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Fixes #2030.

ChangeStreamWatcher.eventLoop returned on stepFailed instead of reopening the stream, so a transient MongoDB failure ended event processing for good. It now reopens, resuming from the stored resume token, within a bounded wall-clock budget, and stops when that budget is spent.

Two doc comments in this file already claimed the reopen behaviour while the code did not do it: streamStep's "stepFailed means the stream has to be reopened" and errChangeStreamClosed's "treated as an error so the stream is reopened rather than spun on".

Bounded, not indefinite

My first draft retried indefinitely. @lfriedman-netllama's objection on #2030 is the right one and this implements the alternative agreed there: unbounded retry reinstates the property #2020 was about — a pod that stays Ready while consuming nothing, spinning in a retry loop instead of a dead one, with nothing in restartCount to show for it. Since this is store-client, fault-quarantine, node-drainer and fault-remediation would have inherited that too.

Bounded-then-exit absorbs the transient case and turns a persistent failure into a visible restart. With #2024 merged, budget exhaustion composes into a clean recovery: the loop stops → the event channel closes → the processor returns an error under a live context → the process exits non-zero → the pod restarts and resumes from its stored token.

The budget is wall-clock rather than a number of attempts, per the same discussion: what it has to cover is an outage of a certain duration, not a certain number of failures. Default 5 minutes, sized from @lfriedman-netllama's measurement of a 3-member psmdb roll taking about two minutes end to end on a 287-node cluster. Overridable via MongoDBConfig.ChangeStreamReopenBudgetSeconds.

Each attempt stays separately bounded by the existing openChangeStream, which retries SecondaryPreferred to its own deadline, falls back to Primary, and recovers from a token the oplog has rolled past — a path reachable only at startup before this change, and now reachable at runtime, which is where the oplog is most likely to have rolled. The budget is checked before each attempt and an in-flight attempt is allowed to finish, so the worst case is the budget plus one attempt, the same shape openChangeStreamWithRetry already uses for its own deadline.

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  • change_stream_reopens_total{client,result} with success / failure / exhausted. exhausted is the one worth alerting on next to kube_pod_container_status_restarts_total: it names the restart's cause. Documented in docs/METRICS.md.
  • A data race this fix would otherwise have introduced. MarkProcessed reads w.changeStream from the processor goroutine, and the event loop now replaces that pointer. The ChangeStream object's own reads are thread-safe; the field holding it was not. That read now goes through an accessor holding the existing closeMu read lock — shared with the event loop's own RLock around TryNext, so it cannot deadlock against a sender blocked in the driver. The stale "no lock needed" comment above it is corrected.
  • Resume-token-to-options logic extracted into changeStreamOptions, used by both the constructor and the reopen path, so the two cannot drift on where a stream resumes from.

Type of Change

  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • ✨ New feature
  • 💥 Breaking change
  • 📚 Documentation
  • 🔧 Refactoring
  • 🔨 Build/CI

Component(s) Affected

  • Health Monitor
  • Core Service
  • Fault Management
  • Janitor
  • Deployment/Config
  • API/Interface
  • Preflight
  • Plugins
  • Documentation/CI
  • New Component
  • Multiple Components
  • Other

The change is in store-client, so every module that watches the store inherits it: health-events-analyzer, fault-quarantine, node-drainer, fault-remediation. All four build against it; none needed a change.

Testing

  • Tests pass locally
  • Manual testing completed
  • No breaking changes (or documented)

recover_stream_test.go, 8 cases over the recovery loop: reopen succeeds first try; fails twice then succeeds within budget; budget spent stops the loop; the budget is time rather than attempts (same budget, shorter interval, more attempts); a context already done attempts no reopen at all; cancellation during the retry backoff returns promptly, so Close does not sit on its 5s w.done timeout; unset seam fields resolve their defaults; and reopenBudgetFrom for the configured, zero and negative cases.

gofmt                                        clean
go vet        ./pkg/.../watcher/...          clean
golangci-lint --config .golangci.yml         0 issues
go test -race ./...  (store-client)          12/12 packages ok
go build      health-events-analyzer, fault-quarantine,
              node-drainer, fault-remediation             all ok
go test -race health-events-analyzer/...     ok

Manual testing is left unchecked deliberately. I have not interrupted a real MongoDB stream end to end. This package's tests are all unit-level with no MongoDB, so recoverStream is exercised through an injected reopen func rather than a real cursor — the bounded-exit behaviour is verified, the reopen against a live server is not. If there is an integration harness I have missed, point me at it and I will add that case.

