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This PR introduces a generalized analytics publishing architecture by adding an OpenTelemetry (OTLP) publisher alongside the existing Moesif implementation making it more extensible and reliable by enabling OpenTelemetry-based exports to platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, Elastic, Dynatrace, and Grafana. It also implements a fault classification system for API gateway errors and improves cache hit tracking.

The main changes include:

  • OpenTelemetry publisher: Supports asynchronous, batched analytics export over OTLP/HTTP, with retries, backoff, compression, TLS, queue management, and configurable overflow handling.
  • Fault classification: Adds consistent categorization of gateway errors into AUTH, THROTTLED, TARGET_CONNECTIVITY, and OTHER, shared across analytics publishers.
  • Improved cache tracking: Analytics now correctly identifies responses served from the gateway cache.
  • AI/MCP analytics: Adds request model tracking, JSON-RPC request IDs, and improved MCP resource/tool/prompt identification.
  • Configuration: Adds comprehensive OTLP publisher configuration with startup validation for endpoints, queues, retries, compression, and TLS.
  • Metrics: Adds Prometheus metrics for successful publishing, dropped events, queue utilization, export latency, and errors.
  • Architecture: Uses a non-blocking queue and single worker for exporting analytics, ensuring analytics processing does not block the main gateway path.
  • Testing: Adds extensive tests covering the OTLP publisher, retries, TLS, compression, queue behavior, metrics, configuration, AI metadata, and MCP routing.
  • Config/build updates: Updates the configuration template and policy build manifest.

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The change adds OpenTelemetry analytics export with batching, retries, TLS, compression, and metrics. It adds Envoy fault classification, richer MCP metadata, query-free analytics paths, cache-hit tracking, and Moesif fault fields. It also updates the advanced-ratelimit policy version.

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Analytics observability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Event metadata and MCP analytics
gateway/gateway-controller/..., gateway/gateway-runtime/..., gateway/system-policies/analytics/*
Analytics events now include response content type, cache-hit status, query-free paths, request model IDs, MCP JSON-RPC IDs, capability targets, and resource URIs.
Fault classification and Moesif metadata
gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/fault.go, gateway/gateway-runtime/.../analytics.go, gateway/gateway-runtime/.../publishers/moesif.go
Envoy response flags and gateway-generated status codes map to fault categories. Prepared events and Moesif metadata include fault details when applicable.
OpenTelemetry configuration and metrics
gateway/configs/config-template.toml, gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/config/*, gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/metrics/metrics.go, kubernetes/helm/gateway-helm-chart/templates/gateway/gateway-config.yaml
Configuration and Helm rendering support OTLP/HTTP endpoints, queues, retries, compression, TLS, mTLS, resource attributes, and transport validation. Publisher metrics are registered.
OpenTelemetry publisher pipeline
gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/*, gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/analytics.go
The publisher queues and batches analytics events, exports OTLP/HTTP records, handles retries and partial success, applies gzip and TLS settings, and records metrics. Tests cover the pipeline.

Policy manifest update

Layer / File(s) Summary
Advanced ratelimit version
gateway/build-manifest.yaml
The advanced-ratelimit policy version changes from v1.1.2 to v1.2.0.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PolicyEngine
  participant OTel
  participant Queue
  participant Collector
  PolicyEngine->>OTel: Publish analytics event
  OTel->>Queue: Enqueue event
  OTel->>OTel: Batch and retry export
  OTel->>Collector: Send OTLP/HTTP logs
  Collector-->>OTel: Return success or partial success
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b2ad8

OTLP deployments can expose export credentials when plaintext transport is enabled, and analytics records may contain inaccurate identifiers or attribution. These issues should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.

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Actionable comments posted: 8

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gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/otel.go (1)

454-460: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Operator headers can override Content-Type and Content-Encoding.

The loop applies cfg.Headers after the two protocol headers. A configured header named Content-Type or Content-Encoding replaces the value this publisher set. The collector then rejects every batch, or fails to inflate a gzip body. Set the protocol headers after the loop so they always win.

♻️ Proposed fix
-	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-	if o.gzip {
-		req.Header.Set("Content-Encoding", "gzip")
-	}
 	for k, v := range o.cfg.Headers {
 		req.Header.Set(k, v)
 	}
+	// Set last so a configured header cannot override the wire format.
+	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	if o.gzip {
+		req.Header.Set("Content-Encoding", "gzip")
+	}
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In `@gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/otel.go`
around lines 454 - 460, Update the request-header setup so the cfg.Headers loop
runs before the publisher assigns Content-Type and, when gzip is enabled,
Content-Encoding; ensure these protocol headers are set last and cannot be
overridden by operator configuration.
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Inline comments:
In `@gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/otel.go`:
- Around line 163-166: Update validateOTelPublisherConfig around the existing
plaintext HTTP warning to reject non-loopback http:// endpoints when cfg.Headers
is non-empty, preventing post from sending credentials over plaintext; retain
the current warning-only behavior when no headers are configured.
- Around line 1104-1112: Update the packaged collector configuration’s
service.pipelines section to add a logs pipeline that uses the existing OTLP
receiver and intended exporter, alongside the traces pipeline. Ensure records
sent to /v1/logs are processed without changing the otelLogRecord encoding.
- Around line 889-891: Update appendAIAttributes to emit gen_ai.operation.name
only when the event API type is LlmProvider or LlmProxy; retain the existing
otelGenAIOperationName mapping and attribute behavior for those event types,
while suppressing it for all other routes and API types.

