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Added one action log writer for services built without Bookshelf - #32570
Four services built without Bookshelf (app installations, gift links, custom fields and Stripe Checkout config) each kept their own copy of the code that writes staff history, and the copies had drifted apart:
They disagreed about who acted. Custom fields and gift links recorded an integration before a user. App installations and Stripe Checkout recorded nobody when a request carried both.
They disagreed about failures. Custom fields and Stripe Checkout logged a structured event name. App installations and gift links logged the bare error.
They wrote after the change had committed, through models.Action.add. A change that rolled back could still leave history behind. Custom fields had to bend around this with "log after commit" comments and a single-connection deadlock warning.
Each one hand-registered a read model in models/action.js. Forgetting one breaks include=resource and Admin's History page, as happened with gift links.
This PR gives the four services one writer and one way to read the actor. Nothing a publisher sees changes. The stored rows stay the same, except that gift links' added and reset rows now also store the post's title as primary_name. Admin's History shows the post's own title first, so that name only appears once the post has been deleted. #32571 builds on this: it converges the stored verbs and moves each kind into the service that logs it.
What changes
One actor reader.server/lib/actor.ts reads a frame's user, integration and API key, each separately. actorFrom takes an integration before a user, as Bookshelf's getActor does, and returns null when nobody is acting, in which case no row is written. App installations and Stripe Checkout only change for a request that carries both an integration and a user, and integrations can't reach either feature.
One map of kinds.server/lib/action-log/kinds.ts maps each resource_type to the table its ids point into and the verbs it may store. The map is explicit because resource types and tables don't correspond one to one (a gift link points at its post). models/action.js now builds its read models from the map in a loop, so a new kind can't be logged without also being loadable.
One writer.ActionLog.record(db, context, row) inserts with knex through the handle the call site names: the command's transaction where it has one, or the database itself for a change that commits on its own. Every call site states where its action lands, so a forgotten transaction can't go unnoticed. It reads the actor from the request context and writes nothing when nobody is acting. Rows are typed per kind:
only registered kinds, and the verbs each declares, compile;
a change to one resource needs its name;
a bulk change has no resource;
extra context can't replace the name, action name or count.
Inside a transaction, the action is part of the change: a failed write fails the command and its change rolls back. The failures an insert into actions can hit there either roll the whole transaction back anyway, such as a deadlock or a lost connection, or come from a bug, such as a value too long for its column. Swallowing them would report a change that wasn't kept, or hide the bug and silently drop history that app installations rely on to say who installed an app. An app install's deadlock retry reruns the whole install, action included. Outside a transaction, a failed write is logged as action_log.write_failed and the change stands, as before.
Writes move into transactions. Gift link mints, custom field adds and reorders, Stripe Checkout saves, and app installs and approvals now log inside their transactions. Commands without a transaction (renames, archives, deletes, uninstalls, revoking all gift links) pass the database itself and log right after their statement, as before.
App installations' transactions move up to the service. A prep commit, with no change in behaviour, lets the service log inside them. The deadlock retry now wraps the whole transaction, action included.
The e2e assertions on action rows are deliberately left untouched in this PR. They pass unchanged, which is the evidence that stored behaviour is preserved. #32571 moves them onto a shared assertion.
Why not change events
This builds on Rob's change-events spike (#31543). The kinds map and the actor reader come from it here, and #32571 takes its Admin title change and e2e assertion. It takes the direct-call half of the idea and leaves the event bus for later:
There's one consumer. The action log is the only thing reacting to these changes, so decoupling commands from it is speculative.
Audit logs want the same transaction. The audit libraries the spike cites as prior art write in the same transaction as the change. A reaction that runs after commit can't be atomic with it.
In-process reactions don't scale out. Once Ghost runs more than one instance, an in-process subscriber only sees its own instance's changes. The spike's own "clear a cache" example would clear one instance's cache and leave the others stale.
