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The Logs question "show me Alice's 429s in the last 24h" had no answer. A usage event named the credential a request arrived on (api_key_id, plus a JWT subject) but never the person behind it, so answering it meant enumerating every key a member owns, querying each, and merging by hand — and a member who calls through both an API key and OIDC was still split across two identities that no single filter could join.

What changes

user_id on the UsageEvent wire contract, stamped from the resolved ApiKey.user_id at request time.

A snapshot rather than something cp-api resolves from api_key_id at query time. Rebinding a key would otherwise re-attribute its whole history to the new owner, and deleting one would erase the attribution of everything it ever sent. The JWT path needs no separate handling: a token runs AS the key it resolves to, so one field covers both halves of the auth surface — which is precisely the case a query-time join on api_key_id gets wrong.

apply_jwt_identity becomes apply_caller_identity and takes the member alongside the JWT identity. The rename is the point: this family is one call per handler and a new one is easy to forget, so the compiler now refuses any site that has not been considered.

aisix_usage_events_emitted_total gains two labels:

  • user_id, via UsageEventLabels — this is attribution, so it lands on aisix_usage_event_drops_total too and "whose usage records were lost" stays answerable. UsageSink::try_emit fills it from the event's own field, so the counter and the row cp-api persists cannot name different members.
  • status, the raw code. status_code keeps its 2xx / 4xx / 5xx bucketing, and the raw one is named status to match aisix_proxy_requests_total's own raw-code label — deliberately not http_status_code, which contains status_code as a substring and would make every status_code="…" matcher ambiguous (the e2e prometheus guard caught exactly that).
sum(increase(aisix_usage_events_emitted_total{user_id="<member-id>", status="429"}[24h]))

OTLP spans carry the member as aisix.user_id, beside aisix.api_key_id.

Compatibility

  • No breaking metric change. status_code keeps its existing bucketed values, so dashboards and alerts written against status_code="4xx" keep working verbatim. The raw code functionally determines the family, so carrying both labels adds no series over carrying the raw code alone.
  • No new cardinality class. aisix_proxy_requests_total already carries user_id, user_name, api_key_id, team_id and a raw status unconditionally; the usage family is strictly lower-dimensional than it, so this introduces no dimension the process was not already emitting.
  • The wire field is additive and optional (skip_serializing_if), so an older cp-api ignores it and a key bound to no member sends nothing.

Deliberate omissions

  • user_name is not duplicated onto the usage family. It is 1:1 with user_id on the request family and joinable from there; reaching it here would mean widening CallerIdentity across the gateway crate for a display convenience.
  • The drop counter gains no status dimension. handler / status_code / http_status_code / inbound_protocol are the emit counter's own arguments rather than attribution, and emitted == delivered + dropped is an invariant over the attribution dimensions — which is exactly why user_id does appear on both.

Tests

E2E over a real aisix binary and a real Aliyun-SLS export (usage-member-attribution-e2e.test.ts):

  • an owned key stamps its member;
  • a JWT resolving to that member's other key stamps the same member;
  • an unowned key stamps nobody, so a member filter cannot sweep up traffic that was never theirs;
  • an upstream 429 is addressable as {user_id, status="429"} with the 4xx family still present.

The existing emits_and_drops_carry_the_same_attribution_labels unit test now covers user_id automatically — it derives the attribution set by difference, so a future attribution label that reaches only one of the two counters still fails it.

The control-plane half (persisting the column, the member + exact-status Logs filters, the dashboard) follows in a paired AISIX-Cloud PR.

Fixes api7/AISIX-Cloud#1389

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Usage metrics now include raw HTTP status codes and caller attribution.
    • Telemetry records the authenticated caller’s user ID when available.
    • Caller attribution is consistent across API, background, passthrough, and realtime requests.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected attribution for failed requests, including 4xx and 429 responses.
    • Unowned credentials no longer appear in member-specific metric series.
  • Tests
    • Added end-to-end coverage for member attribution, status reporting, and unattributed traffic.

