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Never block or drop Slack messages on the Holmes slackbot check - #2210
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The request had no timeout and runs while holding the Slack sink's grouping lock, so a hung API call blocked all alert workers and alerts were dropped once the queue filled. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ZNDw6Lj1zMhS5s9mMHgPS
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Slackbot status check request handling src/robusta/core/sinks/robusta/robusta_sink.py |
The check retrieves the session token inside the exception-handled block and sets a 10-second timeout on the POST request. Token retrieval failures follow the existing failure path. |
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Slack delivery can still be delayed when the Robusta API responds very slowly, or when session-token retrieval is slow, because the check runs while the grouping lock is held. The change improves on the previous behavior by adding a timeout and handling token failures. Merge risk is low, with awareness of the residual delay.
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Check name Status Explanation Description check The description directly explains how the change prevents the Holmes Slackbot connectivity check from blocking Slack delivery and describes the timeout and error-handling updates. Title check The title clearly summarizes the main change: preventing the Holmes Slackbot check from blocking or dropping Slack messages. Linked Issues check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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- Line 828: Update the timeout exception handler in the Holmes block
construction flow so transient timeout failures are not cached for the full
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- Line 828: Update SlackSender’s is_holmes_slackbot_connected request to enforce
a 10-second total wall-clock deadline, or move the connectivity check outside
SlackSink’s finding_group_lock so a slow-drip response cannot hold the grouping
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get_session_token ran outside the try, so a Supabase error or timeout raised out of the Slack sender and the alert was never posted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ZNDw6Lj1zMhS5s9mMHgPS
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requests' timeout only bounds connect and each idle read, so a trickling response, redirects, slow DNS, several unreachable addresses or a slow Supabase session token could still hold the Slack lock far longer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ZNDw6Lj1zMhS5s9mMHgPS
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| status_check = threading.Thread(target=self.__update_holmes_slackbot_status, daemon=True) | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Bound the lifetime or number of status-check workers.
When a response keeps sending bytes without completing, join(timeout=10) releases the caller but leaves the daemon worker running. The Requests timeout does not limit the total response duration. After each cache expiry, another alert can start another worker. A prolonged slow response can therefore accumulate threads and connections until the runner loses capacity. Bound the underlying operation, and prevent a new check while an earlier check remains active. (requests.readthedocs.io)
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Update the status-check flow around __update_holmes_slackbot_status to bound the
underlying request’s total duration and prevent starting another status-check
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This reverts commit 5e2ddf7.
The Slack sink calls
is_holmes_slackbot_connectedwhile it holds the grouping lock, before every message it sends. That check had two ways to stop Slack delivery:/api/holmes/integrations/slack/runnerhad no timeout. When the API hung (10-19 around 13:30Z, and 09-23), the lock was never released, every alert worker queued behind it, the 500-item alert queue filled and new alerts were dropped. It now has a 10srequeststimeout.get_session_token()ran outside thetry, so a Supabase error or timeout escaped from the Slack sender and the alert was never posted. It is now inside thetry, so it counts as "not connected" like any other failure, and that result is cached for the TTL.The
requeststimeout limits connecting and each idle read, not the total time a response may take. A server that keeps trickling bytes can still hold the call open; a hard wall-clock cap was tried and left out for now.Verification, using the real
SlackSinkwith summary grouping and 20 concurrentwrite_findingcalls, against local servers that accept connections and never reply:The slackbot check on its own returns in 10.0s both when the server never replies and when the connection never completes. Every other call made while the lock is held already has a timeout:
SLACK_REQUEST_TIMEOUTfor Slack messages and file uploads,SUPABASE_TIMEOUT_SECONDSfor Supabase.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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