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Omnibus GitLab Logs

Tail logs in a console on the server

If you want to 'tail', i.e. view live log updates of GitLab logs you can use gitlab-ctl tail.

# Tail all logs; press Ctrl-C to exit
sudo gitlab-ctl tail

# Drill down to a sub-directory of /var/log/gitlab
sudo gitlab-ctl tail gitlab-rails

# Drill down to an individual file
sudo gitlab-ctl tail nginx/gitlab_error.log

Configure default log directories

In your /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb file, there are many log_directory keys for the various types of logs. Uncomment and update the values for all the logs you want to place elsewhere:

# For example:
gitlab_rails['log_directory'] = "/var/log/gitlab/gitlab-rails"
unicorn['log_directory'] = "/var/log/gitlab/unicorn"
registry['log_directory'] = "/var/log/gitlab/registry"
...

Run sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure to configure your instance with these settings.

Runit logs

The Runit-managed services in omnibus-gitlab generate log data using [svlogd][svlogd]. See the [svlogd documentation][svlogd] for more information about the files it generates.

You can modify svlogd settings via /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb with the following settings:

# Below are the default values
logging['svlogd_size'] = 200 * 1024 * 1024 # rotate after 200 MB of log data
logging['svlogd_num'] = 30 # keep 30 rotated log files
logging['svlogd_timeout'] = 24 * 60 * 60 # rotate after 24 hours
logging['svlogd_filter'] = "gzip" # compress logs with gzip
logging['svlogd_udp'] = nil # transmit log messages via UDP
logging['svlogd_prefix'] = nil # custom prefix for log messages

# Optionally, you can override the prefix for e.g. Nginx
nginx['svlogd_prefix'] = "nginx"

Logrotate

Starting with omnibus-gitlab 7.4 there is a built-in logrotate service in omnibus-gitlab. This service will rotate, compress and eventually delete the log data that is not captured by Runit, such as gitlab-rails/production.log and nginx/gitlab_access.log. You can configure logrotate via /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb.

# Below are some of the default settings
logging['logrotate_frequency'] = "daily" # rotate logs daily
logging['logrotate_size'] = nil # do not rotate by size by default
logging['logrotate_rotate'] = 30 # keep 30 rotated logs
logging['logrotate_compress'] = "compress" # see 'man logrotate'
logging['logrotate_method'] = "copytruncate" # see 'man logrotate'
logging['logrotate_postrotate'] = nil # no postrotate command by default
logging['logrotate_dateformat'] = nil # use date extensions for rotated files rather than numbers e.g. a value of "-%Y-%m-%d" would give rotated files like production.log-2016-03-09.gz


# You can add overrides per service
nginx['logrotate_frequency'] = nil
nginx['logrotate_size'] = "200M"

# You can also disable the built-in logrotate service if you want
logrotate['enable'] = false

UDP log forwarding

In case you have a central server where all your infra logs are gathered, you can configure Omnibus GitLab to send syslog-ish log messages via UDP:

logging['udp_log_shipping_host'] = '1.2.3.4' # Your syslog server
logging['udp_log_shipping_port'] = 1514 # Optional, defaults to 514 (syslog)

Example log messages:

Jun 26 06:33:46 ubuntu1204-test production.log: Started GET "/root/my-project/import" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-06-26 06:33:46 -0700
Jun 26 06:33:46 ubuntu1204-test production.log: Processing by ProjectsController#import as HTML
Jun 26 06:33:46 ubuntu1204-test production.log: Parameters: {"id"=>"root/my-project"}
Jun 26 06:33:46 ubuntu1204-test production.log: Completed 200 OK in 122ms (Views: 71.9ms | ActiveRecord: 12.2ms)
Jun 26 06:33:46 ubuntu1204-test gitlab_access.log: 172.16.228.1 - - [26/Jun/2014:06:33:46 -0700] "GET /root/my-project/import HTTP/1.1" 200 5775 "https://172.16.228.169/root/my-project/import" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36"
2014-06-26_13:33:46.49866 ubuntu1204-test sidekiq: 2014-06-26T13:33:46Z 18107 TID-7nbj0 Sidekiq::Extensions::DelayedMailer JID-bbfb118dd1db20f6c39f5b50 INFO: start
2014-06-26_13:33:46.52608 ubuntu1204-test sidekiq: 2014-06-26T13:33:46Z 18107 TID-7muoc RepositoryImportWorker JID-57ee926c3655fcfa062338ae INFO: start

Using a custom NGINX log format

By default the NGINX access logs will use a version of the 'combined' NGINX format, designed to hide potentially sensitive information embedded in query strings. If you want to use a custom log format string you can specify it in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb - see the NGINX documentation for format details.

nginx['log_format'] = 'my format string $foo $bar'
mattermost_nginx['log_format'] = 'my format string $foo $bar'