collect_logs

Ansible role for aggregating logs from different nodes.

The only supported way to call this role is using its main entry point. Do not use tasks_from as this count as using private interfaces.

Requirements

This role gathers logs and debug information from a target system and collates them in a designated directory, artcl_collect_dir, on the localhost.

Additionally, the role will convert templated bash scripts, created and used by TripleO-Quickstart during deployment, into rST files. These rST files are combined with static rST files and fed into Sphinx to create user friendly post-build-documentation specific to an original deployment.

Finally, the role optionally handles uploading these logs to a rsync server or to an OpenStack Swift object storage. Logs from Swift can be exposed with os-loganalyze.

Role Variables

File Collection

• artcl_collect_list – A list of files and directories to gather from the target. Directories are collected recursively and need to end with a '/' to get collected. Should be specified as a YaML list, e.g.:

artcl_collect_list:
    - /etc/nova/
    - /home/stack/*.log
    - /var/log/

• artcl_collect_list_append – A list of files and directories to be appended in the default list. This is useful for users that want to keep the original list and just add more relevant paths.

• artcl_exclude_list – A list of files and directories to exclude from collecting. This list is passed to rsync as an exclude filter and it takes precedence over the collection list. For details see the 'FILTER RULES' topic in the rsync man page.

• artcl_exclude_list_append – A list of files and directories to be appended in the default exclude list. This is useful for users that want to keep the original list and just add more relevant paths.

• artcl_collect_dir – A local directory where the logs should be gathered, without a trailing slash.

• collect_log_types - A list of which type of logs will be collected, such as openstack logs, network logs, system logs, etc. Acceptable values are system, monitoring, network, openstack and container.

• artcl_gzip: Archive files, disabled by default.

• artcl_rsync_collect_list - if true, a rsync filter file is generated for rsync to collect files, if false, find is used to generate list of files to collect for rsync. find brings some benefits like searching for files in a certain depth (artcl_find_maxdepth) or up to certain size (artcl_find_max_size).

• artcl_find_maxdepth - Number of levels of directories below the starting points, default is 4. Note: this variable is applied only when artcl_rsync_collect_list is set to false.

• artcl_find_max_size - Max size of a file in MBs to be included in find search, default value is 256. Note: this variable is applied only when artcl_rsync_collect_list is set to false.

• artcl_commands_extras - A nested dictionary of additional commands to be run during collection. First level contains the group type, as defined by collect_log_types list which determines which groups are collected and which ones are skipped.

  Defined keys will override implicit ones from defaults artcl_commands which is not expected to be changed by user.

  Second level keys are used to uniqly identify a command and determine the default output filename, unless is mentioned via capture_file property.

  cmd contains the shell command that would be run.

artcl_commands_extras:
  system:
    disk-space:
      cmd: df
      # will save output to /var/log/extras/dist-space.log
    mounts:
      cmd: mount -a
      capture_file: /mounts.txt  # <-- custom capture file location
  openstack:
    key2:
      cmd: touch /foo.txt
      capture_disable: true # <-- disable implicit std redirection
      when: "1 > 2"  # <-- optional condition

Documentation generation related

• artcl_gen_docs: false/true – If true, the role will use build artifacts and Sphinx and produce user friendly documentation (default: false)
• artcl_docs_source_dir – a local directory that serves as the Sphinx source directory.
• artcl_docs_build_dir – A local directory that serves as the Sphinx build output directory.
• artcl_create_docs_payload – Dictionary of lists that direct what and how to construct documentation.
  • included_deployment_scripts – List of templated bash scripts to be converted to rST files.
  • included_deployment_scripts – List of static rST files that will be included in the output documentation.
  • table_of_contents – List that defines the order in which rST files will be laid out in the output documentation.
• artcl_verify_sphinx_build – false/true – If true, verify items defined in artcl_create_docs_payload.table_of_contents exist in sphinx generated index.html (default: false)

artcl_create_docs_payload:
  included_deployment_scripts:
    - undercloud-install
    - undercloud-post-install
  included_static_docs:
    - env-setup-virt
  table_of_contents:
    - env-setup-virt
    - undercloud-install
    - undercloud-post-install

