Troubleshooting

The following section provides information to help you troubleshoot Autonomous Identity. The topics are:

Where to access the logs
How to change the Docker root folder
Tune Cassandra for large data

More troubleshooting tips will be added in the future.

Where to access the logs

Autonomous Identity captures information in its log files to troubleshoot any problem.

Deployment logs

When running the ansible playbook during the deployment, logs print to your screen (STDOUT). You can access additional information is available through the -v or --verbose. For more information, try -vvx. To enable connection debugging, try -vvvv.

The Cassandra install log file (installcassandra.log) is located at /data/opt/autoid/cassandra.

Front-end logs

You can view any output logs of the running services on Docker using the following commands:

docker service logs <SERVICE NAME> --follow
docker service ps <SERVICE NAME> --no-trunc

Cassandra logs

You can view any output logs of the Cassandra database, which is kicked-off at startup. Autonomous Identity pipes the output message to a log file in the standard installation folder.

Cassandra Log Locations
Log	Location
Standard Cassandra log	/data/opt/autoid/cassandra.out
Backup Log	/data/opt/autoid/cassandra/cassandra-backup/cassandra-backup.log
Other Logs	/data/opt/autoid/apache-cassandra-<version>/logs

Analytic logs

You can specify the path for analytic logs in the configuration file.

You can change the file path to any path, but it must always be within the same base path.

For example, you can determine the analytic files in the /data/other/logs.

Spark UI logs

If the Spark UI is not available on port 8080 of the Spark master server, then do the following:

Check the Spark start-up logs. Check if the status of Spark UI port 8080 is not the default port, or if there is another service using the port.
If the UI is not accessible, run some curl commands to check the core and memory in the cluster.
```
curl -s https://<ip-address>:8080 | grep -A 2 'Memory in use'
curl -s https://<ip-address>:8080 | grep -A 2 'Cores in use'
```
For more information, Refer to Spark REST API.

How to change the Docker root folder

Docker stores its images in the root /var folder. Customers who mount /var with low storage can run out of disk space quickly.

How to change the Docker root folder?

Stop the Docker service:

sudo systemctl stop docker.service
sudo systemctl stop docker.socket

Edit the Docker service file, and add a -g option to the file to redirect the root folder to another location:

sudo vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service

ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -g /opt/autoid/docker -H fd:// --containerd=/run/containerd/containerd.sock

Make a new folder for the Docker root if needed:
```
sudo mkdir -p /opt/autoid/docker
```
Copy all of the content from the old Docker root folder to the new Docker root folder:
```
sudo rsync -aqxP /var/lib/docker/* /new/path/docker/.
```
Reload the system daemon:
```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
```
Start the docker service:
```
sudo systemctl start docker
```
Make sure Docker is running with right arguments. The output should show Docker is running with right parameters set:
```
ps aux | grep -i docker | grep -v grep
```

Tune Cassandra for large data

You can tune Cassandra for large data sets or when Cassandra times out during analytics.

Navigate to Cassandra Folder:

cd /opt/autoid/apache-cassandra-3.11.2/conf

Edit the jvm.options, and change the Java heap size and the size of the heap size for young generation as follows:
```
-Xms10G
-Xmx10G
-Xmn2800M
```

Edit the cassandra.yml file, and change the files as follows:

vi cassandra.yml

key_cache_size_in_mb: 1000
key_cache_save_period: 34400
max_mutation_size_in_kb: 65536
commitlog_segment_size_in_mb: 128
read_request_timeout_in_ms: 200000
write_request_timeout_in_ms: 200000
request_timeout_in_ms: 200000
counter_write_request_timeout_in_ms: 200000
cas_contention_timeout_in_ms: 50000
truncate_request_timeout_in_ms: 600000
slow_query_log_timeout_in_ms: 50000
concurrent_writes: 256
commitlog_compression:
- class_name: LZ4Compressor

After saving the file, restart the Cassandra and Docker jobs:

First, find the Cassandra job:

ps -ef | grep cassandra. // find the PID

Kill the Cassandra PID.
```
kill -9 PID
```
Make sure no Cassandra process is running:
```
ps -ef|grep cassandra
```

Restart Cassandra:

cd /opt/autoid/apache-cassandra-3.11.2/bin
nohup cassandra > /opt/autoid/apache-cassandra-3.11.2/cassandra.out 2>&1 &

Make sure to check if the following information message or similar is present:

INFO [main] 2022-01-24 23:38:26,207 Gossiper.java:1701 - No gossip backlog; proceeding

Restart Docker:
```
sudo systemctl docker restart
```

Autonomous Identity 2022.11.11