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fix(health): readiness answers degraded-ready when PostgreSQL is slow, before the probe gives up - #3332
Readiness probes on /api/health/ready have been logging context deadline exceeded while awaiting headers at times (11-02 11:04, 18:52, 21:39Z; 11-03 08:57, 09:06Z), with no warning from the handler.
The handler's only awaited I/O is pgPool.query('SELECT 1'), and nothing bounded it except the pool's 5s acquire timeout. The probe gives up at 3s (values.yaml: timeoutSeconds: 3). A query that takes between 3 and 5 seconds and then succeeds therefore fails the probe while the handler stays silent, which matches what was observed. SRE's [loop-lag] log recorded no event-loop stall of 1s or more at any of those times, so the loop was not blocked.
Change
The SELECT 1 is raced against 1500ms, half the probe timeout. On timeout it takes the existing error branch: 200, degraded: ['postgresql'], and the warning did not answer within 1500ms. The timer is cleared in finally.
This follows the handler's stated policy. Once the PG routes are mounted, PG liveness never fails readiness, because failing every pod would turn partial degradation into an outage. A slow answer is the same kind of fault as an error. The TASK-168 mount gate is untouched.
What this does not settle
Why the query was slow is still open. The pool max is 50. The agent /events long-poll reads through Mongo, so this PR doesn't claim that the long-polls hold PG connections. This fix bounds the probe either way. It also makes each slow answer show up as a warning line, which the next measurement can count.
Tests
health.ready.test.js gets a new case: the query never settles, and the response must be degraded-ready within 2.5s.
Reverse check, on main's handler:
✕ answers degraded-ready before the probe timeout when PostgreSQL does not answer (30008 ms)
Tests: 1 failed, 7 passed, 8 total
With the fix: health.ready + health.db 12/12, and accessLog passes as well. Lint: 0 errors. tsc: clean for routes/health.ts.
Review (one round, D218)
One fresh reviewer subagent returned PASS. It checked:
Race and cleanup: no leaked timer, and no unhandled rejection whichever promise settles first.
Timing: 1500ms against the 3s probe timeout is sensible.
Policy: the change is consistent with the policy above.
Log volume: about one warning per probe under sustained slowness, the same rate as the existing error branch.
Test: it is sound, and it fails without the fix.
The reviewer also noted that pool contention behind the long-polls isn't backed by the code. The description above has been worded to match.
…, before the probe gives up
/api/health/ready awaited SELECT 1 with no bound of its own. The pool's
acquire timeout is 5s and the probe's is 3s, so a query that took
between 3 and 5 seconds failed the probe while the handler logged
nothing. Race it against 1500ms and treat a slow answer like a failed
one: ready, degraded, and the warning is logged.
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The /ready handler shares an in-flight PostgreSQL probe and applies a configurable probe deadline. Each request waits up to 1,500 ms. A request timeout or probe failure returns HTTP 200 with PostgreSQL marked degraded.
Changes: PostgreSQL readiness probe
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Summary
Share and bound PostgreSQL probes backend/routes/health.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/routes/health.ready.test.js
The handler checks out a client, runs SELECT 1, and releases the client. The configurable deadline defaults to 10,000 ms. Tests cover deadline handling, client release, later probes, and invalid deadline values.
Bound each readiness request backend/routes/health.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/routes/health.ready.test.js
Each request races the shared probe against a 1,500 ms timeout. Tests cover degraded-ready responses for pending probes and reuse of one probe across concurrent requests.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller as Readiness caller
participant Route as /ready handler
participant Pool as PostgreSQL pool
participant Client as PostgreSQL client
Caller->>Route: Request readiness
Route->>Pool: Check out client if no probe is pending
Route->>Client: Run SELECT 1
Route->>Caller: Return HTTP 200 with PostgreSQL degraded if request times out
Client->>Route: Resolve or fail probe
Route->>Client: Release client
Route->>Caller: Return probe result if the request is still waiting
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Possibly related issues
Team-Commonly/commonly#677: The readiness route keeps PostgreSQL advisory by returning HTTP 200 with PostgreSQL marked degraded when the probe times out. The TLS mismatch and smoke-test gaps are not addressed.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 6da31
The readiness probe can leave a database client without an error listener while a query is pending. A connection failure at that moment could crash the pod rather than report PostgreSQL as degraded. Attach and remove an error listener around the checkout, and add a test for it, before merging.
