Logging

As CloudShark is running it will log information into a variety of log files depending on the action being logged. CloudShark logs the following information into the following log files:

/var/www/cloudshark/shared/log/cloudshark.log: Can log debugging information when instructed to do so by CloudShark support.

/var/www/cloudshark/shared/log/autoimporter.log: Logs information about the Auto-Import feature, including when a file is automatically imported into CloudShark.

/var/www/cloudshark/shared/log/cron.log: Logs information about the Auto Delete CloudShark feature.

/var/log/nginx_error.log: This file contains a log of any errors that nginx had while processing a web request to the CloudShark Appliance.

Rotating Log Files

These log files can become large over time and contain a lot of old information. Log files can be rotated at specific intervals when the current log file is compressed and saved and CloudShark will begin logging to a new log file. Old log files can also be deleted after a specified amount of time.

A default install of CentOS/RHEL version 6 or 7 should contain the logrotate program which can manage the CloudShark log files. If this program is not installed you can install this by running yum install logrotate as root.

The configuration files for logrotate are located in the /etc/logrotate.d/ directory. In this directory you can create a new file named cloudshark to manage the log files.

Here is an example configuration file for logrotate. This file will perform the following:

• Rotate the cloudshark.log file every week and keep the last 8 weeks of log files.
• Rotate the autoimporter.log and cron.log files every month and keep the last 2 months of log files.
• Rotate the nginx_access.log and nginx_error.log files every week and keep the last 8 weeks of log files.

/var/www/cloudshark/shared/log/cloudshark.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 8
copytruncate
compress
}

/var/www/cloudshark/shared/log/autoimporter.log /var/www/cloudshark/shared/log/cron.log {
monthly
missingok
rotate 2
copytruncate
compress
}

/var/log/nginx_access.log /var/log/nginx_error.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 8
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 640 nginx adm
sharedscripts
postrotate
[ -f /var/run/nginx.pid ] && kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`
endscript

More information on configuring and using logrotate can be found here.