// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS // SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause // Package logtail sends logs to log.tailscale.io. package logtail import ( "bytes" "context" "crypto/rand" "encoding/binary" "encoding/json" "fmt" "io" "log" "net/http" "os" "strconv" "strings" "sync" "sync/atomic" "time" "tailscale.com/envknob" "tailscale.com/logtail/backoff" "tailscale.com/net/interfaces" "tailscale.com/net/sockstats" tslogger "tailscale.com/types/logger" "tailscale.com/types/logid" "tailscale.com/util/set" "tailscale.com/wgengine/monitor" ) // DefaultHost is the default host name to upload logs to when // Config.BaseURL isn't provided. const DefaultHost = "log.tailscale.io" const defaultFlushDelay = 2 * time.Second const ( // CollectionNode is the name of a logtail Config.Collection // for tailscaled (or equivalent: IPNExtension, Android app). CollectionNode = "tailnode.log.tailscale.io" ) type Encoder interface { EncodeAll(src, dst []byte) []byte Close() error } type Config struct { Collection string // collection name, a domain name PrivateID logid.PrivateID // private ID for the primary log stream CopyPrivateID logid.PrivateID // private ID for a log stream that is a superset of this log stream BaseURL string // if empty defaults to "https://log.tailscale.io" HTTPC *http.Client // if empty defaults to http.DefaultClient SkipClientTime bool // if true, client_time is not written to logs LowMemory bool // if true, logtail minimizes memory use TimeNow func() time.Time // if set, substitutes uses of time.Now Stderr io.Writer // if set, logs are sent here instead of os.Stderr StderrLevel int // max verbosity level to write to stderr; 0 means the non-verbose messages only Buffer Buffer // temp storage, if nil a MemoryBuffer NewZstdEncoder func() Encoder // if set, used to compress logs for transmission // MetricsDelta, if non-nil, is a func that returns an encoding // delta in clientmetrics to upload alongside existing logs. // It can return either an empty string (for nothing) or a string // that's safe to embed in a JSON string literal without further escaping. MetricsDelta func() string // FlushDelayFn, if non-nil is a func that returns how long to wait to // accumulate logs before uploading them. 0 or negative means to upload // immediately. // // If nil, a default value is used. (currently 2 seconds) FlushDelayFn func() time.Duration // IncludeProcID, if true, results in an ephemeral process identifier being // included in logs. The ID is random and not guaranteed to be globally // unique, but it can be used to distinguish between different instances // running with same PrivateID. IncludeProcID bool // IncludeProcSequence, if true, results in an ephemeral sequence number // being included in the logs. The sequence number is incremented for each // log message sent, but is not persisted across process restarts. IncludeProcSequence bool } func NewLogger(cfg Config, logf tslogger.Logf) *Logger { if cfg.BaseURL == "" { cfg.BaseURL = "https://" + DefaultHost } if cfg.HTTPC == nil { cfg.HTTPC = http.DefaultClient } if cfg.TimeNow == nil { cfg.TimeNow = time.Now } if cfg.Stderr == nil { cfg.Stderr = os.Stderr } if cfg.Buffer == nil { pendingSize := 256 if cfg.LowMemory { pendingSize = 64 } cfg.Buffer = NewMemoryBuffer(pendingSize) } var procID uint32 if cfg.IncludeProcID { keyBytes := make([]byte, 4) rand.Read(keyBytes) procID = binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(keyBytes) if procID == 0 { // 0 is the empty/off value, assign a different (non-zero) value to // make sure we still include an ID (actual value does not matter). procID = 7 } } if s := envknob.String("TS_DEBUG_LOGTAIL_FLUSHDELAY"); s != "" { if delay, err := time.ParseDuration(s); err == nil { cfg.FlushDelayFn = func() time.Duration { return delay } } else { log.Fatalf("invalid TS_DEBUG_LOGTAIL_FLUSHDELAY: %v", err) } } else if cfg.FlushDelayFn == nil && envknob.Bool("IN_TS_TEST") { cfg.FlushDelayFn = func() time.Duration { return 0 } } stdLogf := func(f string, a ...any) { fmt.Fprintf(cfg.Stderr, strings.TrimSuffix(f, "\n")+"\n", a...) } var urlSuffix string if !cfg.CopyPrivateID.IsZero() { urlSuffix = "?copyId=" + cfg.CopyPrivateID.String() } l := &Logger{ privateID: cfg.PrivateID, stderr: cfg.Stderr, stderrLevel: int64(cfg.StderrLevel), httpc: cfg.HTTPC, url: cfg.BaseURL + "/c/" + cfg.Collection + "/" + cfg.PrivateID.String() + urlSuffix, lowMem: cfg.LowMemory, buffer: cfg.Buffer, skipClientTime: cfg.SkipClientTime, drainWake: make(chan struct{}, 1), sentinel: make(chan int32, 16), flushDelayFn: cfg.FlushDelayFn, timeNow: cfg.TimeNow, bo: backoff.NewBackoff("logtail", stdLogf, 30*time.Second), metricsDelta: cfg.MetricsDelta, procID: procID, includeProcSequence: cfg.IncludeProcSequence, shutdownStart: make(chan struct{}), shutdownDone: make(chan struct{}), } if cfg.NewZstdEncoder != nil { l.zstdEncoder = cfg.NewZstdEncoder() } ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background()) l.uploadCancel = cancel go l.uploading(ctx) l.Write([]byte("logtail started")) return l } // Logger writes logs, splitting them as configured between local // logging facilities and uploading to a log server. type Logger struct { stderr io.Writer stderrLevel int64 // accessed atomically httpc *http.Client url string lowMem bool skipClientTime bool linkMonitor *monitor.Mon buffer Buffer drainWake chan struct{} // signal to speed up drain flushDelayFn func() time.Duration // negative or zero return value to upload aggressively, or >0 to batch at this delay flushPending atomic.Bool sentinel chan int32 timeNow func() time.Time bo *backoff.Backoff zstdEncoder Encoder uploadCancel func() explainedRaw bool metricsDelta func() string // or nil privateID logid.PrivateID httpDoCalls atomic.Int32 procID uint32 includeProcSequence bool writeLock sync.Mutex // guards procSequence, flushTimer, buffer.Write calls procSequence uint64 flushTimer *time.Timer // used when flushDelay is >0 shutdownStartMu sync.Mutex // guards the closing of shutdownStart shutdownStart chan struct{} // closed when shutdown begins shutdownDone chan struct{} // closed when shutdown complete } // SetVerbosityLevel controls the verbosity level that should be // written to stderr. 0 is the default (not verbose). Levels 1 or higher // are increasingly verbose. func (l *Logger) SetVerbosityLevel(level int) { atomic.StoreInt64(&l.stderrLevel, int64(level)) } // SetLinkMonitor sets the optional the link monitor. // // It should not be changed concurrently with log writes and should // only be set once. func (l *Logger) SetLinkMonitor(lm *monitor.Mon) { l.linkMonitor = lm } // PrivateID returns the logger's private log ID. // // It exists for internal use only. func (l *Logger) PrivateID() logid.PrivateID { return l.privateID } // Shutdown gracefully shuts down the logger while completing any // remaining uploads. // // It will block, continuing to try and upload unless the passed // context object interrupts it by being done. // If the shutdown is interrupted, an error is returned. func (l *Logger) Shutdown(ctx context.Context) error { done := make(chan struct{}) go func() { select { case <-ctx.Done(): l.uploadCancel() <-l.shutdownDone case <-l.shutdownDone: } close(done) }() l.shutdownStartMu.Lock() select { case <-l.shutdownStart: l.shutdownStartMu.Unlock() return nil default: } close(l.shutdownStart) l.shutdownStartMu.Unlock() io.WriteString(l, "logger closing down\n") <-done if l.zstdEncoder != nil { return l.zstdEncoder.Close() } return nil } // Close shuts down this logger object, the background log uploader // process, and any associated goroutines. // // Deprecated: use Shutdown func (l *Logger) Close() { l.Shutdown(context.Background()) } // drainBlock is called by drainPending when there are no logs to drain. // // In typical operation, every call to the Write method unblocks and triggers a // buffer.TryReadline, so logs are written with very low latency. // // If the caller specified FlushInterface, drainWake is only sent to // periodically. func (l *Logger) drainBlock() (shuttingDown bool) { select { case <-l.shutdownStart: return true case <-l.drainWake: } return false } // drainPending drains and encodes a batch of logs from the buffer for upload. // It uses scratch as its initial buffer. // If no logs are available, drainPending blocks until logs are available. func (l *Logger) drainPending(scratch []byte) (res []byte) { buf := bytes.NewBuffer(scratch[:0]) buf.WriteByte('[') entries := 0 var batchDone bool const maxLen = 256 << 10 for buf.Len() < maxLen && !batchDone { b, err := l.buffer.TryReadLine() if err == io.EOF { break } else if err != nil { b = fmt.Appendf(nil, "reading ringbuffer: %v", err) batchDone = true } else if b == nil { if entries > 0 { break } batchDone = l.drainBlock() continue } if len(b) == 0 { continue } if b[0] != '{' || !json.Valid(b) { // This is probably a log added to stderr by filch // outside of the logtail logger. Encode it. if !l.explainedRaw { fmt.Fprintf(l.stderr, "RAW-STDERR: ***\n") fmt.Fprintf(l.stderr, "RAW-STDERR: *** Lines prefixed with RAW-STDERR below bypassed logtail and probably come from a previous run of the program\n") fmt.Fprintf(l.stderr, "RAW-STDERR: ***\n") fmt.Fprintf(l.stderr, "RAW-STDERR:\n") l.explainedRaw = true } fmt.Fprintf(l.stderr, "RAW-STDERR: %s", b) // Do not add a client time, as it could have been // been written a long time ago. Don't include instance key or ID // either, since this came from a different instance. b = l.encodeText(b, true, 0, 0, 0) } if entries > 0 { buf.WriteByte(',') } buf.Write(b) entries++ } buf.WriteByte(']') if buf.Len() <= len("[]") { return nil } return buf.Bytes() } // This is the goroutine that repeatedly uploads logs in the background. func (l *Logger) uploading(ctx context.Context) { defer close(l.shutdownDone) scratch := make([]byte, 4096) // reusable buffer to write into for { body := l.drainPending(scratch) origlen := -1 // sentinel value: uncompressed // Don't attempt to compress tiny bodies; not worth the CPU cycles. if l.zstdEncoder != nil && len(body) > 256 { zbody := l.zstdEncoder.EncodeAll(body, nil) // Only send it compressed if the bandwidth savings are sufficient. // Just the extra headers associated with enabling compression // are 50 bytes by themselves. if len(body)-len(zbody) > 64 { origlen = len(body) body = zbody } } for len(body) > 0 { select { case <-ctx.Done(): return default: } uploaded, err := l.upload(ctx, body, origlen) if err != nil { if !l.internetUp() { fmt.Fprintf(l.stderr, "logtail: internet down; waiting\n") l.awaitInternetUp(ctx) continue } fmt.Fprintf(l.stderr, "logtail: upload: %v\n", err) } l.bo.BackOff(ctx, err) if uploaded { break } } select { case <-l.shutdownStart: return default: } } } func (l *Logger) internetUp() bool { if l.linkMonitor == nil { // No way to tell, so assume it is. return true } return l.linkMonitor.InterfaceState().AnyInterfaceUp() } func (l *Logger) awaitInternetUp(ctx context.Context) { upc := make(chan bool, 1) defer