# Which Problems Are Solved
In the "new" structured logging, request details were added in different
middlewares, such as request, instance and user IDs. This meant the the
upstream request logging middleware did not have access to metadata that
got added later, resulting in incomplete logs. Furthermore it was not
possible to correlate an API error response to log output.
# How the Problems Are Solved
A mutable request details object is added to the context early on. When
the api authz function run, the instance and user IDs are added to this
object as they become available. Every logline emitted after this
(time-wise) will then all contain these details under the `request` log
group.
<details>
<summary>example output in JSON</summary>
```json
{
"time": "2026-03-13T19:21:20.890428806Z",
"level": "INFO",
"source": {
"function": "github.com/zitadel/zitadel/internal/api/grpc/server/connect_middleware.LogHandler.func1.1",
"file": "/workspaces/zitadel/internal/api/grpc/server/connect_middleware/log_interceptor.go",
"line": 34
},
"msg": "request served",
"request": {
"id": "d6q67c04vtjmi77cbbpg",
"instance_host": "localhost:8080",
"instance_id": "362349751439458307",
"user_id": "362349751440048131"
},
"TraceID": "a9e0fee3522224f3583bbdcda737f4b4",
"SpanID": "a563056eee36920a",
"stream": "request",
"version": "2026-03-13T19:20:59Z",
"protocol": "connect",
"service": "zitadel.user.v2.UserService",
"http_method": "POST",
"path": "/zitadel.user.v2.UserService/ListUsers",
"code": "code_0",
"duration": 12254350
}
```
</details>
Request IDs are now also returned with a response header or metadata.
Depending on the protocol:
- HTTP calls always return the request ID as header, regardless of
status
- gRPC calls always return the request ID as header, even if there was
an error
- connect RPC calls returns the request ID as header on success, trailer
in case of error. This is because header must be set on the response
object, which is nil in case of error. When there is an error, metadata
can be added which are then sent as trailers.
# Additional Changes
- Use the existing call duration middleware for both request ID and
logging for a consistent request start timestamp in all layers.
- Upgrade sloggcp for some fixes (notably TraceID)
- Modify the NoCache middleware so it uses `SetHeaders` instead of
`SendHeaders`. The latter prevented any other handler from setting
headers, including the new request ID middleware.
# Additional Context
Follow up on demo of:
- https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/11159
- https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/11435
- backport to v4
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Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: muhlemmer <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Marco A. <[email protected]>
# Which Problems Are Solved
The following terms have all been renamed to management console:
- Customer Portal (when used to mean the console)
- Console
- Admin Console
# How the Problems Are Solved
- Search & Replace smartly
- Use Copilot for translation files
Changes done to: backend + frontend codebase, docs, translations and
protobufs (descriptions only)
# Additional Context
- Partially Closes#11279
# Which Problems Are Solved
Zitadel did not provide easy correlation between errors, logs, traces
and metrics. The configuration for those instrumentations was also not
consistent, with some supporting different exporters then others.
Implementation and parsing of config was also spaghettified over
multiple packages, with awkward parsing and inconsistent naming of
options.
# How the Problems Are Solved
All telemetry is now merged under the name "instrumentation". Why?
1. We thought it was a good idea in the past to call the milestone
exporter `Telemtry` in the runtime config. Calling this `TelemetryV2`
looks weird.
2. Not everything is a meter and not everything is sent (tele...).
3. It's also
[defined](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/instrumentation/) as
such by the OTEL documentation.
## New features
- Adds structured, context based logging with trace-ID awareness
- Static log fields are added to the context, such as service and
request path
- Static log fields are injected in each logline emitted by the
application
- Structured logs can also be send to an otel exporter
- Structured logs can be printed to StdErr in text and JSON format
- Error sinks make sure every error is logged at the correct level:
- Warnings for client side errors (HTTP 400 range, Invalid request etc)
- Error for server side errors (Internal server errors)
- Metrics can now also be send to a OTEL collector. (previously they
could only be scraped from `/debug/metrics` with prometheus)
## Exporters
This change adds all the exporters supported by OTEL upstream and some
google specific exporters for our cloud deployment.
- StdOut / StdErr: all instrumentations
- OTEL gRPC / HTTP: all instrumentations
- Google: all instrumentations except logging
- Prometheus (pull-based): only metrics
The exception is profiling, which only supports the google exporting due
to lack of support by OTEL upstream.
## Configuration and structure
- All instrumentation is moved into the new `backend/v3/instrumentation`
package. It reuses configuration types, so both code and runtime
configuration are easier to understand.
- The `internal/telemetry` packages are removed.
- Instrumentation is started with a single function and a proper
shutdown function is now provided.
- Legacy configuration is still parsed from the runtime config, as long
as the new configuration is disabled. This allows backporting this
feature to v4 without breaking existing configurations.