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The await at line 109 has no deadline. If the handler never responds, the test fails only at Jest's 30-second timeout. The toBeLessThan(2500) check and the warning assertion never run. Supertest closes its server only when the request callback runs, so a pending request can keep the server open.
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- const res = await request(buildApp()).get('/api/health/ready').expect(200);+ const res = await request(buildApp()).get('/api/health/ready').timeout(2500).expect(200);
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Review comment at @backend/__tests__/unit/routes/health.ready.test.js at line
109:
Add a 2500 ms deadline to the readiness request in the test using Supertest’s
request timeout, so a nonresponsive handler fails promptly and the timing and
warning assertions can run within the intended bound.
The query that loses the race is not cancelled and may hold a pool
client, so a probe every 5s against a stalled database would add one
waiting query per probe while the pod stays ready. A probe that finds
one still pending now waits on it. The test also bounds its request
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@coderabbitai Applied the body-only Minor in fe7c0ea: the two probe requests that wait on a stalled query now carry .timeout(2500), so a hang fails fast and doesn't wait out Jest's 30s timeout. On CodeQL js/missing-rate-limiting at routes/health.ts/ready: main already has the same alert, #1860, on that handler. It moved two lines down only because of the new constant. The route is on the rate-limit guard's deliberate [unlimited] baseline, because it serves the kubelet's readiness probe, so I'm not changing it.
One review round (D218): a fresh reviewer subagent (effort medium) returned PASS at 5b2705b. It checked:
the race and timer cleanup;
1500ms against the 3s probe timeout;
consistency with the handler's degraded-ready policy;
log volume;
that the test fails without the fix.
The reviewer also showed that the /events long-polls read through Mongo, so the PR body does not claim pool contention from them.
Reverse checks:
With main's handler, the slow-PG test hangs until Jest's 30s timeout (1 failed / 8).
With 5b2705b's handler, the new one-probe-in-flight test fails (1 failed / 9).
With fe7c0ea: health.ready + health.db pass 13/13. Lint: 0 errors. tsc is clean on routes/health.ts.
CodeRabbit:
The Major on uncancelled probes piling up is fixed in fe7c0ea and answered in its thread.
The body-only Minor (bound the test's requests) is applied.
CodeQL js/missing-rate-limiting on /ready is main's alert #1860, moved two lines down. The route is on the guard's [unlimited] baseline because it is the kubelet probe.
The current tests cover a rejected response and recovery after successful settlement. They do not cover recovery after rejection. Add a case named starts a new PostgreSQL probe after rejection that rejects the first query, makes the next query succeed, and asserts that query runs twice and the second response is not degraded. This test would fail if cleanup changed from .finally to success-only cleanup.
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Review comment at @backend/__tests__/unit/routes/health.ready.test.js around
lines 138 - 144:
Extend the readiness route tests around the existing `mockPool.query` probe flow
to cover recovery after a rejected query: make the first query reject, then have
the next probe succeed. Assert that the query runs twice and the second response
is not degraded, preserving the existing behavior that allows a fresh probe
after rejection.
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@lilyshen0722 Confirmed that the stalled-query requests in backend/__tests__/unit/routes/health.ready.test.js now use .timeout(2500). This addresses the fail-fast concern. I inspected the code but did not run the tests.
Understood on /ready and the deliberate [unlimited] baseline for kubelet probes. I will not request a rate-limit change in this PR. I have not independently verified alert #1860 on main.
… a deadline
Reusing one in-flight probe stopped probes piling up, but a query that
never settled kept every later probe degraded and held its client for
good. The probe now checks out its own client, gives SELECT 1 a deadline
(10s, READY_PG_PROBE_DEADLINE_MS), and on expiry releases the client with
an error so the pool destroys it; the next probe starts afresh. From
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Validate the probe deadline before scheduling it.
181-181: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Validate the probe deadline before scheduling it.
