Diagnostics

EventStoreDB provides several ways to diagnose and troubleshoot issues.

• Logging: structured or plain-text logs on the console and in log files.
• Stats: stats collection and HTTP endpoint.
• Histograms: metrics collection and HTTP endpoints.

You can also use external tools to measure the performance of EventStoreDB and monitor the cluster health.

• Vector: collect metrics and logs to your APM tool using Vector.
• Prometheus exporter: collect metrics in Prometheus.
• Datadog integration: monitor and measure the cluster with Datadog.

Logging

EventStoreDB logs its internal operations to the console (stdout) and to log files. The default location of the log files and the way to change it is described below.

There are a few options to change the way how EventStoreDB produces logs and how detailed the logs should be.

WARNING

The EventStoreDB logs may contain sensitive information such as stream names, user names, and projection definitions.

Log format

EventStoreDB uses the structured logging in JSON format that is more machine-friendly and can be ingested by vendor-specific tools like Logstash or Datadog agent.

Here is how the structured log looks like:

{
  "PID": "6940",
  "ThreadID": "23",
  "Date": "2020-06-16T16:14:02.052976Z",
  "Level": "Debug",
  "Logger": "ProjectionManager",
  "Message": "PROJECTIONS: Starting Projections Manager. (Node State : {state})",
  "EventProperties": {
    "state": "Master"
  }
}
{
  "PID": "6940",
  "ThreadID": "15",
  "Date": "2020-06-16T16:14:02.052976Z",
  "Level": "Info",
  "Logger": "ClusterVNodeController",
  "Message": "========== [{internalHttp}] Sub System '{subSystemName}' initialized.",
  "EventProperties": {
    "internalHttp": "127.0.0.1:2112",
    "subSystemName": "Projections"
  }
}
{
  "PID": "6940",
  "ThreadID": "23",
  "Date": "2020-06-16T16:14:02.052976Z",
  "Level": "Debug",
  "Logger": "MultiStreamMessageWriter",
  "Message": "PROJECTIONS: Resetting Worker Writer",
  "EventProperties": {}
}
{
  "PID": "6940",
  "ThreadID": "23",
  "Date": "2020-06-16T16:14:02.055000Z",
  "Level": "Debug",
  "Logger": "ProjectionCoreCoordinator",
  "Message": "PROJECTIONS: SubComponent Started: {subComponent}",
  "EventProperties": {
    "subComponent": "EventReaderCoreService"
  }
}

Logs location

Log files are located in /var/log/eventstore for Linux and macOS, and in the logs subdirectory of the EventStoreDB installation directory on Windows. You can change the log files location using the Log configuration option.

TIP

Moving logs to a separate storage might improve the database performance if you keep the default verbose log level.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--log
YAML	Log
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_LOG

For example, adding this line to the eventstore.conf file will force writing logs to the /tmp/eventstore/logs directory:

Log: /tmp/eventstore/logs

Log level

You can change the level using the LogLevel setting:

Format	Syntax
Command line	--log-level
YAML	LogLevel
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_LOG_LEVEL

Acceptable values are: Default, Verbose, Debug, Information, Warning, Error, and Fatal.

Logging options

You can tune the EventStoreDB logging further by using the logging options described below.

Log configuration file

Specifies the location of the file which configures the logging levels of various components.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--log-config
YAML	LogConfig
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_LOG_CONFIG

By default, the application directory (and /etc/eventstore on Linux and Mac) are checked. You may specify a full path.

HTTP requests logging

EventStoreDB cal also log all the incoming HTTP requests, like many HTTP servers do. Requests are logged before being processed, so unsuccessful requests are logged too.

Use one of the following ways to enable the HTTP requests logging:

Format	Syntax
Command line	--log-http-requests
YAML	LogHttpRequests
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_LOG_HTTP_REQUESTS

Default: false, logging HTTP requests is disabled by default.

Log failed authentication

For security monitoring, you can enable logging failed authentication attempts by setting LogFailedAuthenticationAttempts setting to true.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--log-failed-authentication-attempts
YAML	LogFailedAuthenticationAttempts
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_LOG_FAILED_AUTHENTICATION_ATTEMPTS

Default: false

Log console format

The format of the console logger. Use Json for structured log output.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--log-console-format
YAML	LogConsoleFormat
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_LOG_CONSOLE_FORMAT

Acceptable values are: Plain, Json

Default: Plain

Log file size

The maximum size of each log file, in bytes.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--log-file-size
YAML	LogFileSize
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_LOG_FILE_SIZE

Default: 1GB

Log file interval

How often to rotate logs.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--log-file-interval
YAML	LogFileInterval
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_LOG_FILE_INTERVAL

