verify

name	verify
description	Drive CrowTelemetry's OTLP ingest end-to-end — boot the real receiver, POST OTLP JSON with curl, inspect the SQLite db.

Verifying CrowTelemetry changes

The package's runtime surface is TelemetryService (OTLPReceiver HTTP listener on localhost + TelemetryDatabase SQLite file). There is no standalone binary — build a throwaway harness executable that depends on this package and boots the service:

// Sources/otlp-harness/main.swift — usage: otlp-harness <port> <data-dir>
import Foundation
import CrowTelemetry
let service = try TelemetryService(port: UInt16(CommandLine.arguments[1])!,
                                   dataDirectory: CommandLine.arguments[2]) { id in
    print("[harness] data received for session \(id)")
}
Task { try await service.start() }
dispatchMain()

Harness Package.swift: swift-tools-version 6.0, platforms: [.macOS(.v14)], .package(path: "<repo>/Packages/CrowTelemetry"). Build with swift build, run in the background, then drive it.

Gotchas:

• Ingest is OTLP HTTP/JSON only (OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=http/json), paths /v1/metrics and /v1/logs, POST only. One request per connection (the receiver closes it after responding). Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding: chunked both work; a compressed body or a non-JSON Content-Type is rejected by name.

• Content-Type: application/json is required on POST — the receiver fails closed. Pass it explicitly with curl, which otherwise sends application/x-www-form-urlencoded for -d and gets a 400:

  curl -X POST http://localhost:<port>/v1/logs \
       -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary @payload.json
  

• The resource must carry crow.session.id (a UUID string) in resource.attributes, or the payload is silently skipped.

• Datapoint values: asDouble (number) or asInt (string or number).

• Sum metrics take aggregationTemporality (1=delta, 2=cumulative, or the AGGREGATION_TEMPORALITY_* name) and isMonotonic; cumulative sums are normalized to deltas at insert.

• Decoding is deliberately tolerant (#823): scalars are accepted in either their number or string form, and a malformed record is skipped with a skipped malformed N logRecords log line rather than failing the export.

• Event names arrive bare in the event.name attribute (user_prompt); they are qualified to claude_code.user_prompt at ingest, which is the form countEvents and turnAnalytics match on.

• Decode failures log the DecodingError coding path, which names the offending field. Set CROW_TELEMETRY_LOG_RAW_BODIES=1 to also log a truncated raw body — off by default because bodies carry account IDs and emails. Repeat failures are throttled to one report per minute per path.

Minimal payload:

{"resourceMetrics":[{"resource":{"attributes":[{"key":"crow.session.id","value":{"stringValue":"<UUID>"}}]},
 "scopeMetrics":[{"metrics":[{"name":"claude_code.cost.usage",
   "sum":{"aggregationTemporality":2,"isMonotonic":true,"dataPoints":[{"asDouble":1.0}]}}]}]}]}

Observe results with the sqlite3 CLI against <data-dir>/telemetry.db: SELECT metric_name, value, attributes_json FROM metrics ORDER BY id and compare SUM(value) per metric to the expected total. Events land in the events table via /v1/logs.