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Follow-up to #416, and everything here has to land before that code is deployed. Three changes, bundled on purpose — see the version note at the end.

1. Donor IPs are never logged

Acting on the decision from #416, then corrected: the requirement is not don't export them, it is don't log them. Redacting on the export leg would have left them sitting in the journal.

peerAttrs now carries donor_country instead of remote_addr and forwarded_for. The geo lookup already existed for the metrics (attrDonorCountry), so the log and the counters describe a peer the same way, and the address never enters the logging path. Nothing downstream needs to redact, so the redaction layer from the first attempt is gone.

The egress still sees the address — it is the other end of the socket, and behind Caddy it arrives as X-Forwarded-For. Nothing needs to send it and nothing needs to change about that. It simply is not written down.

What this gives up, plainly: an individual host is no longer identifiable from logs. A refused population can still be characterised — country, user agent and the raw subprotocol values distinguish client builds — but pinpointing one machine now has to happen live on the box. That is the cost of the constraint, not an oversight, and it applies to the nine hosts behind the 5.4M refusals.

peerAttrs was the only place a donor address was logged. The remaining addr attributes are common.DebugAddr("WebSocket connection <uuid>"), a synthetic per-connection identifier, and the listener's own bind address — verified, not assumed.

Tests assert over every attribute value rather than by key name, so renaming or adding an attribute cannot quietly reintroduce an address. Verified by re-adding forwarded_for, which fails with contains the peer address 203.0.113.7; IPs must not be logged.

2. Whether export is on, and which build is running, are now observable

Two gaps #416 shipped, both of which made a deploy unverifiable.

Silent skip. With no OTLP logs endpoint configured, enableOTELLogs returned a no-op silently — so "is export on?" had no answer except the absence of logs in the collector, which is indistinguishable from a healthy egress with nothing to say. Now one line either way, on stderr, before the handler swap so it appears whether or not the exporter works:

INFO  Log export enabled  endpoint=http://... from=OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT min_level=INFO
WARN  Log export disabled: no OTLP logs endpoint configured
      checked="OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_ENDPOINT, OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT"

Naming the variables it checked is the actionable half. This matters concretely: metrics have worked for months, which proves a collector exists but not that a logs-capable endpoint is set. A metrics-only configuration is deliberately not accepted — otlploghttp would fall back to localhost:4318 and queue records for nothing — and there's a test pinning that.

No version anywhere. The egress spans carry no service.version — I checked, it's null across 4,519 spans in 24h — so the only way to know which build was live was to ask the host. That is exactly how a stale binary ran here for days while newer releases were assumed deployed. It now logs Egress telemetry initialized egress_version=... once at startup, after the handler is installed so it exports. Once logs flow, "what's deployed" becomes a query.

3. Version bump to v2.3.14

In the same PR deliberately, against the usual convention of a standalone bump. A bump that merged before the redaction would cut a release that ships donor IPs to the collector — the thing this PR exists to prevent. Bundling makes that ordering impossible.

On "is it deployed"

No, and not because of the host — #416 is in no release at all. Latest release is v2.3.13 (12 Aug); main still declared v2.3.13; #416 merged 21 Aug. So the log export cannot be live regardless of what the box is running.

Tests

Donor IPs absent from the export while present on stderr, actionable attrs surviving, the With limit, the disabled line naming every variable it checked, metrics-only configuration rejected, signal-specific precedence, and the endpoint table. Each verified against a mutated implementation — removing the redaction fails with remote_addr="203.0.113.7:54321" was exported; donor IPs must not be recorded centrally.

After merge

  1. Release is cut from the bump.
  2. Deploy, then check the journal for Log export enabled — if it says disabled, set OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT on the host; no code change needed.
  3. Confirm an egress entry appears in SigNoz's log service.name list, and that egress_version reads v2.3.14.

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  • New Features
    • Added validation and diagnostics for configured log export endpoints.
    • Refusal logs now include donor country and user agent details.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid export endpoints are disabled safely with sanitized warnings.
    • Prevented peer network addresses and sensitive endpoint details from appearing in logs.
    • Improved listener shutdown reliability and startup version reporting.
    • Prevented suppressed refusal events from triggering unnecessary processing.
  • Chores
    • Updated the application version to 2.3.14.

