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Caught live on ledpi, not by code reading. Every plugin failing, once each, continuously:

ERROR - plugin_manager - plugin geochron operation failed:
  ResourceMetrics.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'consecutive_failures'
ERROR - plugin_manager - plugin text-display operation failed: ...
ERROR - plugin_manager - plugin news operation failed: ...
ERROR - plugin_manager - plugin odds-ticker operation failed: ...

with /api/v3/health reporting plugin_system: not_initialized while the display process itself kept running and updating the panel.

The defect

consecutive_failures is a plugin_health field, not a metrics one. get_metrics() does:

metrics = ResourceMetrics(**cached)

which raises TypeError on a single unrecognised key. That escapes into plugin_manager and is reported per plugin. One malformed cache entry takes the whole plugin system down.

What I could and couldn't establish

Checked before losing the machine:

  • the cache files on disk are correctly shaped and separate — plugin_metrics:* has metrics keys, plugin_health:* has health keys
  • CacheManager.get() returns the right record for each key

So it is not a live key collision. A restored backup mixing two machines' caches is the likeliest explanation, and that rig had one restored onto it.

I could not finish the diagnosis: ledpi went back into its EIO failure mode partway through — SSH resetting pre-banner, systemctl unexecutable — while the web API kept answering from RAM. That's the fifth occurrence, and the first I've watched happen inside ten minutes.

But the loader shouldn't be brittle enough for the answer to matter. plugin_health already repairs its records field by field rather than trusting what's on disk (that's what #464 added); this does the same.

The fix

  • known fields kept, unknown ones dropped
  • dropped fields named once in the log, so a genuine schema change stays visible rather than being silently swallowed
  • a non-mapping entry no longer raises

Keeping the known fields matters — discarding the record wholesale would throw away real call counts and timings because of one unrelated stray key.

Verification

8 new tests, 28 passing across the resource-monitor and plugin-health suites.

mutation result
restore ResourceMetrics(**cached) 6 checks fail
drop the whole record on any unknown key field-preservation check fails
drop unknown fields silently logging check fails

One test bug worth recording: my log assertion used record.message, which isn't populated until a handler formats the record, so it never matched despite the message being right there in the captured output. getMessage() is the correct spelling.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of cached resource metrics when entries are incomplete, malformed, or contain unexpected fields.
    • Invalid cached data now safely falls back to fresh metrics instead of causing errors.
    • Recognized metrics remain available when mixed with unsupported data.
    • Added warnings to help identify ignored fields in cached records.

Caught live on a rig: every plugin failing, once each, continuously.

    ERROR - src.plugin_system.plugin_manager - plugin geochron operation failed:
    ResourceMetrics.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument
    'consecutive_failures'

    ERROR - ... plugin text-display operation failed: ...
    ERROR - ... plugin news operation failed: ...
    ERROR - ... plugin odds-ticker operation failed: ...

with /api/v3/health reporting plugin_system: not_initialized while the display
process itself kept running and updating the panel.

`consecutive_failures` is a plugin_health field, not a metrics one.
get_metrics() does ResourceMetrics(**cached), which raises TypeError on a
single unrecognised key, and that exception escapes into plugin_manager and is
reported per plugin. One malformed cache entry takes the whole plugin system
down.

How a health-shaped record came to sit under a plugin_metrics key on that
machine is not established, and I could not finish the diagnosis: the rig went
back into its EIO failure mode partway through -- SSH resetting pre-banner,
systemctl unexecutable -- while the web API kept answering from RAM. Checked
before that: the cache files on disk are correctly shaped and separate, and
CacheManager.get() returns the right record for each key, so it is not a live
key collision. A restored backup mixing two machines' caches is the likeliest
explanation, and that rig had one restored onto it.

Either way the loader should not be brittle enough for the answer to matter.
plugin_health already repairs its records field by field rather than trusting
what is on disk; this does the same. Known fields are kept, unknown ones are
dropped and named once in the log so a genuine schema change stays visible
rather than being silently discarded, and a non-mapping entry no longer raises.

