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Marks 3 failing synapse tests (100% failure rate on CI runs) as flaky so they can be skipped on CI for now.

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I grepped past commits for synapse + git bisect, and ran tests on old commits to try to determine when the test failures were introduced. The commits I tried to go back on we're eventually too old to run our test suite on (build failures). These tests have been failing for a very long period of time (>4 months).

Did not have capacity to determine full fix - need some context on past implementation decisions. From initial analysis test methods have been consistently failing due to two pre-existing instrumentation bugs:

  1. Server span does not finish for non-proxied (WSDL) requests because the isFinal check requires a non-null status line, which is not always set when responseReady fires.
  2. SynapsePassthruInstrumentation stores the proxy context at key "dd.trace.synapse.span" but SynapseClientInstrumentation reads from SYNAPSE_CONTEXT_KEY ("dd.trace.synapse.context"), a mismatch introduced in Context API beforeFinish Migration #9422 that was never corrected.

Marking the 3 affected test methods as @flaky to clean up CI while a proper instrumentation fix is needed separately.

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Three test methods have been consistently failing due to two pre-existing
instrumentation bugs:
1. Server span does not finish for non-proxied (WSDL) requests because the
   isFinal check requires a non-null status line, which is not always set
   when responseReady fires.
2. SynapsePassthruInstrumentation stores the proxy context at key
   "dd.trace.synapse.span" but SynapseClientInstrumentation reads from
   SYNAPSE_CONTEXT_KEY ("dd.trace.synapse.context"), a mismatch introduced
   in #9422 that was never corrected.

Mark the three affected test methods as @flaky to unblock CI while a
proper instrumentation fix is tracked separately.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@jordan-wong jordan-wong requested a review from a team as a code owner April 1, 2026 06:55
@jordan-wong jordan-wong added tag: no release notes Changes to exclude from release notes inst: synapse Synapse Instrumentation labels Apr 1, 2026
@github-actions github-actions bot added the tag: ai generated Largely based on code generated by an AI or LLM label Apr 1, 2026
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It doesn't seems to flag all the tests (we have 6, this covers 3, 1 of which doesn't seems flaky)
Can we also have create a follow-up item in our Jira board with a remediation task to re-enable this and the results of your initial investigation?

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