[QA] New fatal errors on beta labs

Jon Robson jrobson at wikimedia.org
Thu Feb 27 19:53:11 UTC 2014


But to the average Joe like me I have no idea what the offender is as
I don't have the keys to the kingdom.

If this gave more detail - such as MobileFrontend had a fatal this
would become more useful pretty much everyone else on this mailing
list... no?

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> They are a reminder of how often we incur fatal errors on beta labs.
> Frankly, we're getting more of them than I thought we would.
>
> For now they remain useful to me (at least (and for anyone else who wants to
> get a sense of what is tanking on beta labs-- Wikidata was yesterday's main
> offender)).
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'm curious about these emails as I'm about to set a gmail filter to
>> stop them spamming my inbox.
>>
>> These email's are very cryptic to me and don't seem actionable. I have
>> no idea how to fix the fatals.
>>
>> Would this email be better targeted at another mailing list or maybe
>> some kind of link to an explanation on how to inspect these logs...? I
>> notice the login prompt points to Bryan Davis's office wiki page but
>> for those outside Wikimedia that page can't be viewed... I viewed the
>> page and also found it super cryptic. Had hoped to understand how to
>> view it but couldn't work it out...
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Beta fatals <qa at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>> > The file at /data/project/logs/fatal.log on the deployment cluster has a
>> > new
>> > entry within the last twelve hours.  You should check it out by
>> > connecting on
>> > any instance on the beta cluster (ie: deployment-bastion.pmtpa.wmflabs
>> > ).
>> >
>> > You can also look at logstash:
>> >
>> > https://logstash.wmflabs.org/#/dashboard/elasticsearch/fatalmonitor
>> >
>> >
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