Thought NS8 was crashing after 2 core updates (was Proxmox)

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NethServer Version: NS8
Module: Core

To start, NS8 has been pretty much rock solid for me, as far as its Core. I have had some minor issues here and there, but those end up being app issues - sometime.. or most of the time it is self inflicted - (ME ok… usually it was me :laughing: ). I am unsure if this is to do with core updates or NS8 updates at all.

The only reason I think it is a problem with NS8 Core is I will notice that Mesh Central, Website, or one of the other apps I am running on NS8 would normally be running. Unfortunately recently when I end up going to them I will notice them to be down. At that point I will try to go to NS8 dashboard and I can not loaded it web or internally. At that point the only choice I have is to restart NS8. After restarting NS8, I can then reach NS8 dashboard and the other apps as well after a boot of the underlining OS.

I want to make sure you know I am unsure which update this started with or that it is due to an update, but that is the only thing I have done before I started seeing these crashes from my NS8. The crashes have been happening the last 2 weeks.

I have looked in Loki, under System, but I am not seeing anything that I can tell has to do with any crashes.

I am hoping to see if someone can help me verify this issue. I was also hoping someone could point me to where in the logs I should look.

I would like to get my NS8 back to being stable. It looks like I will need some extra eyes on this.

Thanks,

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Usually the log of an affected app or at least the cluster log should show something about the issue.

You could enable the alert notifications.
This way you will get a mail In case of issues, for example when swap gets filled, see Metrics and alerts — NS8 documentation
You can check current alerts on the nodes page, see Cluster management — NS8 documentation

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I have Email notifications turned on. Thanks @mrmarkuz for that tid-bit of good information. Just enabled Alert notifications in Metrics. I will looks to see if I get Alert notifications from Metrics.

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Definitely getting metrics now. I am getting a “summary = TLS certificate on Node expires in XXXd XXh XXm Xs”

I know that is for my Certifcates. So I will get that soon.

I have not seen any errors that look like it has to do with NS8 crashes so far. But NS8 did have a lock up this morning. Closer to 11:00 AM. Had to reboot the system.

Did not see that incident in the alerts.

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Is there anything interesting in the logs at about 11:00 AM?
You can send me the logs via PM so I can check them…

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Yes. Thx

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@mrmarkuz I don’t think this is NS8 or anything to do with NS8 core upgrades. I think I may have found the problem.

No wonder I was not able to find the issues in the logs and didn’t see the problem in metrics. Looks like it is not a NS8 problem after all. Right now it looks like it is something to do with Proxmox instead.

Thanks for the second set of eyes on this. I am reviewing it now. I think I have pin pointed the problem.

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