In `@gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/config/config.go`:
- Around line 1570-1575: Update the endpoint validation around url.Parse in the
OTel configuration flow to reject any URL with non-nil userinfo (u.User), before
accepting the endpoint scheme. Preserve credential-free HTTP and HTTPS
endpoints, and direct users to provide credentials through Headers instead.
- Around line 1574-1575: The validateOTelPublisherConfig validation currently
permits plaintext HTTP OTLP endpoints without explicit opt-in. Require
allow_insecure_transport for HTTP endpoints (or otherwise reject HTTP by
default), update the packaged OTel default to use HTTPS or the opt-in setting,
and adjust the related validation and configuration tests accordingly.
- Around line 1648-1649: Before each client certificate/key load in the OTel TLS
configuration paths, validate that cfg.KeyFile is a regular file and has no
group or other permission bits; return an error and stop startup when validation
fails. Apply this consistently around every tls.LoadX509KeyPair call, including
the shown config flow, while preserving the existing certificate-loading
behavior.

In `@gateway/system-policies/analytics/analytics.go`:
- Around line 430-433: Update the capability assignment logic around
deriveMCPCapability so CapabilityName is populated only for explicit
McpCapabilityTool or McpCapabilityPrompt values; retain ResourceUri handling for
McpCapabilityResource and leave both target fields empty for unrecognized
capabilities. Add a regression case covering an unknown method with params.name.
- Line 424: Update the JSON-RPC payload decoding and ID assignment near
props.JsonRpcID so numeric IDs retain their exact representation: configure the
decoder with UseNumber, handle json.Number values, and store their String()
result instead of converting through float64/int64. Add regression tests
covering both a large integer ID and a non-integer ID.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/otel.go`:
- Around line 454-460: Update the request-header setup so the cfg.Headers loop
runs before the publisher assigns Content-Type and, when gzip is enabled,
Content-Encoding; ensure these protocol headers are set last and cannot be
overridden by operator configuration.

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  • gateway/build-manifest.yaml
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  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/analytics.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/fault.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/fault_test.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/moesif.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/moesif_test.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/otel.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/otel_test.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/sink_factory.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/sink_http.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/sink_http_test.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/config/config.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/config/otel_publisher_test.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/constants/constants.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/metrics/metrics.go
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Actionable comments posted: 2

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gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/config/config.go (1)

1658-1660: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Security Misconfiguration

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Apply verifyTLSKeyPerms to the traffic-log TLS path.

When cfg.CertFile is set, call verifyTLSKeyPerms before tls.LoadX509KeyPair so traffic_logging.http.tls also enforces GO-AUTH-018.

♻️ Proposed change in validateTrafficLogHTTPTLS
	if cfg.CertFile != "" {
		if err := verifyTLSKeyPerms("key_file", cfg.KeyFile); err != nil {
			return err
		}
		if _, err := tls.LoadX509KeyPair(cfg.CertFile, cfg.KeyFile); err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("cannot load client certificate/key pair: %w", err)
		}
	}
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In `@gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/config/config.go` around lines
1658 - 1660, Update validateTrafficLogHTTPTLS so that when cfg.CertFile is set,
it calls verifyTLSKeyPerms with the key-file field and cfg.KeyFile before
tls.LoadX509KeyPair, returning any validation error before attempting to load
the certificate pair.

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Inline comments:
In `@gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/analytics.go`:
- Around line 350-351: Sanitize the value from request.GetOriginalPath() by
removing its query component before assigning it to
Operation.APIResourceTemplate, matching the existing requestPath handling. Add a
regression case covering an OriginalPath with query data while Path has none,
and verify the exported http.route contains only the path.

In
`@gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/config/otel_publisher_test.go`:
- Around line 119-124: Update OTelPublisherConfig.Validate to reject
configurations combining AllowInsecureTransport=true with non-empty Headers,
preventing credential headers from being sent over plaintext; retain the
existing allowed HTTP case when no headers are configured and add a regression
test covering the rejected credentialed configuration.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/config/config.go`:
- Around line 1658-1660: Update validateTrafficLogHTTPTLS so that when
cfg.CertFile is set, it calls verifyTLSKeyPerms with the key-file field and
cfg.KeyFile before tls.LoadX509KeyPair, returning any validation error before
attempting to load the certificate pair.

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  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/otel.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/analytics/publishers/otel_test.go
  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/config/config.go
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  • gateway/gateway-runtime/policy-engine/internal/config/otel_publisher_toml_test.go
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