Managing Logs

Querying Logs

1. Log in to the CSS management console.
2. Choose Clusters in the navigation pane. On the Clusters page, click the cluster whose logs you want to query. The cluster information page is displayed.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Log Management.
4. Query logs on the log management page.
5. Select the node, log type, and log level you want to query, and then click . The query result is displayed.

   When you search for logs, the latest 10,000 logs are matched. A maximum of 100 logs are displayed.

Backing Up Logs

CSS cluster logs can be periodically backed up to specified OBS buckets.

1. Log in to the CSS management console.
2. Choose Clusters in the navigation pane. On the Clusters page, click the name of the target cluster. The cluster information page is displayed.
3. Click the Logs tab and toggle on the Log Management switch.
4. In the Edit Log Backup Configuration dialog box, set the parameters.

   In the displayed dialog box, OBS Bucket, Backup Path, and IAM Agency are automatically created for log backup. You can change the default values by referring to Table 1.

   If Log Backup has been enabled for the cluster, you can click the Edit icon on the right of Log Backup Configuration and modify the configuration in the displayed Edit Log Backup Configuration dialog box. For details, see Table 1.

   Table 1 Parameters for configuring log backup

   Parameter	Description	Remarks
   OBS Bucket	Select an OBS bucket from the drop-down list for storing logs. You can also click Create Bucket on the right to create an OBS bucket.	The OBS bucket and the cluster must be in the same region. NOTE: To let an IAM user access an OBS bucket, you need to grant the GetBucketStoragePolicy, GetBucketLocation, ListBucket, and ListAllMyBuckets permissions to the user.
   Backup Path	Storage path of logs in the OBS bucket	The backup path configuration rules are as follows: The backup path cannot contain the following characters: \:*?"<>| The backup path cannot start with a slash (/). The backup path cannot start or end with a period (.). The total length of the backup path cannot exceed 1,023 characters.
   IAM Agency	IAM agency authorized by the current account for CSS to access or maintain data stored in OBS buckets. You can also click Create IAM Agency on the right to create an IAM agency.	The IAM agency must meet the following requirements: Agency Type must be Cloud service. Set Cloud Service to Elasticsearch or CSS. Mandatory policies: OBS Administrator

5. Back up logs.
   • Automatically backing up logs

     Click the icon on the right of Auto Backup to enable the auto backup function.

     After the automatic backup function is enabled, set the backup start time in the Configure Auto Backup dialog box. When the scheduled time arrives, the system will back up logs automatically.

     After the Automatic Snapshot Creation function is enabled, you can click the Edit icon on the right of the parameter to change the backup start time.

   • Manually backing up logs

     On the Log Backup tab page, click Back Up. In the displayed dialog box, click Yes to start backup.

     If Task Status in the log backup list is Successful, the backup is successful.

   

   If log backup fails, click on the right of the Log Backup tab to view the number of failed tasks and learn the failure causes. A maximum of 10 failed tasks can be displayed. When log backup is disabled or the cluster is deleted, the failure records are also cleared.

6. View log files.

   After logs are successfully backed up, you can click OBS Buckets to go to the bucket list, and find the bucket that stores the log files to view log files.

   Figure 1 Accessing OBS
   

Log Files

Deprecation logs and run logs are backed up for Logstash clusters.