feat(operator): publish nodewright_* metrics alongside deprecated skyhook_*

[lockwobr]

Closes #461. Part of the rename tracked in #310.

Every operator metric was still named skyhook_*, and the shared series label was still skyhook_name. This was the last end-user surface of the rename with no issue and no owner: #403 is scoped to event/log/error text, #375 to Go identifiers, and #437/#438 to the package contract. Without this it ships unchanged, and any later rename becomes a second break for users who have to touch their dashboards and alerts twice.

Approach: dual-publish, not an in-place swap

Metric names and label keys are the identifiers users bake into Grafana dashboards, Prometheus alerting rules, and recording rules. Renaming them in place breaks every consumer the moment they upgrade, with no overlap window to migrate in. So all 14 metrics now publish under both names simultaneously:

	Metric name	CR-name label
Current	nodewright_status, nodewright_node_target_count, …	nodewright_name
Deprecated	skyhook_status, skyhook_node_target_count, …	skyhook_name

Both halves carry identical values and identical remaining labels, so migrating a query is a two-token swap and nothing breaks at upgrade time.

The legacy set is removed in v0.20.0, deliberately the same release that removes the legacy skyhook.nvidia.com API group, so users have one deadline to plan against rather than two.

Opting out early

Dual-publishing roughly doubles the operator's exported series count, which not everyone will want. PUBLISH_LEGACY_METRICS=false (chart: controllerManager.manager.env.publishLegacyMetrics) unregisters the deprecated collectors at startup, so skyhook_* disappears from /metrics entirely rather than lingering with stale values.

It defaults to true, so an upgrade that sets nothing keeps the compatibility window. It is applied in main immediately after options are processed and before the manager starts, so nothing can write a legacy series first. It is a startup setting, not a runtime toggle.

New pattern introduced (per the repo convention on justifying these)

dualGaugeVec in metrics.go is a new pattern for this package: it wraps the legacy and current *prometheus.GaugeVec and fans Set/Delete out to both.

The alternative was duplicating each of the ~40 Set/Delete call sites in the file. I did not do that because it makes it possible to update a metric under one name and silently forget the other, and that class of bug surfaces only on a user's dashboard, potentially not until after the window closed. Fanning out in one place makes the two halves structurally unable to drift. The registration list allMetrics is the single place a new metric must be added.

If a second metric type is ever needed (a counter or histogram), this should generalise rather than being copy-pasted per type.

Docs

• docs/metrics/README.md — renamed throughout, plus a deprecation section with the mapping table and the opt-out.
• docs/nodewright-migration.md — new Metrics section; metrics added to the v0.20.0 removal list, which the guide calls the single date every transition-only behavior keys off.
• docs/operator_resources_at_scale.md — series-count note for the window (this affects Prometheus storage and scrape size, not the operator's own requests/limits, which are driven by node and package count).
• docs/taints.md — stale skyhook_node_status_count reference.
• docs/metrics/dashboards/skyhook-dashboard.json — 81 refs updated, re-validated as parseable JSON.
• chart/README.md values row, operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md Deprecations entry. CHANGELOG.md untouched since it is generated.

Testing

New metrics_test.go (5 specs). The load-bearing one drives all 7 public setters and then asserts, for every one of the 14 metrics, that both families exist, that each carries only its own CR-name label key, and that the values match. Plus delete symmetry, the disable path, and the legacy help text naming its replacement and removal release.

I mutation-tested both halves rather than trusting green:

• Removing the legacy Set call failed 3 specs with the intended message.
• Inverting the disable spec's assertion produced 4 Passed | 1 Failed, confirming all 5 specs actually execute rather than being skipped.

Chainsaw: 125 assertions across 9 files moved to the new names. One block in simple-nodewright deliberately stays on the legacy names, so the deprecation window is exercised against a real operator rather than only in unit tests.

make lint 0 issues, make unit-tests green across 13 suites, go test -race clean on the controller package. helm template verified rendering "true" by default and "false" under --set.

Deliberately out of scope

• docs/metrics/dashboards/skyhook-dashboard.json keeps its filename. Rename skyhook-named directories and file names (agent/skyhook-agent, chart templates) #442 owns file renames; renaming here would mean renaming it twice. generate-dashboards.sh globs the directory, so the name is free whenever Rename skyhook-named directories and file names (agent/skyhook-agent, chart templates) #442 lands.
• k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/metrics_test.txt is stale sample output already (it references skyhook_complete_count and other metrics that no longer exist) and is referenced by nothing. It was wrong before this change, so I left it rather than expanding scope. Worth deleting separately.

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The operator now exports nodewright_* metrics and deprecated skyhook_* metrics together by default. The PUBLISH_LEGACY_METRICS setting disables legacy collectors. Helm and manager configuration expose this setting. Documentation, dashboards, release notes, and migration guidance describe the rename and v0.20.0 removal. Unit and Chainsaw tests validate current metrics, legacy compatibility, cleanup, and labels.

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The PR adds renamed metrics while preserving deprecated metrics by default and provides an opt-out for the compatibility window; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: dual-publishing new nodewright_* metrics alongside deprecated skyhook_* metrics.
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/metrics/README.md`:
- Around line 33-58: Update the metric documentation for nodewright_status to
list all emitted values: complete, disabled, paused, in_progress, erroring,
blocked, waiting, and unknown. In nodewright_package_stage_count, replace the
documented post_interrupt value with post-interrupt to match dashboard queries.

