feedwatch: tell the owner when a feed breaks, comes back, or goes quiet

Every poll's outcome has always been written to source_health and shown on
/status, but only to someone who went and looked. Nobody did: Siliconera has
been refused on 3,769 polls in a row and Digital Foundry on 1,900, and
neither has ever fetched successfully. SendAdminWarning existed and nothing
called it.

A watcher now reads source_health every 15 minutes and sends one notice to
matrix.admin_room covering everything that changed since it last spoke:
feeds that have failed 5 polls in a row, feeds that have fetched since they
were reported down, and feeds that fetch fine but have kept nothing new for 7
days (every healthy source produces something inside about 4). What has been
said is stored on the row (down_alerted_at, quiet_alerted_at), so each
episode is reported once and a restart doesn't repeat it. A notice that
fails to send is not marked, and goes out on the next pass.

last_new_at is new, moved only when a poll keeps a story. Existing rows start
from their newest retained story, or from now if they have none, and a new
source starts at its first poll: nothing on disk says whether a source with
no stories is long dead or was added yesterday, so it gets a full window
before it can be called quiet.

With no admin room configured the watcher doesn't run at all, rather than
marking alerts as delivered to nowhere.
This commit is contained in:
prosolis
2026-09-22 23:14:12 -07:00
parent 517019d4a4
commit c6c107b936
7 changed files with 533 additions and 16 deletions
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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
"time"
"pete/internal/config"
"pete/internal/feedwatch"
"pete/internal/ingestion"
"pete/internal/matrix"
"pete/internal/poster"
@@ -243,6 +244,15 @@ func main() {
// Start pollers
poller := ingestion.NewPoller(cfg.Sources, processItem)
poller.Start(ctx)
// Tell the owner when a feed stops fetching, comes back, or goes quiet.
// Without an admin room there is nowhere to say it, and marking alerts as
// sent into the void would mean they never arrive once a room is set.
if mx.HasAdminRoom() {
go feedwatch.Run(ctx, cfg.Sources, mx.SendAdminNotice)
} else {
slog.Warn("feed alerts off: set matrix.admin_room to have Pete report broken or quiet feeds")
}
slog.Info("pollers started")
if postingEnabled && roundRobinMode {