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archestra-dev-investigate

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Use when investigating Archestra bugs or incidents — staging issues, backend 50x errors, Drizzle failed queries, DB connection pressure, deploy regressions, or Kubernetes/runtime symptoms. Orientation only; defers the process to /investigate.

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Archestra Investigation

Orientation for debugging Archestra. For the process itself — evidence-first, find the mechanism before fixing — use /investigate if you have it. This skill only adds what's specific to Archestra.

What's specific here

  • Signals live in Sentry, unevenly. Backend logs ship there; frontend usually doesn't, so reach for errors, spans, and replays instead. Pass <org>/<project> explicitly — auto-detection fails from this repo. Load the sentry-cli skill for the commands.
  • Drizzle hides the real cause. Failed query: <sql> is a wrapper, and the SQL is rarely the problem. Read the nested exception — that's where Postgres or the network says what actually failed.
  • The pool is per Node process. Each web and worker pod holds its own pool of ARCHESTRA_DATABASE_POOL_MAX, so DB connection demand is roughly pods × pool, pushed higher by rollout surge, readiness probes, and per-request query fanout. A few users can exhaust Postgres without unusual traffic — do that arithmetic before blaming load.
  • Surprising-for-the-traffic usually means config, not code. Check values-staging.yaml, the helm values, and backend config / DB setup before reaching for a code change.

Tools, by angle

Reach for the one that matches the question; load archestra-dev-observability for URLs, setup, and span/metric names.

  • Sentry (via the sentry-cli skill) — a specific failure: the error, its nested cause, and the trace for one request.
  • Tempo (traces) — where a request spent time or stalled, and how far it fanned out across LLM, MCP, and DB spans.
  • Prometheus / llm_* metrics (/metrics) — is it systemic? Rates and aggregates for tokens/cost, error rate, and throughput over time.
  • Grafana — dashboards over traces and metrics; line a spike up against a deploy.
  • kubectl (staging only, read-only) — runtime ground truth the dashboards miss: pod restarts/OOM, service endpoints, live Postgres connection counts. Verify the context points at staging first.

Failure classes to expect

Name the class first — it decides whether the fix is sizing, availability, or release ordering:

  • Connection pressure. Exhaustion (too many clients, connection slots reserved) is a sizing problem — do the pool arithmetic above. Endpoint flap (ECONNREFUSED :5432, ECONNRESET, timeouts) is an availability problem — check DB pod restarts and whether retries absorbed it.
  • Deploy / migration drift. A missing column or relation right after a release means code shipped ahead of its migration, not a flaky DB. Use archestra-dev-migrations if schema files need to change.

Boundaries

  • Staging Postgres: read-only SELECT only. No data mutation, schema changes, or migrations without explicit approval. No destructive Sentry commands.
  • Keep payloads out of artifacts: no real emails, IPs, tokens, customer names, or raw IDs in code, tests, docs, commits, or PRs. Report neutral facts — endpoint shape, time range, issue class, counts.