Fix high-cardinality metrics from unmatched paths
Summary
Requests to unregistered routes (scanner/bot traffic like /.env, /wp-admin, /.aws/credentials, etc.) were each recorded with their raw URL as the Prometheus endpoint label, causing label explosion in tf_http_requests_total and tf_http_request_duration_seconds.
- Group all unmatched-route requests under a single
<unknown>label - Preserves visibility into the volume of scanner traffic via
tf_http_requests_total{endpoint="<unknown>"} - Legitimate 404s from registered routes (e.g.
GET /v0.1/requests/{request_id}→ resource not found) are still tracked with their proper path template since the route still matches
Assisted-by Claude Code
Edited by Miroslav Vadkerti