metrics: rate limit /metrics per client address before Basic Auth (closes #101)
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/metrics is behind a password, and REPO_POLICIES.md requires rate
limiting on password logins. Each client address may now send it 30
requests a minute, counted by httprate before Basic Auth, so failed
logins use up the allowance and a request over it gets 429 without
the password being checked. The address is the one the existing
trusted-proxy logic in internal/middleware works out, with IPv6
addresses grouped by /64; an IPv4 address a proxy reports in
IPv6-mapped form counts as the plain IPv4 address. A Prometheus
server scraping every 15 seconds sends 4 requests a minute.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #180.
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2026-10-01 22:09:14 +02:00
parent bea9a3b2f2
commit ed0f56f144
9 changed files with 287 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
"net/http/httptest"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"
"go.uber.org/fx/fxtest"
@@ -340,3 +341,144 @@ func TestDashboardRendersWithSecurityHeaders(t *testing.T) {
t.Errorf("CSP would block %q: %q", stylesheetPath, csp)
}
}
// Addresses for the rate limit tests: a client connecting directly, a
// trusted proxy, and a client behind that proxy as its X-Real-IP
// header names it.
const (
directClient = "198.51.100.1:4000"
trustedProxy = "10.0.0.1:4000"
proxiedClient = "203.0.113.1"
)
// statusFrom sends a GET through handler as if from remoteAddr, with
// an X-Real-IP header when xRealIP is not empty, and returns the
// response status.
func statusFrom(
t *testing.T,
handler http.Handler,
remoteAddr string,
xRealIP string,
) int {
t.Helper()
req := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(
t.Context(), http.MethodGet, "/metrics", nil,
)
req.RemoteAddr = remoteAddr
if xRealIP != "" {
req.Header.Set("X-Real-IP", xRealIP)
}
rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
handler.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
return rec.Code
}
// TestMetricsRateLimitAllowsScraping checks that one address can send,
// within one window, what two Prometheus servers scraping every 5
// seconds send in that time, without being turned away.
func TestMetricsRateLimitAllowsScraping(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
const scrapeInterval = 5 * time.Second
scrapes := 2 * int(middleware.MetricsRequestWindow/scrapeInterval)
limited := newTestMiddleware(t).MetricsRateLimit()(okHandler())
for i := range scrapes {
got := statusFrom(t, limited, directClient, "")
if got != http.StatusOK {
t.Fatalf(
"scrape %d of %d: status = %d, want 200",
i+1, scrapes, got,
)
}
}
}
// TestMetricsRateLimitKeysOnClientAddress checks which requests share
// an allowance. Each case uses up the allowance of one client, then
// sends one more request.
func TestMetricsRateLimitKeysOnClientAddress(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
tests := []struct {
name string
usedRemoteAddr string
usedXRealIP string
nextRemoteAddr string
nextXRealIP string
want int
}{
{
"same address",
directClient, "",
directClient, "",
http.StatusTooManyRequests,
},
{
"another address",
directClient, "",
"198.51.100.2:4000", "",
http.StatusOK,
},
{
"own X-Real-IP from an untrusted address",
directClient, "",
directClient, "203.0.113.9",
http.StatusTooManyRequests,
},
{
"same client behind the proxy",
trustedProxy, proxiedClient,
trustedProxy, proxiedClient,
http.StatusTooManyRequests,
},
{
"another client behind the proxy",
trustedProxy, proxiedClient,
trustedProxy, "203.0.113.2",
http.StatusOK,
},
{
"another client behind the proxy, IPv6-mapped",
trustedProxy, "::ffff:203.0.113.1",
trustedProxy, "::ffff:203.0.113.2",
http.StatusOK,
},
{
"same IPv6 /64",
"[2001:db8::1]:4000", "",
"[2001:db8::2]:4000", "",
http.StatusTooManyRequests,
},
{
"another IPv6 /64",
"[2001:db8::1]:4000", "",
"[2001:db8:0:1::1]:4000", "",
http.StatusOK,
},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
limited := newTestMiddleware(t).MetricsRateLimit()(okHandler())
for range middleware.MetricsRequestLimit {
statusFrom(t, limited, tt.usedRemoteAddr, tt.usedXRealIP)
}
got := statusFrom(
t, limited, tt.nextRemoteAddr, tt.nextXRealIP,
)
if got != tt.want {
t.Errorf("status = %d, want %d", got, tt.want)
}
})
}
}