Make info gatherer monitors resilient with retry loops and timeouts (#1448)

## Motivation

Info gatherer monitors could silently stop posting events, causing stale
node state after rejoins. The macmon monitor was especially fragile — it
had no retry loop, so a crash or parse error would kill it permanently.
Worse, the unhandled exception would propagate to the TaskGroup and take
down *all* sibling monitors. Additionally, none of the monitors had
timeouts on their subprocess calls, so a hung `system_profiler` or
`networksetup` could stall a monitor indefinitely.

## Changes

- Wrap `_monitor_macmon` in a `while True` retry loop with `except
Exception`, matching the pattern used by all other monitors
- Add `fail_after` timeouts to all monitor loop bodies:
- 10s for lightweight commands (`_monitor_misc`, `_watch_system_info`,
`_gather_iface_map` init)
- 30s for heavier commands (`_monitor_system_profiler_thunderbolt_data`,
`_monitor_thunderbolt_bridge_status`)
- Remove unused `CalledProcessError` and `cast` imports

## Why It Works

All monitors now follow the same resilient pattern: `while True` → `try`
with `fail_after` → `except Exception` (logs warning) → `sleep`. If a
subprocess hangs, the timeout fires and `TimeoutError` is caught by the
existing `except Exception` handler. If macmon crashes, it restarts
after the interval instead of dying permanently. No single monitor
failure can cascade to kill the others.

## Test Plan

### Manual Testing
<!-- Hardware: macOS with macmon installed -->
<!-- What you did: -->
- Run exo, kill macmon process (`kill $(pgrep macmon)`), verify it
restarts and metrics resume
- Verify all monitors continue posting events after simulated hangs

### Automated Testing
- All 188 existing tests pass
- basedpyright: 0 errors
- ruff: all checks passed

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Alex Cheema
2026-02-11 15:07:36 -08:00
committed by GitHub
parent a8acb3cafb
commit 98773437f3
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@@ -420,7 +420,8 @@ class InfoGatherer:
return
while True:
try:
await self.info_sender.send(await MiscData.gather())
with fail_after(10):
await self.info_sender.send(await MiscData.gather())
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"Error gathering misc data: {e}")
await anyio.sleep(self.misc_poll_interval)
@@ -428,20 +429,26 @@ class InfoGatherer:
async def _monitor_system_profiler_thunderbolt_data(self):
if self.system_profiler_interval is None:
return
iface_map = await _gather_iface_map()
if iface_map is None:
return
while True:
try:
data = await ThunderboltConnectivity.gather()
assert data is not None
with fail_after(30):
iface_map = await _gather_iface_map()
if iface_map is None:
raise ValueError("Failed to gather interface map")
idents = [it for i in data if (it := i.ident(iface_map)) is not None]
await self.info_sender.send(MacThunderboltIdentifiers(idents=idents))
data = await ThunderboltConnectivity.gather()
assert data is not None
conns = [it for i in data if (it := i.conn()) is not None]
await self.info_sender.send(MacThunderboltConnections(conns=conns))
idents = [
it for i in data if (it := i.ident(iface_map)) is not None
]
await self.info_sender.send(
MacThunderboltIdentifiers(idents=idents)
)
conns = [it for i in data if (it := i.conn()) is not None]
await self.info_sender.send(MacThunderboltConnections(conns=conns))
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"Error gathering Thunderbolt data: {e}")
await anyio.sleep(self.system_profiler_interval)
@@ -469,8 +476,9 @@ class InfoGatherer:
return
while True:
try:
nics = await get_network_interfaces()
await self.info_sender.send(NodeNetworkInterfaces(ifaces=nics))
with fail_after(10):
nics = await get_network_interfaces()
await self.info_sender.send(NodeNetworkInterfaces(ifaces=nics))
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"Error gathering network interfaces: {e}")
await anyio.sleep(self.interface_watcher_interval)
@@ -480,9 +488,10 @@ class InfoGatherer:
return
while True:
try:
curr = await ThunderboltBridgeInfo.gather()
if curr is not None:
await self.info_sender.send(curr)
with fail_after(30):
curr = await ThunderboltBridgeInfo.gather()
if curr is not None:
await self.info_sender.send(curr)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"Error gathering Thunderbolt Bridge status: {e}")
await anyio.sleep(self.thunderbolt_bridge_poll_interval)
@@ -514,26 +523,35 @@ class InfoGatherer:
if self.macmon_interval is None:
return
# macmon pipe --interval [interval in ms]
try:
async with await open_process(
[macmon_path, "pipe", "--interval", str(self.macmon_interval * 1000)]
) as p:
if not p.stdout:
logger.critical("MacMon closed stdout")
return
async for text in TextReceiveStream(
BufferedByteReceiveStream(p.stdout)
):
await self.info_sender.send(MacmonMetrics.from_raw_json(text))
except CalledProcessError as e:
stderr_msg = "no stderr"
stderr_output = cast(bytes | str | None, e.stderr)
if stderr_output is not None:
stderr_msg = (
stderr_output.decode()
if isinstance(stderr_output, bytes)
else str(stderr_output)
while True:
try:
async with await open_process(
[
macmon_path,
"pipe",
"--interval",
str(self.macmon_interval * 1000),
]
) as p:
if not p.stdout:
logger.critical("MacMon closed stdout")
return
async for text in TextReceiveStream(
BufferedByteReceiveStream(p.stdout)
):
await self.info_sender.send(MacmonMetrics.from_raw_json(text))
except CalledProcessError as e:
stderr_msg = "no stderr"
stderr_output = cast(bytes | str | None, e.stderr)
if stderr_output is not None:
stderr_msg = (
stderr_output.decode()
if isinstance(stderr_output, bytes)
else str(stderr_output)
)
logger.warning(
f"MacMon failed with return code {e.returncode}: {stderr_msg}"
)
logger.warning(
f"MacMon failed with return code {e.returncode}: {stderr_msg}"
)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"Error in macmon monitor: {e}")
await anyio.sleep(self.macmon_interval)