docs(architecture): document the graph invariant and add operations guidance - #515
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…uidance docs/architecture.md described the five components but not the rule that holds them together, and it said nothing about running the service. An operator reading it could not find the health endpoint, the metric to alert on, or where an engine puts its output. State the invariant explicitly (providers vary per environment, the canonical topology.Graph is stable, engines only translate) with the consequences that follow for anyone adding an environment or an output format, and describe the real shape of Graph, Vertex and InstanceTopology plus the *httperr.Error return at the provider boundary. Add an operations section covering the endpoints, the five Prometheus collectors in pkg/metrics, the aggregation delay and why updates lag it, where each of the five registered engines writes its output, an ordered checklist for a topology that stops regenerating, and how provider status codes propagate and which ones are retried. Every symptom, metric name, log line and remedy was read out of pkg/server, pkg/metrics, pkg/node_observer, pkg/engines and internal/httpreq first, since a wrong troubleshooting step costs more during an incident than a missing one. Also record how the docs are published: Fern serves per-release versions whose content is frozen at each git tag, which is what the version picker on docs.nvidia.com/topograph selects between. Signed-off-by: Carlos Eduardo Arango Gutierrez <eduardoa@nvidia.com>
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WalkthroughAdded architecture documentation for the canonical graph, provider and engine boundaries, APIs, operational endpoints, metrics, aggregation, engine outputs, Kubernetes troubleshooting, and provider retry behavior. ChangesArchitecture documentation
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Greptile SummaryExpands the architecture documentation with the provider/engine invariant, canonical graph model, API and documentation-versioning references, and operational guidance.
Confidence Score: 5/5The documentation-only PR appears safe to merge, although its retry timing remains inaccurate and should be corrected. The two resolved findings are fully corrected. The remaining previous finding is still unresolved: docs/architecture.md says retry backoff begins at 2 seconds, while internal/httpreq defines a 500-millisecond initial backoff and therefore waits 500ms, 1s, 2s, and 4s across five total attempts. Files Needing Attention: docs/architecture.md Important Files Changed
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| The provider interface returns `*httperr.Error` rather than `error` so that the status the provider chose propagates intact. That code becomes three things: the HTTP status stored with the queued request and returned by `GET /v1/topology?uid=<id>`, the `status` label on `topograph_request_duration_seconds`, and the input to the retry decision. | ||
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| The API Server retries a generation attempt up to 5 times in total, and only for the statuses `internal/httpreq` treats as transient: `408`, `429`, `500`, `502`, `503`, and `504`. Backoff starts at 2 seconds and doubles (2s, 4s, 8s, 16s), and each attempt logs `Attempt <n> failed with error: <err>. Retrying in <wait>`. Any other status fails on the first attempt. |
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Without a valid Retry-After header, five total attempts produce four waits of 500ms, 1s, 2s, and 4s—not 2s, 4s, 8s, and 16s. The current guidance would cause operators to substantially overestimate when the final failure becomes available.
| The API Server retries a generation attempt up to 5 times in total, and only for the statuses `internal/httpreq` treats as transient: `408`, `429`, `500`, `502`, `503`, and `504`. Backoff starts at 2 seconds and doubles (2s, 4s, 8s, 16s), and each attempt logs `Attempt <n> failed with error: <err>. Retrying in <wait>`. Any other status fails on the first attempt. | |
| The API Server retries a generation attempt up to 5 times in total, and only for the statuses `internal/httpreq` treats as transient: `408`, `429`, `500`, `502`, `503`, and `504`. Without a valid `Retry-After` header, backoff starts at 500 milliseconds and doubles (500ms, 1s, 2s, 4s), and each attempt logs `Attempt <n> failed with error: <err>. Retrying in <wait>`. Any other status fails on the first attempt. |
Two corrections from PR review. Request.Hash builds its digest from the provider name and params and the engine name and params only, so requests that differ solely in their node lists or credentials share an ID and restart the same aggregation timer. "Identical bodies share a hash" understated that. NewTopologyLabelKeys sets the sub-domain key to the fixed constant KeyTopologyXclrSubDomain and only the domain key is taken from the acceleratorLabel parameter, so the engine table wrongly implied both accelerator keys were overridable. The retry backoff figures in the same document were also challenged in review and are left unchanged: the paragraph describes the API Server generation retry in pkg/server/engine.go, whose defaultBackOff is 2s, producing waits of 2s, 4s, 8s and 16s across 5 attempts. The 500ms initial delay belongs to internal/httpreq, a different retry loop. Signed-off-by: Carlos Eduardo Arango Gutierrez <eduardoa@nvidia.com>
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- Line 164: Update Request.Hash() and the unauthenticated /v1/lookup result
retrieval so cached results are partitioned by every topology-affecting scope,
including Request.Nodes and Provider.Creds; alternatively enforce equivalent
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| - Continuous churn starves the queue. If events arrive faster than the delay, the timer keeps restarting and nothing is produced. The signature in the logs is many `Submit request; delay processing by <delay>` lines with no matching `Processing request ID <hash>` line. | ||
| - The request hash covers only the provider name and parameters and the engine name and parameters. Requests that agree on those collapse into one, even when their node lists or credentials differ. The Node Observer always sends the same body (the provider and engine from its own config), which is what makes coalescing effective in Kubernetes. |
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Include request scope in the result key.
Request.Hash() excludes Request.Nodes and Provider.Creds, but topology generation uses both fields. The unauthenticated /v1/lookup endpoint retrieves results by this shared hash. Different callers can therefore receive the same caller's topology. Include all result-affecting scope in the key, or enforce equivalent authorization and cache partitioning before documenting this coalescing behavior.
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In `@docs/architecture.md` at line 164, Update Request.Hash() and the
unauthenticated /v1/lookup result retrieval so cached results are partitioned by
every topology-affecting scope, including Request.Nodes and Provider.Creds;
alternatively enforce equivalent authorization and cache partitioning before
retaining the documented coalescing behavior. Ensure different callers cannot
receive another caller’s topology.
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Description
Expands
docs/architecture.mdfrom 44 to 211 lines: the design invariant that holds theprovider and engine boundary in place, an API reference pointer, how the docs are versioned,
and an operations section.
Part of the OSS Health Scorecard work tracked in #513.
What
topology.Graphis stable, engines only translate and never discover. With the consequencesspelled out, so a future contributor can tell whether a change belongs in a provider or an
engine.
uniform rather than implying it is complete.
docs/reaches docs.nvidia.com through Fern, and howeach published version is frozen at its tag.
regenerating, and how a failed provider call surfaces.
The diagram, the five-component section and the Workflow section are unchanged.
Accuracy
Every operations claim is mapped to a specific file and line range. Nothing that could not be
tied to code went in: no alert thresholds, no "normal" duration figures, no kubectl recipes
that were not run. Two things worth calling out:
pkg/registry/registry.goregistersk8s,nfd,graph,slurm,slinky.topograph_validation_error_totalis documented as never incremented. It is registered inpkg/metricsbut nothing in the tree raises it, so no series appears. Stated so nobodywaits on it during an incident.
Measured effect
+2.00 points, entirely from documentation bonus signals. Measured against this branch versus
main.Documentation only.
Part of #513.
Checklist
git commit -s).