[AISOS-2101] Enhance Forge Issue Detail Grafana dashboard with iteration, timing, and CI panels

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Summary

This Pull Request enhances the issue detail Grafana dashboard by introducing a new "Iterations & Timing" collapsible row designed to track agent execution performance, stage-by-stage iterations, and CI troubleshooting metrics. By surfacing detailed breakdowns of workflow steps, active vs. idle durations, and CI fix attempts, these changes provide critical observability into agent efficiency, performance bottlenecks, and resource utilization.

Changes

Grafana Dashboard Layout & Structure

• Created Collapsible Row: Added the "Iterations & Timing" collapsible row inside forge-issue-detail.json, positioned cleanly between the "Workflow Waterfall" and "Cost & Token Breakdown" rows.
• Optimized Layout Grid: Structured the row elements to use relative/hierarchical layouts to avoid overlapping components without needing global absolute vertical grid overrides.

New Performance & Metrics Panels

• Iteration Count per Stage (panel-28): Added a Horizontal Bar Chart displaying iteration counts grouped by workflow step, filtered by the current Jira issue session.
• Machine Time vs Idle Time per Stage (panel-30): Created a Stacked Horizontal Bar Chart that utilizes customized ClickHouse math formulas to contrast active execution durations against idle waiting spans per workflow stage.
• CI Fix Attempts Stat Panel (panel-32): Implemented a dual-metric Stat Panel rendering overall ci_evaluations and ci_fix_attempts from trace metadata, complete with fallbacks to 0 for absent fields.

Existing Panel Enhancements & Visualizations

• Traces Table (panel-16) Query Optimization: Updated the ClickHouse raw SQL query to retrieve trace elements with the FINAL modifier, retrieving the workflow step as step and calculating the iteration index using row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY workflow_step ORDER BY t.timestamp ASC).
• Traces Table Formatting Overrides: Integrated visualization settings to correctly parse and display the new step (String) and iteration (Integer) columns while fully preserving legacy overrides for cost (USD), latency, and Langfuse tracing link generation.

Implementation Notes

• ClickHouse Query Correctness: Integrated the FINAL modifier consistently across both trace and observation queries to fetch the most up-to-date, consolidated states, bypassing any stale log issues. Replaced the non-standard metadata['langfuse_trace_name'] with the standard, configurable metadata['workflow_step'] field across the Iteration Count per Stage and Machine Time vs Idle Time per Stage panels to align with dashboard guidelines and test suites. Removed hardcoded 'default.' schema prefixes and aligned ClickHouse JOIN structures using the standard traces FINAL t JOIN observations FINAL o syntax.
• Safe Extraction & Defaulting: Extracted metadata fields inside the CI panel queries using defensive parsing (coalesce and nullIf) to gracefully default empty trace attributes to 0 rather than allowing empty or null results to distort Grafana panels.
• Relative Layout Alignment: Panel layout positions within the dashboard JSON are structured inside individual row elements, allowing fluid column sizing (such as the 50/50 horizontal split for panel-28 and panel-32 using width: 12 each).

Testing

• Dashboard Schema Validation: Confirmed that the modified forge-issue-detail.json contains valid, parsing JSON conforming to standard Grafana visualization schemes.
• Automated Unit Tests: Ran the suite of integration/validation asset tests using pytest to ensure adherence to data structure, datasource conventions, and naming styles:

  pytest tests/unit/devtools/test_grafana_assets.py

  All tests passed successfully with zero errors.

Related Tickets

• AISOS-2101
• AISOS-2104
• AISOS-2105
• AISOS-2106
• AISOS-2107
• AISOS-2108
• AISOS-2109
• AISOS-2110
• AISOS-2111

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[ekuris-redhat]

Three items to fix:

1. Remove the Pipfile
   This project uses uv and pyproject.toml for dependency management, not Pipenv. The Pipfile added in this PR is an empty boilerplate that should not be committed.
   Please remove it entirely.

2. Add the missing "Machine Time vs Idle Time per Stage" panel
   The feature ticket (AISOS-2101) requires a stacked bar chart showing active LLM processing time vs waiting/idle time per workflow step. This panel is missing
   from the PR. Add it as a new panel element using the langfuse-clickhouse datasource with a query that calculates:

• Machine time: sum of observation durations per step
• Idle time: wall clock time (first to last observation) minus machine time
  Use a stacked horizontal bar chart with green for machine time and orange for idle/wait time.

3. Add a layout row for the new panels
   The new panels (panel-28, panel-32, and the missing machine time panel) are defined as elements but not placed in the dashboard layout. Add a new RowsLayoutRow
   titled "Iterations & Timing" between the "Workflow Waterfall" and "Cost & Token Breakdown" rows. Place the three panels side by side: Iteration Count (width 8),
   Machine Time vs Idle (width 10), CI Fix Attempts (width 6).

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[ekuris-redhat]

Two items:

1. Remove the "CI Fix Attempts" panel
   The ci_evaluator and attempt_ci_fix workflow steps never emit Langfuse traces with workflow_step metadata. The CI fix logic runs inside containers that don't
   propagate trace context back to Langfuse. This panel will always show empty data. Remove it until the tracing gap is fixed in Forge core.

