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  1. OpenShift Logging
  2. LOG-3475

Vector collector should not log INFO messages

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      Description of problem:

      Vector collector logs INFO messages every time it starts/stops watching a new file.
      There are two problems with this

      • it makes WARN/ERROR messages in the vector logs hard to see.
      • It has a potentioally serious performance impact, the cost of writing the log to stderr for every file create/delete event is high compared to registering/unregsitering the file in memory. In a busy filesystem it may slow down the file watcher and cause missed events.

      Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

      Issue exists on current master branch, afffets all released 5.x versions to date.

      How reproducible: 100%

      Steps to Reproduce:

      Run the collector, examine the logs:

      oc logs -n openshift-logging  -l component=collector
      

      Actual results:

      Many INFO messages like these:

      2023-01-08T22:19:55.721166Z  INFO source{component_kind="source" component_id=raw_k8s_audit_logs component_type=file component_name=raw_k8s_audit_logs}:file_server: vector::internal_events::file::source: Stopped watching file. file=/var/log/kube-apiserver/audit.log
      2023-01-08T22:42:29.945124Z  INFO source{component_kind="source" component_id=raw_k8s_audit_logs component_type=file component_name=raw_k8s_audit_logs}:file_server: vector::internal_events::file::source: Found new file to watch. file=/var/log/kube-apiserver/audit.log
      2023-01-08T22:42:35.871859Z  INFO source{component_kind="source" component_id=raw_k8s_audit_logs component_type=file component_name=raw_k8s_audit_logs}:file_server: vector::internal_events::file::source: Stopped watching file. file=/var/log/kube-apiserver/audit.log
      2023-01-08T23:05:03.426582Z  INFO source{component_kind="source" component_id=raw_k8s_audit_logs component_type=file component_name=raw_k8s_audit_logs}:file_server: vector::internal_events::file::source: Found new file to watch. file=/var/log/kube-apiserver/audit.log
      2023-01-08T23:05:07.447528Z  INFO source{component_kind="source" component_id=raw_k8s_audit_logs component_type=file component_name=raw_k8s_audit_logs}:file_server: vector::internal_events::file::source: Stopped watching file. file=/var/log/kube-apiserver/audit.log
      2023-01-08T23:28:09.504914Z  INFO source{component_kind="source" component_id=raw_k8s_audit_logs component_type=file component_name=raw_k8s_audit_logs}:file_server: vector::internal_events::file::source: 

      Expected results:

      No INFO messages

              vparfono Vitalii Parfonov
              rhn-engineering-aconway Alan Conway
              Ishwar Kanse Ishwar Kanse
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