sessions: persist to disk, prune, track client liveness, accept UE_LOGFMT (#1014)HEADmain

Branch started as a sessions-service overhaul (persistence, client liveness, UE_LOGFMT intake) and grew to pick up adjacent infrastructure work: an early-startup log backlog, a hardened `MemoryArena`, the `zen trace serve` viewer gaining a counter view + compact timeline + tabbed callsite panel, defensive fixes in the third-party `tourist` trace parser, a series of allocation reductions across the HTTP and compact-binary hot paths, and a new `zen sessions` CLI command tree.

## Sessions service

**Persistence.** Each session lives on disk under `<DataRoot>/sessions/<id>/` as `info.cb` (metadata) plus `log.bin` (length-prefixed CbObject log records). On startup the service scans that directory and loads prior sessions as ended sessions, preloading the tail of each log so historical views work after a restart. `SessionLog` is noexcept-constructed and falls back to a disabled state on disk errors, so a bad disk can't take down `RegisterSession`. `GetSession` falls back to the ended-sessions list (fixes historical log fetches over HTTP). `LoadTail` counts only successfully-parsed records.

**Pruning.** Periodic cleanup task drops ended sessions once any of three caps is exceeded: age (default 1 year), count (default 1000), or total on-disk footprint (default 50 MiB). Runs 30 s after startup, hourly thereafter. Active sessions never pruned; disk removal and directory stat happen outside the exclusive lock so a slow filesystem can't stall lookups.

**Client liveness.** Sessions carry a `ProcessHandle` for the client-reported pid, captured at registration time so Windows pid recycling can't produce false positives. A 30 s asio timer probes liveness and ends dead sessions through the normal remove path, producing a synthetic `Session ended: process exited (...)` line persisted to `log.bin`. Windows decodes common NTSTATUS exit codes to human names (Ctrl-C, access violation, stack overflow, ...); POSIX stays at plain `process exited`. Clients auto-fill `ClientPid` only for local targets (unix socket / loopback); the server defensively accepts pids only from `IsLocalMachineRequest()` peers. zenserver also reports its own pid when registering its self-session, so it shows up with a real pid in the dashboard and `zen sessions ls`.

**Synthetic end-of-session line.** `RemoveSession` takes an optional reason; before the session moves to the ended list it appends an Info-level `Session ended[: reason]` entry through the normal log path (released outside `m_Lock`). Current reasons: `client request` (HTTP DELETE), `server shutdown` (self-session), `process exited (...)` (liveness).

**UE_LOGFMT structured entries.** `POST /sessions/{id}/log` now accepts `{level, logger, format, fields}` alongside the existing `{level, logger, message}` shape. New `logtemplate.{h,cpp}` implements UE's `StructuredLog.cpp` template grammar (field paths with `.name` / `[N]`, `{{`/`}}` escapes, `$text` / `$format` / `$locformat` object conventions, bounded recursion). Renders to a displayable message at intake while persisting raw format + fields so a future UI can drill into fields without another schema bump. Hot path is zero-alloc — renders into `ExtendableStringBuilder<256>` using stack-buffered `Oid::ToString` / `IoHash::ToHexString` overloads. UI shows a `{…}` marker with the raw template + JSON-pretty fields on hover.

**Parent sessions.** `SessionInfo` gains `parent_session_id`; hub-managed storage server child processes inherit the hub's session id via `--parent-session=<id>`. `ZEN_SESSIONS_URL` env var becomes a fallback for `--sessions-url` / config when neither is provided. The in-process session log sink is disabled when a remote sessions target is configured (logs flow through `SessionsServiceClient` instead). The sessions UI groups child sessions under their parent (collapsible/expandable, sorts as a unit, supports nesting).

**Platform reporting.** `SessionInfo` gains `Platform`, flowed end-to-end: client auto-fills via `GetRuntimePlatformName()`, server persists in `info.cb` (`plat`) and emits on GET. UI renders as a SimpleIcons-style inline SVG (windows / macOS / iOS / linux / wine / android / playstation / xbox / nintendo) with case-insensitive alias resolution (Win32/Win64, PS4/PS5, XSX/XSS, NintendoSwitch, iPhone/iPad, Darwin/OSX). Unknown values fall back to text; sorting runs on the underlying string.

**WebSocket log streaming.** Sessions UI moves from 2 s polling to a WebSocket push model. New `WsSubscriber` has a stable id + helper methods. UI caps the log-line DOM at 5 000 entries with a shared cursor-regression helper, factored out of two call sites. Per-broadcast allocations trimmed on the push path; fixed a stack overrun in the WS log broadcast hex-id buffer.

**Log memory.** `LogEntry::Level` is now `logging::LogLevel` (1 byte) instead of `std::string` (~32 B) — saves ~310 KB per full 10 k-entry deque and eliminates a per-message allocation in the in-proc sink. On-disk format writes an int32 and accepts either int or legacy string on read. `LogEntry` strings now live in a `MemoryArena`; logger names are interned across the deque. `SessionLog::Append` and `WriteSessionInfoFile` drop their `UniqueBuffer` round-trip and write `CbObject::GetView()` straight through `BasicFile` / `SafeWriteFile`. Multi-entry `POST /log` batched under one lock + one push.

