Add parsing logic for User-Agent headers (#5645)

* feat(ts_telemetry): add parsing logic for user agent headers

* feat(ts_telemetry): update gRPC observability for user-agent headers

* feat(ts_telemetry): add observation tags

* feat(ts_telemetry): Resolved comments

* feat(ts_telemetry): Removed loop variable capture

* feat(ts_telemetry): Updated userAgentKey to be inline

* feat(ts_telemetry): Add support for userAgent as per RFC 9110

* feat(ts_telemetry): Resolved comments

* Fix newline

* feat(ts_telemetry): Moved user-agent parsing to interceptor

* feat(ts_telemetry): Added user-agent parsing complex test case

* Update userAgentsKey comment

Co-authored-by: Johan Brandhorst-Satzkorn <johan.brandhorst@gmail.com>

* feat(ts_telemetry): Updated changelog

* feat(ts_telemetry): Resolved comments

---------

Co-authored-by: Johan Brandhorst-Satzkorn <johan.brandhorst@gmail.com>

internal/daemon/controller/gateway.go

@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ func (noDelimiterStreamingMarshaler) Delimiter() []byte {
 func newGrpcGatewayMux() *runtime.ServeMux {
 	return runtime.NewServeMux(
 		runtime.WithMetadata(correlationIdAnnotator),
+		runtime.WithMetadata(userAgentHeadersAnnotator),
 		runtime.WithMarshalerOption(runtime.MIMEWildcard, &noDelimiterStreamingMarshaler{
 			&runtime.HTTPBodyMarshaler{
 				Marshaler: handlers.JSONMarshaler(),
@@ -100,6 +101,16 @@ func correlationIdAnnotator(_ context.Context, req *http.Request) metadata.MD {
 	})
 }
 
+func userAgentHeadersAnnotator(_ context.Context, req *http.Request) metadata.MD {
+	userAgent := req.Header.Get("User-Agent")
+	if userAgent == "" {
+		return metadata.MD{}
+	}
+	return metadata.New(map[string]string{
+		userAgentsKey: userAgent,
+	})
+}
+
 // newGrpcServerListener will create an in-memory listener for the gRPC server.
 func newGrpcServerListener() grpcServerListener {
 	buffer := globals.DefaultMaxRequestSize // seems like a reasonable size for the ring buffer, but then happily change the size if more info becomes available

internal/daemon/controller/gateway_test.go

@@ -95,6 +95,28 @@ func Test_correlationIdAnnotator(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, corId, corIds[0])
 }
 
+func Test_clientAgentHeadersAnnotator(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	t.Run("returns metadata with user-agent", func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Parallel()
+		req := &http.Request{
+			Header: map[string][]string{
+				"User-Agent": {"Boundary-client-agent/0.1.4"},
+			},
+		}
+		md := userAgentHeadersAnnotator(context.Background(), req)
+		require.NotNil(t, md)
+		assert.Equal(t, []string{"Boundary-client-agent/0.1.4"}, md.Get("userAgents"))
+	})
+
+	t.Run("returns empty metadata if no user-agent header", func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Parallel()
+		req := &http.Request{Header: map[string][]string{}}
+		md := userAgentHeadersAnnotator(context.Background(), req)
+		assert.Empty(t, md)
+	})
+}
+
 func Test_WithDisablePathLengthFallback(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	reqPath := "/v1/example"

internal/daemon/controller/interceptor.go

@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"reflect"
+	"regexp"
 	"runtime/debug"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	grpc_recovery "github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware/recovery"
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/hashicorp/boundary/internal/kms"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/boundary/internal/requests"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/go-uuid"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/go-version"
 	"github.com/mr-tron/base58"
 	"google.golang.org/grpc"
 	"google.golang.org/grpc/codes"
@@ -45,8 +48,16 @@ const (
 	// apiErrHeader defines an http header for encoded api errors from the
 	// grpc server.
 	apiErrHeader = "x-api-err"
+
+	// boundaryClientAgentProduct defines the product name used to identify the
+	// Boundary client agent in user-agent parsing and validation logic.
+	boundaryClientAgentProduct = "Boundary-client-agent"
 )
 
