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Extend the procedure catalog with service, procedure, and stream metadata, move RPC admission ahead of decoding, and expose configurable resource limits with bounded lifecycle metrics. Preserve successful and specifically coded handler results when request contexts expire.

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[ENHANCEMENT] API: Add configurable ConnectRPC admission, message-size, request-body, and unary timeout controls.

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The Connect API adds configurable concurrency, timeout, and byte limits. It registers procedure descriptors and Prometheus metrics. Request admission now applies per procedure, limits, deadlines, and normalized errors. HTTP instrumentation matches exact procedure paths.

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Connect API controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and API construction
app/options.go, cmd/alertmanager/main.go, app/app.go, api/api.go, app/options_test.go
Adds Connect settings, CLI flags, option wiring, fallback defaults, and NewAPI error handling.
Procedure descriptors and metrics
api/connect/connect.go
Defines service and procedure descriptors. Registers unary and stream metrics. Builds the procedure map.
Admission, limits, and handler wiring
api/connect/connect.go
Admits requests by procedure. Applies deadlines and byte limits. Normalizes errors. Exposes registered procedures.
HTTP instrumentation and validation
api/api.go, api/api_test.go, api/connect/*_test.go
Matches exact procedure paths. Updates API construction tests. Adds coverage for limits, admission, metrics, defaults, and registration errors.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 58322

The new timeout handling can report successful requests or specific handler failures as deadline errors, producing misleading client responses and metrics. This behavior should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant controlHandler
  participant admissionInterceptor
  participant StatusService
  Client->>controlHandler: request procedure path
  controlHandler->>admissionInterceptor: resolve procedure and admit request
  admissionInterceptor-->>controlHandler: admission context
  controlHandler->>StatusService: invoke admitted procedure
  StatusService-->>controlHandler: response or normalized error
  controlHandler-->>Client: Connect response and metrics
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🧹 Nitpick comments (4)
api/api.go (2)

78-84: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document the new Connect option fields.

The comment block above Concurrency describes only Timeout and Concurrency. The six new fields carry distinct semantics: the concurrency fields and the timeout fall back to Concurrency and Timeout, and the byte limits mean "unlimited" when zero or negative. Add short comments so callers do not need to read New to learn the defaults.

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In `@api/api.go` around lines 78 - 84, Document the Connect option fields
beginning at Concurrency: explain that ConnectUnaryConcurrency and
ConnectStreamConcurrency fall back to Concurrency, ConnectUnaryTimeout falls
back to Timeout, and ConnectReadMaxBytes, ConnectSendMaxBytes, and
ConnectMaxRequestBodyBytes are unlimited when zero or negative. Keep the
comments concise and preserve the existing option declarations.

150-153: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Align the unary-timeout fallback with the concurrency fallbacks.

The concurrency fields fall back when the value is < 1. The timeout falls back only when the value is exactly 0. A negative ConnectUnaryTimeout therefore skips the fallback, and api/connect then treats it as "no timeout" because it guards with unaryTimeout > 0. The --api.connect.unary-timeout help text states the value defaults to --web.timeout, so a negative value produces behavior that the help text does not describe.

♻️ Proposed change
 	unaryTimeout := opts.ConnectUnaryTimeout
-	if unaryTimeout == 0 {
+	if unaryTimeout <= 0 {
 		unaryTimeout = opts.Timeout
 	}

If the negative value is an intentional "disable the timeout" escape hatch, document it on the field and in the flag help.

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In `@api/api.go` around lines 150 - 153, Update the unaryTimeout fallback in the
surrounding API configuration logic to use the same less-than-one threshold as
the concurrency fallbacks, so zero and negative ConnectUnaryTimeout values
resolve to opts.Timeout. If negative values are intentionally supported to
disable the timeout, instead document that contract on the configuration field
and --api.connect.unary-timeout help text.
api/connect/connect.go (2)

466-466: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Guard metrics here as the rest of the file does.

enter and observe both check i.metrics != nil before touching a collector. This line dereferences api.admission.metrics without that check. Today NewAPI always supplies a non-nil *rpcMetrics, so the path is not reachable in production. Tests already build admissionInterceptor values directly with a nil metrics field, so a future caller that reuses that pattern behind controlHandler would panic inside an HTTP handler.

