feat(analytics): report to a self-hosted OpenPanel instead of Mixpanel - #2158
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The one outbound telemetry call in a GPL-3.0, self-hostable product went to a SaaS vendor. Collection now goes to OpenPanel, which the operator runs, so the stack a self-hoster reads the code for is one they can also operate. Mixpanel's single project token becomes OpenPanel's client id and secret, carried in the openpanel-client-id / openpanel-client-secret headers rather than stamped into every event's property bag — which removes the one path by which a credential could reach a rendered payload. There is deliberately no default endpoint. A self-hosted collector has no canonical address, so any default would be somebody else's; an absent endpoint is silence with its own reason, alongside the missing-credential reasons that say which half is missing. OpenPanel has no batch endpoint, so the drain sends one request per event. The bounded queue stays: track() is synchronous and infallible on a turn's hot path, so firing from it would mean unbounded spawned tasks. A transport failure abandons the rest of a drain rather than paying a five-second timeout per queued event, which at a full queue would outlive a container's shutdown budget many times over.
The spec was Mixpanel-specific throughout: one project token, a default endpoint pointed at a SaaS vendor, and a payload shape with the identity as a distinct_id property. All three changed. The HTTP contract is split into analytics-wire.md rather than folded in, because analytics.md reached the 500-line cap and the two answer different questions — one is the policy a reviewer checks, the other is the collector's schema, read from OpenPanel's source at a named commit because its published docs disagree with it.
…ctor Every failure mode in this module is silent, so a green unit suite and events actually landing are different claims. This one reads the endpoint and credential from the environment — nothing on disk — and asserts a 2xx and a deviceId in the body, because a proxy swallowing the request can answer 200 with something else and a status-only assertion would call that a pass.
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…sed event A 401 is not the collector's verdict on one event; it is its verdict on this process, so every event behind it in the queue gets the same one. Carrying on fired up to 500 requests every thirty seconds for the life of a misconfigured tenant — a thousand a minute at the operator's own collector — to learn something already known. Moves the transport's failure behaviour into analytics-wire.md alongside the contract it belongs to; analytics.md was over the 500-line cap again.
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When the configured endpoint responds with a redirect to another authority—for example, a reverse proxy redirecting to an authentication or canonical-host service—reqwest follows it by default. Its cross-origin redirect sanitization removes standard headers such as Authorization, but these custom openpanel-client-* default headers are retained despite HeaderValue::set_sensitive, which only affects logging and header compression. The redirected request therefore discloses the OpenPanel write secret to the new host; configure a no-redirect or same-origin redirect policy for this credential-bearing client.
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Verified against reqwest 0.12.28 in ~/.cargo/registry/.../reqwest-0.12.28/src/redirect.rs rather than taken on trust, and the finding is correct — with one detail that makes it worse than described.
remove_sensitive_headers (redirect.rs:239) removes exactly AUTHORIZATION, COOKIE, cookie2, PROXY_AUTHORIZATION and WWW_AUTHENTICATE. openpanel-client-secret is none of those, and the default policy is limited(10), so one 302 from the configured endpoint carried this instance's long-lived write secret to whatever host the Location named. You are also right that set_sensitive is not a defence: it governs HeaderValue's Debug and HPACK indexing, not redirect handling.
The extra detail: that function's cross_host test is
next.host_str() != previous.host_str() || next.port_or_known_default() != previous.port_or_known_default()
— host and port only, never the scheme. So an https endpoint that redirected to http:// on the same host was not "cross-host" at all, and the secret would have gone across in cleartext with the sanitization never firing.
Fixed in 01a68a9 with redirect::Policy::none(), not a same-origin policy. A same-origin policy would also be safe, but it is a predicate to keep correct rather than an invariant to state, and all it buys is a collector that 301s /track to /api/track — an endpoint the operator can type correctly once. Following none of them makes "the credential only ever goes to the configured endpoint" a property of the client.
That alone would have traded a credential leak for a permanently silent one, since a 3xx then arrives as an ordinary non-success response and dies in the per-event debug! forever. So a 3xx is now treated like a 401 — a verdict on the endpoint rather than on one event: it abandons the drain and warns once, naming the variable to fix. The warning never prints the Location; that is a URL the collector chose, and a URL is exactly where a credential hides.
Two tests, and they are a pair: a_redirect_never_carries_the_credential_to_another_host points the tracker at a collector that 307s to a second one on another port and asserts the second was never touched; the_redirect_destination_would_have_recorded_the_credential sends to that same second collector directly and asserts it records three requests and the secret header — without it the zero would also hold for a collector that counts nothing.
