AWX Monitoring: Metrics endpoint retain old data & not updated

[bettyhey]

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Bug Summary

Is there a way to display only the current active nodes in /api/v2/metrics? It was discovered that /api/v2/metrics endpoint retain old data (e.g. same hostname with different uuid) when a node is disconnected from AWX. The node will be gone in /api/v2/instances and AWX GUI but still showing up in the /api/v2/metrics.

Is there a workaround for this issue? The ask is to monitor a node when it lost connectivity to AWX, however, the metrics endpoint retains old data (for at least a day or so), it's not ideal to utilise it for monitoring.

AWX version

2.9.23

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Installation method

docker development environment

Modifications

no

Ansible version

Irrelevant

Operating system

Irrelevant

Web browser

No response

Steps to reproduce

Disconnect a node (terminate/shutdown) from AWX, then observer /api/v2/metrics endpoint.

Expected results

It's expected to have the node removed from AWX metrics endpoint when they are disconnected and gone in AWX GUI and /api/v2/instances endpoint.

Actual results

Node not removed, seeing old data (same node but different uuid as it's now reconnected, hence a different uuid was granted).

Additional information

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[thedoubl3j]

@bettyhey we don't know of any work arounds for and this is a legitimate issue. could you close this and open an enhancement request with similar information so that we can track it better since this is not a bug but a lack of coverage.

[fosterseth]

if you have a different way of detecting when nodes are down permanently, you might be able to log into a running task container and run the awx-manage deprovision_instance command to delete it from the database and those entries should go away