1. Proposed title of this feature request

Applications with a "Failed" condition fail to appear in argocd_app_condition metric in the argocd controller pod

2. What is the nature and description of the request?

Need to make the argocd track the metric "argocd_app_condition" for the applications with a "Failed" condition. 

Below is an example of the customer's configurations. Not able to monitor metrics using Argo CD on any application that are in a failed condition:

Controller's Configurations:

 spec:
   controller:
     extraCommandArgs:
     - --metrics-application-conditions
     - SyncFailed,SyncError,Failed,OrphanedResourceWarning
   prometheus:
     enabled: true

Applcaition state:

 status:
  conditions:
    - type: Failed
      status: 'True'

Not able to grep for the argocd_app_condition in the argocd controller pod, as argocd_app_condition is not triggered with the "Failed" condition type above (no output to the command below):

sh-4.4$ curl -s 127.0.0.1:8082/metrics | grep -i condition

We have tested in our lab conditions diffrent than than failed and it worked with these conditions (InvalidSpecError,SyncError) :

a- We have tested with the InvalidSpecError and it worked with a test application:

status:
  conditions:
  - lastTransitionTime: "2025-07-08T01:24:02Z"
    message: Application referencing project default which does not exist
    type: InvalidSpecError
     
sh-4.4$ curl -s 127.0.0.1:8082/metrics | grep -i condi

1. HELP argocd_app_condition Report application conditions.
2. TYPE argocd_app_condition gauge
   argocd_app_condition{condition="InvalidSpecError",name="test",namespace="openshift-gitops",project="default"} 1

b- We tried the following config in the lab with the "SyncError" condition and it worked with a test application:

 

  prometheus:
    enabled: true
  controller:
    extraCommandArgs:
    - --metrics-application-conditions
    - SyncFailed,SyncError,OrphanedResourceWarning

[root@openshift-jumpserver-0 ~]# oc rsh -n openshift-gitops openshift-gitops-application-controller-0
sh-4.4$ curl -s 127.0.0.1:8082/metrics | grep -i condi

1. HELP argocd_app_condition Report application conditions.
2. TYPE argocd_app_condition gauge
   argocd_app_condition{condition="SyncError",name="spring-petclinic",namespace="openshift-gitops",project="default"} 1

3. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

The customer needs this improve automated testing with Argo CD hooks with a job to verify the deployment after all objects are synced. But they are not able to do it for the applications with a "Failed" type condition.

4. List any affected packages or components.

Not able to monitor failed production applications using the argocd_app_condition with a "Failed" type condition