Publishing related

• artcl_publish: true/false – If true, the role will attempt to rsync logs to the target specified by artcl_rsync_url. Uses BUILD_URL, BUILD_TAG vars from the environment (set during a Jenkins job run) and requires the next to variables to be set.
• artcl_txt_rename: false/true – rename text based file to end in .txt.gz to make upstream log servers display them in the browser instead of offering them to download
• artcl_publish_timeout: the maximum seconds the role can spend uploading the logs, the default is 1800 (30 minutes)
• artcl_use_rsync: false/true – use rsync to upload the logs
• artcl_rsync_use_daemon: false/true – use rsync daemon instead of ssh to connect
• artcl_rsync_url – rsync target for uploading the logs. The localhost needs to have passwordless authentication to the target or the PROVISIONER_KEY var specified in the environment.
• artcl_use_swift: false/true – use swift object storage to publish the logs
• artcl_swift_auth_url – the OpenStack auth URL for Swift
• artcl_swift_username – OpenStack username for Swift
• artcl_swift_password – password for the Swift user
• artcl_swift_tenant_name – OpenStack tenant (project) name for Swift
• artcl_swift_container – the name of the Swift container to use, default is logs
• artcl_swift_delete_after – The number of seconds after which Swift will remove the uploaded objects, the default is 2678400 seconds = 31 days.
• artcl_artifact_url – An HTTP URL at which the uploaded logs will be accessible after upload.
• artcl_report_server_key - A path to a key for an access to the report server.

Ara related

• ara_enabled: true/false - If true, the role will generate ara reports.
• ara_overcloud_db_path: Path to ara overcloud path (tripleo only).
• ara_generate_html: true/false - Generate ara html.
• ara_graphite_prefix: Ara prefix to be used in graphite.
• ara_only_successful_tasks: true/false - Send to graphite only successfull tasks.
• ara_tasks_map: Dictionary with ara tasks to be mapped on graphite.

Logs parsing

"Sova" module parses logs for known patterns and returns messages that were found. Patterns are tagged by issues types, like "infra", "code", etc. Patterns are located in file sova-patterns.yml in vars/ directory.

• config - patterns loaded from file
• files - files and patterns sections match
• result - path to file to write a result of parsing
• result_file_dir - directory to write a file with patterns in name

Example of usage of "sova" module:

---
- name: Run sova task
  sova:
    config: "{{ pattern_config }}"
    files:
      console: "{{ ansible_user_dir }}/workspace/logs/quickstart_install.log"
      errors: "/var/log/errors.txt"
      "ironic-conductor": "/var/log/containers/ironic/ironic-conductor.log"
      syslog: "/var/log/journal.txt"
      logstash: "/var/log/extra/logstash.txt"
    result: "{{ ansible_user_dir }}/workspace/logs/failures_file"
    result_file_dir: "{{ ansible_user_dir }}/workspace/logs"

Example Role Playbook

---
- name: Gather logs
  hosts: all:!localhost
  roles:
    - collect_logs

** Note:

The tasks that collect data from the nodes are executed with ignore_errors. For example:

Templated Bash to rST Conversion Notes

Templated bash scripts used during deployment are converted to rST files during the create-docs portion of the role's call. Shell scripts are fed into an awk script and output as restructured text. The awk script has several simple rules:

1. Only lines between ### ---start_docs and ### ---stop_docs will be parsed.
2. Lines containing # nodoc will be excluded.
3. Lines containing ## :: indicate subsequent lines should be formatted as code blocks
4. Other lines beginning with ## <anything else> will have the prepended ## removed. This is how and where general rST formatting is added.
5. All other lines, including shell comments, will be indented by four spaces.

Enabling sosreport Collection

sosreport is a unified tool for collecting system logs and other debug information. To enable creation of sosreport(s) with this role, create a custom config (you can use centosci-logs.yml as a template) and ensure that artcl_collect_sosreport: true is set.

Sanitizing Log Strings

Logs can contain senstive data such as private links and access passwords. The 'collect' task provides an option to replace private strings with sanitized strings to protect private data.

The 'sanitize_log_strings' task makes use of the Ansible 'replace' module and is enabled by defining a sanitize_lines variable as shown in the example below:

---
sanitize_lines:
  - dir_path: '/tmp/{{ inventory_hostname }}/etc/repos/'
    file_pattern: '*'
    orig_string: '^(.*)download(.*)$'
    sanitized_string: 'SANITIZED_STR_download'
  - dir_path: '/tmp/{{ inventory_hostname }}/home/zuul/'
    file_pattern: '*'
    orig_string: '^(.*)my_private_host\.com(.*)$'
    sanitized_string: 'SANITIZED_STR_host'

The task searches for files containing the sensitive strings (orig_string) within a file path, and then replaces the sensitive strings in those files with the sanitized_string.

Usage with InfraRed

Run the following steps to execute the role with infrared.

1. Install infrared and add ansible-role-collect-logs plugin by providing the url to this repo:

   (infrared)$ ir plugin add https://opendev.org/openstack/ansible-role-collect-logs.git --src-path infrared_plugin
   

2. Verify that the plugin is imported by:

   (infrared)$ ir plugin list
   

3. Run the plugin:

   (infrared)$ ir ansible-role-collect-logs
   

License

Apache 2.0

Author Information

RDO-CI Team