fix(telemetry): mark a guardrail refusal on the usage event it emits - #1065
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A guardrail refusal on /v1/responses returned 422 content_filter and emitted a zero-token usage event with `guardrail_blocked` left at its `false` default. The row lands in the unfiltered feed, so the dashboard's Logs "Guardrail blocks" view — whose whole predicate is `guardrail_blocked = true` — comes back empty while callers are being refused, which reads as the gateway logging no guardrail activity at all. The flag was set on /v1/chat/completions and /mcp and nowhere else. Every other handler builds its failure event through a different emitter and each left the field defaulted, so the same defect held on /v1/messages, /v1/completions, /v1/embeddings, /v1/rerank, /v1/images/*, /v1/audio/*, /v1/videos, the jobs surface, the passthrough routes and a realtime session a frame-scan refused. A streaming /v1/messages response refused by the output hook was worse still: it recorded a clean 200 with the upstream's tokens and nothing saying the content had been dropped. `ProxyError::is_guardrail_block` is now the one predicate every failure path reads, and `guardrail_blocked` is a required argument of the shared `usage_attr::build_error_usage_event` rather than a default, so a handler cannot join the family with it silently unset. On the retrying families it rides the terminal event only, the same rule `guardrail_enforced_hits` already follows — guardrails run once per request, not once per attempt. The realtime connect failure passes false explicitly: a dead socket is not a guardrail decision. Statuses are unchanged. A stream refused after its 200 head went out still reports 200 with the tokens the upstream billed, matching /v1/chat/completions; the flag is the whole record of the block there.
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change improves guardrail refusal telemetry across request types, but merge readiness is reduced by streaming paths that can still record an inaccurate 499 status after returning 200 and by an end-to-end gate that may fail before validating the telemetry assertions. These bounded correctness and test-readiness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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…-error-events # Conflicts: # crates/aisix-proxy/src/lib.rs
#1064 wired the input hook into `/a2a/:agent`, which lands on the same gap this branch closes elsewhere: the refusal emits one usage event and left `guardrail_blocked` defaulted, so the Blocked view could never see it. `/a2a` emits exactly one event per call, so that row is the only place the refusal can appear at all. Its token counters stay as they are. They are the gateway's own reading of the request words — filled before the chain runs, flagged `usage_estimated`, never charged — so unlike the LLM surfaces a refused A2A call is not expected to report zero, and the census records that exemption rather than asserting past it.
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crates/aisix-proxy/src/guardrail_blocked_telemetry.rs (1)
357-374: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert that the clean run emitted at least one usage event.
an_ordinary_failure_is_not_marked_as_a_guardrail_blockpasses when a surface emits no usage event at all. Any setup break that stops the request before the handler runs — a wrongCALLER_HASH, a rejected fixture body, a missing model row — yieldsstatus != 422and an emptyevents, so the control test still goes green. The file's own premise at Lines 24-27 is that the clean run proves the flag tracks refusals rather than failures, and that premise needs a real event to inspect.♻️ Proposed fix
let (status, events) = drive(surface, "a perfectly ordinary question").await; if status == 422 { wrong.push(format!("{surface}: clean text was refused ({status})")); continue; } + if events.is_empty() { + wrong.push(format!( + "{surface}: clean run emitted no usage event, so the flag was never observed" + )); + continue; + } if let Some(event) = events.iter().find(|e| e.guardrail_blocked) {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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154-164: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a bounds guard to
readVarint.
