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83854e80e0 fix(telemetry): record route patterns instead of request paths on HTTP metrics (#12557)
# Which Problems Are Solved

- The `uri` label of `http.server.request_count` and
`http.server.return_code_counter` holds the concrete request path, so
every object ID served over a REST path becomes its own metric series.
On our v4.16.2 instance `/debug/metrics` exposes 8,000 series, 4,467 of
which (56%) belong to `http_server_return_code_counter_total` alone,
spread over 4,390 distinct `uri` values such as
`/v2/sessions/385063742120926058`. The set only grows with the number of
objects the installation has served.
- Paths matching no route are recorded verbatim, so unauthenticated
scanner traffic (`/wp-json/`, `/login.php`, …) keeps adding series.
- The grpc-gateway answers `405 Method Not Allowed` without going
through the configured `errorHandler`, so those responses never reported
a route pattern, not even before the regression.

This is a regression, first shipped in v4.11.0; v4.10.1 is unaffected.
#9286 introduced the mechanism, #9523 extended it to unknown paths, and
#11435 removed it while reorganising the middleware packages:

> Removed setting of URI to context in metric middleware. There were
only setters and no getters. (Unused value)

The getter was `*recorder.RequestURI` in `RegisterRequestCounter` /
`RegisterRequestCodeCounter`, which the same PR replaced with
`baseURI(r)`. Both ends went at once, so nothing failed.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- `metrics.WithRequestURIPattern` / `metrics.SetRequestURIPattern` are
back, and `metrics.RequestURI` is now the single place deciding what to
label with: the pattern a router reported, or the requested path if none
did. `UnknownPath` moved to the metrics package so every surface shares
one constant.
- The HTTP metrics middleware prepares the context before passing the
request on, which is the half that got dropped.
- `setRequestURIPattern` in the grpc-gateway reports the pattern to
metrics again, not only to tracing, and is now also called on the `405`
branch.
- Requests routed by chi (the OIDC endpoints) fall back to the pattern
chi matched. That covers the RFC 7592 client configuration routes added
in #12315 (`/oauth/v2/register/{client_id}`), which are templated on the
client ID, and collapses unknown paths below the OIDC prefixes to
`UNKNOWN_PATH` as well.

Against the metrics dump from our instance,
`http_server_return_code_counter_total` drops from 4,467 series to
roughly 35, and the endpoint as a whole from 8,000 to about 3,570.

# Additional Changes

- Regression tests, which were missing and are the reason the revert
went unnoticed:
- `metrics`: resolution of the `uri` label, including that a pattern set
on a derived context reaches the middleware.
- `gateway`: every way the gateway can answer — success, error,
unroutable path, wrong method.
- `middleware`: both routing styles, i.e. a router reporting its own
pattern and a chi routed request.
- A doc comment on `SetRequestURIPattern` explaining that it is written
by routers and read back by the middleware through the context, so it
does not read as an unused setter again.

# Additional Context

- Closes #12556
- Restores #9286 and #9523
- Regressed in #11435

Co-authored-by: Cursor <[email protected]>
2026-08-07 17:23:56 +02:00

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package middleware
import (
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"testing"
"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
"github.com/zitadel/zitadel/backend/v3/instrumentation/metrics"
)
// TestMetricsHandler_reportedPattern covers routers that report their route pattern
// themselves, such as the grpc-gateway. Without the context prepared by the handler their
// report is lost and the requested path is recorded, which adds a metric series per object.
func TestMetricsHandler_reportedPattern(t *testing.T) {
tests := []struct {
name string
pattern string
want string
}{
{
name: "router reports no pattern, path is recorded",
want: "/v2/sessions/385063742120926058",
},
{
name: "router reports a pattern, pattern is recorded",
pattern: "/v2/sessions/{session_id}",
want: "/v2/sessions/{session_id}",
},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
var served *http.Request
handler := MetricsHandler([]metrics.MetricType{metrics.MetricTypeStatusCode})(
http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
served = r
if tt.pattern != "" {
metrics.SetRequestURIPattern(r.Context(), tt.pattern)
}
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
}),
)
handler.ServeHTTP(httptest.NewRecorder(), httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodDelete, "/v2/sessions/385063742120926058", nil))
require.NotNil(t, served)
assert.Equal(t, tt.want, metrics.RequestURI(served))
})
}
}
// TestMetricsHandler_chiRoutePattern covers the routers that leave the pattern to chi, such
// as the OIDC endpoints. Their client configuration endpoints are templated on the client
// ID and any unknown path below their prefixes ends up here as well.
func TestMetricsHandler_chiRoutePattern(t *testing.T) {
tests := []struct {
name string
method string
requestURI string
want string
}{
{
name: "static endpoint",
method: http.MethodPost,
requestURI: "/oauth/v2/token",
want: "/oauth/v2/token",
},
{
name: "static endpoint with query",
method: http.MethodGet,
requestURI: "/oauth/v2/authorize?client_id=1234&state=abcd",
want: "/oauth/v2/authorize",
},
{
name: "client configuration endpoint",
method: http.MethodGet,
requestURI: "/oauth/v2/register/307534931347210241",
want: "/oauth/v2/register/{client_id}",
},
{
name: "unknown path",
method: http.MethodGet,
requestURI: "/oauth/v2/junk",
want: metrics.UnknownPath,
},
{
name: "known path, unsupported method",
method: http.MethodDelete,
requestURI: "/oauth/v2/token",
want: metrics.UnknownPath,
},
}
// served is the request as the routed handler saw it. Reading the recorded URI from it
// after the router returned gives the value the metrics handler recorded, because the
// two share the context the metrics handler prepared.
var served *http.Request
respond := func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
served = r
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
}
// Mirrors how the OIDC server nests its routes in the metrics handler.
router := chi.NewRouter()
router.Use(MetricsHandler([]metrics.MetricType{metrics.MetricTypeStatusCode}))
router.Post("/oauth/v2/token", respond)
router.Get("/oauth/v2/authorize", respond)
router.Get("/oauth/v2/register/{client_id}", respond)
router.NotFound(respond)
router.MethodNotAllowed(respond)
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
served = nil
router.ServeHTTP(httptest.NewRecorder(), httptest.NewRequest(tt.method, tt.requestURI, nil))
require.NotNil(t, served)
assert.Equal(t, tt.want, metrics.RequestURI(served))
})
}
}