event-stream-processor

Event Stream Processor (ESP) for Event Stream (logs, audits, errors, trace, etc)

TODO

• Improve unit tests using Jest (NOT tap/tape!).
• Improve code-coverage to 90% across the board: .nycrc.yml.
• Add NPM script test as a pre-commit in the package.json.
• Update CI-CD to include unit and code-coverage checks.
• Technical Debt to be resolved:
  • Address legacy API changes that will be deprecated with RXJS v8.
  • Investigate the reason/cause for observable.complete() throwing the following unhandled error: "TypeError: teardown.unsubscribe is not a function" to be thrown.
  • Re-factor solution to not rely on forked implementations of @mojaloop/elastic-apm-node* dependencies. Consider something using elastic-apm-http-client, or completely replace with opentelemetry.
  • Re-factor solution to use @elastic/elasticsearch instead of deprecated elasticsearch dependency.
  • Removed unused FluentD legacy code/dependencies.
  • Fix issues with updated @hapi/catbox* dependency releases.

1. Pre-requisites

1.1 Elasticsearch

Ensure that you have created the following resources prior to deploying the ESP component:

1. Create a Policy with the desired Rollover configurations: policy-rollover-mojaloop.json
2. Create a Template to associate the Policy Settings to the Logstash index based on the following config: template-mojaloop.json

NOTE: If ESP component is running prior to configuring the above template, the index mapping will be auto-created and will not take effect.

1.1.1 Mojaloop Index Rollover Policy

1.1.1.1 Create

curl -X PUT "http://elasticsearch:9200/_ilm/policy/mojaloop_rollover_policy?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @config/policy-rollover-mojaloop.json

curl -X PUT "http://localhost:9200/_ilm/policy/mojaloop_rollover_policy?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @config/policy-rollover-mojaloop.json

1.1.1.2 Delete

NOTE: only needed if you need to remove the policy_

curl -X DELETE "http://elasticsearch:9200/_ilm/policy/mojaloop_rollover_policy?"

1.1.1.3 Get

NOTE: useful for debugging issues_

curl -X GET "http://elasticsearch:9200/_ilm/policy/mojaloop_rollover_policy?"

1.1.2 Mojaloop Index Template

1.1.2.1 Create

curl -X PUT "http://elasticsearch:9200/_template/moja_template?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @config/template-mojaloop.json

curl -X PUT "http://localhost:9200/_template/moja_template?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @config/template-mojaloop.json'

1.1.2.2 Delete

NOTE: only needed if you need to remove the template_

curl -X DELETE "http://elasticsearch:9200/_template/moja_template"

1.1.3 Get Template

NOTE: useful for debugging template issues_

curl -X GET "http://elasticsearch:9200/_template/moja_template"

Testing

Local

1. Run Docker-compose which will start up the following dependencies:

   1. Kafka - Message Bus
   2. ElasticSearch - Event Indexing of all Event types (traces, audits, errors, logs, etc) from the event-topic
   3. APM - Application Monitoring for Trace event
   4. Kibana - ElasticSearch UI
   5. Kowl - Helpful UI for managing/monitoring/querying Kafka visually

   cd ./docker
   docker-compose up -d

2. Helper script to produce a single sample message using kcat

   sh ./docker/kafka-produces-single.sh

3. Helper script to produce multiple sample messages using kcat

   sh ./docker/kafka-produces-multi.sh

Auditing Dependencies

We use npm-audit-resolver along with npm audit to check dependencies for node vulnerabilities, and keep track of resolved dependencies with an audit-resolve.json file.

To start a new resolution process, run:

npm run audit:resolve

You can then check to see if the CI will pass based on the current dependencies with:

npm run audit:check

And commit the changed audit-resolve.json to ensure that CircleCI will build correctly.

Container Scans

As part of our CI/CD process, we use anchore-cli to scan our built docker container for vulnerabilities upon release.

If you find your release builds are failing, refer to the container scanning in our shared Mojaloop CI config repo. There is a good chance you simply need to update the mojaloop-policy-generator.js file and re-run the circleci workflow.

For more information on anchore and anchore-cli, refer to:

• Anchore CLI
• Circle Orb Registry

Automated Releases

As part of our CI/CD process, we use a combination of CircleCI, standard-version npm package and github-release CircleCI orb to automatically trigger our releases and image builds. This process essentially mimics a manual tag and release.

On a merge to master, CircleCI is configured to use the mojaloopci github account to push the latest generated CHANGELOG and package version number.

Once those changes are pushed, CircleCI will pull the updated master, tag and push a release triggering another subsequent build that also publishes a docker image.

Potential problems

• There is a case where the merge to master workflow will resolve successfully, triggering a release. Then that tagged release workflow subsequently failing due to the image scan, audit check, vulnerability check or other "live" checks.

  This will leave master without an associated published build. Fixes that require a new merge will essentially cause a skip in version number or require a clean up of the master branch to the commit before the CHANGELOG and bump.

  This may be resolved by relying solely on the previous checks of the merge to master workflow to assume that our tagged release is of sound quality. We are still mulling over this solution since catching bugs/vulnerabilities/etc earlier is a boon.

• It is unknown if a race condition might occur with multiple merges with master in quick succession, but this is a suspected edge case.