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Problem

  • Signals for hundreds of teams were deferred for about an hour when the embedding worker became unreachable, and the pipeline reported them as lost.
  • The grouping preparation phase wraps embedding, query generation, semantic search and report-context fetch in one try block, so any failure there fails the whole batch.
  • That handler reported every signal of the batch as dropped, and the v2 workflow then requeued the same batch and reported them again on every attempt.
  • The signals were never lost: the batch grouped in full once the dependency recovered.
  • So signal_dropped counts a delay as a loss, once per attempt, and the only alert that can fire does so on the recovery instead of the stall.

Changes

  • A dependency outage now delays a batch instead of losing it. The v2 collect path holds the batch and retries with a doubling backoff, capped at 5 minutes.
  • _process_signal_batch raises SignalBatchPrepError and stops reporting drops itself. Preparation touches no state the batch depends on, so whether the signals are lost depends on the caller, not on the failure.
  • The callers that discard a batch report the drops: the legacy entity workflow and the v2 single-batch path, which keep no copy of it.
  • A batch that fails preparation for 12 consecutive rounds is given up on, and only then are its signals reported dropped. Without that bound a batch that can never be prepared holds the team's queue forever.
  • New counter signals_batches_deferred_total, by error type, carries the stall that signals_dropped_total can no longer claim.
  • Nothing user-visible changes. This is pipeline behavior and telemetry.
flowchart LR
  Dep{{Dependency down}} --> Prep[Prepare batch]
  Prep --> Drop[(N drop events)]
  Prep --> Requeue[Requeue batch]
  Requeue --> Prep
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  classDef phYellow fill:#f9bd2b,stroke:#f9bd2b,color:#000;
  classDef phGray fill:#e5e7eb,stroke:#c7ccd1,color:#000;
  class Dep phYellow;
  class Prep,Requeue phBlue;
  class Drop phGray;
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  Dep{{Dependency down}} --> Prep[Prepare batch]
  Prep --> Defer[(deferred counter)]
  Prep --> Hold[Hold with backoff]
  Hold --> Prep
  Hold --> Budget{12 attempts}
  Budget --> Drop[(N drop events)]
  classDef phBlue fill:#1d4aff,stroke:#1d4aff,color:#fff;
  classDef phYellow fill:#f9bd2b,stroke:#f9bd2b,color:#000;
  classDef phGray fill:#e5e7eb,stroke:#c7ccd1,color:#000;
  class Dep,Budget phYellow;
  class Prep,Hold phBlue;
  class Defer,Drop phGray;
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Note

The hold path sits behind a new workflow.patched marker, so a grouping workflow replaying history recorded before this change keeps its old command sequence.

Warning

A held batch stays at the head of the team's queue, so later batches for that team wait with it. The attempt budget bounds that wait.

How did you test this code?

  • New file products/signals/backend/test/test_signal_batch_prep.py.
  • Preparation failure raises and reports no drops: catches a return to the behavior that counted an hour of delay as tens of thousands of lost signals.
  • The raised error still names the original failure: catches a wrapper that turns grouping_prep:ConnectError into a useless label on every drop the callers do report.
  • Hold and backoff, parameterized over the attempt count: catches a backoff that stops growing or a hold that reports drops.
  • Give-up at the budget: catches an unbounded hold, which would keep a team's queue stalled on a batch that can never be prepared.
  • Not done: no run of the grouping workflow against a failing embedding endpoint. The Temporal paths are covered by mocks of the workflow API, not by a worker.

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None. No user-facing behavior, API, setting or documented workflow changes.

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  • Related open PRs, both found with gh pr list --state open --search. #101145 collapses the prep drop fan-out into one event per batch attempt, and touches the same handler, so expect a conflict on that line: the resolution is for capture_batch_dropped here to call its batch helper. #91367 is a stale draft that bounds batch retries at 3 attempts, which would dead-letter this outage rather than ride it out. Neither makes a batch survive a dependency outage.
  • Skills invoked: /writing-tests, /simplify, /reviewing-with-coderabbit, /writing-pr-descriptions, /writing-simplified-technical-english.
  • CodeRabbit CLI pass: the CLI is not installed in this sandbox, so the PR opens without a local pass.
  • A first draft also split the preparation phase per signal, so a failure that hit one signal dropped only that signal. /simplify rejected it: whether a sibling signal happened to succeed is not a sound test for whether a failure belongs to one signal, and the split re-created the reported defect as a special case. The diff is about a third of its first size.
  • The attempt budget counts consecutive failed rounds for the team rather than attempts per batch key. A requeued batch returns to the head of the queue, so the same keys lead the next round, and a successful round resets the count.
  • Public artifact: the work drew on a report about our own dogfood project. No figure, identifier or quoted text from that material reaches this diff or this description.