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In `@src/analytics/openpanel.rs`:
- Line 231: Replace the unwrap_or_default fallback in the OpenPanel client
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The OpenPanel client secret is a request header on every request, to an address the operator types, so OPENCOMPANY_ANALYTICS_ENDPOINT=http://collector.internal/track put a long-lived write credential on the wire in cleartext once per event for the life of the tenant (CWE-319). Mixpanel had no equivalent exposure: its token rode in the body of a request to one fixed https address this crate chose, and no configuration could downgrade it. A container cannot verify anyone's claim that the network in between is private, so `resolve` no longer assumes one. A plain http endpoint to a non-loopback host is now Silence::InsecureEndpoint — silence with its own named reason rather than a warning-and-send, because a warning is a line nobody reads while the secret ships anyway. Loopback is the documented exception: 127.0.0.0/8, ::1 and localhost never reach a network interface, and it is how the collector runs beside the workload in development and in every gated test here. `localhost` is matched by exact name rather than by suffix — RFC 6761 also reserves *.localhost, but "a resolver may honour it" is not something to rest a credential on, and the strict subset only ever refuses an endpoint that would have worked, loudly. Shape is still judged first, so "this will not parse" and "this would leak the secret" stay separate reasons pointing at different edits.
…e client Two failures in the transport, both silent. reqwest follows up to ten redirect hops by default, and its cross-origin sanitization removes exactly Authorization, Cookie, cookie2, Proxy-Authorization and WWW-Authenticate (redirect.rs::remove_sensitive_headers, 0.12.28, read rather than assumed). The openpanel-client-* headers are none of those, so one 302 from the configured endpoint handed this instance's write secret to a host the operator never named. HeaderValue::set_sensitive is not a defence: it governs Debug and HPACK indexing, not redirect handling. That comparison also ignores the scheme, so an https endpoint redirecting to http:// on the same host carried the secret across in cleartext. So the client is built with redirect::Policy::none(), and a 3xx is treated like a 401 — a verdict on the endpoint rather than on one event, abandoning the drain and warning once. Without that arm the fix would trade a credential leak for a permanently silent one. The warning never prints the Location: that is a URL the collector chose, and a URL is where a credential hides. And build() no longer falls back to unwrap_or_default(). That client has no default headers, so every request goes out unauthenticated, and no timeout, so a slow collector parks a drain and flush waits behind it — the shutdown block SEND_TIMEOUT exists to prevent. It is not even safe in the case that produces it: Client::default() is Client::new(), which expects the same build that just failed. new() is now fallible and a failure disables reporting with one warn.
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When the collector or its reverse proxy returns a collector-wide status such as 429, 502, or 503, this branch treats it as a malformed single event and continues sending every remaining item. A full drain can therefore issue up to 500 requests to an already overloaded or unavailable service, potentially once every drain interval; distinguish retryable/server-wide statuses from payload-level 4xx responses and abandon the remainder as the transport-error path does.
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Verified against the code and valid — this was a real hole and it is the same shape as the 401 one, which makes it worse that I missed it.
Inner::drain had exactly one non-401, non-3xx status arm, and it was the per-event one:
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"[analytics] the collector refused an event; dropping it"
),So a 503 was read as "this event was malformed" and the loop continued. With MAX_QUEUED = 500 and a FLUSH_INTERVAL of 30s that is up to 500 requests aimed at a service that has just said it is overloaded, repeating every thirty seconds for as long as it stays down. An analytics client becoming the thing that keeps the operator's own collector down is about the worst available answer to 503.
Fixed in 6764233. is_collector_wide(status) — 429 or any 5xx — abandons the drain like a transport failure does.
Two judgement calls worth naming:
It gets the debug!, not a warn!. The warn!-once treatment on 401 and 3xx is not about severity, it is the transient/permanent split #1739 settled on: those two resolve themselves never, so a debug! nobody enables is the whole failure. A 429/5xx is a collector restarting or under load, it resolves itself, and the next interval retries — so a per-drain warn! would be a log flood for a condition nobody needs to act on. It logs the endpoint (redacted), the status and the dropped count.
408 and 425 are deliberately not in the predicate. Both are arguably retryable, but neither is evidence the collector is unwell, and widening this costs a whole drain every time it is wrong. 4xx other than 401/429 stays per-event, which is the reading that loses least when mistaken: one dropped event rather than a whole drain.
