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Tracking and Reducing cron-spam to root@
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Description

Cronspam is annoying, but it carries (sometimes) very good information. This phab task should track the efforts to reduce the current level of cronspam from root@ and to keep it under control from now on.

The final goal must be to improve our docs/best-practices/etc.. alongside with the patches that we'll send, otherwise there is no point of proceeding with work.

Some questions:

  1. Do we really value cron-alerts in Wikimedia?
  2. What is an acceptable level of cron-spam?
  3. How do we improve our monitoring/alarming to avoid relying on people reading cron spam emails?

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Event Timeline

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Change 353014 had a related patch set uploaded (by Elukey; owner: Elukey):
[operations/puppet@production] Fix logrotate config for analytics1003 to avoid cronspam

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/353014

Change 353014 merged by Elukey:
[operations/puppet@production] Fix logrotate config for analytics1003 to avoid cronspam

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/353014

Change 369608 had a related patch set uploaded (by Elukey; owner: Elukey):
[operations/puppet@production] statistics::discovery: fix daily logrotate

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/369608

Change 369608 merged by Elukey:
[operations/puppet@production] statistics::discovery: fix daily logrotate

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/369608

Change 370170 had a related patch set uploaded (by Elukey; owner: Elukey):
[operations/puppet@production] modules::geowiki::private_data: fix rsync for data-private-bare

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/370170

Change 370170 merged by Elukey:
[operations/puppet@production] modules::geowiki::private_data: fix rsync for data-private-bare

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/370170

EddieGP renamed this task from Tracking and Reducing cron-spam from root@ to Tracking and Reducing cron-spam to root@ .Apr 17 2018, 3:34 PM

Change 428947 had a related patch set uploaded (by Filippo Giunchedi; owner: Filippo Giunchedi):
[operations/puppet@production] profile: install SMART checks after 'raid' fact is available.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/428947

chasemp closed subtask Restricted Task as Resolved.Apr 27 2018, 1:51 PM

Change 438140 had a related patch set uploaded (by Elukey; owner: Elukey):
[operations/puppet@production] profile::analytics::refinery::job::sqoop_mw: avoid root cronspam

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/438140

Change 438140 merged by Elukey:
[operations/puppet@production] profile::analytics::refinery::job::sqoop_mw: avoid root cronspam

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/438140

Change 543866 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jcrespo; owner: Jcrespo):
[operations/puppet@production] Redirect stderr to /dev/null to prevent cronspam

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/543866

Change 543866 merged by Elukey:
[operations/puppet@production] swap: Redirect stderr to /dev/null to prevent cronspam

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/543866

Change 428947 abandoned by Filippo Giunchedi:
[operations/puppet@production] profile: install SMART checks after 'raid' fact is available.

Reason:
Not an issue

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/428947

jcrespo closed subtask Restricted Task as Resolved.Jan 25 2021, 10:02 AM

Change 743040 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jcrespo; author: Jcrespo):

[operations/puppet@production] exim: Reenable regular flash sale offers on wmf address

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/743040