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What type of PR is this?
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What does this PR do / why we need it:
See: GITOPS-10412
Also: openshift/runbooks#462 to onboard the
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Signed-off-by: Atif Ali <atali@redhat.com>
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📝 Summary

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  • New Features

    • Added dedicated Prometheus monitoring for Argo CD application synchronization loops.
    • Added recording rules for total and failed synchronization rates over 10 minutes.
    • Added warning alerts for sustained synchronization activity and repeated synchronization failures.
    • Existing Argo CD alerts remain unchanged.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Disabling metrics now removes both standard and synchronization-loop alert rules.

Walkthrough

The metrics controller now creates and manages a separate sync-loop PrometheusRule. Unit and end-to-end tests validate rule contents, standard-rule preservation, and cleanup when metrics are disabled.

Changes

Argo CD sync-loop metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rule construction and reconciliation
controllers/argocd_metrics_controller.go
Defines sync-loop recording and alert rules. Reconciliation creates both PrometheusRules, handles lookup errors, and deletes both when metrics are disabled.
Controller rule validation
controllers/argocd_metrics_controller.go, controllers/argocd_metrics_controller_test.go
Tests validate expressions, durations, labels, annotations, and deletion of both PrometheusRules.
End-to-end rule validation
test/openshift/e2e/ginkgo/parallel/*, test/openshift/e2e/ginkgo/sequential/*
Tests validate sync-loop rule contents, preserve the standard rule, and check enabled and disabled metrics states.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: chengfang

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ArgoCD
  participant MetricsController
  participant KubernetesAPI
  ArgoCD->>MetricsController: Reconcile with metrics enabled
  MetricsController->>KubernetesAPI: Create standard and sync-loop PrometheusRules
  ArgoCD->>MetricsController: Reconcile with metrics disabled
  MetricsController->>KubernetesAPI: Delete standard and sync-loop PrometheusRules
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The sync-loop alert rules and their cleanup behavior are covered without any confirmed merge-blocking issue.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main change: adding alert rules for constantly syncing GitOps applications.
Description check ✅ Passed The description identifies the enhancement, links the related issue and runbook work, and lists unit and end-to-end testing.
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test/openshift/e2e/ginkgo/parallel/1-133_validate_argocd_sync_loop_alert_test.go (1)

23-23: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial

Add the openshift-gitops sync-loop alerts to the operator documentation.

The PR description states that documentation updates are required and are not yet done. The sibling repository documentation (docs/usage/monitoring.md in argoproj-labs/argocd-operator) also describes only the existing component-status rule. Add the new alert names, thresholds, and severities to the monitoring documentation of this repository.

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@svghadi @anandf PTAL when you get time. Thanks

fmt.Sprintf(`gitops:argocd_app_sync:rate10m{namespace="%s"} > 0.01`, namespace),
"Argo CD application is syncing continuously",
"Argo CD application {{ $labels.name }} in namespace {{ $labels.namespace }} has a sustained sync rate above 0.01/s (about one sync every ~100s) for 20m. This often indicates a selfHeal conflict (for example HPA fighting declared replicas). Check application sync history, diff, and conflicting controllers."),
newAlertRule("ArgoCDAppSyncLoopCritical", "critical", "10m",

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why does the alert name contain the severity as suffix? For a rate10m of 0.2, which meets both the warning and critical alerts, are both alerts fired for the same event? When they are named the differently, they are more likely to be treated as totally separate ones.

Worthing finding out if naming them the same with different severity, will the alret engine fire only the critical alert.

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Thanks Cheng, I'll rename Warning/Critical to the same alert name ArgoCDAppSyncLoop and keep severity only in the label, per OpenShift Alerting Consistency. That way Alertmanager can inhibit the warning when critical is firing for the same issue.

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OpenShift Alerting Consistency has some good guidelines. Among them is:

All critical alerts MUST include a runbook_url annotation. Warning alerts MAY include a runbook_url annotation.
Runbook style documentation for resolving critical alerts is required. These runbooks are reviewed jointly by the OpenShift developers and the managed OpenShift SREs and currently live in the openshift/runbooks repository.

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// Use a separate rule so upgrades install the sync-loop alerts.
syncLoopAlertRuleName = "gitops-operator-argocd-sync-loop-alerts"
// Canonical runbook for the critical ArgoCDAppSyncLoop alert (openshift/runbooks).
argoCDAppSyncLoopRunbookURL = "https://github.com/openshift/runbooks/blob/master/alerts/gitops-operator/ArgoCDAppSyncLoop.md"

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add the critical-alert runbook before release.

This URL is published on the critical alert. The PR objective states that required documentation is not complete. When this alert fires, responders will not have the required resolution procedure. Add and jointly review ArgoCDAppSyncLoop.md in openshift/runbooks before merge.

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PR is in review openshift/runbooks#462

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@aali309, thanks for the link. Pull request openshift/runbooks#462 includes alerts/gitops-operator/ArgoCDAppSyncLoop.md.

The runbook pull request is still open and has not merged. I will keep this finding open until the runbook review completes and the URL resolves on the default branch.

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OpenShift Alerting Consistency has some good guidelines. Among them is:

All critical alerts MUST include a runbook_url annotation. Warning alerts MAY include a runbook_url annotation.
Runbook style documentation for resolving critical alerts is required. These runbooks are reviewed jointly by the OpenShift developers and the managed OpenShift SREs and currently live in the openshift/runbooks repository.

@chengfang PTAL at openshift/runbooks#462 that onboards the runbook_url annotation.

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