fix(workers): monitor dead-letter queues without consuming jobs - #324
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds shared dead-letter queue provisioning, periodic depth monitoring, exclusive queue-policy migration, worker startup and shutdown wiring, PostgreSQL integration coverage, operational documentation, and a CI job for the integration suite. ChangesDead-letter queue management
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Worker as Worker registration
participant PgBoss as PgBoss
participant DLQ as Dead-letter queue
participant Monitor as DLQ monitor
participant Logger as Application Insights
Worker->>PgBoss: ensureWorkerQueue
PgBoss->>DLQ: create or update <name>-dlq
Worker->>PgBoss: process job
PgBoss->>DLQ: route terminal failure
Monitor->>PgBoss: query DLQ depth
PgBoss-->>Monitor: depth and queue metrics
Monitor->>Logger: emit worker_dlq_depth
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change has two bounded risks: PR test code can access the checkout credential, and a legacy custom DLQ can become invisible to monitoring after setup. Both have localized fixes and should be addressed before relying on the new monitoring coverage. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Add an explicit offline policy migration that preserves retained jobs and refuses pending work. Report policy drift for both exclusive worker queues, avoid redundant creation updates, read DLQ stats concurrently, and bound monitor shutdown. Cover the migration with real PostgreSQL integration tests. Refs: #324
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Re-reviewed after the latest push (aa96cd0) — the queue-policy migration script, expanded runbook, and added tests resolve the earlier findings well. No correctness bugs found; three cleanup-only items below worth a look before merge.
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Re-reviewed after 4faf47d — the earlier three findings (hardcoded queue names, unconditional updateQueue writes, missing schema-version guard) are all properly resolved with test coverage. A few new items from this commit worth a look before merge.
Awaiting the monitor stop first held the HTTP listener open for up to DLQ_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_MS of the orchestrator's shutdown grace period. Stop the timer, close the listener, and drain the in-flight sweep concurrently before stopping pg-boss. Refs: #324
PG_BOSS_SCHEMA_VERSION was written out independently in the DLQ monitor and in the policy migration, so a schema bump could update one and silently disable the other. Move it to src/lib/pg-boss-schema.ts and read it from both. QUEUE_NAMES.USFM_EXPORT_DLQ was a second spelling of a name that ensureWorkerQueue already derives, and no production code used it. Drop it in favour of deadLetterQueueName(), used by the helper, the queue discovery sweep and the tests. Refs: #324
The ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock on pgboss.queue and pgboss.job was taken before the already-exclusive check, so an inspection or the documented no-op re-run still stalled every queue's fetch, complete and send for up to the five-second lock timeout. Read the policy first and return early, then re-read it under the lock so a concurrent migration cannot slip through. Refs: #324
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In @.github/workflows/pre-merge.yml:
- Around line 61-62: Update the dlq-integration job to restrict its GITHUB_TOKEN
permissions to contents: read, and configure the actions/checkout step with
persist-credentials disabled. Preserve the existing checkout action and job
behavior otherwise.
In `@src/lib/dead-letter-queues.ts`:
- Line 27: Update ensureWorkerQueue to preserve an existing source queue’s
custom dead-letter destination: retrieve the source with boss.getQueue(name),
use source.deadLetter when present, and fall back to deadLetterQueueName(name)
otherwise before loading the destination queue. Keep the existing queue setup
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The default value for the persist-credentials input in the official actions/checkout action is true [1][2]. While there have been community discussions and pull requests proposing to change this default to false to enhance security [3], the established official default remains true [1][2]. When persist-credentials is true, the action configures the Git credential helper to use the provided token (or SSH key), allowing subsequent Git commands in the workflow job to run authenticated [1][4]. Regarding GITHUB_TOKEN permissions for pull_request workflows, the behavior depends on the trigger event: 1. Standard pull_request Workflows: When a workflow is triggered by a pull_request event from a fork, the GITHUB_TOKEN is automatically downgraded to read-only permissions [5][6][7]. This is a security design intended to prevent untrusted code in a fork from mutating the base repository or accessing repository secrets [5][6][8]. Regardless of any permissions declarations in the workflow file, write access cannot be granted to this token for fork-based pull requests [6][7]. 2. pull_request_target Workflows: Workflows triggered by pull_request_target run in the context of the base repository, not the fork [8]. Consequently, these workflows receive the base repository's GITHUB_TOKEN with standard permissions [8][9]. Because this event executes the workflow file from the base repository's default branch rather than the untrusted fork code, it is safe to use this trigger for tasks requiring write access, such as labeling or commenting, provided the workflow itself does not inadvertently execute untrusted code from the pull request [8]. For security, it is best practice to always grant the GITHUB_TOKEN the least required access using the permissions key [10][11]. If write access is required for fork-based contributions, common patterns include using a workflow_run triggered workflow (which runs in the base context) or a carefully guarded pull_request_target [5][7].
