[openstack-dev] [devstack][QA] Changing logging format to match documented defaults

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Mon Jan 4 13:32:37 UTC 2016


On 12/22/2015 01:55 PM, Ronald Bradford wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have observed that devstack uses custom logging formatting that
> differs from the documented defaults. An example is for nova.
> 
> logging_context_format_string = %(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(levelname)s
> %(name)s [%(request_id)s *_%(user_name)s %(project_name)s_*]
> %(instance)s%(message)s
> 
> which is defined in [1] , compared with
> 
> logging_context_format_string = %(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(levelname)s
> %(name)s [%(request_id)s *_%(user_identity)s_*] %(instance)s%(message)s
> 
> which is the current Liberty specified default [2].  This infact is the
> Oslo Logging default value and then can effectively be not defined at all.
> 
> In my manual tests I see not see failures when changing this in nova,
> but as I know Infra and QA relies on devstack I would like to solicit
> feedback from team members before proposing any changes to bring these
> to being consistent.  This logging variable is also defined differently
> across 4 projects (nova, cinder, keystone and glance) so ultimately the
> goal would be to ensure they may present documented configuration defaults.
> 
> [1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-dev/devstack/tree/lib/nova#n580
> [2]
> http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/list-of-compute-config-options.html#config_table_nova_logging

Symbolic names instead of uuids are really needed to make any reasonable
sense of the logs by humans. The devstack overrides are probably better
defaults for the projects than their current defaults.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
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