fix(observability): stop Tempo evicting its only ingester under load (refs #156)

`verify-tracing` flaked on run 722: `FAIL — no single trace spanned ['bff',
'projection-api']`, green on a plain re-run of the same commit. Not a broken trace
chain — Tempo could not ingest:

    removing distributor_pool failing healthcheck addr=127.0.0.1:9095
      reason="rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded"
    pusher failed to consume trace data  err="context canceled"   (x18)

Root cause is the mechanism of the data loss, not whatever caused the stall. Tempo
runs single-binary, so distributor and ingester are the *same process* and the
distributor's ingester pool holds exactly one, in-process, member. dskit still
health-checks it over loopback gRPC with a 1s deadline; on the shared runner a
transient stall blows that, the only ingester is dropped from the pool, and every
push fails until the next 15s check interval — spans silently lost. With one
in-process ingester the check can never route around a failure, so it can only ever
discard data.

Fix: `ingester_client.pool_config.healthcheckenabled: false`. This addresses both
candidate triggers (GC pressure near `mem_limit`, CPU contention) at the point where
they turn into lost data, so `mem_limit: 400m` stays untouched — raising it would
risk reintroducing the verify-e2e OOM of #144 on a memory-tight runner.

Also print `tempo_distributor_ingester_clients` on the check's failure path: a
recurrence then names Tempo-dropped-spans instead of costing another container-log
dive, since from the check's side that is indistinguishable from missing
instrumentation.

Verified against the built image: config parses (`-config.verify`), the effective
`/status/config` reports `healthcheckenabled: false`, and the diagnostic reads the
metric off a live Tempo.
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@@ -59,6 +59,20 @@ def services_in_trace(trace_id):
return names
def tempo_ingest_state():
"""#156: distinguish a broken trace chain from Tempo dropping spans. `ingester_clients` is 0
when the distributor has evicted its (single, in-process) ingester over a failed loopback
health check — pushes fail and spans are lost, which looks identical to missing instrumentation
from here. Diagnostics only; never fails the check."""
try:
for line in _get(f"{TEMPO}/metrics").decode().splitlines():
if line.startswith("tempo_distributor_ingester_clients "):
return f"tempo {line.strip()} (0 = no ingester in the pool — evicted, so pushes\n are failing and spans are being dropped; see #156)"
except Exception as e:
return f"tempo /metrics unreadable: {e}"
return "tempo_distributor_ingester_clients not reported"
def main():
deadline = time.time() + TIMEOUT
generate_traffic()
@@ -74,6 +88,7 @@ def main():
generate_traffic()
print(f"FAIL — no single trace spanned {sorted(WANT)}; services seen: {sorted(seen)}",
file=sys.stderr)
print(f" {tempo_ingest_state()}", file=sys.stderr)
return 1