET, POST | No |
| `/api/v1/query_range` | GET, POST | No |
| `/api/v1/series` | GET | No |
| `/api/v1/labels` | GET, POST | **Yes** |
| `/api/v1/label/<name>/values` | GET | **Yes** |
For metadata endpoints (`series`, `labels`, and label values), the proxy injects its configured label into supplied `match[]` selectors. The README says the label APIs are disabled by default because upstream Prometheus/Thanos support for `match[]` was not always available; enable them only when the upstream supports label selectors. ([github.com](https://github.com/prometheus-community/prom-label-proxy/blob/main/README.md))
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Match the advertised methods to the selected proxy.
The proposal documents GET|POST for every endpoint, but upstream prom-label-proxy supports only GET for series and label/<name>/values. Its labels and label/<name>/values endpoints also require -enable-label-apis. The proposal allows either upstream components or a custom Go proxy, but it does not select a version or define wrapper behavior. List methods per endpoint and document the required flag, or specify a wrapper that implements the broader contract.
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### 2. Endpoints
-`GET|POST /namespaces/<ns>/api/v1/{query,query_range,series,labels,label/<name>/values}`. These are the native VictoriaMetrics read endpoints the dashboard and a Grafana datasource need (a Grafana metric browser needs `labels`, `label/<name>/values`, and `series`). The proxy does its own authentication and authorization, so a POST query, which Grafana sends by default, is fine: it is not subject to the Kubernetes rule that a POST through the API server authorizes as `create`. The response is the `vmselect` Prometheus JSON, unchanged.
+When using upstream `prom-label-proxy`, expose `GET|POST` for `query`, `query_range`, and `labels`, and `GET` for `series` and `label/<name>/values`. Enable `-enable-label-apis` for `labels` and `label/<name>/values`. If a custom Go proxy is used instead, document its supported methods and equivalent label-API setting. These are the native VictoriaMetrics read endpoints the dashboard and a Grafana datasource need. The response is the `vmselect` Prometheus JSON, unchanged.
### 3. Authorization
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| `GET|POST /namespaces/<ns>/api/v1/{query,query_range,series,labels,label/<name>/values}`. These are the native VictoriaMetrics read endpoints the dashboard and a Grafana datasource need (a Grafana metric browser needs `labels`, `label/<name>/values`, and `series`). The proxy does its own authentication and authorization, so a POST query, which Grafana sends by default, is fine: it is not subject to the Kubernetes rule that a POST through the API server authorizes as `create`. The response is the `vmselect` Prometheus JSON, unchanged. | |
| When using upstream `prom-label-proxy`, expose `GET|POST` for `query`, `query_range`, and `labels`, and `GET` for `series` and `label/<name>/values`. Enable `-enable-label-apis` for `labels` and `label/<name>/values`. If a custom Go proxy is used instead, document its supported methods and equivalent label-API setting. These are the native VictoriaMetrics read endpoints the dashboard and a Grafana datasource need. The response is the `vmselect` Prometheus JSON, unchanged. |
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| - **Built from scratch.** The proxy does not pass the caller's query through and append a filter: VictoriaMetrics OR-s repeated `extra_filters[]` values, so a caller-supplied `extra_filters[]={namespace=~".+"}` would widen the scope. The proxy copies only allowlisted parameters (`query`, `start`, `end`, `step`, `time`, `match[]`, a clamped `timeout`), injects the `namespace="<ns>"` matcher into every selector and every `match[]` server-side, and drops any caller-supplied `extra_filters` / `extra_filters[]` / `extra_label`. `prom-label-proxy` does exactly this across the query and label endpoints. |
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Keep the extra_filters allowlist outside prom-label-proxy.
The documented kube-rbac-proxy + prom-label-proxy composition does not enforce this allowlist by itself. prom-label-proxy rewrites query and match[] but retains other request parameters. VictoriaMetrics ORs repeated extra_filters[] alternatives, so a caller can still send extra_filters[]={namespace=~".+"} and read series outside the injected namespace. Add a request-rebuilding layer that removes these parameters from both URL and POST form data, or require the custom Go proxy to do so. Verify the selected composition and test this bypass. (github.com)
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| - **Dashboard:** a consumption graph section on database and VM detail pages, using the same token and a standard Prometheus client against the proxy. Per-application graphs are queries scoped by `pod`/`name` inside the tenant's namespace; "all my databases" is the same endpoint with a wider query, so no second mechanism is needed. This needs a charting approach added to `cozystack-ui`, which has none today. | ||
| - **Tenant Grafana:** can use the proxy endpoint as a datasource, one per namespace, with the user's forwarded identity or a ServiceAccount token. | ||
| - **RBAC:** one new aggregated ClusterRole rule, reaching tenant groups automatically; no new group to manage. |
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Specify the proxy ServiceAccount’s delegated-auth permissions.
