puppetserver-acces.log

Peter Krawetzky

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Oct 2, 2017, 10:24:19 AM10/2/17

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We had an odd situation happen earlier this morning. Puppet server version 2.1.1 on RHEL7.

I have 4 puppet servers behind a load balancing F5 server. One of our puppet servers puppetserver-access.log grew (over 2TB's) to the point that it almost filled /var which for a server is not good. I don't see anything different in this log compared to the other 3 servers. Does anyone know what would cause this log to grow? Is there a way to turn it off as I don't see that in the documentation?

I watched the F5 balancing and it was distributing all workload across all 4 servers correctly. I also restarted the puppetserver service on this on server to see if maybe something was stuck. Because there is so much data, it's extremely hard to see any patterns.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Martin Alfke

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Oct 2, 2017, 10:59:31 AM10/2/17

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> On 2. Oct 2017, at 16:24, Peter Krawetzky <pkraw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We had an odd situation happen earlier this morning. Puppet server version 2.1.1 on RHEL7.
>
> I have 4 puppet servers behind a load balancing F5 server. One of our puppet servers puppetserver-access.log grew (over 2TB's) to the point that it almost filled /var which for a server is not good. I don't see anything different in this log compared to the other 3 servers. Does anyone know what would cause this log to grow? Is there a way to turn it off as I don't see that in the documentation?

You can specify the log level in puppet server logback.xml:

<root level="info">
or
<jruby level=“info">

see:
https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/latest/configuration.html#logging
and
https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/5.1/config_file_logbackxml.html

hth,
Martin

Peter Krawetzky

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Oct 2, 2017, 11:16:14 AM10/2/17

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Since I don't have a setting in the file, it defaults to info. Unless there is a bug.

Peter Krawetzky

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Oct 2, 2017, 2:22:48 PM10/2/17

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So I recycled the puppetserver service and it now appears the log is back to normal size over the course of time. I'm guessing something happened to cause puppetserver to dump more than it should have.

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