overview.json was missing a comma between the "Health Status" and
"App Error Rate (from logs)" panel objects, making the whole file
invalid JSON. Grafana's file provisioner skips dashboards that fail to
parse, so the entire "trails.cool Overview" dashboard (5 panels) never
loaded — a silent gap in observability. Validated with json.load.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix blind spot where Caddy 502 errors were invisible: the dashboards and
alerts queried caddy_http_response_duration_seconds (upstream responses only),
missing 502s that Caddy generates itself. Switch to
caddy_http_request_duration_seconds (server-level, all responses).
Add Journal Grafana dashboard with: 502 rate, response codes, request rate
by route, latency percentiles, container restarts/memory/CPU, Node.js event
loop lag and heap, and Loki log panels for errors and Caddy 5xx entries.
Add color coding to Caddy status code panel (green=2xx, blue=3xx, yellow=4xx,
red=5xx). Add log-based error rate panel to the overview dashboard.
New alerts: container restart loop, PostgreSQL connections > 80, application
crash log detection (Loki), and Caddy 502 rate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dashboard: switch error rate panel from app-level http_request_duration
(never observed) to Caddy's caddy_http_response_duration_seconds_count.
Journal: add custom server.ts (matching planner pattern) that observes
http_request_duration_seconds on every request. Replaces react-router-serve
with a custom Node HTTP server that handles /api/health, /api/metrics,
static assets, and request timing. Removes redundant React Router routes
for health and metrics.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Grafana file-based provisioning expects flat dashboard JSON, not the
API format with a "dashboard" wrapper. The 4 wrapped dashboards were
silently failing to load — only business.json (already flat) worked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The type:dashboard field was causing Grafana to filter annotations
by dashboard scope. Our deploy annotations are global (no dashboardUID),
so the target.type:tags is the only filter needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The annotation config was missing the target block that tells
Grafana to filter by tags. Without it, the annotation query
was silently ignored.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Health endpoints:
- /api/health (Journal) and /health (Planner) with DB connectivity check
- Docker healthchecks updated to use app health endpoints
Structured logging:
- Pino with JSON output in production, pretty-print in dev
- Request logging middleware in Planner (method, path, status, duration)
- Replaced console.log/error with structured logger in email and auth flows
Prometheus metrics:
- prom-client with default Node.js metrics + custom histograms/gauges
- /metrics endpoints on both apps
- http_request_duration, planner_active_sessions, brouter_request_duration
Monitoring stack:
- Prometheus, Loki, Grafana containers in docker-compose
- Grafana provisioned with datasources, dashboards, and alert rules
- Caddy access logging (JSON to stdout for Loki)
- grafana.trails.cool with basic auth via Caddy
Dashboards and alerting:
- Overview: request rate, error rate, latency p50/p95/p99
- Planner: active sessions, connected clients, BRouter latency
- Infrastructure: memory, CPU, event loop lag
- Alerts: disk >80%, app down 2min, error rate >5%
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
