Windows logging issues - Githubissues

mattgodbolt commented 1 year ago

Some commentary on windows papertrail logging:

Mar 18 20:36:13Z EC2AMAZ-AMNTGCN amazonwin.winprod info: Listening on http://localhost:10240/

[ ] the "program" is logged as amazonwin.winprod - compared to just amazon for Linux. Would prefer either amazon.win or amazonwin but not prod at all (that's the default) and not win in both (in just one, ideally)
[x] the machine address is always EC2AMAZ-AMNTGCN so it's impossible to click it in papertrail and look at just that machine's activity. Having a unique name/IP would be ideal so we can see events happening on a single instance.

partouf commented 1 year ago

Re 'not prod', I don't think that's possible

Re address, have tried to rename the "computername", but that requires a reboot, so that's not very useful. If we can somehow set a custom hostname for papertrail, then we can do it, because we do have the information here https://github.com/compiler-explorer/infra/blob/main/init/start.ps1#L14

partouf commented 1 year ago

Looks like you can customize the hostname https://www.npmjs.com/package/winston-papertrail-transport Will see if we can arrange that with a setting

partouf commented 1 year ago

the papertrail hostname for win is now in line with the rest of our instances

compiler-explorer / infra

Windows logging issues #969