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The Logs question "show me Alice's 429s in the last 24h" had no answer. A
usage event named the credential it arrived on (`api_key_id`, plus a JWT
subject) but never the person behind it, so answering meant enumerating
every key a member owns, querying each, and merging by hand — and a member
who calls through both an API key and OIDC was still split across two
identities that no single filter could join.

Add `user_id` to the UsageEvent wire contract, stamped from the resolved
`ApiKey.user_id` at request time. A snapshot rather than something cp-api
resolves from `api_key_id` at query time: rebinding a key would otherwise
re-attribute its whole history to the new owner, and deleting one would
erase the attribution of everything it ever sent. The JWT path needs no
separate handling — a token runs AS the key it resolves to, so one field
covers both halves of the auth surface.

`apply_jwt_identity` becomes `apply_caller_identity` and takes the member
alongside the JWT identity. The rename is the point: this family is one
call per handler and a new one is easy to forget, so the compiler now
refuses any site that has not been considered.

On the metrics side, `aisix_usage_events_emitted_total` gains:

  - `user_id`, via `UsageEventLabels` — attribution, so it lands on
    `aisix_usage_event_drops_total` too and "whose usage records were
    lost" stays answerable. `UsageSink::try_emit` fills it from the
    event's own field, so the counter and the row cp-api persists cannot
    name different members. The readable `user_name` is deliberately not
    duplicated here: it is 1:1 with `user_id` on the request family and
    joinable from there, and reaching it would mean widening
    `CallerIdentity` across the gateway crate for a display convenience.
  - `http_status_code`, the raw code. `status_code` keeps its `2xx` /
    `4xx` / `5xx` bucketing, so dashboards and alerts written against it
    keep working; the raw code determines the family, so carrying both
    adds no series over carrying the raw code alone.

The drop counter deliberately gains no status dimension. `handler` /
`status_code` / `http_status_code` / `inbound_protocol` are the emit
counter's own arguments rather than attribution, and `emitted ==
delivered + dropped` is an invariant over the attribution dimensions —
which is exactly why `user_id` does appear on both.

OTLP spans carry the member as `aisix.user_id`, beside `aisix.api_key_id`.

E2E over a real binary and a real SLS export: an owned key stamps its
member; a JWT resolving to that member's *other* key stamps the same
member (the case a query-time join on `api_key_id` gets wrong); an
unowned key stamps nobody, so a member filter cannot sweep up traffic
that was never theirs; and an upstream 429 is addressable as
`{user_id, http_status_code="429"}` with the `4xx` family still present.

Ref api7/AISIX-Cloud#1389
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Walkthrough

Usage events now carry authenticated API key owner identity. Metrics add shared user_id attribution and raw HTTP status labels. OTLP spans export non-empty user IDs. Proxy endpoints and batch jobs use unified caller attribution. End-to-end tests cover owned, OIDC-bound, unowned, and throttled requests.

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Usage member attribution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Caller identity propagation
crates/aisix-proxy/src/usage_attr.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/{a2a,audio,chat,completions,embeddings,images,jobs,mcp,messages,passthrough_route,realtime,rerank,responses,videos}.rs
Usage events apply JWT identity and authenticated API key user_id across endpoint, passthrough, realtime, management, and batch paths.
Usage event recording and export
crates/aisix-obs/src/usage.rs, crates/aisix-obs/src/otlp_http_sink.rs
UsageEvent stores optional owner identity. Metrics and OTLP export resolve and emit the identity.
Metric dimensions
crates/aisix-obs/src/metrics.rs
Emitted and dropped counters include user_id. Emitted counters also include raw http_status_code alongside the status bucket.
End-to-end attribution validation
tests/e2e/src/cases/usage-member-attribution-e2e.test.ts
Tests verify member-owned, OIDC-bound, unowned, and throttled requests in SLS and metrics.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7889c

