feat(monitoring): preserve connection visibility over gRPC

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• Preserves operational connection visibility after the legacy transport is retired.

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PR Summary

Medium Risk
Breaking gRPC/proto and gossip schema changes (reserved TCP fields) affect external clients; connection visibility now depends on in-process tracking rather than the removed TCP monitoring path.

Overview
Replaces legacy TCP connection monitoring with live stats for shared HTTP/gRPC listeners and cluster replication, so observability stays useful after the old transport goes away.

The monitoring gRPC API renames TcpStats → ConnectionStats and expands each row with protocol, application, TLS, and connected_at (pending byte counters are now int64). Implementation reads from a new IConnectionStatsProvider wired to NodeConnectionTracker instead of GetFreshTcpConnectionStats on the monitoring queue; those TCP-specific messages and types are removed.

Cluster gossip protos drop internal/external TCP fields (reserved) and add replication_end_point; LeaderInfo no longer advertises external TCP. proto.lock also drops the legacy ClientAPI message catalog.

The Observability UI and queue dashboard payload/JS swap the TCP table for node (HTTP/gRPC) connections (client-side byte rates) plus a gRPC replication connections table fed from replication stats. Regression tests cover payload shape, connection tracking lifecycle, and replication listener isolation.

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Walkthrough

The change replaces TCP observability with shared network and replication connection statistics. It adds a gRPC connection-stats contract, integrates NodeConnectionTracker, updates dashboard data and rendering, removes TCP monitoring messages, and adds regression coverage.

Changes

Connection observability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
gRPC connection statistics contract src/Protos/Grpc/monitoring.proto, src/EventStore.Core/Services/Transport/Grpc/..., src/EventStore.Core/Messages/MonitoringMessage.cs, src/EventStore.Core/ClusterVNodeStartup.cs, src/EventStore.Core.Tests/Services/Transport/Grpc/MonitoringTests/...	The monitoring RPC now returns current connection snapshots through IConnectionStatsProvider. The TCP RPC, messages, and tests are removed.
Node connection tracking integration src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Components/Services/NodeConnectionTracker.cs, src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Program.cs	NodeConnectionTracker implements the provider contract and is registered as a singleton service.
Dashboard service data flow src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Components/Services/QueueDashboardService.cs, src/EventStore.ClusterNode/metricsconfig.json	The dashboard service reads replication statistics and node connection snapshots. TCP payloads and TCP message labels are removed.
Network and replication dashboard UI src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Components/Pages/Observability.razor, src/EventStore.ClusterNode/ui-assets/js/queue-dashboard.js	The UI renders network and replication tables with metadata, byte counters, pending bytes, queue sizes, status, and pagination.
Connection and endpoint validation src/EventStore.Core.Tests/Regression/GrpcOnlySurfaceParityTests.cs	Regression tests cover payload fields, active connection tracking, endpoint isolation, wildcard bindings, and connection cleanup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant QueueDashboardService
  participant MonitoringQueue
  participant NodeConnectionTracker
  Browser->>QueueDashboardService: Request observability data
  QueueDashboardService->>MonitoringQueue: GetReplicationStats
  MonitoringQueue-->>QueueDashboardService: Replication statistics
  QueueDashboardService->>NodeConnectionTracker: Snapshot()
  NodeConnectionTracker-->>QueueDashboardService: Network connection snapshots
  QueueDashboardService-->>Browser: Network and replication payload

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e0761

A replication monitoring failure can hide all dashboard observability, including healthy queue and network data. This should be corrected before merge.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 60 functions across 9 files. (2 skipped: 2…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes preserving connection visibility through gRPC, which is the primary change in the pull request.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly relates to preserving operational connection visibility after the legacy transport is retired.

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Replication failure hides dashboard stats

Medium Severity

Read now waits on queue stats and replication stats together, and any replication timeout or failure fails the whole page. In-memory NodeConnectionTracker snapshots are skipped too, so queue and shared-endpoint connection visibility disappear even though those sources are still available. The error text still attributes the failure to queue statistics.

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• src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Components/Services/QueueDashboardService.cs#L58-L75

 

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In `@src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Components/Services/QueueDashboardService.cs`:
- Line 53: Update the dashboard data-loading flow around queuesTask,
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📒 Files selected for processing (14)

• src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Components/Pages/Observability.razor
• src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Components/Services/NodeConnectionTracker.cs
• src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Components/Services/QueueDashboardService.cs
• src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Program.cs
• src/EventStore.ClusterNode/metricsconfig.json
• src/EventStore.ClusterNode/ui-assets/js/queue-dashboard.js
• src/EventStore.Core.Tests/Regression/GrpcOnlySurfaceParityTests.cs
• src/EventStore.Core.Tests/Services/Transport/Grpc/MonitoringTests/ConnectionStatsTests.cs
• src/EventStore.Core.Tests/Services/Transport/Grpc/MonitoringTests/TcpStatsTests.cs
• src/EventStore.Core/ClusterVNodeStartup.cs
• src/EventStore.Core/Messages/MonitoringMessage.cs
• src/EventStore.Core/Services/Transport/Grpc/IConnectionStatsProvider.cs
• src/EventStore.Core/Services/Transport/Grpc/Monitoring.cs
• src/Protos/Grpc/monitoring.proto

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• src/EventStore.ClusterNode/metricsconfig.json
• src/EventStore.Core/Messages/MonitoringMessage.cs
• src/EventStore.Core.Tests/Services/Transport/Grpc/MonitoringTests/TcpStatsTests.cs

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not make all dashboard data depend on replication statistics.

Task.WhenAll makes a replication-only timeout or exception return QueueDashboardPage.Unavailable. This removes available queue and node connection data from the dashboard.

Handle each data source independently. Preserve successful sections and report a section-specific failure for the failed source.

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In `@src/EventStore.ClusterNode/Components/Services/QueueDashboardService.cs` at
line 53, Update the dashboard data-loading flow around queuesTask,
replicationConnectionsTask, and Task.WhenAll so replication timeouts or
exceptions do not make the entire QueueDashboardPage unavailable. Handle each
source independently, preserve successful queue and node-connection sections,
and report failures specifically for the affected section.

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