l.linkMonitor.RegisterChangeCallback(func(changed bool, st *interfaces.State) { if st.AnyInterfaceUp() { select { case upc <- true: default: } } })() if l.internetUp() { return } select { case <-upc: fmt.Fprintf(l.stderr, "logtail: internet back up\n") case <-ctx.Done(): } } // upload uploads body to the log server. // origlen indicates the pre-compression body length. // origlen of -1 indicates that the body is not compressed. func (l *Logger) upload(ctx context.Context, body []byte, origlen int) (uploaded bool, err error) { const maxUploadTime = 45 * time.Second ctx = sockstats.WithSockStats(ctx, sockstats.LabelLogtailLogger) ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, maxUploadTime) defer cancel() req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, "POST", l.url, bytes.NewReader(body)) if err != nil { // I know of no conditions under which this could fail. // Report it very loudly. // TODO record logs to disk panic("logtail: cannot build http request: " + err.Error()) } if origlen != -1 { req.Header.Add("Content-Encoding", "zstd") req.Header.Add("Orig-Content-Length", strconv.Itoa(origlen)) } req.Header["User-Agent"] = nil // not worth writing one; save some bytes compressedNote := "not-compressed" if origlen != -1 { compressedNote = "compressed" } l.httpDoCalls.Add(1) resp, err := l.httpc.Do(req) if err != nil { return false, fmt.Errorf("log upload of %d bytes %s failed: %v", len(body), compressedNote, err) } defer resp.Body.Close() if resp.StatusCode != 200 { uploaded = resp.StatusCode == 400 // the server saved the logs anyway b, _ := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 1<<20)) return uploaded, fmt.Errorf("log upload of %d bytes %s failed %d: %q", len(body), compressedNote, resp.StatusCode, b) } return true, nil } // Flush uploads all logs to the server. It blocks until complete or there is an // unrecoverable error. // // TODO(bradfitz): this apparently just returns nil, as of tailscale/corp@9c2ec35. // Finish cleaning this up. func (l *Logger) Flush() error { return nil } // StartFlush starts a log upload, if anything is pending. // // If l is nil, StartFlush is a no-op. func (l *Logger) StartFlush() { if l != nil { l.tryDrainWake() } } // logtailDisabled is whether logtail uploads to logcatcher are disabled. var logtailDisabled atomic.Bool // Disable disables logtail uploads for the lifetime of the process. func Disable() { logtailDisabled.Store(true) } var debugWakesAndUploads = envknob.RegisterBool("TS_DEBUG_LOGTAIL_WAKES") // tryDrainWake tries to send to lg.drainWake, to cause an uploading wakeup. // It does not block. func (l *Logger) tryDrainWake() { l.flushPending.Store(false) if debugWakesAndUploads() { // Using println instead of log.Printf here to avoid recursing back into // ourselves. println("logtail: try drain wake, numHTTP:", l.httpDoCalls.Load()) } select { case l.drainWake <- struct{}{}: default: } } func (l *Logger) sendLocked(jsonBlob []byte) (int, error) { tapSend(jsonBlob) if logtailDisabled.Load() { return len(jsonBlob), nil } n, err := l.buffer.Write(jsonBlob) flushDelay := defaultFlushDelay if l.flushDelayFn != nil { flushDelay = l.flushDelayFn() } if flushDelay > 0 { if l.flushPending.CompareAndSwap(false, true) { if l.flushTimer == nil { l.flushTimer = time.AfterFunc(flushDelay, l.tryDrainWake) } else { l.flushTimer.Reset(flushDelay) } } } else { l.tryDrainWake() } return n, err } // TODO: instead of allocating, this should probably just append // directly into the output log buffer. func (l *Logger) encodeText(buf []byte, skipClientTime bool, procID uint32, procSequence uint64, level int) []byte { now := l.timeNow() // Factor in JSON encoding overhead to