It would be a third event mechanism, next to DomainEvents and the planned jobs queue.
Direct calls are the easier choice to undo. Each call site is one line that names the action it logs, so turning them into events later is mechanical. Going the other way means untangling subscribers.
Cross-service reactions, when we need them, are most likely a job on the planned queue.
Two structured log event names are replaced by action_log.write_failed: members.metafields.action_log_failed and stripe_checkout.config.action_log_failed. Any Elastic dashboard or alert that uses them needs updating.
Not in this PR
Bookshelf's own action plugin (models/base/plugins/actions.js) still writes its own rows. Moving it onto the shared writer and actor reader, along with reset-authentication's security_action, is a separate follow-up, including whether the plugin moves from after-commit to in-transaction writes.
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099/share-one-action-log-writer-across-services-built-without-bookshelf
The four services built without Bookshelf each read who is acting off an
API frame's context, and the copies disagreed. Custom fields and gift links
took an integration before a user, while app installations and Stripe
Checkout recorded nobody for a request that carried both. A shared action
log writer needs one answer to who the actor is.
- Added `server/lib/actor.ts`, which reads a frame's user, integration and
API key separately, so a malformed part reads as absent without hiding
the others
- `actorFrom` takes an integration before a user, matching Bookshelf's
`getActor`, and returns null when nobody is acting so no row is written
- Moved every endpoint onto the shared `actingContext` and dropped the
services' own copies and `actingContext` extras
- Kept custom fields' `adminWriteOrigin` reading `viaApiKey` from the shared
frame identity, so staff tokens still count as Admin API writes
Co-authored-by: Rob Lester <rob@ghost.org>
Co-authored-by: Jonatan Svennberg <jonatan.svennberg@gmail.com>
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099/share-one-action-log-writer-across-services-built-without-bookshelf
Every service built without Bookshelf had to hand-register a read model in
`models/action.js` for its resource type, and forgetting one breaks
`include=resource` and Admin's History page, as happened with gift links.
One map of kinds lets the read models and the shared writer agree on what
can be logged.
- Added `ACTION_KINDS` in `server/lib/action-log/kinds.ts`, mapping each
`resource_type` to the table its ids point into and the verbs it stores
- The map is explicit because resource types and tables don't correspond
one to one (a gift link points at its post), so it can't come from the
schema
- Built the `Action` model's read models from the map in a loop, replacing
the four hand-written ones
Co-authored-by: Rob Lester <rob@ghost.org>
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099/share-one-action-log-writer-across-services-built-without-bookshelf
Each service built without Bookshelf wrote its own staff-history rows
through `models.Action.add`, after its change had committed, and logged
failures in its own way. One writer gives them the same row shape, the same
failure handling, and a way to log inside the command's transaction, so an
action is only kept when its change is.
- Added `ActionLog` in `server/lib/action-log/`, a constructor with no
lifecycle that service roots build from knex and logging
- `record(actor, row, { transacting })` inserts with knex, giving an
ObjectId id, so ids keep increasing over time as app installations'
history relies on
- A failed write is logged as `action_log.write_failed` and never fails
the command; on MySQL a failed statement doesn't abort the transaction
- Typed rows by kind: only kinds in `ACTION_KINDS` and the verbs each
declares compile, a single change needs its resource's name, and a bulk
change has no resource
- The bulk count is optional for now, so gift links' revoke-all row keeps
its current shape
- Stored only the context fields that carry meaning, as Bookshelf does
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099/share-one-action-log-writer-across-services-built-without-bookshelf
Installs and approvals should log their action inside the transaction that
stores them, so a rolled-back install leaves no history behind. The
repository opened those transactions itself, out of the service's reach.
