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betterdb_correlated_groups_by_severity was registered in PrometheusService but never set, so any panel reading it (e.g. the Grafana dashboard pack) showed "No data" even while correlated groups existed. Its sibling betterdb_correlated_groups_by_pattern was already populated.

Correlated groups already carry a severity, so the gauge is now populated rather than removed:

  • AnomalyService.updatePrometheusSummary counts last-hour groups by severity (groupsBySeverity) alongside the existing by-pattern count
  • PrometheusService.updateAnomalySummary sets the gauge for info / warning / critical, zeroing absent severities so aged-out groups reset
  • The existing docs/prometheus-metrics.md row is already accurate — no doc change

Registered-but-never-set sweep

Checked all 84 metric fields in prometheus.service.ts, including metrics only written from public methods with no callers. This gauge was the only one. pollDuration has no direct observe but is recorded via startTimer in startPollTimer (used by audit and client-analytics).

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  • New prometheus.anomaly-summary.spec.ts: gauge populated from summary; resets to 0 when groups age out (both fail with the fix reverted)
  • SKIP_DOCKER_SETUP=true jest -w 2 src/prometheus anomaly-detection: 28 suites / 743 tests pass

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Observability-only changes to anomaly Prometheus summaries with unit test coverage; no auth, data, or alerting logic paths altered.

Overview
Fixes Grafana "No data" for betterdb_correlated_groups_by_severity: the gauge was registered in PrometheusService but never updated.

AnomalyService now keeps a lastHourGroups buffer (timestamp, pattern, severity) as groups are correlated, so Prometheus counts all groups in the past hour instead of only the capped recentGroups slice used for UI. updatePrometheusSummary adds groupsBySeverity (info / warning / critical) alongside existing by-pattern counts and passes it through updateAnomalySummary, which sets the gauge per severity and zeros missing severities when groups age out.

Tests cover gauge population/reset in prometheus.anomaly-summary.spec.ts and last-hour counting beyond the recent-groups cap in anomaly.service.spec.ts.

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  • New Features
    • Prometheus anomaly summaries now report correlated groups by severity: informational, warning, and critical.
    • Summaries now include all correlated groups from the past hour, including groups beyond the recent-results limit.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Severity metrics now reset to zero when correlated groups disappear.
    • Anomaly summary metrics now consistently exclude groups older than one hour.

- Count last-hour correlated groups by severity in the anomaly summary
- Set the gauge alongside correlated_groups_by_pattern, zeroing absent
  severities so aged-out groups reset
- Cover it with a PrometheusService unit spec
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The anomaly service tracks correlated groups from the last hour and counts them by severity. Prometheus exports these counts through correlatedGroupsBySeverity gauges, with missing values set to zero. Tests cover counting and reset behavior.

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Anomaly severity gauge reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Aggregate and export group severity counts
proprietary/anomaly-detection/anomaly.service.ts, apps/api/src/prometheus/prometheus.service.ts
The anomaly service stores correlated groups separately from the capped recentGroups cache, removes entries older than one hour, and counts groups by severity. PrometheusService writes the counts to the corresponding gauges and uses zero when a severity is absent.
Validate severity gauge reporting
proprietary/anomaly-detection/__tests__/anomaly.service.spec.ts, apps/api/src/prometheus/prometheus.anomaly-summary.spec.ts
Tests verify counts for recent groups, counting beyond the recent-groups cap, exclusion of older groups, and reset behavior after groups age out.

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  participant AnomalyService
  participant PrometheusService
  participant PrometheusGauge
  AnomalyService->>AnomalyService: Store and prune correlated groups
  AnomalyService->>AnomalyService: Count groups from the last hour by severity
  AnomalyService->>PrometheusService: Pass groupsBySeverity
  PrometheusService->>PrometheusGauge: Set info, warning, and critical gauges
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In `@proprietary/anomaly-detection/anomaly.service.ts`:
- Around line 5242-5245: Update the counting logic around recentGroups so the
byPattern and groupsBySeverity gauges count every correlated group from the last
hour, rather than relying on the capped recentGroups collection. Use a separate
rolling count or retrieve the complete one-hour group set from storage, while
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- Keep a one-hour rolling tally of group pattern and severity so the
  by-pattern and by-severity gauges no longer undercount once more than
  100 groups land in an hour
- Cover it with an AnomalyService spec
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Clean root-cause fix - the gauge was registered but never set, and now it's populated from the severity the groups already carry, with absent severities zeroed each cycle so aged-out groups reset instead of sticking. The reset case has its own test, which is exactly the one I'd worry about. Approving.

Nice catch that moving off the capped recentGroups to the uncapped last-hour buffer also fixes betterdb_correlated_groups_by_pattern undercounting past 100 groups/hour - the 140-group test pins it. And lastHourGroups is pruned on every summary interval, so it stays memory-bounded. That also resolves CodeRabbit's one actionable note by design.

One FYI, not blocking: lastHourGroups is global and the summary reports under the default-connection label, so in a multi-connection deployment the severity (and pattern) counts aggregate across all connections rather than splitting per connection. This is pre-existing behavior (byPattern was already like this), just flagging it since we're now surfacing more of it. Fine to leave as-is or track separately.

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