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A preparation failure reported every signal of the batch as dropped, on every
attempt, even though the v2 workflow requeues the batch and groups it in full
once the dependency recovers.

_process_signal_batch now raises SignalBatchPrepError and leaves the drop
decision to the caller: the callers that discard the batch report the drops,
and the v2 collect path holds the batch with a backoff and gives up only after
its attempt budget. A new signals_batches_deferred_total counter carries the
stall by reason, which the drop counter can no longer claim.

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Preparation failures now propagate as SignalBatchPrepError with the original cause. The workflows report dropped signals at the workflow boundary. The V2 workflow requeues failed batches with capped exponential backoff, persists the failure streak across continuation, and drops batches after 12 attempts. New metrics record deferred batches. Tests cover propagation, retry behavior, state reset, and final drops.

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During a dependency outage, newly submitted signals can be discarded after another batch exhausts its retry budget rather than receiving their own retries. Keep deferred batches isolated before merging.

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⚠️ Backend coverage — 82.0% of changed backend lines covered — 24 uncovered

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Approved.

Diff matches the description exactly: preparation failures now raise a distinct error type that callers turn into a bounded requeue-with-backoff instead of an immediate drop, with a hard 12-attempt give-up bound and new tests covering both the hold and give-up paths. This is contained to one product's internal background pipeline (not core event ingestion, billing, auth, or a persisted schema), uses the standard Temporal patch-guard for safe rollout, and no correctness issues surfaced on inspection.

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Comment thread products/signals/backend/temporal/grouping_v2.py
Comment on lines +228 to +230
def _requeue_batch_keys(self, collected: CollectedBatch) -> None:
"""Put the keys of an unprocessed batch back at the head of the queue."""
self._batch_key_buffer = collected.object_keys + self._batch_key_buffer

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Keep the retry budget attached to the held batch

should_fix bug

Issue description

The retry state stores only a team-wide failure count. Requeued keys return to the normal buffer. On the next round, _collect_next_batch can add keys that arrived during the backoff. If the old batch is near the attempt limit and causes another failure, the workflow drops every signal in the enlarged CollectedBatch. New signals can therefore be dropped after only one preparation attempt.

Why we think it's a valid issue
  • Checked: _collect_next_batch (products/signals/backend/temporal/grouping_v2.py:142-175), the requeue order in _requeue_batch_keys (grouping_v2.py:228-232), the give-up branch in _hold_batch_after_prep_failure (grouping_v2.py:251-266), the state carried by _continue_as_new (grouping_v2.py:132-140), and the buffer flush size in products/signals/backend/temporal/buffer.py.
  • Found: the held keys and later keys share one queue. _requeue_batch_keys prepends the collected keys to self._batch_key_buffer (grouping_v2.py:230), and the next round's collector keeps popping from that same buffer while len(collected.signals) < BATCH_COLLECT_MAX_SIGNALS and the 30-second deadline holds (grouping_v2.py:146-173). The held keys lead, and keys that arrived during the backoff follow them into the same CollectedBatch.
  • Found: only prep_failures crosses continue_as_new (grouping_v2.py:138, restored at grouping_v2.py:326). No state ties the count to a key set, so the budget belongs to the team, not to the signals it was spent on.
  • Found: the give-up branch discards whatever the last round collected. It calls capture_batch_dropped(collected.signals, error) and returns without requeuing (grouping_v2.py:263-266), so every signal in the enlarged batch is reported dropped and lost.
  • Impact: with the count at 11, a key that arrives during the last backoff joins the twelfth round and is discarded after one preparation attempt. The loss also grows. A held key of 2 signals plus later arrivals can fill the batch to the 20-signal collect cap, so the give-up discards up to 20 signals where the held key alone would have cost 2. The buffer flushes at BUFFER_MAX_SIZE = 20 or on its 5-second timeout (buffer.py:35, buffer.py:224-234), so small keys and therefore merging are normal for a low-volume team.
  • Impact: this bites in the exact scenario the change targets. A give-up lands about 45 minutes into a sustained outage, and the signals that merged late lose the hold time the design meant to give them.
  • Priority: the count must already stand at 11, so the path needs a sustained outage, and one give-up event costs at most one collected batch. The behavior is also better than the code it replaces, which dropped every batch on every preparation failure. That makes it should_fix rather than must_fix.
Suggested fix