- The service now opens the install and store transactions and hands them
to the repository as `transacting`
- Moved the deadlock retry into `retryOnDeadlock`, which the service wraps
around the whole install transaction
- MySQL rolls back a deadlock victim's whole transaction, so the retry
has to rerun everything inside it, including what the service adds
- Kept the unique-violation check on the installation insert, which is the
statement that raises it
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099/share-one-action-log-writer-across-services-built-without-bookshelf
Gift links logged their actions after a mint had committed, through their
own copy of the action writer. Writing in the mint's transaction means a
mint that rolls back leaves no history behind.
- Wrote the added and reset actions inside the mint's transaction, named
after the post they belong to
- Admin's History shows the post's own title first, so the name only
shows once the post is gone
- Kept revoking all links as a row without a resource, written right after
the delete
- Removed gift links' own action writer
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099/share-one-action-log-writer-across-services-built-without-bookshelf
Custom fields logged their actions through Bookshelf after each change had
committed, because a Bookshelf write inside the transaction could leave
"added" entries for fields a rollback never created, and could deadlock a
single-connection pool. The shared writer inserts on the command's own
transaction, so neither holds any more.
- Logged adds and reorders inside their transactions, so a batch that
rolls back leaves no history behind
- Kept every other change logging right after its write, as those writes
have no transaction of their own
- Moved the verb mapping to `field-actions.ts` and `adminWriteOrigin` to
`write-origin.ts`, and removed custom fields' own action writer
- Failed writes now log `action_log.write_failed` in place of
`members.metafields.action_log_failed`
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099/share-one-action-log-writer-across-services-built-without-bookshelf
A config save was logged after it committed, through Stripe Checkout's own
copy of the action writer. Logging inside the save's transaction means a
save that rolls back leaves no history behind.
- Logged the save inside its transaction, reading the row's id back there
too, as an existing row keeps its id through the upsert
- Removed Stripe Checkout's own action writer
- Failed writes now log `action_log.write_failed` in place of
`stripe_checkout.config.action_log_failed`
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099/share-one-action-log-writer-across-services-built-without-bookshelf
App installations logged installs and approvals after they had committed,
through their own copy of the action writer. Logging inside the
transactions the service now owns means an install or approval that rolls
back leaves no history behind.
- Logged installs inside the install transaction, so a deadlock retry
reruns the action with the rest of it
- Logged approvals inside the store transaction, only when the approval
wrote something
- Kept uninstalls logging right after their single update
- Removed app installations' own action writer; the history reads its verbs
from the kinds map
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Shared one action log writer across services built without Bookshelf
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This change adds shared actor-context parsing and a typed action log backed by Knex. App installations, gift links, member metafields, and Stripe Checkout Config now use the shared logger. Some action writes move into the transactions that update their resources. The Action model derives resource candidates from the action-kind registry. Tests cover logging, transaction behavior, and actor identity.
Possibly related PRs
TryGhost/Ghost#32571: Continues changes to the shared action-log implementation and event contracts introduced here.
TryGhost/Ghost#32083: Changes app-installation write paths that this PR updates to use caller-provided transactions.
TryGhost/Ghost#32085: Changes Stripe Checkout service composition and endpoint contracts that this PR updates to use ActionLog and the shared actor helper.
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4167-4168: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Limit the MySQL transaction claim.
A deadlock rolls back the entire InnoDB transaction, even when ActionLog catches the error. The cited real-database test injects a SIGNAL error, not a deadlock. Narrow this claim and record the transaction-aborting failure case. (dev.mysql.com)
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Update the service-inventory summary around ActionLog and the real-DB
deep-service test to limit the transaction claim: state that the cited test
injects a SIGNAL error and asserts the transaction remains usable, while a
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80-96: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Rethrow deadlocks from transactional action-log writes.
ActionLog.record is shared by all of these transactional paths:
AppInstallationsService.create: rethrowing rejects the transaction and reaches retryOnDeadlock.
AppInstallationsService.approve: rethrowing rejects and rolls back the transaction.
GiftLinksService.mint: rethrowing rejects and rolls back the history and live-link writes.