No breaking change: ChangeStreamReopenBudgetSeconds is additive and zero selects the default, so existing configurations are unaffected. The behaviour change — a transient failure no longer ends the stream — is the point of the fix and is described above.

Two tests in health-events-analyzer/pkg/reconciler fail on my machine, TestAnnotationRecovery_RealAPIServer_RetainsRequestsAndReportsResults and TestAnnotationRecovery_DelayedFaultStorage, both fork/exec /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin/etcd: no such file or directory. Verified identical on main with no changes applied; envtest assets are not installed here. No other test differs between main and this branch.

Checklist

  • Self-review completed
  • Documentation updated (if needed)
  • Ready for review

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Change-stream watchers now attempt to recover automatically after runtime failures, retrying every five seconds for up to five minutes.
    • On successful recovery, processing resumes using an available checkpoint when possible. If a stored token is unrecoverable, recovery starts without it. Retries stop when the time limit is reached or the service is shutting down.
  • Monitoring
    • Added a metric to track successful reopens, failed attempts, and exhausted recovery budgets. Pair exhausted recovery counts with pod restart counts when investigating interruptions.

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The MongoDB change-stream watcher now retries runtime failures within a time budget. It reopens streams using resume tokens, protects access to the replaceable stream, and records reopen outcomes.

Changes: Change-stream recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recovery configuration and stream setup
store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/mongodb/watcher/watch_store.go
The watcher retains its MongoDB configuration and pipeline for reopening. Shared option construction loads the stored resume token for initial setup and reopening. Missing documents or empty tokens produce options without a resume token; other lookup errors are returned.
Bounded recovery and stream replacement
store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/mongodb/watcher/watch_store.go, store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/mongodb/watcher/recover_stream_test.go, docs/METRICS.md
After a stream failure, the event loop continues only if bounded recovery succeeds. Recovery retries at the configured interval until success, cancellation, or budget exhaustion. On success, it replaces the stream and best-effort closes the previous stream. MarkProcessed reads the current cursor through a locking helper. Tests cover retry outcomes, budget limits, cancellation, defaults, and token handling. The metrics table documents reopen outcomes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant eventLoop
  participant recoverStream
  participant reopenChangeStream
  participant changeStreamOptions
  participant MongoDB
  eventLoop->>recoverStream: Pass stream failure and token-discard result
  loop While the recovery budget permits
    recoverStream->>reopenChangeStream: Attempt reopening
    reopenChangeStream->>changeStreamOptions: Build options from stored resume token
    changeStreamOptions->>MongoDB: Load stored resume token
    MongoDB-->>changeStreamOptions: Return token or lookup error
    changeStreamOptions-->>reopenChangeStream: Return change-stream options
    reopenChangeStream->>MongoDB: Open replacement stream
    MongoDB-->>reopenChangeStream: Return open result
    alt Replacement opens
      reopenChangeStream-->>recoverStream: Install replacement stream
      recoverStream-->>eventLoop: Continue processing
    else Reopen fails
      reopenChangeStream-->>recoverStream: Return open error
    end
  end
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Recovery can take longer than its configured budget when opening a stream stalls. The earlier Primary-fallback concern is resolved, but the remaining timing risk warrants owner awareness before merging.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning The stream recovery behavior required by [#2030] is implemented. eventLoop calls recoverStream after stepFailed, retries from the resume state, stops after a wall-clock budget, and protects repl… Add MongoDBConfig.ChangeStreamReopenBudgetSeconds, use it when recoverStream selects its budget, preserve the documented zero-value default, define the negative-value behavior, and add tests for configured, zero, and negative values.
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 64.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reopening the change stream within a bounded recovery budget.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes remain connected to [#2030]. The recovery metric, metrics documentation, shared resume-token option construction, cursor locking, token classification, and unit tests support safe stream r…
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Explanation

