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Chapter 4. Installing and configuring the logs service
Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) writes informational messages to specific log files; you can use these messages for troubleshooting and monitoring system events. The log collection agent Rsyslog collects logs on the client side and sends these logs to an instance of Rsyslog that is running on the server side. The server-side Rsyslog instance redirects log records to Elasticsearch for storage.
You do not need to attach the individual log files to your support cases manually. The sosreport
utility gathers the required logs automatically.
4.1. The centralized log system architecture and components
Monitoring tools use a client-server model with the client deployed onto the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) overcloud nodes. The Rsyslog service provides client-side centralized logging (CL).
All RHOSP services generate and update log files. These log files record actions, errors, warnings, and other events. In a distributed environment like OpenStack, collecting these logs in a central location simplifies debugging and administration.
With centralized logging, there is one central place to view logs across your entire RHOSP environment. These logs come from the operating system, such as syslog and audit log files, infrastructure components, such as RabbitMQ and MariaDB, and OpenStack services such as Identity, Compute, and others. The centralized logging toolchain consists of the following components:
- Log Collection Agent (Rsyslog)
- Data Store (ElasticSearch)
- API/Presentation Layer (Grafana)
Red Hat OpenStack Platform director does not deploy the server-side components for centralized logging. Red Hat does not support the server-side components, including the Elasticsearch database and Grafana. RHOSP 16.2 only supports rsyslog with Elasticsearch version 7.
4.2. Enabling centralized logging with Elasticsearch
To enable centralized logging, you must specify the implementation of the OS::TripleO::Services::Rsyslog
composable service.
The Rsyslog service uses only Elasticsearch as a data store for centralized logging.
Prerequisites
- Elasticsearch is installed on the server side.
Procedure
Add the file path of the logging environment file to the
overcloud deployment
command with any other environment files that are relevant to your environment and deploy, as shown in the following example:openstack overcloud deploy \ <existing_overcloud_environment_files> \ -e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/logging-environment-rsyslog.yaml
Replace
<existing_overcloud_environment_files>
with the list of environment files that are part of your existing deployment.
4.3. Configuring logging features
To configure logging features, modify the RsyslogElasticsearchSetting
parameter in the logging-environment-rsyslog.yaml
file.
Procedure
-
Copy the
tripleo-heat-templates/environments/logging-environment-rsyslog.yaml
file to your home directory. Create entries in the
RsyslogElasticsearchSetting
parameter to suit your environment. The following snippet is an example configuration of theRsyslogElasticsearchSetting
parameter:parameter_defaults: RsyslogElasticsearchSetting: uid: "elastic" pwd: "yourownpassword" skipverifyhost: "on" allowunsignedcerts: "on" server: "https://log-store-service-telemetry.apps.stfcloudops1.lab.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com" serverport: 443
Additional resources
- For more information about the configurable parameters, see Section 4.3.1, “Configurable logging parameters”.
4.3.1. Configurable logging parameters
This table contains descriptions of logging parameters that you use to configure logging features in Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP). You can find these parameters in the tripleo-heat-templates/deployment/logging/rsyslog-container-puppet.yaml
file.
Parameter | Description |
---|---|
|
Configuration for |
| Contains the content of the CA cert for the CA that issued the Elasticsearch server cert. |
| Contains the content of the client cert for doing client cert authorization against Elasticsearch. |
|
Contains the content of the private key corresponding to the cert |
4.4. Overriding the default path for a log file
If you modify the default containers and the modification includes the path to the service log file, you must also modify the default log file path. Every composable service has a <service_name>LoggingSource
parameter. For example, for the nova-compute service, the parameter is NovaComputeLoggingSource
.
