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Problem

Nobody watches the H100 CI nodes. The cluster already runs node-problem-detector with the OKE GPU/RDMA plugins, DCGM exporter, node-exporter and kube-state-metrics, and Prometheus scrapes all of them, but Alertmanager routes every alert to a null receiver. NPD conditions only annotate a node; nothing cordons it or tells anyone. On the GitHub side, a job pinned to a dead runner label can sit queued for weeks reporting cancelled (#2283), and the 4-GPU lanes on main have waited 60 to 75 minutes for a runner with no signal anywhere.

Today's snapshot: one H100 node has been cordoned for over a day with no recorded reason and an empty model cache, NPD RDMA checks time out more than half the time on the two busiest nodes, and two workflow runs have been queued since May.

Solution

An hourly workflow on the in-cluster k8s-runner-cpu runner evaluates the existing Prometheus data and the GitHub Actions API and keeps one GitHub issue per active problem under the ci-node-health label. The open issues are the state: a JSON marker in each body carries first-seen, last-seen and the affected nodes, so there is no cache, database or secret beyond GITHUB_TOKEN. Slack is fed by the GitHub Slack app subscribed to that label, so a healthy week is silent and the only notifications are "opened" and "closed".

Checks (one issue per check, never per node):

Sev Check Source
CRIT H100 node not Ready kube-state-metrics
CRIT NPD hardware condition true (GpuEcc, GpuRowRemap, GpuBus, GpuCount, RdmaLink, RdmaLinkFlapping, RdmaWpaAuth, RdmaRttcc, KernelDeadlock, ReadonlyFilesystem) kube-state-metrics
CRIT GPU XID error in the last hour (closed by a human) DCGM
CRIT GPU row-remap failure DCGM
CRIT root or /raid over 85% node-exporter
CRIT a *-h100 job queued over 60 min in any unfinished run GitHub API
CRIT monitor cannot reach Prometheus itself
WARN node cordoned over 2 h kube-state-metrics
WARN median *-h100 queue wait over 30 min GitHub API
WARN NPD condition Unknown more than half of the last 6 h kube-state-metrics
WARN GPU holding over 2 GiB with no pod for 30 min DCGM
WARN GPU over 85 °C for 15 min DCGM
WARN workflow runs queued over 24 h GitHub API

Noise rules: an issue opens on the first sighting, is edited in place (silently) while the problem persists, and closes only after two consecutive clean runs. XID issues never auto-close and get at most one comment per day. Every run also writes a per-node fleet table and queue-wait percentiles to the job summary; kernel OOM kills appear there only, since container-limit OOMs match too.

Changes

  • scripts/ci_node_health.py: stdlib-only monitor. Check registry with meaning and first action per check, Prom and GitHub clients, table-driven PromQL evaluators, GitHub queue evaluators, issue reconciliation (plan_ops is pure and unit-tested), fleet summary, --dry-run.
  • scripts/tests/test_ci_node_health.py: 33 tests against canned Prometheus and GitHub payloads, no network.
  • .github/workflows/ci-node-health.yml: 17 * * * * plus workflow_dispatch with a dry_run input; permissions: issues: write, actions: read; setup-python 3.12; runbook table in the header.
  • .github/workflows/pr-test-rust.yml: python-unit-tests runs the new test file.
  • scripts/k8s-runner-resources/README.md: how it works, the check table, the noise rules, the Slack subscription command, how to acknowledge.

Design notes worth knowing: kube-state-metrics and DCGM are scraped by two jobs here, so every query aggregates with max by. Listing registered runners needs repository Administration permission, which GITHUB_TOKEN cannot hold, so starvation is derived from queued jobs instead. Issues for checks that were not evaluated (Prometheus down) are never closed, and the GitHub side reads one page per listing with one jobs page per run (normally well under 80 requests, about 245 in the strict worst case). A job's created_at is set when it becomes eligible, so started_at - created_at is the true queue wait. The GPU-leak check is a subquery over one-minute steps rather than min_over_time, because a [30m] range vector still contains the stale pod="" samples after a new job takes the GPU; the first dry run false-alarmed on four healthy GPUs that way.

