Proxmox GUI remove old Ceph Health Warnings

When a problem with Proxmox and Ceph has been solved, for example a monitor crash or OSD deamons, an error message in the Proxmox Web GUI often remains behind. These log entries in the GUI are crashlogs of the underlying system.

In this article, you will learn about the management of Ceph crash logs.

Management of Ceph crash logs

With the help of the command ceph crash, crash logs can be listed and edited.

Listing of Ceph crashes

Please use ceph crash ls:

 root@pve-01:~# ceph crash ls for the display of the existing articles in the crash log. 

ID ENTITY NEW
2020-10-26_15:18:33.471228Z_1e218df6-0c92-4269-8e03-3bf6564e9aac mon.pve-03
2020-10-26_15:29:58.556281Z_1cda3f71-d4a1-47e2-83e9-a08285d2e041 mon.pve-02

Fading Ceph crashes from the Proxmox GUI

The following commands hide crash logs in the Proxmox GUI:

• The following commands hide crash logs in the Proxmox GUI crash archive <ID>:archives individual crash entry and will no longer appear in the Proxmox GUI.
• ceph crash archive-all: archives every crash entry. These no longer appear in the Proxmox GUI. The crashes with ceph crash ls are still viewable after archiving.

More Ceph crash commands

• ceph crash info <ID >: shows details about crash
• ceph crash stat: shows the numer of occurring crashes since the installation of Ceph
• ceph crash rm <ID>: deletes every individual crash entry
• ceph crash prune <DAYS>: deletes crashes that are older than <DAYS> days

Author: Jonas Sterr Jonas Sterr has been working for Thomas-Krenn for several years. Originally employed as a trainee in technical support and then in hosting (formerly Filoo), Mr. Sterr now mainly deals with the topics of storage (SDS / Huawei / Netapp), virtualization (VMware, Proxmox, HyperV) and network (switches, firewalls) in product management at Thomas-Krenn.AG in Freyung.

Translator: Alina Ranzinger Alina has been working at Thomas-Krenn.AG since 2024. After her training as multilingual business assistant, she got her job as assistant of the Product Management and is responsible for the translation of texts and for the organisation of the department.