Procedure
To override the default path for the nova-compute service, add the path to the
NovaComputeLoggingSource
parameter in your configuration file:NovaComputeLoggingSource: tag: openstack.nova.compute file: /some/other/path/nova-compute.log
NoteFor each service, define the
tag
andfile
. Other values are derived by default.You can modify the format for a specific service. This passes directly to the Rsyslog configuration. The default format for the
LoggingDefaultFormat
parameter is /(?<time>\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}.\d+) (?<pid>\d+) (?<priority>\S+) (?<message>.*)$/ Use the following syntax:<service_name>LoggingSource: tag: <service_name>.tag path: <service_name>.path format: <service_name>.format
The following snippet is an example of a more complex transformation:
ServiceLoggingSource: tag: openstack.Service path: /var/log/containers/service/service.log format: multiline format_firstline: '/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}.\d{3} \d+ \S+ \S+ \[(req-\S+ \S+ \S+ \S+ \S+ \S+|-)\]/' format1: '/^(?<Timestamp>\S+ \S+) (?<Pid>\d+) (?<log_level>\S+) (?<python_module>\S+) (\[(req-(?<request_id>\S+) (?<user_id>\S+) (?<tenant_id>\S+) (?<domain_id>\S+) (?<user_domain>\S+) (?<project_domain>\S+)|-)\])? (?<Payload>.*)?$/'
4.5. Modifying the format of a log record
You can modify the format of the start of the log record for a specific service. This passes directly to the Rsyslog configuration.
The default format for the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) log record is ('^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}(.[0-9]+ [0-9]+)? (DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR) ').
Procedure
To add a different regular expression for parsing the start of log records, add
startmsg.regex
to the configuration:NovaComputeLoggingSource: tag: openstack.nova.compute file: /some/other/path/nova-compute.log startmsg.regex: "^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}(.[0-9]+ \\+[0-9]+)? [A-Z]+ \\([a-z]+\\)
4.6. Testing the connection between Rsyslog and Elasticsearch
On the client side, you can verify communication between Rsyslog and Elasticsearch.
Procedure
-
Navigate to the Elasticsearch connection log file,
/var/log/rsyslog/omelasticsearch.log
in the Rsyslog container or/var/log/containers/rsyslog/omelasticsearch.log
on the host. If this log file does not exist or if the log file exists but does not contain logs, there is no connection problem. If the log file is present and contains logs, Rsyslog has not connected successfully.
To test the connection from the server side, view the Elasticsearch logs for connection issues.
4.7. Server-side logging
If you have an Elasticsearch cluster running, you must configure the RsyslogElasticsearchSetting
parameter in the logging-environment-rsyslog.yaml
file to connect Rsyslog that is running on overcloud nodes. To configure the RsyslogElasticsearchSetting
parameter, see https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/modules/omelasticsearch.html
4.8. Tracebacks
When you encounter an issue and you start troubleshooting, you can use a traceback log to diagnose the issue. In log files, tracebacks usually have several lines of information, all relating to the same issue.
Rsyslog provides a regular expression to define how a log record starts. Each log record usually starts with a timestamp and the first line of the traceback is the only line that contains this information. Rsyslog bundles the indented records with the first line and sends them as one log record.
For that behaviour configuration option startmsg.regex
in <Service>LoggingSource is used. The following regular expression is the default value for all <service>LoggingSource parameters in director:
startmsg.regex='^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}(.[0-9]+ [0-9]+)? (DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR) '
When this default does not match log records of your added or modified LoggingSource
, you must change startmsg.regex
accordingly.
4.9. Location of log files for OpenStack services
Each OpenStack component has a separate logging directory containing files specific to a running service.
