[ovirt-devel] OST: Enabling DEBUG logging level in Vdsm?

[Milan Zamazal]

Francesco Romani <fromani at redhat.com> writes:

> On 04/12/2018 03:17 PM, Milan Zamazal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> it's quite inconvenient that DEBUG messages are missing in OST Vdsm
>> logs.  Would it be possible to enable them some way?
>
> Maybe just call vdsm-client once Vdsm is up? we can toggle the log
> verbosiness at runtime.

A good idea since it doesn't require Vdsm restart.  We just need to
track available loggers.

> I strongly support this idea - OST is probably one of the few places
> outside developers' environments where DEBUG level by default fully
> makes sense
>
> However, I'd like to reminder that since the addition of the metadata.py
> module, virt logs can be quite verbose. Raising this just because it could
> eat some storage space on OST workers, so let's keep this item on the
> watchlist.

Hopefully not a big issue, we can discuss it in gerrit:
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/90262

Thanks,
Milan