**In-proc log timestamps.** `InProcSessionLogSink::TimePointToDateTime` previously preserved only whole seconds, so every in-proc entry rendered at `.000` ms in the dashboard and `zen sessions tail`. It now adds the sub-second part (nanoseconds → 100 ns ticks) to keep ms precision end-to-end.

**UI.** Side "Session Details" panel is gone — its info is inline in the table (appname, mode, platform, id, timestamps, this/log pills, active dot). Bottom panel is a tabbed `Log | Metadata` view with a right-side "Session Information" panel beside metadata; log-only controls (filter, newest-first, follow, log-level filter, expand/collapse) hide when Metadata is active, polling keeps running across tab switches. Wide-mode toggle fills the viewport edge-to-edge. Log lines show the logger category; timestamps render in 24 h with zero-padded fields regardless of locale. Sessions list defaults to All / 10 per page / created-desc, gains click-to-sort headers on the full dataset, a header filter box, and a pager aligned to the table's right edge. Duplicate auto-injected `<h1>Sessions</h1>` removed.

## `zen sessions` CLI

New command tree on the `zen` client for inspecting the sessions service from the terminal:

- **`zen sessions ls`** — lists sessions (active first, ended next; newest-first within each group) with id, status, app/mode, pid, created, duration, and log count. Supports `--status active|ended|all` (default `all`).
- **`zen sessions status`** — prints the sessions service summary: self id, active / ended counts, and the read/write/delete/list/request/bad-request counters from `/stats/sessions`.
- **`zen sessions tail [session]`** — tails a session's log. With no argument it tails zenserver's own session (resolved via `/sessions/list`'s `self_id`); an explicit 24-hex id targets any session, including ended ones (historical replay). `--lines N` (default 50, 0 = all buffered) trims the initial dump client-side. `--follow` prefers a WebSocket push subscription on `/sessions/ws` for sub-second latency; on upgrade failure (older server, blocked port, unix-socket transport) it falls back to HTTP cursor polling at `--interval-ms` (default 500), with sleeps chunked to 50 ms so Ctrl-C reacts quickly. Output matches `zen::logging::FullFormatter` (`[YY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmm] [lvl] [logger] message`); on a TTY the level is colored and the logger is bold, with continuation lines indented under the message column using the *visible* prefix width. 404 surfaces as `(session ended)` and connection errors as `(server gone)` — both clean exits, so stopping the server mid-tail no longer prints a stack trace.
- **`zen sessions ui`** — opens `<host>/dashboard/?page=sessions` in the user's default browser. Rejects unix-socket hosts.

A small `ZenServiceClient::IsUnixSocket()` helper now wraps the unix-socket check used by `ui`, `sessions tail` (WS path), and `sessions ui`.

## Logging

`BacklogSink` captures early-startup log entries in a fixed-capacity ring so late-attached sinks (session sink, file sink) can replay them. Detaches from the broadcast list when disabled; backed by destructor-only cleanup (no `unique_ptr` indirection per entry). Tuned defaults so the backlog covers typical bring-up without unbounded growth.

## `zen trace serve` viewer

- Compact timeline mode for high-density views.
- New `TRACE_INT_VALUE` / `TRACE_FLOAT_VALUE` counter trace points + a counters page in the viewer.
- Callsite tables collapsed into a single tabbed panel.
- Lossless `Oid <-> Guid` bridge for trace session ids; trace `SessionId` plumbed through.
- `tourist` parser hardening: bounds-check `BufferStream::read`, validate `Type::info_size` before `patch()`, convert `parse_important_aux` to a loop (avoids deep recursion), widen `ParserPool` index to `uint32`, bounds-check field offsets in the dispatcher, pin `Types::parse` buffer up-front.

## `MemoryArena`

Configurable chunk size, inline chunk list, oversize requests routed to truly-dedicated chunks (no slack waste, no fragmentation when one allocation is much larger than the chunk).

## Allocation cleanups across hot paths

- `zenhttp::HttpRequestRouter::HandleRequest` and `FormatPackageMessageInternal`: drop heap allocations.
- Compact-binary validation: `eastl::fixed_vector` + `eastl::sort`; eliminate `std::vector` churn.
- `zenserverprocess`: trim transient allocations in spawn paths.
- Sessions HTTP intake / broadcast: drop transient `std::string` allocs.

