Logging#

Currently, Codacy Self-hosted supports two types of log configurations:

Log level: The severity of the messages that will be shown in logs.
Log retention period: The period during which logs will be stored, before being removed by the cleanup job specified in the configuration.

The sections below provide instructions on how to configure each logging configuration.

Configuring the log level#

The log level defines the minimum severity of the events contained in the logs, and affects the necessary storage space in MinIO.

Important

We recommend that you don't use a log level lower than WARN, as the logs are useful to troubleshoot any issues in your Codacy Self-hosted instance.

Codacy supports configuring the log level of the following components:

codacy-api
engine
listener
worker-manager

Follow these instructions to configure the log level:

Edit the value of <COMPONENT>.config.logLevel in the values-production.yaml file that is used to install Codacy, as shown in the example below.
```
worker-manager:
  replicaCount: 2
  config:
    logLevel: WARN
  resources:
    limits:
      cpu: 500m
      memory: 1000Mi
    requests:
      cpu: 200m
      memory: 200Mi
```
The list of supported values for logLevel is shown below. Note that each level also prints the information of the levels higher than it:
- DEBUG (default): Logs detailed information on the flow through the system. This is the most verbose level.
- INFO: Logs interesting events such as application startup and shutdown, important events on the flow of the system, or behavior that is skipped for expected reasons.
- WARN: Logs runtime events that are unexpected, or undesirable, but not necessarily wrong such as the use of deprecated APIs.
- ERROR: Only logs runtime errors, or unexpected conditions that prevent the expected behavior from happening. This is the least verbose level.
Apply the new configuration by performing a Helm upgrade. To do so execute the command used to install Codacy:

Important

If you're using MicroK8s you must use the file values-microk8s.yaml together with the file values-production.yaml.

To do this, uncomment the last line before running the helm upgrade command below.
```
helm upgrade (...options used to install Codacy...) \
             --version 11.0.0 \
             --values values-production.yaml \
             # --values values-microk8s.yaml
```

Configuring the log retention period#

The log retention period is the number of days during which logs will be stored before being removed by the MinIO bucket lifecycle configuration policy that we provide in the template lifecycle-police-job.yaml.

Follow these instructions to configure the log retention period:

Adjust the retention period of your logs by editing the value of fluentdoperator.expirationDays in the values.yaml file, as shown in the example below.
```
fluentdoperator:
  enabled: true
  defaultConfigmap: codacy-fluentd-config
  bucketName: logs
  expirationDays: 7
```
Apply the new configuration by performing a Helm upgrade. To do so execute the command used to install Codacy:

Important

If you're using MicroK8s you must use the file values-microk8s.yaml together with the file values-production.yaml.

To do this, uncomment the last line before running the helm upgrade command below.
```
helm upgrade (...options used to install Codacy...) \
             --version 11.0.0 \
             --values values-production.yaml \
             # --values values-microk8s.yaml
```

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Last modified July 12, 2022