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Failures fixed (investigator)

  • source: RC Testing Suite run 32139905215 (server perconalab/pmm-server:3.9.1-rc), jobs 95752836680 (OL9 PSMDB @rta), 95752836460 (OL8 PSMDB @rta), 95719954746 (FB E2E @rta), 95719950852 (@new-navigation), 95719953756 (@pmm-ps-integration)
  • source: PSMDB GSSAPI E2E Tests Matrix run 32208328543 (server perconalab/pmm-server:3-dev-latest, which reports 3.9.1-v3-cbf31f02a), job 95935771133 (OL8 PSMDB @rta)
  • tests:
    • e2e_tests/tests/qan/rta/overview.test.ts:245 / @rta — PMM-T2265
    • e2e_tests/tests/qan/rta/overview.test.ts:286 / @rta — PMM-T2266
    • e2e_tests/tests/qan/rta/session.test.ts:55 / @rta — PMM-T2267
    • e2e_tests/tests/helpCenter.test.ts:164 / @new-navigation — PMM-T2263
    • e2e_tests/tests/navigation.test.ts:148 / @new-navigation — PMM-T2202
    • e2e_tests/tests/dashboards/mysql/mysqlDashboards.test.ts:147 / @pmm-ps-integration — PMM-T2029
    • e2e_tests/tests/qan/storedMetrics/urlState.test.ts:15 / @rta — PMM-T2268 (from the nightly above; already in minPmmVersion, so this PR needs no extra change for it)

Every one of these asserts behavior that is genuinely absent from 3.9.1: the feature PR is an ancestor of the pmm-3.9.1 tip but was reverted on that branch. The first five are already in minPmmVersion at 3.10.0 and should have been skipped — the gate never runs for them. PMM-T2029 was missing from the list.

The gate only ever covered one file

fixtures/pmmTest.ts registers the check as a module-scope hook:

pmmTest.beforeEach(async ({ api }, testInfo) => {  pmmTest.skip(serverVersionBelow(), ) });

The module is evaluated once — while the first spec file that imports it is being loaded — and Playwright attaches the hook to that file's root suite. Every other spec file gets no gate.

Verified in this repo with two throwaway specs importing @fixtures/pmmTest, on main (hook body replaced with a log line so the browser dependency doesn't mask it):

GATE HOOK ATTACHED-AND-RAN for: PMM-T2265 gate probe in first file @tmpgate
  -> would gate on 3.10.0
  ✓  1 tests/tmpgate/aOverview.test.ts › PMM-T2265 gate probe in first file
GATE HOOK ATTACHED-AND-RAN for: PMM-T9999 ungated probe @tmpgate
  ✓  2 tests/tmpgate/aOverview.test.ts › PMM-T9999 ungated probe
  ✓  3 tests/tmpgate/bSession.test.ts  › PMM-T2267 gate probe in second file   ← hook never ran

Running bSession.test.ts on its own does get the hook, so which file it lands on is just load order — it is not stable across runs or worker restarts.

That matches the CI run exactly: the gate commit (1b66224) is an ancestor of the run's SHA (b8f6c3b), versionGates.ts at that SHA lists PMM-T2265: '3.10.0', the server reported Version: 3.9.1, and there is no Requires PMM Server 3.10.0+ anywhere in any job log — every gated test ran. In the @rta job the hook had landed on tests/inventory/services.test.ts (PMM-T2159, not gated), so nothing was gated at all.

Change

Move the check into an auto fixture, which applies to every test regardless of load order, and memoize the version lookup:

  • helpers/version.helper.tsgetServerVersion() caches the promise, so it is one request per worker process rather than one per gated test, and concurrent tests in a worker share the in-flight call.
  • fixtures/pmmTest.tsversionGate auto fixture; tests whose id is not in minPmmVersion make no request at all. It depends on request rather than api so it does not pull a browser page into tests that never open one (the old hook did, via api: ({ page, request })).
  • api/server.api.ts — export PmmVersion so the helper can type the cache.
  • helpers/versionGates.ts — add PMM-T2029. It calls dashboard.selectVariableValue('Environment', …) on MySQL Replication Summary; the Environment picker comes from percona/pmm#5647 (PMM-13932), reverted on pmm-3.9.1 (6edca30), where the variable is still hide: 2 and never renders. Same class as the entries already there.