The stream recovery behavior required by [#2030] is implemented. eventLoop calls recoverStream after stepFailed, retries from the resume state, stops after a wall-clock budget, and protects replacement access. The recovery tests cover retries, cancellation, and budget exhaustion. However, the current PR objective states that the five-minute budget is configurable through MongoDBConfig.ChangeStreamReopenBudgetSeconds. watch_store.go defines only the constant changeStreamReopenBudget and explicitly states that no configuration field is provided. The implementation therefore does not meet that stated coding objective.

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🟡 Minor · Hold closeMu while reading ResumeToken(). · watch_store.go:805-813

store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/mongodb/watcher/watch_store.go:805-813
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Hold closeMu while reading ResumeToken().

When MarkProcessed receives an empty token, it releases closeMu before calling ResumeToken(). A partitioned worker can call MarkProcessed while eventLoop reopens the stream and closes the old cursor. MongoDB driver v2.9.2 does not permit concurrent ChangeStream use, so this path can race with Close() and make checkpoint retrieval unreliable.

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+func (w *ChangeStreamWatcher) resumeToken() bson.Raw {
+	w.closeMu.Lock()
+	defer w.closeMu.Unlock()
+
+	return w.changeStream.ResumeToken()
+}
+
 func (w *ChangeStreamWatcher) MarkProcessed(ctx context.Context, token []byte) error {
 	// Use the change stream resume token if the passed token is empty
 	// This handles the common case where callers pass empty byte slices
 	var resumeTokenToStore any
 
 	if len(token) == 0 {
-		currentResumeToken := w.stream().ResumeToken()
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🟡 Minor · Bound each reopen attempt independently. · watch_store.go:680-742

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Bound each reopen attempt independently.

eventLoop passes its long-lived context to recoverStream. The recovery deadline is checked only after reopen returns. openChangeStreamWithRetry also checks its retry deadline only after collSP.Watch returns, and the no-resume path calls collSP.Watch directly with the uncapped context.

A slow MongoDB open can therefore continue materially beyond ChangeStreamReopenBudgetSeconds and delay loop termination. The documented allowance for an in-flight attempt is valid only when that attempt has its own effective timeout. Apply a bounded attempt context to every Watch path, including primary fallback and stale-token recovery, while preserving the existing fallback behavior.

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Squashed to a single commit and did a full self-review pass. Summary of everything since the first review.

CodeRabbit findings, all addressed:

  1. Resume from the failed stream when no checkpoint exists — valid. The stored token is the consumer's checkpoint and can be absent while the stream had read plenty. reopenChangeStream now falls back to the failed cursor's own ResumeToken() (cloned; the driver's bson.Raw aliases a pooled buffer), gated off when handleChangeStreamError discarded the token as unrecoverable.

  2. Hold the lock while reading ResumeToken() — valid, and a regression I introduced: before this PR nothing closed a cursor while the processor was running. resumeToken() now holds the read lock across the call and returns the token rather than the pointer, and swapChangeStream() closes the replaced cursor inside the write lock.

  3. Bound each attempt — the comment overclaimed; fixed by stating the real bound.

  4. Preserve time for the Primary fallback — confirmed against the driver, and this one reverted my fix for (3). csot.IsTimeoutContext is just "does the context carry a deadline", and operation.go then sets an unlimited retry budget, so a per-attempt deadline would have the driver retry inside Watch until it expires and openChangeStreamWithRetry would never reach its Primary fallback. Reverted, with the reason recorded in the comment so the next person does not re-add it.

On the tighter bound for (4) — bounding each SecondaryPreferred Watch and reserving budget for Primary — I have not done it, and would rather you decide. It means reworking openChangeStreamWithRetry, which this PR otherwise does not touch and which the startup path also uses; changing retry semantics for both wants its own reasoning about the startup budget. The underlying property (deadline checked only after Watch returns) predates this PR, and the comparison here is against a watcher that ended the stream permanently. Happy to do it in this PR or in a follow-up issue — say which.