🛡️ Proposed guard
 		if desc.streamType == connect.StreamTypeUnary {
 			defer func() {
-				if errors.Is(context.Cause(ctx), context.DeadlineExceeded) {
+				if api.admission.metrics != nil && errors.Is(context.Cause(ctx), context.DeadlineExceeded) {
 					api.admission.metrics.unaryDeadlines.With(prometheus.Labels{"service": desc.service, "procedure": desc.procedure}).Inc()
 				}
 			}()
 		}
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In `@api/connect/connect.go` at line 466, Guard the unaryDeadlines collector
update in the controlHandler path with the same metrics-nil check used by enter
and observe, so api.admission.metrics is not dereferenced when absent. Preserve
the existing label values and increment behavior when metrics is available.

196-203: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Simplify the advertised-service collection.

applicationServices is built by ranging over a one-element slice literal that contains status, whose advertised field is set to the constant true a few lines above. The loop cannot select anything else. Replace it with a direct construction, or keep the loop only if you plan to add more advertised services soon.

♻️ Proposed simplification
-	applicationServices := make([]string, 0, 1)
-	for _, service := range []serviceDescriptor{status} {
-		if service.advertised {
-			applicationServices = append(applicationServices, service.name)
-		}
-	}
+	applicationServices := []string{status.name}
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In `@api/connect/connect.go` around lines 196 - 203, Replace the one-element loop
in the advertised-service setup with direct construction of applicationServices
from status.name, since status.advertised is always true; leave the subsequent
NewStaticChecker and NewStaticReflector calls unchanged.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@api/api.go`:
- Around line 78-84: Document the Connect option fields beginning at
Concurrency: explain that ConnectUnaryConcurrency and ConnectStreamConcurrency
fall back to Concurrency, ConnectUnaryTimeout falls back to Timeout, and
ConnectReadMaxBytes, ConnectSendMaxBytes, and ConnectMaxRequestBodyBytes are
unlimited when zero or negative. Keep the comments concise and preserve the
existing option declarations.
- Around line 150-153: Update the unaryTimeout fallback in the surrounding API
configuration logic to use the same less-than-one threshold as the concurrency
fallbacks, so zero and negative ConnectUnaryTimeout values resolve to
opts.Timeout. If negative values are intentionally supported to disable the
timeout, instead document that contract on the configuration field and
--api.connect.unary-timeout help text.

In `@api/connect/connect.go`:
- Line 466: Guard the unaryDeadlines collector update in the controlHandler path
with the same metrics-nil check used by enter and observe, so
api.admission.metrics is not dereferenced when absent. Preserve the existing
label values and increment behavior when metrics is available.
- Around line 196-203: Replace the one-element loop in the advertised-service
setup with direct construction of applicationServices from status.name, since
status.advertised is always true; leave the subsequent NewStaticChecker and
NewStaticReflector calls unchanged.

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In `@api/connect/connect.go`:
- Around line 319-325: Update normalizeContextError to evaluate the handler err
before context.Cause(ctx): return a non-nil, specific Connect error unchanged,
and return nil immediately when the handler succeeded; only use
context.Cause(ctx) as a fallback for unresolved or absent handler errors.
Preserve the existing deadline mapping for context-caused failures so all
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Extend the procedure catalog with service, procedure, and stream metadata, move RPC admission ahead of decoding, and expose configurable resource limits with bounded lifecycle metrics. Preserve successful and specifically coded handler results when request contexts expire.

Signed-off-by: Siavash Safi <siavash@cloudflare.com>
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