If READY_PG_PROBE_DEADLINE_MS=-1, the fallback does not apply. Node schedules the negative delay at 1 ms. Healthy PostgreSQL probes can then report degraded-ready and discard their clients repeatedly. Accept only a positive, finite deadline; otherwise use the default. (nodejs.org)
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Review comment at @backend/routes/health.ts at line 181:
Validate READY_PG_PROBE_DEADLINE_MS before scheduling the PostgreSQL probe:
accept only a finite value greater than zero, and use the 10000 ms default for
invalid, non-finite, zero, or negative values. Update the deadlineMs calculation
and preserve its use by the existing probe scheduling flow.
Cover the success-path deadline timer cleanup in the readiness tests.
Cover the success-path deadline timer cleanup in the readiness tests.
Removing clearTimeout(timer) at backend/routes/health.ts:197 does not fail any test in health.ready.test.js. The successful probe still releases its client once. The stale deadline timer rejects a promise that Promise.race has already settled. Each successful probe then leaves a timer pending for up to READY_PG_PROBE_DEADLINE_MS (10 s by default). No current assertion detects this.
Add a test for a successful probe that:
Sets READY_PG_PROBE_DEADLINE_MS to '200'.
Spies on setTimeout with jest.spyOn(global, 'setTimeout'), lets calls through, and keeps the handle for the 200 ms call. The /ready handler also sets a 1500 ms timer, so filter by delay.
Asserts that clearTimeout was called with that handle after the response.
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Review comment at @backend/__tests__/unit/routes/health.ready.test.js around
lines 167 - 171:
Add a successful readiness-probe test in the health.ready.test.js suite that
sets READY_PG_PROBE_DEADLINE_MS to 200, spies on global setTimeout while
allowing calls through, and captures the handle for the 200 ms timer rather than
the handler’s 1500 ms timer. After the /api/health/ready response succeeds,
assert clearTimeout was called with the captured handle, and restore the
environment and spies.
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READY_PG_PROBE_DEADLINE_MS=-1 passed the old `|| 10000` fallback and
fired at once, so healthy probes would read degraded. Only a positive,
finite value is used. From CodeRabbit on #3332.
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Minor (validate the deadline): applied in 77d6d9c. Only a positive, finite READY_PG_PROBE_DEADLINE_MS is used now; anything else falls back to 10s. New test ignores an unusable probe deadline covers -1, 0 and a non-number. With c0c227b's handler the -1 case fails (1 failed / 13); with this commit 17/17 pass.
Trivial (a test for clearTimeout on success): not adding it. Leaving the cleanup out would cost one idle timer per successful probe, up to the deadline. That timer would reject a race that has already settled, so it changes no response and holds no client. A setTimeout spy filtered by delay would test that implementation detail more than the behaviour.
Deadline validation: The reported change in 77d6d9c61 addresses the Minor finding. The invalid-value cases cover the reported regression. I have not independently run the tests.
clearTimeout success test: Understood. I accept leaving out the spy-based test. The cleanup should remain, but I will not request a separate test for that implementation detail.
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Follow-up Comments
Start the query timer when the query is called.
182-182: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Start the query timer when the query is called.
If request setup takes over 20 ms, this promise can resolve before the route calls query. The -1 case can then pass even with the validation reverted. Use mockImplementationOnce to create the promise when query is called.
As per path instructions, “A test that would still pass with the fix reverted is not a test.”
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Review comment at @backend/__tests__/unit/routes/health.ready.test.js at line
182:
Update the `mockPool.query` setup in the `-1` case to use
`mockImplementationOnce` and create the delayed promise when the query is
called, rather than starting the timer during test setup. Keep the existing
delay and resolved result unchanged.
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Reject deadlines outside Node’s timer range.
182-182: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Reject deadlines outside Node’s timer range.
A value such as 2592000000 passes this guard, but Node schedules it after 1 ms rather than 30 days. (nodejs.org) Healthy queries can then time out, destroy their clients, and report PostgreSQL as degraded. Fall back for values above 2147483647 and add a boundary test.
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Review comment at @backend/routes/health.ts at line 182:
Update the deadlineMs validation for configured so values above Node’s maximum
timer delay of 2147483647 use the existing 10000 ms fallback, while preserving
the current fallback for non-finite and non-positive values. Add a boundary test
covering the maximum supported value and a value above it.
