not enough logging

[Robert Collins]

Our CI is very hard to debug - not enough logging data; HPCloud reports they run with more logging, so we probably want to say 'the default is broken' and fix locally while discussing in the -dev forum.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/2014-March/004154.html seeking more information. For now I'm going to propose a change to make verbose the default in TripleO.

[Haneef Ali (haneef)]

We are planning to use logging.conf to customize logging. This option is there in keystone, but default setup doesn't use that. We plan to configure this for overcloud and undercloud . Is this acceptable or do we have any other solution?

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/84847/

[Steven Hardy (shardy)]

AFAICS, none of the services log anything at all by default in the seed/undercloud:

# ps ax | grep heat
 3687 ? Ss 0:01 /opt/stack/venvs/openstack/bin/python /opt/stack/venvs/openstack/bin/heat-api
 3699 ? Ss 0:01 /opt/stack/venvs/openstack/bin/python /opt/stack/venvs/openstack/bin/heat-api-cfn
 3709 ? Ss 0:01 /opt/stack/venvs/openstack/bin/python /opt/stack/venvs/openstack/bin/heat-api-cloudwatch
 3745 ? Ss 0:01 /opt/stack/venvs/openstack/bin/python /opt/stack/venvs/openstack/bin/heat-engine

# grep log_ /etc/heat/heat.conf
#default_log_levels=amqplib=WARN,sqlalchemy=WARN,boto=WARN,suds=INFO,keystone=INFO,eventlet.wsgi.server=WARN
#log_config=<None>
#log_format=<None>
#log_date_format=%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
#log_file=<None>
#log_dir=<None>
#syslog_log_facility=LOG_USER

Because we don't set log_file, everything gets logged only to the console, which presumably means we don't log anything anywhere?

[Steven Hardy (shardy)]

Pls ignore that last comment - I'd missed that the console output ends up in /var/log/messages, despite use_syslog being false in the service configuration files.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/142529

[Brent Eagles (beagles)]

The associated patch is a year old with no updates. Marking as incomplete.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by greghaynes (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/142529
Reason: This is over a year stale

[Ben Nemec (bnemec)]

I'm going to call this fixed from a tripleo perspective. Logging is an ongoing discussion in OpenStack, but to my knowledge there aren't any TripleO-specific issues with it at the moment.