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fix: handle missing description key in MN+1 DB span detector#119484

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Summary

Fixes a KeyError: 'description' crash in the MN+1 DB span detector that has been firing 333K+ times since 2026-06-25, affecting the process-segments consumer in production.

Root cause: ContinuingMNPlusOne._maybe_performance_problem() accessed db_span["description"] directly. Spans processed by the standalone segment pipeline (spans.consumers.process_segments) may not include a description field, causing an unhandled KeyError that swallowed the entire performance detection step via a broad except in detect_performance_problems.

Fix: Replace db_span["description"] with db_span.get("description", "") in both places in _maybe_performance_problem() — once for the PerformanceProblem.desc field and once for the evidence_display notification body.

Evidence

  • Sentry issue: SENTRY-5QVD — 333,450 occurrences, first seen 2026-06-25, ongoing
  • Seer actionability: high
  • Stack trace confirms the crash is at mn_plus_one_db_span_detector.py:258 in _maybe_performance_problem
  • Seer analysis: "Use .get('description', '') to safely access the db span description"

Changes

  • src/sentry/issue_detection/detectors/mn_plus_one_db_span_detector.py: Use .get("description", "") instead of direct key access in two places
  • tests/sentry/issue_detection/test_m_n_plus_one_db_detector.py: Add test_does_not_raise_when_db_span_missing_description — verifies the detector returns a problem with desc="" instead of crashing

Claude Session

https://claude.ai/code/session_01KBB4d6THmfZynYkkcPNxTh

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Spans in the process-segments consumer may lack a `description` field,
causing KeyError in `_maybe_performance_problem`. Use `.get("description", "")`
to gracefully handle spans without this field.

Fixes SENTRY-5QVD
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the Scope: Backend Automatically applied to PRs that change backend components label Jul 13, 2026
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Backend Test Failures

Failures on 9854e84 in this run:

tests/sentry/issue_detection/test_m_n_plus_one_db_detector.py::MNPlusOneDBDetectorTest::test_does_not_raise_when_db_span_missing_descriptionlog
[gw1] linux -- Python 3.13.1 /home/runner/work/sentry/sentry/.venv/bin/python3
tests/sentry/issue_detection/test_m_n_plus_one_db_detector.py:317: in test_does_not_raise_when_db_span_missing_description
    assert len(problems) == 1
E   assert 0 == 1
E    +  where 0 = len([])

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