systemd 250-257 refuse to read past boots through journalctl, which made the source config invalid and put
the container in a restart loop with exit 78. The object!() casts were only warnings: inside the err == null
branch VRL has already narrowed the parsed value, so get() takes it directly.
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Each service now runs behind the prefix it is published under (-http.pathPrefix, or route-prefix plus
external-url for Alertmanager). Without that, three of the four UIs would have loaded at their sub-path and
then fetched their assets from the domain root, so the pages would have come up broken. The prefixes cascade,
so the scrape paths, vmalert's notifier and remote-write URLs, and the deadman's health probes all follow.
The index is diag/index.html mounted into Caddy, not an inline respond: Caddy reads {...} as placeholders and
the page's CSS is full of braces, so inline would have been mangled. It also matches how the gateway, dock and
clips pages are already served.
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Deploying before the webhook exists is deliberate, so it must not depend on Alertmanager tolerating an empty
webhook_url_file — which I could not verify. configure.py now generates the config and omits the Discord
notifier entirely when ALERT_WEBHOOK_URL is unset: the receiver exists, drops notifications, and alerts still
evaluate, group and show at /alerts. Setting the variable and re-applying turns delivery on. The URL stays in
/etc/vanguard/alert-webhook rather than the config, because that file can be 0640 root:65534 for the
container's user while the repo copy cannot.
alertmanager.example.yml is the reference copy and is gitignored in generated form, like the other configs.
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Six containers, all loopback-published, reachable only through the gated diag. host:
victorialogs 30d retention, -http.pathPrefix=/logs so Caddy passes the prefix through unchanged
vector docker_logs + journald -> VictoriaLogs (elasticsearch bulk, the documented path)
victoriametrics 90d, scrapes the four taps that were already live plus the new services
vmalert-metrics 11 metric rules: disk, load, memory, RAID, restart loops, a core container gone
vmalert-logs 5 LogsQL rules: sweep failures, publish-deny bursts, failed bot deploys, cert trouble
alertmanager groups and inhibits, posts to Discord, webhook read from a 0600 file not the config
The deadman (bin/vanguard-deadman.sh, host timer, 5 min) is the part that does not trust any of the above:
curl only, it checks each component answers, that the always-firing Watchdog alert is still arriving through
vmalert -> Alertmanager -> dumpd /heartbeat, and the disks. It reports on change and announces recovery once.
Verified here: failures listed, silence when nothing changes, disk threshold, recovery fired once.
Collection uses the Docker socket (Phase 13 option A, chosen explicitly). That is root-equivalent on this host
and is recorded as such in vector.yaml with the two upgrade paths.
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