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The template still ran a second monitoring stack beside Coroot only for a handful of alert rules and a heartbeat. The reference platform retired it: it costs memory and storage on every instance, and its alerts duplicated what Coroot and Flux already report.
What
The old monitoring stack is removed. Production keeps a notification for every failed reconciliation, now including failed releases, and keeps one off-cluster heartbeat, which a production bootstrap now requires. The alerting guide says what is no longer alerted, and the templating guide says what an existing instance must do before it syncs, including that the old metric history is deleted.
Coroot is the observability stack; kube-prometheus-stack only remained for a
handful of alert rules and the Watchdog heartbeat. This removes it, like the
reference platform did:
- Delete the kube-prometheus-stack release, its production storage patch, the
platform-critical PrometheusRule, the Alertmanager webhook secret and its
seed, and the node-exporter Talos firewall patches.
- Watch every HelmRelease directly in the production Flux Alert, which
replaces FluxHelmReleaseNotReady. notification-controller has no namespace
wildcard, so the Alert lists every namespace holding a release, and
scripts/validate-alert-coverage.sh fails CI when one is missing.
- Make the cluster heartbeat the one off-cluster dead-man signal: a production
bootstrap requires CLUSTER_HEARTBEAT_URL, and ALERTMANAGER_HEARTBEAT_URL is
no longer read.
- Switch off the Tetragon ServiceMonitors and drop every allowance for the
monitoring namespace from the network policies, cluster policies, security
exceptions and the oauth2-proxy reference grant.
- Rewrite the observability validator to prove the stack is absent from every
payload, and document what is no longer alerted and how an existing
instance migrates.
BREAKING CHANGE: Flux deletes the monitoring namespace with its Prometheus and
Alertmanager data on the next sync, and a production bootstrap now requires
CLUSTER_HEARTBEAT_URL. docs/TEMPLATING.md lists the steps an existing instance
takes first.
Part of #387
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Tried as an operator rendering the platform, at abd6a928a37bd0a8ae8f39738c3b4daa9c274037. The template has no cluster to run in this repository, so the check is what Flux would apply: the rendered provider payloads.
The acceptance criteria, against the six rendered payloads:
Provider
Layer
Documents
Prometheus-operator resources
In or being the monitoring namespace
docker
infrastructure/controllers
128
0
0
docker
infrastructure
72
0
0
docker
apps
16
0
0
hetzner
infrastructure/controllers
116
0
0
hetzner
infrastructure
75
0
0
hetzner
apps
16
0
0
No chart value switches a ServiceMonitor, PodMonitor or PrometheusRule on, and no network policy or reference grant names the monitoring namespace. The vendored KubeVirt and CDI operators keep RBAC rules that name the monitoring.coreos.com API group; those are upstream files and create nothing.
Production keeps its notifications. The Flux Alert now watches the cluster Kustomizations and every HelmRelease: validate-alert-coverage.sh reports all 19 namespaces holding a release and the 1 holding a Kustomization as covered. The cluster heartbeat is still rendered once in each apps payload, and a production bootstrap now refuses to start without its URL.
The checks fail when they should. I broke one thing at a time and restored it:
a Tetragon ServiceMonitor switched back on → "expected no … enabled Prometheus-operator monitor", naming the docker controllers payload;
a network policy naming the monitoring namespace again → the same refusal;
the alert-rule directory put back → "retired observability source must stay deleted";
the workflow reading the old heartbeat secret again → "must not read the retired Alertmanager heartbeat".
The new alert-coverage test covers the other direction: an unwatched release namespace, a source without a namespace, a source naming one release, and a layer that does not render each fail the coverage check.
Validation, all passing at this head: the six validators, the five tests under scripts/tests/, both ksail … workload validate runs, the manifest naming gate and shellcheck on the changed scripts.
