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First, I don't know who or where to ask such questions of the Ops team.You can try ops channel on irc #wikimedia-ops
>Second, is the suggestion to discard before storing as the default behavior
>with a manual switch that can be turned on by Ops to store temporary raw>logs with IP for debugging if and when needed by Ops for a limited time -->say an hour or two -- with automatic zeroing deletion at the end of that time>period a viable solution to this contingency?
Given that ops issues are likely to last more than an hour or two .. ahem, I am going to say that no, probably this is not viable. If logging was to be turned on for days, well, then , maybe. Not sure, though and even in that case the solution is not that different from what it is already happening as IPs, again, are not kept long term.