Portal:Toolforge/Admin/Toolschecker

Toolschecker is a Flask application that runs various active checks on Toolforge and Cloud VPS infrastructure in response to HTTP requests. Each check is exposed as a separate URL on the checker.tools.wmflabs.org host. These URLs are monitored by Icinga for alerting purposes (see "checker.tools.wmflabs.org").

Servers

• tools-checker-03.tools.eqiad.wmflabs

This list is defined in the toollabs::checker_hosts key in https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hiera:Tools and is used in configuring the ferm rules for Toolforge's flannel and Kubernetes etcd clusters.

Tools

Several tools are involved in the checks:

toolschecker

Crontab for /cron check

toolschecker-ge-ws

Webservice for /webservice/gridengine check

toolschecker-k8s-ws

Webservice for /webservice/kubernetes check

Checks

/cron

Expects the mtime of /data/project/toolschecker/crontest.txt to be updated every 5 minutes by a grid job executed by the toolschecker tool.

Troublshooting:

• ssh login.tools.wmaflabs.org
• become toolschecker
• crontab -l

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/jsub -N toolschecker.crontest -once -quiet touch /data/project/toolschecker/crontest.txt

/grid/continuous/stretch

There is a small script in /data/project/toolschecker/bin/long-running.sh that runs as a job that runs forever. If it stops running, this checker will go critical. To prevent that there is a cron job definition of:

*/5 * * * * jlocal /data/project/toolschecker/bigbrother.sh test-long-running-stretch /data/project/toolschecker/bin/long-running.sh

The bigbrother.sh script checks for the job and restarts it if not found.