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Follow-up to #1190, which made a caller that hangs up emit a terminal 499 usage event. Two shapes of the same request still left the usage log empty while the access log recorded them. The invariant this closes: any request the cancel guard writes a 499 access-log line for is findable in the usage log by the same request_id, with the same picture.

A response body dropped before its first poll

Every streaming family builds its terminal emitter INSIDE its async_stream! generator, and a generator first runs when the body is polled. A caller that went away between the head being handed to hyper and hyper asking for the first frame therefore reached neither that emitter nor the request-level guard, which had already stood down — six families are affected (chat, both /v1/messages builders, the /v1/responses bridge and its passthrough, the audio transcription relay).

Mechanism chosen: the guard rides the response body (TelemetryBody) instead of ending when the handler returns, rather than hoisting each family's emitter out of its generator. One chokepoint covers every streaming family, including passthrough relays, and no family has to opt in — the same reason #1190 put the emission in middleware rather than in ten handlers.

That window reports a third phase: error_class = "client_disconnected" as before, error_message = "client closed the request before the response body was streamed", zero delivered tokens, and the winning attempt's model_id / attempt_* (the upstream had answered, so the target is known).

Access log, before/after. Unchanged: one line per request, the handler's status=200, written when the stream was handed over. What was missing was the usage row, and that is what this adds.

A streamed request's line and its usage event still disagree on the outcome — the line says 200 because it is written at head time, the event says 499 — and that is true for the mid-stream disconnect case too, which has behaved this way since streaming telemetry existed. Converging them onto a single end-of-stream line is per-family work in each streaming handler (each would have to defer its line to its stream's completion and carry the completion-time figures there) and it reverses a deliberate decision about what a streamed line's latency_ms means: today it is time-to-first-token, precisely so a long-running stream is not read as a connection sitting idle (AISIX-Cloud#1394, and the access_log module docs). That is a separate change; this one does not add to the divergence. a_streamed_request_writes_exactly_one_access_log_line pins one line per request across all three outcomes.

Three interlocks keep this from doubling a row; each is pinned by a test that fails without it:

  • a body that was polled belongs to its own stream's emitter (that is the mid-stream shape);
  • a body whose length was already known when the head went out was produced by a handler that also finished its telemetry — this is what a HEAD request and a discarded buffered response take;
  • the body is dropped inside the request's attribution cell, so the two families that build their emitter OUTSIDE the generator (/a2a streaming, passthrough) are seen to have spoken and the guard stays quiet. A family that meters at its own tail and relays an open-ended body afterwards (/v1/audio/speech, billed per character) is covered by the same check.

Fully-consumed and mid-stream behaviour is unchanged.

Routes where the caller names no model

/mcp, /a2a/:agent, the passthrough namespace, /v1/realtime and the files / batches / fine-tuning surface were all exempt, so a request abandoned there got the 499 line and no row — on the surfaces whose calls are long-running by nature, and where the row is the only record that the caller's key spent an upstream's time.

The gate is now attributability alone: an authenticated request on a metering route files a row. Where there is no model the model fields are empty and the family's own attribution stands in their place — passthrough route name, MCP server + tool (split the way the completed row splits it, empty if the body was not parsed yet), A2A agent + method. /v1/realtime covers the pre-upgrade phase only; after the upgrade the session runs detached and writes its own terminal event.

A caller that hangs up mid-upload is now filed the same way, with empty model fields, for the same reason — the row exists so the line can be found. An unauthenticated request still files nothing, which keeps the health and discovery routes silent.

To reach those surfaces the principal is published to the attribution cell from the shared auth chokepoint (authenticate_token, plus the two places that mint an anonymous principal), since /mcp and /a2a never build a ClientContext.

The route decides the surface, not the path. Reading it off the normalized endpoint label is right for every typed route and wrong for a passthrough route mounted anywhere else: a custom path_prefix normalizes to other, and a host-matched route keeps the upstream's own path space, so /v1/chat/completions on a forward-proxied upstream normalized to the chat surface and filed an abandoned relay as an abandoned chat call with no model. The route the request matched publishes its own surface, and the passthrough protocol is stated rather than guessed.

Three shapes that must not be filed as a cancel, each pinned by a test: a route that files no usage row at any outcome but shares a normalized label with a metering sibling (the A2A agent card, whose card fetch is a real upstream round trip, and the two OAuth discovery routes) declares itself unmetered, and the census requires that of any such route; a HEAD response, whose body hyper drops unpolled by protocol on every request, so a download route's size probes are not cancels; and the body phase on a route that files no row at all, which would otherwise write a 499 line with nothing to find it by (/v1/videos/:id/content).

Still reporting nothing, because they emit no usage event at any time and have no operation to name: /livez, /readyz, /v1/models, the two OAuth protected-resource discovery routes, the A2A agent-card route, and the two /v1/videos/:id polls, whose work the submission already metered.

