Root cause: k3s service ClusterIP routing instability causing intermittent
failures despite healthy pods. This is the 5th incident - prior fixes treated
symptoms, not the systemic networking fragility.
Changes:
- Add startup probe (60s delay, prevents premature service registration)
- Fix backup job env var substitution (use shell ${VAR}, not K8s $(VAR))
- Add comprehensive monitoring (ServiceMonitor, PrometheusRule, blackbox probes)
- Add alerting for service failures, high latency, pod restarts, backup failures
Evidence:
- Pod healthy (4d15h uptime, 0 restarts) but service ClusterIP routing broken
- Direct pod IP worked, service ClusterIP failed with "Connection reset by peer"
- Iptables rules correct, endpoints correct, but packets not flowing
- Required pod restart + Traefik restart to restore service
Monitoring now tests full service path from outside cluster, not just pod health.
Will alert immediately on failures instead of relying on reactive discovery.
Related: DEV-213, DEV-221, DEV-223, DEV-224, DEV-230, DEV-231
Co-Authored-By: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
132 lines
3.7 KiB
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132 lines
3.7 KiB
YAML
---
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# ServiceMonitor for Stalwart application metrics
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# Requires prometheus-operator to be installed
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apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
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kind: ServiceMonitor
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metadata:
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name: stalwart-metrics
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namespace: stalwart
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labels:
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app: stalwart
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release: kube-prometheus-stack
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spec:
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selector:
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matchLabels:
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app: stalwart
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endpoints:
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- port: http
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interval: 30s
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path: /metrics
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scheme: http
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---
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# Blackbox exporter probe for external health check
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# Tests the full service path from outside the cluster
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apiVersion: v1
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kind: Service
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metadata:
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name: stalwart-external-probe
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namespace: stalwart
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labels:
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app: stalwart-probe
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spec:
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type: ClusterIP
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clusterIP: None # Headless service for probe
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selector:
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app: stalwart-probe-dummy # No pods, just for ServiceMonitor
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---
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apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
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kind: ServiceMonitor
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metadata:
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name: stalwart-blackbox-external
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namespace: stalwart
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labels:
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app: stalwart
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release: kube-prometheus-stack
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spec:
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selector:
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matchLabels:
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app: stalwart-probe
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endpoints:
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- port: http
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interval: 60s
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scrapeTimeout: 30s
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path: /probe
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params:
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module: [http_2xx]
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target: ['https://mail.basicstack.de/']
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relabelings:
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- sourceLabels: [__address__]
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targetLabel: __param_target
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- sourceLabels: [__param_target]
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targetLabel: instance
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- targetLabel: __address__
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replacement: prometheus-blackbox-exporter.observability.svc.cluster.local:9115
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---
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# PrometheusRule for alerting on Stalwart failures
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apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
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kind: PrometheusRule
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metadata:
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name: stalwart-alerts
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namespace: stalwart
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labels:
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app: stalwart
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release: kube-prometheus-stack
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spec:
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groups:
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- name: stalwart.rules
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interval: 30s
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rules:
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- alert: StalwartDown
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expr: up{job="stalwart-metrics"} == 0
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for: 2m
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labels:
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severity: critical
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service: stalwart
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component: mail
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annotations:
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summary: "Stalwart mail service is down"
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description: "Stalwart pod in namespace {{ $labels.namespace }} has been unreachable for more than 2 minutes."
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- alert: StalwartExternalProbeFailure
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expr: probe_success{job="stalwart-blackbox-external"} == 0
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for: 5m
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labels:
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severity: critical
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service: stalwart
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component: external-access
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annotations:
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summary: "Stalwart external endpoint unreachable"
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description: "External probe to {{ $labels.instance }} has failed for more than 5 minutes. Users cannot access mail service."
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- alert: StalwartHighResponseTime
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expr: probe_http_duration_seconds{job="stalwart-blackbox-external"} > 5
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for: 5m
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labels:
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severity: warning
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service: stalwart
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component: performance
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annotations:
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summary: "Stalwart responding slowly"
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description: "Stalwart response time to {{ $labels.instance }} is {{ $value }}s (threshold: 5s)."
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- alert: StalwartPodRestarting
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expr: rate(kube_pod_container_status_restarts_total{namespace="stalwart",pod=~"stalwart-.*"}[15m]) > 0
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for: 5m
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labels:
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severity: warning
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service: stalwart
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component: stability
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annotations:
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summary: "Stalwart pod restarting"
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description: "Stalwart pod {{ $labels.pod }} has restarted {{ $value }} times in the last 15 minutes."
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- alert: StalwartBackupFailing
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expr: kube_job_status_failed{namespace="stalwart",job_name=~"stalwart-backup-.*"} > 0
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for: 1h
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labels:
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severity: warning
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service: stalwart
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component: backup
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annotations:
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summary: "Stalwart backup job failing"
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description: "Backup job {{ $labels.job_name }} has failed. Investigate backup configuration."
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