Store the held key list separately and retry that exact batch until it succeeds or reaches the limit. Carry both the held keys and their failure count through continue_as_new. Do not let _collect_next_batch add later keys to a held retry.

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## Context
@products/signals/backend/temporal/grouping_v2.py#L228-230
@products/signals/backend/temporal/grouping_v2.py#L251-265

<issue_description>
The retry state stores only a team-wide failure count. Requeued keys return to the normal buffer. On the next round, `_collect_next_batch` can add keys that arrived during the backoff. If the old batch is near the attempt limit and causes another failure, the workflow drops every signal in the enlarged `CollectedBatch`. New signals can therefore be dropped after only one preparation attempt.
</issue_description>

<issue_validation>
- **Checked:** `_collect_next_batch` (`products/signals/backend/temporal/grouping_v2.py:142-175`), the requeue order in `_requeue_batch_keys` (`grouping_v2.py:228-232`), the give-up branch in `_hold_batch_after_prep_failure` (`grouping_v2.py:251-266`), the state carried by `_continue_as_new` (`grouping_v2.py:132-140`), and the buffer flush size in `products/signals/backend/temporal/buffer.py`.
- **Found:** the held keys and later keys share one queue. `_requeue_batch_keys` prepends the collected keys to `self._batch_key_buffer` (`grouping_v2.py:230`), and the next round's collector keeps popping from that same buffer while `len(collected.signals) < BATCH_COLLECT_MAX_SIGNALS` and the 30-second deadline holds (`grouping_v2.py:146-173`). The held keys lead, and keys that arrived during the backoff follow them into the same `CollectedBatch`.
- **Found:** only `prep_failures` crosses `continue_as_new` (`grouping_v2.py:138`, restored at `grouping_v2.py:326`). No state ties the count to a key set, so the budget belongs to the team, not to the signals it was spent on.
- **Found:** the give-up branch discards whatever the last round collected. It calls `capture_batch_dropped(collected.signals, error)` and returns without requeuing (`grouping_v2.py:263-266`), so every signal in the enlarged batch is reported dropped and lost.
- **Impact:** with the count at 11, a key that arrives during the last backoff joins the twelfth round and is discarded after one preparation attempt. The loss also grows. A held key of 2 signals plus later arrivals can fill the batch to the 20-signal collect cap, so the give-up discards up to 20 signals where the held key alone would have cost 2. The buffer flushes at `BUFFER_MAX_SIZE = 20` or on its 5-second timeout (`buffer.py:35`, `buffer.py:224-234`), so small keys and therefore merging are normal for a low-volume team.
- **Impact:** this bites in the exact scenario the change targets. A give-up lands about 45 minutes into a sustained outage, and the signals that merged late lose the hold time the design meant to give them.
- **Priority:** the count must already stand at 11, so the path needs a sustained outage, and one give-up event costs at most one collected batch. The behavior is also better than the code it replaces, which dropped every batch on every preparation failure. That makes it `should_fix` rather than `must_fix`.
</issue_validation>

## Task
Investigate the issue and solve it

<potential_solution>
Store the held key list separately and retry that exact batch until it succeeds or reaches the limit. Carry both the held keys and their failure count through `continue_as_new`. Do not let `_collect_next_batch` add later keys to a held retry.
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Escalating: bounding this needs the held keys carried as state of their own, which is a design change on top of the per-team round budget this PR chose deliberately.