Tests, as a pair, because either alone would pass for the wrong client:
a_collector_that_cannot_take_traffic_stops_the_drain—429,500,502,503, three events each, asserts 1 request reached the collector.a_per_event_refusal_still_does_not_stop_the_drain—400and404, same setup, asserts 3. Without this, "stops the drain" would also be satisfied by a client that gave up on any refusal at all, which is whata_refused_event_does_not_stop_the_drainexists to forbid.
analytics-wire.md now carries the three classes as a table instead of the old "401 is the one status" claim, which had become false — thank you for that too, CodeRabbit flagged the same contradiction from the doc side.
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During shutdown, src/bin/opencompany.rs:2577-2584 gives analytics flushing at most two seconds (src/server/shutdown.rs:106), but this new loop sends every queued event sequentially. Thus, even with a healthy collector, 100 events at only 25 ms per request already exceed the entire budget and the remaining requests are cancelled during routine restarts; unlike the previous single batch, active tenants can now systematically lose the tail of their telemetry unless the drain uses bounded concurrency or otherwise fits the established deadline.
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Verified, and the arithmetic checks out. src/server/shutdown.rs sets FLUSH_BUDGET = Duration::from_secs(2) and src/bin/opencompany.rs wraps Tracker::flush in tokio::time::timeout(flush_budget(grace_from_env()), …). One request per event, drained sequentially, means a queue of n costs n round trips — at 25ms each the budget is spent after about eighty. You are right that this is new: Mixpanel's whole queue left in one request, so 2s was never the binding constraint. It is a direct consequence of OpenPanel having no batch endpoint.
I have fixed the silence and declined the loss, and I want to be explicit that those are two different decisions.
The silence — fixed (6764233). This was the worse half and I had not noticed it. Every other way the drain ends states its own dropped count in its own line. Cancellation cannot: the future is dropped out from under the loop, so there is no branch to log from. The events were already mem::taken off the queue, so they were simply gone, and the only trace was a debug! at the call site that names no count. CancelledDrain is armed with the number still unsent, disarmed by every deliberate exit, and on Drop — which is the cancellation path — emits a warn! with the count and records it in an atomic so a test can assert it rather than needing a subscriber. a_cancelled_drain_reports_the_tail_it_lost runs a 300ms collector under a 120ms budget and asserts at least four of five counted; a_drain_that_finishes_reports_nothing_lost is its control, so a guard that fired on every drain would fail.
The loss — declined, with a reason. Bounded concurrency would fit roughly concurrency × more events into the same budget, and it is paid for out of the guarantee immediately above it in the same function: a drain issuing eight requests at once against a black-holing collector opens eight connections rather than one, and an_unreachable_collector_costs_one_timeout_for_the_whole_drain asserts exactly one, for reasons documented at length (a full queue against a black hole was 500 × 5s). Multiplying the hammering of an unreachable collector in order to shorten a shutdown is the wrong direction, and #1739 is explicit that telemetry loss beats a shutdown overrun — the 2s budget exists precisely because an overrun buys a SIGKILL mid-turn, and a dropped event costs a line in a dashboard while an overrun costs a half-finished turn.
Nor is raising the budget available: flush_budget is derived from what is left of the pod's 30s default grace after the drain and connection windows, and is capped rather than allowed to grow.
So the honest position is the one now written into analytics-wire.md under "The tail a cancelled drain loses": the loss is accepted, bounded, and counted out loud, and the real fix is a batch endpoint on the collector, which OpenPanel does not have. If that trade is judged wrong, the change is a one-line concurrency knob plus relaxing that black-hole assertion — but it should be a deliberate decision recorded against the guarantee it spends, not a quiet default.
… the tail it loses Two more ways the drain kept going when it should not have, both found in review. A 429 or a 5xx was being treated as a rejected *event*, so the drain carried on. It is not an answer about the body that was posted: the collector is saying it cannot take traffic, and every event behind that one gets the same answer. Carrying on aimed up to MAX_QUEUED requests at a service that had just said it was overloaded, and again at the next FLUSH_INTERVAL for as long as it stayed down — an analytics client becoming the thing that keeps an operator's own collector down. It now abandons the drain like a transport failure, and — because unlike a 401 or a 3xx it resolves itself — with the same debug! rather than a warn!. The other is not a branch at all. The shutdown flush is wrapped in a timeout of at most two seconds (server::shutdown::flush_budget), so when the budget runs out the drain future is dropped mid-flight and the events already taken off the queue are gone. With no batch endpoint a queue of n costs n sequential round trips, so at 25ms each the budget is spent after about eighty: a busy tenant lost the tail of its telemetry on every restart, and the only trace was a debug! at the call site naming no count. CancelledDrain reports it on Drop, which is what cancellation is, and records the number where a test can read it. The loss itself is left in place deliberately. Bounded concurrency would fit more events into the budget and is paid for out of the guarantee directly above it — eight requests at once against a black-holing collector opens eight connections, and a test asserts exactly one.