The attribution change is merge-ready after normal checks; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains. A trivial per-event metrics allocation optimization can be followed up separately.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Proxy
  participant UsageEvent
  participant Metrics
  participant SLS
  Client->>Proxy: Send authenticated request
  Proxy->>UsageEvent: Apply JWT and API key user_id
  UsageEvent->>Metrics: Record user_id and HTTP status labels
  UsageEvent->>SLS: Export usage row with user_id
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Security Check ❌ Error Found a Category 1 privacy leak for anonymous principals. In crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs:798, the PR copies auth.entry.value.user_id before checking auth.anonymous; `RouteTelemet… Do not derive member attribution from an anonymous principal. In both passthrough and MCP emitters, pass None when auth.anonymous (or self.anonymous) is true, for example: `let user_id = if auth.anonymous { None } else { auth.key().us…
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PASS — The added suite exercises the real AISIX binary through the API, etcd-backed configuration, upstream dispatch, and SLS export path. It verifies member-owned API-key attribution, JWT attribution through a second key, unowned-key omission, and member-scoped 429 metrics with both raw and bucketed status labels. Mocks are limited to deterministic external dependencies and the SLS payload is decoded from the real exporter format. Each test uses unique markers, delta-based metric assertions, and independent setup; async operations and cleanup are awaited. Assertions are structured and readable. The changed handlers consistently use apply_caller_identity, and unit coverage verifies matching emitted/drop attribution.

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Found a Category 1 privacy leak for anonymous principals. In crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs:798, the PR copies auth.entry.value.user_id before checking auth.anonymous; RouteTelemetry::emit then applies it at lines 2141-2147. The same issue exists for anonymous MCP calls at crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs:1191-1196. The anonymous principal is built from the configured API-key entry (mcp_auth.rs:197-202), and the route schema does not require that key to have no user_id (aisix-core/src/models/passthrough_route.rs:364-374; ApiKey.user_id is optional at apikey.rs:47-51). Therefore, a member-owned key used as an anonymous principal causes unauthenticated traffic to carry that member UUID. The new field is serialized in UsageEvent (crates/aisix-obs/src/usage.rs:79-88), added to Prometheus labels (usage.rs:799-806), and exported as aisix.user_id in OTLP (otlp_http_sink.rs:825-830). This exposes the member identity in telemetry and misattributes anonymous traffic to the member. Category 2: No issues found. The PR does not persist credentials or tokens to a database. Category 3: No issues found. The PR changes telemetry attribution only and no mutating endpoint authorization. Category 4: No issues found. No cross-resource operation is introduced. Category 5: No issues found. No TLS or cryptographic configuration is changed. Category 6: No issues found. No shared-resource mutation is introduced. Category 7: No issues found. No secret-reference resolution path is changed.

Resolution

Do not derive member attribution from an anonymous principal. In both passthrough and MCP emitters, pass None when auth.anonymous (or self.anonymous) is true, for example: let user_id = if auth.anonymous { None } else { auth.key().user_id.as_deref() }; apply_caller_identity(&amp;mut event, auth.jwt.as_ref(), user_id);. Keep the existing auth_type="anonymous" marker. Add tests with an anonymous route/MCP principal whose ApiKey.user_id is set, and assert that the usage event omits user_id, Prometheus uses user_id="unknown", and OTLP contains no aisix.user_id attribute. Optionally also reject member-owned keys when configuring anonymous principals, but retain the data-plane guard.

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crates/aisix-obs/src/metrics.rs (1)

2082-2108: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Avoid the per-emit to_string() allocation for the cache key.

record_usage_event_emit runs once per usage event, on every proxied request. Line 2082 calls status_code.to_string() unconditionally, before the cache lookup, and line 2089 uses that String to build the worker-cache key.

This file already solves this exact problem for record_request (k.label_u16(status) at line 991) specifically to avoid a per-emit allocation on the hot path. Use the same method here for the key builder, and defer the to_string() conversion to the register closure, which only runs on a cache miss.