Keeping the known fields matters: discarding the record wholesale would throw
away real call counts and timings because of an unrelated stray key.

Mutation-checked: restoring ResourceMetrics(**cached) fails 6 checks, dropping
the whole record fails the field-preservation check, and dropping unknown
fields silently fails the logging check. 28 tests pass across the resource
monitor and plugin health suites.
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The resource monitor now validates cached metrics records, removes unknown fields, logs warnings, and falls back to fresh metrics when entries are invalid. New tests cover malformed, mixed, clean, non-mapping, and incorrectly typed cache values.

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Metrics cache resilience

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cached metrics deserialization
src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py
The monitor filters cached mappings to ResourceMetrics fields, logs unknown fields, handles invalid values, and falls back to fresh metrics.
Cache validation coverage
test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py
Tests verify handling for health-shaped, mixed, clean, non-mapping, and incorrectly typed cache records.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 29f1c

The cache loader now tolerates unknown fields and malformed entries, but it still accepts incompatible values such as a string for call_count; those values can fail during later metric updates or formatting. The PR is not merge-ready until invalid values are reset or rejected and covered by a test, or the risk is explicitly accepted.

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In `@src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py`:
- Around line 128-132: Update the cached metrics validation in
src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py:128-132, near the resource monitor loader,
to accept collections.abc.Mapping implementations instead of requiring dict,
while preserving the existing warning and empty-result behavior for
non-mappings. Add a non-dict mapping case in
test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py:91-94 that verifies recognized metric
values are preserved.
- Around line 141-147: Validate cached metric values against the expected field
types before constructing ResourceMetrics, so incompatible cache data follows
the existing warning and fresh-default fallback. Update
test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py lines 97-100 to assert that
incompatible cached values produce fresh default metrics; the
resource_monitor.py anchor requires the validation change.

Apply the same fix in `@test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py` around lines 97
- 100: Add an assertion that the incompatible cached value is reset to the
expected default.
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Comment on lines +128 to +132
if not isinstance(cached, dict):
self.logger.warning(
"Ignoring cached metrics for %s: expected a mapping, got %s",
plugin_id, type(cached).__name__)
return ResourceMetrics()

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Support the mapping contract and test it. The loader rejects valid mapping implementations because it requires dict.

  • src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py#L128-L132: accept collections.abc.Mapping values.
  • test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py#L91-L94: add a non-dict mapping case that preserves recognized values.
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  • src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py#L128-L132 (this comment)
  • test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py#L91-L94
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In `@src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py` around lines 128 - 132, Update the
cached metrics validation in src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py:128-132, near
the resource monitor loader, to accept collections.abc.Mapping implementations
instead of requiring dict, while preserving the existing warning and
empty-result behavior for non-mappings. Add a non-dict mapping case in
test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py:91-94 that verifies recognized metric
values are preserved.

Comment on lines +141 to +147
try:
return ResourceMetrics(**usable)
except (TypeError, ValueError) as e:
self.logger.warning(
"Cached metrics for %s unusable (%s); starting fresh",
plugin_id, e)
return ResourceMetrics()

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject incompatible cached metric values and verify the fallback. Dataclass construction does not validate annotated field types, so a value such as "not a number" can survive cache loading and fail later during metric updates or summary formatting. Validate recognized cached values before constructing ResourceMetrics, reset incompatible values to their defaults, and assert the fallback in test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py.

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  • src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py#L141-L147 (this comment)
  • test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py#L97-L100
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In `@src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py` around lines 141 - 147, Validate
cached metric values against the expected field types before constructing
ResourceMetrics, so incompatible cache data follows the existing warning and
fresh-default fallback. Update test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py lines
97-100 to assert that incompatible cached values produce fresh default metrics;
the resource_monitor.py anchor requires the validation change.

Apply the same fix in `@test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py` around lines 97
- 100: Add an assertion that the incompatible cached value is reset to the
expected default.

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Superseded by #486, which combines the three SD-write/log-volume PRs. Every change from this PR is verified present on that branch; the branch here is untouched if you want to compare.

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