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Summary

Add reusable, dependency-free latency histogram primitives to ovos_utils.metrics:

  • monotonic timing with pause/resume support;
  • thread-safe, fixed cumulative buckets;
  • idempotent completion and exception-safe context management;
  • a synchronous decorator that preserves wrapped metadata; and
  • detached JSON-friendly snapshots for plugin-owned exporters.

Why

OVOS Core, Workshop, and intent pipeline packages need the same low-level timing and histogram storage without importing one another or creating a dependency cycle. This keeps metric ownership in each instrumented package while giving their process-local metrics providers one shared implementation.

The helper intentionally has no Prometheus server, labels, request identifiers, or runtime policy. Export remains the host runtime's responsibility through the existing metrics-provider entry point.

This is the prerequisite proposed in the architecture discussion on OpenVoiceOS/ovos-workshop#509. Consumer PRs can switch to this API after an ovos-utils alpha containing it is published, with explicit minimum-version bumps.

Validation

  • ruff check ovos_utils/metrics.py test/unittests/test_metrics.py
  • PYTHONPATH=. pytest -q test/unittests/test_metrics.py — 19 passed
  • git diff --check

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  • New Features

    • Added thread-safe latency tracking with configurable measurement buckets.
    • Added context-manager timing for measuring operations, including pause and resume support.
    • Added function timing support that preserves existing function metadata.
    • Added JSON-friendly latency snapshots with cumulative counts and timing data.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Ensured invalid durations and bucket configurations are rejected.
    • Ensured each measurement is recorded exactly once, including when operations exit with errors.

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Added LatencyHistogram and LatencyMeasurement to collect validated cumulative latency data. The implementation supports thread safety, pause/resume timing, context managers, decorators, detached snapshots, and unit-test coverage. A rotated log fixture timestamp was updated.

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Latency metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Histogram configuration and aggregation
ovos_utils/metrics.py, test/unittests/test_metrics.py
Adds default and configurable latency buckets. Validates bucket and duration inputs. Updates cumulative counts and totals under a thread lock. Provides detached snapshots and Python 3.9-compatible typing and iteration. Tests aggregation, validation, and boundary formatting.
Measurement APIs and validation
ovos_utils/metrics.py, test/unittests/test_metrics.py
Adds pausable measurements, context-manager recording, synchronous decoration, and tests for concurrency, exceptional execution, return values, and metadata. Removes an unused stopwatch-test assignment.

Log fixture update

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rotated log fixture timestamp
test/unittests/log_test/rotate.log.1
Updates the timestamp of the existing deprecation warning entry without changing its message.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 47523

This change adds reusable latency histogram helpers and updates a log-fixture timestamp. No merge-blocking current-head risk remains.

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In `@ovos_utils/metrics.py`:
- Around line 120-123: Update the bucket key construction in the metrics method
containing the buckets comprehension to use a round-trip-safe bound
representation such as .17g instead of :g, ensuring distinct close bounds retain
separate dictionary entries. Add a test using bounds like 1.0000001 and
1.0000002 to verify both keys and cumulative counts are preserved.
- Around line 53-59: Update the measurement class’s finish method to synchronize
access to _running, _finished, and _elapsed_ms with a measurement-level lock. In
finish, acquire the lock, return for an already-finished measurement,
pause/update the elapsed state as needed, and set _finished before calling
_histogram.observe_ms so concurrent calls record exactly once.
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- Line 7: Restore Python 3.9 compatibility in ovos_utils.metrics by importing
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CodeRabbit review on OpenVoiceOS#416.

pyproject declares requires-python >=3.9, but this module used
typing.ParamSpec and zip(strict=True), both 3.10+. On 3.9 the import
fails outright. CI only runs 3.10-3.14, so nothing caught it.

Types the decorator on its return value instead of ParamSpec, and drops
strict= for an explicit length assert -- the invariant it guarded holds
by construction, so this keeps the check without the version floor.

Raising requires-python to >=3.10 to match what CI actually tests would
also fix this, but that is a packaging decision for the whole package
rather than something to change inside a feature PR.

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Closing this. It existed to give one consumer, OVOS-workshop#509, a shared home for the histogram primitive rather than a second copy. That consumer is closed: the metric it added is derivable from the handler lifecycle events a stock Workshop already puts on the bus, so it is published by a collector registered on the ovos.performance.metrics entry-point group instead, and Workshop needs no change.

With that consumer gone the remaining argument for landing the primitive here is weaker than the argument for leaving ovos-utils alone, so it is not worth holding open.

Worth recording for anyone who picks this up: the helper is a small, dependency-free, thread-safe cumulative histogram with fixed buckets, and the reason it was proposed here at all is that both Core and Workshop wanted it and Workshop cannot import Core without reversing the dependency direction. If a future change puts instrumentation back inside this ecosystem rather than beside it, that constraint is unchanged and this is still the natural place for it.

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