[openstack-dev] Proposed Logging Standards

Sergey Lukjanov slukjanov at mirantis.com
Tue Jan 28 11:42:45 UTC 2014


Hi Sean,

it's great that you're catching this up.

I'd like to participate. I don't know how much time I'll be able to
dedicate on it, but at least I'm ready for reviews and pushing it to
Savanna.

Thanks!


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> On 01/27/2014 09:57 PM, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net
> > <mailto:sean at dague.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 01/27/2014 09:07 AM, Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew wrote:
> >     > Hi Sean,
> >     >
> >     > I'm currently working on moving away from the "built-in" logging
> >     to use log_config=<filename> and the python logging framework so
> >     that we can start shipping to logstash/sentry/<insert other useful
> >     tool here>.
> >     >
> >     > I'd be very interested in getting involved in this, especially
> >     from a "why do we have log messages that are split across multiple
> >     lines" perspective!
> >
> >     Do we have many that aren't either DEBUG or TRACE? I thought we were
> >     pretty clean there.
> >
> >     > Cheers,
> >     >
> >     > Matt
> >     >
> >     > P.S. FWIW, I'd also welcome details on what the "Audit" level
> >     gives us that the others don't... :)
> >
> >     Well as far as I can tell the AUDIT level was a prior drive by
> >     contribution that's not being actively maintained. Honestly, I think
> we
> >     should probably rip it out, because I don't see any in tree tooling
> to
> >     use it, and it's horribly inconsistent.
> >
> >
> > For the uses I've seen of it in the nova api code INFO would be
> > perfectly fine in place of AUDIT.
> >
> > I'd be happy to help out with patches to cleanup the logging in n-api.
> >
> > One other thing to look at - I've noticed with logs is that when
> > something like glanceclient code (just as an example) is called from
> nova,
> > we can get ERROR level messages for say image not found when its
> > actually perfectly expected that this will occur.
> > I'm not sure if we should be changing the error level in glanceclient or
> > just forcing any error logging in glanceclient when
> > called from Nova to a lower level though.
>
> It's now changed in glanceclient -
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/67744/ - it should be gone in the gate
> logs, and will be gone for everyone once a new release is out.
>
>         -Sean
>
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-- 
Sincerely yours,
Sergey Lukjanov
Savanna Technical Lead
Mirantis Inc.
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