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feat(vanity-gateway): label the origin of non-2xx responses - #2328

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Label the origin of non-2xx vanity-gateway responses on the server request metric so availability SLOs can separate gateway-local rejections, dependency-caused gateway errors, and upstream passthrough. Also stop shadow replays from recording outcomes on the primary request. Status codes and bodies are unchanged.

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  • gateway_proxy_outcome gains gateway_rejected (gateway-local rejections: offline 503, EOL 410, reserved-header 400, OpenAI/Messages validation 400/404/500, polling 404) and upstream_status (any non-2xx from the upstream, including rewritten 429). The existing client_canceled and gateway_proxy_error values are kept.
  • The value is recorded on http_server_request_duration_seconds and as the gateway.proxy.outcome span attribute through one helper, RecordGatewayProxyOutcome.
  • Non-2xx responses carry an additive NVCF-Error-Source header with the same value. Any upstream copy is stripped, including on 2xx.
  • The reserved-header guard runs ahead of the telemetry middleware, so its 400 never reached the server metric. It is now served through that middleware (route unknown); position in the chain and response are unchanged.
  • Bug fix: shadow replays keep the primary request's context values, so their cancellations and errors were recorded on the primary response (the label appears on 200/400/429 series today). Outcome recording is now skipped for shadow requests.
  • The reserved-header guard now logs a structured warning (trace IDs, method, path, remote address; never the header value) because it rejects before the request logger runs.
  • Limits: label values cannot be pre-initialized because the label set depends on response status. Gateway-written statuses outside these paths (router 404/405, panic recovery, request timeout) are unlabeled and carry no header, so a missing label does not prove an upstream origin or success. Upstream 3xx responses are labeled upstream_status too. The 500 on a response-encode failure after WriteHeader(200) is not labeled because the recorded status stays 200.
  • Observability impact: new label values on an existing metric. Dashboards and alerts grouping by status code keep working. Series that previously carried client_canceled or gateway_proxy_error on unrelated statuses (shadow pollution) will stop appearing.

For the Reviewer

  • gateway/vanity_director.go: requestProxy, markGatewayRejected, markUpstreamResponse, shadow skip in addGatewayProxyOutcome.
  • middleware/shadow_guard.go: guard now takes an observe middleware.
  • RejectSpoofedShadowRequests gained a second parameter (nil is allowed).

For QA

  • bazel test //src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/... --test_output=errors passes; git diff --check is clean.
  • New gateway/error_origin_test.go covers each group through the real otelhttp middleware (metric, span, header), header spoofing, and shadow replays.
  • QA is not needed beyond checking the new label values after deploy.

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Closes #2327

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Extend gateway_proxy_outcome with gateway_rejected (gateway-local
rejections) and upstream_status (non-2xx passthrough from the upstream,
including rewritten 429s), alongside the existing client_canceled and
gateway_proxy_error values. The value is recorded on the inbound server
request metric and as the gateway.proxy.outcome span attribute. Status
codes and bodies are unchanged.

Non-2xx responses also carry an additive NVCF-Error-Source header with
the same value. Any copy sent by the upstream is stripped first.

The reserved-header guard runs ahead of the server telemetry middleware,
so its rejection is now served through that middleware to reach the
server metric.

Closes #2327

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: jcameron <jcameron@nvidia.com>
Shadow replays share the primary request's metric labeler and span, so
their errors were recorded as outcomes on the primary response. Skip
outcome recording for requests carrying the shadow header.

Relates to #2327

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: jcameron <jcameron@nvidia.com>
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Walkthrough

The vanity gateway now records covered non-2xx response origins in server metrics and spans. It adds matching NVCF-Error-Source headers, removes upstream-provided values, and skips outcome recording for shadow requests. Existing response statuses and bodies remain unchanged.

Changes

Gateway response outcomes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Outcome contract and shadow guard
src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/middleware/*, src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/gateway/h2.go, src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/gateway/tracing_attrs.go
The middleware defines outcome values, the span attribute, and the error-source header. It records outcomes on request metrics and active spans. The shadow guard marks spoofed shadow requests as rejected and can use server telemetry middleware.
Classify gateway and proxy responses
src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/gateway/vanity_director.go, src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/gateway/openai_director.go, src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/gateway/llm_gateway_director.go
Gateway handlers mark covered local rejections, proxy errors, and client cancellations. Per-request proxies label upstream non-2xx responses and remove upstream-provided error-source headers.
Verify and document response outcomes
src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/gateway/error_origin_test.go, src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/gateway/vanity_director_test.go, src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/gateway/BUILD.bazel, src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/README.md
Tests cover rejection, dependency, upstream, success, and shadow-request cases. The README describes outcome labels, headers, and cases where labels are omitted.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant VanityGateway
  participant Upstream
  participant Telemetry
  Client->>VanityGateway: Send request
  VanityGateway->>Upstream: Proxy request
  Upstream-->>VanityGateway: Return response
  VanityGateway->>VanityGateway: Label covered non-2xx response
  VanityGateway-->>Client: Return response with status and body
  VanityGateway->>Telemetry: Record outcome on metric and span
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Reserved-header rejections now emit their own structured warning log, and response statuses and bodies are unchanged. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #2327's outcome labels, span attributes, shadow exclusion, upstream-header stripping, and tests are implemented for the covered paths. However, the issue also requires NVCF-Error-Source on non… Add NVCF-Error-Source to the currently excluded non-2xx responses while preserving their status codes and bodies. Add tests for those header cases.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 42.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 35 functions across 12 files. (1 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The README changes document the telemetry behavior and its limits. The reserved-header warning log and test support the gateway rejection path, and the log test verifies that the supplied header value…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title follows Conventional Commits: feat has the required scope, and the subject accurately describes labeling the origin of non-2xx responses.
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Issue #2327's outcome labels, span attributes, shadow exclusion, upstream-header stripping, and tests are implemented for the covered paths. However, the issue also requires NVCF-Error-Source on non-2xx responses. The updated README states that router 404/405, panic-recovery, and request-timeout responses have no label or header. The issue excludes these paths from labeling, but does not exempt them from the header requirement.

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Review comments at @src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/gateway/h2.go:
- Line 114: Update RejectSpoofedShadowRequests to emit a structured log when it
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Comment thread src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/gateway/h2.go
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The reserved-header guard runs before the request logger, so its
rejections had no log line. Emit a structured warning with trace IDs,
method, path and remote address, and never the header value.

Qualify the README: only labeled responses carry NVCF-Error-Source, and
a missing label or header does not mean success or an upstream origin.

Relates to #2327

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: jcameron <jcameron@nvidia.com>
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vanity-gateway: distinguish gateway-origin errors from upstream passthrough errors in metrics

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