Read as an operator of an existing instance: the templating guide's migration note says what to do before the sync, in the order it bites: the old metric history and silences are deleted with the namespace, the operator's definitions stay until removed by hand, the heartbeat secret must be set first, and two Talos patches are the instance's to delete.
Not exercised:
A real cluster taking the change, including Flux pruning the namespace and a real failed release producing a Slack message.
The protected placeholder secret still lists the old heartbeat key, because automation never edits *.enc.yaml. Nothing reads it, and the bootstrap workflow now drops it before encrypting. Removing the line from the placeholder is a one-line edit for a maintainer.
Known gap, tracked: certificate expiry, backup freshness and autoscaler failures are no longer alerted. The alerting guide says so, and #423 tracks restoring them without the Prometheus stack.
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This PR removes kube-prometheus-stack and related monitoring resources, policies, secrets, patches, and network allowances. It moves production failure notification coverage to a Flux Alert that watches Kustomization and HelmRelease resources by namespace. It changes bootstrap heartbeat handling to CLUSTER_HEARTBEAT_URL, validates a canonical hc-ping.com URL format, and deletes the retired Alertmanager heartbeat key. It adds validation and tests for alert coverage and retired observability references. It also updates repository documentation and comments to describe Coroot, Flux notifications, and the single cluster heartbeat.
devantler-tech/platform-template#419: That PR made Coroot the default while keeping kube-prometheus-stack, and this PR removes the remaining kube-prometheus-stack paths.
devantler-tech/platform-template#265: That PR added metrics exposure for kubelet-serving-cert-approver, and this PR removes the monitoring-namespace scrape ingress for that endpoint.
Merge Risk: Low · up to abd6a
The current change has no established production failure, but the heartbeat validation boundary is fragile and should be tightened before relying on it for future workflow changes.
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The title clearly summarizes the main change: retiring kube-prometheus-stack.
Description check
The description explains why the monitoring stack is removed and summarizes the replacement notifications, heartbeat, and migration impact.
Linked Issues check
Issue #387 requires removal of the Prometheus stack, production failure notifications for Kustomizations and HelmReleases, one off-cluster heartbeat, and passing validation gates. The PR removes the s…
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The documentation, bootstrap changes, network-policy cleanup, chart-value changes, and added validators support issue #387 by documenting migration, removing dependencies on the retired stack, or chec…
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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
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Issue #387 requires removal of the Prometheus stack, production failure notifications for Kustomizations and HelmReleases, one off-cluster heartbeat, and passing validation gates. The PR removes the stack and its monitoring resources and permissions. The production Alert covers Kustomizations and HelmReleases; scripts/validate-alert-coverage.sh and its tests check namespace coverage. The bootstrap workflow requires CLUSTER_HEARTBEAT_URL for production. The PR reports that rendered payloads contain no retired stack resources and that the validation gates pass. The changes meet the stated coding requirements.
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The documentation, bootstrap changes, network-policy cleanup, chart-value changes, and added validators support issue #387 by documenting migration, removing dependencies on the retired stack, or checking the replacement alerting and heartbeat paths. No unrelated change is evident.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/TEMPLATING.md:
- Around line 98-99: Update the wording in the documentation sentence about
talos/workers/allow-node-exporter-ingress.yaml, replacing “any more” with
“anymore” while preserving the rest of the sentence.
Review comments at @k8s/bases/bootstrap/priority-classes/platform-critical.yaml:
- Line 3: Update the PriorityClass description to name Coroot and the cluster
heartbeat instead of the outdated monitoring/alerting wording. Preserve the
existing description’s remaining meaning and leave the PriorityClass value and
globalDefault unchanged.
Review comments at @scripts/validate-observability-option.sh:
- Around line 179-181: Update the heartbeat preflight extraction in the
validation script to stop at a dedicated, stable end-marker comment added to
bootstrap.yaml, rather than matching the fill_base() function name. Keep the
extracted range limited to the heartbeat script so unrelated yq or sops calls
are not executed during validation.
