Understand the Format of the Logs

The services in an OpenIO system respect a common format for their logs. Each log item is a single line of text encoded in UTF-8. A line is a sequence of items separated by a sequence of whitespaces. For easy parsing, the variety of the messages is organized around a recursion of envelopes (header and payload). All fields are always present on a line, and when a field is not set it is represented by a single dash character.

oio-swift

COMMON envelope

All messages share this envelope. The first three fields depend on syslog, and all others are populated by the application.

Common Header
Timestamp When the message was issued. Should be displayed in ISO-8601.
Hostname Where (on the platform) the log trace was emitted.
Instance ID Logical identifier of the running application.
Loglevel A value in the set: error, warning, notice, info, debug.

ACCESS logs

Fields from the SWIFT envelope
Client IP Swift’s guess at the end-client’s IP address, taken from various headers in the request.
Remote Address The IP address of the other end of the TCP connection.
Datetime Timestamp of the request, in day/month/year/hour/minute/second format.
Request Type The HTTP verb in the request.
Request Path The path portion of the request.
Protocol The transport protocol used (currently either http or https).
Return Code The response code for the request.
Referrer The value of the HTTP Referrer header.
User Agent The value of the HTTP User-Agent header.
Auth Token The value of the auth token. This may be truncated or otherwise obscured.
Bytes Recvd The number of bytes read from the client for this request.
Bytes Sent The number of bytes sent to the client in the body of the response. This is how many bytes were yielded to the WSGI server.
Client Etag The etag header value given by the client.
Transaction ID The transaction ID of the request.
Headers The headers given in the request.
Request Time The duration of the request.
Source The “source” of the request. This may be set for requests that are generated in order to fulfill client requests, e.g. bulk uploads.
Log Info Various info that may be useful for diagnostics, e.g. the value of any x-delete-at header.
Request Start Time High-resolution timestamp from the start of the request.
Request End Time High-resolution timestamp from the end of the request.
Policy Index The value of the storage policy index.

In one log line, all of the above fields are space-separated and URL-encoded. If any value is empty, it will be logged as a -. This allows for simple parsing by splitting each line on whitespace. New values may be placed at the end of the log line from time to time, but the order of the existing values will not change.

DEBUG logs

DEBUG header
Payload An arbitrary message.

Example

Below is an example of a single line of logs, as well as its mapping to the compound parameters.

2018-05-17T09:30:19.429606+00:00 localhost OIO,OPENIO,oioswift,0: info  192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 /May/2018/09/30/19 HEAD /test/ HTTP/1.0 200 - aws-sdk-java - - - - tx2a84a70d4be94ed9815e7-005afd4bab - 0.0060 - - 1526549419.422362089 1526549419.428388119 -
Fields from the common envelope
Timestamp 2018-05-17T09:30:19.429606+00:00
Hostname localhost
Instance ID OIO,OPENIO,oioswift,0
Loglevel info
Fields from the ACCESS envelope
Client IP 192.168.0.2
Remote Address 192.168.0.2
Datetime /May/2018/09/30/19
Request Type HEAD
Request Path /test/
Protocol HTTP/1.0
Return code 200
Referrer -
User Agent aws-sdk-java
Auth Token -
Bytes Recvd -
Bytes Sent -
Client Etag -
Transaction ID tx2a84a70d4be94ed9815e7-005afd4bab
Headers -
Request Time 0.0060
Source -
Log Info -
Request Start Time 1526549419.422362089
Request End Time 1526549419.428388119
Policy Index -

oio-sds: oio-proxy, oio-meta{0,1,2}-server

COMMON envelope

All messages share this envelope. The first three fields depend on syslog, and all the others are populated by the application.

Common Header
Timestamp When the message has been issued. Should be displayed in ISO-8601.
Hostname Where (on the platform) was the log trace emitted.
Instance ID Logical identifier of the running application.
Process ID Physical identifier of the currently running application.
Thread ID Internal identifier of the control thread.
Domain access, log, out.
Payload Data whose format will depend on the value of the Domain.
Loglevel A value in the set: err, warning, notice, info, debug.

ACCESS logs

When a request has been managed, the service in charge will drop a single line in its ACCESS log. All these lines have the same format: the common header carries the access domain, and the payload is formatted as follows.

ACCESS header
Level A value in the set: ERR, WRN, NOT, INF, DBG, TR0, TR1.
Local Address The local network address the service is bound to.
Remote Address The network address of the peer that connected to the service.
Request Type The name of the request, a.k.a. the RPC method.
Return Code The numeric return code of the message.
Request Time How many microseconds it took to handle the request until a reply was ready (but not sent yet).
Response Size How many bytes have been serialized for the reply. In case of HTTP requests, this doesn’t include the headers.
User ID The ID of the end-user the request is issued for.
Session ID The ID of the user’s session, sometimes also named Request-ID, used for aggregation purposes.
Payload An arbitrary payload, often organized as a sequence of key=value pairs.