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When OPENCOMPANY_ANALYTICS_ENDPOINT is an allowed http://localhost/loopback URL and the process has HTTP_PROXY or ALL_PROXY configured without a matching NO_PROXY, reqwest's default client uses that system proxy, so these default credential headers travel in cleartext to the proxy instead of remaining on the host. Disable or exclude proxying for the cleartext-loopback case (or reject cleartext entirely), otherwise the secure-endpoint check does not prevent disclosure of the long-lived client secret.
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Valid, and I reproduced it before fixing it. This is the best finding of the round — it does not merely widen the loopback exception, it invalidates it, and it does so on a code path I had just spent two commits arguing was safe.
Read rather than assumed, in the versions actually locked:
reqwest 0.12.28,src/async_impl/client.rs:309—ClientBuilderdefaults toauto_sys_proxy: true; line 419 pushesProxyMatcher::system()unlessno_proxy()was called.hyper-util 0.1.20,src/client/proxy/matcher.rs— the matcher takes exclusions only fromNO_PROXY/no_proxy(line 234, andNoProxy::from_stringat 445). There is no implicit carve-out forlocalhostor127.0.0.0/8. I grepped for one; it does not exist.
So the leak is exactly as you describe, and it is a nasty one: the loopback exception's entire justification is "this request does not leave the host", and with HTTP_PROXY set that sentence is simply false while the config check goes on approving the endpoint.
Measured, not argued. I wrote the test first and confirmed it fails without the fix:
assertion `left == right` failed: a loopback endpoint went through the system proxy,
so the client secret left the host in cleartext and the loopback exception protects nothing
left: 2
right: 0
Both events went to the stand-in proxy, carrying openpanel-client-secret. With the fix, the proxy sees 0 and the collector sees 2.
Fixed in d7f56f6 by taking the first of your two options: an http endpoint builds with ClientBuilder::no_proxy(). That makes "it does not leave the host" true by construction rather than a prediction about the operator's environment — the same move as redirect::Policy::none() on the other thread, and for the same reason: a security property should be a fact about this client, not an assumption about its surroundings.
I did not take "or reject cleartext entirely". Loopback http is the one cleartext case that is genuinely safe once it is actually kept on the host, and it is how the collector runs beside the workload in development and how every gated test in this crate reaches its own — refusing it would refuse the only http deployment that is fine.
Two deliberate limits on the fix:
httpskeeps its proxy support. A proxiedhttpsrequest is aCONNECTtunnel, so the proxy learns host and port and never sees a header; the credential is not exposed to it, and egress-restricted networks genuinely need the proxy to reach a collector at all. Disabling proxies outright would break those deployments to fix a leak they do not have.- The scheme is the whole test. By the time a
Decision::Reportexists,httpimplies loopback —config::is_secure_endpointhas already refused every otherhttpendpoint — sois_cleartextparses withurl(not ahttp://prefix match, which readsHTTP://as safe) and that is sufficient.
The AGENTS.md reference is apt and I have updated the wire spec accordingly; the hosting manager's contract already said the endpoint must be https or loopback, and now the loopback half is actually true in the presence of a proxy.
The loopback exception rests entirely on the claim that such a request does not leave the host. A system proxy makes that false, and reqwest opts into one by default: ClientBuilder sets auto_sys_proxy: true, which pushes ProxyMatcher::system(), and that reads HTTP_PROXY/ALL_PROXY with exclusions taken only from NO_PROXY. hyper-util 0.1.20's matcher has no implicit carve-out for localhost or 127.0.0.0/8 — read, not assumed. So on a host with a proxy configured and no matching NO_PROXY, http://localhost:3000/track was sent to the proxy instead, in cleartext, with both credential headers on it. The endpoint check prevented nothing. Measured rather than argued: with the fix reverted, a_loopback_endpoint_never_goes_through_a_system_proxy records 2 requests at the stand-in proxy and 0 at the collector. An http endpoint now builds with no_proxy(), which makes "it does not leave the host" true by construction rather than a prediction about the operator's environment — the same move as redirect::Policy::none(). https keeps its proxy support deliberately: a proxied https request is a CONNECT tunnel, so the proxy learns host and port and never sees a header, and egress-restricted networks need it to reach a collector at all. The scheme is the whole test, because by the time a Report exists, http implies loopback. The test mutates process env, so it holds the crate-wide EnvVarGuard; reqwest samples these variables at client-build time, which is the one thing the MapEnv seam cannot intercept.
