LOG Meeting Minutes 2018-10-16

Owned by Michael O'Brien
Last updated: Oct 17, 2018
3 min read

I am on a last minute ONAP bilateral meeting from 9 - I may be late for this meeting

TODO: send out onap-discuss on split dublin/casablanca spec changes plans going forward - on "proposal" section below

send out mail on acumos/onap collaboration follow up -  before the 20th

send out mail on dublin scope before the 18th

send out meeting request on dublin scope meet for 4pm 24th 

Changes since last Meeting

  • Need to finish review of the 29 fields including the exception handling

    • #2 start communicating the spec so that all deployers can verify if their backend indexing/elasticsearch/kibana-dashboards and triggers are not broken

    • Feedback from anyone consuming log based changes back to this project via onap-discuss, mails, jiras is essential

    • There is a report of the new spec (29 fields) breaking existing systems

    • Need to validate backwards compatability - we should have branched from the March earlier change

    • Issue was spec was changing a bit late in the C cycle - should have branched around april/may

    • tentative plan

      • 36 acumos changes started coming in - get exact version ONAP Application Logging Specification v1.2 (Casablanca)

        • take 36 and release as casablanca release

        • extract v 36 as the casablanca wiki - sync with the c branch, create a new logback.xml that references the pre-v36 wiki format

        • take the existing - wiki - finish up changes for 29/30 and nop - mark as 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT - as 

          • markers/mdc - how to handle -  in or out in the casablanca release (need details on usage from acumos and ecomp)

          • 1 or 4 files for dublin (only)? - need a separate metrics log to pass internal testing - 

          • maintain 2 wiki/doc/logback.xml specs until at least the end of dublin - via the casablanca branch
             

  • Proposal

    • Casablanca

      • 4 files including metrics (error, debug, metrics, audit)

      • No MDCs and MARKERS - figure out pipe separation (acumos, ECOMP)

      • new logback.xml with 4 patterns

      • just check is older version of sl4j library ready for old format - likely not

      • need service provider level validation plugin? to verify format changes before ONAP is consumed/merged - production level support

    • Dublin

      • 1 (audit)

        • requires MDCs and MARKERS

      • logback.xml with 1 pattern

      • reference library slf4j 

      • need service provider level validation plugin? to verify format changes before ONAP is consumed/merged - production level support

  • Released 1.2.2 artifacts for RC0

  • Finished 8 of 9 policy violations - mostly version changes and defer to oparent 1.2.1/1.2.2 - https://nexus-iq.wl.linuxfoundation.org/assets/index.html#/reports/logging-analytics/6f8db930f72841669edb2914dd5ef86a

  • Return to logback.xml common format - https://gerrit.onap.org/r/#/c/62405/ - not started testing yet

  • Casablanca scope - Logging Casablanca Scope

  • Dublin scope - book meeting - Logging Dublin Scope after next thu (TSC and Acumos) - tentative 16th - moved to 23rd at 4PM EDT

  • branched the logging-analytics repo

  • all poms are at 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT for dublin (master) - cherry pick as required back to casablanca branch

  • Our 29 field spec

    • send mail to onap-discuss announcing spec (but with pending RI, implementation - iterative adoption)

    • need to do readthedocs changes for the spec

    • rebase/(adjust-for-comments) the logback.xml example gerrit review

  • Giving up one of our https ports to SO - will move our 3 https to 304

  • @Michael O'Brien busy until next Wed prepping environments for the 22nd ONAP academic conference at AT&T - presenting till the 23rd

  • Oct 22/23 - prep ONAP labs at TLAB https://lf-onap.atlassian.net/browse/OPENLABS-356 - provide help/present OOM installation/devops setup/dev  

Pending

Request from Acumos to upgrade from ELK 5.5/5.6 to 6.x - for syslog capture capability (CLAMP is at 6.1 there was a common poc using 6.3) - will retest ELK+Filebeat under 6.3 images

Notes