api: enforce Connect stream lifecycle policies

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Bound stream idle time and lifetime, track active RPC cancellation, bound terminated unary response writes, and cancel long-lived handlers during shutdown so every admission slot is eventually released.

Part of #5478

Which user-facing changes does this PR introduce?

[ENHANCEMENT] API: Add optional ConnectRPC stream idle and lifetime controls and cancel active RPCs during shutdown.

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The Connect API now supports configurable concurrency, timeouts, message-size limits, metrics, exact procedure matching, and shutdown cancellation. Application flags and options expose these settings. Tests cover unary, stream, metric, and shutdown behavior.

Changes

Connect RPC lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration and API initialization api/connect/connect.go, api/api.go, app/options.go, cmd/alertmanager/main.go, app/app.go	Connect settings flow from command-line flags and application options into API construction. NewAPI initializes descriptors and metrics and can return initialization errors.
Admission, registration, and shutdown api/connect/connect.go, api/api.go, app/app.go, app/lifecycle.go	Handlers enforce concurrency, deadlines, request-size, and stream limits. Metrics record RPC outcomes. Instrumentation matches exact procedures. Shutdown rejects new RPCs and cancels active RPCs.
Lifecycle and limit validation api/connect/*_test.go, api/api_test.go, app/options_test.go, test/e2e/status_test.go	Tests cover procedure labels, API initialization, request limits, unary and stream admission, metrics, defaults, and shutdown cancellation.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c3708

The lifecycle controls may still leave unary capacity permanently occupied by non-reading clients, and descriptor drift can crash startup. These issues should be addressed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HTTPServer
  participant API
  participant ConnectAPI
  HTTPServer->>API: invoke registered shutdown hook
  API->>ConnectAPI: Shutdown()
  ConnectAPI->>ConnectAPI: reject new RPCs and cancel active RPCs

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

api/connect/connect.go (1)

664-666: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Return an initialization error instead of panicking.

buildHandler panics when a generated handler path disagrees with the descriptor name. Handler() runs during API.Register, so a descriptor drift caused by a grpchealth or grpcreflect upgrade crashes the process at startup with no actionable message.

NewAPI already returns an error. Validate the descriptor and handler paths there, and include both paths in the message.

♻️ Proposed refactor: validate descriptors in `NewAPI`

 	api.services = api.serviceDescriptors()
 	for _, service := range api.services {
+		if path, _ := service.handler(); path != "/"+service.name+"/" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Connect service %q descriptor and handler path disagree: %q", service.name, path)
+		}
 		for _, procedure := range service.procedures {
 			api.procedures[procedure.path] = procedure
 		}
 	}

Then drop the panic:

 	for _, service := range api.services {
 		path, handler := service.handler(opts...)
-		if path != "/"+service.name+"/" {
-			panic("Connect service descriptor and handler path disagree")
-		}
 		mux.Handle(path, handler)
 	}

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In `@api/connect/connect.go` around lines 664 - 666, Validate the expected
descriptor path against the generated handler path during NewAPI initialization,
returning an error that includes both paths when they differ. Update
buildHandler to remove the panic and rely on the validation performed by NewAPI,
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Inline comments:
In `@api/connect/connect.go`:
- Around line 270-272: Update the terminated unary-RPC path around
rpcLifecycle.terminate so it sets a bounded write deadline before the admission
slot is released, while preserving the existing stream deadline behavior and
using the established timeout configuration.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@api/connect/connect.go`:
- Around line 664-666: Validate the expected descriptor path against the
generated handler path during NewAPI initialization, returning an error that
includes both paths when they differ. Update buildHandler to remove the panic
and rely on the validation performed by NewAPI, preserving normal handler
construction for matching paths.

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