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fix: log consumers miss lines on reconnect - #4102
The log producer no longer cuts a working log stream every log production timeout. Instead it follows the stream until the container stops, and if the connection fails it resumes from the last entry delivered. It asks the daemon for timestamps, strips them before entries reach consumers, and reconnects with the last entry's timestamp as since. It then skips the entries the daemon replays at that timestamp, by count rather than by content, which handles both Docker's inclusive nanosecond since and Podman's timestamps, which are only to the second. Entries without a timestamp are passed through unchanged. The cost is about 9ns per entry with no allocations.
WithLogProductionTimeout is deprecated and now has no effect, because there is no periodic reconnect left for it to control; the docs are updated to match. The log consumer tests that waited on the final line without a timeout now fail after five seconds instead of hanging the package.
Why is it important?
The periodic reconnect resumed from the current time, so any line the container wrote before the reconnect that hadn't been delivered yet was lost. Podman's logs endpoint is slow to respond, so these reconnect gaps regularly caught the container's final line. That made the log consumer tests fail intermittently on Podman, and hang the package until the 30 minute test timeout. The timeout originally existed so the old producer could check a stop channel; context cancellation has since replaced that, so cutting the stream no longer serves a purpose.
TestLogProducerResumesAfterError runs the log producer against a fake daemon that drops the connection mid-stream, with Docker-style, Podman-style and untimestamped entries. It checks the since value of each request and that every entry is delivered exactly once. Locally against Docker Desktop, go test . -run 'Test_LogConsumerGetsCalled|Test_ShouldRecognizeLogTypes|Test_MultipleLogConsumers|TestContainerLogsEnableAtStart|Test_MultiContainerLogConsumer_CancelledContext|TestRestartContainerWithLogConsumer|TestContainerLogDrainOnTerminate|TestContainerLogsShouldBeWithoutStreamHeader|TestContainerLogsTty|TestLogProducerResumesAfterError|TestSplitLogTimestamp' passed, and golangci-lint v2.15 reported nothing in the changed code. The original failure needs Podman, so the Podman CI jobs are the real check.
Follow-ups
Without the periodic timeout, a half-open TCP connection to a remote daemon is only detected by TCP keepalive. Since reconnects no longer lose entries, a stall detector could be added later if that turns out to matter.
The log producer cut a healthy log stream every 5-60s and reconnected
from the current time, so any line the container wrote before the
reconnect but had not yet been delivered was lost. On Podman, whose
logs endpoint is slow to respond, this regularly dropped the final line
and hung the log consumer tests.
Follow the stream until it ends instead, and if the connection fails,
resume from the last line delivered, using the timestamps the daemon
adds to each entry and skipping the entries it replays.
WithLogProductionTimeout no longer has any effect and is deprecated.
The log consumer tests now fail after a timeout rather than hanging
when a line is missed.
Closes#4101
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Improvements
Container log streaming continues until the container stops or streaming is canceled, rather than reconnecting on a periodic timeout.
After a connection failure, streaming resumes from the last delivered log entry and skips replayed entries.
Log read failures are retried automatically, and shutdown waits are limited to five seconds.
The log-production timeout option is deprecated and no longer changes streaming behavior.
Documentation
Updated the log-following guide to reflect streaming behavior, error notifications, and configuration changes.
Walkthrough
The log producer follows streams without periodic timeout reconnects. After a stream error, it resumes from the last delivered timestamp and filters replayed entries. WithLogProductionTimeout is deprecated and has no effect. Tests and documentation reflect the updated behavior.
Changes
Container log stream recovery
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Summary
Follow streams and resume from delivered timestamps docker.go, docs/features/follow_logs.md
The producer follows the stream and retries errors from the last delivered timestamp. A timestamp writer removes recognized prefixes and filters replayed entries. The timeout option is deprecated, shutdown waits use a shared five-second timeout, and the guide describes the option as ineffective.
Test recovery and timestamp handling docker_logs_test.go
Tests cover Docker nanosecond timestamps, Podman second-resolution timestamps, entries without timestamps, and timestamp splitting. A benchmark measures timestamp writer allocations.
Bound consumer waits and validate cancellation logconsumer_test.go
Consumer acknowledgement waits now have five-second limits. The cancellation test checks that both consumers receive messages and that no unexpected log-reading error is logged. Timeout-option startup tests were removed.
Untimestamped entries may replay, and cancellation can be reported before delivery finishes. Clarify both behaviors before relying on the documented guarantees.
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The title clearly identifies the main change: preventing log consumers from missing lines during reconnects.
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The description directly explains the stream reconnect changes, timestamp handling, deprecated timeout behavior, tests, and motivation. It is related to the changeset.