#416 shipped an operability gap I should have caught: when no OTLP logs
endpoint is configured, enableOTELLogs returns a no-op silently. Whether
export is on is then not observable at all — the only evidence is the
absence of egress logs in the collector, which looks exactly like a
healthy egress that had nothing to say. A misconfigured deploy would be
unfalsifiable, which matters immediately because the endpoint variable on
the host is unverified.

Now logs one line either way, on stderr, before the handler is swapped so
it appears whether or not the exporter itself works:

  Log export enabled  endpoint=... from=OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT min_level=INFO
  Log export disabled: no OTLP logs endpoint configured
      checked="OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_ENDPOINT, OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT"

Naming the variables it checked is the actionable half — otherwise an
operator learns it is off but not what to set.

otlpLogsConfigured becomes otlpLogsEndpoint, returning the variable that
supplied the endpoint so the enabled line can report its source. The
candidate list is now a package var, so the disabled line and the tests
cannot drift from what is actually checked.

Still deliberately not consulting the metrics or traces endpoints: a host
that sets only OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_ENDPOINT has a collector but
has said nothing about where logs go, and otlploghttp would fall back to
localhost:4318 and queue records for something that is not there. Tested.
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The change updates the egress version, delays successful telemetry logging until setup completes, validates and sanitizes OTLP log endpoints, forwards cloned records, defers suppressed refusal attributes, and removes peer addresses from logged attributes.

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Egress telemetry and peer attributes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Telemetry version reporting
common/version.go, egress/metrics.go, egress/egresslib_test.go
The exported version changes to v2.3.14. Metrics initialization logs the deployed version after successful setup. Tests verify the startup log and listener shutdown.
OTLP endpoint resolution and diagnostics
egress/otellogs.go, egress/otellogs_test.go
Log export resolves logs-specific and shared endpoints, validates absolute URLs, sanitizes diagnostics, and reports export state. Tests cover precedence, redaction, collector delivery, shutdown, and malformed endpoint handling.
Peer attribute privacy and refusal logging
egress/refusals.go, egress/refusals_test.go, egress/egresslib.go
Peer attributes retain donor_country and user_agent without exposing socket or forwarded addresses. Refusal attributes are built only when a refusal is emitted. Tests verify address exclusion.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2dbe0

The PR removes donor addresses from exported attributes and adds startup visibility for log export and the running version, but endpoint validation still accepts non-HTTP(S) OTLP URLs while reporting export as enabled. This creates a bounded configuration and observability risk that should have explicit owner follow-up.

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  participant MetricsInitialization
  participant Environment
  participant OTLPLogsExporter
  participant OTLPHTTPReceiver
  MetricsInitialization->>Environment: Resolve configured OTLP log endpoint
  Environment-->>MetricsInitialization: Return endpoint and source variable
  MetricsInitialization->>OTLPLogsExporter: Validate and configure sanitized endpoint
  MetricsInitialization->>OTLPLogsExporter: Report export status
  OTLPLogsExporter->>OTLPHTTPReceiver: Deliver cloned log record
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Pull request overview

Adds startup diagnostics for OTLP log export, including whether it is enabled and which endpoint configuration is used.

Changes:

  • Reports enabled or disabled log export.
  • Centralizes endpoint-variable precedence.
  • Adds configuration and diagnostic tests.

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File Summary Findings
egress/otellogs.go Adds endpoint detection and startup diagnostics. Critical (2 votes): Redact sensitive endpoint data before logging. Moderate (2 votes): Add an enabled-path test covering diagnostic ordering.
egress/otellogs_test.go Tests endpoint selection and disabled-export messaging. No final comments.
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egress/otellogs_test.go:325

  • This test only calls otlpLogsEndpoint; it never calls enableOTELLogs, so it cannot catch a regression in the new enabled diagnostic (including a missing/wrong endpoint, source, or minimum-level field). Please capture the startup logger while enabling logs with a valid endpoint and assert the emitted line, otherwise the main observability behavior is untested.
func TestOTLPLogsEndpoint_ReportsWhichVariableSuppliedIt(t *testing.T) {
	t.Setenv("OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT", "http://shared:4318")
	t.Setenv("OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_ENDPOINT", "")
	if name, val := otlpLogsEndpoint(); name != "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT" || val != "http://shared:4318" {

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Three things, bundled because they all have to be in the same release.