The existing 3.10.0 values are otherwise left alone — they are correct. percona/pmm#5537 (RTA URL state), #5694 (update-popup snooze, PMM-T2263) and #5636 (MongoDB Unused Indexes, reached via the PMM-T2202 menu walk) are all reverted on pmm-3.9.1 (6d729c8, 949bd7a, 7a17a2a).

Verification

Same two throwaway specs, this time with the real fixture and a stub server on /v1/version returning 3.9.1:

-  1 [chromium] › tests/tmpgate/aOverview.test.ts › PMM-T2265 gate probe in first file @tmpgate
✓  2 [chromium] › tests/tmpgate/aOverview.test.ts › PMM-T9999 ungated probe @tmpgate (26ms)
-  3 [chromium] › tests/tmpgate/bSession.test.ts  › PMM-T2267 gate probe in second file @tmpgate
2 skipped · 1 passed

stub server log:
VERSION_CALL 1 /v1/version      ← one call for the whole run

Both gated tests skip, in both files; the ungated test triggers no request. The probe specs were removed before committing.

npx tsc --noEmit and npx eslint clean on the changed files. What this cannot prove locally is the real suite against a real server — the next RC/nightly run is what confirms these tests skip on 3.9.x and still run on 3.10.

Confirmed live on a real 3.9.1 server

The nightly added above is the same defect, observed end to end on a throwaway Linode VM running
perconalab/pmm-server:3-dev-latest at digest sha256:2cf5b658… — byte-identical to the image the failing
nightly used — with pmm-framework --database psmdb,OL_VERSION=8,GSSAPI=true. The server reports
3.9.1-v3-cbf31f02a, and PMM-T2268 is already listed in versionGates.ts at 3.10.0:

full @rta suite (22 specs):
  ✓  22 tests/qan/storedMetrics/urlState.test.ts:15 › PMM-T2268 … @rta (19.0s)   ← ran; gate never applied

same box, same server, that one spec alone:
  -   1 tests/qan/storedMetrics/urlState.test.ts:15 › PMM-T2268 … @rta
  1 skipped                                                                       ← gate applied

Run alone the spec is the first file loaded, so it gets the hook and skips; in the suite the hook landed
elsewhere and it ran against 3.9.1. That is this PR's bug reproduced directly against a real server rather than
a stub, and it is why the auto fixture is the right shape — no change to versionGates.ts is needed for
PMM-T2268.

Worth recording separately, since it is what made this particular spec go red on 3.9.1 tonight rather than pass
as it had on previous nights: PMM-T2268 asserts a second pagination page exists after filtering QAN stored
metrics to service_type=mongodb, and the QAN page size is 25 (DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE in
pmm-app/src/pmm-qan/panel/QueryAnalytics.constants.ts). On the freshly provisioned VM that filter returned
17 query groups right after setup and 33 about five minutes later. The growth is not test-generated —
every simulateLongRunningQuery call collapses into the single fingerprint db.test.find({"$where":"?"}). It is
background chatter accumulating distinct fingerprints over time: PBM agent polling (pbmCmd, pbmConfig,
pbmAgents, pbmBackups), exporter $collStats/$indexStats/dbStats/$currentOp, and oplog reads — with
.batchSize(1) variants counting as separate groups and appearing minutes apart. So the spec only has a page 2
once the environment has been up long enough. That is latent and will still be true on 3.10; it is out of scope
here and not worth a change while the gate keeps the spec off 3.9.x.

