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fix(http-invocation): fail fast with 503 when JetStream cannot accept a request - #2923
When NATS JetStream lost quorum, invocation-service retried a publish for
about a minute, so HTTP invocations hung until the client timed out. Others
failed fast but with 500. JetStream writes on the invocation path are now
time-limited, and requests JetStream cannot accept return 503 with Retry-After.
Additional Details
Request publish: limited to 5 s in total, with a 2 s ack wait per attempt
(was up to 7 attempts of 5 s plus 1 to 16 s backoff). New NatsRetryStrategy settings publish_timeout_ms (5000) and attempt_timeout_ms (2000), overridable with NATS_PROPERTIES__RETRY_STRATEGY__*.
Polling record (publish plus ack) and the purge before a 504 are limited to
2 s each. A failed polling record stays 500: a worker already has the
request, so clients are not told to resubmit it.
New nats::Error::Unavailable (503) for an expired limit, retries exhausted
on transient errors, and stream setup failing without quorum (10008) or
timing out. A full queue stays 429.
Every 503 from the service now carries Retry-After: 1.
Stream creation is unchanged: its config is fixed and creating a stream
needs quorum, so a partial outage cannot recreate it with other settings.
Why 5 s: a planned leader handover stalls publishes under 0.25 s, and a leader
crash about 10 to 12 s. No limit under a 10 s client timeout survives an
election, so the limit fails fast while still covering short stalls.
Measured on a k3d stack, 2 of 3 NATS members killed for 60 s, 10 s client
timeout:
Before
After
Fast failures
500
503 + Retry-After
Longest publish
about 1 minute
5 s
Requests stuck in publish retries until the client timeout
New tests: error mapping and 503/Retry-After unit tests; integration
tests that pause NATS and expect the request publish, polling record, and
purge to give up within their limits.
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Walkthrough
NATS publishing, polling-request recording, and cancellation now use bounded waits. Selected JetStream failures map to a new NATS error, which the HTTP route returns as a 503 response with Retry-After: 1.
Changes: NATS availability handling
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Summary
Timeout and availability error contract src/invocation-plane-services/http-invocation/crates/server/src/nats/mod.rs
The retry strategy adds total-publish and per-attempt timeout settings. Selected JetStream setup failures and exhausted retryable publish failures map to Unavailable; queue-full errors remain Publish errors.
Request publishing has an overall timeout, and acknowledgment waits use the per-attempt timeout. Polling-request recording and cancellation also use bounded waits. Tests check timeout results and elapsed times when NATS is paused, and verify tracking-stream recreation.
The streaming route returns AppError for failures. Unavailable NATS errors produce 503 responses with Retry-After: 1; full-queue errors remain 429 without that header.
NVIDIA/nvcf#2789: This change returns a Problem Details 503 response when NATS reports that JetStream is unavailable for an invocation request.
Suggested reviewers:balajinvda
Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 8d2ed
Polling-record failures retain the intended 500 response, while unavailable request publishing returns 503. No identified issue remains that should block merging after normal checks.
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@src/invocation-plane-services/http-invocation/crates/server/src/nats/mod.rs:
- Around line 979-1007: Bound the StreamNotFound recovery path in
record_polling_request with the configured attempt_timeout_ms, covering stream
creation, republishing, and acknowledgment waiting. On timeout, record the NATS
error and return an unavailable error; preserve the existing error mappings for
failures within the attempt.
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- Around line 297-330: Update `cancel_request` to apply `attempt_timeout_ms` to
the `get_stream_no_info` lookup as well as the purge, returning an error and
recording the NATS error metric if the lookup times out while preserving
existing lookup-error handling. Ensure the lookup and purge are both bounded by
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Do not map this post-acknowledgement failure to 503.
record_polling_request runs after JetStream acknowledges the invocation. The new mapping returns 503 with Retry-After: 1, while InflightRequestGuard starts cancellation asynchronously. A client that follows the retry response can submit a new POST with a new RequestId; per-subject NATS deduplication does not prevent that request from executing again.
The base implementation already returned a generic 500 for this tracking failure. The changed correction site is post_pexec.rs, where the tracking error is mapped:
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around lines 518 - 532:
Update the `record_polling_request` error propagation in `post_pexec` to avoid
mapping this post-acknowledgement failure through `AppError::map_nats_err`;
propagate it through the existing generic error path instead of returning a
retryable 503.
Minor · Bound the initial polling-record publish. · mod.rs:979-987
publish_to_request_mapping awaits the NATS write before await_ack starts. The attempt_timeout_ms timeout therefore does not cover the initial write enqueue. If the NATS client cannot accept the write, this await can exceed attempt_timeout_ms and delay the HTTP response.
