Phase 1 of plan/23-monitor.md: a small Go service that tails the Minecraft
server's latest.log into an in-memory ring buffer and serves it to an embedded
single-page UI (autoscroll, substring/regex filter, level chips).
Read-only by construction — /data is mounted :ro, there is no mutating route,
and the container holds no credentials. It publishes NO port: caddy's
basic_auth vhost is the only way in, which is the point, since the service has
no auth of its own and the log carries player IPs, chat and admin commands.
Two non-obvious choices, both to avoid prod-only failures:
- Polling, not SSE. The chain is host nginx -> caddy -> app, and nginx buffers
proxied responses by default, so an EventSource would stall on cochi (whose
vhost is an untracked per-host file) and not reproduce locally. Delay was
accepted at design time, so polling is strictly better.
- The cursor is a sequence number, not a byte offset, and the tailer reopens on
inode change or size shrink. itzg rotates latest.log on every server restart,
i.e. every deploy — a naive tailer goes silent afterwards while still
answering HTTP 200. Verified against rotate, truncate, delete/recreate,
partial-line and ring-overflow cases.
MONITOR_ENABLED (on|off) gates both layers per host, mirroring FILES_BROWSE.
MONITOR_PASSWORD_HASH must be bcrypt AND single-quoted in .env: Compose
interpolates $-sequences in .env values, so a bare hash is silently mangled
($2a$14$abc... -> $$2a$$14...) and every login fails with no hint why.
Confirmed empirically, and it is the opposite of filestash, which needs $6$.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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