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  1. OpenShift Logging
  2. LOG-4219

Vector handles journal log as container log when enabling syslog forwarding. It breaks compatibility with Fluentd.

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      Before this update, when forwarding logs to a syslog destination with the vector collector and setting the addLogSource flag to true, extra empty fields were added to the forwarded messages: "namespace_name=, container_name=, pod_name=". These fields are indended for container logs and after this update are no longer added to journal logs.
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      Before this update, when forwarding logs to a syslog destination with the vector collector and setting the addLogSource flag to true, extra empty fields were added to the forwarded messages: "namespace_name=, container_name=, pod_name=". These fields are indended for container logs and after this update are no longer added to journal logs.
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      Description of problem:
      Syslog forwarding's output for journal log is different between Vector and Fluentd.

      When configuring syslog forwarding with vector:

      tag is set to a value specified in ClusterLogForwarding object.
      namespace_name, container_name and pod_name are added with an empth value.

      2023-05-16T08:28:36+00:00 <xxxxxx> openshift-logging-infra: namespace_name=, container_name=, pod_name=, message=E0516 08:28:36.784935    2352 kubelet_volumes.go:245] "There were many similar errors. Turn up verbosity to see them." err="orphaned pod \"ba1dc4ed-bd65-4382-a519-b7e1ef38b333\" found, but failed to rmdir() subpath at path /var/lib/kubelet/pods/ba1dc4ed-bd65-4382-a519-b7e1ef38b333/volume-subpaths/etc/tuned/4: not a directory" numErrs=1

      When configuring syslog forwarding with Fluentd:

      tag isn't modified. Fluentd keeps the original host process or host service name which outputs the messagee on the host.
      namespace_name, container_name and pod_name aren't added.

      2023-05-16T08:42:42+00:00 <xxxxx> kubenswrapper[2352]: E0516 06:53:14.784003    2352 kubelet_volumes.go:245] "There were many similar errors. Turn up verbosity to see them." err="orphaned pod \"ba1dc4ed-bd65-4382-a519-b7e1ef38b333\" found, but failed to rmdir() subpath at path /var/lib/kubelet/pods/ba1dc4ed-bd65-4382-a519-b7e1ef38b333/volume-subpaths/etc/tuned/4: not a directory" numErrs=1

      It seems that vector handles journal log as container log when configuring syslog forwarding.
      It should be fixed.

      Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
      OpenShift v4.13.0-rc.8
      ClusterLogging Operator v5.7.0
      How reproducible:
      Always

      Steps to Reproduce:
      Step1. Deploy syslog service on OCP

      Step2. Install OpenShift Logging 5.7.0.

      Step3. Apply the following ClusterLogging object as to deploy collector pods with a vector image.

      apiVersion: logging.openshift.io/v1
      kind: ClusterLogging
      metadata:
        name: instance
        namespace: openshift-logging
      spec:
        collection:
          type: vector
        managementState: Managed

      Step4. Apply the following ClusterLogForwarder object as to enable syslog forwarding.

      apiVersion: "logging.openshift.io/v1"
      kind: ClusterLogForwarder
      metadata:
        name: instance
        namespace: openshift-logging
      spec:
        outputs:
        - name: external-rsyslog-infra
          type: syslog
          url: '<SYSLOG-URL>'
          syslog:
            rfc: RFC3164
            facility: local0
            severity: informational
            addLogSource: true
            payloadKey: message
            tag: openshift-logging-infra
        pipelines:
        - inputRefs:
          - infrastructure
          name: infra
          outputRefs:
          - external-rsyslog-infra

      Step5. Check if /tmp/openshift-journal.log is created or not. (/tmp/openshift-journal.log would be created if your log collector keeps original tags)

      $oc exec -it -n syslog deployment/<rsyslog-server> – bash -c "ls -l /tmp/openshift*.log"

      Actual results:
      Only /tmp/openshift-infra-container.log was created on the syslog pod.

      $ oc exec -it -n syslog deployment/rsyslog-server – bash -c "ls -l /tmp/openshift*.log"
      rw-rr-. 1 1000760000 root 30792560 May 16 08:46 /tmp/openshift-infra-container.log
      
      Journal log was outputted into /tmp/openshift-infra-container.log with the following format.
      
      2023-05-16T08:28:36+00:00 <xxxxx> openshift-logging-infra: namespace_name=, container_name=, pod_name=, message=E0516 08:28:36.784935    2352 kubelet_volumes.go:245] "There were many similar errors. Turn up verbosity to see them." err="orphaned pod \"ba1dc4ed-bd65-4382-a519-b7e1ef38b333\" found, but failed to rmdir() subpath at path /var/lib/kubelet/pods/ba1dc4ed-bd65-4382-a519-b7e1ef38b333/volume-subpaths/etc/tuned/4: not a directory" numErrs=1
      

      Expected results:
      /tmp/openshift-journal.log is also created as well as when we tested with fluentd.

      $ oc exec -it -n syslog deployment/rsyslog-server – bash -c "ls -l /tmp/openshift*.log"
      rw-rr-. 1 1000760000 root 30792560 May 16 08:46 /tmp/openshift-infra-container.log
      rw-rr-. 1 1000760000 root  1643814 May 16 08:46 /tmp/openshift-journal.log

              syedriko_sub@redhat.com Sergey Yedrikov
              rhn-support-kbharti Kabir Bharti
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