How to increase Logging Level For Commonsvcs in SDDC Manager

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

In certain cases - information isn't shown in the commonsvcs logs (/var/log/vmware/vcf/commonsvcs/) unlike other SDDC Manager services. To find out more about what is happening - you can set the logging level to DEBUG  to increase the log messaging for this service.

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x

Resolution

To enable the debug level logs for the common services - refer to the following steps.

vi /opt/vmware/vcf/commonsvcs/conf/logback-prod.xml

 <!-- ROOT LOGGER -->
    <root level="INFO">
        <appender-ref ref="rollingFileAppenderInfo" />
    </root>

In the above replace INFO with DEBUG

Restart common services service with systemctl restart commonsvcs

It is best to enable debug logging  before reproducing an issue and collecting logs or reviewing the logs after enabling DEBUG mode. 

Then to set the logging back to INFO using the same, above steps.