+// Regular expression to parse user-agent product, version, and comments
+// Follows the structure defined in RFC 9110: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110#name-user-agent
+var userAgentRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`(?P<product>[^\s/()]+)/(?P<version>[^\s()]+)(?: \((?P<comments>[^)]+)\))?`)
+
 // customContextServerStream wraps the grpc.ServerStream interface and lets us
 // set a custom context
 type customContextServerStream struct {
@@ -448,14 +459,24 @@ func eventsRequestInterceptor(
 		_ *grpc.UnaryServerInfo,
 		handler grpc.UnaryHandler) (any, error,
 	) {
+		var userAgents []*event.UserAgent
+		if md, ok := metadata.FromIncomingContext(interceptorCtx); ok {
+			if values := md.Get(userAgentsKey); len(values) > 0 {
+				userAgents = parseUserAgents(values[0])
+			}
+		}
 		if msg, ok := req.(proto.Message); ok {
 			// Clone the request before writing it to the audit log,
 			// in case downstream interceptors modify it.
 			clonedMsg := proto.Clone(msg)
+			request := &event.Request{
+				Details:    clonedMsg,
+				UserAgents: userAgents,
+			}
 			if err := event.WriteAudit(interceptorCtx, op, event.WithRequest(&event.Request{Details: clonedMsg})); err != nil {
 				return req, status.Errorf(codes.Internal, "unable to write request msg audit: %s", err)
 			}
-			if err := event.WriteObservation(interceptorCtx, op, event.WithRequest(&event.Request{Details: clonedMsg})); err != nil {
+			if err := event.WriteObservation(interceptorCtx, op, event.WithRequest(request)); err != nil {
 				return req, status.Errorf(codes.Internal, "unable to write request msg observation: %s", err)
 			}
 		}
@@ -464,6 +485,53 @@ func eventsRequestInterceptor(
 	}
 }
 
+// parseUserAgents extracts structured UserAgent data from a raw User-Agent header string.
+// Version validation is applied only to Boundary-client-agent entries, which are excluded
+// if the version starts with 'v' or is not a valid semantic version.
+// Comments are split and normalized into a slice of strings.
+func parseUserAgents(rawUserAgent string) []*event.UserAgent {
+	var userAgents []*event.UserAgent
+	matches := userAgentRegex.FindAllStringSubmatch(rawUserAgent, -1)
+
+	for _, match := range matches {
+		product := strings.TrimSpace(match[1])
+		agentVersion := strings.TrimSpace(match[2])
+
+		// Only apply version validation for Boundary-client-agent
+		if product == boundaryClientAgentProduct {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(agentVersion, "v") {
+				// Invalid version format (starting with 'v')
+				continue
+			}
+			if _, err := version.NewSemver(agentVersion); err != nil {
+				// Invalid version
+				continue
+			}
+		}
+
+		agentData := &event.UserAgent{
+			Product:        product,
+			ProductVersion: agentVersion,
+		}
+
+		if len(match) > 3 && match[3] != "" {
+			// Clean up and split comments
+			commentsRaw := strings.Split(match[3], ";")
+			var comments []string
+			for _, c := range commentsRaw {
+				if trimmed := strings.TrimSpace(c); trimmed != "" {
+					comments = append(comments, trimmed)
+				}
+			}
+			if len(comments) > 0 {
+				agentData.Comments = comments
+			}
+		}
+		userAgents = append(userAgents, agentData)
+	}
+	return userAgents
+}
+
 func eventsResponseInterceptor(
 	_ context.Context,
 ) grpc.UnaryServerInterceptor {

