OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Essentials

Logging using rsyslog

It is very useful to get logs from various Swift services, and this can be achieved by configuring proxy-server.conf and rsyslog:

1. In order to receive logs from the proxy server, we modify the /etc/swift/proxy-server.conf configuration file by adding the following lines:

   log_name = name
   log_facility = LOG_LOCALx
   log_level = LEVEL

   Let's describe these entries. The name parameter can be any name that you want to see in the logs. The letter x in LOG_LOCALx can be any number between 0 and 7. LEVEL can be any one of emergency, alert, critical, error, warning, notification, informational, or debug.

2. Next, we modify /etc/rsyslog.conf to add the following line of code in the GLOBAL_DIRECTIVES section:

   $PrivDropToGroup adm
   

3. Also, we create ...