Loading howto/gitlab.md +23 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -647,6 +647,29 @@ This command also shows general info about the GitLab instance: it is especially useful to find on-disk files and package versions. ### Filtering through json logs The most useful log to look into when trying to identify errors or traffic patterns is `/var/log/gitlab-rails/production_json.log`. It shows all of the activity on the web interface. Since the file is formatted in JSON, to filter through this file, you need to use `jq` to filter lines. Here are some useful examples that you can build upon for your search: To find requests that got a server error (e.g. 500 http status code) response: jq 'select(.status==500)' production_json.log To get lines only from a defined period of time: jq --arg s '2024-07-16T07:10:00' --arg e '2024-07-16T07:19:59' 'select(.time | . >= $s and . <= $e + "z")' prodcution_json.log To identify the individual IP addresses with the highest number of requests for the day: jq -rC '.remote_ip' production_json.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -10 ### GitLab pages not found If you're looking for a way to track GitLab pages error, know that the Loading Loading
howto/gitlab.md +23 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -647,6 +647,29 @@ This command also shows general info about the GitLab instance: it is especially useful to find on-disk files and package versions. ### Filtering through json logs The most useful log to look into when trying to identify errors or traffic patterns is `/var/log/gitlab-rails/production_json.log`. It shows all of the activity on the web interface. Since the file is formatted in JSON, to filter through this file, you need to use `jq` to filter lines. Here are some useful examples that you can build upon for your search: To find requests that got a server error (e.g. 500 http status code) response: jq 'select(.status==500)' production_json.log To get lines only from a defined period of time: jq --arg s '2024-07-16T07:10:00' --arg e '2024-07-16T07:19:59' 'select(.time | . >= $s and . <= $e + "z")' prodcution_json.log To identify the individual IP addresses with the highest number of requests for the day: jq -rC '.remote_ip' production_json.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -10 ### GitLab pages not found If you're looking for a way to track GitLab pages error, know that the Loading