A full local go test run on 2026-06-11 failed pkg/metrics while vite
builds were saturating the machine. Reproduced under synthetic 8-core
load: only the TestSLO_* wall-clock p95 assertions failed, never the
functional tests. A latency budget measured on a shared dev machine
cannot distinguish host contention from a code regression; load storms
inflated medians up to ~4x with no code change, so no absolute
threshold separates the two.
Route the latency SLO assertions (pkg/metrics, internal/api,
internal/monitoring) and the load/stress perf assertions (internal/api)
through helpers that keep strict enforcement on GitHub Actions runners
(controlled environment, existing hosted-runner envelopes unchanged)
and skip locally on overrun, printing the full p50/p95/p99
distribution in the skip message. A local pass still means the budget
was genuinely met. Error-response and correctness checks remain hard
failures. CI -race runs are unaffected: these tests already skip under
the race detector.
Verified: pkg/metrics, internal/api, and internal/monitoring all pass
with 8 CPU burners saturating the host, the scenario that previously
turned TestSLO_RollupTierBatchedFleet and four other budget tests red.
rcourtman