buf[pos]!returnsundefinedpast the end of the buffer.undefined & 0x80evaluates to0, so the loop exits and returns a wrong value with an advanced position instead of reporting the problem. A truncated or misaligned payload then produces silently wrong field maps, and the failure surfaces later as an opaqueno SLS log in '...' matching: ...timeout fromwaitForSlsLog. An explicit throw names the real cause.♻️ Proposed fix
function readVarint(buf: Buffer, pos: number): [number, number] { let result = 0; let shift = 0; for (;;) { - const b = buf[pos]!; + if (pos >= buf.length) { + throw new Error(`truncated varint at offset ${pos} of ${buf.length}`); + } + const b = buf[pos]!; pos += 1; result += (b & 0x7f) * 2 ** shift; if ((b & 0x80) === 0) return [result, pos]; shift += 7; } }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs`:
- Line 2484: Update both completion callbacks in
crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs at lines 2484 and 3537 so guardrail_blocked
completions retain status 200, reserving status 499 for genuinely
client-abandoned or aborted streams; preserve the committed-200 behavior for
both cross-provider and Anthropic passthrough hold-back overflows.
In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-blocked-usage-flag-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 158-181: Update the setup around createGuardrail and
waitConfigPropagation so the guardrail is seeded before the caller API key.
Replace the readiness probes through responses with an independent
ProxyClient.listModels() check that succeeds only on status 200, allowing HTTP
statuses to be evaluated while transport errors propagate directly; keep the
later guardrail behavior assertions separate.
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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/guardrail_blocked_telemetry.rs`:
- Around line 357-374: Update
an_ordinary_failure_is_not_marked_as_a_guardrail_blocked to require at least one
usage event for each clean request before evaluating guardrail_blocked; fail the
test when events is empty, while preserving the existing checks for status 422
and incorrectly marked events.
In `@tests/e2e/src/harness/sls-mock.ts`:
- Around line 154-164: Update readVarint to check that pos remains within buf
before reading each byte; when the buffer is exhausted, throw an explicit error
identifying the truncated varint instead of continuing or returning a value.
Preserve the existing decoding and position advancement for valid varints.
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Review follow-up. The hold-back-overflow arm — a response too large to buffer for scanning, which fails closed — returns mid-stream, before the upstream-EOF marker, so `reached_end` stayed false and the row reported 499: "the caller went away". Nobody went away; the gateway refused. The same refusal on /v1/chat/completions reports 200, because chat.rs `break`s out to its EOF marker instead of returning. Both /v1/messages relays now reach 200 off `guardrail_blocked`, which gets the same answer without making `reached_end` mean something other than what its doc says. Also from review: the census's clean-run control now requires an event to inspect (with none, "no event is marked blocked" is trivially true, so a broken fixture would pass), and the shared SLS varint reader names a truncated payload instead of reading `undefined & 0x80` as a terminator and returning a wrong value.
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Both nitpicks from the review body are taken in ed1a2bc:
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… test Reversing an earlier call in this PR's review. The gate waited for the input guardrail's own 422, which is the behaviour the tests then assert, so a guardrail regression would have surfaced as a propagation timeout in `beforeAll` rather than as a failed assertion naming the cause. The objection to the alternative — that `listModels()` proves only that the API key propagated — does not hold: the gateway runs ONE etcd watch over ONE prefix and applies its events in revision order (`aisix-etcd` supervisor), so with the caller key written last, its first successful authentication means every resource written ahead of it is already in the snapshot. That is what the convention in #979 and #987 rests on. Key seeding moves to the end of `beforeAll` accordingly, since the barrier is only sound in that order.