Not covered by this PR

Other failures in the same RC run that are not version skew, listed so they don't get read as fixed here:

  • PMM-T1899 (@rbac) — "Expected 5 Elements without data but found 8" on MySQL Instances Overview (Top MySQL Used Connections / Client Threads Connected / Threads Cached …). Idle server with no MySQL load, the same class as PMM-T1883 in Keep RTA mongo load and T1883 dashboard data from going idle #1194 but a different test; needs load generation, not a skip.
  • PMM-T2237 (@docker-configuration) — Config name should be: default-config but actual value is: … '/etc/clickhouse-server/config.xml'. Red on main + 3-dev-latest too (scheduled run 31988194422, job 95266801529), so it is not RC-specific and needs its own investigation — the ClickHouse ansible role is byte-identical between main and pmm-3.9.1.
  • PMM-T2020 (@docker-configuration) — Explore rows never appear for the external ClickHouse datasource; also red on main in that same run.
  • PMM-T1173/T1174 (@docker-configuration) — publicAddress-text-input not visible; that job also hit endpoint with name pmm-server already exists in network pmm-qa and the test passes on main, so it reads as environment contention.

The gate added in #1184 registers pmmTest.beforeEach at module scope in
fixtures/pmmTest.ts. The module is evaluated once, when the first spec file that
imports it is loaded, so Playwright attaches the hook to that one file's root
suite; every other spec runs ungated. In the RC Testing Suite run on
3.9.1 the hook landed on tests/inventory/services.test.ts (no gated ids), so
PMM-T2265/T2266/T2267 ran against a server that does not have the feature --
percona/pmm#5537 is reverted on the pmm-3.9.1 branch (6d729c8).

Move the check into an auto fixture, which applies to every test regardless of
which file loads first, and memoize the version lookup so the endpoint is hit
once per worker process instead of once per gated test. Tests whose id is not in
minPmmVersion make no request at all. The fixture depends on request rather than
api so it does not pull a browser page into tests that never open one.

Signed-off-by: travagliad <215686151+travagliad@users.noreply.github.com>
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Walkthrough

The change exports PmmVersion, adds retryable server-version caching, and replaces the global version check with an automatic Playwright versionGate fixture.

Changes

PMM version gating

Layer / File(s) Summary
Version API and request cache
e2e_tests/api/server.api.ts, e2e_tests/helpers/version.helper.ts
PmmVersion is now exported. getServerVersion shares successful or in-flight requests and clears rejected requests so later calls can retry.
Automatic fixture version gate
e2e_tests/fixtures/pmmTest.ts, e2e_tests/helpers/versionGates.ts
The automatic fixture reads each test’s minimum version, queries the server, skips incompatible tests, and adds the PMM-T2029 requirement at version 3.10.0.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PlaywrightTest
  participant versionGate
  participant getServerVersion
  participant ServerApi
  participant PMMServer
  PlaywrightTest->>versionGate: start test
  versionGate->>versionGate: read required version
  versionGate->>getServerVersion: request server version
  getServerVersion->>ServerApi: getPmmVersion()
  ServerApi->>PMMServer: query PMM version
  PMMServer-->>ServerApi: return PmmVersion
  ServerApi-->>getServerVersion: return cached version
  alt server version is insufficient
    versionGate-->>PlaywrightTest: skip test
  else server version is sufficient
    versionGate-->>PlaywrightTest: continue test
  end
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes address PMM version gating, but directly linked issue #39 only states “Fix url problem,” with no demonstrated URL fix. Link the PR to the correct version-gating issue, or add the required URL changes and evidence that satisfy issue #39.
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Comment thread e2e_tests/helpers/version.helper.ts Outdated
claude added 2 commits August 18, 2026 21:36
The Playwright PMM-T2029 opens MySQL Replication Summary and picks a value in the
Environment variable, added by percona/pmm#5647 (PMM-13932). That PR is reverted on
the pmm-3.9.1 branch (6edca30), where the variable is still hide: 2, so the picker is
never rendered and the test times out on selectVariableValue('Environment', ...).

Same class as the entries already in the list, so gate it the same way.

Signed-off-by: travagliad <215686151+travagliad@users.noreply.github.com>
Review feedback: getServerVersion cached the promise itself, so a transient
failure of /v1/version was sticky -- every gated test in that worker would reuse
the rejection instead of retrying. Clear the cache from the rejection path and
rethrow, which keeps sharing intact for the in-flight and successful cases.

Signed-off-by: travagliad <215686151+travagliad@users.noreply.github.com>
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