[ClusterLabs] Configuring millisecond timestamps in pacemaker.log.

[Ken Gaillot]

On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 22:08 +0000, Gerry R Sommerville wrote:
> Hey Reid, Ken,
> 
> Thank you for your quick replies. I figured this was the case. As Ken
> suggested I will likely work around this by configuring high
> resolution timestamps in the system log, and I think I can use some
> journalctl options on systems that don't have rsyslog by default.
> 
> I assume that the detailed log is the pacemaker.log which defaults to
> /var/log/pacemaker/pacemaker.log, my vote would be that this log
> defaults to high resolution timestamps when possible in the future.
> :)

Correct. Support has now been merged into the master branch and will be
part of the 2.1.0 release. (As suggested, support is automatic when
Pacemaker is built with libqb 2.0 or later.)

> Thanks again for your answers.
>  
> Gerry Sommerville
> Db2 Development, pureScale Domain
> E-mail: gerry at ca.ibm.com
>  
>  
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> > From: Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com>
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> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ClusterLabs] Configuring millisecond
> > timestamps in pacemaker.log.
> > Date: Mon, Jan 11, 2021 3:17 PM
> >  
> > Pacemaker doesn't currently support it, sorry. It should be pretty
> > easy
> > to add though (when built with libqb 2), so hopefully we can get it
> > in
> > 2.1.0.
> > 
> > Of course Pacemaker has always supported logging via syslog, and
> > syslog
> > can be configured to use high-res timestamps, so that's a
> > workaround.
> > 
> > Does anyone have a strong opinion regarding using high-res
> > timestamps
> > in the Pacemaker detail log whenever supported, vs adding a new
> > sysconfig option for it? I feel like we have a ridiculous number of
> > options already, and the detail log is expected to be verbose.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 19:12 +0000, Gerry R Sommerville wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am wondering if it is possible to configure high resolution
> > > timestamps (including milliseconds) in the pacemaker.log? I was
> > able
> > > to get hi-res timestamps in the corosync.log by adding
> > 'timestamp:
> > > hires' under the logging directive in corosync.conf. I was hoping
> > > Pacemaker has something similar but I don't see anything in
> > > '/etc/sysconfig/pacemaker' or the Pacemaker documentation
> > regarding
> > > hi-res timestamps.
> > >  
> > > Gerry Sommerville
> > > Db2 Development, pureScale Domain
> > > E-mail: gerry at ca.ibm.com
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> > Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com>
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