`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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