  • The report is accurate. Requeued keys return to the shared buffer, so keys that arrive during the backoff join the held round and share its give-up.
  • A fix must carry the held key set across continue_as_new and stop the collector from adding later keys to a held round.
  • That changes the activity sequence a round records, so it also needs a replay gate, and a worker replay test to prove in-flight runs survive it.
  • It also reverses the stated choice to budget consecutive rounds per team instead of attempts per batch key.
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  • A human decides: accept the bounded loss at the give-up for now, or approve the per-batch hold with its own carried state and patch marker.
How this was verified

No code change, so no tests or lint were run for this thread. The assessment comes from reading the current head of the collect, requeue, hold and continue_as_new paths, and the repo's Temporal workflow versioning rule.

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The attempt budget counts consecutive rounds whose batch could not be
prepared. A round that prepared and then failed in the sequential phase left
the earlier streak in place, so a later preparation failure could reach the
budget and discard the batch without 12 consecutive preparation failures.

The generic handler now clears the streak before it requeues.

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In `@products/signals/backend/temporal/grouping_v2.py`:
- Around line 228-271: Update _hold_batch_after_prep_failure and the surrounding
batch-collection state so keys requeued after preparation failure and their
failure count remain separate from newly submitted keys across waits and
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Comment on lines +228 to +271
def _requeue_batch_keys(self, collected: CollectedBatch) -> None:
"""Put the keys of an unprocessed batch back at the head of the queue."""
self._batch_key_buffer = collected.object_keys + self._batch_key_buffer
if self._batch_buffer_size_gauge is not None:
self._batch_buffer_size_gauge.set(len(self._batch_key_buffer))

async def _requeue_and_back_off(self, collected: CollectedBatch, backoff: timedelta) -> None:
"""Requeue an unprocessed batch and wait, so a failure cannot hot-loop."""
self._requeue_batch_keys(collected)
await workflow.sleep(backoff)

async def _hold_batch_after_prep_failure(
self,
input: TeamSignalGroupingV2Input,
collected: CollectedBatch,
error: SignalBatchPrepError,
) -> None:
"""Hold a batch whose preparation failed, and give up on it once it has waited long enough.

Preparation changes no state the batch depends on, so a batch held through a dependency
outage groups in full once the dependency recovers. Reporting a drop on each attempt
would count that delay as a loss, once per attempt.
"""
self._prep_failures += 1

if self._prep_failures >= MAX_PREP_ATTEMPTS:
logger.error(
"Giving up on a signal batch that could not be prepared",
team_id=input.team_id,
batch_size=len(collected.signals),
batch_keys=collected.object_keys,
attempts=self._prep_failures,
exc_info=error,
)
self._prep_failures = 0
if self._signals_dropped_counter is not None:
self._signals_dropped_counter.add(len(collected.signals))
await capture_batch_dropped(collected.signals, error)
return

reason, _message = summarize_drop_error(error.cause)
metrics.increment_batch_deferred(reason=reason)
backoff = min(RETRY_BACKOFF * 2 ** (self._prep_failures - 1), MAX_PREP_BACKOFF)
await self._requeue_and_back_off(collected, backoff)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep requeued batches separate from new keys.

_hold_batch_after_prep_failure requeues failed keys and waits. During that wait, submit_batch can append new keys. continue_as_new carries both the pending keys and _prep_failures forward. The next _collect_next_batch call can collect the requeued keys and new keys into one CollectedBatch.

If the shared streak is near MAX_PREP_ATTEMPTS, a failure in that merged batch drops every signal. Newly arrived signals can therefore be dropped after only the merged attempt, without receiving their own full retry budget.

Store the held keys and failure count separately. Retry the held batch independently, and collect new keys only after it succeeds or reaches the limit.

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In `@products/signals/backend/temporal/grouping_v2.py` around lines 228 - 271,
Update _hold_batch_after_prep_failure and the surrounding batch-collection state
so keys requeued after preparation failure and their failure count remain
separate from newly submitted keys across waits and continue_as_new. Retry the
held batch independently, and only collect new keys after the held batch
succeeds or reaches MAX_PREP_ATTEMPTS, ensuring new signals receive their own
retry budget.

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