In `@k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/delete-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml`:
- Around line 60-62: Add a pre-delete metrics assertion for
nodewright_rollout_ceiling in the delete-skyhook test, validating its expected
value before the deletion step so the later --not-found check confirms removal
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• chart/README.md
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• docs/metrics/README.md
• docs/metrics/dashboards/skyhook-dashboard.json
• docs/nodewright-migration.md
• docs/operator_resources_at_scale.md
• docs/taints.md
• k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/legacy-compatibility/chainsaw-test.yaml
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• k8s-tests/chainsaw/deployment-policy/overlapping-selectors/chainsaw-test.yaml
• k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/delete-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml
• k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/failure-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml
• k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/simple-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml
• k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/strict-order/chainsaw-test.yaml
• k8s-tests/chainsaw/nodewright/taint-scheduling/chainsaw-test.yaml
• operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md
• operator/cmd/manager/main.go
• operator/config/manager/manager.yaml
• operator/internal/controller/metrics.go
• operator/internal/controller/metrics_test.go
• operator/internal/controller/skyhook_controller.go

[lockwobr]

Thanks — both findings verified against the code and applied, plus a root-cause fix for the meta-lint failure.

meta-lint / ci-gate failure (root cause)

ci-gate was only a rollup of meta-lint; the real failure was MD050 on four lines in docs/metrics/README.md that I had not edited:

docs/metrics/README.md:71   MD050/strong-style [Expected: asterisk; Actual: underscore]
docs/metrics/README.md:278,279,287  (same)

MD050 defaults to consistent, which infers the expected style from the first strong element in the file. On main that was __default__ (underscore), so the pre-existing __Bold__ list items conformed. My deprecation section added a **bold** line near the top, which became the new first element and flipped the expected style, retroactively invalidating them. Fixed by converting the three list items to **...**, and by backticking `__default__` on line 71 — that one is a literal compartment name, not emphasis, so it was also rendering as a bold "default" before this change.

Verified locally against the repo config (markdownlint-cli2 --config ci/.markdownlint-cli2.yaml): 0 issues across all six markdown files in this PR.

Finding 1 — metric label values (confirmed, and broader than reported)

Both parts are correct, verified against operator/api/nodewright/v1alpha1/nodewright_types.go. Two additional inaccuracies in the same lines that the review didn't flag:

• nodewright_package_stage_count: Stages has seven entries, so uninstall-interrupt was missing as well as post_interrupt being wrong. Now: uninstall, uninstall-interrupt, upgrade, apply, interrupt, post-interrupt, config.
• nodewright_node_status_count: incomplete for the same reason as nodewright_status. ResetSkyhookMetricsToZero calls SetNodeStatusMetrics for every value in v1alpha1.Statuses, so all eight are emitted, not the five documented. The suggested diff left this line unchanged; I updated it too.

Both status lines now read: complete, blocked, waiting, disabled, paused, in_progress, erroring, unknown.

Finding 2 — nodewright_rollout_ceiling pre-delete assertion (confirmed)

Correct: rollout_ceiling was asserted --not-found after deletion but never asserted present before it, so that line could pass against a metric that was never emitted.

Rather than assume the expected value, I derived it from precedent: legacy-compatibility asserts ceiling 3 for interruptionBudget.count: 3, and simple-nodewright asserts 1 for the same legacy/__default__/fixed shape. delete-nodewright has count: 1 and one matched node, so 1 — consistent with the matched_nodes 1 / completed 1 assertions beside it and with the value already on the --not-found line.

Note both findings are pre-existing issues rather than regressions from this PR: it only renamed the metric identifiers on those lines. Fixing them here anyway since they are factual errors in the exact block being rewritten.

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[ayuskauskas]

Approving. The design is right and the execution is careful — reviewed statically (read the diff and surrounding files; did not build or run the suites).

Things I checked rather than took on trust:

• dualGaugeVec fans out at a single choke point and allMetrics is the one registration list, with metrics_test.go:84-101 iterating it. A new metric added without both halves fails the suite — that's the right place for the guard, and it justifies the new pattern.
• DisableLegacyMetrics() lands at main.go:117, before ctrl.NewManager, so no legacy series can be written first. Set gates on the atomic, Delete intentionally hits both. Correct.
• The value lists in docs/metrics/README.md:35-59 match v1alpha1.Statuses (8), States (5) and Stages (7) exactly, including uninstall-interrupt.
• docs/metrics/dashboards/skyhook-dashboard.json has zero remaining skyhook_ tokens; all 7 metric names it uses are nodewright_*.
• Repo-wide the only surviving legacy metric references are the deliberate deprecation-window block in simple-nodewright/chainsaw-test.yaml:72-83 (well commented) and the stale metrics_test.txt you already flagged.

One non-blocking gap, following the convention set by the entry directly above it:

chart/RELEASE_NOTES.md isn't updated. This adds a new chart value (controllerManager.manager.env.publishLegacyMetrics) and roughly doubles exported series on upgrade — both chart-user-visible. chart/README.md and operator/RELEASE_NOTES.md are updated, but the runtimeRequiredTaint default change sitting immediately above ## Unreleased in chart/RELEASE_NOTES.md sets the precedent that a values change gets an entry there too. Worth adding before merge, but not worth holding the PR.

FWIW the CodeRabbit pre-merge warning about a missing operator/CHANGELOG.md entry is a false positive — that file is generated.

Also confirmed this merges cleanly with #463: git merge-tree auto-resolves all five shared files. Both edit docs/metrics/README.md though, so whichever lands second is worth a full re-read of that file rather than trusting the auto-merge.