MetafieldDefinitionsService add and reorder: rethrowing rejects and rolls back the definition or ordering writes.
StripeCheckoutConfigService.edit: rethrowing rejects and rolls back the configuration writes.
Today, the catch block hides a deadlock. The callback can then resolve after MySQL has rolled back the transaction, so the command can report success without its earlier writes.
Keep best-effort logging for non-deadlock errors and non-transactional writes. Rethrow only a transactional deadlock identified by ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK or errno 1213.
Keep the existing tests for ordinary best-effort failures. Add a transaction-specific test that supplies a deadlock error and asserts that record rejects.
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80 - 96:
Update the catch block in ActionLog.record to rethrow only when the write is
transactional and the error is identified by code ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK or errno
1213; preserve best-effort logging for all other errors and non-transactional
writes. Add a transaction-specific test asserting record rejects for a deadlock,
while keeping the existing ordinary-failure tests.
348-351: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Record the uninstalled action in the same transaction as the uninstall.
create and approve now write their action row in the same transaction as the data change. uninstall does not. Line 343 commits repository.uninstall(id) first. Line 348 then writes the action row separately.
If the process stops between the two statements, the installation is uninstalled and no staff history row exists. ActionLog.record also swallows write failures, so this gap stays silent apart from one log line. The history reader treats the uninstalled action as the source of the actor for this event, so a missing row loses "who uninstalled this".
Pass an optional transacting to repository.uninstall, open a transaction in the service, and record the action inside it. The repository change is small. nextRevision and the update already take a Knex | Knex.Transaction.
In app-installations-repository.ts, let uninstall use the caller's transaction:
- async uninstall(id: string): Promise<boolean> {- const ended = await this.knex(INSTALLATIONS)+ async uninstall(+ id: string,+ { transacting }: { transacting?: Knex.Transaction } = {},+ ): Promise<boolean> {+ const db = transacting ?? this.knex;+ const ended = await db(INSTALLATIONS)
.where({ id })
.whereNot('status', 'uninstalled')
.update({
// In the same update as `status`, so the two always agree.
current_app_id: null,
status: 'uninstalled',
- ...nextRevision(this.knex),+ ...nextRevision(db),
});
return ended > 0;
}
Based on learnings: "insert the audit record within the same database transaction as the action ... preventing orphaned or missing audit entries".
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Review comment at @ghost/core/server/services/app-installations/service.ts
around lines 348 - 351:
Update the uninstall flow so the installation change and its action record share
one database transaction. In the service’s uninstall method, run
this.repository.uninstall and actionLog.record inside this.knex.transaction,
passing the same transaction to both; update the repository’s uninstall method
to accept an optional transaction and use it for the update and revision.
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Review comments at @ghost/core/server/lib/action-log/action-log.ts:
- Around line 80-96: Update the catch block in ActionLog.record to rethrow only
when the write is transactional and the error is identified by code
ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK or errno 1213; preserve best-effort logging for all other
errors and non-transactional writes. Add a transaction-specific test asserting
record rejects for a deadlock, while keeping the existing ordinary-failure
tests.
Review comments at @ghost/core/server/services/service-inventory.yaml:
- Around line 4167-4168: Update the service-inventory summary around ActionLog
and the real-DB deep-service test to limit the transaction claim: state that the
cited test injects a SIGNAL error and asserts the transaction remains usable,
while a deadlock aborts the full InnoDB transaction. Mark the deadlock behavior
as source-only rather than test-verified.
---
Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @ghost/core/server/services/app-installations/service.ts:
- Around line 348-351: Update the uninstall flow so the installation change and
its action record share one database transaction. In the service’s uninstall
method, run this.repository.uninstall and actionLog.record inside
this.knex.transaction, passing the same transaction to both; update the
repository’s uninstall method to accept an optional transaction and use it for
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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099/share-one-action-log-writer-across-services-built-without-bookshelf
The action log swallowed every failed write, but on MySQL a deadlock rolls
back the whole transaction, not just the insert. A command whose action
insert deadlocked would carry on and report success for writes that were
never kept.