Test Plan

  • pytest -q scripts/tests/test_ci_node_health.py: 33 passed.
  • ruff check / ruff format --check on both files: clean. actionlint on the new workflow: clean.
  • Three --dry-run executions against the live cluster from a laptop (kubectl port-forward to Prometheus, gh auth token for GitHub). Every PromQL query was also validated directly against Prometheus. The final dry run reports three findings (cordoned node, NPD Unknown on two nodes, two stale queued runs) and a 9-row fleet table; no issue is written in dry-run mode.
  • After merge: dispatch once with dry_run=true to confirm the in-cluster runner reaches Prometheus, then a live run, then /github subscribe smg-project/smg issues label:"ci-node-health" in the Slack channel.
  • pre-commit run --all-files passes every hook except clippy, which fails on my machine before compiling anything because the llm-multimodal build script cannot find OpenCV via pkg-config. No Rust is touched by this PR.
Checklist
  • cargo +nightly fmt passes (rustfmt hook; no Rust changed)
  • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passes (local toolchain lacks OpenCV; relying on CI)
  • (Optional) Documentation updated
  • (Optional) Please join us on Slack #sig-smg to discuss, review, and merge PRs

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  • New Features
    • Added hourly health monitoring for H100 CI runners, covering infrastructure, GPU, queue, and workflow conditions.
    • Tracks findings through labeled GitHub issues, optional Slack notifications, run summaries, and manual dry-run mode.
    • Automatically closes findings after two clean checks; GPU XID events remain open for human review, with suppression limited to previously closed events on the same nodes.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved queue and run reporting by excluding skipped jobs and reconciling duplicate run records.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded guidance on checks, thresholds, issue lifecycle, and API usage.
  • Tests
    • Added automated coverage for monitoring and issue reconciliation.

Walkthrough

The monitor filters and reconciles GitHub Actions run data, tracks recently closed findings by check and scope, documents operating rules, runs with Python 3.12, and adds network-free CI tests.

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CI node health monitoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workflow run analysis
scripts/ci_node_health.py, scripts/tests/test_ci_node_health.py
Skipped jobs no longer affect queue-wait statistics. Overlapping queued and in-progress snapshots are reconciled by run ID, with in-progress records taking precedence. Tests cover queue analysis and duplicate-run handling.
Scoped issue reconciliation
scripts/ci_node_health.py, scripts/tests/test_ci_node_health.py
Recently closed timestamps are tracked by check and scope. Event findings within the reopen grace period are filtered before issue creation or update. Tests cover suppression, grace-period boundaries, and malformed closed-issue markers.
Workflow setup, documentation, and validation
.github/workflows/ci-node-health.yml, .github/workflows/pr-test-rust.yml, scripts/k8s-runner-resources/README.md, scripts/ci_node_health.py, scripts/tests/test_ci_node_health.py
The workflow sets up Python 3.12 and references the runner-resources README. The README describes checks, thresholds, issue lifecycle, XID scope rules, OOM reporting, and API budgets. Network-free tests cover monitor behavior, and CI runs the test module.

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In @.github/workflows/ci-node-health.yml:
- Around line 24-48: Update the workflow’s authentication for the node-health
script so scheduled and manual runs use a GitHub App or PAT secret with
repository administration access and permissions required by the issue
operations, rather than github.token; pass that credential to
scripts/ci_node_health.py while preserving dry_run behavior.

In `@scripts/ci_node_health.py`:
- Around line 390-391: Bound the workflow-run fan-out around the GitHub.paginate
calls in the run-processing loop so the hourly API budget remains available for
other checks. Preserve the required completed-run wait-statistics coverage and
findings; reduce per-run jobs requests or apply an explicit request/coverage
budget rather than relying on the existing created filter or silently truncating
the lookback.
- Around line 650-651: Update open_issue_states and plan_ops to retain recently
closed event issues with their closed_at timestamps, suppressing create and
duplicate Slack notification when an active gpu_xid finding overlaps a
human-closed event within the one-hour lookback. Restrict this suppression to
event checks and the lookback window so later XIDs can create issues, leave the
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Reviewed the full diff (816-line monitor script, 26 tests, workflow, README). The design is solid — pure plan_ops, marker-based issue state, no extra secrets — but three issues would break the monitor or its alerting in production.

