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Add observability setup and teardown scripts for AI Gateway MCP - #3475

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Purpose

Adds a runnable sample showing MCP traffic through the AI Gateway on a metrics and
tracing stack. It is the MCP counterpart of samples/ai-gateway-observability, which
covers LLM traffic.

Resolves wso2-enterprise/apim-gtm#730

Goals

One command brings up two MCP proxies over the MCP reference server together with
Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger and the OTel collector, provisions a Grafana dashboard
built for MCP traffic, and a test script asserts the pipeline end to end.

Approach

setup.sh downloads the gateway distribution, enables metrics and tracing, provisions
the dashboard, and registers toolbox-mcp and metered-mcp with mcp-auth,
mcp-acl-list and mcp-ratelimit. load.sh generates a fixed mix of MCP traffic.
test.sh asserts scrape targets, per-proxy metrics, policy rejections, the dashboard
and traces. Dashboard and trace screenshots are in the README.

Note: the dashboard depends on the Prometheus scrape-target fix in #3346, which
ships with the next gateway release. The sample works as documented from that release
onwards.

User stories

N/A

Documentation

N/A. The sample README is the documentation.

Automation tests

  • Unit tests

    N/A

  • Integration tests

    A GitHub Actions workflow runs setup, load and test on every PR touching this sample.

Security checks

  • Followed secure coding standards? yes
  • Ran FindSecurityBugs plugin and verified report? N/A, no Java code
  • Confirmed that this PR doesn't commit any keys, passwords, tokens, usernames, or
    other secrets? yes. The token signing key is generated at setup time and git-ignored.

Samples

samples/ai-gateway-mcp-observability

Related PRs

N/A

Test environment

macOS on Apple silicon, Rancher Desktop, AI Gateway 1.2.0 distribution.

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AI Gateway MCP observability sample

Layer / File(s) Summary
MCP backend, proxy policies, and signing configuration
samples/ai-gateway-mcp-observability/{.gitattributes,.gitignore,*.toml,mcp-proxy-*.yaml,mcp-server/*}
Adds the MCP reference server, authenticated Toolbox and Metered proxies, tool allowlists, rate limiting, JWT verification, and generated-file protections.
Stack setup and dashboard provisioning
samples/ai-gateway-mcp-observability/setup.sh, observability/*
Adds gateway distribution setup, metrics and tracing configuration, key provisioning, container startup, proxy deployment, readiness checks, and Grafana dashboard provisioning.
Tokenized traffic and environment cleanup
samples/ai-gateway-mcp-observability/{token.sh,load.sh,teardown.sh}
Adds JWT minting, MCP session traffic generation, response classification, proxy and container cleanup, Compose volume removal, and optional artifact cleanup.
Automated validation and sample workflow
samples/ai-gateway-mcp-observability/.github/workflows/ci.yml, test.sh, README.md
Adds pull-request validation, end-to-end checks for metrics, traces, dashboard state, and policy rejections, plus sample usage documentation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant setup.sh
  participant GatewayManagementAPI
  participant MCPReferenceServer
  participant Grafana
  participant Jaeger
  User->>setup.sh: Run sample setup
  setup.sh->>MCPReferenceServer: Build and start MCP server
  setup.sh->>GatewayManagementAPI: Deploy MCP proxy resources
  setup.sh->>Grafana: Provision dashboard
  setup.sh->>Jaeger: Enable trace export
  User->>GatewayManagementAPI: Send MCP traffic
  GatewayManagementAPI-->>Grafana: Publish metrics
  GatewayManagementAPI-->>Jaeger: Export traces
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 972cb

The sample can fail during ordinary service startup and exposes a known gateway administrator password on its published management port. Fix both before merging.

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Inline comments:
In `@samples/ai-gateway-mcp-observability/setup.sh`:
- Line 109: Update the sid assignment in the proxy startup retry loop to
tolerate the expected no-session-header result from grep under pipefail and set
-e, allowing retries to continue until the timeout diagnostic is reached.
Preserve the existing header extraction pipeline and only neutralize its
non-match status.
- Line 14: Update setup.sh’s credential initialization around ADMIN_USERNAME and
ADMIN_PASSWORD so it never falls back to admin/admin: require explicit
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Note: this sample reads its Prometheus scrape targets from the gateway
distribution. Those targets ship pointing at gateway-runtime from the next gateway
release, so the dashboard populates as documented from that release onwards.

On the current distribution, set the policy-engine and router targets in
observability/prometheus/prometheus.yml to gateway-runtime before starting the
stack, and the sample behaves exactly as the README describes.

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