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Aleksei Sviridkin 9978771858 feat(observability-proxy): serve tenant namespace logs through an authorizing proxy (#5214)
## What this PR does

Adds `observability-proxy`, a new system component that lets a tenant
user read the logs of their own namespace from VictoriaLogs with the
same Kubernetes credentials they already use for the console, and with
Kubernetes RBAC deciding what they can read. This is the first part of
the design proposals [Tenant application
logs](https://github.com/cozystack/community/pull/95) and [Tenant
resource-consumption
metrics](https://github.com/cozystack/community/pull/94); this PR
implements the namespace logs root only. Metrics and the per-application
roots follow in separate PRs.

Why a proxy: today the log stores are shared per root tenant and have no
notion of a caller, so tenants cannot be given direct read access
without seeing other tenants' logs. The proxy authenticates the caller,
authorizes the request from its path, and rebuilds the upstream query so
that its scope cannot be widened by the client.

Backward compatibility: this adds a new package and a new HelmRelease;
nothing existing is renamed, removed or changed, so no migration is
needed.

What is included:

- `cmd/observability-proxy` and `internal/observabilityproxy`: the
proxy.
- Serves
`/apis/cozystack.io/v1alpha1/namespaces/<ns>/logs/select/logsql/<endpoint>`
for the VictoriaLogs read endpoints the console needs (`query`, `hits`,
`stats_query_range`, `tail`, `field_values`, `stream_field_values`,
`facets`). Anything else under the root answers `404`.
- Authentication by `TokenReview`, authorization by one
`SubjectAccessReview` built from the path (`list` on `cozystack.io/logs`
in the namespace), both cached briefly.
- The upstream request is rebuilt from an allowlist of parameters; the
namespace scope is always forced as `extra_stream_filters`.
Client-supplied `extra_filters`, `extra_stream_filters`, any LogsQL
`options(...)` block, and tenant headers such as `AccountID`/`ProjectID`
are not forwarded or are refused.
- Non-canonical paths (`..`, `//`, encoded separators) are refused with
`400` before any authorization is built, because the console nginx
matches on the normalized path but forwards the raw one.
- Time window, step, bucket count and result limits are clamped;
per-user rate, concurrency and open-tail limits answer `429`. Invalid
time, step and limit parameters answer `400`.
- The store is resolved from the namespace's
`namespace.cozystack.io/monitoring` label.
- Live `tail` streams are passed through unbuffered, and the upstream
tail request disables compression so headers reach the client before the
first line.
- `packages/system/observability-proxy`: chart and image build, wired
into the root `make build`.
- Platform wiring: a new `cozystack.observability-proxy` PackageSource,
enabled by default on the full variants and opt-in on the slim ones, the
same way as `monitoring-agents`.
- RBAC: an aggregated `cozy:observability:view` ClusterRole grants
`list` on `cozystack.io/logs` to tenant `view` and above. No API server
serves this resource; the rule exists only for the proxy's
`SubjectAccessReview`. The proxy's own ClusterRole is limited to the
calls it makes (`tokenreviews`, `subjectaccessreviews`, `list`/`watch`
on namespaces).
- Console nginx: when the proxy is not installed or cannot be reached,
the observability roots answer `404` with a Kubernetes `Status` body,
which the console shows as not available on this cluster; the proxy's
own `502`/`504` for an unreachable store pass through unchanged.
- Console: one regex `location` in the console nginx routes the four
observability roots to the proxy ahead of `/apis`. The upstream is
resolved at request time, so the console starts even when the proxy is
not installed; those paths then answer `404` with a Kubernetes `Status`
body. The console Deployment now receives the cluster domain for that
resolution.
- E2E: a new Chainsaw suite `hack/e2e-chainsaw/observability-proxy/`
with two tenants, covering `401`/`403`/`200`, scope-widening attempts,
path normalization and a long-lived `tail`.

#### How it was tested

- `go test -race` and `go vet` for the proxy packages.
- helm-unittest for `observability-proxy`, `dashboard`, `tenant` and
`core/platform`; bats tests for the console nginx routing.
- The Chainsaw suite was not run as-is: it deploys its own VictoriaLogs
as the root store and refuses to run when a real one exists. Its cases
were replayed by a script against the real store on a test cluster.
- Verified on a test cluster:
- `401` without a token and with an invalid token, `403` for another
tenant's namespace, `200` for the caller's own.
- Client `extra_stream_filters`/`extra_filters` (GET and POST), an
`AccountID` header and another tenant's stream named inside the query do
not widen the scope; `options(...)` answers `400`; a path with `..`
pointing at another tenant answers `400`; an endpoint outside the
allowlist answers `404`.
- Through the full browser chain (OIDC login, gatekeeper, gateway,
console nginx), a single `tail` stayed open for more than two minutes
without reconnecting, and requests from the same session to other
tenants' roots answered `403`.
- Not verified: the `429` limits under real load. `golangci-lint` has
not been run locally.

#### Known limitations

- The proxy is reachable only through the console route; tenant
workloads have no egress rule to it. Every request takes its concurrency
or tail slot before the body is read; the token and access reviews and
the body read run under `--request-timeout`, so a stalled kube-apiserver
answers `503` rather than holding the request; and writes to the client
carry a deadline (renewed per line for tails). `--request-timeout=0`
disables those bounds and should not be used in production.
- The first lines a newly started pod writes can be missing from an
already open `tail`, although they are in the store. The likely cause is
that Fluent Bit picks up a new log file later than the VictoriaLogs
live-tail window; later lines of the same pod arrive. A history query
shows them.
- The per-application roots (`.../<plural>/<name>/log`, `.../metrics`)
and the namespace metrics root answer `404` in this PR.

### Screenshots

No UI changes.

### Downstream repositories

- [ ] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [x] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up: https://github.com/cozystack/website/issues/787 (docs land
once the implementation PRs merge)
- [ ]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/community](https://github.com/cozystack/community) -
follow-up:

Downstream: `cozystack/website` is reached. A new platform component
(`packages/core/platform/sources/observability-proxy.yaml`) triggers
`content/en/docs/next/guides/platform-stack/_index.md` and
`operations/configuration/licenses.md`; adding it to the system bundle
(`packages/core/platform/templates/bundles/system.yaml`) may also need a
line in `operations/configuration/variants.md`. A user-facing page for
the logs API and the new tenant `view` permission is not required by the
trigger map but would be useful. Tracked in cozystack/website#787. Other
repositories: no trigger matched. `packages/core/platform/values.yaml`
is not changed (only a test fixture), no package under `packages/apps/`
gains a values field, and no CRD changes. The root `Makefile` `build`
target builds one more image; this does not touch `hack/` or the make
targets `ccp` relies on, so `ccp` is not considered affected, but a
reviewer may want to confirm.

### Release note

```release-note
feat(observability-proxy): add an authorizing proxy that lets tenant users read their namespace logs from VictoriaLogs with their Kubernetes credentials, under `/apis/cozystack.io/v1alpha1/namespaces/<ns>/logs/`. Access requires the tenant `view` role or higher. The component is enabled by default on full variants and opt-in on slim variants.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added an observability proxy for tenant-scoped log access through the
console, including live log streaming. Requests are authenticated,
access-controlled, and subject to configurable rate and concurrency
limits.
* Added platform packaging and deployment support, with console routing
for observability requests.
* **Tests**
* Added automated coverage for access control, tenant scoping, query
handling, streaming, proxy behavior, and deployment configuration.
* **Documentation**
* Updated end-to-end test guidance with host requirements for running
the observability proxy suite.
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