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Issue

Closes #1161

Summary

  • Before: There was no way to correlate request payload size with a specific request in Sentry or AWS CloudWatch.
  • Now: The request body size is captured in the HTTP request logger middleware and presented in three places.
  • Captured body size in the span attribute for OTel.
  • Included request_body_size and correlation_id in the access log line.

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Middleware-only change; no schema, route, or service changes.

Capture Content-Length in the HTTP request logger, expose it as the
http.request.body.size span attribute, include it with the correlation
ID in the access log line (shipped to Sentry and CloudWatch), and emit
a Sentry byte-size distribution metric.

Closes #1161

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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The middleware extracts request body size from Content-Length. It records the size in OpenTelemetry spans, request logs, and a Sentry distribution metric. Missing or malformed values resolve to zero.

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Request body telemetry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture and report request body size
backend/app/core/middleware.py, backend/app/tests/core/test_middleware.py
The middleware resolves Content-Length, records http.request.body.size on the active span, adds request_body_size and correlation_id to request logs, and emits the Sentry http.server.request.body.size distribution metric in bytes. Tests cover valid, missing, empty, and malformed headers and validate each telemetry output.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 46c9b

The middleware now records request size and correlation data, but malformed negative Content-Length values can emit invalid telemetry, and some permitted SDK versions may not support the metrics API used by the change. The PR is otherwise localized and mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on these bounded observability risks.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant HTTPRequest
  participant HTTPMiddleware
  participant OpenTelemetrySpan
  participant RequestLogger
  participant SentryMetrics
  HTTPRequest->>HTTPMiddleware: Provide Content-Length header
  HTTPMiddleware->>HTTPMiddleware: Resolve request body size
  HTTPMiddleware->>OpenTelemetrySpan: Record http.request.body.size
  HTTPMiddleware->>RequestLogger: Include request_body_size and correlation_id
  HTTPMiddleware->>SentryMetrics: Emit http.server.request.body.size in bytes
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The changes satisfy issue #1161. They read Content-Length with a zero fallback, add the OpenTelemetry span attribute, include request_body_size and correlation_id in access logs, and emit the Sentry distribution metric.

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@github-actions github-actions Bot changed the title feat(middleware): log request payload size with correlation ID feat(middleware): Log request payload size Aug 26, 2026
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backend/app/core/middleware.py (1)

72-72: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a narrow type annotation for call_next.

_log_http_request awaits call_next(request) but leaves call_next untyped. Annotate it as a callable from Request to an awaitable Response.

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In `@backend/app/core/middleware.py`:
- Around line 118-122: Update the logger.info call in _log_http_request to
prefix the access log message with [_log_http_request], before the HTTP method,
while preserving the existing log fields and formatting.
- Around line 66-69: Update _resolve_request_body_size so negative parsed
Content-Length values return 0, while preserving valid nonnegative values and
the existing ValueError fallback.

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In `@backend/app/core/middleware.py`:
- Line 72: Update the _log_http_request function signature by annotating
call_next as a callable accepting Request and returning an awaitable Response,
while preserving the existing request logging and response handling.
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try:
return int(request.headers.get("content-length") or 0)
except ValueError:
return 0

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Reject negative Content-Length values.

_resolve_request_body_size converts Content-Length: -1 to -1. This value reaches the span, access log, and Sentry metrics. Return 0 when the parsed value is negative.

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In `@backend/app/core/middleware.py` around lines 66 - 69, Update
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while preserving valid nonnegative values and the existing ValueError fallback.

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backend/app/tests/core/test_middleware.py (1)

34-46: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the repeated header name into a constant.

"content-length" is repeated across test setups. Define CONTENT_LENGTH_HEADER once and use it for each request header.

As per coding guidelines, extract repeated literals into constants and use UPPER_SNAKE_CASE names.