There is also the ACCESS log for outgoing requests. It is triggered by an option in the central configuration file, and the format of each line is exactly the same as for incoming requests, with the exception of the Domain in the common envelope that is set to out.

DEBUG logs

Any service might also emit traces, generated by either a request or a background task. The format is much less specified, dedicated for debugging purposes, destined to be read by a human more than a parser.

DEBUG header
Level A value in the set: ERR, WRN, NOT, INF, DBG, TR0, TR1.
Payload An arbitrary message.

Example

Below is an example of a single line of logs, as well as its mapping to the compound parameters.

2017-04-25T17:00:01.094517+02:00 localhost OIO,OPENIO,meta0,1: info 12159 1E9A access INF 127.0.0.1:6004 127.0.0.1:48780 M0_GET 200 89 91 - 742FBB9DC7674C7C7959957801F06B44 t=63 AAA0

The first 3 fields are set by syslog, making the Process ID field redundant.

Fields from the common envelope
Timestamp 2017-04-25T17:00:01.094517+02:00
Hostname localhost
Instance ID OIO,OPENIO,meta0,1
Process ID 12159
Thread ID 1E9A
Domain access
Loglevel info

The Domain is set to access; here is the tail of the error message with the appropriate format.

Fields from the ACCESS envelope
Level (ACCESS) INF
Local Address 127.0.0.1:6004
Remote Address 127.0.0.1:48780
Request Type M0_GET
Return Code 200
Request Time 89
Response Size 91
User ID -
Session ID 742FBB9DC7674C7C7959957801F06B44
Payload t=63 AAA0

In this example, all fields are present as expected, but one of the missing fields is defaulting to a dash. The final field has an arbitrary (or unspecified) format; this depends on the service implementation.

The key t= represents the time (in microseconds) spent by a worker thread, once the request has been polled out of the queue in front of the thread pool. The difference between this time and the value of the Request Time field of the access envelope is the delay spent in the queue. A large delay is a sign of a heavily loaded service or, worse, a thread starvation.

Another key used by OpenIO SDS is e=; it gives the root cause of the error that occurred. At the moment, there is no common format for that error, but we tend to explain the error as a JSON object with status and a message field.

oio-sds: Rawx Services

COMMON envelope

All messages share this envelope. The first three fields depend on syslog, and all the others are populated by the application.

Common Header
Timestamp When the message has been issued. Should be displayed in ISO-8601.
Hostname Where (on the platform) was the log trace emitted.
Instance ID Logical identifier of the running application.
Process ID Physical identifier of the currently running application.
Thread ID Internal identifier of the control thread.
Domain access, log, out.
Payload Data whose format will depend on the value of the Domain.

ACCESS logs

When a request has been managed, the service in charge will drop a single line in its ACCESS log. All these lines have the same format: the common header carries the access domain, and the payload is formatted as follows.

ACCESS header
Level A value in the set: ERR, WRN, NOT, INF, DBG, TR0, TR1.
Local Address The local network address the service is bound to.
Remote Address The network address of the peer that connected to the service.
Request Type The name of the request, a.k.a. the RPC method.
Return Code The numeric return code of the message.
Request Time How many microseconds it took to handle the request until a reply was ready (but not sent yet).
Request Size How many bytes have been serialized for the reply. In case of HTTP requests, this doesn’t include the headers.
User ID The ID of the end-user the request is issued for.
Session ID The ID of the user’s session, sometimes also named Request-Id, used for aggregation purposes.
Payload An arbitrary payload, often organized as a sequence of key=value pairs.

Example

Below is an example of a single line of logs, as well as its mapping to the compound parameters.

Apr 17 15:51:19 localhost.ec2.internal OIO,OPENIO,rawx,0 442 139668301539072 access INF 127.0.0.1:6004 127.0.0.1:38204 PUT 201 4697 4432 A05D07A89E3AD909B56346FE810B5CC6FAE8AD8339E4E3023A0DA4E41806780C 02469F5339E0D7D83AF59512967544C0 /EA8A1715C27ABA2A161CEB743D1BDC1A8B7AA277A4FF47F18857ED26F444B879

The first 3 fields are set by syslog, making the Process ID field redundant.

Fields from the common envelope
Timestamp Apr 17 15:51:19
Hostname localhost.ec2.internal
Instance ID OIO,OPENIO,rawx,0
Process ID 442
Thread ID 139668301539072
Domain access

The Domain is set to access; here is the tail of the error message with the appropriate format.

Fields from the ACCESS envelope
Level (ACCESS) INF
Local Address 127.0.0.1:6004
Remote Address 127.0.0.1:38204
Request Type PUT
Return Code 204
Request Time 4697
Request Size 4432
User ID A05D07A89E3AD909B56346FE810B5CC6FAE8AD8339E4E3023A0DA4E41806780C
Session ID 02469F5339E0D7D83AF59512967544C0
Payload /EA8A1715C27ABA2A161CEB743D1BDC1A8B7AA277A4FF47F18857ED26F444B879