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Base: 05-font-tiers. Observability the renderer PRs report into; standalone.

What is in here

  • gosub_engine::telemetry: a broadcast bus of {ts_us, source, kind, data}
    events; emit costs nothing while nobody listens; emit_from lets the
    broker report on behalf of sandboxed children that cannot reach a socket.
  • The metrics server gains GET /events (NDJSON stream, lag reported rather
    than silently skipped), /metrics/reset becomes POST-only, the * CORS
    header goes; GET /renderers is reserved (empty until the renderer PRs).
  • net.load events from the brokered loader.
  • tools/telemetry-viewer/index.html: a standalone page that charts the stream.

Testing

cargo test -p gosub_engine --lib telemetry
cargo check -p gosub_engine --features metrics

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  • New Features
    • Added a live diagnostics dashboard with frame timing, resource-load details, renderer status, and an event log. Filter events, pause or clear log capture, and save the server address for later visits.
    • Network load reporting now includes request outcomes, status, transfer size, and elapsed time when available.

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The engine adds process-wide telemetry events, reports media and subresource fetch results, and exposes an NDJSON event stream. A metrics endpoint serves a browser dashboard that displays event data and renderer information.

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Engine Telemetry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Telemetry event model and emission
crates/gosub_engine/src/lib.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/telemetry.rs
The engine exposes a telemetry module with broadcast events and subscriber-aware emission. Network-load events include outcome, status, byte count, elapsed time, and errors. A test checks event delivery and serialization.
Network-load instrumentation
crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/media_source.rs, crates/gosub_engine/src/engine/resource_pipeline/html.rs
Media and subresource fetch paths report results through network-load telemetry. Both retain their existing success conditions.
Metrics endpoints and event stream
crates/gosub_engine/src/metrics.rs
The metrics handler serves the dashboard at /, returns an empty list at /renderers, and streams telemetry as NDJSON at /events. Reset now requires POST. The event stream handles lag, heartbeats, and client disconnects.
Telemetry dashboard
crates/gosub_engine/src/metrics/viewer.html
The dashboard connects to /events, polls /renderers, and displays frame timings, remote passes, resource loads, renderer details, and filtered events.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NetworkFetch
  participant Telemetry
  participant MetricsEvents
  participant TelemetryViewer
  TelemetryViewer->>MetricsEvents: GET /events
  MetricsEvents->>Telemetry: subscribe to events
  NetworkFetch->>Telemetry: report net.load
  Telemetry-->>MetricsEvents: broadcast event
  MetricsEvents-->>TelemetryViewer: stream NDJSON event
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 392d8

The telemetry additions preserve existing fetch behavior and provide same-origin dashboard access with disconnect handling. No actionable merge-blocking risk is established; merge after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 392d8

The event stream exposes unredacted resource URLs and errors from emitting tabs to any client that can connect locally. Local-only access and browser-origin protections limit exposure, but do not distinguish authorized readers.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new firehose exports unredacted resource URLs and errors across emitting tabs without reader authentication or tab/zone authorization. A local client can activate collection and observe subsequent activity; URL-borne secrets or private resource locations can therefore cross a broader boundary than the existing aggregate metrics surface. Actual sensitive payloads and exposure beyond loopback were not demonstrated.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The observation scope is one enabled engine process, spanning its emitting tabs and zones rather than one selected tab. Any local TCP client can subscribe without credentials. Exposure beyond the host's loopback boundary is unresolved, and the inspected event route grants observation rather than fetch or renderer execution authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A client connects to the enabled loopback port, requests /events, and receives subsequent fetch metadata from the process-wide bus. If a resource URL contains credentials, query secrets, or a private path, those values reach the client unchanged. This is a supported confidentiality concern, not a demonstrated remote exploit or evidence that actual secrets were emitted.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Loopback binding and removal of wildcard CORS limit ordinary remote and cross-origin browser reads. The embedded viewer defaults to same-origin requests. The handler does not validate credentials, Host, or Origin. POST-only reset reduces the former GET mutation surface, but is not itself reader authentication or complete request authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Each stream owns its receiver, so returning or task cancellation releases that subscription. Producers do not await individual subscribers, and lag isolates slow readers from producer delivery. However, a stalled write can retain a receiver and keep collection enabled; connection and write budgets are not enforced in the inspected server.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define authorized-reader scope for the firehose, minimize URL and error data before publication, and use a reader credential or owner-restricted transport where local clients are not equally trusted. Retain loopback and same-origin controls, and add connection and write budgets to bound exporter resource retention.
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- Around line 81-102: Update stream_events so an idle client disconnect is
detected and the task exits, dropping its broadcast receiver; add a periodic
heartbeat write or monitor the socket for EOF while waiting on events.recv().
Preserve the existing event and lagged-event handling.