internal/daemon/controller/interceptor_test.go

@@ -879,6 +879,114 @@ func Test_statusCodeInterceptor(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func Test_parseUserAgents(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	tests := []struct {
+		name         string
+		rawUserAgent string
+		expected     []*event.UserAgent
+	}{
+		{
+			name:         "valid single user-agent",
+			rawUserAgent: "Boundary-client-agent/0.1.4",
+			expected: []*event.UserAgent{
+				{
+					Product:        "Boundary-client-agent",
+					ProductVersion: "0.1.4",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "multiple valid agents with comments",
+			rawUserAgent: "Boundary-client-agent/0.1.4 (foo; bar); AnotherApp/2.0.0 (baz )",
+			expected: []*event.UserAgent{
+				{
+					Product:        "Boundary-client-agent",
+					ProductVersion: "0.1.4",
+					Comments:       []string{"foo", "bar"},
+				},
+				{
+					Product:        "AnotherApp",
+					ProductVersion: "2.0.0",
+					Comments:       []string{"baz"},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "complex but valid user agents",
+			rawUserAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36 surveyon/2.9.5 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_5_7 like Mac OS X)",
+			expected: []*event.UserAgent{
+				{
+					Product:        "Mozilla",
+					ProductVersion: "5.0",
+					Comments:       []string{"Macintosh", "Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7"},
+				},
+				{
+					Product:        "AppleWebKit",
+					ProductVersion: "537.36",
+					Comments:       []string{"KHTML, like Gecko"},
+				},
+				{
+					Product:        "Chrome",
+					ProductVersion: "87.0.4280.88",
+				},
+				{
+					Product:        "Safari",
+					ProductVersion: "537.36",
+				},
+				{
+					Product:        "surveyon",
+					ProductVersion: "2.9.5",
+					Comments:       []string{"iPhone", "CPU iPhone OS 12_5_7 like Mac OS X"},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "invalid client-agent version format (starts with 'v')",
+			rawUserAgent: "Boundary-client-agent/v0.1.4",
+			expected:     nil,
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "invalid client-agent version format (non-semver)",
+			rawUserAgent: "Boundary-client-agent/0.1.x",
+			expected:     nil,
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "empty user-agent",
+			rawUserAgent: "",
+			expected:     nil,
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "valid non client-agent user-agent",
+			rawUserAgent: "SomeOtherApp/v1.2.3",
+			expected: []*event.UserAgent{
+				{
+					Product:        "SomeOtherApp",
+					ProductVersion: "v1.2.3",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "mixed valid and invalid agents",
+			rawUserAgent: "Boundary-client-agent/0.1.4 NoVersionApp SomeOtherApp/",
+			expected: []*event.UserAgent{
+				{
+					Product:        "Boundary-client-agent",
+					ProductVersion: "0.1.4",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+			result := parseUserAgents(tt.rawUserAgent)
+			assert.ElementsMatch(t, tt.expected, result)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func Test_workerRequestInfoInterceptor(t *testing.T) {
 	factoryCtx := context.Background()
 	requestCtx := context.Background()

internal/event/event.go

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ type Request struct {
 	Endpoint               string           `json:"endpoint,omitempty" class:"public"`  // std audit field
 	Details                proto.Message    `json:"details,omitempty"`                  // boundary field
 	DetailsUpstreamMessage *UpstreamMessage `json:"details_upstream_message,omitempty"` // boundary field
+	UserAgents             []*UserAgent     `json:"user_agents,omitempty"`              // boundary field
 }
 
 type Response struct {
@@ -64,3 +65,10 @@ type UpstreamMessage struct {
 	Type    string        `json:"type,omitempty" class:"public"` // boundary field
 	Message proto.Message `json:"message,omitempty"`             // boundary field
 }
+
+// UserAgent defines the fields parsed from a request's User-Agent header.
+type UserAgent struct {
+	Product        string   `json:"product,omitempty"`         // product identifier
+	ProductVersion string   `json:"product_version,omitempty"` // version number of the product
+	Comments       []string `json:"comments,omitempty"`        // comments about the product
+}

internal/event/event_observation.go

@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ func (o *observation) ComposeFrom(events []*eventlogger.Event) (eventlogger.Even
 			if g.Request.DetailsUpstreamMessage != nil {
 				msgReq.DetailsUpstreamMessage = g.Request.DetailsUpstreamMessage
 			}
+			if g.Request.UserAgents != nil {
+				msgReq.UserAgents = g.Request.UserAgents
+			}
 			payload[RequestField] = msgReq
 		}
 		if g.Response != nil {

internal/event/event_observation_test.go

@@ -503,6 +503,50 @@ func Test_composeFromTelemetryFiltering(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			name:   "with-request-client-headers-with-telemetry",
+			fromOp: Op("with-request-client-headers-with-telemetry"),
+			opts: []Option{
+				WithId("with-request-client-headers-with-telemetry"),
+				WithRequestInfo(TestRequestInfo(t)),
+				WithFlush(),
+				WithRequest(&Request{
+					Operation: "op",
+					Endpoint:  "/auth-tokens/<id>",
+					Details:   testWorkerStatus(t),
+					UserAgents: []*UserAgent{{
+						Product:        "Boundary-client-agent",
+						ProductVersion: "0.1.4",
+					}},
+				}),
+				WithTelemetry(),
+			},
+			wantObservation: &observation{
+				ID:          "with-request-client-headers-with-telemetry",
+				Flush:       true,
+				Version:     errorVersion,
+				Op:          Op("with-request-client-headers-with-telemetry"),
+				RequestInfo: TestRequestInfo(t),
+				Request: &Request{
+					Operation: "op",
+					Endpoint:  "/auth-tokens/<id>",
+					Details:   testWorkerStatus(t),
+					UserAgents: []*UserAgent{{
+						Product:        "Boundary-client-agent",
+						ProductVersion: "0.1.4",
+					}},
+				},
+			},
+			wantFilteredRequest: &Request{
+				Operation: "op",
+				Endpoint:  "/auth-tokens/<id>",
+				Details:   testWorkerStatusObservable(t),
+				UserAgents: []*UserAgent{{
+					Product:        "Boundary-client-agent",
+					ProductVersion: "0.1.4",
+				}},
+			},
+		},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {

internal/gen/controller/api/services/authtokens_service.pb.go

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ const (
 
 type GetAuthTokenRequest struct {
 	state         protoimpl.MessageState `protogen:"open.v1"`
-	Id            string                 `protobuf:"bytes,1,opt,name=id,proto3" json:"id,omitempty" class:"public"` // @gotags: `class:"public"`
+	Id            string                 `protobuf:"bytes,1,opt,name=id,proto3" json:"id,omitempty" class:"public" eventstream:"observation"` // @gotags: `class:"public" eventstream:"observation"`
 	unknownFields protoimpl.UnknownFields
 	sizeCache     protoimpl.SizeCache
 }

internal/gen/controller/servers/services/session_service.pb.go

@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ type CloseConnectionRequestData struct {
 	ConnectionId  string                 `protobuf:"bytes,10,opt,name=connection_id,json=connectionId,proto3" json:"connection_id,omitempty" class:"public" eventstream:"observation"` // @gotags: `class:"public" eventstream:"observation"`
 	BytesUp       int64                  `protobuf:"varint,20,opt,name=bytes_up,json=bytesUp,proto3" json:"bytes_up,omitempty" class:"public"`               // @gotags: `class:"public"`
 	BytesDown     int64                  `protobuf:"varint,30,opt,name=bytes_down,json=bytesDown,proto3" json:"bytes_down,omitempty" class:"public"`         // @gotags: `class:"public"`
-	Reason        string                 `protobuf:"bytes,40,opt,name=reason,proto3" json:"reason,omitempty" class:"public"`                                 // @gotags: `class:"public"`
+	Reason        string                 `protobuf:"bytes,40,opt,name=reason,proto3" json:"reason,omitempty" class:"public" eventstream:"observation"`                                 // @gotags: `class:"public" eventstream:"observation"`
 	unknownFields protoimpl.UnknownFields
 	sizeCache     protoimpl.SizeCache
 }

internal/proto/controller/api/resources/authtokens/v1/authtoken.proto

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ option go_package = "github.com/hashicorp/boundary/sdk/pbs/controller/api/resour
 // AuthToken contains all fields related to an Auth Token resource
 message AuthToken {
   // Output only. The ID of the Auth Token.
-  string id = 10; // @gotags: `class:"public"`
+  string id = 10; // @gotags: `class:"public" eventstream:"observation"`
 
   // The Scope in which this Auth Token was generated.
   string scope_id = 20 [json_name = "scope_id"]; // @gotags: `class:"public"`

internal/proto/controller/api/services/v1/authtokens_service.proto

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ service AuthTokenService {
 }
 
 message GetAuthTokenRequest {
-  string id = 1; // @gotags: `class:"public"`
+  string id = 1; // @gotags: `class:"public" eventstream:"observation"`
 }
 
 message GetAuthTokenResponse {

internal/proto/controller/servers/services/v1/session_service.proto

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ message CloseConnectionRequestData {
   string connection_id = 10; // @gotags: `class:"public" eventstream:"observation"`
   int64 bytes_up = 20; // @gotags: `class:"public"`
   int64 bytes_down = 30; // @gotags: `class:"public"`
-  string reason = 40; // @gotags: `class:"public"`
+  string reason = 40; // @gotags: `class:"public" eventstream:"observation"`
 }
 
 message CloseConnectionRequest {

sdk/pbs/controller/api/resources/authtokens/authtoken.pb.go

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ const (
 type AuthToken struct {
 	state protoimpl.MessageState `protogen:"open.v1"`
 	// Output only. The ID of the Auth Token.
-	Id string `protobuf:"bytes,10,opt,name=id,proto3" json:"id,omitempty" class:"public"` // @gotags: `class:"public"`
+	Id string `protobuf:"bytes,10,opt,name=id,proto3" json:"id,omitempty" class:"public" eventstream:"observation"` // @gotags: `class:"public" eventstream:"observation"`
 	// The Scope in which this Auth Token was generated.
 	ScopeId string `protobuf:"bytes,20,opt,name=scope_id,proto3" json:"scope_id,omitempty" class:"public"` // @gotags: `class:"public"`
 	// Output only. Scope information for this resource.