3 🔴 Important, 3 🟡 Nit, 0 🟣 Pre-existing

  • 🔴 GET actions/runners needs repo Administration permission, which GITHUB_TOKEN can't be granted — every scheduled run will 403 and exit before reconciling any issue (scripts/ci_node_health.py:412)
  • 🔴 A 2-run Prometheus outage auto-closes all Prometheus-derived issues as "Resolved" (scripts/ci_node_health.py:805)
  • 🔴 Jobs starved longer than the 2 h run window disappear from the starved check, so the issue closes while the job still queues; stale_queued_runs doesn't cover in_progress runs (scripts/ci_node_health.py:390)
  • 🟡 npd_unknown check query lacks the NPD condition filter the fleet query has (scripts/ci_node_health.py:276)
  • 🟡 Referenced spec doc doesn't exist, and the issue-body spec link is repo-relative (scripts/ci_node_health.py:49)
  • 🟡 Workflow runs bare python3 (no setup-python) but the script needs Python ≥ 3.11 for datetime.UTC (.github/workflows/ci-node-health.yml:69)

PR description follows the template — no gaps. Tests are thorough for the pure logic; none of the flagged paths (Prometheus-down close behavior, runner-list permission, >2 h starvation) is covered, so worth adding cases alongside the fixes.

- Drop the GET actions/runners call: it needs repository Administration
  permission, which the workflow GITHUB_TOKEN cannot hold, so every
  scheduled run would have exited with 403 before reconciling anything.
- Detect starvation from queued H100 jobs in every queued or in-progress
  run, whatever the run's age; the 2h window is only for wait statistics.
- Pass the evaluated check keys to plan_ops so a Prometheus outage never
  closes Prometheus-backed issues as resolved.
- Do not recreate an event (XID) issue a human closed within the hour
  the lookback still sees the same event.
- Bound the GitHub API fan-out: one page of recent runs capped at 40, one
  page each of queued and in-progress runs, one jobs page per run.
- Filter the npd_unknown query to the NPD conditions like the fleet query.
- Replace the gitignored spec references with the README section and an
  absolute docs link in issue bodies; add setup-python to the workflow.
- Add docstrings and five tests (30 total).

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- Around line 448-450: Reconcile queued and in-progress runs by ID before stale
classification in the existing run-processing flow: build an in-progress lookup,
exclude matching IDs from queued runs, classify only queued-only records as
stale, and construct active_runs from non-stale queued-only records plus the
in-progress records. Preserve the in-progress record whenever an ID appears in
both snapshots.
- Around line 650-652: Update the closed-state handling used by plan_ops and
issue_states to store a stable gpu_xid event fingerprint alongside the close
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- Reconcile the queued and in-progress run listings by id: a run that
  starts between the two snapshots is scanned once and is never a stale
  candidate.
- Fingerprint closed XID issues by node: only the nodes a human closed
  within the hour are suppressed; an XID on another node opens an issue.
- Skip jobs with conclusion=skipped in the wait statistics.
- Correct the request budget to the strict worst case (about 245) in the
  docstring and README; point the module docstring at the README.
- Three more tests (33 total).

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- Around line 658-666: Move the event suppression block in the active findings
loop before the state lookup and state-is-none branch. Apply the recently_closed
and EVENT_REOPEN_GRACE filtering for every event check before both create and
update operations, skip the key when no findings remain, and remove the old
branch-local filtering.
- Line 786: In issue_states(), validate the closed marker’s nodes value before
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nodes={n: datetime.fromisoformat(t) for n, t in marker.get("nodes", {}).items()},

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🟡 Nit: This push hardened issue_states against a closed marker whose nodes is not a dict, but the open-issue path still crashes on the same shape: marker.get("nodes", {}).items() raises AttributeError when nodes is a list/str/int, and AttributeError is not in the except (KeyError, TypeError, ValueError) tuple below. Since open issues are exactly the ones humans are invited to touch (XID acknowledgement), one hand-mangled marker that stays valid JSON would crash every hourly run instead of being skipped like the closed-side equivalent. Either add AttributeError to the tuple or gate on isinstance(marker.get("nodes", {}), dict) like issue_states now does.

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nodes={n: datetime.fromisoformat(t) for n, t in marker.get("nodes", {}).items()},
nodes={
n: datetime.fromisoformat(t)
for n, t in (
marker["nodes"] if isinstance(marker.get("nodes"), dict) else {}
).items()
},

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