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- Line 238: Escape every fetched value interpolated into the telemetry table’s
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🟡 Minor · Serve the telemetry viewer from the metrics origin. · metrics.rs:70-74

crates/gosub_engine/src/metrics.rs:70-74
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Serve the telemetry viewer from the metrics origin.

When tools/telemetry-viewer/index.html is opened directly, its requests to /events and /renderers are cross-origin. The metrics server sends no CORS header and does not serve the viewer, so the browser blocks both responses.

Suggested fix
 //! | GET    | `/events`         | The telemetry firehose, streamed as NDJSON           |
 //! | GET    | `/renderers`      | Renderer processes (none yet; reserved for the viewer)  |
+//! | GET    | `/telemetry-viewer` | Standalone telemetry viewer                         |
 //! | GET    | `/health`         | Liveness probe (`{"status":"ok"}`)                   |
...
-    let (code, phrase, body) = if first_line.starts_with("POST /metrics/reset") {
+    let (code, phrase, content_type, body) = if first_line.starts_with("POST /metrics/reset") {
         gosub_shared::timing::reset_stats();
-        (200u16, "OK", r#"{"status":"reset"}"#.to_string())
+        (200u16, "OK", "application/json", r#"{"status":"reset"}"#.to_string())
     } else if first_line.starts_with("GET /metrics") || first_line.starts_with("HEAD /metrics") {
-        (200, "OK", build_metrics_json())
+        (200, "OK", "application/json", build_metrics_json())
     } else if first_line.starts_with("GET /renderers") {
-        (200, "OK", r#"{"renderers":[]}"#.to_string())
+        (200, "OK", "application/json", r#"{"renderers":[]}"#.to_string())
+    } else if first_line.starts_with("GET /telemetry-viewer ") {
+        (
+            200,
+            "OK",
+            "text/html; charset=utf-8",
+            include_str!("../../../tools/telemetry-viewer/index.html").to_string(),
+        )
     } else if first_line.starts_with("GET /health") {
-        (200, "OK", r#"{"status":"ok"}"#.to_string())
+        (200, "OK", "application/json", r#"{"status":"ok"}"#.to_string())
     } else {
-        (404, "Not Found", r#"{"error":"not found"}"#.to_string())
+        (404, "Not Found", "application/json", r#"{"error":"not found"}"#.to_string())
     };
...
-        "HTTP/1.1 {code} {phrase}\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\nContent-Length: {}\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n{payload}",
+        "HTTP/1.1 {code} {phrase}\r\nContent-Type: {content_type}\r\nContent-Length: {}\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n{payload}",

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Update the metrics request handler to serve the telemetry viewer from the
metrics origin: add a GET `/telemetry-viewer` route using the embedded
`tools/telemetry-viewer/index.html` content, and return it with an HTML content
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embedded `tools/telemetry-viewer/index.html` content, and return it with an HTML
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jaytaph force-pushed the stack/06-telemetry branch from 392d847 to bf859aa Compare October 2, 2026 08:44
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stream_events only noticed a closed socket when writing the next event,
so a client that left while nothing happened kept its task and its
broadcast subscription, and with it telemetry emission, alive for good.
It now races the next event against a read that sees EOF.
pid, tabs, fresh, reused, evicted and status went into innerHTML raw,
and the base URL the data comes from is user-editable. The zone column
is now cut before escaping, so the cut cannot split an entity.
…g-ups

A read EOF only means the client closed its sending side; it may still
be reading, and ending the stream there cut such a client off. EOF now
just stops polling the socket. An idle stream writes an empty line every
15 s (NDJSON readers, the viewer included, skip it), and a failed write
is the hang-up that ends the stream and its subscription.
Opened as a file, as documented, the page's requests to /events and
/renderers were cross-origin and the browser blocked them. The page now
lives in the crate and is served at / on the metrics port, so they are
same-origin; a CORS header instead would let any page in the browser
read the telemetry. The page defaults to the origin it came from.
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