telemetry(ios): make a stalled terminal replay visible in Axiom - #14030
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A blank terminal with a blinking cursor is a surface the phone rebuilt blank waiting on a `mobile.terminal.replay` response that has not come back. Only the replay repaints it, and the replay barrier suppresses live output while it is outstanding, so the whole episode lasts exactly as long as that one RPC. None of it reached Axiom. Every terminal trace phase is terminal, so `MobileTerminalTraceReporter` emitted a row only once an operation settled and the worst stalls (the ones that never settle) produced nothing. The replay lifecycle logs that would have explained them are all `#if DEBUG`, so internal and TestFlight builds record none of it. In a 5-day window on one phone's local diagnostics, 305 replays never received a response and 441 episodes ran past 5s with a median of 34s; Axiom could account for none of them. Adds, without changing delivery behavior: - `DiagnosticTerminalTracePhase.stalled`, stamped by a probe at bounded marks while a replay is outstanding. It is deliberately non-terminal: the pending start survives so the settled phase still reports. - `MobileTerminalReplayTrigger` plus a packed trace context, so each row names the codepath that asked for the replay, whether the surface was rebuilt blank (a blank screen, not merely stale text), whether a barrier is suppressing output, and the retry index. Every one of the 23 replay request sites now declares its trigger; the parameter is required, so a new codepath cannot silently report `unknown`. - `host_elapsed_ms` on the replay response, stamped as `hostCaptureFinished`, splitting a slow Mac capture from a slow or stalled transport. The Mac already measured this and kept it local. - The matching web contract: new outcome, phases, and fields, validated and exported as span attributes. The probe uses the injected control-plane clock and is cancelled whenever the request settles or is replaced.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds replay triggers and context to mobile terminal traces. Replay probes emit non-terminal stalled observations, and replay responses can report host capture duration. Mobile analytics and web observability accept and expose the new trace fields. RPC sessions also detect repeated request timeouts without inbound delivery. ChangesReplay observability
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participant MobileShellComposite
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MobileShellComposite->>MobileTerminalTraceReporter: Record started trace with replay context
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MobileShellComposite->>MobileTerminalTraceReporter: Record host-capture-finished trace when elapsed time is present
MobileTerminalTraceReporter->>WebObservability: Provide outcome and replay context fields
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Full details: Cmux Swift Blocking RuntimeExplanation The production diff adds a timed sleep and polling loop in Resolution Replace the sleep-and-check loop with an approved cancellation-aware timer or async-sequence callback owned by the replay lifecycle. Cancel that scheduler when the replay settles or is replaced, and emit each stall mark from the scheduled callback without directly awaiting
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Live repro, captured from the phone while this PR was being writtenAziz hit the blank mid-session: "after returning from the background there was quite a long period where the renderer felt idle, it only worked after 3 foreground occasions." Pulled 4 minutes 26 seconds blank, four foregrounds. Two things stand out beyond "the replay is slow": The 30s RPC deadline is not what ends these.
None of this is in Axiom today. With this PR the same episode produces Scope noteThis PR is telemetry only. It does not bound the replay await, does not keep a watchdog armed while a request is in flight ( |
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Emit hostCaptureFinished as an intermediate replay observation.
MobileShellComposite records .hostCaptureFinished when a decoded replay response contains hostElapsedMilliseconds. MobileTerminalTraceReporter.observe does not handle this phase, so it returns nil before analytics emission.
The web parser accepts this phase, and the PR adds it to split host-capture timing from the remaining replay duration. Keep the pending start until the later settled phase.
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+ if phase == .hostCaptureFinished {
+ guard let duration = event.ms else { return nil }
+ guard admitEmission(at: event.tNanos, state: &state) else { return nil }
+ let start = state.starts[traceID.rawValue]
+ return Observation(
+ traceID: traceID,
+ operation: start?.operation ?? operation,
+ terminalPhase: phase,
+ durationMilliseconds: duration,
+ outcome: "success",
+ replayContext: event.c.flatMap(MobileTerminalReplayTraceContext.init(encoded:))
+ ?? start?.replayContext
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…sion A suspended app runs no code, so an operation that spans suspension accrues wall-clock time it never spent waiting in front of anyone. Both numbers land in the same `duration_ms`, which makes any percentile over the mix meaningless. This is not hypothetical: in a field episode the phone reported five surfaces failing at an identical 155.699s, and only 91s of that window was foreground. Every mass failure fired within ~30ms of an app lifecycle transition, because nothing could time out while the app was suspended. Reading those durations as blank-screen time overstates them roughly threefold. `MobileTerminalLatencyReporter` already takes the lifecycle edge; `MobileTerminalTraceReporter` did not. Give it the same `setForeground`, stamp `app_foreground` on every emitted row, and carry it through the web contract as a span attribute.
