VMware Aria Operations for Logs cluster nodes uptimes reset randomly.

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

In VMware Aria Operations for Logs Management > Cluster, the uptime column will reflect the last time the VM was started/restarted or when the loginsight service was started/restarted. However, there are conditions where one or more nodes show an uptime when neither condition has been met.

Environment

VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.x

Cause

The tomcat process will keep growing its heap usage until it hits the max limit. Once this max limit is reached, the OS detects that the available memory is not available for the heap to grow, so it kills the loginsight process. A watchdog service then restarts the loginsight service.

This restart of the loginsight service resets the uptime value.

 

 

Resolution

To resolve the issue, you will want to add RAM to each VM in the cluster following the process here:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-operations-for-logs/8-16/aria-operations-for-logs-8-16/configuring-vrealize-log-insight/configuring-virtual-appliance-settings/add-memmory-and-cpu-to-the-log-insight-virtual-appliance.html