Round 3 — one finding, and it was the most serious of the whole reviewHead is now Codex P2, Read in the locked versions rather than assumed:
So the loopback exception's whole justification — "this request does not leave the host" — was simply false on any host with Reproduced before fixing. The test was written first and confirmed failing without the fix: Both events reached the stand-in proxy carrying Fixed by building an
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When an analytics-enabled downstream user constructs the publicly re-exported HttpOpenPanelTracker directly, this constructor bypasses config::resolve and accepts http:// endpoints on non-loopback hosts; is_cleartext merely disables proxying, after which every request still sends the client secret over the network in plaintext. Either make this constructor crate-private or enforce the same HTTPS-or-loopback validation here so the transport cannot violate its credential-safety invariant.
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Valid, and the sharpest of the six. It does not point at a leak; it points at the fact that the previous five fixes rested on a precondition the type system was not enforcing.
Confirmed against the code before changing anything: pub mod analytics in src/lib.rs, pub use http::HttpOpenPanelTracker in openpanel.rs:104, and pub fn new. So an analytics-enabled caller could construct the transport directly with http://collector.internal/track, entirely bypassing config::resolve. And you are right about the twist — is_cleartext would then dutifully call no_proxy() on it, the fix from the previous thread working exactly as designed on an endpoint that should never have reached it, while every request put the client secret on a real network in cleartext.
The doc comment I had just written said "by the time a Decision::Report exists, http implies loopback". True of the build() path, and enforced by nothing. That is the shape this module spends its whole comment budget arguing against, so thank you for catching me writing it.
Fixed in bcf4a7a by taking your first option, crate-private, rather than the second:
HttpOpenPanelTracker::newis nowpub(crate).build()takes a&Decision, and aDecision::Reportis whatresolveproduces, so that is the only route to a tracker. Nothing outsideopenpanel.rsever constructed one, so this costs nothing.- A
debug_assert!closes the same mistake arriving from inside the crate later.
I deliberately did not re-implement the HTTPS-or-loopback validation in the transport, which was your second option. This module's stated reason for keeping the decision in config is that it is un-gated and provable in the default build with no reqwest in the graph, and is_usable_endpoint's own comment says why a second implementation is the wrong instinct: "a grant key computed by a second, hand-rolled reader is a bypass waiting to be found". So the assertion calls config::is_secure_endpoint rather than restating it — one rule, one implementation, checked at both layers, nothing to drift.
Two tests, and the second is what stops the first from being satisfied by a constructor that refuses everything:
the_transport_refuses_an_endpoint_that_never_passed_resolve—#[should_panic]onhttp://collector.internal/track.the_transport_accepts_an_endpoint_resolve_would_have_allowed—http://127.0.0.1:9/trackandhttps://collector.invalid/trackboth still build.
For the record, since this is the sixth accepted finding on this PR: every one has been the transport inheriting a default it never chose, or a credential going somewhere the operator never named — a followed redirect, a cleartext endpoint, a bare fallback client, a system proxy, and now an unguarded constructor. That is a consistent enough pattern to be worth naming in the spec, and it is.
The endpoint rules only hold for endpoints that came through config::resolve, and while HttpOpenPanelTracker::new was pub it was also a way around them. The type is re-exported from a pub module, so an analytics-enabled caller could hand it http://collector.internal/track directly and get a tracker that posts the client secret across a network in cleartext — with is_cleartext dutifully turning off the proxy on the way, which is the check working exactly as designed on an endpoint that should never have reached it. A safety property enforced only by the route callers happen to take is what this module keeps arguing against, so the route is now the only one there is: new() is pub(crate), and build() — which takes a &Decision, and a Decision::Report is what resolve produces — is how a tracker is obtained. Nothing outside this file constructed one, so this costs nothing. A debug_assert catches the same mistake arriving from inside the crate later. It calls config::is_secure_endpoint rather than restating the rule, because a second reader of a security predicate is a bypass waiting to be found — the same reason is_usable_endpoint refuses to hand-roll the URL grammar reqwest already parses.
