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Bug 1163020 - [RFE|TRACKER] Add systemd journal/systemd support
Summary: [RFE|TRACKER] Add systemd journal/systemd support
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Logging
Version: 6.1.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: 6.6.0
Assignee: Lukas Zapletal
QA Contact: Stephen Wadeley
URL: http://projects.theforeman.org/issues...
Whiteboard:
: 1196754 1305013 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 1296845
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-11-12 09:01 UTC by Lukas Zapletal
Modified: 2019-12-16 05:21 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-10-22 12:46:40 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Foreman Issue Tracker 8360 0 Normal Duplicate Full journald support 2020-09-23 21:21:37 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 2077723 0 None None None 2019-12-16 05:21:48 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:3172 0 None None None 2019-10-22 12:47:01 UTC

Description Lukas Zapletal 2014-11-12 09:01:10 UTC 
On RHEL7 we should leverage journald sending all the logs there for:

- foreman core app
- plugins (katello, candlepin, pulp)
- foreman proxies
- cron jobs (using systemd-cat)

When possible, we should send logging levels properly as well, so users are able to leverage fine-grained filtering system in journald (WARN, ERROR, DEBUG, TRACE).

Let's also make sure that timestamps are correctly sent and we leverage all the journald goodies.
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2014-11-12 09:23:34 UTC 
Since this issue was entered in Red Hat Bugzilla, the release flag has been
set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release.
Comment 3 Bryan Kearney 2015-04-17 18:08:21 UTC 
*** Bug 1196754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Bryan Kearney 2015-08-25 18:32:36 UTC 
Upstream bug component is Packaging
Comment 5 Bryan Kearney 2016-08-02 20:04:52 UTC 
Upstream bug component is Packaging
Comment 7 Bryan Kearney 2016-08-04 20:19:03 UTC 
Moving 6.2 bugs out to sat-backlog.
Comment 8 Eric Helms 2016-12-16 16:31:08 UTC 
Lukas,

Would you consider this BZ and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305013 to be duplicates? If no, can you clarify the differences? If yes, can we keep the most appropriate one and close the other as a dupe.
Comment 9 Lukas Zapletal 2016-12-19 09:11:37 UTC 
Yeah, I renamed this one a bit, the goal is really to send this to (a logging) daemon avoiding own logrotating/rolling/restarting.
Comment 10 Lukas Zapletal 2016-12-19 09:12:04 UTC 
*** Bug 1305013 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Satellite Program 2018-03-29 14:22:19 UTC 
Upstream bug assigned to lzap
Comment 12 Satellite Program 2018-04-30 18:21:10 UTC 
Upstream bug assigned to lzap
Comment 14 Lukas Zapletal 2018-06-25 07:47:31 UTC 
Closing, we implemented this in upstream but in Satellite we are going to document and go towards integrating with rsyslog rather than with journald for 3rd party logging. Good to have the feature for the future.
Comment 17 Lukas Zapletal 2019-06-28 06:40:37 UTC 
Patrick, this is just a tracker for 6.6 feature "improve common logging". I am going to slip it to ON_QA and assign Stephen here, I believe this is already VERIFIED.

Details how to set things up are: https://github.com/lzap/foreman-elasticsearch
Comment 18 Stephen Wadeley 2019-08-07 14:03:40 UTC 
Hello

lzap explained to me:

by default
foreman core (rails) writes to  /var/log/foreman/production.log and smart proxy writes to /var/log/foreman-proxy/proxy.log

to use journald, which will forward logs to rsyslog and then write to /var/log/messages, you need to run:

satellite-installer --foreman-logging-level info --foreman-logging-type journald \
  --foreman-logging-layout pattern --foreman-proxy-log JOURNAL

systemctl restart httpd

NOTE

the `--foreman-logging-type journald` option installs foreman-journald

but package foreman-proxy-journald was not installed, I expected --foreman-proxy-log JOURNAL to pull it in. We can document that, raise another bug.

Before installing as above, I could 

hammer host list (to check foreman core)
tail -f /var/log/foreman/production.log
019-08-07T15:09:05 [I|app|a0ce4328] Started GET "/api/hosts?page=1&per_page=1000" for 10.37.192.23 at 2019-08-07 15:09:05 +0200
2019-08-07T15:09:05 [I|app|a0ce4328] Processing by Api::V2::HostsController#index as JSON
2019-08-07T15:09:05 [I|app|a0ce4328]   Parameters: {"page"=>"1", "per_page"=>"1000", "apiv"=>"v2", "host"=>{}}


After installing as above I could:

hammer host list (to check foreman core)
journalctl --follow
Aug 07 15:39:56 dell-r330-12.gsslab.brq.redhat.com foreman[21356]: Started GET "/api/hosts?page=1&per_page=1000" for 10.37.192.23 at 2019-08-07 15:39:56 +0200
Aug 07 15:39:56 dell-r330-12.gsslab.brq.redhat.com foreman[21356]: Processing by Api::V2::HostsController#index as JSON
Aug 07 15:39:56 dell-r330-12.gsslab.brq.redhat.com foreman[21356]:   Parameters: {"page"=>"1", "per_page"=>"1000", "apiv"=>"v2", "host"=>{}}


I also set SyncIntervalSec=10 and then did systemctl daemon-reload to reduce the wait time.

Thank you
Comment 19 Stephen Wadeley 2019-08-08 09:51:20 UTC 

Bug 1738784 - foreman-proxy-log JOURNAL option should install foreman-proxy-journald

DocsBug Bug 1738850 - Logging to journald and rsyslog
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2019-10-22 12:46:40 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172
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