Donor IPs are no longer exported. remote_addr and forwarded_for are
stripped from the copy that leaves the host, while stderr keeps them, so
an operator with root can still identify a peer but the addresses of
people running circumvention software are not aggregated into a queryable
store with a retention period. user_agent and the raw subprotocol values
stay: they distinguish client populations, which is what makes a refusal
spike actionable, and they identify a build rather than a person.

Building a fresh record for the remote leg also subsumes the r.Clone()
that was there for handler-retention safety.

Known limit, documented in a test rather than left implicit: redaction
reads the record's own attrs, so anything attached via slog.With bypasses
it. Nothing does that today — peerAttrs is spread into the call site —
and the test says so, so a future change finds out here rather than in
the collector.

The egress also now logs its version once at startup, after the handler
is installed so it exports. Nothing else said which build was running:
the spans carry no service.version (verified — null across 4,519 spans in
24h), so the only way to know was to ask the host. That is how a stale
binary ran for days here while newer releases were assumed live.

Version to v2.3.14, in the same commit deliberately. The convention is a
standalone bump PR, but a bump that merged before the redaction would cut
a release that ships donor IPs to the collector — exactly what this is
avoiding.
@myleshorton myleshorton changed the title egress: say whether log export is on, and what to set if it is not egress: keep donor IPs off the export, make deploys verifiable, bump to v2.3.14 Aug 21, 2026
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In `@egress/metrics.go`:
- Around line 153-159: Move the “Egress telemetry initialized” slog.Info call in
initMetrics to after the final successful RegisterCallback, while preserving its
placement after enableOTELLogs; do not emit the success log if instrument
creation or callback registration returns an error.

In `@egress/otellogs.go`:
- Around line 204-217: Update redactForExport and teeHandler.WithAttrs to
recursively filter remote_addr and forwarded_for within grouped attributes and
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replace the existing skip behavior with assertions that exported remote records
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egress/metrics.go:158

  • The success marker is emitted before the instrument constructors and callback registration below can fail. If any of those error paths runs, NewListener returns an error but this record has already been queued/exported as Egress telemetry initialized, which can make deploy verification report a build that never became runnable. Emit the marker only after RegisterCallback succeeds (just before the successful return).
	slog.Info("Egress telemetry initialized", "egress_version", common.Version)

egress/metrics.go:158

  • No test exercises this new startup record. metrics_test.go replaces initMetrics with a stub, while the log tests only cover the no-endpoint path, so removing or moving this line or changing egress_version would still pass. Add a focused test that captures the startup record on the configured remote path.
	slog.Info("Egress telemetry initialized", "egress_version", common.Version)

egress/otellogs.go:96

  • The enabled line writes the raw endpoint value from the environment to the journal. OTLP endpoint URLs can contain userinfo or sensitive query parameters, so this can persist credentials or tokens in stderr/journald; log only a sanitized endpoint (or the source variable) instead of the raw configuration value.
	slog.Info("Log export enabled",
		"endpoint", endpoint, "from", endpointVar, "min_level", otelLogLevel)

egress/otellogs.go:172

  • The nearby test comment still says this path passes r.Clone() and discusses Clone-specific slice aliasing, but the implementation now passes redactForExport(r). That comment is false after this change and obscures what the fresh-record isolation actually guarantees; update it to describe the redacted record.
		if err := h.remote.Handle(ctx, redactForExport(r)); err != nil && firstErr == nil {

egress/otellogs.go:203

  • The test referenced here is not a pin: it passes when remote_addr is exported and calls t.Skip when it is redacted, and it never exercises peerAttrs. A future change to spread those attrs through With would therefore not fail CI as claimed. Either redact handler-held attrs or describe this as a non-enforcing limitation and add a production-path regression test.
// Matching is on the record's own attribute keys. Nothing adds these through
// slog.With today — peerAttrs is spread into the call site — so there is no
// handler-held copy to miss. A future caller that used With would bypass this,
// which is what TestTeeHandler_RedactionCannotBeBypassedByWith pins.

