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Seven of the piraeus-datastore alert rules label themselves severity: warn. Alerta, which the monitoring package ships as the alert sink, validates that value and warn is not on its list — every webhook delivery for these alerts dies with a 500:

Severity (warn) is not one of security, critical, major, minor, warning,
indeterminate, informational, normal, ok, cleared, debug, trace, unknown

Alertmanager retries seven times and drops the notification, and the alert never shows up anywhere. The affected rules are the LINSTOR/DRBD ones — storage pool at capacity, lost quorum, unintentional diskless, stuck resync — exactly the alerts you least want silently dropped.

Found this on a v1.4.6 cluster where linstorStoragePoolAtCapacity was genuinely firing: 153 dropped notifications in 40 minutes and nothing in Alerta. Renaming the label to warning, which the other three rules in the same file already use, stopped the failures immediately and the alerts came through.

The same labels sit on main and in v1.6.1, so a backport to release-1.6 would be appreciated.

The second commit adds a bats guard so the next one gets caught in CI: it walks every packages/*/*/alerts/ file and fails on a severity outside Alerta's default alarm model, which is exactly where warn, info, error and fatal fall. It passes on the tree as it stands (175 severity labels across 36 files, all accepted). Happy to drop that commit if you would rather keep this PR to the rename.

Fixes #2411.

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Walked the trigger map against the diff: the change renames a label inside packages/system/piraeus-operator/alerts/ — no package added or renamed, no values schema, no CRD, no tooling, no node contract. Nothing downstream restates these labels.

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fix(linstor): LINSTOR/DRBD alerts carried severity `warn`, which Alerta rejects, so they were never delivered; they now use the standard `warning` severity

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Standardized affected Prometheus alert severities to warning, including storage-pool and DRBD alerts. Alert names, conditions, descriptions, and timing remain unchanged.
    • Improved consistency of alert severity reporting across supported monitoring configurations.
  • Tests

    • Strengthened validation for supported alert severity labels.
    • Improved detection and reporting of invalid or malformed alert configurations, helping prevent contract-check failures from being overlooked.

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The patch changes seven Prometheus alert severities from warn to warning. It adds Bats contract coverage for alert discovery, severity validation, parsing failures, and temporary-file cleanup.

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Alert severity normalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Update Prometheus alert severities
packages/system/piraeus-operator/alerts/piraeus-datastore.yaml
The LINSTOR storage-pool alert and six DRBD alerts now use warning severity. Alert expressions, names, descriptions, and durations remain unchanged.
Harden severity contract validation
hack/alert-severity-contract.bats
The Bats helper discovers alert files, validates allowed severities, propagates Git and yq failures, cleans up temporary files, and checks malformed VMRule fixtures.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 65eae

The PR changes seven LINSTOR/DRBD alert severities from warn to accepted warning and adds a CI guard. The guard does not cover PrometheusRule templates, so a future invalid severity there could bypass validation and cause alert delivery failures; this is a bounded follow-up risk, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness.

Suggested reviewers: kvaps

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the LINSTOR alert severity fix and matches the primary change.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR changes the affected Piraeus datastore severities to warning and adds a related validation guard, satisfying issue #2411.
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In `@hack/alert-severity-contract.bats`:
- Around line 28-33: Replace the text-wide collect_severities validation with
per-document YAML parsing in the alert-severity contract test. For each tracked
PrometheusRule or VMRule document, inspect every rule containing alert and
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Thanks — the first version of that guard was broken in exactly the way you describe, and worse than useless: hack/cozytest.sh is /bin/sh, so the bash array and the process substitution made it exit 0 without ever running the check. Rewritten to read the labels structurally with yq over the tracked packages/*/*/alerts/*.yaml, restricted to PrometheusRule and VMRule documents, requiring labels.severity on every rule that has an alert. Verified against a fixture covering a quoted "warn", a rule with no labels.severity, a severity mentioned only inside an annotation, a quoted "warning", and a recording rule: the first two fail the run with file and alert named, the last three do not, and the runner exits 1. On the tree as it stands it is 175 alerting rules across 36 files, none rejected.

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Reviewed the rename and the bats guard. Verified by execution, not just reading: ran the
guard on the current tree (green), reverted warningwarn and re-ran it (correctly red),
and ran a repo-wide severity census.

Core change is correct, complete, and safe:

  • warning is in Alerta's default severity model, warn is not; other rules in the same
    file already use warning/critical, so this is now consistent.
  • The fix is complete repo-wide: piraeus-datastore was the only offender — no other
    warn/info/error/fatal alert severities remain anywhere in packages/.
  • The guard is non-vacuous (red before the fix, green after) and CI picks it up
    automatically via wildcard hack/*.batsmake unit-tests, no extra registration.
  • No regression: nothing (routes, inhibition, dashboards) keys on the literal warn.

