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