LogDNA being pretty useless

#1

Hey,

I’ve been using LogDNA on Heroku for a long time and love how well they’ve integrated it.

With Render, there are a few issues that make it pretty much useless:

Every new deploy creates a new source
This means you can’t create any views or any alerts because the source will change next time you deploy something

This then trickles down to generate other problems…

  • You can’t choose which apps to log data from, so you basically have to upgrade to higher plans and have a huge data mess as the “everything” tab contains literally every log from every active worker/server.

The easiest fix for Render would be to stop creating new sources when a new deploy is done :slight_smile:

(and on a side note, render does a call to check if the app is running every second, which creates tons of useless logs :stuck_out_tongue: getting rid of those would definitely be a good nice to have

#5

Hi !

Thanks for the feedback on logdna sources. I’ve passed this on to the rest of the team and also opened a conversation with logdna to see if there’s a workaround.

We use health checks to determine if a service is up and ready to serve traffic. They also help us provide zero down time deploys.

A workaround to limit logs from health checks might be to specify a Health Check Path and explicitly avoid logging requests made to that endpoint.

A health check path can be set from the Settings tab for a service or via infrastructure as code

#6

As I said, the Health Check is a side thing, the real issue is creating a new source at every deploy. It works in Heroku so there is a way but it depends on the way render is built of course :slight_smile:

#7

Hi @webbiger!
I had the same problem and I discovered that you can use labels to create views, because the source changes but the app name remains the same.
Example for an app named “test-app”, you can use label.serviceSlug:test-app

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#8

Screenshot 2021-03-17 at 08.10.33

I had a look at the “Apps” section and I only see those 4 names that are totally not related to my app names? Is that what you mean?

#9

Do you all setup logdna through the Render dashboard? Their pricing seems to be quite different to what’s on their website.

I am considering setting it up via my own logging and transport in the application.

#10

Ive setup logDNA - and can confirm - this is a beviour that would be great to fix. It should just be the server ID.