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Summary

sandbox.worker.stop.guest_flush gains outcome:unsupported. It is emitted when an ordinary stop asks for a guest-agent flush but the guest's agent can't flush, so the stop skips it.

Before this change the counter recorded only flushed and failed, so it had no denominator. Now attempted = flushed + failed, the failure rate is failed / attempted, and unsupported counts stops that asked for a flush but couldn't get one. The sink already stamps cluster_id on every series.

A firmware (ACPI) guest's stop shuts the guest down over ACPI instead of asking an agent to flush. The shutdown outcome already records it, so it isn't counted here.

Validation

  • cargo clippy -p pplx-space-sbx-mgr --all-targets is clean.
  • E2E on a local kind cluster with Datadog Fake Intake (PASS). The image was an integration build of main plus this PR and others in its batch. Throwaway driver: seed:latest create → start → write → stop → start; then a second sandbox: create → start → write → suspend, with a 90s upload grace period, then delete. Captured with scripts/tests/capture-kind-fakeintake.sh over a window of about 6 minutes. Series shapes, without env/version:
space.sandbox.worker.stop.guest_flush ['cluster_id:<cluster>', 'outcome:flushed']

The seed guest supports flushing, so unsupported wasn't exercised in kind.

  • No unit test, because the repo guideline says not to assert on telemetry.

Severity and risk

Severity: does not apply (observability only).
Risk: adds one tag value to an existing counter, with no behavior change. To roll back, revert.

AI assistance: Perplexity Computer drafted the code and this description.

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An ordinary stop that asks for a guest flush recorded only flushed and
failed attempts; a guest whose agent can't flush skipped silently, so the
metric had no denominator for the stops that asked. Count those as
outcome:unsupported.
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Why: The new unsupported stop-flush outcome was not exercised by the reported validation. Its behavior should be verified before merging.

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When guest configuration does not support filesystem flushing, the cleanup path now records an unsupported stop-flush outcome before returning. The metric documentation defines attempted outcomes and the attempted-count and failure-rate formulas. It also states that firmware guests use ACPI shutdown and are excluded from this metric.

Possibly related PRs

  • perplexityai/SPACE#1314: Adds the qualification gate that determines when cleanup skips a pre-stop filesystem flush.
  • perplexityai/SPACE#1540: Establishes the guest metrics module and stop_guest_flush metric used by this change.
  • perplexityai/SPACE#1423: Changes filesystem-flush support for WindowsV1, which affects whether a guest qualifies for flushing.
Merge Risk: High · up to ab528

The new unsupported stop-flush outcome was not exercised by the reported validation. Its behavior should be verified before merging.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 6

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Title check Passed The title "sbx-mgr: count stops whose guest can't flush in stop.guest_flush" follows the required format: a lowercase area prefix followed by a colon, then a summary starting with a lowercase word. It…
Description Follows The Pr Template Passed The description contains a Summary, Validation, Severity and risk, and AI assistance line. Each has the required content.
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test Passed The PR adds a metric for skipped flushes. It does not fix a defect in sandbox stop behavior, so the regression-test requirement does not apply.
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified Passed The diff adds a metric call and updates metric documentation. It does not weaken a safeguard or change review guidance.
Agent Tooling Runs No New Commands Passed The diff changes Rust telemetry code and documentation only. It does not change agent tooling or add commands that agent tools run.
Public-Safe Content Passed The diff, title, and description contain no identified public-safety violations. The metric example now uses a generic cluster placeholder, not a cluster identifier. Prior failure addressed: The PR de…
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The title "sbx-mgr: count stops whose guest can't flush in stop.guest_flush" follows the required format: a lowercase area prefix followed by a colon, then a summary starting with a lowercase word. It has no trailing period, ticket ID, or internal link. It matches the main change, which adds an outcome:unsupported series to sandbox.worker.stop.guest_flush for stops whose guest agent cannot flush.

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The diff, title, and description contain no identified public-safety violations. The metric example now uses a generic cluster placeholder, not a cluster identifier. Prior failure addressed: The PR description’s Validation metric example uses the generic placeholder cluster_id:&lt;cluster&gt; rather than a real cluster identifier.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/cleanup.rs:
- Line 3038: Update the ACPI stop path to record an unsupported flush outcome
when a flush was requested but cannot be performed, using the existing
stop_guest_flush metric; avoid counting requests that did not ask for a flush.

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@crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/cleanup/stop_admission_tests.rs:
- Around line 625-635: Replace the telemetry-only assertion around
flush_guest_before_termination with a test that exercises ordinary stop dispatch
for an agentless Windows guest and asserts the stop behavior. Do not capture or
assert emitted metrics or tags in this unit test; validate metric delivery in
the planned intake-level check.

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