The proposal requires the proxy to create TokenReview and SubjectAccessReview requests. The tenant aggregated rule authorizes callers but does not grant these permissions to the proxy ServiceAccount. Document and verify a least-privilege grant before Phase 1. Without it, the proxy cannot authenticate or authorize requests, and reads will fail.
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| - **Phase 0 (prerequisite): scrape per-VM metrics.** Confirm on a live cluster whether `kubevirt_vmi_*` (cpu/memory/network/storage) are collected, by querying `vmselect` for one of them or checking for the KubeVirt scrape object (the virt-operator `ServiceMonitor` lands in its `monitorNamespace`, `tenant-root`, converted to a `VMServiceScrape`); if not, add the scrape. Per-VM network is the blocking gap today. This phase is useful on its own. | ||
| - **Phase 1: the proxy plus RBAC.** Ship the stateless proxy (`kube-rbac-proxy` + `prom-label-proxy`, or one small Go service), the nginx path and in-cluster Service, and the one aggregated ClusterRole rule naming the virtual resource. | ||
| - **Phase 2: dashboard graphs.** Add a Prometheus client and charts to `cozystack-ui`. | ||
| - **Foundational, parallel:** a write-path control so the shared store's `namespace` label is trustworthy (Design 6). |
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Make the write-path control a prerequisite to proxy exposure.
Design 6 says tenant-controlled writers can label series with another tenant’s namespace. If Phase 1 exposes the proxy before that control is active, the other tenant’s graphs can show fabricated metrics. This conflicts with calling the control a foundational prerequisite while scheduling it in parallel. Gate proxy exposure on the write-path control. (github.com)
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- **Phase 0 (prerequisite): scrape per-VM metrics.** Confirm on a live cluster whether `kubevirt_vmi_*` (cpu/memory/network/storage) are collected, by querying `vmselect` for one of them or checking for the KubeVirt scrape object (the virt-operator `ServiceMonitor` lands in its `monitorNamespace`, `tenant-root`, converted to a `VMServiceScrape`); if not, add the scrape. Per-VM network is the blocking gap today. This phase is useful on its own.
- **Phase 1: the proxy plus RBAC.** Ship the stateless proxy (`kube-rbac-proxy` + `prom-label-proxy`, or one small Go service), the nginx path and in-cluster Service, and the one aggregated ClusterRole rule naming the virtual resource.
- **Phase 2: dashboard graphs.** Add a Prometheus client and charts to `cozystack-ui`.
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Thanks for the thorough review, and for working through the details even though it reversed the earlier direction. The proxy argument is convincing, and it lines up with what we landed on in a separate monitoring discussion, so I reworked the proposal to an authorizing proxy in front of vmselect (TokenReview + SubjectAccessReview, with prom-label-proxy-style namespace enforcement; kube-rbac-proxy + prom-label-proxy off the shelf, or a small Go service). The subresource and the MetricQuery shapes are now in Alternatives with the costs you listed. The correctness points that apply regardless of shape are folded in:
One open item I'd value your take on: who owns the per-kind PromQL, the SPA shipping a query set per application kind, or a field on the ApplicationDefinition. |
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This proposes exposing tenant resource-consumption metrics (CPU, memory, network) in the Cozystack dashboard through a small stateless authorizing proxy in front of vmselect: TokenReview + SubjectAccessReview for Kubernetes identity and RBAC, a forced namespace matcher (prom-label-proxy style) for isolation, and native Prometheus passthrough, so query traffic stays out of the control plane.
It is the read-path companion to the logs (#95) and alert-management (#96) proposals. Earlier drafts in this PR routed metrics through cozystack-api (a standalone metrics.cozystack.io API, then a subresource on apps.cozystack.io); both are now in Alternatives with the reasons the proxy is preferred, following maintainer review.
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