Mock mode seeded rich in-memory chart history but passed a nil store to the
seeder and the live tick, so the sqlite metrics store held almost nothing:
vmware/truenas/docker resources got one row per poll from the platform
ingestion paths and mock Proxmox guests got nothing at all (the unified sync
skips every resource in mock mode). Performance reports rendered
"Data Points: 0" for PVE guests and "Samples: 1" elsewhere, with no charts.
Re-enable store seeding behind an explicit PULSE_MOCK_SEED_METRICS_STORE
opt-in that scripts/hot-dev.sh and scripts/toggle-mock.sh export exactly
where they point PULSE_DATA_DIR at the isolated tmp/mock-data dir. Without
the opt-in (a production install flipping PULSE_MOCK_MODE on its real data
dir) the store stays untouched, which is what the old nil guard protected.
Replace the dormant dense seeding policy (every in-memory timestamp written
to both hourly and daily tiers, ~11M rows at current fixture scale) with
tier-correct backfill driven by the deterministic mock.SampleMetric runtime:
daily 30d at 4h spacing, hourly 7d at 2h, minute 24h at 15m, raw left to the
live tick (now also store-connected under the opt-in). Timestamps sit on the
spacing grid and a new Store.MaxTimestampsForTier coverage query fills only
the gap since the previous boot, so restarts neither duplicate rows nor
re-pay the seed: a fresh seed wrote 264,960 rows in 8.4s (71MB) and a
restart wrote only the gap plus fixture series whose mock IDs are not
boot-stable (k8s pod names, ceph FSID, a pre-existing generator defect).
Verified live in mock mode: 30-day PDF reports for a mock PVE VM
(checkout-web-01), a vSphere VM, the TrueNAS host, and a Docker container
now show 1260/1260/1260/540 data points with rendered time-series charts.
On a Proxmox node, physical disks collected by the host agent were keyed by
the NVMe controller (e.g. "nvme0 [nvme]") instead of the namespace, reported
sizeBytes 0 (or a stale filesystem-usage value), and flickered as the agent
reading intermittently replaced the authoritative Proxmox disks/list reading.
Root causes:
- smartctl --scan-open reports NVMe disks by their controller char device
(/dev/nvme0), and that scan label became the reported devPath.
- DiskSMART carried no capacity, so the server backfilled size by matching the
SMART device against host filesystem-usage entries, which never match a whole
partitioned/LVM/ZFS disk, leaving size 0.
- The unified-resource merge let the agent's controller label overwrite the
canonical Proxmox /dev/... devPath.
Fixes:
- The agent now reports the canonical block device (an NVMe controller resolves
to its namespace) and the authoritative capacity from /sys/block, with the
smartctl user_capacity / nvme_total_capacity as a cross-platform fallback.
Disks behind multiplexing controllers (megaraid, cciss, areca) keep their
disambiguating label and smartctl-reported size.
- SizeBytes flows through the agent report, host model, and adapter; the
filesystem-usage match is demoted to a legacy fallback.
- The merge keeps a canonical /dev/<device> devPath and never downgrades it to
a scan label, so an un-updated agent can no longer corrupt Proxmox data.
Refs #1483.
rcourtman