feat(infra): observability backplane — Tempo + Prometheus + Grafana (S-16a, closes #122) (#125)
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## What & why

S-16a, the first of the **S-16 split** (#17 closed → #122/#123/#124, §13). Stands up a local, CI-friendly observability backplane so traces (S-16b) and metrics (S-16c) have somewhere to land, viewable in one Grafana.

- **Grafana Tempo** — OTLP trace ingest (gRPC 4317 / HTTP 4318), local storage.
- **Prometheus** — scrapes itself for now; service `/metrics` targets arrive in S-16c.
- **Grafana** — Tempo + Prometheus datasources auto-provisioned with fixed uids (`tempo`, `prometheus`), exposed on :3000.

All three are small **built images** with config baked in (`infra/observability/`), on the existing `cg` network. **No OTLP collector** (Tempo ingests OTLP directly; Prometheus scrapes) and **no config-volume seeding** — the tools aren't verbatim CG peer modules, so a 3-line `COPY` Dockerfile is the simpler path that still reaches sibling containers on the CI runner (**ADR-0023**).

### Verified, not assumed

`make verify-observability` (new CI `verify-stack` step, run early) asks Grafana to reach both datasources — Prometheus via its health method, Tempo via the datasource proxy (Tempo's plugin implements no health method) — so it proves the datasources are wired, not merely that containers booted. Validated locally against the three containers (no external egress): Grafana healthy, both datasources reachable.

Closes #122

## Definition of Done

- [x] Failing test committed first (`verify-observability` fails with no backplane).
- [x] Implementation makes it pass; verified locally.
- [x] Conventional Commits referencing the issue (`refs #122`).
- [ ] CI green — awaiting Gitea Actions (verify-stack now includes the observability step; `docker compose config` validates locally).
- [ ] `docker compose up` reaches green health within 3 min — new containers are lightweight and off the health-gate list.
- [x] Docs — ADR-0023, demo-script, BACKLOG sync.
- [x] ADR added — `docs/architecture/adr-0023-observability-stack.md`.
- [x] Demo note in `docs/demo-script.md`.

## Notes for reviewers

- **No app changes** — this is pure infra; the five services are untouched (instrumentation is #123/#124).
- **Ports:** Grafana 3000 (admin/admin, anonymous viewer on), Prometheus 9090; Tempo internal to `cg`.
- **CI:** the three containers are added to the failure log-dump list; deliberately **not** added to `WAIT_SVCS` (the check polls Grafana itself, so no in-image healthcheck tool is needed). Trades ~3 small image builds per run.
- **Next:** #123 wires OTLP export + `AddAspNetCoreInstrumentation`/`AddHttpClientInstrumentation` into the five hosts so a request becomes one connected trace in Tempo.

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# ADR-0023: Grafana-native observability stack (Tempo + Prometheus + Grafana)
- **Status:** Accepted
- **Date:** 2026-07-23
- **Deciders:** Respellion engineering
- **Slice:** S-16a (#122), first of the S-16 (#17) split
## Context
The PRD calls for "OpenTelemetry traces, Prometheus metrics; a local Grafana with
pre-built dashboards" (§80). S-16 was split (CLAUDE.md §13) into a backplane slice
(this one), distributed tracing (#123), and metrics + dashboards (#124). The
backplane must stand up first: a local, CI-friendly place for traces and metrics to
land, viewable in one UI, reaching green health within the 3-minute compose budget.
Two shape decisions are non-obvious enough to record.
## Decision
**Run a Grafana-native stack — Grafana Tempo (traces) + Prometheus (metrics) +
Grafana (UI) — with the services exporting OTLP straight to Tempo (no collector),
and ship the config baked into small built images.**
### Trace backend: Tempo (not Jaeger)
Tempo keeps everything under one Grafana pane alongside metrics (and later logs),
which is exactly the "local Grafana with dashboards" the PRD asks for. Jaeger would
add a second UI and a second mental model for no benefit at this scale.
### No OTLP collector
Tempo ingests OTLP directly (gRPC 4317 / HTTP 4318) and Prometheus scrapes each
service's `/metrics`, so a collector would be a hop that processes nothing. Skipped.
If we later need fan-out, tail sampling, or log processing, a collector is an
additive change — the services already speak OTLP.
### Config baked into built images, not config volumes
The upstream Common Ground modules (OpenZaak, NRC, Keycloak, Flowable) run as
**verbatim** images and get their config streamed into external named volumes by
`infra/seed-config.sh`, because bind mounts don't reach sibling containers on the
CI runner (see `docs/runbooks/gitea-actions-gotchas.md`). The observability tools
are **not** peer modules we must run verbatim, so we take the simpler path: a
three-line `Dockerfile` per tool that `COPY`s its config in. This reaches sibling
containers everywhere (docker, podman, CI) with no seed step, no `CFG_VOLS` entry,
and no Makefile sprawl.
### Verified, not assumed
`infra/run-observability-check.sh` (the `verify-observability` step, run early in CI
`verify-stack`) asks Grafana to reach both datasources — Prometheus via its health
method, Tempo via the datasource proxy (Tempo's Grafana plugin implements no health
method) — so the check proves the datasources are actually wired, not merely that
containers started. The containers are not in `WAIT_SVCS`; the check polls Grafana
itself, so no in-image healthcheck tool is required.
## Consequences
**Positive**
- One UI for traces + metrics + (future) logs. Config is versioned in
`infra/observability/` and self-contained in the images.
- Backplane is independent of app instrumentation — #123 and #124 build on it.
**Negative / costs**
- Three more images built each CI run (kept small; not on the health-gate list).
- Storage is ephemeral container fs — a demo backplane, not a retention target.
Object storage for Tempo / remote-write for Prometheus is a later concern.
## Coupling rules touched (CLAUDE.md §8)
None. The stack is passive infrastructure: services *push* OTLP and *expose*
`/metrics`; nothing in the stack calls into a service or a peer module.
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## S-16a — observability backplane: Tempo + Prometheus + Grafana (#122, ADR-0023)
**Outcome:** the compose stack now includes a Grafana-native observability backplane — **Tempo** (OTLP
trace ingest on 4317/4318), **Prometheus**, and **Grafana** with both datasources auto-provisioned.
Nothing is instrumented yet (traces land in S-16b, metrics + dashboards in S-16c); this slice stands the
backplane up and proves Grafana can reach both datasources. Config is baked into small built images
(`infra/observability/`) — no collector, no config-volume seeding.
```bash
# 1. Bring the stack up, then assert the backplane is live (Grafana healthy + Tempo/Prometheus
# datasources reachable through Grafana). This is a CI verify-stack step.
make up
make verify-observability # → ✓ Grafana healthy ✓ Prometheus reachable ✓ Tempo reachable
# 2. Or just the backplane, no full stack needed (no external egress):
docker compose -f infra/docker-compose.yml up -d --build tempo prometheus grafana
open http://localhost:3000 # Grafana (admin/admin) → Connections → Data sources: Prometheus + Tempo
open http://localhost:9090 # Prometheus
```
**The path:** services will export OTLP → **Tempo:4317** and expose `/metrics`**Prometheus** scrapes;
**Grafana** (:3000) reads both via provisioned datasources with fixed uids `tempo` / `prometheus`.
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## S-17 — herregistratie reminder sweep on a Quartz cron (#18, ADR-0022)
**Outcome:** an inscription (INGESCHREVEN) now carries the moment it was entered in the register, from