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What does this PR do?

Add opt-in OpenTelemetry configuration for AGN (AI Gateway Networking) gateways, so operators can export gateway HTTP and routing spans without putting collector settings or credentials in routing overlays.

• Build grid-gateway with the Praxis OTLP exporter and Praxis AI routing-span features; initialize tracing at startup and hold its guard through shutdown.
• Render validated telemetry settings and trace-context handling from both GatewayRef.consumerConfig and the Praxis gateway Helm chart. An omitted or empty OTLP endpoint uses the process environment; invalid sampling rates and credential-bearing endpoint URLs are rejected.
• Wire Secret-backed exporter headers with a fail-closed plaintext guard, document image and restart requirements, and roll chart-managed pods when telemetry settings change. Credentialed HTTPS delivery remains a follow-up; telemetry is disabled by default.
• Document the spans and privacy limits, including serving-overlay revision attributes where the routing filter supplies them.

Current scope: The tracked gateway build uses registry Praxis 0.7.3 and can export local HTTP and AI routing spans. Grid now rejects exporter headers unless an explicit HTTPS endpoint is configured, but exporter startup does not prove certificate-verified delivery. Do not enable credentialed collector export until praxis#1354 is released and Grid #301 qualifies it against the tracked image. Linked edge-to-provider traces separately require praxis#1347; keep #260 open until that parentage is qualified.

Which issue(s) does this relate to?

Related to #260 and #301. This PR delivers opt-in configuration and local export groundwork. Credentialed HTTPS delivery and cross-gateway parentage remain follow-ups.

Checklist

• Signed off all commits (git commit -s)
• Tests added or updated
• Documentation updated (if applicable)
• make lint && make test && make test-integration passes locally

make lint, make test, and make helm-lint passed for the earlier telemetry snapshot; Helm reported 351 passes and one optional API-key runtime skip. A collector-backed check against that snapshot confirmed local span export, routing revision attributes, and W3C header propagation. The current 0.7.3 dependency and the credentialed HTTPS path require final-source collector qualification after praxis#1354. Grid has no make test-integration target.

Does this introduce a breaking change?

No. Telemetry is opt-in and disabled by default. Enabling it requires a grid-gateway image built with the tracing features; the chart's default Praxis AI image does not provide this Grid-specific build.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added opt-in OpenTelemetry trace export for Grid gateways, with configurable OTLP endpoint, sampling, service details, environment, and batch settings.
  • Enabled W3C trace-context propagation when telemetry is configured through gateway or network settings.
  • Supported Secret-backed collector credentials. Telemetry configuration changes trigger gateway pod rollouts.
• Bug Fixes
  • Invalid telemetry settings and incompatible gateway configurations are rejected. Startup enforces HTTPS and supported protocol requirements when applicable.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on setup, credential handling, build requirements, and current trace-linkage limitations.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds opt-in OTLP telemetry settings for operator and Helm gateway deployments. It validates and renders Praxis telemetry configuration and trace-context propagation, enables OpenTelemetry support in the gateway build, and documents exporter configuration and limitations.

Changes

Gateway telemetry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry configuration contracts operator/src/crd/grid_network.rs, deploy/crds/gridnetwork.yaml, charts/grid-operator/templates/crds/gridnetwork.yaml, charts/praxis-gateway/values.schema.json, charts/praxis-gateway/values.yaml	Operator and Helm configuration define optional telemetry settings for the OTLP endpoint, sampling, resource attributes, and batching. Validation constrains endpoint formats, sampling ranges, batch values, and nonblank attributes.
Operator Praxis configuration operator/src/resources/consumer_config.rs, operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs, docs/architecture/consumer-config.md	The operator passes telemetry settings to the consumer-config renderer. The renderer validates settings and adds root-level telemetry configuration and a trace_context filter when telemetry is supplied.
Helm rendering and deployment charts/praxis-gateway/templates/*, charts/praxis-gateway/tests/telemetry_test.yaml, scripts/verify-helm-chart.sh, charts/praxis-gateway/README.md	The chart renders telemetry settings and conditional trace-context propagation. It requires the grid-gateway image flavor and rendered configuration when telemetry is enabled, and adds a telemetry checksum annotation to the pod template. Tests cover rendered settings and validation.
Gateway exporter support and lifecycle gateway/Cargo.toml, gateway/src/main.rs, gateway/tests/startup_log.rs, docs/README.md, docs/architecture/opentelemetry.md	The gateway enables OpenTelemetry dependency features, validates the OTLP endpoint and header transport, and drops the tracing guard after the server returns. Documentation describes exporter setup, credentials, supported spans, and trace-linkage limits.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HelmValues
  participant GatewayConfigTemplate
  participant PraxisGateway
  participant OTLPCollector
  HelmValues->>GatewayConfigTemplate: provide enabled telemetry settings
  GatewayConfigTemplate-->>PraxisGateway: render telemetry configuration and trace_context filter
  PraxisGateway->>OTLPCollector: export traces to configured OTLP endpoint

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5e798

Telemetry is opt-in, but an HTTPS collector endpoint will not receive spans because the exporter has no trusted certificate roots. Enable the OTLP root feature before merging if HTTPS export is intended to work. No credential exposure was found.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5e798

The change affects 6 systems.

