# 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
* fix(oidc): return bad request for base64 errors
We've recently noticed an increased amount of 500: internal server error status returns on zitadel cloud.
The source of these errors appear to be erroneous input in fields that are supposed to be bas64 formatted.
```
time=2024-04-08T14:05:47.600Z level=ERROR msg="request error" oidc_error.parent="ID=OIDC-AhX2u Message=Errors.Internal Parent=(illegal base64 data at input byte 8)" oidc_error.description=Errors.Internal oidc_error.type=server_error status_code=500
```
Within the possible code paths of the token endpoint there are a couple of uses of base64.Encoding.DecodeString of which a returned error was not properly wrapped, but returned as-is.
This causes the oidc error handler to return a 500 with the `OIDC-AhX2u` ID.
We were not able to pinpoint the exact errors that are happening to any one call of `DecodeString`.
This fix wraps all errors from `DecodeString` so that proper 400: bad request is returned with information about the error. Each wrapper now has an unique error ID, so that logs will contain the source of the error as well.
This bug was reported internally by the ops team.
* catch op.ErrInvalidRefreshToken
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