Saved, shareable multi-panel dashboards (table/line/bar/single-stat panels via gridstack + uPlot, global + per-panel time range, JSON export/import) and threshold/absence alert rules with an ok/pending/firing evaluator and webhook/Slack/PagerDuty delivery. - New /metadata component: Postgres control-plane store for dashboards, panels, notification targets, alert rules/state, and delivery log -- see docs/phase-3-dashboard-design.md for why ClickHouse's MergeTree family isn't a fit for this access pattern (needs real row-level locking and read-your-writes consistency). - api/internal/dashboards: dashboard/panel CRUD, pure -- panel query execution stays client-side, reusing the existing /query endpoint. - New /alerting service: rule/target CRUD, a ticker-driven evaluator (claim-then-evaluate concurrency control, transactional-outbox delivery, query errors and threshold zero-rows never coerced into a false transition) and webhook/Slack/PagerDuty delivery with retry/backoff. See docs/phase-3-alerting-design.md for the full state-machine design and the four correctness properties it implements. - web: /dashboards and /alerts UIs; cli: sentryctl dashboards/alerts list/get/apply, seeding a future Terraform provider's JSON contract. - hack/alert-load-test: 500 rules against real ClickHouse data, real measured results in docs/phase-3-runbook.md. Five real bugs found by actually running this against a live stack (documented in the runbook, not just fixed silently): a latent Phase 2 bug where ClickHouse rejected the timestamp format used for earliest=/latest= queries; a "now" literal token injected into query text; a GridStack/uPlot layout-timing race; JS's Date.parse being too lenient to use as a timestamp-detection heuristic; a rule's "enabled" field silently defaulting to false when omitted; and the evaluator's claim-batch-size and worker-pool-concurrency defaulting to the same value, causing 500 concurrently-due rules to take 125s to cycle through instead of the configured 60s.
api
Sentry's query API: a single POST /query endpoint accepting either the
pipe syntax or raw SQL, compiled and routed across ClickHouse and Tantivy
by internal/querylang. Replaces Phase 0/1's two separate placeholder
endpoints (raw-SQL-only /query, free-text-only /search) — see
/docs/query-language-design.md for the grammar, IR, and routing design,
and /docs/query-language-reference.md for the user-facing syntax.
Why plain REST, not gRPC + REST gateway
CLAUDE.md pins the control plane to "Go, gRPC + REST gateway." This
service is plain net/http instead — a deliberate simplification, not a
change to the pinned stack. Wiring up a .proto service,
google.api.http annotations, and protoc-gen-grpc-gateway codegen for
one endpoint doesn't buy much at this size. api does speak gRPC
internally — to /search — this simplification is about the
public-facing surface only.
Endpoint
POST /query — body {"query": "...", "language": ""}, response
{"columns": [...], "rows": [[...], ...]} or {"error": "..."}.
queryis either pipe syntax (service=api | where status>=500 | stats count by host) or raw SQL (SELECT ...). Auto-detected by whether the query starts withSELECT(case-insensitive).languageoptionally overrides detection:"sql"or"spl". Exists for the rare case a pipe query legitimately starts with the literal word "select" as a bare search term.- Both syntaxes compile to the same
querylang/ir.Planand execute through the same code path — seeinternal/querylang/executorfor the four routing cases (pure ClickHouse; Tantivy prefilter + ClickHouse rows; Tantivy prefilter + ClickHouse aggregation; raw SQL passthrough).
GET /healthz — for docker-compose/k8s liveness checks.
No auth. Not scoped yet — don't expose this beyond a trusted dev/homelab network.
Configuration
Environment variables (see internal/config/config.go):
| Var | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
HTTP_LISTEN_ADDR |
:8080 |
|
CLICKHOUSE_ADDR |
localhost:9000 |
Native protocol port |
CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE / _USERNAME / _PASSWORD |
sentry / default / `` |
|
SEARCH_GRPC_ADDR |
localhost:50052 |
Must match /search's GRPC_LISTEN_ADDR |
QUERY_TIMEOUT_SECONDS |
30 |
Per-request timeout |
CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGIN |
* |
Wide open by default since there's no auth yet; tighten together |
searchclient.Dial connects to /search over plain TCP, no TLS — same
trust boundary as api's existing plain-TCP connection to ClickHouse.
mTLS in this project is specifically the agent↔ingest edge boundary, not
every internal hop.
Building & testing
go build ./...
go vet ./...
go test ./...
# from the repo root, not api/
docker build -f api/Dockerfile -t sentry-api .
Testing notes
internal/queryapi's HTTP handler depends on ClickHouse and /search
only through the narrow interfaces querylang/executor defines
(SQLRunner, SearchClient), so routing, compilation, JSON encoding,
and error-status mapping are all unit-tested against fakes — no live
ClickHouse or /search instance needed, and the real lexer/parser/
planner run unmocked in these tests, only the backends are faked. See
internal/querylang's own package docs for how compilation and
execution are tested independently of each other. executor.ChRunner
(the reflection-based row scanning against ClickHouse's driver.Rows)
and internal/searchclient's actual gRPC dial are not unit-tested — the
former because faking driver.Rows fully would be significant
test-only scaffolding the driver's own docs say isn't meant to be
implemented by adopters; the latter because it's a thin wrapper with
nothing but wiring to test. Both are exercised end-to-end via the
docker-compose flow in /docs/phase-2-runbook.md.