Census

The route census no longer carries an exemption list. It derives the answer from the routing table: a normalized label that any metering route maps to must report that route's surface, and a label no metering route reaches must report nothing. A new route cannot join one side without the other.

Behaviour change

A cancelled request on the surfaces above now appears in the usage log where it previously did not, and an abandoned upload files a row with empty model fields. A stream abandoned before its first byte also raises the client-cancel counter, which mid-stream disconnects do not — that counter has only ever recorded what the request-level guard itself observed. No new wire field toward the control plane, no new operation value (every one it uses is already in the control plane's fixed set) and no metric label change. size_hint is deliberately not forwarded through the new body wrapper, matching the map_frame wrapper it replaces, so response framing is unchanged.

One consequence worth stating plainly, because it is a policy call rather than a defect. A cancelled request is emitted from Drop, so it never passes the quota layer — which for the head phase now includes requests that stopped before dispatch (an abandoned upload, an abandoned MCP handshake). An authenticated caller can therefore file rows without a rate-limit check, and the usage sink is bounded and drops on full, so a sustained abort loop would compete with real rows. It takes a valid API key, so it is that key's own usage log rather than anonymous amplification, and it is the direct consequence of the invariant this PR implements: every request the guard writes a 499 line for is findable in the usage log. Narrowing it back would re-open the gap for exactly the long-running, model-less surfaces the change is for. Flagged for the decision on whether cancel rows should carry their own bound.

Tests

Rust: the unpolled-body window on a routing group (winner's attribution + the access-log line) and on /v1/messages; no double emission when the body is polled, when a relay stream is delivered in full, when a family emits eagerly and relays afterwards, and when a route's own guard already fired on an unpolled drop; head-phase cancel on /mcp (both the bare and the scoped entry), /a2a/:agent, a path-prefix passthrough route and a host-matched one; an abandoned agent-card fetch filing nothing; HEAD and no-row routes in the body phase; the attributability gate from both sides. Each was mutation-checked against the change it pins.

E2E: an abandoned passthrough request produces the 499 usage row attributed to its route. The unpolled-body window is timing-dependent on a real connection and is pinned at the Rust level instead.

Fixes api7/AISIX-Cloud#1571

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AISIX-Cloud#1571 made a caller that hangs up emit a terminal `499` usage
event, but two shapes of the same request still left the usage log empty
while the access log recorded them.

A response body dropped before its first poll. Every streaming family
builds its terminal emitter INSIDE its `async_stream!` generator, and a
generator first runs when the body is polled — so a caller that went away
between the head being handed to hyper and hyper asking for the first
frame reached neither that emitter nor the request-level guard, which had
already stood down. The guard now rides the response body
(`TelemetryBody`) instead of ending at the handler, and reports that
window as a third phase: `error_class = "client_disconnected"` as before,
`error_message = "client closed the request before the response body was
streamed"`, zero delivered tokens, and the winning attempt's `model_id` /
`attempt_*` — the upstream had answered, so the target is known. The
`499` access-log line is written there too; before this the request's
only line was the handler's `200`, written when the stream was handed
over and never corrected.

Three interlocks keep that from doubling a row, and each is pinned by a
test that fails without it: a body that was polled belongs to its own
stream's emitter; a body whose length was already known was produced by a
handler that finished its telemetry; and the body is dropped inside the
request's attribution cell, so the two families that build their emitter
OUTSIDE the generator (`/a2a` streaming, passthrough) are seen to have
spoken. Ordinary fully-consumed and mid-stream behaviour is unchanged.

Routes where the caller names no model. `/mcp`, `/a2a/:agent`, the
passthrough namespace, `/v1/realtime` and the files / batches /
fine-tuning surface were all exempt from the cancel emitter, so a request
abandoned there got the `499` line and no row at all — on the surfaces
whose calls are long-running by nature. The gate is now attributability
alone: an authenticated request on a metering route files a row, with the
model fields empty where there is no model and the family's own
attribution in their place (passthrough route name, MCP server + tool,
A2A agent + method). A caller that hangs up mid-upload is filed the same
way, for the same reason — the row exists so the line can be found by
`request_id`. An unauthenticated request still files nothing.

The route census now derives its answer from the routing table rather
than an exemption list: a label any metering route normalizes to must
report that route's surface. The four routes that emit no usage event at
any time (health probes, the discovery routes, `/v1/models`, the two
`/v1/videos/:id` polls) still report nothing — they have no `operation`
to name.

Behaviour change for existing deployments: a cancelled request on the
surfaces above now appears in the usage log where it previously did not,
and an abandoned upload files a row with empty model fields. No new wire
field and no metric-label change.

Ref api7/AISIX-Cloud#1571
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The proxy now records authenticated route attribution and tracks cancellation through response-body lifetime. It emits phase-specific 499 telemetry for eligible client disconnects, preserves request traces, and prevents duplicate events.