Changed systems: charts, docs, gateway, operator, deploy, scripts

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — charts (service) was modified; 8 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — docs (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — gateway (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — operator (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in charts/praxis-gateway/templates/_helpers.tpl: praxis-gateway.validateConfig now checks enabled telemetry before the existing rendered-config validation: it fails unless the image flavor is grid-gateway and gatewayConfig.render is true.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/architecture/consumer-config.md: Adds documentation for root-level OTLP settings and trace_context propagation from consumerConfig.telemetry, and states that collector headers are excluded from the ConfigMap and configured through a Secret-backed Deployment environment reference.
• observed — Modified behavior in operator/src/resources/consumer_config.rs: The Grid network imports now include GatewayTelemetryConfig.
• observed — Modified behavior in operator/src/resources/consumer_config.rs: Adds ConsumerConfigError::InvalidTelemetry(String) for telemetry validation failures.

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 92.86% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 42 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: 1 …
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies opt-in OpenTelemetry export configuration, the pull request’s primary change.

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🟡 Minor · Cap the telemetry batch values in the Helm schema. · values.schema.json:187-193

charts/praxis-gateway/values.schema.json:187-193
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cap the telemetry batch values in the Helm schema.

When telemetry is enabled with rendered config and the supported current-head grid-gateway image, this schema accepts batch intervals above 300 seconds and batch sizes above 65,536 spans. The chart writes those values unchanged into praxis.yaml. Praxis 0.7.3 rejects them while loading the config and exits before server startup. Add the matching limits here; the operator CRD does not validate this separate Helm-values path.

Suggested fix

-            "batchIntervalSecs": { "type": ["integer", "null"], "minimum": 1, "description": "Positive batch exporter interval in seconds." },
-            "batchSize": { "type": ["integer", "null"], "minimum": 1, "description": "Positive maximum spans per export batch." }
+            "batchIntervalSecs": { "type": ["integer", "null"], "minimum": 1, "maximum": 300, "description": "Positive batch exporter interval in seconds." },
+            "batchSize": { "type": ["integer", "null"], "minimum": 1, "maximum": 65536, "description": "Positive maximum spans per export batch." }

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Review comment at @charts/praxis-gateway/values.schema.json around lines 187 -
193:
Add maximum bounds to the telemetry schema properties `batchIntervalSecs` and
`batchSize`, limiting them to 300 seconds and 65,536 spans respectively.
Preserve their existing types, minimums, and descriptions.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @gateway/Cargo.toml:
- Line 311: Update the praxis-proxy feature selection so the HTTP exporter is
compatible with its thread-based BatchSpanProcessor: enable the blocking reqwest
client instead of the async client, or use an async-runtime batch processor if
retaining the async client.
- Line 311: Update the OTLP exporter configuration associated with the
praxis-proxy dependency so it rejects resolved `http://` endpoints whenever
`OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS` are configured, including when the endpoint comes
from the `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT` fallback; allow HTTPS endpoints and
preserve existing behavior when headers are absent.

Review comments at @operator/src/crd/grid_network.rs:
- Around line 892-900: Update the `batch_interval_secs` and `batch_size` schema
constraints and their checks in `validate()` to enforce inclusive ranges of
1–300 and 1–65,536, respectively. Regenerate the CRD manifests so admission
applies the same upper bounds.

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Review comments at @charts/praxis-gateway/values.schema.json:
- Around line 187-193: Add maximum bounds to the telemetry schema properties
`batchIntervalSecs` and `batchSize`, limiting them to 300 seconds and 65,536
spans respectively. Preserve their existing types, minimums, and descriptions.

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Review comments at @gateway/src/main.rs:
- Around line 110-112: Update the endpoint security validation around
endpoint_uses_http to detect the effective transport, including scheme-less
endpoints that the gRPC exporter treats as HTTP when OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_INSECURE
is true. Reject exporter headers in that case, and apply the same check to the
trace-specific INSECURE setting; allow credentialed endpoints only when HTTPS is
guaranteed.
- Line 109: Update the header validation path around `headers_present` to
account for every header the OTLP exporter will send, including trace-specific
environment headers and SDK environment merges. Treat explicitly empty
`config.telemetry.otlp_headers` as empty only when the exporter also omits
generic environment headers, and reject credentials when the endpoint uses HTTP.
- Around line 114-115: Enable the tls-provider-agnostic feature on the resolved
opentelemetry-otlp 0.33.0 dependency so Praxis’s default gRPC exporter can use
the installed TLS provider for credentialed HTTPS endpoints; keep the existing
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OpenTelemetry followup: Credentialed OTLP/gRPC export over HTTPS depends on Praxis #1354 (praxis-proxy/praxis#1354), which adds the required collector certificate trust and a Praxis release containing that fix. This PR provides opt-in configuration, but HTTPS export should not be considered qualified until Grid consumes that fix and passes a collector-backed test using its tracked dependencies.

The fix is needed to make TLS export actually trust and verify the collector’s certificate; enabling a TLS feature alone does not do that. Followup work tracked in #301

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- Line 210: The positive telemetry Helm test fixture uses HTTP despite the
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🟠 Major · Enable roots for uncredentialed HTTPS OTLP export. · Cargo.toml:311-315

gateway/Cargo.toml:311-315
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Enable roots for uncredentialed HTTPS OTLP export.

When otlpEndpoint uses HTTPS without headers, the gateway accepts the endpoint, but the exporter has no configured certificate roots. Valid collector connections can therefore fail TLS validation and export no spans.

Enable the released exporter root feature:

Suggested fix

-opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.33.0", default-features = false, features = ["tls-provider-agnostic"] }
+opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.33.0", default-features = false, features = ["tls-provider-agnostic", "tls-roots"] }

Credentialed HTTPS remains separately gated by the documented Praxis trust fix.

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Review comment at @gateway/Cargo.toml around lines 311 - 315:
Update the opentelemetry-otlp dependency features in the Cargo manifest to
enable tls-roots alongside tls-provider-agnostic, so uncredentialed HTTPS
exports can validate collector certificates.

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