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monitoring — backup CronJobs

Manifests recording the cluster-side monitoring backup CronJobs that were previously applied out-of-band. These files are the authoritative source (kubectl apply -f apps/monitoring/). See DEV-464 for the repair context.

• backup-k8s-resources-cronjob.yaml — daily dump of cluster-scoped and per-namespace Kubernetes resources, streamed through restic backup --stdin to hetzner-s3:${BUCKET}/restic/k8s-resources. Uses serviceAccountName: backup-sa and no PVC mount (init container alpine/k8s:1.29.4 writes an emptyDir, main container restic/restic:0.17.3 reads it on stdin). Rewritten from the local-path tarball per the DEV-482 Option 4 rollout (DEV-487).
• backup-loki-restic-cronjob.yaml — daily restic backup of loki-storage-encrypted to hetzner-s3:${BUCKET}/restic/loki. Co-schedules with the Loki pod via podAffinity (RWO permits additional read-only mounts on the same node). Deployed per the DEV-482 Option 4 rollout (DEV-485).
• backup-grafana-restic-cronjob.yaml — daily restic backup of grafana-storage to hetzner-s3:${BUCKET}/restic/grafana. Pinned to k3s-worker-2 via nodeSelector (the local-path PV anchors the grafana pod there already, no podAffinity needed). Schedule 15 3 * * * — offset from the loki run at 03:00. Deployed per the DEV-482 Option 4 rollout (DEV-486).
• prometheus-backup-cronjob.yaml + prometheus-backup-sealed.yaml — daily restic backup of prometheus-data-encrypted to hetzner-s3:${BUCKET}/restic/prometheus. Co-schedules with the Prometheus pod via podAffinity so the RWO PVC attaches on the same node. Schedule 30 3 * * * — offset from the loki (03:00) and grafana (03:15) runs. Migrated from the DEV-465 rclone sync job to restic client-side encryption per DEV-492 / DEV-482 Option 4. Compaction-race mitigation: --exclude wal/* + --exclude chunks_head/* + accept restic backup exit code 3 (source file vanished mid-walk) as a warning, not a failure; restore drill re-runs promtool tsdb analyze per block.
• backup-restic-alerts.yaml + backup-restic-alerts.test.yaml — PrometheusRule with freshness, integrity, and repo-size alerts covering the four restic repos (loki/grafana/k8s-resources/prometheus), plus a promtool test rules unit test proving each alert fires against synthetic samples (DEV-490, extended in DEV-492).

Shared SealedSecret

All four restic CronJobs read Hetzner S3 credentials + the restic repository password from SealedSecret monitoring-s3-backup (namespace monitoring). Keys:

Key	Purpose
access-key	Hetzner Object Storage access key ID
secret-key	Hetzner Object Storage secret access key
endpoint	S3 endpoint hostname (e.g. fsn1.your-objectstorage.com)
bucket	Bucket name (single bucket, per-prefix repos)
restic-password	32-byte random string sealed at DEV-484; plaintext copy in Passbolt entry restic / monitoring backups. Rotation: restic key add → seal new value → restic key remove old id. Same key protects all four repos (loki/grafana/k8s-resources/prometheus) — rotating rewrites the key file on every repo.

Restore

Restore procedure for all four restic repos: docs/monitoring/restic-restore.md. First drill (2026-08-16, loki/k8s-resources) passed — see DEV-488. Prometheus repo added and drilled same day — see DEV-492.

Emitted metrics (textfile-collector format)

Each restic CronJob writes /metrics/backup_<kind>.prom (atomic — .prom.tmp + mv) into a hostPath volume mounted at the node-exporter textfile-collector directory (/var/lib/node_exporter/textfile_collector). The kube-prometheus-stack node-exporter DaemonSet has --collector.textfile.directory=/host/textfile_collector enabled (DEV-494, applied via apps/observability/patches/node-exporter-textfile-collector.yaml) and surfaces those samples in Prometheus.

Metric	Emitted by
backup_<kind>_success (0/1)	backup-{loki,grafana,k8s-resources}-*-cronjob.yaml, prometheus-backup-cronjob.yaml
backup_<kind>_timestamp_seconds	same
backup_<kind>_check_status (exit code)	same — from restic check --read-data-subset=5%
backup_prometheus_backup_status	prometheus-backup-cronjob.yaml — restic backup exit code (3 = accepted compaction race)
restic_repo_size_bytes{repo="<kind>"}	same — from restic stats --json --mode raw-data (added in DEV-490)

Cross-node staleness note. Because a backup CronJob may run on a different worker across days (loki/prometheus follow their app pods, k8s-resources is unpinned), a .prom file can linger on a node the job has since left and node-exporter keeps exposing it. The freshness alerts collapse the per-node samples with max() so the freshest sample wins; check/size alerts fire when any node reports a bad value, which is intentional — a recent failure is still a signal until the file is manually cleaned or the job returns to that node.

Alerts

backup-restic-alerts.yaml defines nine alerts (all severity: warning):

• BackupLokiStale / BackupGrafanaStale / BackupK8sResourcesStale / BackupPrometheusStale — time() - max(backup_<kind>_timestamp_seconds) > 28h. Daily schedule + 4 h grace. max() collapses per-node samples so a stale .prom on a node the job has left does not fire.
• BackupLokiCheckFailed / BackupGrafanaCheckFailed / BackupK8sResourcesCheckFailed / BackupPrometheusCheckFailed — backup_<kind>_check_status != 0.
• ResticRepoOversize — restic_repo_size_bytes > 20 GiB. Baseline expected < 5 GiB; catches retention/prune regressions.

All alerts carry a Runbook: docs/monitoring/restic-restore.md annotation. To iterate on the rule file locally:

awk '/^spec:/{f=1;next} f{sub(/^  /,"");print}' \
  apps/monitoring/backup-restic-alerts.yaml > /tmp/backup-restic-rules.yaml
promtool check rules /tmp/backup-restic-rules.yaml
promtool test rules  apps/monitoring/backup-restic-alerts.test.yaml

The legacy backup-volumes CronJob and its 100 Gi local-path backup-storage PVC were retired in DEV-489 once the restic pipeline was proven end-to-end. With the shared destination PVC gone, the DEV-483 bridge nodeSelector pinning Loki to k3s-worker-2 was also removed — backup-loki-restic follows the Loki pod via podAffinity regardless of which node the RWO CSI volume lands on. backup-grafana-restic still nodeSelects k3s-worker-2 because its source PV (grafana-storage, local-path) is anchored there. backup-k8s-resources has no PVC dep and stays unpinned. prometheus-backup uses podAffinity on app=prometheus (RWO PVC on Hetzner CSI, single-node attach) and follows the Prometheus pod between workers.