feat(sensing-server): opt-in OpenTelemetry log export with a weaver-checked ruview.* registry

[jensholdgaard]

What

Opt-in OpenTelemetry logs export for the sensing server, with a curated set of sensing events under a ruview.* namespace whose names and attribute keys are defined in a semantic-conventions registry and enforced in CI:

• semconv/registry/ — a weaver-validated (0.23, registry check --future) OTel semantic-conventions registry: 13 attributes and 8 log event names, all stability: development, with requirement levels on the event attribute refs and enums mirroring the code's actual value sets (the adaptive classifier's class list, the sensing source labels).

• src/semconv.rs — Rust constants generated from the registry (weaver registry generate, template under templates/registry/rust/). The new semconv workflow pins weaver v0.23.0 by sha256, validates the registry, regenerates the module, and fails on drift (codegen no-diff).

• src/telemetry.rs — tracing bootstrap with optional OTLP export, doubly gated:

  1. build: a new otel cargo feature (same gating principle as mqtt) keeps the opentelemetry 0.32 stack out of the default binary;
  2. runtime: even with the feature, export only activates when OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set.

  Unset ⇒ the OTLP pipeline is never constructed and behavior is byte-identical to today's stderr fmt subscriber. When enabled, every tracing event exports as an OTel log record (service.name = "ruview") with a telemetry-induced-telemetry loop guard muting the exporter's own crates.

• docker/otel-compose.yml + docs/observability.md — a one-command demo pipeline (sensing server on synthetic CSI → OTel Collector → an OTLP log backend) and the guide.

Why

The sensing server already narrates the interesting moments (presence flips, vitals, node churn, falls, MQTT failures) as free-text log lines. Giving the highest-value ones stable, registry-backed event names and attributes makes them consumable by any OTLP collector/backend — dashboards, alerting on ruview.fall.detected, per-node filtering — without scraping stderr, and the weaver CI gate keeps the schema from drifting silently.

The events

Event	Emitted when
ruview.node.online	first frame from a sensing node (CSI or edge-vitals path)
ruview.node.offline	node evicted after 60 s without frames (now logged per node id)
ruview.presence.changed	smoothed presence classification flips — transition-only, from all five SensingUpdate publish paths via one helper
ruview.vitals.estimate	breathing / heart-rate estimate with confidences, every 100 ticks
ruview.csi.stats	capture snapshot (frames processed, active nodes), every 100 ticks
ruview.fall.detected	edge-vitals fall flag, edge-triggered per node
ruview.mqtt.error	HA publisher publish/connect failures
ruview.model.loaded	model loaded via the model-management API

Rate discipline: nothing new logs at frame rate — transitions and the 100-tick cadence only.

Deliberate omissions: ruview.room and ruview.mesh.channel were considered but not added — the registry only defines attributes for data this crate actually has (rooms live in the calibration crate; channel isn't in the frame structs).

Verification

• cargo check -p wifi-densepose-sensing-server — default features, --features otel,mqtt, and --all-targets: clean (only pre-existing warnings, verified against the base commit). Each commit in this PR builds independently (default features checked at every commit boundary).
• weaver registry check --future: pass; the generate + rustfmt cycle is hash-stable, so the CI no-diff gate is sound.
• Runtime smoke: with the endpoint unset the binary behaves identically; with the endpoint set and no backend listening it runs without panic (export retries in the background).
• End-to-end: ran the instrumented server (--source simulated) against a real OTLP logs backend — we dogfood with Ourios, but the export is backend-neutral and works with any OTLP collector/backend. Logs arrived under service.name = ruview, the curated events came through with their registry names/attributes, and template-level queries (event frequency by mined log template, severity >= warn filtering, log-template drift between time windows) answered correctly.

Caveats (honest limits)

• The sensing server has no graceful-shutdown path, so the final OTLP batch flush on kill is best-effort (the guard's Drop never runs on SIGKILL/SIGTERM); the periodic batch export bounds the loss to the last export interval.
• docker/otel-compose.yml and docker/otel-collector.yaml are parser-validated only (no docker CLI on the dev machine); the same env/feature path was verified end-to-end outside compose as described above.

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[ruvnet]

The opt-in exporter and registry direction looks useful, but I found three correctness/contract gaps that should be addressed before merge:

1. The default behavior is not actually unchanged. The new info!/warn! call sites are compiled and sent through the existing fmt subscriber even without the otel feature or endpoint. That means the issue's “nothing is emitted unless the exporter is configured” promise is false and default stderr volume/behavior changes. Either gate the curated emissions with the opt-in feature/runtime state, or revise the contract and explicitly test/document the default logging change.
2. ruview.node.online can be skipped for normal CSI nodes. The SyncPacket handler creates node_states[node_id] at main.rs:6076; the first CSI frame later emits online only when !node_states.contains_key(&node_id) at main.rs:6225. A node that sends sync before CSI therefore never emits the promised first-frame online event. Track first data-frame observation separately (or test last_frame_time/an explicit flag) and add a regression test for sync → first CSI.
3. The claimed semconv enforcement is incomplete. Event names use generated constants, but attribute keys remain hard-coded string literals at the call sites, and generated SCHEMA_URL is never attached to the OTel resource (telemetry.rs:88 only sets service.name). Weaver/codegen can therefore stay green while emitted attributes drift from the registry, and consumers receive no schema URL. Please wire or otherwise validate the emitted keys and attach the registry schema URL (or narrow the documented contract if the SDK cannot represent it).

I have not treated the contributor-hosted demo backend as a blocker, but pinning demo container images by digest would make the one-command pipeline more reproducible and reduce tag-mutation risk.

[ruvnet]

Thank you @jensholdgaard — this work has been imported, security-hardened, and merged via #1465. Your authorship is preserved in the merged commit. The replacement keeps OTLP export explicitly opt-in, adds TLS roots and a resolvable schema contract, fixes first-CSI lifecycle reporting, pins demo images, and adds registry/codegen drift checks. Closing this PR as superseded by #1465.