egress/otellogs.go:96

  • The enabled path is not tested: the endpoint tests only call otlpLogsEndpoint, and the only enableOTELLogs test covers no endpoint. A regression removing this line or changing its source/min_level fields would leave deploy verification broken with green tests. Add a configured-endpoint test with a fake exporter or capture.
	slog.Info("Log export enabled",
		"endpoint", endpoint, "from", endpointVar, "min_level", otelLogLevel)

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Corrects the previous commit's approach. Redacting IPs on the export leg
left them in the journal, and the requirement is not "do not export
them", it is "do not log them" — the egress necessarily sees the address,
since it is the other end of the socket, but a log is retained, copied
and queried.

peerAttrs now carries donor_country instead of remote_addr and
forwarded_for. The geo lookup already existed for the metrics
(attrDonorCountry), so the log and the counters now describe a peer the
same way, and the address never enters the logging path at all. Nothing
downstream has to redact, so exportRedactedKeys and redactForExport are
gone with it.

What this gives up, stated plainly: an individual host is no longer
identifiable from logs. A refused population can still be characterised —
country, user agent, and the raw subprotocol values distinguish client
builds — but pinpointing one machine now has to happen live on the box.
That is the cost of the constraint, not an oversight.

peerAttrs was the only place a donor address was logged. The remaining
"addr" attributes are common.DebugAddr("WebSocket connection <uuid>"), a
synthetic per-connection identifier, and the listener's own bind address.

The tests now assert over every attribute value rather than by key name,
so renaming or adding an attribute cannot quietly reintroduce an address.
@myleshorton myleshorton changed the title egress: keep donor IPs off the export, make deploys verifiable, bump to v2.3.14 egress: log donor country not IP, make deploys verifiable, bump to v2.3.14 Aug 21, 2026

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- Line 126: Update the comment near the remote-record assertions to state that
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…the enabled path

Review round on #417.

The OTLP endpoint was written to the log verbatim. These URLs are
configuration rather than user input, but "https://user:token@collector/
v1/logs" is a legal value and this line is both journalled and exported,
so the raw form is the one thing not worth printing. Scheme, host and
path are what make it useful; userinfo, query and fragment are stripped,
and an unparseable value is reported as such rather than echoed, since
with no structure there is no way to tell which part was secret.

"Egress telemetry initialized" was emitted before the instruments were
created and the callback registered — every one of which returns through
shutdownAfter. It announced success for setup that could still fail.
Moved to just before the successful return, still after enableOTELLogs so
it is exported rather than stderr-only.

Added the enabled-path test that was missing. It runs against an httptest
OTLP receiver, so the export actually completes instead of the shutdown
having to time out, and it asserts the announcement, the source variable,
that the endpoint's credentials do not appear, and that a record really
reaches the collector. Verified against both mutations: dropping the log
line, and logging the endpoint unredacted.

Also corrected a claim of my own that the review prompted me to re-check.
The comment said the pre-swap ordering is what guarantees the line reaches
stderr. It is not — the tee's local leg is stderr either way. The ordering
exists so the line describing whether export works is not itself routed
through the exporter it describes.

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egress/otellogs.go:206

  • The new redaction code removes query and fragment data, but the enabled-path test only supplies userinfo and a path. A mutation removing the RawQuery/Fragment stripping would therefore remain green while an API key or other secret in an endpoint query would be written to the journal. Add query and fragment cases to the endpoint-redaction test.
	u.User = nil
	u.RawQuery = ""
	u.ForceQuery = false
	u.Fragment = ""
	u.RawFragment = ""

egress/otellogs.go:194

  • The Log export enabled record is emitted before slog.SetDefault installs the tee, so it is local-journal-only. Saying this line is also "exported" contradicts the ordering explanation above and misstates the guarantee; keep the journal-safety rationale but remove the export claim.
// redactEndpoint strips anything an OTLP endpoint could legally carry as a
// credential before it reaches a log. These URLs are configuration rather than
// user input, but "https://user:token@collector/v1/logs" is a valid value and
// this line is written to the journal and exported, so the raw form is the one
// thing not worth printing. Scheme, host and path are what make the line useful.

