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The icinga web interface can't read the icinga log file
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The icinga web interface reports an error when you try to see the event log:

Log file "/var/log/icinga/icinga.log" invalid! No timestamp found within first 16 bytes!

this turns out to be:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869679

The solution is to set permissions on the icinga log file to 0644

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Joe updated the task description. (Show Details)
Joe added subscribers: Dzahn, colewhite.

Change 473770 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cwhite; owner: Cwhite):
[operations/puppet@production] icinga: ensure 0644 on /var/log/icinga/icinga.log to fix webui

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/473770

Change 473770 merged by Cwhite:
[operations/puppet@production] icinga: ensure 0644 on /var/log/icinga/icinga.log to fix webui

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/473770