Usecase Overview

• Business Goal: Automatically capture cross-environment logs, traces, and context within one minute when plugin errors occur, produce structured reports, and integrate with ticketing to give developers reproducible diagnostics.
• Success Metrics: Report generation time ≤60 seconds; success rate ≥98%; sensitive data masking rate 100%; automatic ticket closure rate ≥95%.
• Scenario Alignment: Supports Stages 3/4 of the master scenario to close the loop between diagnostics, compliance masking, and regression verification.

Automated diagnostics plus ticket hand-off significantly shortens time-to-resolution while keeping debug data compliant.

Context & Assumptions

• Prerequisites
  • Feature flags debug-observability-v2 and debug-ticket-bridge are enabled.
  • Logging, tracing, and metrics platforms are available with historical retention.
  • Ticketing system exposes APIs with alert routing and owner configuration.
  • Diagnostic accounts can read sandbox/local logs under policy controls.
• Inputs / Outputs
  • Inputs: Error event ID, plugin/tenant metadata, diagnostic time window, regression strategy.
  • Outputs: Structured diagnostic report, masked log bundle, ticket status, regression outcome.
• Boundaries
  • Excludes local hot-reload and sandbox deployment flows.
  • Production monitoring strategy remains owned by Ops scenarios.

Solution Blueprint

Architecture Breakdown

Layer	Key Module	Responsibility	Code Entry
Trigger & orchestration	internal/debug/report/generator.go	Accept events, create tasks, orchestrate steps	services/debug/report
Log collection	internal/debug/logcollect/collector.go	Aggregate logs/traces/metrics and apply masking	services/debug/logcollect
Ticket integration	internal/debug/ticket/integrator.go	Create/update tickets, sync status, notify owners	services/debug/ticket
Regression validation	packages/cli/src/commands/plugin/debug.ts	Trigger regression scripts and verify fixes	packages/cli
Telemetry & audit	internal/debug/telemetry/report_metrics.go	Record latency, success rate, masking compliance	services/debug/telemetry

Flow & Sequence

1. Step 1 – Trigger diagnostic task: Monitoring or developer API call creates a diagnostic task and confirms scope.
2. Step 2 – Aggregate & mask data: Collect logs, traces, and metrics, enforce masking, and validate permissions.
3. Step 3 – Generate report & sync ticket: Produce structured reports with attachments/links, create or update tickets, and notify owners.
4. Step 4 – Regression & closure: Developer submits fix; automated regression runs and, on success, closes the alert and archives audit data.

Contracts & Interfaces

• Inbound APIs / Events
  • POST /internal/debug/report — Create diagnostic tasks.
  • EVENT plugin.debug.alert — Alerts that trigger diagnostics.
• Outbound Calls
  • POST /internal/debug/logs/export — Pull logs/traces from observability services.
  • POST /internal/ticket/create, POST /internal/ticket/update — Integrate with ticketing.
  • POST /internal/debug/regression/run — Trigger regression scripts.
• Configs / Scripts
  • config/plugins/debug/report_template.yaml — Report fields and masking policies.
  • scripts/workflows/debug-report-smoke.mjs — Automated diagnostic & regression script.

Implementation Checklist

Item	Description	Status	Owner
Log aggregation	Aggregate cross-env logs, merge traces, support fallback channels	[ ]	Michael Hu
Report template	Define structured fields, context attachments, masking rules	[ ]	Grace Lin
Ticket bridge	Auto-create/update tickets, sync status, notify owners	[ ]	Michael Hu
Regression automation	Wire regression scripts, validate fixes, update alerts	[ ]	Michael Hu
Audit & compliance	Enforce masking policies, retain audit logs, control access	[ ]	Grace Lin

Testing Strategy

• Unit: Diagnostic task state machine, log merge, masking rules, ticket API calls.
• Integration: Run scripts/workflows/debug-report-smoke.mjs to cover normal and fallback paths.
• End-to-End: Replay meta usecases C-1/C-2 to confirm report content, masking, and ticket closure.
• Non-functional: Stress-test concurrent diagnostics, observability degradation, fallback switching, long-trace replay.

Observability & Ops

• Metrics: debug.report.generate_ms, debug.report.failure_total, debug.masking.violation_total, debug.ticket.autoclose_rate.
• Logs: Capture task ID, plugin, tenant, data sources, masking results; encrypt sensitive values.
• Alerts: Report latency >60 seconds or masking failures trigger P1; fallback usage spikes alert security on-call.
• Dashboards: Debug Diagnostics Dashboard, Ticket SLA view, audit explorer.

Rollback & Failure Handling

• Rollback: Disable debug-ticket-bridge to revert to manual tickets; enable fallback log channels; pause automated regression.
• Remediation: Allow report retries, manual log bundle download, notify owners for manual investigation.
• Data Repair: Run scripts/workflows/debug-report-reconcile.mjs to reconcile diagnostic tasks and ticket states.

Follow-ups & Risks

Risk / Item	Impact	Mitigation	Owner	ETA
Timestamp skew between logs and traces causes missing context	Diagnostic accuracy	Introduce clock sync & alignment algorithms	Michael Hu	2025-12-10
Masking rules lag behind AI-generated content	Compliance risk	Update masking models & add manual sampling	Grace Lin	2025-12-18

References & Links

• Scenario: docs/scenarios/plugin-lifecycle/SCN-DEV-PLUGIN-ERROR-DIAGNOSTICS-001.md
• Master scenario: docs/scenarios/plugin-lifecycle/SCN-DEV-PLUGIN-DEBUG-001.md
• Background: docs/meta/scenarios/powerx/plugin-ecosystem/plugin-lifecycle/plugin-dev-and-debug/primary.md
• Standards: docs/standards/powerx-plugin/integration/04_security_and_compliance/Plugin_Security_Checklist.md