egress/refusals.go:197

  • This new refusal-path attribute now invokes forwardedDonorIP, which splits and scans the complete X-Forwarded-For header for every refused request. That header is attacker-controlled and the existing 256-byte limit applies only when logging, so a large header adds O(header-size) scanning and allocations to the refusal flood. Bound the input before geolocation or parse only a bounded rightmost entry while preserving the trusted-proxy behavior.
		"donor_country", donorCountry(donorGeoAddr(r, transportAddr(r))),

egress/refusals_test.go:185

  • The test's leading comment still promises that absent headers yield empty strings, but donor_country now intentionally uses the unknownCountry sentinel and this assertion only requires the key to exist. Update the comment to describe the sentinel semantics; otherwise a future maintainer may change this back to an empty attribute and lose the distinction between unknown and absent traffic.
	// No X-Forwarded-For, so the geo lookup falls back to the accepted socket.
	// Whatever it resolves to, the address itself must not appear.
	for k, v := range kv {
		if strings.Contains(fmt.Sprint(v), "10.0.0.5") {
			t.Errorf("%s = %v leaks the peer address", k, v)
		}
	}
	if _, present := kv["donor_country"]; !present {
		t.Error("donor_country key must be present even with no forwarded header")

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Round two on #417.

redactEndpoint returned hostless values verbatim. url.Parse accepts
"secret" and "http:token" without error, and clearing User does nothing
to an opaque string, so a bare credential configured as the endpoint
would have been echoed whole. Refused now, same rule sanitizeReportURL
already used.

The exporter-construction failure logged err directly, and an endpoint
parse failure is exactly the error that quotes the endpoint back — with
its credentials. The endpoint is substituted with its redacted form
rather than dropped, so the diagnostic survives.

The version line was emitted before instrument creation and
RegisterCallback, both of which return through shutdownAfter, so it
announced success for setup that could still fail. Moved to immediately
before the successful return, still after enableOTELLogs.

peerAttrs' doc comment had a stale paragraph explaining why remote_addr
and forwarded_for were both logged, directly above the new paragraph
explaining why neither is. A doc that promises address logging and
denies it in the same breath is worse than either. Rewritten as one
contract.

Three tests added for things previously assertable only by inspection:
the endpoint-redaction table including query, fragment and hostless
cases; the enabled-path announcement against an httptest OTLP receiver
with credentials in the endpoint; and the startup version line through
the real initMetrics path, which the metrics tests miss because they stub
initMetricsFn. Each verified against a mutation.

Also corrected a comment of mine that said the enabled line is exported.
It is emitted before the handler swap, so it is journal-only — which is
deliberate, since a line reporting whether export works should not be
routed through the exporter it describes.
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Took both suppressed comments from this round in 79cd990, since both were right:

  • Redaction test did not cover query or fragment. True — the enabled-path test supplies one realistic endpoint (userinfo + path), so a mutation dropping the RawQuery/Fragment stripping would have stayed green while an ?api-key= in an endpoint went to the journal. There is now a table covering query, fragment, bare ?, and the hostless cases, verified by mutation.
  • The redactEndpoint doc claimed the line is exported. Also true, and it contradicted the ordering comment I had just corrected four lines away. The enabled line is emitted before the handler swap, so it is journal-only — deliberately, since a line reporting whether export works should not be routed through the exporter it describes. Doc fixed.

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egress/refusals.go:190

  • peerAttrs now performs a CountryCode database lookup, but every refusal builds these attributes before shouldLogRefusal is checked (egresslib.go:131, 181, and 198). Thus the roughly 9 refused requests/second described here all hit the geo database even though almost all samples are discarded by the throttle. Move attribute construction/geo resolution after the throttle check (or otherwise cache only when a line will be emitted) to avoid adding an unnecessary lookup to the hot refusal path.
		"donor_country", donorCountry(donorGeoAddr(r, transportAddr(r))),

egress/metrics.go:205

  • enableOTELLogs returns before installing the tee when no endpoint is configured or exporter construction fails, so this version record is stderr-only on those paths. The comment currently says that being after enableOTELLogs means it is exported without qualifying the enabled path, which contradicts the actual no-op behavior and can mislead operators about where the version is observable.
	// step above returns through shutdownAfter. Still after enableOTELLogs, so
	// the handler is installed and this is exported rather than only written to
	// stderr. Nothing else says which build is running: the spans carry no

