[QA] New fatal errors on beta labs

[Chris McMahon]

Good point.  I'll dust off my regexp chops and see if I can parse some
useful content from the fatals log. Probably won't be today, but it's a
good idea considering that we're getting more than we expected.
-Chris


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 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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