You should log a bug for this. All this means is there should be a log statement before any job that says "job-[id]=[uuid]". I personally like the ids because uuids are tough to type and extends the logs but I'm okay both ways.
--Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Nitin Mehta [mailto:nitin.me...@citrix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:59 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Cc: Kelven Yang; Jessica Tomechak; Radhika Puthiyetath > Subject: Re: jobid tracking in logs > > Thanks so much. I have been wanting to bring this up for so long > Kelven - what is the guidance ? Do we start logging the UUID instead of > the job id in the MS logs ? > > This needs to be updated in the docs as well - > http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/docs/en- > US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.0-i > ncubating/html/Admin_Guide/troubleshooting-working-with-server- > logs.html > > -Nitin > > On 23/01/13 12:17 PM, "Prasanna Santhanam" <t...@apache.org> wrote: > > >I would use the job-id returned in API responses to track the > >progress of a job. With the switchover to uuids all async APIs return a > >jobid as uuid. The logs however do not have this uuid making it hard > >to track a failed job and extract the stacktrace. > > > >What's the suggested way to workaround/fix this? > > > >(PS: I know I can query the async_job table) > > > > > >-- > >Prasanna.,