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jcoffey-dev 9435115ab7 Phase 3: dashboards and alerting
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.
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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": "..."}.

  • query is either pipe syntax (service=api | where status>=500 | stats count by host) or raw SQL (SELECT ...). Auto-detected by whether the query starts with SELECT (case-insensitive).
  • language optionally 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.Plan and execute through the same code path — see internal/querylang/executor for 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.