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What

  • Ruby LogWriter: the shard lookup used /__\{?([^}_]+)\}?__/, which on SCOPE__TELEMETRY__{TARGET}__PACKET matches TELEMETRY, not the target. It also always looked up the DEFAULT scope. Added LogWriter.db_shard_for_topic, which reads the {TARGET} hashtag and the scope prefix.
  • Python LogWriter, same fix plus two latent bugs in the same code:
    • it trimmed shard 0 unconditionally
    • cleanup_offsets / last_offsets dicts were iterated without .items(), so any queued cleanup would raise
    • hourly/daily cycling compared utc_now.min (the datetime.min class constant) instead of utc_now.minute, so it could never trigger
  • Moved the Python trim loop into trim_due_cleanups() so it can be tested.

Why

On deployments with more than one Redis db_shard, TELEMETRY__ streams for targets on non-zero shards were never trimmed by the log writer and grew without bound. XTRIM against the wrong shard is a silent no-op. Single-shard deployments are unaffected. The Python LogWriter is currently only used by interface stream logs, which don't record Redis offsets, so the Python dict-iteration bug hasn't been hit in practice.

Testing

  • New openc3/spec/logs/log_writer_spec.rb; bundle exec rspec spec/logs: 60 examples, 0 failures
  • New openc3/python/test/logs/test_log_writer.py (shard lookup, plus close → trim on the correct shard); uv run pytest test/logs: 56 passed; ruff clean

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Log retention now selects the correct storage shard for topics across scopes, helping ensure expired logs are trimmed from the right location.
    • Scheduled log cycling now handles midnight and other zero-valued time settings correctly. Daily and hourly cycles also run only at the configured time and avoid repeating within the same day or hour.
    • Time-based cycling now waits until the configured interval has fully elapsed.

The shard lookup regex matched the stream type (TELEMETRY) instead of the
{TARGET} hashtag and ignored scope, so on multi-shard deployments target
streams outside shard 0 were never trimmed by the log writer. Python also
iterated offset dicts without .items() and used datetime.min for minutes.

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Python treated cycle_hour=0 / cycle_minute=0 as unset because of
truthiness checks, so midnight and top-of-hour cycling never fired.
The cycle checks move into cycle_reason so they can be tested. The
target hashtag regex no longer backtracks quadratically on '{' runs.

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The log writers now resolve Redis stream-trimming shards from topic scope and target, using shard 0 when a topic has no target. The Python writer also centralizes time-based cycle decisions, retains zero-valued hour and minute settings, and processes due cleanup entries with each topic’s recorded offset.

Changes: Log writer behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scoped shard lookup and cleanup
openc3/lib/openc3/logs/log_writer.rb, openc3/python/openc3/logs/log_writer.py, openc3/python/test/logs/test_log_writer.py, openc3/spec/logs/log_writer_spec.rb
Both log writers resolve a shard from the topic scope and target before trimming. The Python writer processes expired cleanup entries with the recorded offset for each topic. Tests cover shard lookup and cleanup trimming.
Cycle scheduling and cleanup delegation
openc3/python/openc3/logs/log_writer.py, openc3/python/test/logs/test_log_writer.py
The Python writer determines cycle reasons for elapsed-time, daily, and hourly schedules. Its cycle thread delegates cycle decisions and due-cleanup processing. Tests cover schedule boundaries, including zero-valued settings.

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Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

  • Optimize retain time = 0 #845: This PR changes the log writer’s stream-trimming path, but the summaries do not show a change to the zero-retention condition.

Possibly related PRs

  • OpenC3/cosmos#3951: Both PRs change Redis log-stream retention behavior; this PR updates shard selection for delayed LogWriter trimming.

Suggested reviewers: jmthomas

Merge Risk: Low · up to 65408

The writers can cycle logs differently across years. The edge case is narrow, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness and a follow-up Ruby fix.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 65408

Cleanup will now work for more targets, but during a storage outage it can remove history before a durable archive exists. This creates a recovery risk for command and telemetry records. The inspected changes do not establish a new external access path or permission expansion.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Newly effective Ruby cleanup on nonzero shards can remove Redis recovery history before archival succeeds. Closing a file starts an asynchronous upload and immediately schedules cleanup; expiry is not conditional on successful storage. If upload retries fail, trimming can still succeed and clear its cleanup entry. The remaining local file is subsequently removed during normal shutdown cleanup. The asynchronous ordering predates this PR, but correcting the shard activates this destructive failure path for streams where the base normally trimmed the wrong shard.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated failure scope is command or telemetry history for subscribed targets whose Ruby cleanup now reaches the correct shard. A shared archive-storage outage can affect multiple such targets; the inspected flow does not establish exposure of unrelated services or environments.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The supported failure sequence is unsuccessful archival, expiry of the independent cleanup timer, successful trimming on the corrected shard, and eventual deletion of the remaining temporary copy during shutdown. This can compromise historical-data recovery. No independently reachable low-privilege attacker path was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Configuration and existing internal ADD_TOPICS commands define the subscription list. Redis reads supply the topic key and message ID passed to the writer, rather than taking deletion identifiers from packet contents. Scoped lookup reads target metadata for that same key; it relies on existing configuration, control-stream, and Redis authority rather than introducing a new authorization control.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Upload retries and retention of local files after upload failure provide limited recovery countermeasures. They do not gate stream trimming, and joining upload threads at shutdown does not verify success before temporary-file cleanup.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make each trim boundary eligible only after durable archival succeeds. Preserve failed-upload files and pending cleanup ownership across shutdown or restart, with idempotent retries rather than treating elapsed time or thread termination as archival confirmation.
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and self.cycle_minute is not None
and utc_now.hour == self.cycle_hour
and utc_now.minute == self.cycle_minute
and self.start_time.date() != utc_now.date()

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Keep daily-cycle date checks consistent across Ruby and Python.

If a file remains open until the same day of year in a later year, Python cycles it because the dates differ. Ruby’s LogWriter#cycle_thread_body at Line 239 does not cycle it because the day-of-year values match. Update Ruby to compare full calendar dates too.

As per coding guidelines, “A behavioral change in one without the other is a finding” for these mirrored Ruby/Python subsystems.

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Review comment at @openc3/python/openc3/logs/log_writer.py at line 195:
Update Ruby’s LogWriter#cycle_thread_body date comparison to use full calendar
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