- Rethrew a deadlock from a write inside the command's transaction, so the
command fails, and an app install's deadlock retry reruns it
- Kept every other failure, and any failure outside a transaction, logged
and swallowed
Narrow the caught database error before reading code.
isDeadlock receives an unknown value from the database driver. The as assertion reads code without checking that the value is an object. The repository's TypeScript review rules flag unchecked assertions on boundary data. Narrow the value first. The comparison result does not change.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
Review comment at @ghost/core/server/lib/action-log/action-log.ts at line 108:
Update isDeadlock to narrow the unknown error value to a non-null object and
verify it has a code property before reading it; preserve the existing
comparison with ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK.
The current tests cover retryOnDeadlock with mocked functions only. They do not verify that AppInstallationsService.create retries its transaction after a first ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK. A regression that removes the caller's wrapper would therefore remain undetected.
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@ghost/test/unit/server/services/app-installations/app-installations-repository.test.ts
around lines 124 - 175:
Add a focused test for AppInstallationsService.create that makes its first
transaction attempt fail with ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK and verifies the create operation
retries and succeeds. Exercise the service’s actual create path rather than only
retryOnDeadlock with a mocked function, and keep the test scoped to confirming
the caller’s retry wrapper.
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Review comments at @ghost/core/server/lib/action-log/action-log.ts:
- Line 108: Update isDeadlock to narrow the unknown error value to a non-null
object and verify it has a code property before reading it; preserve the
existing comparison with ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK.
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@ghost/test/unit/server/services/app-installations/app-installations-repository.test.ts:
- Around line 124-175: Add a focused test for AppInstallationsService.create
that makes its first transaction attempt fail with ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK and verifies
the create operation retries and succeeds. Exercise the service’s actual create
path rather than only retryOnDeadlock with a mocked function, and keep the test
scoped to confirming the caller’s retry wrapper.
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The deadlock retry moved from the repository to the service, but only the
retry helper itself was tested, so losing the service's wrapper would have
gone unnoticed. The new test deadlocks an install's action insert and
checks the whole install runs again.
- Narrowed the caught error to an object before reading its code
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Validate the post-title row with a Zod schema before returning `title`. Replace
the unchecked assertion in `retryOnDeadlock` with a runtime object/code guard or
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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099
An action was only kept with its change when the call site remembered to pass the command's transaction; leaving it out wrote the action on its own connection without anything saying so. Each call now names the database handle it writes through, the command's transaction or the database itself for a change that commits on its own, so where the action lands is visible at every call site.
- `record(db, context, row)` takes the handle first and the request context instead of a bare actor
- "Nobody is acting" is then read in one place, rather than at every call site through `context.actor`
- The writer no longer holds knex, as nothing defaults to it
- A deadlock is rethrown when the handle is a transaction, as before
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099
The writer stored an action's extra context after its name, so a context carrying `primary_name` silently replaced the name History shows. The action name and count were already safe, as they're written after it.
- Extra context can't name `primary_name`, `action_name` or `count`, in its type and when stored
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099
Minting a gift link read the post's title in a query of its own, and could fail with a not-found of its own, only to name the action. The query that already checks the post exists now selects the title as well.
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099
The inventory still listed `recordCreated` among the custom field definitions' helpers after moving custom fields onto the shared writer removed it.
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099
The writer swallowed every failed action write, except a deadlock inside the command's transaction, which it already had to rethrow because MySQL rolls the whole transaction back. Every other failure an insert into `actions` can hit inside a transaction either rolls the transaction back too, such as a lost connection, or comes from a bug, such as a value too long for its column. Swallowing them reported a change that wasn't kept, or hid the bug and silently dropped history, which app installations rely on as the record of who installed an app.
