The runbooks had drifted to the retired m8/m11p5 design while all m12 production reality (topology, perf, fixes, DR) sat only in a profiling doc no operator opens. This promotes that reality into the runbooks and fixes the contradictions. Contradictions fixed: - runbooks/cluster.md: the "NEITHER IS QUORUM-ACKED HA YET" status banner was FALSE (quorum-ack + automatic election have been live since m11p3/p4). Rewritten to state the deployed reality (single-StatefulSet full-placement RF3, rc7). - README.md: the cluster section called the HA cluster a "built-in simulated cluster / multi-region fabric" demo and showed promote-by-region as failover. Rewritten — real quorum HA, automatic failover, /cluster/promote is a maintenance verb. Kept the honest caveats (experimental gate, global-signals-only). Reality promoted into the runbooks: - Live topology (single STS, ns tidaldb-cluster, 3 voters, full-placement RF3, gRPC 9601/9602/9603, HTTPS+mTLS :9500), the five shipped fixes, and the real build+digest-pin procedure (cross-compile -> trixie -> amd64 PLATFORM manifest, not the index/attestation digest) in cluster.md + kubernetes.md. - Stale constants: soak ramp 3900 -> 200 rps; cluster grace 60 -> 600s; the pre-m12 4.5k/s signal-write perf table annotated + the 1536-D read reality added. - ops/capacity-planning.md: new "Ref-A 3-node fleet — measured capacity" section (read p99/ceiling, ~250 rps write knee, 1M needs >16GiB nodes, pod resources). - ops/recovery.md: new cluster-recovery routing section + scoped the quiesce-and- copy note to standalone (the cluster uses tidalctl + the DR runbook). New docs: - runbooks/disaster-recovery.md: the proven S3/R2 backup -> restore -> byte-verify -> query-proof procedure, full-cluster rebuild, PITR posture (previously undocumented despite being proven against real S3). - runbooks/on-call.md: incident response — symptom -> golden signal -> runbook, severity, escalation, and the open alert-wiring step. - runbooks/README.md: the runbook index + current production facts. Open follow-up (infra, not docs): ops/prometheus-alerts.yaml is accurate but design-reference; promoting it to a live PrometheusRule is the one unwired step. |
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tidalDB Runbooks — index
Operational documentation for the cluster deployment (ns tidaldb-cluster,
single StatefulSet, full-placement RF3, quorum-ack + automatic election). Live state
and history live in the orchard9-k3sf repo (cluster-state.yaml,
deployments/history/tidaldb.md).
| When you need to… | Open |
|---|---|
| Respond to an incident / page — symptom → signal → fix | on-call.md |
| Operate the cluster — API, failover, partition, membership, scale, rolling upgrade | cluster.md |
| Run it on Kubernetes — deploy, digest-pin, probes, scale up/down, troubleshoot pods | kubernetes.md |
| Back up / restore / DR — object-store export, restore, byte-verify, query-proof, R2, rebuild | disaster-recovery.md |
| Recover a single node / standalone engine — corrupt keyspace, WAL, lock, schema | ../ops/recovery.md |
| Size a deployment — single-node tables + the measured Ref-A cluster envelope | ../ops/capacity-planning.md |
| Read the metrics / wire dashboards & alerts | ../ops/monitoring.md, ../ops/grafana-dashboard.json, ../ops/prometheus-alerts.yaml |
| Understand the live perf/topology findings (dev handoff) | ../profiling/m12-cluster-deploy-findings.md |
Current production facts (2026-06-19)
- Image:
registry.threesix.ai/tidal/server@sha256:171505745b…(m12-writeburst-rc7). - Shape: 1 StatefulSet
tidaldb, 3 pods = 3 regions = 3 voters, full-placement RF3 (every pod hosts all 3 shard groups; gRPC 9601/9602/9603), HTTPS+mTLS on:9500, metrics:9091. - Guarantees live: quorum-ack writes, automatic election/failover, elastic seed-join (learner→voter), inter-node mTLS, per-node Prometheus.
- Shipped fixes in this image: reseed-loop resolved, seed-join promotion, election-divergence/quarantine, read-SLA (CPU oversubscription), and the write-burst false-partition fix.
- Known limits: read p99 ≤10 ms to ~1000 rps (ceiling ~1–1.5k/s, CPU-bound); write knee ~250 rps; soak at 200 rps; 1M corpus needs >16 GiB nodes; 2.5× write-scaling needs ≥5 nodes + partitioned placement.
- Must-watch signal:
tidaldb_cluster_peer_breaker_state(0/1/2) — a live peer stuck at 1 is the write-burst/partition pattern.
Alert rules in
../ops/prometheus-alerts.yamlare accurate but design-reference — not yet loaded by the live Prometheus. Promoting them to aPrometheusRuleis the one open observability step (seeon-call.md§3).