Hi, We are interested in having cephadm log to journald. So I create the ticket: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/62233 Thanks Luis Domingues Proton AG ------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, July 29th, 2023 at 20:55, John Mulligan <phlogistonjohn(a)asynchrono.us> wrote: > On Friday, July 28, 2023 11:51:06 AM EDT Adam King wrote: > > > Not currently. Those logs aren't generated by any daemons, they come > > directly from anything done by the cephadm binary one the host, which tends > > to be quite a bit since the cephadm mgr module runs most of its operations > > on the host through a copy of the cephadm binary. It doesn't log to journal > > because it doesn't have a systemd unit or anything, it's just a python > > script being run directly and nothing has been implemented to make it > > possible for that to log to journald. > > > > For what it's worth, there's no requirement that a process be executed > directly by a specific systemd unit to have it log to the journal. These days > I'm pretty sure that anything that tries to use the local syslog goes to the > journal. Here's a quick example: > > I create foo.py with the following: > `import logging import logging.handlers import sys handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler('/dev/log') handler.ident = 'notcephadm: ' h2 = logging.StreamHandler(stream=sys.stderr) logging.basicConfig( level=logging.DEBUG, handlers=[handler, h2], format="(%(levelname)s): %(message)s", ) log = logging.getLogger(__name__) log.debug("debug me") log.error("oops, an error was here") log.info("some helpful information goes here")` > I ran the above and now I can run: > `$ journalctl --no-pager -t notcephadm Jul 29 14:35:31 edfu notcephadm[105868]: (DEBUG): debug me Jul 29 14:35:31 edfu notcephadm[105868]: (ERROR): oops, an error was here Jul 29 14:35:31 edfu notcephadm[105868]: (INFO): some helpful information goes here` > > Just getting logs into the journal does not even require one of the libraries > specific to the systemd journal. Personally, I find centralized logging with the > syslog/journal more appealing than logging to a file. But they both have their > advantages and disadvantages. > > Luis, I'd suggest that you should file a ceph tracker issue [1] if having > cephadm log this way is a use case you would be interested in. We could also > discuss the topic further in a ceph orchestration weekly meeting. > > > [1]: https://tracker.ceph.com/projects/orchestrator/issues/new > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 9:43 AM Luis Domingues luis.domingues(a)proton.ch > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Quick question about cephadm and its logs. On my cluster I have every > > > logs > > > that goes to journald. But on each machine, I still have > > > /var/log/ceph/cephadm.log that is alive. > > > > > > Is there a way to make cephadm log to journald instead of a file? If yes > > > did I miss it on the documentation? Of if not is there any reason to log > > > into a file while everything else logs to journald? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Luis Domingues > > > Proton AG > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users(a)ceph.io > > > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave(a)ceph.io > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users(a)ceph.io > > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave(a)ceph.io > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users(a)ceph.io > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave(a)ceph.io