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Cancellation telemetry

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Attribution and metered-route contracts
Cargo.toml, crates/aisix-proxy/AGENTS.md, crates/aisix-proxy/Cargo.toml, crates/aisix-proxy/src/attribution.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/auth.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/passthrough_route.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/a2a.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/operation.rs
The proxy records authenticated principals and route metadata for passthrough, MCP, and A2A requests. Metered route labels map to shared telemetry surfaces.
Phase-aware cancellation emission
crates/aisix-proxy/src/cancel.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/lib.rs
Cancellation handling distinguishes response-head and response-body phases. Events use route attribution, authentication data, request traces, and model-less requests.
Response-body cancellation lifecycle
crates/aisix-proxy/src/lib.rs
TelemetryBody retains guards through body completion or drop, records polling state, scopes synchronous drops, and suppresses duplicate events.
Route-specific regression coverage
crates/aisix-proxy/src/a2a.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs, crates/aisix-proxy/src/lib.rs, tests/e2e/src/cases/client-cancel-usage-1571-e2e.test.ts, crates/aisix-obs/src/access_log.rs
Tests and access-log documentation cover unpolled and consumed streams, passthrough, MCP, A2A, panic unwinding, duplicate suppression, and end-to-end 499 client_disconnected attribution.

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  participant UsageTelemetry
  Client->>AisixProxy: send request
  AisixProxy->>TelemetryBody: attach telemetry guards
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The cancel guard now writes a line for a response head whose body the
caller never read, beside the one its handler had already written. That
makes it the only request shape with two lines, which the module doc has
to say — it is the file a reader consults to learn what a line means.

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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs`:
- Line 375: Normalize scoped tool names before cancellation attribution by
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Review findings on the cancel-gap change.

The surface came off the normalized endpoint label, which is right for
every typed route and wrong for a passthrough route mounted anywhere
else: a custom `path_prefix` normalizes to `other`, and a HOST-matched
route keeps the upstream's own path space — `/v1/chat/completions` on a
forward-proxied upstream normalized to the chat surface, so an abandoned
relay filed a row as an abandoned chat call with no model, under an
`operation` that per-operation figures count as chat traffic. The route
the request matched now decides, published from the one point that knows
it, and the passthrough protocol is stated rather than guessed from the
path.

A cancelled A2A row carried only the caller's raw `a2a_method`, not the
canonical `a2a_operation` a per-operation figure groups by — so it
reached the usage log and then fell out of every A2A breakdown. Both are
noted now, as the completed row carries both.

On the scoped `/mcp/{server}` entry the caller may spell the tool either
way, and the gateway resolves both to the bare name; the cancelled row
took the caller's spelling verbatim, so one request's two records named
two different tools. It now strips the prefix the same way, from the
untruncated parse rather than the log-capped copy, and the server a
scoped entry names in its path is noted before the body is read, so a
cancel during the upload still reports it.

Three shapes that must NOT be filed as a cancel:

- the A2A agent card and the two OAuth discovery routes file no usage row
  at any outcome, but normalize to a label a metering route also uses —
  the card fetch is a real upstream round trip, so an abandoned one was
  filed as an abandoned agent call. Each declares itself unmetered, and
  the census now requires that of any silent route sharing a label;
- a `HEAD` response's body is dropped unpolled by protocol on every such
  request, so a download route's ordinary size probes were reported as
  cancels;
- a route that files no usage row gets no line and no counter in the body
  phase either — otherwise the change introduced exactly the shape it
  exists to remove, a `499` line with no row to find it by
  (`/v1/videos/:id/content` relays an open-ended body and is metered by
  the submission).

Also: `size_hint` is deliberately not forwarded through the new body
wrapper, matching the `map_frame` wrapper it replaces — forwarding it
would have changed the framing of every response on the listener from
chunked to `Content-Length`, which has nothing to do with telemetry.
`note_client` no longer blanks an api_key id the auth chokepoint already
resolved. The census again pins that a label no metering route reaches
reports nothing.

Ref api7/AISIX-Cloud#1571
The body phase was writing a `499` line beside the `200` its handler had
already written when it handed the stream over, so one request read as
two. The line is the head phase's alone now — that is the one phase where
the request produced no record anywhere else. Past the head, the guard
files the usage row and nothing else.

That leaves a streamed request's line and its usage event disagreeing on
the outcome (the line says `200`, the event `499`), which is also how the
mid-stream disconnect case has always behaved. Converging them onto one
end-of-stream line is per-family work in each streaming handler and
reverses a deliberate decision about what a streamed line's `latency_ms`
means — time-to-first-token, so a long-running stream is not read as an
idle connection (AISIX-Cloud#1394). Not this change's to make; this one
does not add to the divergence.

`a_streamed_request_writes_exactly_one_access_log_line` counts the lines
for all three outcomes — delivered, abandoned mid-stream, and never read.
It fails on the middle state this commit removes.

Ref api7/AISIX-Cloud#1571
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