4.9.1. Bare Metal Provisioning (ironic) log files
Service | Service name | Log path |
---|---|---|
OpenStack Ironic API | openstack-ironic-api.service | /var/log/containers/ironic/ironic-api.log |
OpenStack Ironic Conductor | openstack-ironic-conductor.service | /var/log/containers/ironic/ironic-conductor.log |
4.9.2. Block Storage (cinder) log files
Service | Service name | Log path |
---|---|---|
Block Storage API | openstack-cinder-api.service | /var/log/containers/cinder-api.log |
Block Storage Backup | openstack-cinder-backup.service | /var/log/containers/cinder/backup.log |
Informational messages | The cinder-manage command | /var/log/containers/cinder/cinder-manage.log |
Block Storage Scheduler | openstack-cinder-scheduler.service | /var/log/containers/cinder/scheduler.log |
Block Storage Volume | openstack-cinder-volume.service | /var/log/containers/cinder/volume.log |
4.9.3. Compute (nova) log files
Service | Service name | Log path |
---|---|---|
OpenStack Compute API service | openstack-nova-api.service | /var/log/containers/nova/nova-api.log |
OpenStack Compute certificate server | openstack-nova-cert.service | /var/log/containers/nova/nova-cert.log |
OpenStack Compute service | openstack-nova-compute.service | /var/log/containers/nova/nova-compute.log |
OpenStack Compute Conductor service | openstack-nova-conductor.service | /var/log/containers/nova/nova-conductor.log |
OpenStack Compute VNC console authentication server | openstack-nova-consoleauth.service | /var/log/containers/nova/nova-consoleauth.log |
Informational messages | nova-manage command | /var/log/containers/nova/nova-manage.log |
OpenStack Compute NoVNC Proxy service | openstack-nova-novncproxy.service | /var/log/containers/nova/nova-novncproxy.log |
OpenStack Compute Scheduler service | openstack-nova-scheduler.service | /var/log/containers/nova/nova-scheduler.log |
4.9.4. Dashboard (horizon) log files
Service | Service name | Log path |
---|---|---|
Log of certain user interactions | Dashboard interface | /var/log/containers/horizon/horizon.log |
The Apache HTTP server uses several additional log files for the Dashboard web interface, which you can access by using a web browser or command-line client, for example, keystone and nova. The log files in the following table can be helpful in tracking the use of the Dashboard and diagnosing faults:
Purpose | Log path |
---|---|
All processed HTTP requests | /var/log/containers/httpd/horizon_access.log |
HTTP errors | /var/log/containers/httpd/horizon_error.log |
Admin-role API requests | /var/log/containers/httpd/keystone_wsgi_admin_access.log |
Admin-role API errors | /var/log/containers/httpd/keystone_wsgi_admin_error.log |
Member-role API requests | /var/log/containers/httpd/keystone_wsgi_main_access.log |
Member-role API errors | /var/log/containers/httpd/keystone_wsgi_main_error.log |
There is also /var/log/containers/httpd/default_error.log
, which stores errors reported by other web services that are running on the same host.
4.9.5. Identity Service (keystone) log files
Service | Service name | Log Path |
---|---|---|
OpenStack Identity Service | openstack-keystone.service | /var/log/containers/keystone/keystone.log |
4.9.6. Image Service (glance) log files
Service | Service name | Log path |
---|---|---|
OpenStack Image Service API server | openstack-glance-api.service | /var/log/containers/glance/api.log |
OpenStack Image Service Registry server | openstack-glance-registry.service | /var/log/containers/glance/registry.log |
4.9.7. Networking (neutron) log files
Service | Service name | Log path |
---|---|---|
OpenStack Neutron DHCP Agent | neutron-dhcp-agent.service | /var/log/containers/neutron/dhcp-agent.log |
OpenStack Networking Layer 3 Agent | neutron-l3-agent.service | /var/log/containers/neutron/l3-agent.log |
Metadata agent service | neutron-metadata-agent.service | /var/log/containers/neutron/metadata-agent.log |
Metadata namespace proxy | n/a | /var/log/containers/neutron/neutron-ns-metadata-proxy-UUID.log |
Open vSwitch agent | neutron-openvswitch-agent.service | /var/log/containers/neutron/openvswitch-agent.log |
OpenStack Networking service | neutron-server.service | /var/log/containers/neutron/server.log |
4.9.8. Object Storage (swift) log files
OpenStack Object Storage sends logs to the system logging facility only.
By default, all Object Storage log files go to /var/log/containers/swift/swift.log
, using the local0, local1, and local2 syslog facilities.
The log messages of Object Storage are classified into two broad categories: those by REST API services and those by background daemons. The API service messages contain one line per API request, in a manner similar to popular HTTP servers; both the frontend (Proxy) and backend (Account, Container, Object) services post such messages. The daemon messages are less structured and typically contain human-readable information about daemons performing their periodic tasks. However, regardless of which part of Object Storage produces the message, the source identity is always at the beginning of the line.