Round 4 — the finding that named the patternHead is now Codex P2,
The doc comment I had written one commit earlier said "by the time a Fixed by making The pattern, now that there are sixEvery accepted finding across four rounds has been the same thing wearing different clothes — the transport inheriting a default it never chose, or a credential reaching somewhere the operator never named:
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When an analytics-enabled downstream user constructs the public Decision::Report variant with ClientCredentials::new and passes it here, this public function still forwards an arbitrary endpoint to the crate-private constructor without running config::resolve. Fresh evidence after the constructor-visibility fix is that Decision::Report and both of its fields remain public, so http://collector.internal/track reaches the transport; the only check is a debug_assert!, which disappears in release builds, allowing the client secret to be sent in cleartext. Make this build entry point crate-private as well, make reporting decisions non-constructible externally, or repeat the endpoint validation here.
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Why
OpenCompany is GPL-3.0 and self-hostable, and its one outbound telemetry call
went to Mixpanel. Silence-by-default (#1739) answered "does a self-hosted
instance report?" but left the destination a SaaS vendor — so the one
deployment that did report shipped its usage to a third party, and a self-hoster
who opted in had no way to run the other end at all.
Collection now goes to OpenPanel,
which is AGPL-3.0 and which the operator self-hosts. Mixpanel is gone entirely:
not behind a flag, not as a fallback. There is one transport and it speaks to
whatever
OPENCOMPANY_ANALYTICS_ENDPOINTnames.Nothing about what is reported changes.
PropValuestill has noStringvariant, the event vocabulary and
Outcome/Trigger/Otherare untouched, theresolvegating is unchanged in its policy, the opaque-id derivation and itssalt rule are unchanged, and
Tracker/Event/Envelope/NullTracker/RecordingTracker/TrackingUsageMeterare all as they were. Only the oneconcrete HTTP implementation changed, plus the configuration it reads.
The wire contract, and how it was verified
Read from OpenPanel's own source at commit
3060ca10213693cf0385be2713c8743d16733a2b, not from its docs — the two disagreein at least one place (the docs describe rate limiting on
/trackthattrack.router.tsdoes not register). Files:packages/validation/src/track.validation.ts,apps/api/src/utils/auth.ts,apps/api/src/controllers/track.controller.ts,apps/api/src/hooks/*,packages/constants/index.ts, cross-checked against thelive OpenAPI document at
https://api.openpanel.dev/documentation/json.POST {endpoint}. Self-hosted behind the bundled Caddy that ishttps://<host>/api/track— the reverse proxy strips/api.openpanel-client-idandopenpanel-client-secret,and the id must be a UUIDv4 or the collector answers
401before it looksat anything else. A server-side client sends no
Origin, so it has no CORSpath and the secret is genuinely required.
type; thetrackvariant is{ name, properties?, profileId?, groups? }. Our identity goes in asprofileId— beside the properties rather than inside them, which is the onevisible payload change from Mixpanel's
distinct_id.POST /import/events, refuses awriteclient outright and inserts rawClickHouse rows, bypassing sessions and the queue — a migration tool, not a
batching one.
session_startandsession_end— that is thewhole list. On top of it
event-blocklist.tsrejects names over 80characters, names containing a newline, names beginning
/, and a ~50-entryanti-abuse substring list. Our three names (
instance_started,turn_finished,turn_metered) collide with none of it, andno_event_name_is_one_the_collector_refusesnow asserts that rather thanleaving it to review — a refused event is a
400that becomes onedebug!line, so a future collision would look exactly like an instance quietly
reporting one fewer event.
Full contract:
docs/spec/runtime/analytics-wire.md.Not yet verified against the operator's own instance. Everything here proves
this transport does what OpenPanel's source says it wants; only a live run
proves OpenPanel agrees.
a_real_collector_accepts_an_eventis an#[ignore]dtest that does exactly that from three environment variables — no credential
touches disk — and it asserts a
2xxand adeviceIdin the body, becausea proxy swallowing the request can answer
200with something else.Two credentials, and no default endpoint
OPENCOMPANY_ANALYTICS_TOKENOPENCOMPANY_ANALYTICS_CLIENT_ID+OPENCOMPANY_ANALYTICS_CLIENT_SECRETDEFAULT_ENDPOINT = "https://api.mixpanel.com/track"OPENCOMPANY_ANALYTICS_ENDPOINTis requiredRemoving the default is deliberate. A self-hosted collector has no canonical
address, so any default this crate picked would be somebody else's collector,
and a tenant that configured a credential but forgot the endpoint would ship its
telemetry to a third party nobody named. That is the same accident
Silence::UnusableEndpointalready refuses to make from the other direction, andit is worse, because the boot line would name a destination that is real. An
absent or blank endpoint is
Decision::Silent(Silence::NoEndpoint)with its ownreason; a malformed one keeps
UnusableEndpoint, because "you never set this"and "what you set will not parse" send an operator to different places.
