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Could be replicated for WS at a later date, but this fixes an issue that was only seen for HTTP, so I didn't consider it to be necessary for WS due to the nature of the issue.

HTTP health checks can now monitor more RPC methods than the ones set by default, but it's necessary for them to be whitelisted, like Solana's getBlock or any EVM's eth_getBlockByNumber. This list will grow with time, as required.

Other maintenance changes were introduced, like updates to the Makefile and upgrading Go to v1.26, all of which I consider to be minor, unworthy of their own PRs.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added chain-aware custom health probes for Solana and EVM endpoints.
    • Failed HTTP 5xx requests can capture supported probe methods for subsequent health checks.
    • Health status now persists appropriately until recovery is confirmed, with separate HTTP and WebSocket tracking.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of RPC, HTTP, and WebSocket failures and recovery.
    • Prevented unsupported or mismatched probe methods from being used.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance on failing-method detection and recovery behavior.
  • Chores

    • Updated development and build environments to Go 1.26.
    • Added native build targets and ignored backup files.
    • Updated local service images and terminal configuration.

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The change upgrades development and service build environments to Go 1.26 and updated container images. It adds native local build targets and documents failing-method detection. Health checks now persist failures, track HTTP and WebSocket state separately, and guard recovery with ephemeral checks. Chain-aware custom JSON-RPC probes capture eligible HTTP 5xx methods, persist probe state in Valkey, apply refresh gating, retry failed methods during recovery, and clear state after recovery.

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Inline comments:
In @.devcontainer/docker-compose.yml:
- Line 41: Update the Prometheus service configuration using the
dhi.io/prometheus image so its TSDB storage path is /var/prometheus instead of
/prometheus, preserving the image’s provided writable storage location.

In @.devcontainer/Dockerfile:
- Around line 3-4: Update the devcontainer setup so root is used only for
package installation, then switch the final session user to a non-root user;
align the remote-user configuration and Claude mount accordingly so editor
tooling does not run with root privileges or unnecessary Docker-daemon access.

In `@internal/health/checker_guard_test.go`:
- Around line 248-269: In both solanaGetBlockTestServer and solanaWSTestServer,
replace handler-side t.Fatalf calls used for request decoding errors with
t.Errorf followed by an immediate return, so the server goroutine exits without
producing a truncated response.

In `@internal/health/checker.go`:
- Around line 902-909: Serialize the HTTP and WS status mutations for each
endpoint so concurrent updateEndpointStatusInValkey calls cannot overwrite
fields written by the other protocol; apply the same protection to the
endpoint-level write in checkEndpoint. Preserve each protocol’s HealthyX and
LastXHealthCheck values and resolveHealthTransition behavior by ensuring each
read-modify-write completes atomically per endpoint.
- Around line 414-430: Update the status timestamp initialization in the
surrounding health-check flow so LastHTTPHealthCheck and LastWSHealthCheck are
set only when their respective protocols are actually checked, using the
endpoint’s WSURL/HasWS state to exclude WS for HTTP-only endpoints. Preserve the
existing prior-check tracking and transition resolution behavior for protocols
that were checked.

In `@internal/health/custom_probe.go`:
- Around line 26-43: Update the Solana getBlock probe in customProbeBuilders to
handle provider-specific skipped-slot responses as unavailable slots rather than
endpoint failures, while preserving health failures for genuine RPC errors.
Distinguish the skipped-slot error using the relevant response context or switch
this probe to getLatestBlockhash/getBlockHeight; do not blanket-ignore error
code -32009 because it may indicate unavailable historical data.

In `@internal/server/server.go`:
- Around line 1235-1259: Update maybeSetCustomProbeMethod to return immediately
when s.ephemeralChecksEnabled is false, before acquiring the custom probe gate
or storing state. Preserve the existing method validation and capture behavior
when ephemeral checks are enabled.

In `@internal/store/valkey.go`:
- Around line 494-516: Update TryAcquireCustomProbeGate to reject any ttl below
one second before building the Valkey SET command, returning an error instead of
issuing an invalid EX value. Trace the caller’s source configuration, including
the fixed overhead calculation, and validate it so the resulting gate TTL cannot
be sub-second or non-positive.

In `@Makefile`:
- Around line 116-117: Update both run-target Go build commands in the Makefile
to invoke go build through env -u GOOS -u GOARCH, removing reliance on preceding
unset commands so caller-provided cross-compilation settings cannot affect
either build.

In `@services/health-checker/Dockerfile`:
- Line 2: Update the builder-stage image reference on line 2 of
services/health-checker/Dockerfile and services/load-balancer/Dockerfile from
dhi.io/golang:1.26-alpine to dhi.io/golang:1.26-alpine-dev, leaving the
remaining Dockerfile stages unchanged.
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internal/health/checker.go (1)

424-436: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Compute transition inputs inside the status lock.

Lines 430-435 read wasHealthy* and hasPriorCheck* before the probe goroutines run and before updateEndpointStatusInValkey acquires its mutex. If runEphemeralCheckProtocol confirms recovery in that gap, this closure can write the stale unhealthy state back through resolveHealthTransition.

Read each protocol timestamp and health flag from status inside the locked update closure, before setting its new timestamp. Remove the unlocked pre-read.

Proposed fix
- var wasHealthyHTTP, wasHealthyWS, hasPriorCheckHTTP, hasPriorCheckWS bool
- if prevStatus, err := c.valkeyClient.GetEndpointStatus(ctx, chain, endpointID); err == nil && prevStatus != nil {
-   wasHealthyHTTP = prevStatus.HealthyHTTP
-   wasHealthyWS = prevStatus.HealthyWS
-   hasPriorCheckHTTP = !prevStatus.LastHTTPHealthCheck.IsZero()
-   hasPriorCheckWS = !prevStatus.LastWSHealthCheck.IsZero()
- }
-
  c.updateEndpointStatusInValkey(ctx, chain, endpointID, func(status *store.EndpointStatus) {
+   hasPriorCheckHTTP := !status.LastHTTPHealthCheck.IsZero()
+   hasPriorCheckWS := !status.LastWSHealthCheck.IsZero()
+   wasHealthyHTTP := status.HealthyHTTP
+   wasHealthyWS := status.HealthyWS
+
    status.HasHTTP = endpoint.HTTPURL != ""
    status.HasWS = endpoint.WSURL != ""
    // existing timestamp updates
    status.HealthyHTTP = c.resolveHealthTransition(hasPriorCheckHTTP, wasHealthyHTTP, httpHealthy)
    status.HealthyWS = c.resolveHealthTransition(hasPriorCheckWS, wasHealthyWS, wsHealthy)
  })

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In `@internal/health/checker.go` around lines 424 - 436, Remove the pre-probe
GetEndpointStatus read that initializes wasHealthyHTTP/wasHealthyWS and
hasPriorCheckHTTP/hasPriorCheckWS. In the updateEndpointStatusInValkey locked
closure, read each protocol’s current health flag and last-check timestamp from
status before writing the new timestamp, then pass those locked values to
resolveHealthTransition for both HTTP and WS paths, including the corresponding
logic around the alternate section.
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In `@internal/health/checker.go`:
- Around line 424-436: Remove the pre-probe GetEndpointStatus read that
initializes wasHealthyHTTP/wasHealthyWS and hasPriorCheckHTTP/hasPriorCheckWS.
In the updateEndpointStatusInValkey locked closure, read each protocol’s current
health flag and last-check timestamp from status before writing the new
timestamp, then pass those locked values to resolveHealthTransition for both
HTTP and WS paths, including the corresponding logic around the alternate
section.

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