Acceptable values are: Minute, Hour, Day, Week, Month, Year

Default: Day

Log file retention count

How many log files to hold on to.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--log-file-retention-count
YAML	LogFileRetentionCount
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_LOG_RETENTION_COUNT

Default: 31

Disable log file

You can completely disable logging to a file by changing the DisableLogFile option.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--disable-log-file
YAML	DisableLogFile
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_DISABLE_LOG_FILE

Default: false

Statistics

EventStoreDB servers collect internal statistics and make it available via HTTP over the https://<host>:2113/stats in JSON format. Here, 2113 is the default HTTP port. Monitoring applications and metric collectors can use this endpoint to gather the information about the cluster node. The stats endpoint only exposes information about the node where you fetch it from and doesn't contain any cluster information.

What you see in the stats endpoint response is the last collected state of the server. The server collects this information using events that are appended to the statistics stream. Each node has one. We use a reserved name for the stats stream, $stats-<host:port>. For example, for a single node running locally the stream name would be $stats-127.0.0.1:2113.

As all other events, stats events are also linked in the $all stream. These events have a reserved event type $statsCollected.

Click here to see an example of a stats event

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  "proc-threadsCount": 10,
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  "sys-cpu": 100.0,
  "sys-freeMem": 25100288,
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  "proc-gc-gen0ItemsCount": 8,
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  "proc-gc-gen2Size": 0,
  "proc-gc-largeHeapSize": 0,
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  "sys-drive-/System/Volumes/Data-availableBytes": 545628151808,
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  "sys-drive-/System/Volumes/Data-usage": "72%",
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}

Stats stream has the max time-to-live set to 24 hours, so all the events that are older than 24 hours will be deleted.

Stats period

Using this setting you can control how often stats events are generated. By default, the node will produce one event in 30 seconds. If you want to decrease network pressure on subscribers to the $all stream, you can tell EventStoreDB to produce stats less often.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--stats-period-sec
YAML	StatsPeriodSec
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_STATS_PERIOD_SEC

Default: 30

Write stats to database

As mentioned before, stats events are quite large and whilst it is sometimes beneficial to keep the stats history, it is most of the time not necessary. Therefore, we do not write stats events to the database by default. When this option is set to true, all the stats events will be persisted.

As mentioned before, stats events have a TTL of 24 hours and when writing stats to the database is enabled, you'd need to scavenge more often to release the disk space.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--write-stats-to-db
YAML	WriteStatsToDb
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_WRITE_STATS_TO_DB

Default: false

Histograms

Histograms give a distribution in percentiles of the time spent on several metrics. This can be used to diagnose issues in the system. It is not recommended enabling this in production environment. When enabled, histogram stats are available at their corresponding http endpoints.

For example, you could ask for a stream reader histograms like this:

curl http://localhost:2113/histogram/reader-streamrange -u admin:changeit

That would give a response with the stats distributed across histogram buckets:

   Value     Percentile TotalCount 1/(1-Percentile)

   0.022 0.000000000000          1           1.00
   0.044 0.100000000000         30           1.11
   0.054 0.200000000000         59           1.25
   0.074 0.300000000000         88           1.43
   0.092 0.400000000000        118           1.67
   0.108 0.500000000000        147           2.00
   0.113 0.550000000000        162           2.22
   0.127 0.600000000000        176           2.50
   0.140 0.650000000000        191           2.86
   0.155 0.700000000000        206           3.33
   0.168 0.750000000000        220           4.00
   0.179 0.775000000000        228           4.44
   0.197 0.800000000000        235           5.00
   0.219 0.825000000000        242           5.71
   0.232 0.850000000000        250           6.67
   0.277 0.875000000000        257           8.00
   0.327 0.887500000000        261           8.89
   0.346 0.900000000000        264          10.00
   0.522 0.912500000000        268          11.43
   0.836 0.925000000000        272          13.33
   0.971 0.937500000000        275          16.00
   1.122 0.943750000000        277          17.78
   1.153 0.950000000000        279          20.00
   1.217 0.956250000000        281          22.86
   2.836 0.962500000000        283          26.67
   2.972 0.968750000000        284          32.00
   3.607 0.971875000000        285          35.56
   4.964 0.975000000000        286          40.00
   8.536 0.978125000000        287          45.71
  11.035 0.981250000000        288          53.33
  11.043 0.984375000000        289          64.00
  11.043 0.985937500000        289          71.11
  34.013 0.987500000000        290          80.00
  34.013 0.989062500000        290          91.43
  41.812 0.990625000000        292         106.67
  41.812 0.992187500000        292         128.00
  41.812 0.992968750000        292         142.22
  41.812 0.993750000000        292         160.00
  41.812 0.994531250000        292         182.86
  41.812 0.995312500000        292         213.33
  41.812 0.996093750000        292         256.00
  41.812 0.996484375000        292         284.44
  41.878 0.996875000000        293         320.00
  41.878 1.000000000000        293

#[Mean = 0.854, StdDeviation = 4.739]
#[Max = 41.878, Total count = 293]
#[Buckets = 20, SubBuckets = 2048]

Reading histograms

The histogram response tells you some useful metrics like mean, max, standard deviation and also that in 99% of cases reads take about 41.8ms, as in the example above.

