The log level for Neutron services is WARNING

[Simon Pasquier]

I've just noticed that with Fuel 6.0, Neutron services are configured with "Verbose=False" meaning that only WARNING and higher messages are logged. It used to be Verbose=True in previous Fuel versions and this is usually the log level you expect.

I spotted the line that introduces this change in the Puppet manifests [1]. Uncommenting the line fixes the "issue".

[1] https://github.com/stackforge/fuel-library/blob/stable/6.0/deployment/puppet/openstack/manifests/network.pp#L134

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/148858

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/148858
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/fuel-library/commit/?id=04b3f05834029064995f30dd465a2ebe184cd957
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 04b3f05834029064995f30dd465a2ebe184cd957
Author: Bartłomiej Piotrowski <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Jan 21 10:46:12 2015 +0100

    Re-enable verbose logging for Neutron

    Otherwise only WARNING and higher messages are logged.

    Change-Id: I4a0b19f57956c9e558fe8ebf9a526d16eb7bec67
    Closes-Bug: 1412895

[Bartłomiej Piotrowski (bpiotrowski)]

I have some concerns whether this change makes any sense. The only change introduced to server.log is additional lines related to neutron.wsgi, ergo Neutron API layer. When only one controller and one compute nodes are used, the log grows by 3-5 lines every 15 seconds.

[Simon Pasquier (simon-pasquier)]

I don't think that is a problem if logrotate is properly configured. Like I said in the original description, I think that not having INFO level by default is a usability issue. When you ask OpenStack operators, everybody agrees that it is ok and desirable to go with INFO level in production. Also all other services are running at INFO so why not Neutron?

In my particular use case, I expect this to monitor the Neutron API response time and returned codes.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/6.0
Review: https://review.openstack.org/156517

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Bart?omiej Piotrowski (<email address hidden>) on branch: stable/6.0
Review: https://review.openstack.org/156517

[Ryan Moe (rmoe)]

Marking as confirmed for 6.0.1. I don't see how a high-priority bug can be invalid for 6.0 but valid for 6.0-updates

[Alexander Nevenchannyy (anevenchannyy)]

Verified on MOS 6.1 ISO #429
Steps to Verify:

root@node-1:/# cat /etc/neutron/neutron.conf | grep verbose
# Print more verbose output (set logging level to INFO instead of default WARNING level).
# verbose = False
verbose = True