feat: comprehensive diagnostics and observability improvements
Upgrade diagnostics infrastructure from 5/10 to 8/10 production readiness
with enhanced metrics, logging, and request correlation capabilities.
**Request Correlation**
- Wire request IDs through context in middleware
- Return X-Request-ID header in all API responses
- Enable downstream log correlation across request lifecycle
**HTTP/API Metrics** (18 new Prometheus metrics)
- pulse_http_request_duration_seconds - API latency histogram
- pulse_http_requests_total - request counter by method/route/status
- pulse_http_request_errors_total - error counter by type
- Path normalization to control label cardinality
**Per-Node Poll Metrics**
- pulse_monitor_node_poll_duration_seconds - per-node timing
- pulse_monitor_node_poll_total - success/error counts per node
- pulse_monitor_node_poll_errors_total - error breakdown per node
- pulse_monitor_node_poll_last_success_timestamp - freshness tracking
- pulse_monitor_node_poll_staleness_seconds - age since last success
- Enables multi-node hotspot identification
**Scheduler Health Metrics**
- pulse_scheduler_queue_due_soon - ready queue depth
- pulse_scheduler_queue_depth - by instance type
- pulse_scheduler_queue_wait_seconds - time in queue histogram
- pulse_scheduler_dead_letter_depth - failed task tracking
- pulse_scheduler_breaker_state - circuit breaker state
- pulse_scheduler_breaker_failure_count - consecutive failures
- pulse_scheduler_breaker_retry_seconds - time until retry
- Enable alerting on DLQ spikes, breaker opens, queue backlogs
**Diagnostics Endpoint Caching**
- pulse_diagnostics_cache_hits_total - cache performance
- pulse_diagnostics_cache_misses_total - cache misses
- pulse_diagnostics_refresh_duration_seconds - probe timing
- 45-second TTL prevents thundering herd on /api/diagnostics
- Thread-safe with RWMutex
- X-Diagnostics-Cached-At header shows cache freshness
**Debug Log Performance**
- Gate high-frequency debug logs behind IsLevelEnabled() checks
- Reduces CPU waste in production when debug disabled
- Covers scheduler loops, poll cycles, API handlers
**Persistent Logging**
- File logging with automatic rotation
- LOG_FILE, LOG_MAX_SIZE, LOG_MAX_AGE, LOG_COMPRESS env vars
- MultiWriter sends logs to both stderr and file
- Gzip compression support for rotated logs
Files modified:
- internal/api/diagnostics.go (caching layer)
- internal/api/middleware.go (request IDs, HTTP metrics)
- internal/api/http_metrics.go (NEW - HTTP metric definitions)
- internal/logging/logging.go (file logging with rotation)
- internal/monitoring/metrics.go (node + scheduler metrics)
- internal/monitoring/monitor.go (instrumentation, debug gating)
Impact: Dramatically improved production troubleshooting with per-node
visibility, scheduler health metrics, persistent logs, and cached
diagnostics. Fast incident response now possible for multi-node deployments.
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