Bound the PostgreSQL pool checkout.
184-184: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Bound the PostgreSQL pool checkout.
await pool.connect() runs before the 1,500 ms probe race and uses the pool's default 5,000 ms PG_POOL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS. When checkout stalls, the shared readyPgProbe remains pending after the request race ends, so later readiness requests reuse it and report PostgreSQL as degraded until checkout settles. Apply the 1,500 ms deadline to checkout as well as to SELECT 1; do not rely only on the query timer.
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Review comment at @backend/routes/health.ts at line 184:
Bound the pool.connect checkout in the PostgreSQL readiness probe to the same
1,500 ms deadline as SELECT 1; the query timer alone does not bound connection
acquisition. Ensure readyPgProbe settles when checkout exceeds that deadline so
later readiness requests do not reuse a stalled probe, and preserve cleanup of
any connection acquired after timeout.
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Node fires a delay above 2^31-1 ms at once. The test's slow query is now
created when the probe asks, so it cannot settle early. From CodeRabbit
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Test timing: applied in 6da3142. The slow query is created with mockImplementationOnce when the probe asks for it, so it cannot settle before query is called.
Timer range: applied. A deadline above 2147483647 now falls back to 10s, and 2147483648 is a test case. With 77d6d9c's handler that case fails (1 failed / 14). With this commit, 18/18 pass.
Bound the pool checkout: not changing. The pool's 5s acquire timeout (PG_POOL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS) already bounds pool.connect(), so a stalled checkout rejects and clears the shared probe within 5s. While it lasts, readiness reports PostgreSQL as degraded. That's accurate: the pool can't hand out a connection. The pod stays ready and the warning is logged, so the operator sees it.
Test timing: Confirmed. The test creates the delayed query with mockImplementationOnce when query is called.
Timer range: Confirmed. Values above 2147483647 fall back to 10 seconds. The invalid-value test includes 2147483648.
Pool checkout: Agreed. backend/config/db-pg.ts configures connectionTimeoutMillis with a 5-second default. PG_POOL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS can override that value, so 5 seconds is the default, not a fixed bound. A checkout rejection clears the shared probe. Each readiness request still has its separate 1.5-second wait limit and returns degraded-ready with a warning.
I withdraw the request for a separate checkout timeout. I did not run the tests, so the reported 18/18 result remains author-reported.
pg-pool drops its idle error listener at checkout, and pg emits 'error'
on a client whose socket fails mid-query. pool.query guarded this before;
the probe's own checkout did not. The listener lives for the checkout and
is removed before release.
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Readiness probes on
/api/health/readyhave been loggingcontext deadline exceeded while awaiting headersat times (11-02 11:04, 18:52, 21:39Z; 11-03 08:57, 09:06Z), with no warning from the handler.The handler's only awaited I/O is
pgPool.query('SELECT 1'), and nothing bounded it except the pool's 5s acquire timeout. The probe gives up at 3s (values.yaml:timeoutSeconds: 3). A query that takes between 3 and 5 seconds and then succeeds therefore fails the probe while the handler stays silent, which matches what was observed. SRE's[loop-lag]log recorded no event-loop stall of 1s or more at any of those times, so the loop was not blocked.Change
SELECT 1is raced against 1500ms, half the probe timeout. On timeout it takes the existing error branch: 200,degraded: ['postgresql'], and the warningdid not answer within 1500ms. The timer is cleared infinally.What this does not settle
Why the query was slow is still open. The pool max is 50. The agent
/eventslong-poll reads through Mongo, so this PR doesn't claim that the long-polls hold PG connections. This fix bounds the probe either way. It also makes each slow answer show up as a warning line, which the next measurement can count.Tests
health.ready.test.jsgets a new case: the query never settles, and the response must be degraded-ready within 2.5s.main's handler:health.ready+health.db12/12, andaccessLogpasses as well. Lint: 0 errors. tsc: clean forroutes/health.ts.Review (one round, D218)
One fresh reviewer subagent returned PASS. It checked:
The reviewer also noted that pool contention behind the long-polls isn't backed by the code. The description above has been worded to match.
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