Both halves are required together, with three reasons rather than one:
NoCredentials,NoClientId,NoClientSecret. Half a credential is what ahalf-finished secret rollout looks like — id in the manifest, secret still in the
vault — and telling that operator "no credential is configured" while
OPENCOMPANY_ANALYTICS_CLIENT_IDis plainly set reads as false.One new reason,
UnusableCredential, because of where the credential nowtravels. Mixpanel's token rode in the JSON body, where any string is legal, so a
mangled one was simply refused by the collector. These ride in headers, and
reqwestwill not build a request whose header value holds a control byte —so a secret that picked up a newline in the middle (
kubectl create secretovera wrapped file; trimming does not save it) would install a tracker that never
constructs a single request, forever, behind a
debug!nobody has enabled. Thecheck is hand-written in
config.rsbecause that module is un-gated on purposeand
reqwestmay not be in the graph at all — so it is deliberately a strictsubset of
HeaderValue(printable ASCII, no space), andthe_header_safety_check_is_a_subset_of_what_a_header_acceptsasserts thatsubset claim against
HeaderValue::from_strover every byte, in the one lanethat has a
HeaderValueto compare against.No credential can reach a log, an error or a
DebugProjectToken→ClientCredentials, hand-writtenDebug, both halvesredacted. The id is redacted too although OpenPanel's web SDK treats client
ids as public: no line in this tree is better for having it, and a type with
one printable field and one redacted one is a type someone eventually prints.
set_sensitive(true), keeping them out ofreqwest's ownDebugand out of HPACK's shared table on HTTP/2.loggable_send_errorstill callswithout_url, soreqwest::Error's… for url (…)— which measurably leaks a?key=…in the endpoint and doesnot leak
user:pass@— cannot reach the debug line either way.no_credential_reaches_the_request_bodyasserts on the wire that neither halfappears in any body, with a self-check that the needle is findable in the
header, so the guard cannot pass vacuously.
No batching: what the drain does instead
The obvious simplification — drop the queue, fire a request from
track— is thewrong trade twice over.
trackis on a turn's hot path and is synchronous andinfallible by contract, so it cannot await; firing from it means spawning a task
per event, which is unbounded concurrency against a collector the process does
not control, with no back-pressure and no ceiling on memory.
So the bounded queue survives the batch. At most 500 events exist at once, at
most one drain runs at a time, and a drain sends them sequentially, one POST
each.
A transport failure abandons the rest of the drain. Each request carries its
own 5s timeout, so a full queue against a black-holing collector would be
500 × 5s— over forty minutes of proving the same thing five hundred times,during which the shutdown flush is blocked behind the same lock and the
container's
SIGTERMbudget is long gone. The collector is down, the remainingevents are going nowhere, and the next interval retries with whatever has
accumulated since. An HTTP status failure does not abandon it: that is a
per-event answer and the events behind it may be fine, and treating the two alike
would let one malformed event silence a whole drain.
A
401is the exception on that count too. It is not a per-event answer atall but the collector's verdict on this process's credential, so every event
behind it in the queue gets the same one; carrying on fired up to 500 requests
every thirty seconds for the life of a misconfigured tenant — a thousand a
minute at the operator's own collector — to learn something already known.
an_unreachable_collector_costs_one_timeout_for_the_whole_drainproves thetransport case against a listener that accepts and never answers, asserting on
connections actually accepted — one, not three — rather than on elapsed
time, which would be a flaky test.
a_refused_credential_stops_the_drainanda_refused_event_does_not_stop_the_drainare the same collector and the samethree events one status code apart, with opposite outcomes; neither means much
without the other.
Two things in their API that surprised me
Timestamps.
timestampis not a field in the track schema at all. The eventtime is read from
properties.__timestamp(getTimestamp,track.controller.ts), which the server strips before storage; without it theevent is stamped on arrival. That is not survivable here — the transport
queues for up to thirty seconds, and longer after an outage, so arrival time
would record a burst of turns as all having happened at the moment a drain
finally succeeded, flattening exactly the orderings
turn_finishedexists tomeasure. So each event is stamped when it is tracked, second-precision RFC-3339
UTC, via the crate's existing
iso8601rather than a second copy of thecivil-date arithmetic.
