Normative Handoff Specification for Coding Agents. This document defines the exact implementation plan for bringing Pressroom (the Apache Roller fork, named Roller until 2026-10-29;
~/source/pressroom,service="pressroom",service_instance="pressroom-prod") onto the Simple Agility Telemetry Contract. It fulfills items R1 through R5 in SimpleAgilityTelemetryAdoption and satisfies architectural decisions SA-5 (instance labeling) and SA-6 (Elastic Common Schema).
flowchart TD
subgraph Client_Requests["Inbound Traffic"]
REQ["HTTP Request<br/>(Optional: traceparent or X-Correlation-Id)"]
end
subgraph Pressroom_Container["Pressroom Spring Boot Application (pressroom-app-1)"]
TCF["TraceCorrelationFilter<br/>(Extracts / Mints trace.id & transaction.id)"]
MDC["Log4j2 ThreadContext<br/>(trace.id, transaction.id, http.request.method, url.path)"]
APP["Application Core & Controllers<br/>(Business Logic & MCP Server)"]
LOG4J["Log4j2 JsonTemplateLayout<br/>(classpath:EcsLayout.json, service.name='pressroom')"]
ACT["Spring Boot Actuator<br/>(Port 8090, /actuator/prometheus)"]
REQ --> TCF
TCF -->|Enrich| MDC
TCF --> APP
APP -->|Log Event| LOG4J
end
subgraph Observability_Plane["Observability Ingestion (Host docker2)"]
STDOUT["Docker Stdout Stream<br/>(ECS JSON One-Line Objects)"]
ALLOY_LOGS["Grafana Alloy (Logs Scrape)<br/>(Relabels service='pressroom', service_instance='pressroom-prod')"]
ALLOY_PROM["Grafana Alloy (Metrics Scrape)<br/>(Scrapes 127.0.0.1:8090/actuator/prometheus)"]
LOKI[("Loki (Central Ingestion)")]
PROM[("Prometheus (Central Ingestion)")]
LOG4J --> STDOUT
STDOUT --> ALLOY_LOGS
ALLOY_LOGS --> LOKI
ACT --> ALLOY_PROM
ALLOY_PROM --> PROM
end
app/pom.xml)Pressroom uses Spring Boot with Log4j2 and already imports org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-bom (${log4j2.security.version} = 2.26.1). Two dependencies must be added to app/pom.xml:
Add under <dependencies> in app/pom.xml:
<!-- Supplies EcsLayout.json template and JsonTemplateLayout -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-layout-template-json</artifactId>
</dependency>
(Version is managed by the existing log4j-bom import; do not specify a hardcoded version).
Pressroom already includes spring-boot-starter-actuator. To enable Prometheus format export, add:
<!-- Prometheus metrics registry for Spring Boot Actuator -->
<dependency>
<groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
<artifactId>micrometer-registry-prometheus</artifactId>
</dependency>
app/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml)Replace the existing Console appender in app/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml with the ECS JSON template layout:
<Console name="console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<JsonTemplateLayout eventTemplateUri="classpath:EcsLayout.json">
<EventTemplateAdditionalField key="service.name" value="pressroom"/>
</JsonTemplateLayout>
</Console>
In Pressroom's default log4j2.xml, logger categories (e.g. com.wikantik.pressroom, pressroom.sso, pressroom.comments, pressroom.admin) specify:
<Logger name="com.wikantik.pressroom" level="info" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="asyncPressroom"/>
</Logger>
Because additivity="false" is set and asyncPressroom writes only to file (${logging.dir}/pressroom.log), messages sent to com.wikantik.pressroom will not reach console (stdout) unless explicitly referenced.
