health monitoring

docs/examples.connection_health_monitoring.rst

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+Connection Health Monitoring
+============================
+
+This example demonstrates the enhanced connection health monitoring capabilities
+in Python libp2p, which provides sophisticated connection health tracking,
+proactive monitoring, health-aware load balancing, and advanced metrics collection.
+
+Overview
+--------
+
+Connection health monitoring enhances the existing multiple connections per peer
+support by adding:
+
+- **Health Metrics Tracking**: Latency, success rates, stream counts, and more
+- **Proactive Health Checks**: Periodic monitoring and automatic connection replacement
+- **Health-Aware Load Balancing**: Route traffic to the healthiest connections
+- **Automatic Recovery**: Replace unhealthy connections automatically
+
+Basic Setup
+-----------
+
+To enable connection health monitoring, configure the `ConnectionConfig` with
+health monitoring parameters and pass it to `new_host()`:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from libp2p import new_host
+    from libp2p.network.config import ConnectionConfig
+    from libp2p.crypto.rsa import create_new_key_pair
+
+    # Enable health monitoring
+    connection_config = ConnectionConfig(
+        enable_health_monitoring=True,
+        health_check_interval=30.0,  # Check every 30 seconds
+        ping_timeout=3.0,  # 3 second ping timeout
+        min_health_threshold=0.4,  # Minimum health score
+        min_connections_per_peer=2,  # Maintain at least 2 connections
+        load_balancing_strategy="health_based"  # Use health-based selection
+    )
+
+    # Create host with health monitoring - API consistency fixed!
+    host = new_host(
+        key_pair=create_new_key_pair(),
+        connection_config=connection_config
+    )
+
+Configuration Options
+---------------------
+
+Health Monitoring Settings
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- **enable_health_monitoring**: Enable/disable health monitoring (default: False)
+- **health_check_interval**: Interval between health checks in seconds (default: 60.0)
+- **ping_timeout**: Timeout for ping operations in seconds (default: 5.0)
+- **min_health_threshold**: Minimum health score (0.0-1.0) for connections (default: 0.3)
+- **min_connections_per_peer**: Minimum connections to maintain per peer (default: 1)
+
+Load Balancing Strategies
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- **round_robin**: Simple round-robin selection (default)
+- **least_loaded**: Select connection with fewest streams
+- **health_based**: Select connection with highest health score
+- **latency_based**: Select connection with lowest latency
+
+Health Metrics
+--------------
+
+The system tracks various connection health metrics:
+
+**Basic Metrics:**
+- **Ping Latency**: Response time for health checks
+- **Success Rate**: Percentage of successful operations
+- **Stream Count**: Number of active streams
+- **Connection Age**: How long the connection has been established
+- **Health Score**: Overall health rating (0.0 to 1.0)
+
+**Advanced Metrics:**
+- **Bandwidth Usage**: Real-time bandwidth tracking with time windows
+- **Error History**: Detailed error tracking with timestamps
+- **Connection Events**: Lifecycle event logging (establishment, closure, etc.)
+- **Connection Stability**: Error rate-based stability scoring
+- **Peak/Average Bandwidth**: Performance trend analysis
+
+Host-Level Health Monitoring API
+---------------------------------
+
+The health monitoring features are now accessible through the high-level host API:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # Access health information through the host interface
+
+    # Get health summary for a specific peer
+    peer_health = host.get_connection_health(peer_id)
+    print(f"Peer health: {peer_health}")
+
+    # Get global network health summary
+    network_health = host.get_network_health_summary()
+    print(f"Total peers: {network_health.get('total_peers', 0)}")
+    print(f"Total connections: {network_health.get('total_connections', 0)}")
+    print(f"Average health: {network_health.get('average_peer_health', 0.0)}")
+
+    # Export metrics in different formats
+    json_metrics = host.export_health_metrics("json")
+    prometheus_metrics = host.export_health_metrics("prometheus")
+
+Example: Health-Based Load Balancing
+------------------------------------
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from libp2p import new_host
+    from libp2p.network.config import ConnectionConfig
+    from libp2p.crypto.rsa import create_new_key_pair
+
+    # Configure for production use with health-based load balancing
+    connection_config = ConnectionConfig(
+        enable_health_monitoring=True,
+        max_connections_per_peer=5,  # More connections for redundancy
+        health_check_interval=120.0,  # Less frequent checks in production
+        ping_timeout=10.0,  # Longer timeout for slow networks
+        min_health_threshold=0.6,  # Higher threshold for production
+        min_connections_per_peer=3,  # Maintain more connections
+        load_balancing_strategy="health_based"  # Prioritize healthy connections
+    )
+
+    host = new_host(
+        key_pair=create_new_key_pair(),
+        connection_config=connection_config
+    )
+
+    # Use host as normal - health monitoring works transparently
+    async with host.run(listen_addrs=["/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/0"]):
+        # Health monitoring and load balancing happen automatically
+        stream = await host.new_stream(peer_id, ["/echo/1.0.0"])
+
+Example: Advanced Health Monitoring
+------------------------------------
+
+The enhanced health monitoring provides advanced capabilities:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from libp2p import new_host
+    from libp2p.network.config import ConnectionConfig
+    from libp2p.crypto.rsa import create_new_key_pair
+
