PR preview Tinybird branches no longer carry production data - #874
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`tb branch create --last-partition` attached the latest production partition of every datasource under 50 GB, so each preview held live customer telemetry in an environment readable by anyone with the URL and retained until a best-effort teardown removed it. Conflicted PRs never fire a `closed` run, so that teardown is the scheduled sweep more often than anyone thinks. Branches are now created empty. A preview that needs rows seeds its own — the internal demo.seed route writes synthetic data, and ingest can be pointed at the branch. Changes that can only be judged against production cardinality belong in the benchmark harness, which reads production deliberately rather than copying it sideways.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughPR preview branches are now created without production data. The branch script and workflow use empty branches, while documentation explains how to seed preview data through demo or OTLP ingestion. ChangesTinybird PR branch data lifecycle
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Previously created preview branches can continue exposing production telemetry after refresh, so existing branch data must be cleared before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@scripts/tinybird-pr-branch.ts`:
- Around line 182-190: Update the branch setup around runTb and the created
branch flow so an existing Tinybird branch is removed and recreated, or its
datasources are explicitly cleared, before deployment. Ensure stale rows from
prior or production-backed branches cannot persist when branch create reports
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| // 1. Create the branch EMPTY. Idempotent across `synchronize` events: a | ||
| // pre-existing branch is fine. | ||
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| // Deliberately no `--last-partition`: that attached the latest production | ||
| // partition of every datasource, which put live customer telemetry in an | ||
| // environment anyone with the preview URL can read, kept only until a | ||
| // best-effort teardown removed it. A preview that needs rows seeds its own | ||
| // — see docs/tinybird-pr-branches.md § Getting data in. | ||
| const created = runTb(parent, ["branch", "create", branchName]) |
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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- script outline ---'
ast-grep outline scripts/tinybird-pr-branch.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- targeted script ---'
sed -n '130,240p' scripts/tinybird-pr-branch.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- branch-related definitions and callers ---'
rg -n -C 3 'branch (create|delete|clear)|branchName|last-partition|tinybird-pr-branch|Getting data in|empty branch' scripts/tinybird-pr-branch.ts docs .github/workflowsRepository: MapleTechLabs/maple
Length of output: 21513
Sensitive Data Exposure
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Clear existing Tinybird branch data before reuse. When tb branch create pr_<n> reports that the branch already exists, up continues without removing or clearing its rows. A branch created with --last-partition can retain production telemetry. Remove and recreate the branch, or explicitly clear its datasources before deployment.
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In `@scripts/tinybird-pr-branch.ts` around lines 182 - 190, Update the branch
setup around runTb and the created branch flow so an existing Tinybird branch is
removed and recreated, or its datasources are explicitly cleared, before
deployment. Ensure stale rows from prior or production-backed branches cannot
persist when branch create reports the branch already exists, while preserving
the empty-branch creation behavior for new branches.
After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr.
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What
PR-preview Tinybird branches are created empty.
tb branch create pr_<n> --last-partitionbecomestb branch create pr_<n>.Why
--last-partitionattached the latest production partition of every datasource under 50 GB, so every preview deploy held live customer telemetry:previewlabelclosedrun, and close runs execute the PR branch's old workflow version, so the scheduled sweep is the real backstopdev, which must hold the parent workspace admin token)It also never delivered what it promised: datasources with partitions over 50 GB were already created empty, so "realistic data" was partial and non-deterministic.
What replaces it
Documented under Getting data in in
docs/tinybird-pr-branches.md:demo.seedroute (apps/api/src/routes/internal/demo.http.ts) writes synthetic services, routes and queriesbun scripts/ingest-dummy-traces.tsapps/api/scripts/BENCH.md, which reads production deliberately instead of copying it into a previewCost
A PR touching query or chart behaviour shows empty results until someone seeds the branch. That is the trade being made.
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