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Source excerpt: **This is a TEMPLATE and a PUBLIC repo** — be conservative.
Source excerpt: Manifest naming follows the reference platform's conventions (platform#2315), enforced by the shared `devantler-tech/.github/actions/validate-naming` action (a CI gate on manifest, naming-configuration, and naming-workflow c...
Learnt from: devantler
Repo: devantler-tech/platform-template PR: 101
File: .github/workflows/bootstrap.yaml:205-205
Timestamp: 2026-07-22T02:35:04.241Z
Learning: In this repository, follow the AGENTS.md AI-disclosure rule for PRs, issues, and comments, but do not prepend any AI-disclosure prefix to content meant for GitHub Actions workflow log interfaces. In workflow scripts/steps, keep standard GitHub Actions annotations (e.g., lines using the `::error::`, `::warning::`, `::notice::` syntax) exactly as-is so the workflow runner can parse them without modification.
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docs/TEMPLATING.md
[uncategorized] ~99-~99: Did you mean the adverb “anymore”?
Context: ...s.yaml`: nothing listens on that port any more. The stack runs Coroot and nothing bes...
(ANY_MORE)
docs/dr/alerting.md
[style] ~84-~84: You can shorten this phrase to improve clarity and avoid wordiness.
Context: ...cause a URL the cluster cannot reach is a monitor that is silently dead. The infrastructure layer narrows the n...
258-259: Reject a trailing newline or whitespace in CLUSTER_HEARTBEAT_URL explicitly.
The =~ match with $ anchors works on the whole string. A secret value that ends in a newline or has surrounding whitespace fails the match and aborts the bootstrap with a clear message. This is the safe outcome. No change is needed.
273-276: Placeholder key deletion is correct.
The del(.stringData.alertmanager_heartbeat_url) expression runs before the encryption step. It leaves the committed *.enc.yaml placeholder untouched, as required by the protected-file rule.
27-27: LGTM!
Also applies to: 100-100, 111-111, 239-239
docs/TEMPLATING.md: 1
114-125: Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Fix the broken sentence structure around the Flux alert text.
Lines 115 to 121 interleave changed and unchanged lines. The text reads: "production to report failed reconciliations; the variable keeps its earlier name so an existing instance needs no secret change. The controller layer applies both Flux alerts...". Line 121 ends with "There is no polling workload to configure." Line 122 then starts a new sentence. The flow is acceptable, but confirm that the paragraph reads correctly in the rendered file. The visible lines do not show the sentence that begins before line 115.
scripts/validate-observability-option.sh: 2
1213-1218: Functional Correctness · Low value
Fix the shell logic in the retired-key check. It can pass when the workflow reads the old key.
The condition is grep A || grep B | grep -v C. If line 1213 finds ALERTMANAGER_HEARTBEAT_URL, the if is true and the script fails. This is correct. The second branch is also correct. grep -v exits 0 only when it prints a line that is not the deletion expression. The script prints matches to stdout as well. This is acceptable for CI logs.
One gap exists. A line such as del(.stringData.alertmanager_heartbeat_url) | .stringData.alertmanager_heartbeat_url = "x" contains the allowed string. The check lets it pass. The risk is low, because the check at line 1219 only proves the deletion exists.
1190-1190: Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Widen the stale-doc pattern or document its limits.
The pattern svc/kube-prometheus-stack|Watchdog|alertmanager_heartbeat_url|grafana\.\$\{domain\} is case-sensitive. A doc that refers to ALERTMANAGER_HEARTBEAT_URL passes the scan. docs/TEMPLATING.md legitimately names this key at line 93, so a case-insensitive match would break the check. Keep the current pattern. Add a comment that the uppercase name is allowed in the migration note.
scripts/validate-alert-coverage.sh: 2
105-105: Functional Correctness · Low value
Fix the name test for a Kustomization or HelmRelease source with a missing name.