- Inside a transaction, a failed action write fails the command and its change rolls back
- The error-code check goes, as there's nothing left to tell apart
- Outside a transaction, a failed write is still logged as `action_log.write_failed` and the change stands
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changed the title
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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-4099/share-one-action-log-writer-across-services-built-without-bookshelf
Four services built without Bookshelf (app installations, gift links, custom fields and Stripe Checkout config) each kept their own copy of the code that writes staff history, and the copies had drifted apart:
models.Action.add. A change that rolled back could still leave history behind. Custom fields had to bend around this with "log after commit" comments and a single-connection deadlock warning.models/action.js. Forgetting one breaksinclude=resourceand Admin's History page, as happened with gift links.This PR gives the four services one writer and one way to read the actor. Nothing a publisher sees changes. The stored rows stay the same, except that gift links' added and reset rows now also store the post's title as
primary_name. Admin's History shows the post's own title first, so that name only appears once the post has been deleted. #32571 builds on this: it converges the stored verbs and moves each kind into the service that logs it.What changes
One actor reader.
server/lib/actor.tsreads a frame's user, integration and API key, each separately.actorFromtakes an integration before a user, as Bookshelf'sgetActordoes, and returns null when nobody is acting, in which case no row is written. App installations and Stripe Checkout only change for a request that carries both an integration and a user, and integrations can't reach either feature.One map of kinds.
server/lib/action-log/kinds.tsmaps eachresource_typeto the table its ids point into and the verbs it may store. The map is explicit because resource types and tables don't correspond one to one (a gift link points at its post).models/action.jsnow builds its read models from the map in a loop, so a new kind can't be logged without also being loadable.One writer.
ActionLog.record(db, context, row)inserts with knex through the handle the call site names: the command's transaction where it has one, or the database itself for a change that commits on its own. Every call site states where its action lands, so a forgotten transaction can't go unnoticed. It reads the actor from the request context and writes nothing when nobody is acting. Rows are typed per kind:Inside a transaction, the action is part of the change: a failed write fails the command and its change rolls back. The failures an insert into
actionscan hit there either roll the whole transaction back anyway, such as a deadlock or a lost connection, or come from a bug, such as a value too long for its column. Swallowing them would report a change that wasn't kept, or hide the bug and silently drop history that app installations rely on to say who installed an app. An app install's deadlock retry reruns the whole install, action included. Outside a transaction, a failed write is logged asaction_log.write_failedand the change stands, as before.Writes move into transactions. Gift link mints, custom field adds and reorders, Stripe Checkout saves, and app installs and approvals now log inside their transactions. Commands without a transaction (renames, archives, deletes, uninstalls, revoking all gift links) pass the database itself and log right after their statement, as before.
App installations' transactions move up to the service. A prep commit, with no change in behaviour, lets the service log inside them. The deadlock retry now wraps the whole transaction, action included.
The e2e assertions on action rows are deliberately left untouched in this PR. They pass unchanged, which is the evidence that stored behaviour is preserved. #32571 moves them onto a shared assertion.
Why not change events
This builds on Rob's change-events spike (#31543). The kinds map and the actor reader come from it here, and #32571 takes its Admin title change and e2e assertion. It takes the direct-call half of the idea and leaves the event bus for later:
DomainEventsand the planned jobs queue.Cross-service reactions, when we need them, are most likely a job on the planned queue.
Credit and related drafts
server/lib/actor.tssupersedes. Jonatan is credited as a co-author on that commit. Left open.Before merging
Two structured log event names are replaced by
action_log.write_failed:members.metafields.action_log_failedandstripe_checkout.config.action_log_failed. Any Elastic dashboard or alert that uses them needs updating.Not in this PR
Bookshelf's own action plugin (
models/base/plugins/actions.js) still writes its own rows. Moving it onto the shared writer and actor reader, along withreset-authentication'ssecurity_action, is a separate follow-up, including whether the plugin moves from after-commit to in-transaction writes.