Using histograms

You can enable histograms in a development environment and run a specific task to see how it affects the database, telling you where and how the time is spent.

Execute a GET HTTP call to a cluster node using the http://<node>:2113/histogram/<metric> path to get a response. Here 2113 is the default external HTTP port.

Available metrics

Endpoint	Measures time spent
reader-streamrange	ReadStreamEventsForward and ReadStreamEventsBackwards
writer-flush	Flushing to disk in the storage writer service
chaser-wait and chaser-flush	Storage chaser
reader-readevent	Checking the stream access and reading an event
reader-allrange	ReadAllEventsForward and ReadAllEventsBackward
request-manager	---
tcp-send	Sending messages over TCP
http-send	Sending messages over HTTP

Enabling histograms

Use the option described below to enable histograms. Because collecting histograms uses CPU resources, they are disabled by default.

Format	Syntax
Command line	--enable-histograms
YAML	EnableHistograms
Environment variable	EVENTSTORE_ENABLE_HISTOGRAMS

Default: false

Vector

Vector is a lightweight and ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines. (from Vector website)

You can use Vector for extracting metrics or logs from your self-managed EventStore server.

It's also possible to collect metrics from the Event Store Cloud managed cluster or instance, as long as the Vector agent is running on a machine that has a direct connection to the EventStoreDB server. You cannot, however, fetch logs from Event Store Cloud using your own Vector agent.

Installation

Follow the installation instructions provided by Vector to deploy the agent. You can deploy and run it on the same machine where you run EventStoreDB server. If you run EventStoreDB in Kubernetes, you can run Vector as a sidecar for each of the EventStoreDB pods.

Configuration

Each Vector instance needs to be configured with sources and sinks. When configured properly, it will collect information from each source, apply the necessary transformation (if needed), and send the transformed information to the configured sink.

Vector provides many different sinks, you most probably will find your preferred monitoring platform among those sinks.

Collecting metrics

There is an official EventStoreDB source that you can use to pull relevant metrics from your database.

Below you can find an example that you can use in your vector.toml configuration file:

[sources.eventstoredb_metrics]
type = "eventstoredb_metrics"
endpoint = "https://{hostname}:{http_port}/stats"
scrape_interval_secs = 3

Here hostname is the EventStoreDB node hostname or the cluster DNS name, and http_port is the configured HTTP port, which is 2113 by default.

Collecting logs

To collect logs, you can use the file source and configure it to target EventStoreDB log file. For log collection, Vector must run on the same machine as EventStoreDB server as it collects the logs from files on the local file system.

[sources.eventstoredb_logs]
type = "file"
# If you changed the default log location, please update the filepath accordingly.
include = ["/var/log/eventstore"]
read_from = "end"

Example

In this example, Vector runs on a machine as EventStoreDB, collecting metrics and logs, then sending them to Datadog. Notice that despite the EventStoreDB HTTP is, in theory, accessible via localhost, it won't work if the server SSL certificate doesn't have localhost in the certificate CN or SAN.

[sources.eventstoredb_metrics]
type = "eventstoredb_metrics"
endpoint = "https://node1.esdb.acme.company:2113/stats"
scrape_interval_secs = 10

[sources.eventstoredb_logs]
type = "file"
include = ["/var/log/eventstore"]
read_from = "end"

[sinks.dd_metrics]
type = "datadog_metrics"
inputs = ["eventstoredb_metrics"]
api_key = "${DD_API_KEY}"
default_namespace = "service"

[sinks.dd_logs]
type = "datadog_logs"
inputs = ["sources.eventstoredb_logs"]
default_api_key = "${DD_API_KEY}"
compression = "gzip"

Prometheus

You can export EventStoreDB metrics to Prometheus and configure Grafana dashboards to monitor your deployment.

Event Store doesn't provide Prometheus support out of the box, but you can use the community-supported exporter available in the GitHub repository.

Datadog

Event Store doesn't provide Datadog integration out of the box, but you can use the community-supported integration to collect EventStoreDB logs and metrics in Datadog.

Find out more details about the integration in Datadog documentation.