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I have a chef automate logger script in python.

jcorcorans
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I have a chef automate logger script in python. Its using python libraries, The log rotation is not working , are there

what logging modules or classes should I be looking.

data is coming in however the log is not rotating .  the logic is in the  Chef script.

any ideas ?

 

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burwell
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @jcorcorans I haven't discovered any great way to parse the chef-client.log

A few things that can help

1) look for the log_level when it isn't INFO/WARN

[2025-02-24T19:06:07+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report

 

2) for log rotate, I see we have directives in /etc/logrotate.d/chef-cilent

"/var/log/chef/client.log" {
  weekly
  rotate 12
  compress
  postrotate
    systemctl reload chef-client.service >/dev/null || :
  endscript
}


3) and if you have a number of servers and you are running chef a lot and want to know when to truly spend time debugging since we find a chef operation can fail due to timeout or load, you check over a time period and see if in the end things are running okay. 

So we have something like this: if after 3 times chef run is still not good then investigate

idx=your_index sourcetype=chef:client  ("FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError:" OR "FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ValidationFailed" OR "Chef run process exited unsuccessfully" OR "INFO: Chef Run complete" OR "INFO: Report handlers complete")
| eval chef_status=if(searchmatch("ERROR") OR searchmatch("FATAL"), "failed", "succeeded") 
| stats count(eval(chef_status="failed")) AS num_failed, count(eval(chef_status="succeeded")) AS num_succeeded,latest(chef_status) as latest_chef_status by host
| search num_failed > 3  AND latest_chef_status!="succeede


To monitor the logs, a simple monitoring stanza in your inputs

[monitor:///var/log/chef/client.log]
sourcetype=yourchefsourcetype
index=your_index




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