Correction to the repro numbers above, and what it changed in this PRI reported the live episode as "4 minutes 26 seconds blank". That is wall-clock and it overstates it. Only 91 seconds of that window was foreground; the rest the phone was suspended in a pocket. The honest reading is 266s wall-clock, 91s on screen, across two long stares of 25s and 53s. The mistake was worth making, because it is the same mistake Axiom would have made with this PR as originally written, and it is not small: roughly 3x. The evidence is unambiguous once you line the phases up against the lifecycle events. Five surfaces reported failing at an identical They did not each independently reach a deadline. A suspended app runs no code, so nothing could time out, retry, or repair; they were all released at once on the next lifecycle transition. Fixed in 72241fd. What the foreground-only view then showsDuring the 53-second foreground stare, three consecutive replay attempts over the same transport connection, each burning the full RPC deadline: No new dial happened between 19:08:45 and 19:09:51. The attempts that burned 30s each went over a connection that had reported So the blank is not slow replays. It is a transport that is connected at the dial layer but cannot carry RPCs, retried over on a 30-second clock instead of being replaced. 15 surfaces were mounted and repaint as one batch, so every tab is blank for the same 30-second multiples, which is why it looks like you keep landing on a slow tab. |
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Measure foreground time within each replay trace.
If a replay starts in the foreground, spans suspension, and settles after reactivation, this assignment emits app_foreground: true with a duration that includes suspension. The row remains indistinguishable from a replay that spent its full duration on screen. The structural cause is that the reporter stores only the latest scene state, not the foreground intervals of the trace.
Keep scene transitions and per-trace elapsed-time accounting in MobileTerminalTraceReporter as one source of truth. As a first migration cut, add a foreground-duration value to stalled and settled observations and test a replay that spans background and reactivation. Preserve the existing total duration separately.
As per coding guidelines, a fix must not “catch one repro” without naming the invariant and state transition that make the class of bugs impossible.
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Red on purpose. A QUIC path can stop carrying traffic without closing: `receive()` never returns and never throws, so `readLoop` cannot tear the connection down, and `ensureConnected` hands the same transport to every later request because it returns the installed one unchecked. `timeoutPendingRequest` condemns a transport only through `recycleTransportIfActiveWrite`, which needs the timed-out request to be the active write AND the transport to already report itself closed. A path that black-holes after the write succeeded satisfies neither, so the deadline fails one request and leaves the corpse installed. The retry rides it and burns another full deadline. Two written requests answered by total silence is the evidence. The second test is the guard that keeps this from punishing a healthy lane: a transport still delivering other traffic must survive a request timeout.
This is the blank iOS terminal. A surface rebuilt blank is repainted only
by a replay, so the blank lasts exactly as long as that one RPC, and the
RPC was riding a dead connection nothing would replace.
Field evidence from one phone, foreground-only:
19:08:45 replay attempt -> 29.5s, no response
19:09:15 replay attempt -> 29.5s, no response
19:09:44 replay attempt -> 6.8s, failed
19:09:51 fresh dial, connected in 262ms -> replays APPLIED in 1.1s
No new dial happened between 19:08:45 and 19:09:51. All three attempts
rode one transport that had reported `Transport connected` in 217-709ms
and `Connection recovery succeeded`. Workspace-list refreshes over the
same session were failing too, so this was never replay-specific.
Count inbound deliveries, snapshot the count when arming a response
timeout, and on expiry treat "this request reached the wire and not one
byte arrived while it was outstanding" as a silent timeout. Two of those
in a row condemns the connection, so the next request dials fresh instead
of inheriting the corpse.
Three deliberate narrowings, each pinned by an existing test:
- One silent timeout is not enough. A host can be slow or silent on a
single method while its connection is healthy, which
`responseTimeoutDoesNotCloseMultiplexedSession` pins. Any inbound
delivery resets the streak, so it only survives a lane gone quiet.
- A request that expired while still queued never reached the wire and
proves nothing about delivery; it means the write queue is backed up,
which the head-of-line handling already owns. Without this,
`requestDeadlineOrCancellationPreservesNativeWrite` correctly fails.
- The installed connection must be unchanged, so a timeout cannot condemn
a connection that already replaced the one it belonged to.
Halves the field blank: the lane is now replaced on the second attempt
rather than surviving three.