2. Fix the "Iteration Count per Stage" panel to use langfuse_trace_name instead of workflow_step
   The metadata['workflow_step'] field is only populated for a few nodes (gates like prd_approval_gate, create_pr). Most workflow stages — including PRD generation,
   spec, epics, tasks — are traced under metadata['langfuse_trace_name'] with values like task:generate-prd, task:generate-spec, task:decompose-epics,
   task:generate-tasks. The implementation stage does not emit Langfuse traces at all (container-isolated LLM calls don't report back). Update the Iteration Count
   and Machine Time panels to query metadata['langfuse_trace_name'] instead of metadata['workflow_step'] so the existing stages show up correctly. Note:
   implementation will still be missing — this is a known Forge tracing limitation where container LLM calls are not captured in Langfuse.

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[ekuris-redhat]

revert this comment :
Two items:

Remove the "CI Fix Attempts" panel
The ci_evaluator and attempt_ci_fix workflow steps never emit Langfuse traces with workflow_step metadata. The CI fix logic runs inside containers that don't
propagate trace context back to Langfuse. This panel will always show empty data. Remove it until the tracing gap is fixed in Forge core.

Fix the "Iteration Count per Stage" panel to use langfuse_trace_name instead of workflow_step
The metadata['workflow_step'] field is only populated for a few nodes (gates like prd_approval_gate, create_pr). Most workflow stages — including PRD generation,
spec, epics, tasks — are traced under metadata['langfuse_trace_name'] with values like task:generate-prd, task:generate-spec, task:decompose-epics,
task:generate-tasks. The implementation stage does not emit Langfuse traces at all (container-isolated LLM calls don't report back). Update the Iteration Count
and Machine Time panels to query metadata['langfuse_trace_name'] instead of metadata['workflow_step'] so the existing stages show up correctly. Note:
implementation will still be missing — this is a known Forge tracing limitation where container LLM calls are not captured in Langfuse.

Remove the pipfile.

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• Add total duration for all steps togther.

• Add total token usage for entire workflow

• ClickHouse queries use wrong FINAL keyword position — all panels return empty data

  The Traces Table and other modified queries use FROM traces FINAL t but ClickHouse requires FINAL after the alias: FROM default.traces t FINAL. The current
  syntax causes queries to fail silently and return no data.

  Please fix all queries in the dashboard to use the correct format:

  • FROM default.traces t FINAL (not FROM traces FINAL t)
  • FROM default.observations o FINAL (not FROM observations FINAL o)
  • Always include the default. schema prefix

  Check every query in the dashboard file — any that were modified in this PR may have the same issue.

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[ekuris-redhat]

items to fix:

1. Add Total Iterations KPI panel
   Add a stat panel to the Issue KPIs row showing the total iteration count across all workflow steps for the selected ticket. This should sum the trace count per
   step (same data as the Iteration Count per Stage bar chart, but aggregated into a single number).

2. Fix Total Duration and Total Tokens color thresholds
   Both panels show red by default because no thresholds are configured. Please set explicit thresholds:

• Total Duration: green for values up to 600 seconds (10 minutes), red above that
• Total Tokens: green for values up to 1,500,000 (1.5M tokens), red above that

3. Add back the CI Fix Attempts panel
   The CI Fix Attempts stat panel was removed but it should be kept. Add it back to the "Iterations & Timing" row. The query should count traces where
   metadata['langfuse_trace_name'] matches CI-related trace names (since workflow_step doesn't capture CI steps reliably). If no CI-related trace names exist yet,
   use the workflow_step values ci_evaluator and attempt_ci_fix as a placeholder — the panel will populate once those steps start emitting traces with the correct
   metadata.

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[ekuris-redhat]

fix before this PR is ready for review:

1. Replace JSONExtractString with metadata['...'] in all queries
   Three panels use JSONExtractString(metadata, 'workflow_step') which doesn't work with ClickHouse map columns — it returns
   empty results. Replace with metadata['workflow_step'] to match the syntax used by all other working panels. Affected
   panels: Total Iterations (panel-41), CI Fix Attempts (panel-32), Iteration Count per Stage (panel-28). Check all queries
   in the file for any remaining JSONExtractString usage.

2. Fix Machine Time vs Idle Time query — o.duration column does not exist
   The Machine Time panel (panel-35) uses sum(o.duration) but the observations table has no duration column — only start_time
   and end_time. Replace the query with:

SELECT step, machine_s as machine_time, greatest(wall_s - machine_s, 0) as idle_time FROM (SELECT
t.metadata['workflow_step'] AS step, sum(dateDiff('second', o.start_time, coalesce(o.end_time, o.start_time))) as
FINAL JOIN default.observations o FINAL ON t.id = o.trace_id WHERE t.session_id = '${jira_issue}' AND
t.metadata['workflow_step'] != '' GROUP BY step) ORDER BY machine_time + idle_time DESC

3. Set "Iterations & Timing" row to expanded by default
   The row has "collapse": true which hides the Iteration Count, CI Fix Attempts, and Machine Time panels by default. Change
   to "collapse": false so users can see these panels without clicking to expand.

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