#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Health-log freshness watchdog (dead-man's-switch).
Absence of logs raises no alarm. On 2026-09-26 the `gpu/` directory of
SyslogSolution/health-logs went silent for 12 days unnoticed, because the only
thing that would have noticed was the job that had stopped. This check lives on
a DIFFERENT host (CT 100) from the producers, so a producer host that is dead,
or a schedule that was deleted, still raises an alarm.
It asks the Gitea API for the newest commit touching each watched directory and
fails when that commit is older than the directory's threshold.
Usage:
health-log-freshness.py # check every watched directory
health-log-freshness.py --json # machine-readable output
Exit: 0 = all fresh, 1 = at least one stale or unreachable, 2 = check could not run.
Environment:
GITEA_URL default https://git.sysloggh.net
GITEA_TOKEN API token (falls back to GITEA_PAT, then to the token
embedded in ~/.git-credentials for that host)
HEALTH_LOG_MAX_AGE_H override thresholds, e.g. HEALTH_LOG_MAX_AGE_GPU=12
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import base64
import json
import os
import re
import sys
import urllib.error
import urllib.request
from datetime import datetime, timezone
REPO = "SyslogSolution/health-logs"
GITEA_URL = os.environ.get("GITEA_URL", "https://git.sysloggh.net").rstrip("/")
# dir -> (threshold_hours, why)
# Thresholds are sized for the producer cadence plus one missed run:
# gpu/ runs every 6h -> 12h tolerates one miss, catches a second
# litellm/ runs every 6h -> 18h (it is proven healthy; a looser bound avoids
# noise while still catching a real stop)
WATCHED: dict[str, tuple[float, str]] = {
"gpu": (12.0, "gpu-self-heal.py, CT116 cron 2 */6 * * *"),
"litellm": (18.0, "litellm-health-check.sh, CT116 cron 0 */6 * * *"),
}
def _threshold(directory: str, default: float) -> float:
"""Allow HEALTH_LOG_MAX_AGE_
to override a threshold.
Documented override; used both operationally (tighten a bound while
investigating) and in tests (force a stale verdict deterministically).
"""
raw = os.environ.get(f"HEALTH_LOG_MAX_AGE_{directory.upper()}")
if raw is None:
return default
try:
return float(raw)
except ValueError:
print(f"WARN: ignoring non-numeric HEALTH_LOG_MAX_AGE_{directory.upper()}={raw!r}")
return default
# pm2/ is deliberately NOT watched: pm2-self-heal.prose.md claimed a health-logs
# posting that its executor never implemented, and the claim was retired on
# 2026-09-26 in favour of the contract-runner's per-run logs. The directory is
# left as historical evidence, not as a live obligation.
def _auth_candidates() -> list[str]:
"""Authorization header values to try, in order.
Gitea accepts either an API token (``token ``) or HTTP basic auth, and
the value held under ``GITEA_TOKEN`` is not reliably an API token - on this
host it is the git account's *password*, which sent as a token returns HTTP
401. So return every candidate and let the caller use the first that works,
rather than guessing and failing.
"""
candidates: list[str] = []
for var in ("GITEA_TOKEN", "GITEA_PAT"):
if os.environ.get(var):
candidates.append(f"token {os.environ[var]}")
candidates.append(
"Basic "
+ base64.b64encode(
f"{_git_user()}:{os.environ[var]}".encode()
).decode()
)
# ~/.git-credentials may hold this Gitea under several hostnames (the public
# name and the internal IP both appear in this fleet), so accept any of them
# rather than filtering on the configured host - that filter produced zero
# candidates whenever GITEA_URL pointed at the internal address.
try:
with open(os.path.expanduser("~/.git-credentials")) as fh:
for line in fh:
m = re.match(r"https://([^:]+):([^@]+)@", line.strip())
if m:
raw = f"{m.group(1)}:{m.group(2)}".encode()
candidates.append("Basic " + base64.b64encode(raw).decode())
except OSError:
pass
seen, out = set(), []
for c in candidates:
if c not in seen:
seen.add(c)
out.append(c)
return out
def _git_user() -> str:
return os.environ.get("GITEA_USER", "abiba-bot")
def newest_commit_iso(directory: str, auth: list[str] | None) -> tuple[str | None, str]:
"""Return (iso_timestamp, detail) for the newest commit touching `directory`."""
url = (
f"{GITEA_URL}/api/v1/repos/{REPO}/commits"
f"?path={directory}&limit=1&stat=false"
)
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"Accept": "application/json"})
headers = list(auth or [])
last = "no credential"
for i, hdr in enumerate(headers or [None]):
r = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"Accept": "application/json"})
if hdr:
r.add_header("Authorization", hdr)
try:
with urllib.request.urlopen(r, timeout=20) as resp:
data = json.loads(resp.read().decode("utf-8", "replace"))
break
except urllib.error.HTTPError as exc:
last = f"HTTP {exc.code}"
if exc.code not in (401, 403):
return None, last
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001
return None, repr(exc)
else:
return None, last
if not data:
return None, "no commits"
commit = data[0].get("commit", {})
when = (
(commit.get("committer") or {}).get("date")
or (commit.get("author") or {}).get("date")
)
msg = (commit.get("message") or "").splitlines()[0][:60]
return when, msg
def main() -> int:
as_json = "--json" in sys.argv
auth = _auth_candidates()
now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
failures: list[str] = []
report: dict[str, dict] = {}
if not auth:
print("FAIL: no Gitea credential available (GITEA_TOKEN/GITEA_PAT/~/.git-credentials)")
return 2
for directory, (default_age_h, why) in WATCHED.items():
max_age_h = _threshold(directory, default_age_h)
when, detail = newest_commit_iso(directory, auth)
entry: dict = {"directory": directory, "producer": why, "max_age_h": max_age_h}
if when is None:
entry.update(ok=False, reason=f"could not read newest commit: {detail}")
failures.append(
f"health-logs/{directory}/ could not be read ({detail}) — "
f"a directory that cannot be read is indistinguishable from one that stopped"
)
else:
try:
ts = datetime.fromisoformat(when.replace("Z", "+00:00"))
except ValueError:
entry.update(ok=False, reason=f"unparseable timestamp {when!r}")
failures.append(f"health-logs/{directory}/ timestamp unparseable: {when!r}")
report[directory] = entry
continue
age_h = (now - ts).total_seconds() / 3600.0
stale = age_h > max_age_h
entry.update(
ok=not stale,
newest=when,
age_h=round(age_h, 2),
newest_commit=detail,
)
if stale:
entry["reason"] = f"stale: {age_h:.1f}h > {max_age_h}h"
failures.append(
f"health-logs/{directory}/ is STALE: newest entry {when} "
f"({age_h:.1f}h old, limit {max_age_h}h) from {why}"
)
report[directory] = entry
if as_json:
print(json.dumps({"checked": report, "failures": failures}, indent=2))
return 1 if failures else 0
print("Health-log freshness — dead-man's-switch")
print("=" * 66)
for directory, entry in report.items():
mark = "✅" if entry.get("ok") else "❌"
if entry.get("newest"):
print(
f"{mark} health-logs/{directory}/ newest {entry['newest']} "
f"({entry['age_h']}h old, limit {entry['max_age_h']}h)"
)
print(f" last commit: {entry.get('newest_commit')}")
else:
print(f"{mark} health-logs/{directory}/ {entry.get('reason')}")
print(f" producer: {entry['producer']}")
print("=" * 66)
if failures:
print("VERDICT: FAIL")
for f in failures:
print(f" - {f}")
return 1
print("VERDICT: PASS — every watched health-log directory is advancing")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())