[Gluster-devel] new glusterfs logging framework

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On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 04:47:45AM -0400, Balamurugan Arumugam wrote:
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Niels de Vos" <ndevos at redhat.com>
> > To: "Balamurugan Arumugam" <barumuga at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "Balamurugan Arumugam" <bala at gluster.com>, gluster-devel at nongnu.org, gluster-users at gluster.org
> > Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:46:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] new glusterfs logging framework
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:44:01AM -0400, Balamurugan Arumugam wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Niels de Vos" <ndevos at redhat.com>
> > > > To: "Balamurugan Arumugam" <bala at gluster.com>
> > > > Cc: gluster-devel at nongnu.org, gluster-users at gluster.org
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:48:58 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] new glusterfs logging framework
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 05:29:43AM -0400, Balamurugan Arumugam wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Recently new logging framework was introduced [1][2][3] in glusterfs
> > > > > master branch.  You could read more about this on doc/logging.txt.  In
> > > > > brief, current log target is moved to syslog and user has an option to
> > > > > this new logging at compile time (passing '--disable-syslog' to
> > > > > ./configure or '--without syslog' to rpmbuild) and run time (having
> > > > > a file /var/log/glusterd/logger.conf and restarting gluster services).
> > > > > 
> > > > > As rsyslog is used as syslog server in Fedora and CentOS/RHEL and
> > > > > default configuration of rsyslog does not have any rule specific to
> > > > > gluster logs, you see all logs are in /var/log/messages in JSON
> > > > > format.
> > > > 
> > > > As the below does not function on RHEL-6 with its own rsyslog (no
> > > > rsyslog-mmjsonparse available), I am creating an empty
> > > > /var/lib/glusterd/logger.conf which (after a restart) makes glusterd and
> > > > friends to log to their standard files again.
> > > > 
> > > > Do you have some progress on the rsyslog-mmjsonparse for rhel5 and
> > > > rhel6?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > mmcount is a rsyslog plugin (developed by me) available rsyslog
> > > upstream which tracks each gluster log using error codes.  The error
> > > code is the entity enabled by gluster logging framework.  This module
> > > is back ported to rhel6 which does tracking and json parsing.  I am in
> > > the process of submitting this to rhel 6 downstream.  I haven't tried
> > > rhel5 yet and I will do that too.
> > 
> > Very cool!
> > 
> > > > Also, it would really be nice to include that
> > > > /etc/rsyslog.d/gluster.conf in the rpms and add a dependency on the
> > > > rsyslog-mmjsonparse package. Or, provide a /var/lib/glusterd/logger.conf
> > > > for the distributions that do not have rsyslog-mmjsonparse.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes.  I had similar thought on this to do so.  I will send the fix soon.
> > 
> > Great, thanks. Also, consider to move the file to /etc/glusterd where
> > all configuration files that sysadmins may edit are kept.
> > 
> 
> the logger.conf file will be placed into /etc/glusterfs/ directory.  
> The change is asked by jeo julian.  Let me know what you think.

Thanks, much better.

Niels


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