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T4K Log Collector Plugin

This page describes how to setup the T4K log collector and collect logs for support analysis
tvk-log-collector collects the logs, config and events of resources. Pod Logs can help you understand what is happening inside your application. The logs are particularly useful for debugging problems and monitoring cluster activity, alongside the metadata of all resources related to Trilio as either namespaced by providing namespaces name separated by comma or clustered from k8s cluster for debugging k8s-triliovault application. It also collects the CRDs yaml related to T4K and zip them.

Pre-requisites:

  1. 1.
    krew - kubectl-plugin manager. Install from here​
  2. 2.
    kubectl - kubernetes command-line tool. Install from here​

Supported OS and Architectures:

  • linux/amd64
  • linux/x86
  • linux/arm
  • linux/arm64
  • darwin/amd64
  • darwin/arm64
  • windows/amd64

Installation, Upgrade, Removal of Plugins :

With krew:

  • Add T4K custom plugin index of krew:
    kubectl krew index add tvk-plugins https://github.com/trilioData/tvk-plugins.git
  • Installation:
    kubectl krew install tvk-plugins/tvk-log-collector
  • Upgrade:
    kubectl krew upgrade tvk-log-collector
  • Removal:
    kubectl krew uninstall tvk-log-collector

Without krew:

  1. 1.
    List of available releases: https://github.com/trilioData/tvk-plugins/releases​
  2. 2.
    Choose a version of log-collector plugin to install and check if release assets have log-collector plugin's package [log-collector_${version}${OS}${ARCH}.tar.gz] for your desired OS & Architecture.
    • To check OS & Architecture, execute command uname -a on linux/macOS and systeminfo on windows
  3. 3.
    Set env variable version=v1.x.x [update with your desired version]. If version is not exported, latest tagged version will be considered.

Linux/macOS

  • Bash or ZSH shells
(
set -ex; cd "$(mktemp -d)" &&
OS="$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')" &&
ARCH="$(uname -m | sed -e 's/x86_64/amd64/' -e 's/\(arm\)\(64\)\?.*/\1\2/' -e 's/aarch64$/arm64/')" &&
if [[ -z ${version} ]]; then version=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/trilioData/tvk-plugins/releases/latest | grep -oP '"tag_name": "\K(.*)(?=")'); fi &&
echo "Installing version=${version}" &&
package_name="log-collector_${version}_${OS}_${ARCH}.tar.gz" &&
curl -fsSLO "https://github.com/trilioData/tvk-plugins/releases/download/"${version}"/${package_name}" &&
tar zxvf ${package_name} && sudo mv log-collector /usr/local/bin/kubectl-tvk_log_collector
)
Verify installation with kubectl tvk-log-collector --help
Windows
  1. 1.
    Download log-collector_${version}_windows_${ARCH}.zip from the Releases page to a directory and unzip the package.
  2. 2.
    Launch a command prompt (log-collector.exe).
Note for Dark Site Installation
Krew plugin installation is not required, as it is a part of Dark Site Installer Package.

Usage:

kubectl tvk-log-collector [flags]

Flags:

Parameter
Default
Description
--clustered
false
whether clustered installation of trilio application
--namespaces
[]
list of namespaces to look for resources separated by commas
--kubeconfig
~/.kube/config
path to the kubernetes config
--keep-source-folder
false
Keep source directory and Zip both
--log-level
INFO
log level for debugging ( INFO ERROR DEBUG WARNING DEBUG )
--config-file
​
path to config file for log collector inputs
--gvk
​
json string to give list of GVKs that want be collected other than log collector handles
--label-selector
​
json string to give list of all label selector for resources to be collected other than log collector collects

Examples

  • To collect logs & YAML from multiple namespaces (separated by commas in double quotes):
    kubectl tvk-log-collector --namespaces "<ns1>,<ns2>" --log-level info
  • To collect logs & YAML from all over the cluster:
    kubectl tvk-log-collector --clustered --log-level info
  • To collect logs with log level error and to keep the folder with & without zip:
    kubectl tvk-log-collector --clustered --keep-source-folder --log-level error
  • To collect logs by providing object gvk which log collector doesn't collect by default :
    kubectl tvk-log-collector --clustered --gvks "/v1/pod","apps//Deployment"
  • To collect object logs by providing labels which log collector doesn't collect by default :
    kubectl tvk-log-collector --clustered --labels "app=frontend,custom=label","app=backend"
  • To collect logs by providing config file :
    kubectl tvk-log-collector --config-file <path/to/config/file.yaml>
The format of data in a file should be according to the below example:
keep-source-folder: true
clustered: false
namespaces:
- default
- tvk
logLevel: INFO
kubeConfig: path/to/config
labels:
- matchLabels:
"app": "frontend"
"custom": "label"
- matchLabels:
"app": "backend"
gvks:
- group: ""
version: ""
kind: pod
- group: apps
version: ""
kind: Deployment
​
Run a log collector with predefined values using a sample file. Download the file using below commands:
By wget
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trilioData/tvk-plugins/main/docs/log-collector/sample_input.yaml
By curl
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trilioData/tvk-plugins/main/docs/log-collector/sample_input.yaml -o sample_input.yaml

Output

This command will create triliovault-<date-time>.zip zip file containing cluster debugging information.

Resources Considered for Log Collection:

CustomResourceDefinition
VolumeSnapshots
VolumeSnapshotClass
StorageClass
Jobs
Pods
DaemonSets
Deployments
ReplicaSets
StatefulSet
PersistentVolumeClaims
PersistentVolumes
Services
ServiceAccounts
Endpoints
Ingress
Events
ConfigMap
LimitRange
ResourceQuota
Role
RoleBinding
Namespaces
Nodes
When clustered flag enabled:
ClusterRole
ClusterRoleBinding
MutatingWebhookConfiguration
ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
PersistentVolume
IngressClass
and Trilio Resources

OCP Specific Resources Considered for Log Collection:

ClusterServiceVersion
CatalogSource
InstallPlan
OperatorCondition
Route
Subscription
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