LGTM. A few optional hardenings for the guard, none blocking:

  1. Fail-open on parse error (hack/alert-severity-contract.bats:13-15): yq runs per file
    inside a while pipe with no exit-status check, so a future unparseable alert file would
    silently drop its rows and let a bad severity through. Consider failing closed on a
    non-zero yq.
  2. Membership test is a substring match, not word-exact (:29-30): case ... in *" $severity "* would pass a value like "critical major" (two adjacent allowlist words
    in one scalar). Low likelihood; the fix is to iterate the allowlist words with =.
  3. Scope is narrower than the name suggests (:6): the glob packages/*/*/alerts/*.yaml
    misses ~10 other PrometheusRule/VMRule files under templates/. All are valid today,
    but a future severity: warn added there would not be caught. Consider broadening the
    glob or documenting the intended scope.
  4. Nit: the allowlist rejects severity: none, yet the alertmanager config deliberately
    routes severity="none" to a blackhole receiver. No rule uses it today; worth adding
    none to the allowlist or a comment noting it is intentionally banned.

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22-28: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pass the file path through strenv instead of string interpolation.

Line 23 builds the yq expression by interpolating "$file" directly into the query string. yq's own documentation notes that passing shell values through string interpolation "often comes with complex quote escaping" and recommends the env/strenv operators instead. A tracked file path containing a double quote or backslash would break the expression rather than fail cleanly, and the failure would look like a parse error unrelated to the actual cause.

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-    if ! (cd "$severity_root" && yq "select(.kind == \"PrometheusRule\" or .kind == \"VMRule\") | .spec.groups[]? | .rules[]? | select(has(\"alert\")) | [\"$file\", .alert, ((.labels.severity // \"<missing>\") | tostring)] | `@tsv`" "$file") >> "$severity_rows"; then
+    if ! (cd "$severity_root" && FILE="$file" yq 'select(.kind == "PrometheusRule" or .kind == "VMRule") | .spec.groups[]? | .rules[]? | select(has("alert")) | [strenv(FILE), .alert, ((.labels.severity // "<missing>") | tostring)] | `@tsv`' "$file") >> "$severity_rows"; then

Since this depends on yq's exact expression syntax, please confirm strenv() is available in the yq version pinned for this repository's toolchain before merging the change.

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In `@hack/alert-severity-contract.bats` around lines 22 - 28, Update the yq
expression in the alert-rule processing loop to pass the current file path
through an environment variable and retrieve it with strenv(), rather than
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In `@hack/alert-severity-contract.bats`:
- Around line 22-28: Update the yq expression in the alert-rule processing loop
to pass the current file path through an environment variable and retrieve it
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…re alerts

Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
the seven rules this pr renames were dropped for as long as they fired,
and nothing in the tree would have caught the next one. this walks every
tracked packages/*/*/alerts file with yq, takes the PrometheusRule and
VMRule documents, and fails on any alerting rule whose labels.severity is
missing or outside alerta's default alarm model, naming the file and the
alert. quoting does not hide a bad value and a severity mentioned in an
annotation is not mistaken for one, since the check reads the label rather
than the text. recording rules are skipped.

Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
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Rebased on current main with DCO signoff on every commit. The guard now passes the file name via strenv(FILE) instead of interpolating it into the yq expression, per the review note; the severity contract passes on the whole tree. Ready for re-review.

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48-67: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add fixture coverage for severity rejection.

The current repository data is valid, so this test does not prove that the validator rejects invalid alert rules. Add fixtures for quoted warn, missing labels.severity, and severity text only in annotations. Keep fixtures for valid warning alerts and recording rules.

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In `@hack/alert-severity-contract.bats` around lines 48 - 67, Extend the
alert-severity test fixtures used by alert_severity_rows to include invalid
rules with quoted warn, missing labels.severity, and severity text only in
annotations, while retaining valid warning alerts and recording-rule fixtures.
Ensure the test exercises rejection of each invalid case and continues accepting
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In `@hack/alert-severity-contract.bats`:
- Line 13: Update the alert-file discovery command in alert-severity-contract to
include all tracked PrometheusRule and VMRule manifests, including template
paths such as templates/prometheus-rules.yaml, rather than limiting results to
alerts directories. Add a fixture covering a template-path rule and verify the
guard detects invalid severity values there.

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In `@hack/alert-severity-contract.bats`:
- Around line 48-67: Extend the alert-severity test fixtures used by
alert_severity_rows to include invalid rules with quoted warn, missing
labels.severity, and severity text only in annotations, while retaining valid
warning alerts and recording-rule fixtures. Ensure the test exercises rejection
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if ! (cd "$severity_root" && git ls-files 'packages/*/*/alerts/*.yaml' > "$severity_files"); then

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Include alert rule templates in discovery.

Line 13 excludes packages/extra/etcd/templates/prometheus-rules.yaml, although it contains a PrometheusRule. An invalid severity: warn in that file bypasses this guard and can restore the failed notification path.

Expand discovery to include all tracked PrometheusRule and VMRule sources, including template manifests. Add a fixture that verifies template-path discovery.

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In `@hack/alert-severity-contract.bats` at line 13, Update the alert-file
discovery command in alert-severity-contract to include all tracked
PrometheusRule and VMRule manifests, including template paths such as
templates/prometheus-rules.yaml, rather than limiting results to alerts
directories. Add a fixture covering a template-path rule and verify the guard
detects invalid severity values there.

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