Found in my own pass, also fixed:

  • ChangeStreamReopenBudgetSeconds was dead config — nothing populated it, since its siblings come through the TimeoutConfig interface and an env pair. Making it tunable would add an interface method every implementer must grow, including a mock in another module. Removed; it is a constant with the rationale and a pointer for making it configurable if anyone asks.
  • Documented why processNextEvent reads the cursor without the lock (event-loop goroutine only, and the only swapper), so the exception is explicit.
  • Cut the best-effort close from 10s to 3s: it runs under the write lock, so it is also how long MarkProcessed can be blocked, and the cursor belongs to a stream that just failed.
  • Verified the changeStreamOptions extraction is behaviour-identical to the constructor code it replaced (ErrNoDocuments path, empty-token log, error message values).
  • Noted that tokenDiscarded reflects the failure that entered recovery, so a retry can re-offer a rejected in-memory token once; openChangeStream's stale-token recovery catches it, costing one attempt out of the budget and no events.

Not applicable: the PostgreSQL watcher polls / uses LISTEN-NOTIFY with its own lastEventID rather than a change stream, so it does not share this failure shape.

gofmt, go vet, golangci-lint clean on the changed files; go test -race green across all 12 store-client packages; all four watching modules build. Three pre-existing issues are unchanged from main and unrelated: gofmt on partitioned_event_processor_test.go, a gosec G703 in pkg/datastore/config.go, and node-drainer/pkg/evaluator failing. Still no end-to-end test against a real interrupted stream — the package has no MongoDB harness, so recoverStream is exercised through an injected reopen func.

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Hi @lalitadithya Could you help add /ok to test again? Thanks!

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Thanks for taking the bounded design. On the open question about bounding each attempt, my vote is a follow-up issue, not this PR, for two reasons:

  1. The SecondaryPreferred loop isn't what sizes one attempt. Without CSOT, each Watch waits up to serverSelectionTimeout, which is TotalPingTimeoutSeconds (300s by default). In a partition where no member is selectable, one pass is the first SecondaryPreferred Watch (300s, already past the 60s retry deadline) plus the Primary Watch (300s). So recovery gives up after the first attempt at about 10 minutes, not 5. That is still bounded, which is what [Bug]: health-events-analyzer stops on a transient change-stream error and stays Ready, so it silently processes nothing until restarted #2020 needed, but the comment that puts the worst case at "the budget plus one such pass" would help the next reader more if it named server selection as what sizes a pass.
  2. Tightening it means changing openChangeStreamWithRetry or the server selection timeout, and both are shared with startup, as you say.

For a replica-set roll, which is what the 5 minutes was sized for, a secondary stays selectable and each Watch returns quickly, so the budget behaves as intended there.

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Signed-off-by: Jian Zhang <jian.zhang@bitdeer.com>
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Agreed on the follow-up issue — and thanks for the correction, which was a real error on my
part: I had attributed the length of one pass to ChangeStreamRetryDeadlineSeconds.

Verified it before changing anything. serverSelectionTimeout is TotalPingTimeoutSeconds
(watch_store.go), and DefaultPingTimeoutSeconds is 300, so with no selectable member one
pass is 300s on SecondaryPreferred plus 300s on the Primary fallback and recovery gives up
after the first attempt at about ten minutes. The comment now names server selection as what
sizes a pass, states the ten minutes, and keeps your point that for a replica-set roll a
secondary stays selectable and the five minutes behaves as intended.

I will open the follow-up against openChangeStreamWithRetry / the server selection timeout
once this lands, so the startup and recovery paths get considered together rather than one of
them changing underneath the other.

