Debug Ingestion

Debug ingestion in Logfire

The ingester ships spans to Logfire under service_name = 'haiku-ingester' (or a custom OTEL_SERVICE_NAME if set per process). This skill finds failing jobs, traces a document through the pipeline, and pinpoints the docling-serve instance that served a request. Read-only.

How to query

1. Confirm the current schema with mcp__logfire__query_schema_reference (spans and logs share the records table).
2. Run SQL with mcp__logfire__query_run (query + project: "haiku" + start_timestamp/end_timestamp, max 14 days). The remote MCP is org-scoped, so project is required; the ingester ships to project haiku. The same SQL works pasted into Logfire's Explore UI.
3. Read span attributes as JSON: attributes->>'key', cast when needed ((attributes->>'attempt')::int).
4. Hand back a clickable trace with mcp__logfire__project_logfire_link(trace_id, project="haiku").
5. For recent exceptions tied to a file, mcp__logfire__query_find_exceptions_in_file accepts client/documents.py, ingester/workers/pool.py, or ingester/pollers/base.py.

Adjust service_name if the operator set OTEL_SERVICE_NAME (e.g. per tenant). Interactive haiku-rag ingests emit the same document.* spans under the CLI's service name (or unknown_service for older runs), not haiku-ingester.

Vocabulary

Span tree (all scope haiku.rag), each level nests under the one above and shares its trace_id:

• Poller: ingester.poller.sweep | ingester.poller.dry_run | ingester.poller.watch_event.
  • attributes->>'source_id'; watch adds change, uri.
  • sweep sets skipped, skip_reason (pending_work / circuit_open), upsert, delete, unchanged, consecutive_failures. A failed sweep records the exception on the span (exception_type / exception_message).
• Job: ingester.job — attributes->>'source_id', ->>'uri', ->>'op' (UPSERT/DELETE), (->>'attempt')::int. is_exception=true marks a job that raised.
• Document pipeline: document.fetch (bytes, content_hash), document.convert, document.chunk (chunks_created), document.embed, document.store (op create/update, document_id).
• docling-serve: docling_serve.request — attributes->>'name' (operation), ->>'url' (instance), (->>'attempt')::int. A retry emits a new span with a different url, so failover shows as sibling spans.

Failures in Logfire are span-level: sweep and job exceptions sit on the span (is_exception, exception_type, exception_message, level >= 17). A job that raised PermanentError was dead-lettered on that attempt; attempt >= 2 on an ingester.job span is a retry. The worker circuit breaker opening emits a dedicated event span_name = 'ingester.worker breaker opened' (attributes source_id, threshold, cooldown_s), fired once per closed->open transition. The ingester's per-job dead/reschedule narration stays on stderr and the queue (GET /jobs?status=dead on the control-plane API), not Logfire.

Canned queries

Job outcomes by source:

SELECT attributes->>'source_id' AS source_id,
       attributes->>'op' AS op,
       is_exception,
       count(*) AS n
FROM records
WHERE service_name='haiku-ingester' AND span_name='ingester.job'
GROUP BY 1,2,3
ORDER BY n DESC;

Failed jobs with the exception and trace to drill in:

SELECT attributes->>'uri' AS uri,
       (attributes->>'attempt')::int AS attempt,
       exception_type, exception_message, trace_id
FROM records
WHERE service_name='haiku-ingester' AND span_name='ingester.job'
  AND is_exception=true
ORDER BY start_timestamp DESC
LIMIT 50;

Retried and dead-lettered jobs (a PermanentError was dead-lettered on that attempt; TransientError at a high attempt was retried):

SELECT attributes->>'uri' AS uri,
       (attributes->>'attempt')::int AS attempt,
       attributes->>'op' AS op,
       exception_type, trace_id
FROM records
WHERE service_name='haiku-ingester' AND span_name='ingester.job'
  AND (is_exception=true OR (attributes->>'attempt')::int > 1)
ORDER BY start_timestamp DESC
LIMIT 50;

Trace one document end-to-end (take trace_id from a job above):

SELECT span_name, duration, is_exception,
       attributes->>'url' AS docling_url,
       attributes->>'op' AS op
FROM records
WHERE trace_id='<TRACE_ID>'
ORDER BY start_timestamp;

Worker circuit-breaker trips (a source paused after consecutive transient failures):

SELECT start_timestamp,
       attributes->>'source_id' AS source_id,
       (attributes->>'cooldown_s')::float AS cooldown_s
FROM records
WHERE service_name='haiku-ingester'
  AND span_name='ingester.worker breaker opened'
ORDER BY start_timestamp DESC
LIMIT 50;

docling-serve instance health and failover:

SELECT attributes->>'url' AS instance,
       (attributes->>'attempt')::int AS attempt,
       is_exception,
       count(*) AS n
FROM records
WHERE service_name='haiku-ingester' AND span_name='docling_serve.request'
GROUP BY 1,2,3
ORDER BY n DESC;

Slowest pipeline stages:

SELECT span_name,
       attributes->>'uri' AS uri,
       duration, trace_id
FROM records
WHERE service_name='haiku-ingester'
  AND span_name IN ('document.convert','docling_serve.request','document.embed','document.chunk')
ORDER BY duration DESC
LIMIT 20;

Per-source sweep summary:

SELECT attributes->>'source_id' AS source_id,
       sum((attributes->>'upsert')::int) AS upserts,
       sum((attributes->>'delete')::int) AS deletes,
       sum((attributes->>'unchanged')::int) AS unchanged,
       max(attributes->>'skip_reason') AS last_skip_reason
FROM records
WHERE service_name='haiku-ingester' AND span_name='ingester.poller.sweep'
GROUP BY 1;

Tell concurrent ingesters apart (set distinct OTEL_SERVICE_NAME per process; a single host still separates by process_pid / service_instance_id):

SELECT service_name, service_instance_id, process_pid, count(*) AS n
FROM records
WHERE span_name='ingester.job'
GROUP BY 1,2,3
ORDER BY n DESC;

Workflow

1. Job outcomes by source shows where failures cluster.
2. Failed jobs surfaces the exception and each failing trace_id.
3. Trace one document end-to-end to see which stage failed and, for a docling source, which docling_url served it (and whether it failed over).
4. Retried/dead-lettered jobs show what the queue kept struggling with; a ingester.worker breaker opened event flags a source the pool paused. The per-job dead/reschedule narration stays in the ingester console and the queue API, not Logfire.
5. project_logfire_link(trace_id) for a document lets the user expand the full tree.

When a query returns nothing

Span names or attributes may have changed. Probe:

SELECT DISTINCT span_name
FROM records WHERE service_name='haiku-ingester'
ORDER BY 1;