A chain is checked for nested chains when it is saved, but not when
one of its targets is later edited into a chain. Requests then served
the inner chain's config as the target, which has no backend and
triggers backend auto-detection.
Mark such a target missing so no plan picks it, and skip it without a
trip in the HTTP path when it is pinned.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 [Claude Code]
The warm list held target names as the chain lists them. For an alias
target that is the alias, but the preloader loads the alias stub (no
backend, no model) and the eviction guard compares against loaded
model names, which never include an alias. A warm alias target was
neither preloaded nor protected from eviction.
Report the model that serves each warm target instead.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 [Claude Code]
A manager snapshots a target publish when it queues it and applies
every echo the sync layer sends back. With one recovery probe, a
success moves a target from down to recovering to healthy under one
lock and queues two publishes. The echo of "recovering" then arrived
after the target was healthy, rolled it back, switched the chain away
with reason trip and restarted the dwell timer.
Tag each target snapshot with the publishing manager and ignore own
echoes. The manager already holds that state or a newer one.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 [Claude Code]
Every frontend recorded localai_failover_switches_total for the switches
it adopted from the leader, so a cluster of N frontends counted each
switch N times. Only the leader, which decides the switch, records it.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Pin and Unpin apply the change locally first for read-your-writes. When
the shared write then failed, the local pin stayed, so this frontend
served a target the others did not. Restore the previous pin on error,
unless a newer change arrived meanwhile.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Treating ResourceExhausted as a capability gap skipped the target
without counting a failure, so a target that stays rate limited or out
of memory kept its traffic. It is now an ordinary retryable failure:
the request moves to the next target and the exhausted one trips.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Rerank no longer sends top_n 0, which the upstream rejects. A
mid-stream upstream error frame now fails the call instead of ending
it as a short success. Temperature 0 is forwarded. An upstream 429
becomes ResourceExhausted, which failover skips like Unimplemented.
A localai-proxy config sends its own name upstream when upstream_model
is unset, and a chat proxy defaults to the tokenizer template so chat
reaches the upstream as messages.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
A pin arrives from the sync layer once. Dropping it when the chain or
target is unknown here left this frontend routing differently from the
cluster whenever its config lagged or a chain was re-created.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
A warm target's liveness probe called ModelLoader.Load, which blocked
until the model finished loading (while the warm preload loaded it
too). Tick waited for every probe, so all probing froze, and the probe
then ran HealthCheck on an expired context and tripped the target at
every startup.
The prober now takes a function that returns the running backend
without loading it. A target that is not loaded passes liveness; its
recovery is neither confirmed nor failed and it returns to healthy
after min_dwell, like a cold target. Tick no longer waits for probes:
each probe applies its own result and a target whose probe is running
is skipped.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
The request path called HasChains on every request, and with no chains
it scanned the config source each time: the loader's lock plus a copy
and sort of every config, forever, on every installation without
chains. Sync now keeps an atomic flag and HasChains reads only that.
A chain added since the last sync is still served because Plan syncs
on a miss; only in-request retry waits for the next tick (at most 1s).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
An admission rejection or a disabled target moves the request to the
next target through Attempt.Skip, which records no failure. A 4xx
response no longer counts as a success. Requests skip body recording
when no chain is configured, and stop it once the model is known not
to be a chain.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Warm local targets are pinned in the watchdog and preloaded. Switches
and target health are exported as metrics, skipped attempts as traces.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Idle targets get a liveness probe each interval, recovering targets an
inference probe. Cold local targets are never loaded to be probed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
recomputeLocked only fired the event on an active-target change or on
entering degraded. When the active target itself recovered while every
target was down, the chain silently left degraded with no event, so
SSE/realtime consumers tracking chain.switched.state got stuck on
"degraded".
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
errcheck flagged two side-effect-only m.Plan calls in tests, and unused
flagged close(), which Task 5's probe scheduler wires in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Health is tracked per target and the active target per chain. Fail-back
waits for recovery probes and a minimum time on the fallback.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Ettore Di Giacinto