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After you delete a deployment, its runtime alert (for example "apt-get ran") should stay. It should be marked as belonging to a deployment that no longer exists. That flag is inactive. On OpenShift it often stayed false, so RuntimeViolationLifecycleTest failed.

We first treated this as a slow race and added a 60s wait in the QA test. CI still failed. The Postgres dump from that run is the proof: alert 53e40f22 was written once at 10:03:35 UTC with inactive=false, and it was still false at 10:17. Deploy-time alerts for the same deployment were resolved. Central never wrote the flag. Waiting longer cannot fix that.

The job also had two pods for the same test label at delete time. That makes it easy for Sensor to send a late "apt-get ran" after Central already deleted the deployment.

The bug: Central only stamped inactive on leftover stored alerts. A runtime alert that arrives after the deployment is gone is a new write, or a merge into the stored one. Those paths skipped the stamp. Merge also copied Sensor's payload, which has inactive=false, so a later update could wipe the flag.

Why this should fix it: When Central writes a runtime alert and the deployment is already gone, it now sets inactive on that write. Merge keeps the stored flag instead of replacing it with Sensor's false. The QA wait stays so the test can poll until that write lands.

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QA RuntimeViolationLifecycleTest already waits up to 60s for inactive after delete. That wait is not the fix; it only observes the product write. No new e2e: the existing BAT test is the regression.

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The test asserted getInactive() as soon as Central returned NOT_FOUND
for the deployment. Inactive is stamped later by the alerts pipeline,
so the assertion raced. Poll until the flag is set.

Requested: analyze ROX-28254 RuntimeViolationLifecycleTest flake and
apply the wait-for-inactive fix.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Alerts associated with removed or inactive deployments are now consistently marked inactive, including newly received and merged alerts.
    • Existing inactive deployment status is preserved during alert updates.
    • Merged alerts now retain all relevant processes while avoiding duplicate updates or notifications.
  • Tests

    • Expanded automated coverage for alert and violation deletion lifecycles.
    • Tests now wait for deployments to reach an inactive state before completing validation, improving reliability when status updates take time.

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The alert manager preserves deployment inactivity during alert merges and marks relevant runtime and attempted alerts inactive when deployments are removed or already inactive. Tests cover these paths, and the lifecycle test waits for inactive state.

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Runtime alert inactivity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Inactive alert processing
central/detection/alertmanager/alert_manager_impl.go
The alert manager preserves stored inactivity during merges. It marks applicable alerts inactive when their deployment is removed or already inactive. It avoids duplicate updates that could overwrite merged processes.
Alert manager validation
central/detection/alertmanager/alert_manager_impl_test.go
Tests cover inactive runtime alerts, merged processes, notifications, processing results, modified deployments, and deployment-state preservation.
Lifecycle synchronization
qa-tests-backend/src/test/groovy/RuntimeViolationLifecycleTest.groovy
The lifecycle test polls alerts until all associated deployments are inactive or the timeout expires.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2b1fc

Runtime alerts now retain inactive deployment state and are marked inactive after deployment removal, with focused test coverage. No merge-blocking risk is identified.

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A 60s QA wait did not help: the CI dump still had inactive=false 13
minutes after delete. Sensor can send a runtime alert after the
deployment is already gone; Central stored that write without the flag,
and a later merge could drop it.

Stamp inactive on those writes, and keep the stored flag when merging.

Requested: implement option 1 and document the investigation in the PR.

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@vikin91 vikin91 changed the title ROX-28254: Wait for inactive after runtime alert delete ROX-28254: stamp inactive on runtime alerts after delete Sep 10, 2026

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In `@central/detection/alertmanager/alert_manager_impl.go`:
- Line 436: Update mergeManyAlerts around the fetchAndMergeCandidates result and
needInactiveIDs construction to exclude any IDs already present in
updatedAlerts, preventing inactive-only copies from being appended for merged
alerts. Add a regression test verifying updateBatch performs a single write for
the duplicate ID and preserves the merged alert’s new process.

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Comment thread central/detection/alertmanager/alert_manager_impl.go
Inactive stamping already updates merged alerts in memory. Re-fetching
those IDs overwrote the merged processes. Skip them in needInactiveIDs;
leftover stored alerts still go through that path.

User request: address CodeRabbit duplicate-upsert on merged runtime alerts.

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