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The PR meets the coding requirements in #4101. logProducer follows a working stream, requests timestamps, resumes from the last delivered timestamp, strips timestamps, and skips replayed boundary en…
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The PR meets the coding requirements in #4101. logProducer follows a working stream, requests timestamps, resumes from the last delivered timestamp, strips timestamps, and skips replayed boundary entries by count. docker_logs_test.go covers Docker nanosecond timestamps, Podman second-resolution timestamps, connection failure, exact-once delivery, and untimestamped entries. The affected log-consumer tests use bounded waits, including five-second acknowledgement waits and a bounded require.Eventually check.
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A rabbit watches log lines flow, Then tracks the time-stamps as they go. If streams break off, they start anew, Past lines are filtered from the queue. The waits now end before too long, And tests can tell when things go wrong.
Run the logger assertion after the producers have stopped.
require.NotContains runs right after cancel(). The log-producer goroutines may not have observed the cancellation yet. The assertion can pass before any cancellation-time error could be logged.
The two GreaterOrEqual checks are also redundant. require.Eventually already established those counts.
To make the check meaningful, wait for both containers' log production to finish before it runs. For example, call StopLogProducer or terminate the containers explicitly. Then assert on logger.String().
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In the cancellation test, wait for both log producers to finish after canceling
the context and before checking logger.String(), using the existing
StopLogProducer or container-termination mechanism. Keep the Unexpected error
reading logs assertion after that wait, and remove the redundant GreaterOrEqual
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Review comments at @docs/features/follow_logs.md:
- Line 105: Update the guidance for
DockerContainer.GetLogProductionErrorChannel() to describe it as a
context-completion signal, not a source of stream-read or reader-close errors.
Clarify that stream errors are retried, reader-close errors are ignored, and
normal stream completion may still produce a context-cancellation cause; revise
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finish after canceling the context and before checking logger.String(), using
the existing StopLogProducer or container-termination mechanism. Keep the
Unexpected error reading logs assertion after that wait, and remove the
redundant GreaterOrEqual checks because require.Eventually already verifies both
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The error channel only reports why log production stopped. Errors
reading the log stream are retried, resuming from the last entry
delivered, so the advice to restart log production on an error would
now replay every log entry. The example also no longer compiled.
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- Line 107: Update the `GetLogProductionErrorChannel()` documentation to clarify
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after receiving from the channel.
- Line 105: Update the log-recovery description to state that resumption uses
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no-duplicates claim to account for entries without timestamps, which
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Resuming relies on the runtime adding timestamps to log entries, so
entries without one aren't tracked. The error channel can also report
a cause while a consumer is still processing an entry, unless the
container stopped and all its logs were delivered.
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What does this PR do?
The log producer no longer cuts a working log stream every log production timeout. Instead it follows the stream until the container stops, and if the connection fails it resumes from the last entry delivered. It asks the daemon for timestamps, strips them before entries reach consumers, and reconnects with the last entry's timestamp as
since. It then skips the entries the daemon replays at that timestamp, by count rather than by content, which handles both Docker's inclusive nanosecondsinceand Podman's timestamps, which are only to the second. Entries without a timestamp are passed through unchanged. The cost is about 9ns per entry with no allocations.WithLogProductionTimeoutis deprecated and now has no effect, because there is no periodic reconnect left for it to control; the docs are updated to match. The log consumer tests that waited on the final line without a timeout now fail after five seconds instead of hanging the package.Why is it important?
The periodic reconnect resumed from the current time, so any line the container wrote before the reconnect that hadn't been delivered yet was lost. Podman's logs endpoint is slow to respond, so these reconnect gaps regularly caught the container's final line. That made the log consumer tests fail intermittently on Podman, and hang the package until the 30 minute test timeout. The timeout originally existed so the old producer could check a stop channel; context cancellation has since replaced that, so cutting the stream no longer serves a purpose.
Related issues
How to test this PR
TestLogProducerResumesAfterErrorruns the log producer against a fake daemon that drops the connection mid-stream, with Docker-style, Podman-style and untimestamped entries. It checks thesincevalue of each request and that every entry is delivered exactly once. Locally against Docker Desktop,go test . -run 'Test_LogConsumerGetsCalled|Test_ShouldRecognizeLogTypes|Test_MultipleLogConsumers|TestContainerLogsEnableAtStart|Test_MultiContainerLogConsumer_CancelledContext|TestRestartContainerWithLogConsumer|TestContainerLogDrainOnTerminate|TestContainerLogsShouldBeWithoutStreamHeader|TestContainerLogsTty|TestLogProducerResumesAfterError|TestSplitLogTimestamp'passed, andgolangci-lintv2.15 reported nothing in the changed code. The original failure needs Podman, so the Podman CI jobs are the real check.Follow-ups
Without the periodic timeout, a half-open TCP connection to a remote daemon is only detected by TCP keepalive. Since reconnects no longer lose entries, a stall detector could be added later if that turns out to matter.