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- 1: https://github.com/actions/checkout
- 2: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/actions/checkout/v6/action.yml
- 3: GitHub pull request 1687 in actions/checkout (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/checkout?version=v3.6.0
- 5: https://latchkey.dev/learn/github-actions/github-actions-token-push-403-fork
- 6: https://latchkey.dev/learn/github-actions/github-actions-permissions-reference
- 7: https://latchkey.dev/learn/github-actions/token-fork-pr-read-only-cannot-comment-in-ci
- 8: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/securely-using-pull_request_target
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- 10: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.13/actions/security-guides/automatic-token-authentication
- 11: https://docs.github.com/actions/reference/authentication-in-a-workflow
Sensitive Data Exposure
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials
Do not persist the checkout token in the integration job.
The pull_request workflow runs repository-controlled installation and test code after checkout. actions/checkout persists GITHUB_TOKEN by default, so later commands can use the token for authenticated Git operations. Fork pull requests receive a read-only token, which does not support the claimed major sensitive-data exposure. Still, disable credential persistence and restrict the job token to contents: read.
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dlq-integration:
name: Dead-letter queue integration
+ permissions:
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In @.github/workflows/pre-merge.yml around lines 61 - 62, Update the
dlq-integration job to restrict its GITHUB_TOKEN permissions to contents: read,
and configure the actions/checkout step with persist-credentials disabled.
Preserve the existing checkout action and job behavior otherwise.
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| name: string, | ||
| options: Omit<Queue, 'name' | 'deadLetter'> = {} | ||
| ): Promise<void> { | ||
| const deadLetter = deadLetterQueueName(name); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Preserve an existing custom dead-letter destination.
ensureWorkerQueue changes an existing source from its custom destination to ${name}-dlq. After that change, reportDeadLetterQueues no longer sees the old destination: it discovers custom destinations only through current queue.deadLetter references, and the old name does not match *-dlq. Retained jobs in that queue are therefore omitted from monitoring.
The current tests and runbook define the opposite normalization behavior. Update that contract if existing custom destinations must remain visible.
Proposed fix
- const deadLetter = deadLetterQueueName(name);
- const [existing, source] = await Promise.all([boss.getQueue(deadLetter), boss.getQueue(name)]);
+ const source = await boss.getQueue(name);
+ const deadLetter = source?.deadLetter ?? deadLetterQueueName(name);
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In `@src/lib/dead-letter-queues.ts` at line 27, Update ensureWorkerQueue to
preserve an existing source queue’s custom dead-letter destination: retrieve the
source with boss.getQueue(name), use source.deadLetter when present, and fall
back to deadLetterQueueName(name) otherwise before loading the destination
queue. Keep the existing queue setup behavior unchanged for sources without a
custom destination.
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I added a shared dead-letter queue convention for export, AI suggestions and DBL workers. The API reports DLQ depth every minute through the existing logger, including when the export worker cannot boot because R2 is unavailable. The monitor never consumes or replays jobs. Queue reads run concurrently, failures stay isolated, and monitor shutdown waits at most five seconds.
New DLQ entries get at least 30 days of retention. Longer queue settings and existing job rows stay intact during startup. Both export and AI queues report a policy mismatch. Queue setup creates fresh queues with their final settings and updates existing queues without deleting them.
For legacy non-exclusive queues, I added an explicit offline migration and runbook. It locks the queue/job tables, refuses pending work, and changes policy metadata without deleting queues or history. It supports shared and dedicated pg-boss 12.1.1 partitions and preserves IDs, payloads, errors, states, retry counters, routing and deadlines. Deployment does not run this migration automatically.
Validation passed: 618 unit tests, 8 PostgreSQL 16 integration tests, typecheck, lint, formatting, build and docs checks. Lint has three existing verse-audio warnings. The integration suite runs the real export/AI worker handlers with external services replaced by fixtures, and verifies retry exhaustion, recovery, timeout, retention and preserved messages. It also proves migration refusal with pending work, unchanged history apart from policy metadata, idempotence, and singleton dedupe after both partition migrations. The production logger test verifies flat Application Insights dimensions without sending telemetry.
Live Azure alert rules still need to be configured by the environment owner. No production queue or infrastructure was accessed.
Closes #256.
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edf3bfd, captured with Playwright from a report of real PostgreSQL 16.13 snapshots and events emitted by the PR's monitor. Controlled pg-boss failures use one immediate retry; R2 and AI services are not called in this capture.1) Retry stays out of the DLQ
The source job remains in
retry. The DLQ has no row, and the monitor reportsdepth: 0at info level.2) Terminal failure becomes observable
Exhausting retries creates a retained DLQ row and a structured warning with
depth: 1. Two monitor sweeps preserve the captured fields, including state, payload, failure output and the 30-day deadline.3) Existing evidence is preserved
Repeated queue setup preserves the existing DLQ message and its original deadline. A legacy export queue keeps its failed-job history and reports the policy mismatch.
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