I think that this can be resolved by a remote (r)syslog system and proper documentation. I would be happy to write a short crash-course , but I will definately need assiatance from more experienced person. So far (7 months later) , I still struggle to find my errors and where to control log level. Best Regards, Strahil NikolovOn Jun 18, 2019 12:18, me@brendanh.com wrote:

"trade-off between time [developing] and time spent debugging such cases when they do happen"

Your call.  All I know is, it took me over a month to install oVirt, including three weeks of one-to-one time with Simone Tiraboschi from Red Hat.  He sent me eleven emails but eventually gave up, baffled as me.  It shouldn't be this hard.  Others who are having this or similar problems will just abandon oVirt: ("I'm just wondering if I should cut my losses with oVirt"): https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/PZJYNAKPYNQUTTN...

The biggest challenge is to find the relevant error. What would be useful is a log aggregator.  If oVirt had a journalctl type app running on the host that tails ALL the logs including the engine logs from hosted-engine (via ssh), everything would be in one place and easy to spot.  Currently, you need fairly detailed knowledge of the architecture and install process to (i) find the log files (ii) whittle down to the one displaying the problem.  Yes, I know you guys have a log-packaging app that compresses them up, so they can be sent to Red Hat for inspection (does this even include hosted-engine logs?).  But with a journalling app, users would be able to spot the error themselves and most of the time (if it's not a new bug), fix it on their own like I did.  And yes, I know once set up, users will have their own log aggregator in the form of Kibana, Splunk, etc but these don't help during the initial install. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/4732OJ7DJFKI47...