feat: keep the beacon's own requests out of the status codes

[hughgrigg]

status-codes counted every response rowsFor returned, and the beacon puts one row in the log per event, so on a single-page app its 204s can outnumber every response the site itself served. This leaves requests to the beacon's path out of that question by default, with no option to put them back. Those rows carry one status between them and say how chatty the beacon is rather than how the site is answering, and an option would be a sixth counting option for a schedule to compute every summary both ways for. A question about the beacon itself is rainlytics query today and a rollup of its own later. The condition lives beside aBeaconEvent in src/beacon-events.ts, which deliberately leaves the path out because a question about beacon events narrows to it through the request's own paths. It reads cs_uri_stem as CloudFront delivered it, since the beacon's path is a constant this package chose and carries nothing a browser or CloudFront escapes, so status-codes still decodes nothing. The other four questions were checked against delivered beacon records rather than taken on trust, and each of them already leaves the rows out for reasons it had anyway.

Resolves #103

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a reusable filter for excluding beacon requests from analytics queries.
  • Exposed the beacon-path filter through the public package interface.

• Bug Fixes

  • Status-code rollups now consistently exclude beacon requests, including when bot traffic is included.
  • Beacon events are excluded from pageview, referrer, search, cache-hit, and other analytics rollups.

• Documentation

  • Expanded rollup documentation with beacon behavior, response details, filtering rules, and inspection guidance.
  • Updated log-table documentation to reference the beacon filter and rollup guidance.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The package now exports a beacon-path SQL predicate. The status-codes rollup excludes beacon requests. Tests validate this behavior across rollups, and documentation describes beacon-row handling.

Changes

Beacon rollup filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Beacon path predicate and export src/beacon-events.ts, src/index.ts, src/beacon-events.test.ts	Defines and exports outsideTheBeaconPath, which excludes requests under the default beacon path without URL decoding.
Status-code rollup filtering src/rollup-questions.ts, src/rollups.test.ts	Applies the beacon exclusion to statusCodes and verifies the generated SQL and path-matching behavior.
End-to-end validation and documentation src/beacon-events.test.ts, docs/log-table/README.md, docs/rollups/README.md	Validates beacon exclusion across rollups and documents beacon-row handling, inspection, and path constants.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 965a4

The PR changes status-code summaries to exclude the beacon’s own requests by default. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: excluding the beacon's own requests from the status-code rollup.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, implementation, behavior, linked issue, documentation, and completed repository checks. It satisfies the required template items.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #103 by excluding beacon requests from status-codes, documenting the behavior in the rollup description, and explaining beacon inclusion or exclusion across the rollups docum…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code, tests, and documentation changes directly support issue #103. No unrelated changes are evident.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 5…

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The changes satisfy issue #103 by excluding beacon requests from status-codes, documenting the behavior in the rollup description, and explaining beacon inclusion or exclusion across the rollups documentation.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

src/beacon-events.test.ts (1)

316-317: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider deploying the pipeline once for the whole suite.

Each of the five cases calls deployAnalytics() and seedTheHour(). The stack and the seeded hour are identical every time, so the CDK synth, the deployment and the log writes run five times. A single beforeAll deployment removes four of them and makes the suite runtime proportional to the queries rather than the deployments.

If you move to beforeAll, replace the ordering comment at Lines 166-168 with an afterAll that calls intercepted?.restoreAll(). The interception then has one owner instead of depending on the next test to undo the previous one.

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In `@src/beacon-events.test.ts` around lines 316 - 317, Move the shared
deployAnalytics() and seedTheHour() setup into a suite-level beforeAll so the
identical stack and seeded data are created once for all five cases. Replace the
existing ordering-dependent cleanup with an afterAll that calls
intercepted?.restoreAll(), keeping interception ownership at the suite level.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/beacon-events.test.ts`:
- Around line 316-317: Move the shared deployAnalytics() and seedTheHour() setup
into a suite-level beforeAll so the identical stack and seeded data are created
once for all five cases. Replace the existing ordering-dependent cleanup with an
afterAll that calls intercepted?.restoreAll(), keeping interception ownership at
the suite level.

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