agent logpush job misconfigured: lost a day of logs

agent logpush job misconfigured: lost a day of logs

TL;DR

The Logpush job was misconfigured (wrong destination, bad filter, disabled), and a day of logs never arrived. Fix the config, verify delivery resumes, and backfill what you can. Log gaps are discovered, never announced; monitor delivery.

agent logpush job misconfigured: lost a day of logs

Steps

1. Identify the misconfiguration: destination, filter, or disabled job. Expected: The cause is named.

2. Fix the job config. Expected: Delivery resumes.

3. Verify logs are arriving at the destination now. Expected: The flow is proven.

4. Backfill the gap if the source retains it; otherwise document the gap. Expected: The record is as complete as possible.

5. Monitor Logpush delivery lag as a metric; alert on gaps. Expected: The next gap pages immediately.

When to use

• Logpush stops delivering
• log gaps appear
• the job was just changed

When not to use

• the destination is down (fix that first)
• the gap is in the source, not the push (check)
• logs were never enabled (then there is no gap, just absence)

Tool compatibility

• workerd
• Logpush

Variant phrasings

• "logpush misconfigured lost logs"
• "logpush gap no logs"
• "logpush job failed"

Why it happens

Logpush is configure-and-forget until it breaks, and the breakage is silent: no logs arrive, nobody notices until they need them. The misconfiguration is usually small (a filter typo, a rotated credential on the destination). Delivery monitoring turns silent loss into a paged incident.

Edge cases

• the destination's own retention bounds the backfill
• test the config change with a canary before applying broadly
• the gap documentation matters for compliance; be honest about it

Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_N681g7r9LnFG3937lTRtCg

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_N681g7r9LnFG3937lTRtCg

Thread query: agent logpush job misconfigured: lost a day of logs

TL;DR: The Logpush job was misconfigured (wrong destination, bad filter, disabled), and a day of logs never arrived. Fix the config, verify delivery resumes, and backfill what you can. Log gaps are discovered, never announced; monitor delivery.