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Log Guidelines
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Levels Guidelines
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During the Kilo release cycle the sahara community defined the following
log levels:
* Debug: Shows everything and is likely not suitable for normal production
operation due to the sheer size of logs generated (e.g. scripts executions,
process execution, etc.).
* Info: Usually indicates successful service start/stop, versions and such
non-error related data. This should include largely positive units of work
that are accomplished (e.g. service setup and configuration, cluster start,
job execution information).
* Warning: Indicates that there might be a systemic issue;
potential predictive failure notice (e.g. job execution failed).
* Error: An error has occurred and the administrator should research the error
information (e.g. cluster failed to start, plugin violations of operation).
* Critical: An error has occurred and the system might be unstable, anything
that eliminates part of sahara's intended functionalities; immediately get
administrator assistance (e.g. failed to access keystone/database, failed to
load plugin).
Formatting Guidelines
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Sahara uses string formatting defined in `PEP 3101`_ for logs.
.. code:: python
LOG.warning(_LW("Incorrect path: {path}").format(path=path))
..
Translation Guidelines
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All log levels except Debug require translation. None of the separate
CLI tools packaged with sahara contain log translations.
* Debug: no translation
* Info: _LI
* Warning: _LW
* Error: _LE
* Critical: _LC
.. _PEP 3101: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/