Notice

This document is for a development version of Ceph.

Crash Module

The crash module collects information about daemon crashdumps and stores it in the Ceph cluster for later analysis.

Enabling

The crash module is enabled with:

ceph mgr module enable crash

The crash upload key is generated with:

ceph auth get-or-create client.crash mon 'profile crash' mgr 'profile crash'

On each node, you should store this key in /etc/ceph/ceph.client.crash.keyring.

Automated collection

Daemon crashdumps are dumped in /var/lib/ceph/crash by default; this can be configured with the option ‘crash dir’. Crash directories are named by time and date and a randomly-generated UUID, and contain a metadata file ‘meta’ and a recent log file, with a “crash_id” that is the same.

These crashes can be automatically submitted and persisted in the monitors’ storage by using ceph-crash.service. It watches the crashdump directory and uploads them with ceph crash post.

ceph-crash tries some authentication names: client.crash.$hostname, client.crash and client.admin. In order to successfully upload with ceph crash post, these need the suitable permissions: mon profile crash and mgr profile crash and a keyring needs to be in /etc/ceph.

Commands

ceph crash post -i <metafile>

Save a crash dump. The metadata file is a JSON blob stored in the crash dir as meta. As usual, the ceph command can be invoked with -i -, and will read from stdin.

ceph crash rm <crashid>

Remove a specific crash dump.

ceph crash ls

List the timestamp/uuid crashids for all new and archived crash info.

ceph crash ls-new

List the timestamp/uuid crashids for all newcrash info.

ceph crash stat

Show a summary of saved crash info grouped by age.

ceph crash info <crashid>

Show all details of a saved crash.

ceph crash prune <keep>

Remove saved crashes older than ‘keep’ days. <keep> must be an integer.

ceph crash archive <crashid>

Archive a crash report so that it is no longer considered for the RECENT_CRASH health check and does not appear in the crash ls-new output (it will still appear in the crash ls output).

ceph crash archive-all

Archive all new crash reports.

Options

  • mgr/crash/warn_recent_interval [default: 2 weeks] controls what constitutes “recent” for the purposes of raising the RECENT_CRASH health warning.

  • mgr/crash/retain_interval [default: 1 year] controls how long crash reports are retained by the cluster before they are automatically purged.

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