Write Agent Health E2e

Parse the argument

$ARGUMENTS must be the name of an existing issue module directory under comp/healthplatform/issues/.

If $ARGUMENTS is empty or not provided, stop immediately and ask:

Which health platform issue module should I write the E2E test for? Available modules: run ls comp/healthplatform/issues/ to list them.

Once you have the module name, set:

• MODULE = $ARGUMENTS (e.g. rofspermissions)
• MODULE_PATH = comp/healthplatform/issues/$MODULE/
• TEST_FILE = test/new-e2e/tests/agent-health/{module}_test.go

Verify $MODULE_PATH exists before proceeding:

ls comp/healthplatform/issues/$MODULE/

If the directory does not exist, stop and tell the user which modules are available.

Step 1 — Read the issue module

Read both files before writing anything:

$MODULE_PATH/module.go — extract:

• IssueID constant → used as const issueID in the test
• IssueName constant → asserted as issue.IssueName in the test
• Whether BuiltInPeriodicHealthCheck() returns non-nil → agent runs the check on a schedule
• Whether BuiltInStartupHealthCheck() returns non-nil → check runs once at startup
• Both returning nil → issues are pushed externally by the collector (like checkfailure)

$MODULE_PATH/issue.go — extract the exact values returned by BuildIssue():

• Category, Source, Location, Severity, Tags → assert these in IssueDetection
• Whether Remediation is non-nil and has Summary/Steps → assert those too

If a check.go file exists in the module, read it to understand how the issue is triggered (what system condition causes it).

Step 2 — Choose the environment

Do not implement Diagnose() on the env — all assertions go through fakeintake only.

The healthPlatformAgentConfig const is already defined in check_failure_test.go (same package) — do not redefine it.

Step 3 — Write $TEST_FILE

// Unless explicitly stated otherwise all files in this repository are licensed
// under the Apache License Version 2.0.
// This product includes software developed at Datadog (https://www.datadoghq.com/).
// Copyright 2025-present Datadog, Inc.

package agenthealth

import (
    "testing"
    "time"

    "github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
    "github.com/stretchr/testify/require"

    "github.com/DataDog/agent-payload/v5/healthplatform"

    "github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/test/e2e-framework/components/datadog/agentparams"
    "github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/test/e2e-framework/scenarios/aws/ec2"
    "github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/test/e2e-framework/testing/e2e"
    "github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/test/e2e-framework/testing/environments"
    awshost "github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/test/e2e-framework/testing/provisioners/aws/host"
)

type {module}Suite struct {
    e2e.BaseSuite[environments.Host]
}

func Test{Module}Suite(t *testing.T) {
    t.Parallel()
    e2e.Run(t, &{module}Suite{},
        e2e.WithProvisioner(awshost.Provisioner(
            awshost.WithRunOptions(
                ec2.WithAgentOptions(
                    agentparams.WithAgentConfig(healthPlatformAgentConfig),
                    // add agentparams here to pre-configure the issue trigger if needed
                ),
            ),
        )),
    )
}

// Test{Module}IssueLifecycle verifies that <describe trigger condition> is detected
// in fakeintake as NEW, and that <describe fix> causes the issue to stop being
// reported (or be reported as RESOLVED).
//
// Cross-restart persistence is tested separately in TestResilienceSuite.
func (suite *{module}Suite) Test{Module}IssueLifecycle() {
    // only declare host/agent if needed for runtime trigger/fix steps
    fakeIntake := suite.Env().FakeIntake.Client()

    const issueID = "<IssueID from module.go>"

    suite.T().Run("IssueDetection", func(t *testing.T) {
        // if the issue is not pre-configured by the provisioner, trigger it here:
        // suite.Env().RemoteHost.MustExecute("sudo ...")