1 files changed, 57 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp b/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
index 6bf22eef8..44fa01ea4 100644
--- a/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
+++ b/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <zencore/logging.h>
 #include <zencore/logging/broadcastsink.h>
 #include <zencore/memory/fmalloc.h>
+#include <zencore/process.h>
 #include <zencore/scopeguard.h>
 #include <zencore/sentryintegration.h>
 #include <zencore/session.h>
@@ -190,10 +191,10 @@ ZenServerBase::Initialize(const ZenServerConfig& ServerOptions, ZenServerState::
 	m_Http->RegisterService(m_StatsService);
 
 	m_StatsReporter.Initialize(ServerOptions.StatsConfig);
-	if (ServerOptions.StatsConfig.Enabled)
-	{
-		EnqueueStatsReportingTimer();
-	}
+	// Run the reporting timer unconditionally: even when statsd is disabled
+	// the StatsReporter still fans out to providers so counter trace points
+	// fire into the active .utrace stream (see TracingStatsMetrics).
+	EnqueueStatsReportingTimer();
 
 	// clang-format off
 	HealthServiceInfo HealthInfo {
@@ -232,7 +233,7 @@ ZenServerBase::Initialize(const ZenServerConfig& ServerOptions, ZenServerState::
 
 	LogSettingsSummary(ServerOptions);
 
-	InitializeSessions();
+	InitializeSessions(ServerOptions.UseInProcSessionLogging);
 
 	return EffectiveBasePort;
 }
@@ -265,7 +266,7 @@ ZenServerBase::ShutdownServices()
 
 	if (m_SessionsService)
 	{
-		m_SessionsService->RemoveSession(GetSessionId());
+		m_SessionsService->RemoveSession(GetSessionId(), "server shutdown");
 	}
 
 	m_HttpSessionsService.reset();
@@ -279,15 +280,31 @@ ZenServerBase::ShutdownServices()
 }
 
 void
-ZenServerBase::InitializeSessions()
+ZenServerBase::InitializeSessions(bool UseInProcSessionLogging)
 {
-	m_SessionsService	  = std::make_unique<SessionsService>();
+	// Persist session metadata and logs under <DataRoot>/sessions. If no data
+	// root is configured (e.g. some test contexts) fall back to in-memory only.
+	std::filesystem::path SessionsRoot;
+	if (!m_DataRoot.empty())
+	{
+		SessionsRoot = m_DataRoot / "sessions";
+	}
+
+	m_SessionsService	  = std::make_unique<SessionsService>(std::move(SessionsRoot));
 	m_HttpSessionsService = std::make_unique<HttpSessionsService>(m_StatusService, m_StatsService, *m_SessionsService, m_IoContext);
 	m_HttpSessionsService->SetSelfSessionId(GetSessionId());
 
-	m_InProcSessionLogSink = logging::SinkPtr(new InProcSessionLogSink(*m_SessionsService));
-	m_InProcSessionLogSink->SetLevel(logging::Info);
-	GetDefaultBroadcastSink()->AddSink(m_InProcSessionLogSink);
+	if (UseInProcSessionLogging)
+	{
+		// Create the sink up front but don't attach it to the broadcast
+		// yet — the self-session isn't registered with the service until
+		// StartSelfSession runs, and a sink that fires Log() before then
+		// silently drops every line because Service.AppendLog can't
+		// resolve the session id. The attach (with backlog replay) is
+		// performed once StartSelfSession has registered.
+		m_InProcSessionLogSink = logging::SinkPtr(new InProcSessionLogSink(*m_SessionsService));
+		m_InProcSessionLogSink->SetLevel(logging::Info);
+	}
 }
 
 void
@@ -295,7 +312,29 @@ ZenServerBase::StartSelfSession(std::string_view AppName)
 {
 	if (m_SessionsService)
 	{
-		m_SessionsService->RegisterSession(GetSessionId(), std::string(AppName), GetServerMode(), Oid::Zero, {});
+		m_SessionsService->RegisterSession(GetSessionId(),
+										   std::string(AppName),
+										   GetServerMode(),
+										   std::string(GetRuntimePlatformName()),
+										   // Report our own pid so it's visible in `zen sessions
+										   // ls` and the dashboard. The liveness sweep will probe
+										   // this entry and always find it alive — that's
+										   // consistent (we're running iff the sweep is running)
+										   // and the extra IsRunning check is cheap.
+										   static_cast<uint32_t>(GetCurrentProcessId()),
+										   GetParentSessionId(),
+										   Oid::Zero,
+										   {});
+
+		// Now that the self-session exists in the service, attach the
+		// in-proc sink and replay everything that was buffered into the
+		// log backlog up to this point. This brings every line emitted
+		// since process start into the self-session's persisted log,
+		// even though the session itself was only registered just now.
+		if (m_InProcSessionLogSink)
+		{
+			AttachSinkWithBacklogReplay(m_InProcSessionLogSink);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
@@ -345,6 +384,12 @@ ZenServerBase::EnsureIoRunner()
 void
 ZenServerBase::OnReady()
 {
+	// Bootstrap window is closed: every sink that's going to attach has
+	// attached, the run loop is up. Drop the captured early-startup
+	// backlog so it doesn't pin ~256KB of memory for the rest of the
+	// process. Subsequent log calls bypass the backlog cheaply.
+	DisableLogBacklog();
+
 	if (m_ServerEntry)
 	{
 		m_ServerEntry->SignalReady();