fix: bound the http.route metric label on the evaluation service - #2077
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe metrics middleware now selects handler IDs from explicit configuration or configured route prefixes. The flag evaluation service supplies prefixes for its registered Connect handlers and health, readiness, and metrics endpoints. ChangesHTTP metric route labels
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Requests with varied suffixes can still generate unbounded route labels and grow metrics output. Bound labels to registered routes before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change reduces metric labels from paths outside the configured prefixes, but it does not fully bound them: callers can still create distinct labels by varying paths beneath a configured prefix. The remaining risk predates this change, but the proposed protection is incomplete. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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Review comments at @flagd/pkg/service/middleware/metrics/http_metrics.go:
- Around line 61-65: Update `handlerID` to avoid returning arbitrary paths based
only on `strings.HasPrefix`: record fixed endpoints and known RPC procedures
only as exact routes, and return the matching service prefix for unknown paths
beneath it (or `otherRoute` if none matches). Configure the exact routes from
the generated procedure constants and fixed health/metrics endpoints in
`connect_service.go`, and cover unknown RPC suffixes and `/metrics-1` in tests.
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The http.route label is still unbounded for paths under a served prefix.
handlerID uses strings.HasPrefix and then returns the full request path. Any path that starts with a served prefix becomes its own label value.
Examples with the prefixes that connect_service.go supplies:
/flagd.evaluation.v1.Service/rand-1,/flagd.evaluation.v1.Service/rand-2, and so on each create a new series. The connect mux returns 404, but the middleware records the path before that./healthz,/readyz, and/metricshave no trailing slash. Paths such as/metrics-1and/healthz123also match.
A caller can still create an unlimited number of series by adding a suffix to a valid prefix. The 501 to 2 result in the PR description tested only paths outside every prefix.
Change the match rules:
- Use exact match for the fixed endpoints.
- For the RPC prefixes, keep the path only when it is a known procedure. Otherwise return the service prefix or
otherRoute.
Proposed direction
- RoutePrefixes []string
+ // Routes are exact paths that are recorded as themselves.
+ Routes []string
+ // RoutePrefixes are service prefixes. A path below one of them is recorded as itself
+ // only if it is in Routes. Otherwise the prefix is recorded.
+ RoutePrefixes []stringIn connect_service.go, build Routes from the generated procedure constants (for example evaluationv1connect.ServiceResolveBooleanProcedure). Add /healthz, /readyz, and /metrics to Routes. Add a test for /flagd.evaluation.v1.Service/unknown-123 and /metrics-1.
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Review comment at @flagd/pkg/service/middleware/metrics/http_metrics.go around
lines 61 - 65:
Update `handlerID` to avoid returning arbitrary paths based only on
`strings.HasPrefix`: record fixed endpoints and known RPC procedures only as
exact routes, and return the matching service prefix for unknown paths beneath
it (or `otherRoute` if none matches). Configure the exact routes from the
generated procedure constants and fixed health/metrics endpoints in
`connect_service.go`, and cover unknown RPC suffixes and `/metrics-1` in tests.
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Summary
The flag evaluation service builds its metrics middleware with
HandlerID: "", and the middleware then falls back toreporter.URLPath(), so thehttp.routeattribute is whatever path the caller sent. Every distinct path on port 8013 mints a new series, and nothing about the request has to be valid for it to count.flag-syncalready pins its handler ID with the comment "the URL path default would make a path-segment selector an unbounded metric dimension", and the two OFREP routes pin theirs. The evaluation service is the one that does not, and metrics are on by default.Changes
metricsmw.ConfiggetsRoutePrefixes. WhenHandlerIDis empty, a request path that starts with one of them is recorded as itself, and anything else is recorded asother.NewServiceHandlerreturns, which it was discarding, and passes them along with the three fixed paths on the mux.Per-RPC breakdown is preserved, since the method segment is bounded by the proto.
Verification
Built the binary both ways and ran
flagd start -f file:flags.jsonwith everything else default. One realResolveBooleanfirst as a control, then 500 requests to distinct nonsense paths, then read/metrics:http_routevalues, 3,294,520 bytesResolveBooleanroute andother, 48,794 bytesFour cases added to
http_metrics_test.gocovering the configured ID, a served route, an unserved route and an empty prefix list.go test ./...in the flagd module passes, 10 packages.