        var issues []*healthplatform.Issue
        require.EventuallyWithT(t, func(ct *assert.CollectT) {
            payloads, err := fakeIntake.GetAgentHealth()
            assert.NoError(ct, err)
            issues = nil
            for _, p := range payloads {
                for _, iss := range findIssuesByID(t, p, issueID) {
                    if iss.PersistedIssue != nil && iss.PersistedIssue.State == healthplatform.IssueState_ISSUE_STATE_NEW {
                        issues = append(issues, iss)
                    }
                }
            }
            assert.NotEmpty(ct, issues, "issue not found as NEW in fakeintake")
        }, defaultIssueTimeout, defaultIssuePollInterval, "issue not detected as NEW in fakeintake")

        require.NotEmpty(t, issues)
        issue := issues[0]
        // assert values read from issue.go:
        assert.Equal(t, "<IssueName>", issue.IssueName)
        assert.Equal(t, "<Category>", issue.Category)
        assert.Equal(t, "<Source>", issue.Source)
        // assert.Equal(t, "<Location>", issue.Location)  // if Location is set
        assert.Contains(t, issue.Tags, "<tag>")
        require.NotNil(t, issue.Remediation)
        assert.NotEmpty(t, issue.Remediation.Summary)
    })

    suite.T().Run("Resolution", func(t *testing.T) {
        // Option A — fix via config change (preferred): UpdateEnv handles restart + wait
        suite.UpdateEnv(awshost.Provisioner(
            awshost.WithRunOptions(
                ec2.WithAgentOptions(
                    agentparams.WithAgentConfig(healthPlatformAgentConfig),
                    // agentparams that represent the fixed state
                ),
            ),
        ))
        require.NoError(t, fakeIntake.FlushServerAndResetAggregators())

        // Option B — fix via runtime action (e.g. chmod), then manual restart:
        // suite.Env().RemoteHost.MustExecute("sudo ...")
        // require.NoError(t, suite.Env().Agent.Client.Restart())
        // require.EventuallyWithT(t, func(ct *assert.CollectT) {
        //     assert.True(ct, suite.Env().Agent.Client.IsReady())
        // }, 2*time.Minute, 10*time.Second, "agent not ready after fix")
        // require.NoError(t, fakeIntake.FlushServerAndResetAggregators())

        require.Never(t, func() bool {
            payloads, _ := fakeIntake.GetAgentHealth()
            for _, p := range payloads {
                for _, iss := range findIssuesByID(t, p, issueID) {
                    if iss.PersistedIssue == nil || iss.PersistedIssue.State != healthplatform.IssueState_ISSUE_STATE_RESOLVED {
                        return true
                    }
                }
            }
            return false
        }, defaultIssueAbsenceWindow, defaultIssuePollInterval,
            "issue still reported as non-resolved after fix")
    })
}

If the issue ID includes a runtime-generated suffix (e.g. check-execution-failure:broken_check:<hash>): replace findIssuesByID(t, p, issueID) with findIssuesByPrefix(p, issueID) and drop the t parameter.

Step 4 — Fixture rules

Never re-declare healthPlatformAgentConfig — it is already a const in check_failure_test.go.

Step 5 — Rules (never break these)

• Flush order: restart or UpdateEnv first → wait for agent ready → FlushServerAndResetAggregators(). Never flush before restarting.
• No resilience phase: RestartResilience is covered once in TestResilienceSuite. Do not add it here.
• No diagnose assertions: assert only through fakeintake state (ISSUE_STATE_NEW, ISSUE_STATE_RESOLVED).
• No shared lifecycle driver: phases (IssueDetection, Resolution) are always inline in the test method.
• No agent-ready wait at suite start: the framework guarantees the agent is ready before the first test method runs.
• No Diagnose() on the env struct.
• Always call t.Parallel(): the first line of every Test{Module}Suite function must be t.Parallel() so the suite can run concurrently with others.

Step 6 — Verify and report

dda inv linter.go --targets=test/new-e2e/tests/agent-health
dda inv new-e2e-tests.run --targets=./tests/agent-health/... --run=^Test{Module}Suite$

Tell the user:

• The file that was created
• How to run the test locally: dda inv new-e2e-tests.run --targets=./tests/agent-health/... --run=^Test{Module}Suite$
• Any fixtures that need to be created in fixtures/

Source: DataDog/datadog-agent — distributed by TomeVault.