Fixes api7/AISIX-Cloud#1428
An input guardrail refuses a
/v1/responsesrequest with422 content_filter, and the usage event it emits carriesguardrail_blockedat itsfalsedefault. The row is in the unfiltered feed, so the dashboard's Logs Guardrail blocks view — whose whole predicate isguardrail_blocked = true— comes back empty while callers are being refused. An empty Blocked view alongside working traffic reads as "the gateway records no guardrail activity at all", which is a worse answer than a missing row.The flag was set on two surfaces out of twelve
/v1/chat/completionsderived it (matches!(err, ContentFiltered)) and/mcppassed it as an argument. Every other handler builds its failure event through a different emitter, and each left the field defaulted:usage_attr::build_error_usage_event/v1/completions,/v1/embeddings,/v1/rerank,/v1/images/generations,/v1/images/edits,/v1/audio/*,/v1/videos, files / batches / fine-tuning, passthrough routesresponses::emit_zero_token_event/v1/responsesmessages::emit_anthropic_usage_event/v1/messages/v1/realtimea2a::emit_a2a_usage/a2a/:agent/a2ajoined the list while this branch was open: #1064 wired the input hook into it, and its refusal emits a usage event with the same field defaulted. It is fixed here as a separate commit on top of the merge.Three of those are worth calling out on their own. A streaming
/v1/messagesresponse the output hook refuses recorded a clean200with the upstream's tokens: the held content was dropped, the caller got a terminalerrorframe, and nothing on the row said so. And a/v1/realtimesession ended by a frame-scan block — like an/a2acall — emits exactly one event, so that row was the only place the refusal could ever have appeared.The fix
ProxyError::is_guardrail_blockis now the single predicate, andguardrail_blockedis a required argument of the sharedbuild_error_usage_eventrather than a default — a handler cannot join the family with it silently unset. On the retrying families (chat/messages/responses) it rides the terminal event only, which is the ruleguardrail_enforced_hitsalready follows: guardrails run once per request, not once per attempt, so a superseded attempt must not repeat the block. That is load-bearing rather than decorative — a streaming output block on/v1/responsesrecords its attempt first, so its terminal event is a failed-attempt event.The realtime connect failure is the one call site that passes
falseexplicitly: it synthesizes its error class without aProxyError, and a dead socket is not a guardrail decision.A fail-closed refusal (
unavailable: Some(_)— the guardrail could not evaluate the request and its row refuses what it cannot check) sets the flag too. It is still the guardrail machinery that stopped the request, and hiding it leaves an operator with a 422 nothing accounts for; which of the two it was stays legible onguardrail_enforced_hits.action(blockedvsblocked_unavailable).No status code changes. A stream refused after its
200head went out still reports200with the tokens the upstream billed — that is what the caller was actually sent, and it matches what/v1/chat/completionsrecords. There the flag is the whole record of the block.Tests
guardrail_blocked_telemetry.rsdrives eleven surfaces through the real router against one keyword guardrail, twice each: with the blocking literal in the field a caller authors, and without. The second run is what makes the first mean anything — the fixtures point at a dead upstream, so a clean request fails too, and a flag that merely tracked "the request failed" would pass the blocked run and fail the clean one. Against the unfixed code it reports 10 of 11 surfaces unmarked; the eleventh is/v1/chat/completions, which passes in both states and is the built-in control./a2ais the one surface exempted from the accompanying zero-token assertion, because its counters are the gateway's own estimate of the request words — filled before the chain runs and never charged — and the census records that exemption rather than asserting past it.tests/e2e/src/cases/guardrail-blocked-usage-flag-e2e.test.tsis the live-DP half: a realaisixbinary + etcd, reading the row back off a real Aliyun-SLS export, over the four combinations the report names — direct model or routing-group parent, streaming or not. Each asserts the row exists in the unfiltered feed AND that the Blocked view's predicate finds it, that it is zero-token, and that exactly one row exists per refusal. All four fail against the unfixed binary; the clean control passes in both states. The SLS LogGroup decoder moved into the harness so this andsls-failure-content-e2eshare one copy.Endpoint-level:
responses::input_guardrail_block_marks_guardrail_blocked_usage_event(the four combinations in-crate) andmessages::streaming_output_block_marks_guardrail_blocked_usage_event, which drives both streaming relays — the Anthropic passthrough and the cross-provider bridge accumulate into separate structs, so each needed the flag wired separately.cargo test --workspace,cargo fmt --all -- --checkandcargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warningsclean. Full DP e2e green (223 files, 695 tests).Not in scope
/v1/messageszeroes the tokens on a non-streaming output block, where/v1/chat/completionsand/v1/responsesboth carry the billed usage forward (#543). That is a token-accounting gap rather than this flag, and it is left alone here.