Two server clamps apply and neither bites: >60s in the future is discarded for
arrival time (this process only stamps the past), and >15 minutes in the past
marks the event a backfill and makes it session-less (this is a server-side
client with no browser session; events are attributed by
profileId).That field is also the only string in a payload that is neither a compiled
literal nor the opaque id, which would have quietly weakened the guarantee this
module is built on. So
every_string_in_a_payload_comes_from_the_compiled_vocabularynow walks the whole body rather than only the property bag — OpenPanel moved
the identity and the event name out beside it, and a check that still looked
only at
propertieswould have stopped covering two of the three strings thatwere always the point — and pins
__timestampto the exact grammarYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZrather than waving it through.A
401is permanent, and everything here is silent. Every other failure inthis module is transient and deserves the
debug!#1739 settled on. A refusedcredential resolves itself never: every event for the rest of the process's
life is dropped, boot said "reporting to …", and the only trace is a line nobody
has enabled — which is the failure this module exists to prevent, arriving one
layer below where the boot line can see it. So a
401is awarn!, saidonce (permanent condition; repeating it would drown a busy tenant's log),
naming the two variables to fix and the UUIDv4 requirement, and never the
credential.
Two more, noted rather than acted on: requests carrying
ip,originand aclient id are de-duplicated by content hash inside a 100 ms window, and a
verified secret exempts a request from bot detection (without one, a bot-looking
UA is dropped with a
202). Neither applies to this client — it sends noOriginand always sends the secret — but both are the kind of thing that wouldbe baffling to debug later, so they are written down in
analytics-wire.md.Docs
docs/spec/runtime/analytics.mdis rewritten. It reached 564 lines, so the HTTPcontract and the transport's own failure behaviour are split into
docs/spec/runtime/analytics-wire.mdand linked from both spec READMEs — thetwo answer different questions (the policy a reviewer checks, versus the
collector's schema and what happens when it will not answer). 472 and 133 lines;
assert-md-line-cap.shpasses.AGENTS.md's hosted-harness section,docs/spec/roadmap.md's no-telemetrynon-goal,
Cargo.toml's feature comment,.github/workflows/ci.yml,.github/workflows/deploy-staging.yml, and the threeProjectTokencross-references in
src/observability/andsrc/analytics/types.rsare all updated.No file in the repo now claims something Mixpanel-shaped that is no longer true;
the remaining occurrences of the word are past-tense explanations of what
changed and why, which is this module's house style.
Not in this PR
PR docs(readme): say plainly whether OpenCompany phones home #2154 (
docs/readme-analytics-disclosure) is still open, not merged, soits "What it reports about itself" section is not on
mainand is not touchedhere. Its wording names no third party and no vendor, so it needs no rewrite —
but one phrase, "injects a project token", becomes "injects a client
credential" once whichever of the two lands second. Flagging rather than
editing someone else's branch.
PR feat(analytics): instrument the product, and let a hosted tenant report it #1950 (
feat/analytics-e2e) is untouched. It is currently closedand already
CONFLICTING, and this change does make its conflicts worse —said plainly rather than glossed. Of the eighteen files it touches, six are
ones this PR also changes:
src/analytics/mixpanel.rs(deleted outrighthere),
src/analytics/mod.rs,src/analytics/test.rs,src/analytics/types.rs,docs/spec/runtime/analytics.md(rewritten), andboth spec READMEs. It also adds its own split of the analytics doc
(
analytics-configuration.md) alongside the one added here(
analytics-wire.md), so the two splits will need reconciling rather thanmerging.
When it is revived, its seven new events need the same treatment the three
existing ones got: a check against OpenPanel's reserved names and its
anti-abuse blocklist.
no_event_name_is_one_the_collector_refusesiterateshostile_events(), so new events are covered automatically once they areadded there — which is the point of asserting it rather than reviewing it.
The manager side. A sibling agent is wiring
OPENCOMPANY_ANALYTICS_CLIENT_ID/_CLIENT_SECRET/_ENDPOINTinjection;TENANT_FEATURESalready containsanalyticsand is left alone.Verified
cargo fmt --all -- --checkcargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warningscargo clippy --features analytics --all-targets -- -D warnings— thefeature-gated module is invisible to a default-feature clippy run, so both
were run
cargo test(full default suite)cargo test --features analytics analytics— 73 passed, 0 failed, 1 ignored(the live-collector check)
cargo test— 4816 passed, 0 failed in the lib targetscripts/ci/assert-md-line-cap.sh,scripts/ci/assert-feature-lanes.shSummary by CodeRabbit
New Features
trackformat with timestamps and profile identifiers.Documentation