[Openstack-operators] Ops Meetup to return in Paris - your ideas wanted!

Robert van Leeuwen Robert.vanLeeuwen at spilgames.com
Tue Oct 7 07:40:55 UTC 2014


>> And I want to say folks, I feel your pain.  I come from a QA and
>> operations background in large, mission critical, distributed systems
>> and logs have always been my best friends **and** the bane of my
>> existence when they don’t have what you need.  I get it.  I want to help
>> fix it.

> I'm also looking forward to cleaning up the logging in OpenStack projects.

> May I suggest on the etherpad that we take an approach of listing
> *specific* log messages that we (devs doing debugging and operators
> doing diagnostics/operations) find less than useful?

> I think if we keep the etherpad focused on specific log messages, we can
> then start to identify:

>  * changes to those log messages (structure, level, audience, payload, etc)
>  * log message "archetypes" that we can then use to generalize into
> best practice documentation on the wiki (to add to what is already there
> [1])

> Does this sound like a reasonable approach?

+1 
We recently setup logstash here and doing the grok magic was quite a pain
with all the different way's the logging is formatted.
We also throw a bit in the bin because there is no useful info in it.

Looking at our logstash grok I could probably make some suggestions on what we find useful and not :)

Cheers,
Robert van Leeuwen




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