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Excerpts from Saverio Proto's message of 2018-01-11 15:23:46 +0100:
> Hello,
> 
> we recently enabled the JSON logging to feed a Kibana dashboard and look
> at the logs with modern tooling.
> 
> however it looks like in our Openstack Newton deployment that some
> information in the JSON files is missing.
> 
> most important missing bit is the request-id, that we use to track an
> event across multiple log files on multiple hosts.
> 
> Looking at the code it really looks like the request ID is there for the
> context formatter and not for the json formatter.
> 
> https://github.com/openstack/oslo.log/blob/master/oslo_log/formatters.py#L208
> 
> https://github.com/openstack/oslo.log/blob/master/oslo_log/formatters.py#L460
> 
> I am an operator and a very bad python developer, so can anyone confirm
> that is really missing in the code, and it is not me configuring stuff
> wrongly ?
> 
> If it is really missing the request-id in the json log formatter, should
> I open a bug about this ?
> 
> thank you
> 
> Saverio
> 

The newton version of the JSONFormatter adds all of the values from the
context to the log record:

http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/oslo.log/tree/oslo_log/formatters.py?h=newton-eol#n142

That should include the request_id.

Which service's logs are missing the request_id?

Chaining request_id values from one service to the next was a separate
piece of work, and I don't remember off the top of my head when that was
added. Perhaps someone else can. I think Sean Dague drove a lot of that
work.

Doug