Root cause found, and fixed
The mechanism
if let transport { return transport }No liveness check. And That is the whole blank. Each attempt costs a full 30s deadline, the retry inherits the same dead transport, and the surface stays blank because only a replay repaints it. It also explains the two things that looked contradictory: The fixCount inbound deliveries on the installed transport. Snapshot the count when arming a response timeout. On expiry, "this request reached the wire and not one byte arrived while it was outstanding" is a silent timeout. Two in a row condemns the connection, so the next request dials fresh. Three narrowings, each of which an existing test already demanded:
196/196 RPC tests pass, including both invariants above. What it does and does not buyThe lane is now replaced on the second attempt instead of surviving three, so the field episode goes from roughly 90s of foreground blank to roughly 30s. The remaining 30s is the deadline itself, not the transport bug. A replay is the thing repainting a blank screen and it inherits the generic 30s RPC deadline. Measured against this phone's own data, replays that do get answered are p50 0.37s and 96.6% under 10s, so a replay-specific deadline near 10s would cost a retry on ~3% of legitimate replays and cut the worst case threefold. That is a product tradeoff rather than a defect, so it is deliberately not in this PR. |
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- Around line 1155-1166: Update armResponseTimeout and timeoutPendingRequest so
overlapping requests from the same silence window do not increment
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Wait for transport closure before asserting closed().
enqueueTransportClose starts transport.close() in a detached task and returns after registering that task with handOffPhysicalCleanup; neither function waits for the close to finish. The test then asserts transport.closed() immediately after the second sendRequest returns. The assertion can therefore fail under load even when the close completes correctly.
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Two CodeRabbit findings on the condemnation heuristic, both correct. `tearDown` cleared the installed connection but not `silentTimeoutStreak`, so a replacement transport inherited the streak accumulated against the one it replaced. Connection A leaving the streak at 1 meant B was condemned on its first silent timeout, on a single piece of evidence, which is exactly what the two-timeout rule exists to prevent. Evidence is per connection; reset it there. `timeoutPendingRequest` also incremented the shared streak once per timed out request, so concurrent requests could condemn a transport inside one silence window. That is the field shape: a foreground repaint fires a replay for every mounted surface at once, and six replays answered by one quiet period is one piece of evidence, not six. Stamp each armed timeout with the current silent epoch and count a timeout only when it was armed after the last counted one. Adds the concurrency case as a test. 197/197 pass.
It stamped the scene state at emission time, so a replay that began on screen, spent an hour suspended and settled after reactivation reported `app_foreground: true` carrying a duration that was mostly pocket time. That is indistinguishable from a replay that really did spend its whole life in front of someone, which is the exact confusion the flag was added to remove. Count transitions out of the foreground, record the count at `started`, and report true only when the app is foreground now AND the count has not moved. A trace whose start was dropped under admission pressure reports false: an operation whose beginning is unknown cannot claim its elapsed time was screen time.
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- Line 198: Record the foreground state when creating Start and update this
eligibility check to require that the trace began in the foreground as well as
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In `@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileRPC/Sources/CmuxMobileRPC/MobileCoreRPCSession.swift`:
- Line 1182: Remove the timeout-side reset of silentTimeoutStreak in this else
branch so an older request timeout cannot erase silence evidence recorded by a
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| /// screen time. | ||
| private static func stayedForeground(_ start: Start?, state: State) -> Bool { | ||
| guard let start else { return false } | ||
| return state.isForeground && start.backgroundEpoch == state.backgroundEpoch |
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Record whether the trace started in the foreground.
If a replay starts while the app is in the background and settles after activation, backgroundEpoch is unchanged and state.isForeground is true. This check then emits app_foreground: true for a duration that was not wholly on screen. The reporter should own the full-trace foreground invariant, not infer it from the final state and transitions out of the foreground. As a first migration cut, record the foreground state in Start, require it here, and test a background-started replay that settles after activation. As per coding guidelines, a fix must name “the invariant, source of truth, or state transition that makes the whole class impossible.”
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at line 198, Record the foreground state when creating Start and update this
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| await tearDown(error: .connectionClosed) | ||
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Do not let an older timeout erase newer silence evidence.
If a long-running request receives a chunk, a later request can time out silently and raise silentTimeoutStreak to 1. When the older request then times out, this branch resets the streak because it observed that earlier chunk. A second silent timeout no longer condemns the transport, even though no chunk arrived between the two silent timeouts. This creates an ordering-dependent failure to recover a silent connection.
Let readLoop own resets on inbound delivery and tearDown own resets on connection change. As a first cut, remove this timeout-side reset and test the described timeout order.