Also applies to: 103-103, 142-142, 172-172

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In `@backend/app/tests/core/test_middleware.py` around lines 34 - 46, Define a
CONTENT_LENGTH_HEADER constant in the middleware tests and replace every
repeated "content-length" header-name literal in the affected request setups,
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- Around line 44-47: Update test_malformed_header_is_zero to include "-1" among
malformed Content-Length values, and modify _resolve_request_body_size to clamp
parsed negative sizes to zero while preserving zero fallback for other malformed
values.
- Around line 127-136: Raise the minimum sentry-sdk version in pyproject.toml to
the supported release that provides metrics.count, matching the locked 2.54.0
API. In the Sentry metric test setup around _emit_sentry_metric, replace the
inline distribution and count lambdas with named helpers using narrow
annotations for the 2.54.0 signatures, and apply the same helpers at both patch
locations.

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In `@backend/app/tests/core/test_middleware.py`:
- Around line 34-46: Define a CONTENT_LENGTH_HEADER constant in the middleware
tests and replace every repeated "content-length" header-name literal in the
affected request setups, including the additional occurrences, with that
constant.
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@pytest.mark.parametrize("value", ["chunked", "12.5", "-"])
def test_malformed_header_is_zero(self, value: str) -> None:
request = _build_request({"content-length": value})
assert _resolve_request_body_size(request) == 0

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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In RFC 9110, the Content-Length header field value is defined by the ABNF production "Content-Length = 1DIGIT" [1]. This grammar explicitly mandates that the value must consist of one or more ASCII digits (0-9) [1]. Because the definition is restricted to "1DIGIT", only non-negative decimal integers are permitted; negative values (such as "-1") or non-numeric characters are invalid because they do not conform to the required ABNF [1]. A sender must not forward a message with an invalid Content-Length value, and a recipient must treat such invalid values as an error [1].

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Test negative numeric Content-Length values as malformed.

"-1" is not covered. int("-1") succeeds, so _resolve_request_body_size returns -1. _log_http_request then uses this value for the span attribute and access log instead of the documented zero fallback.

Add "-1" to the parameterized values and clamp negative results to zero in _resolve_request_body_size.

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values, and modify _resolve_request_body_size to clamp parsed negative sizes to
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monkeypatch.setattr(sentry_sdk, "get_client", lambda: ActiveClient())
monkeypatch.setattr(
sentry_sdk.metrics,
"distribution",
lambda name, value, unit=None, attributes=None: distributions.append(
(name, value, unit)
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)
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sentry_sdk.metrics, "count", lambda name, value, attributes=None: None

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For sentry-sdk version 2.20.0, the callable signatures for sentry_sdk.metrics.count and sentry_sdk.metrics.distribution are identical [1]. Both functions accept a name, a numeric value, and optional unit and attributes parameters [1][2]. The signatures are as follows: sentry_sdk.metrics.count( name: str, value: float, unit: Optional[str] = None, attributes: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None) -> None sentry_sdk.metrics.distribution( name: str, value: float, unit: Optional[str] = None, attributes: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None) -> None In these signatures: - name: The identifier for the metric [3][2]. - value: The numeric measurement to record (typically a float) [1][4][2]. - unit: An optional string representing the unit of measurement (e.g., "millisecond", "byte") [1][3][2]. - attributes: An optional dictionary providing additional context (key-value pairs) for the metric [1][4][2]. These methods are defined within the sentry_sdk.metrics module [1]. Note that while the underlying implementation converts values to floats [1], the SDK accepts standard numeric types. Consistent with the Sentry metrics API design, these methods do not return a value [1].

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def count(
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Align the Sentry metric test doubles with a supported SDK version.

backend/pyproject.toml permits sentry-sdk 2.20.0, but that version provides metrics.increment, not metrics.count. _emit_sentry_metric calls metrics.count, and this test patches it. Raise the minimum SDK version to one that provides count. Then replace the lambdas at lines 127-136 and 162-166 with named helpers that use narrow annotations matching the locked 2.54.0 API.

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In `@backend/app/tests/core/test_middleware.py` around lines 127 - 136, Raise the
minimum sentry-sdk version in pyproject.toml to the supported release that
provides metrics.count, matching the locked 2.54.0 API. In the Sentry metric
test setup around _emit_sentry_metric, replace the inline distribution and count
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span.set_attribute("http.request.method", method)
span.set_attribute("http.request_method", method)
span.set_attribute("http.method", method)
span.set_attribute("http.request.body.size", request_body_size)

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@kartpop, also adding the request body size as a Sentry attribute, so we can filter requests using the request_body_size tag in Sentry.

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