egress/otellogs.go:77

  • The new sanitization on exporter-construction errors is security-sensitive, but the tests cover redactEndpoint and the successful exporter path only; they never exercise this branch. A regression to passing err directly would therefore leave the suite green while credentials in a parse/validation error could reach the journal. Add an invalid credential-bearing endpoint case that invokes enableOTELLogs and asserts the warning contains neither the credential nor the raw endpoint.
		slog.Warn("Log export disabled; could not build the OTLP log exporter",
			"err", strings.ReplaceAll(err.Error(), endpoint, redactEndpoint(endpoint)),
			"endpoint", redactEndpoint(endpoint), "from", endpointVar)

egress/otellogs.go:76

  • Replacing only the exact raw endpoint does not fully sanitize exporter errors. URL parsing errors quote or escape control characters, so for an endpoint such as http://collector/[newline]SECRET the error can contain SECRET without containing the raw string, and this replacement leaves it in the err attribute. Avoid logging the exporter error verbatim; use a fixed error classification or sanitize its quoted form as well.
			"err", strings.ReplaceAll(err.Error(), endpoint, redactEndpoint(endpoint)),

egress/refusals.go:190

  • This change leaves the caller's Info-log comment in egress/egresslib.go:164-167 claiming the sample contains remote_addr, even though peerAttrs no longer emits it. That stale description conflicts with the privacy contract right where the new attribute is defined and could mislead future changes; update the caller comment to describe donor_country instead.
		"donor_country", donorCountry(donorGeoAddr(r, transportAddr(r))),

Comment thread egress/otellogs.go Outdated
…he SDK a bad endpoint

Round three on #417. The first is a regression I introduced; the second
is a leak the requested test found.

peerAttrs now resolves the donor's country, which is a geo database
lookup, and the legacy-team-client branch built it before the throttle
check — so the ~9 refusals/second path paid for a lookup on every request
and discarded all but one per minute. Moved inside the throttle. The
other two refusal sites already built attrs there.

The exporter-failure test that was asked for found something bigger than
the branch it was written for. otlploghttp.New reads the endpoint
variable itself, and on a malformed value its error handler prints the
offending endpoint — credentials included — to the log, three times. It
also does not return an error: it logs, falls back, and leaves us
announcing "Log export enabled endpoint=(unparseable)" for an export that
will never work.

So the endpoint is validated before New is called. The SDK never sees a
value it would print, and a malformed endpoint now reports itself as
disabled with a reason instead of being announced as working. The value
itself is deliberately absent from that line: it did not parse, so there
is no way to tell which part of it was secret.

redactEndpoint returns (string, bool) rather than a sentinel string, so
callers refuse rather than string-matching "(unparseable)". It also now
requires a scheme: "//s3cr3t" parses as a network-path reference with
that as the Host, so a host check alone let it through verbatim.

The version-line test asserted "Egress telemetry initialized" and
common.Version independently over the whole buffer, which any other
record carrying the version would satisfy. It now finds the startup
record and asserts the version on that line.

The comment claiming the version line is exported is qualified: when
export is off, or the exporter could not be built, enableOTELLogs is a
no-op and the line is stderr-only.
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All three substantive suppressed comments taken in 2dbe0ae. One of them turned out to matter a lot more than it looked.

Geo lookup on the refusal hot path — a regression I introduced. peerAttrs now resolves the donor's country, which is a database lookup, and the legacy-team-client branch built the attrs before the throttle check. So the ~9 refusals/second path paid for a lookup on every request and threw away all but one per minute. Moved inside the throttle; the other two refusal sites already did it there. Good catch — this is exactly the cost that gets missed when a cheap function quietly becomes an expensive one.

The requested failure-path test found a leak I had not anticipated. I added it expecting to cover my own sanitized warning. What it actually caught: otlploghttp.New reads the endpoint variable itself, and on a malformed value the SDK's error handler prints the offending endpoint — credentials included — to the log, three times. Worse, New does not return an error for it; it logs, falls back, and left us printing Log export enabled endpoint=(unparseable) for an export that would never work.