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In `@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileRPC/Sources/CmuxMobileRPC/MobileCoreRPCSession.swift`
at line 1182, Remove the timeout-side reset of silentTimeoutStreak in this else
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Merged, and deliberately incomplete. Two gaps, both being followed up.Recording these so this PR is not mistaken for closing the blanking bug. 1. There is a second cause, and this PR does not fix itA reporter hit the blank again after this branch was final, with a detail that does not fit the transport story: relaunching the app fixed it instantly, on terminals that had shown nothing for minutes. Verified in code, independent of any transport state. When the replay retry budget runs out, So a surface rebuilt blank ends at: barrier down, live output flowing, empty grid, no replay pending. On a terminal that is actively printing, the next chunk paints over it and nobody notices. On an idle terminal it stays blank until new output, a remount, or a relaunch — which is exactly the reported shape, since a relaunch is a cold mount. The transport fix here makes a dead connection get replaced instead of retried forever. It does nothing for a surface that has stopped asking. 2. The telemetry in this PR cannot see that second causeEvery row this PR adds observes a replay that is in flight: the stall probe fires while one is outstanding, and the settled phases fire when one ends. A surface that gave up has no replay, so it emits nothing. Axiom goes quiet precisely when the screen is blank and nothing is working on it. Three concrete holes, all confirmed:
Follow-upA blank-surface watchdog is the missing signal: no delivered baseline, no replay in flight, no barrier, app foreground, for more than a few seconds. That one row is "the user is staring at nothing and nobody is working on it", which is the condition worth alerting on, with the exhaustion and fail-open reason attached so it says why it gave up. The durable fix is separate and larger: stop discarding the painted grid on reset. If a surface kept its last content until a replacement actually arrived, neither cause produces a blank screen, only stale text. Every mechanism here is a race to refill something that was thrown away first. |
be3855b telemetry(ios): make a stalled terminal replay visible in Axiom (manaflow-ai#14030)
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The problem
The iOS terminal occasionally goes blank: a blinking cursor over an empty background, for a long time. That state is a surface the phone rebuilt blank, waiting on a
mobile.terminal.replayresponse. Only the replay repaints it, and the replay barrier suppresses live output while it is outstanding, so the episode lasts exactly as long as that one RPC.Axiom could not see any of it, for two reasons:
MobileTerminalTraceReporteremits a row only when an operation reachesapplied,failed, ordiscarded. A replay that never settles emits nothing, so the longest stalls were the least observable.#if DEBUG.MobileDebugLog.anchormuxcompiles to nothing outside Debug, so barrier arming, retries, exhaustion, and fail-open leave no record in internal, TestFlight, or App Store builds.cmux-debug.logfrom a current internal build contains zeroCMUX_REPLAYlines despite hundreds of stall episodes.Local diagnostics pulled off one phone (
dev.cmux.app.internal, Sep 18-23) show the scale: of 2,307 replays, 305 never received a response, and 441 episodes ran past 5s with a p50 of 34s. Axiom could account for none of them.What this adds
Telemetry only. No change to when a replay is requested, retried, or applied.
DiagnosticTerminalTracePhase.stalled— a probe stamps an outstanding replay at bounded elapsed marks (2s through 5m) on the injected control-plane clock, cancelled whenever the request settles or is replaced. It is deliberately non-terminal: the pending start survives, so the settled phase still reports with its full duration.MobileTerminalReplayTrigger+ a packed trace context — each row now names the codepath that asked for the replay, plus:surface_blank— the surface was rebuilt blank, so this stall is a blank screen rather than merely stale text. This is the field that makes a stall user-visible or not.barrier_active— live output is suppressed for this surface.replay_attempt— retry index within the episode.All 23 replay request sites declare a trigger. The parameter is required, so a new codepath cannot silently report
unknown, and the three cases that ended up with no producer were removed rather than shipped as dead vocabulary.host_elapsed_mson the replay response — the Mac already measured its own capture time into a Mac-local journal. Echoing it back and stampinghostCaptureFinishedsplits a slow host capture from a slow or stalled transport, which is otherwise unattributable from the phone.The matching web contract — new outcome and phase values, the four new fields validated (
surface_blankuses anullsentinel, sincefalseis a legitimate value there), and all four exported as span attributes.Queries this makes possible
Tests
MobileTerminalReplayTraceContextTests— encoding round-trips every trigger and flag combination, clamps the attempt, and decodes an unknown future trigger tonilrather than misreading it asunknown.MobileTerminalTraceStallTests— a replay that never settles still reports; a stall report does not swallow the settled phase or its duration; a fast successful replay still emits nothing.mobile-replay-stall-observability.test.ts— the route accepts a stalled row with its context, keepssurface_blank: falsedistinguishable from absent, and rejects a non-boolean flag or unknown trigger.Web typecheck, complexity gate, and the existing observability route tests pass.
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Makes stalled iOS terminal replays visible in Axiom. Replays that previously produced no analytics row while outstanding now emit bounded
stalledphases, and a transport that delivers nothing across two consecutive request timeouts is condemned so the next request dials fresh instead of inheriting the dead connection.Telemetry
hostCaptureFinishedtelemetry fromhost_elapsed_msto separate host capture time from transport delays.Transport recovery
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