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/ok to test 3599808

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Merging this branch will decrease overall coverage

Impacted Packages Coverage Δ 🤖
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/mongodb/watcher 5.41% (-0.94%) 👎

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Changed File Coverage Δ Total Covered Missed 🤖
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/mongodb/watcher/watch_store.go 5.38% (-0.54%) 8042 (+3957) 433 (+191) 7609 (+3766) 👎

Please note that the "Total", "Covered", and "Missed" counts above refer to code statements instead of lines of code. The value in brackets refers to the test coverage of that file in the old version of the code.

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/ok to test 18ce5a4

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Merging this branch will decrease overall coverage

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github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/commons/pkg/celevent 7.14% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/commons/pkg/celfields 8.41% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/fault-quarantine/pkg/evaluator 28.50% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/fault-quarantine/pkg/nodecache 44.44% (-0.12%) 👎
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler 18.10% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/health-monitors/csp-health-monitor/pkg/csp/aws 0.00% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/health-monitors/kubernetes-object-monitor/pkg/cel 0.00% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/health-monitors/kubernetes-object-monitor/pkg/policy 0.00% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/health-monitors/nvcre-certification-monitor/pkg/config 0.00% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/janitor/pkg/config 19.01% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/janitor/pkg/controller 15.11% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/labeler/pkg/devicecounts 49.82% (ø)
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github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/lifecycle-manager/internal/controller 48.53% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/preflight/pkg/gang/discoverer 29.63% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/store-client/pkg/datastore 11.06% (ø)
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/tests/helpers 0.00% (ø)

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github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/commons/pkg/celevent/celevent.go 7.14% (ø) 448 32 416
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/commons/pkg/celfields/fields.go 8.23% (ø) 2698 222 2476
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/commons/pkg/celfields/lookups.go 9.15% (ø) 656 60 596
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/fault-quarantine/pkg/evaluator/rule_evaluator.go 27.80% (-0.18%) 1126 313 (-2) 813 (+2) 👎
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/fault-quarantine/pkg/nodecache/nodecache.go 44.44% (-0.12%) 828 368 (-1) 460 (+1) 👎
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler/reconciler.go 18.10% (ø) 8143 1474 6669
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/health-monitors/csp-health-monitor/pkg/csp/aws/aws.go 0.00% (ø) 0 0 0
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/health-monitors/kubernetes-object-monitor/pkg/cel/environment.go 0.00% (ø) 0 0 0
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/health-monitors/kubernetes-object-monitor/pkg/policy/evaluator.go 0.00% (ø) 0 0 0
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/health-monitors/nvcre-certification-monitor/pkg/config/evaluator.go 0.00% (ø) 0 0 0
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/janitor/pkg/config/config.go 16.47% (ø) 334 55 279
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/janitor/pkg/config/default.go 20.02% (ø) 839 168 671
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/labeler/pkg/devicecounts/device_counts.go 49.75% (ø) 1005 500 505
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/labeler/pkg/labeler/labeler.go 44.95% (-0.12%) 1655 744 (-2) 911 (+2) 👎
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/lifecycle-manager/internal/controller/nodevalidation_controller.go 43.85% (ø) 390 171 219
github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/lifecycle-manager/internal/controller/validationrequest_controller.go 45.44% (ø) 856 389 467
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Please note that the "Total", "Covered", and "Missed" counts above refer to code statements instead of lines of code. The value in brackets refers to the test coverage of that file in the old version of the code.

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  • github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/commons/pkg/celfields/celfields_test.go
  • github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler/dry_run_e2e_test.go
  • github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/health-monitors/csp-health-monitor/pkg/csp/aws/aws_test.go
  • github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/janitor/pkg/config/config_test.go
  • github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/janitor/pkg/config/default_test.go
  • github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/janitor/pkg/controller/gpureset_controller_test.go
  • github.com/nvidia/nvsentinel/labeler/pkg/labeler/labeler_test.go

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/ok to test d182185

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lalitadithya merged commit fefd99b into NVIDIA:main Oct 16, 2026
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jianzhangbjz deleted the fix/reopen-change-stream-after-runtime-failure branch October 19, 2026 02:47
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[Feature]: retry resumable change-stream errors in store-client instead of ending the watcher

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