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Posted to dev@cloudstack.apache.org by Chiradeep Vittal <Ch...@citrix.com> on 2012/07/12 20:56:21 UTC

Re: system vm logging

It has been considered, not implemented yet
http://bugs.cloudstack.org/browse/CS-9669



On 7/12/12 11:45 AM, "David Nalley" <da...@gnsa.us> wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Chiradeep Vittal
><Ch...@citrix.com> wrote:
>> According to
>> 
>>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cloudstack.git;a=tree
>>;f
>> 
>>=patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/cron.daily;h=e28877633af747315ca525d8
>>66
>> 208bc6f8bfae03;hb=HEAD
>>
>>
>> All log files in /var/log/cloud that are older than 7 days will be
>> deleted.
>> Logrotate has been configured to roll over other system logs (e.g.,
>> HAProxy)
>>
>
>So just a nitpicking tangent/question. Why do we maintain stateful
>data (logs) on VMs that are effectively designed to be
>stateless....should our preference become to send those off the VM to
>a syslog server (and make that a configuration option?) and not have
>any logs on the machine at all, or perhaps just a small subset (last
>24 hours incase things go horribly wrong and network or syslog server
>dies)
>
>--David