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+ let attempt_timeout =+ Duration::from_millis(self.nats_properties.retry_strategy.attempt_timeout_ms);
let pub_ack = self
- .publish_to_request_mapping(region, request_id, tracking, &headers)- .await+ .publish_to_request_mapping(region, request_id, tracking, &headers);+ let pub_ack = tokio::time::timeout(attempt_timeout, pub_ack)+ .await+ .map_err(|_| {+ Error::Unavailable(format!(+ "request tracking publish did not start within {} ms",+ attempt_timeout.as_millis()+ ))+ })?
.map_err(Self::tracking_publish_error)?;
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around lines 979 - 987:
Bound the initial `publish_to_request_mapping` await by `attempt_timeout_ms`;
currently it runs before the timeout in `await_ack` begins. In the surrounding
method, apply the configured timeout to the publish future and map timeout
expiry to an unavailable error, while preserving `tracking_publish_error`
mapping for publish failures.
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@src/invocation-plane-services/http-invocation/crates/server/src/nats/mod.rs:
- Around line 979-987: Bound the initial `publish_to_request_mapping` await by
`attempt_timeout_ms`; currently it runs before the timeout in `await_ack`
begins. In the surrounding method, apply the configured timeout to the publish
future and map timeout expiry to an unavailable error, while preserving
`tracking_publish_error` mapping for publish failures.
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- Around line 518-532: Update the `record_polling_request` error propagation in
`post_pexec` to avoid mapping this post-acknowledgement failure through
`AppError::map_nats_err`; propagate it through the existing generic error path
instead of returning a retryable 503.
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Return 503 for retryable stream-store failures after exhaustion.
If JetStream returns STREAM_STORE_FAILED for a reason other than a full queue, classify_publish_error retries it. Error::from still converts that error to Error::Publish, which this match preserves. The HTTP route then returns 429 instead of 503 with Retry-After. Preserve Publish only for the verified full-queue case; convert exhausted retryable failures to Unavailable. The async-nats acknowledgement path can supply this JetStream error as the source of PublishErrorKind::Other. (docs.rs)
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around lines 762 - 765:
Update exhausted_publish_error to preserve Error::Publish only for verified
full-queue failures; convert exhausted retryable stream-store failures,
including STREAM_STORE_FAILED, to Error::Unavailable so the HTTP route returns
503 with Retry-After.
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- Around line 762-765: Update exhausted_publish_error to preserve Error::Publish
only for verified full-queue failures; convert exhausted retryable stream-store
failures, including STREAM_STORE_FAILED, to Error::Unavailable so the HTTP route
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Non-blocking
When the 5 s deadline fires, this drop publish_with_retries mid-flight. If JetStream stored the message but the ack was lost, the client gets 503
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Agreed. If NATS stalls longer than 5 s, the request can be stored after the 503 and run with nobody waiting.
Proposed fix as a follow-up: invocation-service withdraws the request token when the publish isn't acked, and the worker checks the token before running the request. It needs a worker-utils change, so I'll keep this PR to the deadline fix.
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TL;DR
When NATS JetStream lost quorum, invocation-service retried a publish for
about a minute, so HTTP invocations hung until the client timed out. Others
failed fast but with 500. JetStream writes on the invocation path are now
time-limited, and requests JetStream cannot accept return 503 with
Retry-After.Additional Details
(was up to 7 attempts of 5 s plus 1 to 16 s backoff). New
NatsRetryStrategysettingspublish_timeout_ms(5000) andattempt_timeout_ms(2000), overridable withNATS_PROPERTIES__RETRY_STRATEGY__*.2 s each. A failed polling record stays 500: a worker already has the
request, so clients are not told to resubmit it.
nats::Error::Unavailable(503) for an expired limit, retries exhaustedon transient errors, and stream setup failing without quorum (10008) or
timing out. A full queue stays 429.
Retry-After: 1.needs quorum, so a partial outage cannot recreate it with other settings.
Why 5 s: a planned leader handover stalls publishes under 0.25 s, and a leader
crash about 10 to 12 s. No limit under a 10 s client timeout survives an
election, so the limit fails fast while still covering short stalls.
Measured on a k3d stack, 2 of 3 NATS members killed for 60 s, 10 s client
timeout:
Retry-AfterFor the Reviewer
crates/server/src/nats/mod.rs:publish_request,await_ack,record_polling_request,cancel_request, error mapping helperscrates/server/src/routes/app_error.rs,routes/post_pexec.rsFor QA
Retry-Afterunit tests; integrationtests that pause NATS and expect the request publish, polling record, and
purge to give up within their limits.
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