Here is an example of a proxy message:
Apr 20 15:20:34 rhev-a24c-01 proxy-server: 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20/Apr/2015/19/20/34 GET /v1/AUTH_zaitcev%3Fformat%3Djson%26marker%3Dtestcont HTTP/1.0 200 - python-swiftclient-2.1.0 AUTH_tk737d6... - 2 - txc454fa8ea4844d909820a-0055355182 - 0.0162 - - 1429557634.806570053 1429557634.822791100
Here is an example of ad-hoc messages from background daemons:
Apr 27 17:08:15 rhev-a24c-02 object-auditor: Object audit (ZBF). Since Mon Apr 27 21:08:15 2015: Locally: 1 passed, 0 quarantined, 0 errors files/sec: 4.34 , bytes/sec: 0.00, Total time: 0.23, Auditing time: 0.00, Rate: 0.00 Apr 27 17:08:16 rhev-a24c-02 object-auditor: Object audit (ZBF) "forever" mode completed: 0.56s. Total quarantined: 0, Total errors: 0, Total files/sec: 14.31, Total bytes/sec: 0.00, Auditing time: 0.02, Rate: 0.04 Apr 27 17:08:16 rhev-a24c-02 account-replicator: Beginning replication run Apr 27 17:08:16 rhev-a24c-02 account-replicator: Replication run OVER Apr 27 17:08:16 rhev-a24c-02 account-replicator: Attempted to replicate 5 dbs in 0.12589 seconds (39.71876/s) Apr 27 17:08:16 rhev-a24c-02 account-replicator: Removed 0 dbs Apr 27 17:08:16 rhev-a24c-02 account-replicator: 10 successes, 0 failures
4.9.9. Orchestration (heat) log files
Service | Service name | Log path |
---|---|---|
OpenStack Heat API Service | openstack-heat-api.service | /var/log/containers/heat/heat-api.log |
OpenStack Heat Engine Service | openstack-heat-engine.service | /var/log/containers/heat/heat-engine.log |
Orchestration service events | n/a | /var/log/containers/heat/heat-manage.log |
4.9.11. Telemetry (ceilometer) log files
Service | Service name | Log path |
---|---|---|
OpenStack ceilometer notification agent | ceilometer_agent_notification | /var/log/containers/ceilometer/agent-notification.log |
OpenStack ceilometer central agent | ceilometer_agent_central | /var/log/containers/ceilometer/central.log |
OpenStack ceilometer collection | openstack-ceilometer-collector.service | /var/log/containers/ceilometer/collector.log |
OpenStack ceilometer compute agent | ceilometer_agent_compute | /var/log/containers/ceilometer/compute.log |
4.9.12. Log files for supporting services
The following services are used by the core OpenStack components and have their own log directories and files.
Service | Service name | Log path |
---|---|---|
Message broker (RabbitMQ) | rabbitmq-server.service |
/var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit@short_hostname.log |
Database server (MariaDB) | mariadb.service | /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log |
Virtual network switch (Open vSwitch) | openvswitch-nonetwork.service |
/var/log/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.log |
4.9.13. aodh (alarming service) log files
Service | Container name | Log path |
---|---|---|
Alarming API | aodh_api | /var/log/containers/httpd/aodh-api/aodh_wsgi_access.log |
Alarm evaluator log | aodh_evaluator | /var/log/containers/aodh/aodh-evaluator.log |
Alarm listener | aodh_listener | /var/log/containers/aodh/aodh-listener.log |
Alarm notification | aodh_notifier | /var/log/containers/aodh/aodh-notifier.log |
4.9.14. gnocchi (metric storage) log files
Service | Container name | Log path |
---|---|---|
Gnocchi API | gnocchi_api | /var/log/containers/httpd/gnocchi-api/gnocchi_wsgi_access.log |
Gnocchi metricd | gnocchi_metricd | /var/log/containers/gnocchi/gnocchi-metricd.log |
Gnocchi statsd | gnocchi_statsd | /var/log/containers/gnocchi/gnocchi-statsd.log |