# Additional Changes
- Devcontainer: set `$PATH` variable so installed go binaries can be run
individually, without NX.
- NX: install GCI tool to fix imports
# Additional Context
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/8408
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/6664
- Backport to v4
# Which Problems Are Solved
There were multiple issues in the OpenTelemetry (OTEL) implementation
and usage for tracing and metrics, which lead to high cardinality and
potential memory leaks:
- wrongly initiated tracing interceptors
- high cardinality in traces:
- HTTP/1.1 endpoints containing host names
- HTTP/1.1 endpoints containing object IDs like userID (e.g.
`/management/v1/users/2352839823/`)
- high amount of traces from internal processes (spooler)
- high cardinality in metrics endpoint:
- GRPC entries containing host names
- notification metrics containing instanceIDs and error messages
# How the Problems Are Solved
- Properly initialize the interceptors once and update them to use the
grpc stats handler (unary interceptors were deprecated).
- Remove host names from HTTP/1.1 span names and use path as default.
- Set / overwrite the uri for spans on the grpc-gateway with the uri
pattern (`/management/v1/users/{user_id}`). This is used for spans in
traces and metric entries.
- Created a new sampler which will only sample spans in the following
cases:
- remote was already sampled
- remote was not sampled, root span is of kind `Server` and based on
fraction set in the runtime configuration
- This will prevent having a lot of spans from the spooler back ground
jobs if they were not started by a client call querying an object (e.g.
UserByID).
- Filter out host names and alike from OTEL generated metrics (using a
`view`).
- Removed instance and error messages from notification metrics.
# Additional Changes
Fixed the middleware handling for serving Console. Telemetry and
instance selection are only used for the environment.json, but not on
statically served files.
# Additional Context
- closes#8096
- relates to #9074
- back ports to at least 2.66.x, 2.67.x and 2.68.x
# Which Problems Are Solved
The console has no information about where and how to send PostHog
events.
# How the Problems Are Solved
A PostHog API URL and token are passed through as plain text from the
Zitadel runtime config to the environment.json. By default, no values
are configured and the keys in the environment.json are omitted.
# Additional Context
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/9070
- Complements https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/9077
# Which Problems Are Solved
ZITADEL currently selects the instance context based on a HTTP header
(see https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/8279#issue-2399959845 and
checks it against the list of instance domains. Let's call it instance
or API domain.
For any context based URL (e.g. OAuth, OIDC, SAML endpoints, links in
emails, ...) the requested domain (instance domain) will be used. Let's
call it the public domain.
In cases of proxied setups, all exposed domains (public domains) require
the domain to be managed as instance domain.
This can either be done using the "ExternalDomain" in the runtime config
or via system API, which requires a validation through CustomerPortal on
zitadel.cloud.
# How the Problems Are Solved
- Two new headers / header list are added:
- `InstanceHostHeaders`: an ordered list (first sent wins), which will
be used to match the instance.
(For backward compatibility: the `HTTP1HostHeader`, `HTTP2HostHeader`
and `forwarded`, `x-forwarded-for`, `x-forwarded-host` are checked
afterwards as well)
- `PublicHostHeaders`: an ordered list (first sent wins), which will be
used as public host / domain. This will be checked against a list of
trusted domains on the instance.
- The middleware intercepts all requests to the API and passes a
`DomainCtx` object with the hosts and protocol into the context
(previously only a computed `origin` was passed)
- HTTP / GRPC server do not longer try to match the headers to instances
themself, but use the passed `http.DomainContext` in their interceptors.
- The `RequestedHost` and `RequestedDomain` from authz.Instance are
removed in favor of the `http.DomainContext`
- When authenticating to or signing out from Console UI, the current
`http.DomainContext(ctx).Origin` (already checked by instance
interceptor for validity) is used to compute and dynamically add a
`redirect_uri` and `post_logout_redirect_uri`.
- Gateway passes all configured host headers (previously only did
`x-zitadel-*`)
- Admin API allows to manage trusted domain
# Additional Changes
None
# Additional Context
- part of #8279
- open topics:
- "single-instance" mode
- Console UI
This pr upgrades oidc to v3 . Function signature changes have been migrated as well. Specifically there are more client calls that take a context now. Where feasable a context is added to those calls. Where a context is not (easily) available context.TODO() is used as a reminder for when it does.
Related to #6619
* pipeline runs on ubuntu instead of docker
* added Makefile to build zitadel core (backend) and console (frontend)
* pipeline runs in parallel where possible
* pipeline is split into multiple jobs
* removed goreleaser
* added command to check if zitadel instance is running
* fix(user): add search query for login name
* fix(user): change login name query to IN from EXISTS
* fix(loginname): include InQuery into ListQuery with SubSelect as possible datasource
* fix(user): apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Livio Spring <[email protected]>
* fix: correct unit test for search query
Co-authored-by: Fabi <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Livio Spring <[email protected]>
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