In containerized deployments (Docker), the observability plane (jakemon) captures logs from stdout/stderr, not local disk files. To ensure application logs reach Docker stdout in ECS format, add <AppenderRef ref="console"/> to each primary logger or define an asynchronous console appender:
<Async name="asyncConsole">
<AppenderRef ref="console"/>
</Async>
<Loggers>
<!-- Ensure both file and stdout appenders are referenced -->
<Logger name="com.wikantik.pressroom" level="info" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="asyncPressroom"/>
<AppenderRef ref="console"/>
</Logger>
<Logger name="pressroom.sso" level="info" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="asyncPressroom"/>
<AppenderRef ref="console"/>
</Logger>
<Logger name="pressroom.comments" level="info" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="asyncPressroom"/>
<AppenderRef ref="console"/>
</Logger>
<Logger name="pressroom.admin" level="info" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="asyncPressroom"/>
<AppenderRef ref="console"/>
</Logger>
<Root level="info">
<AppenderRef ref="console"/>
</Root>
</Loggers>
TraceCorrelationFilter.java)To support end-to-end tracing across the Simple Agility ecosystem, create TraceCorrelationFilter.java in app/src/main/java/org/apache/pressroom/weblogger/ui/core/filters/:
traceparent Header: Check for standard W3C header traceparent (format: 00-<32-hex-trace-id>-<16-hex-parent-id>-<flags>). Extract the 32-hex character trace-id.X-Correlation-Id Header: If traceparent is absent, check for incoming X-Correlation-Id.UUID.randomUUID().toString().replace("-", "")).Inject the following fields into Log4j's ThreadContext:
trace.id — Cross-service correlation identifier (32-hex chars).transaction.id — Fresh UUID generated per HTTP request hop.http.request.method — request.getMethod()url.path — request.getRequestURI()client.ip — Derived client IP taking X-Forwarded-For into account.user_agent.original — request.getHeader("User-Agent")package com.wikantik.pressroom.ui.core.filters;
import jakarta.servlet.Filter;
import jakarta.servlet.FilterChain;
import jakarta.servlet.ServletException;
import jakarta.servlet.ServletRequest;
import jakarta.servlet.ServletResponse;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.ThreadContext;
import org.springframework.core.Ordered;
import org.springframework.core.annotation.Order;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
@Component
@Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
public class TraceCorrelationFilter implements Filter {
private static final Pattern TRACEPARENT_PATTERN =
Pattern.compile("^[0-9a-f]{2}-([0-9a-f]{32})-[0-9a-f]{16}-[0-9a-f]{2}$");
@Override
public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res, FilterChain chain)
throws IOException, ServletException {
if (!(req instanceof HttpServletRequest request) || !(res instanceof HttpServletResponse response)) {
chain.doFilter(req, res);
return;
}
String traceId = resolveTraceId(request);
String transactionId = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
ThreadContext.put("trace.id", traceId);
ThreadContext.put("transaction.id", transactionId);
ThreadContext.put("http.request.method", request.getMethod());
ThreadContext.put("url.path", request.getRequestURI());
String ip = request.getHeader("X-Forwarded-For");
ThreadContext.put("client.ip", ip != null ? ip.split(",")[0].trim() : request.getRemoteAddr());
String ua = request.getHeader("User-Agent");
if (ua != null) {
ThreadContext.put("user_agent.original", ua);
}
// Propagate in response headers for client tracing
response.setHeader("X-Correlation-Id", traceId);
response.setHeader("traceparent", "00-" + traceId + "-" + transactionId.replace("-", "").substring(0, 16) + "-01");
try {
chain.doFilter(request, response);
} finally {
ThreadContext.clearMap();
}
}
private String resolveTraceId(HttpServletRequest request) {
String tp = request.getHeader("traceparent");
if (tp != null) {
Matcher m = TRACEPARENT_PATTERN.matcher(tp.trim().toLowerCase());
if (m.matches()) {
return m.group(1);
}
}
String corr = request.getHeader("X-Correlation-Id");
if (corr != null && !corr.isBlank()) {
return corr.trim();
}
return UUID.randomUUID().toString().replace("-", "");
}
}
application.properties)In app/src/main/resources/application.properties:
Pressroom already isolates its management server to port 8090 (management.server.port=8090). Configure Actuator exposure as follows:
# Management & Observability configuration
management.server.port=8090
management.endpoints.web.exposure.include=health,info,prometheus
management.endpoint.health.show-details=when_authorized
management.endpoint.prometheus.enabled=true
# Metric tags
management.metrics.tags.application=pressroom
management.metrics.tags.service=pressroom
Actuator metrics will be served on internal port 8090 at path /actuator/prometheus. Port 8090 is strictly accessible on localhost / container network and is not exposed to public Cloudflare ingress.
Once Pressroom exposes /actuator/prometheus on port 8090, jakemon's Alloy agent on host docker1 (hosts/docker1/apps.alloy) configures the scrape target:
// Pressroom production Prometheus scrape (Port 8090)
prometheus.scrape "pressroom_prod" {
targets = [{
__address__ = "127.0.0.1:8090",
}]()
metrics_path = "/actuator/prometheus"
scrape_interval = "60s"
forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.central.receiver]
extra_metrics = {
service = "pressroom",
service_instance = "pressroom-prod",
}
}
When a coding agent implements these items in ~/source/pressroom, the implementation must pass the following checks:
Run Pressroom locally or inspect Docker stdout:
# Verify log lines are valid JSON and contain ECS required keys
docker logs pressroom-app-1 2>&1 | tail -n 20 | jq .
Must produce lines containing:
"@timestamp": "...""log.level": "INFO""message": "...""service.name": "pressroom""trace.id": "...""transaction.id": "..."Send a request with a known traceparent:
curl -v -H "traceparent: 00-4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736-00f067aa0ba902b7-01" http://localhost:8080/
Verify:
X-Correlation-Id: 4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736.{service_instance="pressroom-prod"} | json | trace_id="4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736" matches the exact log line.Query port 8090:
curl -s http://localhost:8090/actuator/prometheus | grep "jvm_memory_used_bytes"
Must return standard Prometheus metrics.
Run the conformance script from the Wikantik repo:
~/source/jspwiki/bin/simple-agility-conformance.sh
All Pressroom log and metric checks must report PASS.
SA-INIT-03.