If an eventSource has no name, (.name | test(...)) receives null. yq (mikefarah v4) raises an error for test on null. The script then fails under set -euo pipefail with an unclear message. Use (.name // "") | test("^\\*$").
Proposed fix
- yq e ".spec.eventSources[] | select(.kind == \"${kind}\" and (.name | test(\"^\\\\*$\"))) | .namespace | select(. != null and . != \"\")" "${ALERT_FILE}" |+ yq e ".spec.eventSources[] | select(.kind == \"${kind}\" and ((.name // \"\") | test(\"^\\\\*$\"))) | .namespace | select(. != null and . != \"\")" "${ALERT_FILE}" |
22-30: Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Verify that the validator layers include every location that declares a HelmRelease.
The layer list renders k8s/clusters/prod, the Hetzner bootstrap, controllers, infrastructure and apps. Renders from k8s/providers/hetzner/infrastructure/controllers overlap with infrastructure. This is harmless. The stale-entry warning could show a false positive if a release exists only in a layer not listed. Confirm that no other prod layer exists.
The comment identifies no missing production namespace or failed coverage check. The inspected production controller list excludes the named local-only controllers; minio is included by the Docker provider. A request to run validation alone is not an actionable finding.
… two texts
The validator ran the bootstrap workflow's heartbeat preflight by extracting
it up to the next function. If that function were renamed, the extraction
would run on to the end of the workflow and execute its secret writes against
the checkout. The preflight now ends at an explicit marker, and the validator
refuses an extraction without it or with a secret-writing command in it.
Also say what the platform-critical priority class is for now, and reword one
migration note.
Part of #387
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- The alert-coverage check read a source without a name through a yq test on
null, which stopped the script with an unclear error. A missing name is now
simply not a whole-namespace watch, so the usual message names the namespace.
The test covers it.
- The retired-heartbeat check accepted any workflow line that contained the
deletion expression. It now accepts only that exact line, so a line that
deletes the key and sets it again is refused.
Part of #387
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Two remarks in the review body were not posted as threads; both are handled in fcdc61a:
A Flux alert source without a name. The coverage check ran a yq test on null and stopped with an unclear error. A missing name now simply does not count as a whole-namespace watch, so the check fails with its usual message and names the namespace. The alert-coverage test has a case for it.
The retired-heartbeat check. It accepted any workflow line containing the deletion expression. It now accepts only that exact line; I added a line that deletes the key and sets it again, and the validator refused it.
The third remark, on the alert's namespace list, named no missing namespace, and the coverage check passes, so nothing changed there.
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Trial update at fcdc61a0515afc70d45701f59a0ee152c621a52e. Since the trial note above (at abd6a928) the manifests changed in one place only, the wording of the priority class description; everything else is in the checks and one doc sentence. So the six payload results in that note stand, and I re-ran what the review fixes touch:
All six validators and the five tests under scripts/tests/ pass, and shellcheck is clean on the changed scripts. CI is green at this head, including both ksail … workload validate runs.
The heartbeat preflight is now extracted up to an explicit end marker. With the marker removed from the workflow, the validator stopped with "could not extract exactly the heartbeat preflight" and left the working tree untouched.
A workflow line that deletes the old heartbeat key and sets it again → "must not read the retired Alertmanager heartbeat".
A Flux alert source without a name → the coverage check fails with its usual message and names the namespace (the alert-coverage test now has this case; all six cases pass).
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Why
The template still ran a second monitoring stack beside Coroot only for a handful of alert rules and a heartbeat. The reference platform retired it: it costs memory and storage on every instance, and its alerts duplicated what Coroot and Flux already report.
What
The old monitoring stack is removed. Production keeps a notification for every failed reconciliation, now including failed releases, and keeps one off-cluster heartbeat, which a production bootstrap now requires. The alerting guide says what is no longer alerted, and the templating guide says what an existing instance must do before it syncs, including that the old metric history is deleted.
Fixes #387
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