So the endpoint is now validated before New is called. The SDK never sees a value it would print, and a malformed endpoint reports itself as disabled with a reason rather than being announced as working. The failing output that prompted this:

level=INFO msg="invalid OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_ENDPOINT value http://user:s3cr3t@bad host:99999/v1/logs: ..."   (×3, from the SDK)
level=INFO msg="Log export enabled" endpoint=(unparseable) from=OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_LOGS_ENDPOINT

The "exported" claim on the version line is qualified: when export is off, or the exporter could not be built, enableOTELLogs is a no-op and the line is stderr-only.

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- Around line 224-234: Update redactEndpoint to accept only http and https
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egress/otellogs.go:226

  • This validation accepts any non-empty URL scheme, but the configured exporter is OTLP/HTTP. For a value such as ftp://collector/v1/logs, url.Parse succeeds and the handler can be announced as enabled even though the HTTP client cannot send it. Restrict the scheme to the protocols supported by otlploghttp (HTTP/HTTPS) and add a regression case so the enabled diagnostic cannot report an unusable endpoint.
func redactEndpoint(raw string) (string, bool) {
	u, err := url.Parse(raw)
	if err != nil || u.Scheme == "" || u.Host == "" {

egress/refusals.go:190

  • The refusal-attribute test only checks that donor_country exists, so it would remain green if this reverted to geolocating transportAddr(r) and once again reported the Caddy loopback as unknown. Add an integration assertion with a stub lookup and an X-Forwarded-For request that verifies the forwarded donor produces the expected country.
		"donor_country", donorCountry(donorGeoAddr(r, transportAddr(r))),

Comment thread egress/otellogs_test.go Outdated
…tests claim

Round four on #417.

The failure test added last round stopped covering its branch the moment
I added endpoint pre-validation: "bad host" fails redactEndpoint, so
enableOTELLogs exits at the earlier warning and the sanitizing path is
never reached. Removing the sanitization would have left it green. That
is the third test in this PR to quietly stop testing what it claims, so
this one is structural rather than input-dependent: newLogExporter is
indirected — the same shape as initMetricsFn — and the test stubs it to
return an error quoting the endpoint. There is no environment value that
reaches this branch, because anything malformed enough to break
otlploghttp is now refused earlier and otlploghttp prefers logging and
falling back to returning an error.

redactEndpoint now accepts only http and https. This exporter is OTLP
over HTTP, so "ftp://collector/v1/logs" parses fine and would have been
announced as enabled while being unsendable.

peerAttrs' country test only checked that donor_country existed, so it
would have stayed green if the lookup reverted to geolocating
transportAddr — which behind Caddy is loopback, reporting every donor as
unknown while still populating the attribute. Now stubs the lookup and
asserts the forwarded address wins.
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Both suppressed comments taken in 7656a5a too.

  • Scheme restriction. redactEndpoint now accepts only http/https. ftp://collector/v1/logs parses fine and would have been reported as enabled while the HTTP client could never send it.
  • The country test only checked the attribute existed. Correct, and it is the same weakness as the others this round: it would have stayed green if the lookup reverted to geolocating transportAddr(r), which behind Caddy is loopback — every donor reported as unknown, with the attribute still present. It now stubs the lookup and asserts the forwarded address wins. Verified against that exact regression: donor_country = ZZ, want SE — the proxy's address was geolocated instead of the donor's.

Calling the loop done here: four rounds, CI green throughout, no unresolved threads.

Worth recording what this review actually caught, because it was not cosmetic:

  1. A geo database lookup on the ~9 refusals/second path, discarded by the throttle 99% of the time — a regression I introduced by making peerAttrs expensive.
  2. The OTel SDK printing the raw endpoint, credentials included, three times, on a path where otlploghttp.New does not even return an error — so we would have announced Log export enabled for an export that could never work.
  3. redactEndpoint returning hostless and scheme-less values verbatim — a function whose entire purpose is not doing that.
  4. Three of my own tests that had stopped testing what they claimed, one of which I broke in the same round I wrote it.

Every fix in this PR is now verified against a mutated implementation rather than just observed passing.

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