blumeops/fly/alloy.river
Erich Blume cc54b4f565
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Add Fly.io proxy observability via embedded Alloy (#123)
## Summary

- Embed Grafana Alloy in the Fly.io proxy container to collect nginx JSON access logs (→ Loki) and derive request rate, latency histogram, cache status, and bandwidth metrics (→ Prometheus)
- Add nginx `stub_status` endpoint for connection-level metrics (active/reading/writing/waiting)
- Create two Grafana dashboards: **Docs APM** (per-service view filtered by `host="docs.eblu.me"`) and **Fly.io Proxy Health** (aggregate proxy health across all upstream services)

## Changed Files

| File | Change |
|------|--------|
| `fly/nginx.conf` | Add JSON `log_format` + `access_log`, add `stub_status` endpoint |
| `fly/Dockerfile` | COPY Alloy binary from `grafana/alloy:v1.5.1`, COPY `alloy.river` config |
| `fly/alloy.river` | **New** — Alloy config: log tailing, metric extraction, remote_write |
| `fly/start.sh` | Start Alloy after Tailscale, before nginx |
| `argocd/manifests/grafana-config/dashboards/configmap-docs-apm.yaml` | **New** — Docs APM dashboard |
| `argocd/manifests/grafana-config/dashboards/configmap-flyio.yaml` | **New** — Fly.io Proxy Health dashboard |
| `argocd/manifests/grafana-config/kustomization.yaml` | Register new dashboard configmaps |
| `docs/reference/services/flyio-proxy.md` | Document observability setup |

## Deployment and Testing

- [ ] `mise run fly-deploy` — rebuild container with Alloy
- [ ] `curl https://docs.eblu.me/` — generate traffic
- [ ] `fly logs -a blumeops-proxy` — verify Alloy startup
- [ ] Query Prometheus: `flyio_nginx_http_requests_total{instance="flyio-proxy"}`
- [ ] Query Loki: `{instance="flyio-proxy", job="flyio-nginx"}`
- [ ] `argocd app sync grafana-config` — deploy dashboards
- [ ] Verify dashboards show data in Grafana
- [ ] `mise run services-check` — no regressions

Reviewed-on: https://forge.ops.eblu.me/eblume/blumeops/pulls/123
2026-02-08 10:05:38 -08:00

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// Grafana Alloy configuration for flyio-proxy
// Collects nginx access logs → Loki, extracts metrics → Prometheus.
// Note: stub_status connection metrics are not collected — Alloy has no
// built-in nginx exporter. The log-derived metrics cover the key signals.
// ============== LOG COLLECTION ==============
// Tail the JSON access log written by nginx
local.file_match "nginx_access" {
path_targets = [
{__path__ = "/var/log/nginx/access.json.log", job = "flyio-nginx"},
]
}
loki.source.file "nginx_access" {
targets = local.file_match.nginx_access.targets
forward_to = [loki.process.nginx.receiver]
}
// Parse JSON fields, extract labels, derive metrics
loki.process "nginx" {
forward_to = [loki.relabel.instance.receiver]
// Parse the JSON log line
stage.json {
expressions = {
status = "status",
method = "request_method",
host = "http_host",
cache_status = "upstream_cache_status",
request_time = "request_time",
body_bytes_sent = "body_bytes_sent",
upstream_response_time = "upstream_response_time",
}
}
// Promote to labels for filtering in Loki
stage.labels {
values = {
status = "",
method = "",
host = "",
cache_status = "",
}
}
// --- Derived metrics (exposed on Alloy's /metrics endpoint) ---
stage.metrics {
metric.counter {
name = "flyio_nginx_http_requests_total"
description = "Total HTTP requests by status, method, and host."
match_all = true
action = "inc"
}
}
stage.metrics {
metric.histogram {
name = "flyio_nginx_http_request_duration_seconds"
description = "HTTP request latency in seconds."
source = "request_time"
buckets = [0.005, 0.01, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2.5, 5, 10]
}
}
stage.metrics {
metric.counter {
name = "flyio_nginx_http_response_bytes_total"
description = "Total bytes sent in HTTP responses."
source = "body_bytes_sent"
action = "add"
}
}
stage.metrics {
metric.counter {
name = "flyio_nginx_cache_requests_total"
description = "Total cache lookups by cache status."
source = "cache_status"
match_all = true
action = "inc"
}
}
}
// Add instance label to logs
loki.relabel "instance" {
forward_to = [loki.write.loki.receiver]
rule {
target_label = "instance"
replacement = "flyio-proxy"
}
}
// Write logs to Loki via Caddy (valid TLS, no skip_verify needed)
loki.write "loki" {
endpoint {
url = "https://loki.ops.eblu.me/loki/api/v1/push"
}
}
// ============== METRICS PIPELINE ==============
// Self-scrape to collect the log-derived metrics from /metrics
prometheus.scrape "self" {
targets = [{"__address__" = "127.0.0.1:12345"}]
forward_to = [prometheus.relabel.instance.receiver]
scrape_interval = "15s"
}
// Strip the "loki_process_custom_" prefix that Alloy adds to stage.metrics,
// then add instance label. This keeps dashboard queries clean.
prometheus.relabel "instance" {
forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.prometheus.receiver]
rule {
source_labels = ["__name__"]
regex = "loki_process_custom_(.*)"
target_label = "__name__"
replacement = "$1"
}
// Drop internal labels added by the loki pipeline
rule {
regex = "component_id|component_path|filename"
action = "labeldrop"
}
rule {
target_label = "instance"
replacement = "flyio-proxy"
}
}
// Push metrics to Prometheus via Caddy (valid TLS, no skip_verify needed)
prometheus.remote_write "prometheus" {
endpoint {
url = "https://prometheus.ops.eblu.me/api/v1/write"
}
}