Based on learnings, this file's own convention (WorkerKey::label_u16, and its comment "Hand-rolled digits: fmt::write machinery was a visible per-emit cost") establishes that raw u16 status values must not be converted to String on the cache-hit path.

⚡ Proposed fix to avoid the allocation on the cache-hit path
     ) {
         let status_class = status_bucket(status_code);
-        let http_status_code = status_code.to_string();
         self.cached_counter(
             M_USAGE_EVENT_EMITS_TOTAL,
             1,
             |k| {
                 k.label(handler);
                 k.label(status_class);
-                k.label(&http_status_code);
+                k.label_u16(status_code);
                 k.label(inbound_protocol);
                 k.label(labels.model);
                 k.label(labels.provider_key_id);
                 k.label(labels.provider_key_name);
                 k.label(labels.user_id);
                 k.label(labels.upstream_protocol);
             },
             || {
                 metrics::counter!(
                     M_USAGE_EVENT_EMITS_TOTAL,
                     "handler" => handler,
                     "status_code" => status_class,
-                    "http_status_code" => http_status_code.clone(),
+                    "http_status_code" => status_code.to_string(),
                     "inbound_protocol" => inbound_protocol,
                     "upstream_protocol" => labels.upstream_protocol.to_string(),
                     "model" => labels.model.to_string(),
                     "provider_key_id" => labels.provider_key_id.to_string(),
                     "provider_key_name" => labels.provider_key_name.to_string(),
                     "user_id" => labels.user_id.to_string(),
                 )
             },
         );
     }
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In `@crates/aisix-obs/src/metrics.rs` around lines 2082 - 2108, Update
record_usage_event_emit to avoid converting status_code to a String before
cached_counter performs its lookup: use the existing WorkerKey::label_u16
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the cache-miss registration closure for the http_status_code metric label.
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In `@crates/aisix-obs/src/metrics.rs`:
- Around line 2082-2108: Update record_usage_event_emit to avoid converting
status_code to a String before cached_counter performs its lookup: use the
existing WorkerKey::label_u16 convention when building the cache key, and move
status_code.to_string() into the cache-miss registration closure for the
http_status_code metric label.

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  • crates/aisix-obs/src/metrics.rs
  • crates/aisix-obs/src/otlp_http_sink.rs
  • crates/aisix-obs/src/usage.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/a2a.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/audio.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/chat.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/completions.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/embeddings.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/images.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/jobs.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/messages.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/realtime.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/rerank.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/responses.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/usage_attr.rs
  • crates/aisix-proxy/src/videos.rs
  • tests/e2e/src/cases/usage-member-attribution-e2e.test.ts

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…location

The worker-cache key is built on every usage event; rendering the status
code into a String ahead of the lookup put an allocation on the cache-HIT
path, which is the common one. WorkerKey::label_u16 exists for exactly
this (record_request already uses it) — its hand-rolled digits avoid the
fmt::write machinery — so the String render moves into the register
closure that only runs on a miss.
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Applied the label_u16 nitpick in 20de40d — verified it against this file's own convention (record_request keys the same way, and WorkerKey::label_u16's comment says why). The to_string() now only runs on a cache miss.

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…code`

The e2e prometheus guard caught it: `http_status_code` contains
`status_code` as a substring, so the existing assertion that the family
label stays bucketed (`not.toMatch(status_code="200")`) started matching
the new raw label and failed. Any operator regex or grep over
`status_code="…"` would have had the same ambiguity.

`status` is what `aisix_proxy_requests_total` already calls the raw code,
so one spelling now works across both families — and it collides with
nothing. `status_code` keeps its `2xx`/`4xx`/`5xx` bucketing, so the
change stays non-breaking.

The guard's comment said raw codes must never appear on this family at
all; that is no longer the intent, so it now states which label is
bucketed and which is raw, and asserts both.
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#1066 renamed the family so a new emit site cannot be added without
considering member attribution. This is that site.
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