[openstack-dev] [glance][all] Help with interpreting the log level guidelines

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Mon Sep 15 23:02:04 UTC 2014


On 09/15/2014 07:00 PM, Mark Washenberger wrote:
> Hi there logging experts,
> 
> We've recently had a little disagreement in the glance team about the
> appropriate log levels for http requests that end up failing due to user
> errors. An example would be a request to get an image that does not
> exist, which results in a 404 Not Found request.
> 
> On one hand, this event is an error, so DEBUG or INFO seem a little too
> low. On the other hand, this error doesn't generally require any kind of
> operator investigation or indicate any actual failure of the service, so
> perhaps it is excessive to log it at WARN or ERROR.
> 
> Please provide feedback to help us resolve this dispute if you feel you can!

My feeling is this is an INFO level. There is really nothing the admin
should care about here.

	-Sean

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