+    # Advanced health monitoring with comprehensive tracking
+    connection_config = ConnectionConfig(
+        enable_health_monitoring=True,
+        health_check_interval=15.0,  # More frequent checks
+        ping_timeout=2.0,  # Faster ping timeout
+        min_health_threshold=0.5,  # Higher threshold
+        min_connections_per_peer=2,
+        load_balancing_strategy="health_based",
+        # Advanced health scoring configuration
+        latency_weight=0.4,
+        success_rate_weight=0.4,
+        stability_weight=0.2,
+        max_ping_latency=1000.0,  # ms
+        min_ping_success_rate=0.7,
+        max_failed_streams=5
+    )
+
+    host = new_host(
+        key_pair=create_new_key_pair(),
+        connection_config=connection_config
+    )
+
+    # Access advanced health metrics through host API
+    async with host.run(listen_addrs=["/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/0"]):
+        # Get detailed health information
+        peer_health = host.get_connection_health(peer_id)
+        global_health = host.get_network_health_summary()
+
+        # Export metrics in different formats
+        json_metrics = host.export_health_metrics("json")
+        prometheus_metrics = host.export_health_metrics("prometheus")
+
+        print(f"Network health summary: {global_health}")
+
+Example: Latency-Based Load Balancing
+-------------------------------------
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # Optimize for lowest latency connections
+    connection_config = ConnectionConfig(
+        enable_health_monitoring=True,
+        load_balancing_strategy="latency_based",  # Route to lowest latency
+        health_check_interval=30.0,
+        ping_timeout=5.0,
+        max_connections_per_peer=3
+    )
+
+    host = new_host(
+        key_pair=create_new_key_pair(),
+        connection_config=connection_config
+    )
+
+    # Streams will automatically route to lowest latency connections
+
+Example: Disabling Health Monitoring
+------------------------------------
+
+For performance-critical scenarios, health monitoring can be disabled:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # Disable health monitoring for maximum performance
+    connection_config = ConnectionConfig(
+        enable_health_monitoring=False,
+        load_balancing_strategy="round_robin"  # Fall back to simple strategy
+    )
+
+    host = new_host(
+        key_pair=create_new_key_pair(),
+        connection_config=connection_config
+    )
+
+    # Host operates with minimal overhead, no health monitoring
+
+Backwards Compatibility
+-----------------------
+
+Health monitoring is fully backwards compatible:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # Existing code continues to work unchanged
+    host = new_host()  # Uses default configuration (health monitoring disabled)
+
+    # Only when you explicitly enable it does health monitoring activate
+    config = ConnectionConfig(enable_health_monitoring=True)
+    host_with_health = new_host(connection_config=config)
+
+Running the Example
+-------------------
+
+To run the connection health monitoring example:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    python examples/health_monitoring_example.py
+
+This will demonstrate:
+
+1. Basic health monitoring setup through host API
+2. Different load balancing strategies
+3. Health metrics access and export
+4. API consistency with existing examples
+
+Benefits
+--------
+
+1. **API Consistency**: Health monitoring now works with the same high-level `new_host()` API used in all examples
+2. **Production Reliability**: Prevent silent failures by detecting unhealthy connections early
+3. **Performance Optimization**: Route traffic to healthiest connections, reduce latency
+4. **Operational Visibility**: Monitor connection quality in real-time through host interface
+5. **Automatic Recovery**: Replace degraded connections automatically
+6. **Standard Compliance**: Match capabilities of Go and JavaScript libp2p implementations
+
+Integration with Existing Code
+------------------------------
+
+Health monitoring integrates seamlessly with existing host-based code:
+
+- All new features are optional and don't break existing code
+- Health monitoring can be enabled/disabled per host instance
+- Existing examples work unchanged - just add `connection_config` parameter
+- Backward compatibility is maintained
+- No need to switch from `new_host()` to low-level swarm APIs - the API inconsistency is fixed
+
+**Before (Previous Implementation - API Inconsistency):**
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # ❌ Forced to use different APIs
+    host = new_host()  # High-level API for basic usage
+    # Health monitoring required low-level swarm API - INCONSISTENT!
+
+**After (Current Implementation - API Consistency):**
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # ✅ Consistent API for all use cases
+    host = new_host()  # Basic usage
+    host = new_host(connection_config=config)  # Health monitoring - same API!
+
+For more information, see the :doc:`../libp2p.network` module documentation.

docs/examples.rst

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    examples.mDNS
    examples.random_walk
    examples.multiple_connections
+   examples.connection_health_monitoring

docs/libp2p.network.health.rst

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+:orphan:
+
+libp2p.network.health package
+=============================
+
+Submodules
+----------
+
+libp2p.network.health.data\_structures module
+---------------------------------------------
+
+.. automodule:: libp2p.network.health.data_structures
+   :members:
+   :undoc-members:
+   :show-inheritance:
+
+libp2p.network.health.monitor module
+------------------------------------
+
+.. automodule:: libp2p.network.health.monitor
+   :members:
+   :undoc-members:
+   :show-inheritance:
+
+Module contents
+---------------
+
+.. automodule:: libp2p.network.health
+   :members:
+   :undoc-members:
+   :show-inheritance: