The thin-edge logs
The logs that are useful for debugging thin-edge.io break down into logs that are created by thin-edge itself and by third party components.
Thin-edge logs​
On a thin-edge device different components like mappers, agent, and plugins run. The log messages of these components can be accessed as below. The logs here capture INFO, WARNING, and ERROR messages.
Cloud mapper logs​
The thin-edge cloud mapper component that sends the measurement data to the cloud can be accessed as below.
Tedge Cumulocity mapper​
The log messages of the Cumulocity mapper component that sends the measurement data from the thin-edge device to the Cumulocity cloud can be accessed as below
journalctl -u tedge-mapper-c8y
Run tedge-mapper --debug c8y to log more debug messages
Tedge Azure mapper​
The log messages of the Azure mapper component that sends the measurement data from the thin-edge device to the Azure cloud can be accessed as below.
journalctl -u tedge-mapper-az
Run tedge-mapper --debug az to log more debug messages
Tedge AWS mapper​
The log messages of the AWS mapper component that sends the measurement data from the thin-edge device to the AWS cloud can be accessed as below.
journalctl -u tedge-mapper-aws
Run tedge_mapper --debug aws to log more debug messages
Device monitoring logs​
The thin-edge device monitoring component logs can be found as below
Collectd mapper logs​
The log messages of the collectd mapper that sends the monitoring data to the cloud can be accessed as below
journalctl -u tedge-mapper-collectd
Run tedge-mapper --debug collectd to log more debug messages
Software Management logs​
This section describes how to access the software management component logs
Software update operation log​
For every new software operation (list/update), a new log file will be created at /var/log/tedge/agent.
For each plugin command like prepare, update-list (install, remove), finalize, and list,
the log file captures exit status, stdout, and stderr messages.
Tedge Agent logs​
The agent service logs can be accessed as below
journalctl -u tedge-agent
For example: tedge-agent logs plugin calls finalize and list.
tedge-agent : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/tmp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/etc/tedge/sm-plugins/apt finalize
tedge-agent : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/tmp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/etc/tedge/sm-plugins/apt list
Run tedge-agent --debug to log more debug messages
Thirdparty component logs​
Thin-edge uses the third-party components Mosquitto as the mqtt broker and Collectd for monitoring purpose.
The logs that are created by these components can be accessed on a thin-edge device as below.
Mosquitto logs​
Thin-edge uses Mosquitto as the mqtt broker for local communication as well as to communicate with the cloud.
The Mosquitto logs can be found in /var/log/mosquitto/mosquitto.log.
Mosquitto captures error, warning, notice, information, subscribe, and unsubscribe messages.
Set log_type debug or log_type all on /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf, to capture more debug information.
Collectd logs​
Collectd is used for monitoring the resource status of a thin-edge device.
Collectd logs all the messages at /var/log/syslog.
So, the collectd specific logs can be accessed using the journalctl as below
journalctl -u collectd
Configuring log levels in thin-edge.io​
The log levels can be configured for thin-edge.io services using either by command line or setting the required log
level in system.toml
Setting the log level through cli​
The log level can be enabled for a thin-edge.io service as below
For example for tedge-mapper:
sudo -u tedge -- tedge-mapper --debug c8y
In a similar way it can be set for all the thin-edge.io services.
Only debug level can be set through cli. Also, it enables trace level.
Setting log level through system.toml​
The log levels can also be configured through the system.toml file.
The supported log levels are info, warn, error, trace, debug.
[log]
tedge-mapper = "trace"
tedge-agent = "info"
tedge-watchdog = "debug"
tedge-log-plugin = "warn"
tedge-configuration-plugin = "error"
The log level strings are case insensitive