try to only do one alloc // in the make below (so appends don't resize the buffer). overhead := len(`{"text": ""}\n`) includeLogtail := !skipClientTime || procID != 0 || procSequence != 0 if includeLogtail { overhead += len(`"logtail": {},`) } if !skipClientTime { overhead += len(`"client_time": "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00",`) } if procID != 0 { overhead += len(`"proc_id": 4294967296,`) } if procSequence != 0 { overhead += len(`"proc_seq": 9007199254740992,`) } // TODO: do a pass over buf and count how many backslashes will be needed? // For now just factor in a dozen. overhead += 12 // Put a sanity cap on buf's size. max := 16 << 10 if l.lowMem { max = 4 << 10 } var nTruncated int if len(buf) > max { nTruncated = len(buf) - max // TODO: this can break a UTF-8 character // mid-encoding. We don't tend to log // non-ASCII stuff ourselves, but e.g. client // names might be. buf = buf[:max] } b := make([]byte, 0, len(buf)+overhead) b = append(b, '{') if includeLogtail { b = append(b, `"logtail": {`...) if !skipClientTime { b = append(b, `"client_time": "`...) b = now.UTC().AppendFormat(b, time.RFC3339Nano) b = append(b, `",`...) } if procID != 0 { b = append(b, `"proc_id": `...) b = strconv.AppendUint(b, uint64(procID), 10) b = append(b, ',') } if procSequence != 0 { b = append(b, `"proc_seq": `...) b = strconv.AppendUint(b, procSequence, 10) b = append(b, ',') } b = bytes.TrimRight(b, ",") b = append(b, "}, "...) } if l.metricsDelta != nil { if d := l.metricsDelta(); d != "" { b = append(b, `"metrics": "`...) b = append(b, d...) b = append(b, `",`...) } } // Add the log level, if non-zero. Note that we only use log // levels 1 and 2 currently. It's unlikely we'll ever make it // past 9. if level > 0 && level < 10 { b = append(b, `"v":`...) b = append(b, '0'+byte(level)) b = append(b, ',') } b = append(b, "\"text\": \""...) for _, c := range buf { switch c { case '\b': b = append(b, '\\', 'b') case '\f': b = append(b, '\\', 'f') case '\n': b = append(b, '\\', 'n') case '\r': b = append(b, '\\', 'r') case '\t': b = append(b, '\\', 't') case '"': b = append(b, '\\', '"') case '\\': b = append(b, '\\', '\\') default: // TODO: what about binary gibberish or non UTF-8? b = append(b, c) } } if nTruncated > 0 { b = append(b, "…+"...) b = strconv.AppendInt(b, int64(nTruncated), 10) } b = append(b, "\"}\n"...) return b } func (l *Logger) encodeLocked(buf []byte, level int) []byte { if l.includeProcSequence { l.procSequence++ } if buf[0] != '{' { return l.encodeText(buf, l.skipClientTime, l.procID, l.procSequence, level) // text fast-path } now := l.timeNow() obj := make(map[string]any) if err := json.Unmarshal(buf, &obj); err != nil { for k := range obj { delete(obj, k) } obj["text"] = string(buf) } if txt, isStr := obj["text"].(string); l.lowMem && isStr && len(txt) > 254 { // TODO(crawshaw): trim to unicode code point obj["text"] = txt[:254] + "…" } hasLogtail := obj["logtail"] != nil if hasLogtail { obj["error_has_logtail"] = obj["logtail"] obj["logtail"] = nil } if !l.skipClientTime || l.procID != 0 || l.procSequence != 0 { logtail := map[string]any{} if !l.skipClientTime { logtail["client_time"] = now.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339Nano) } if l.procID != 0 { logtail["proc_id"] = l.procID } if l.procSequence != 0 { logtail["proc_seq"] = l.procSequence } obj["logtail"] = logtail } if level > 0 { obj["v"] = level } b, err := json.Marshal(obj) if err != nil { fmt.Fprintf(l.stderr, "logtail: re-encoding JSON failed: %v\n", err) // I know of no conditions under which this could fail. // Report it very loudly. panic("logtail: re-encoding JSON failed: " + err.Error()) } b = append(b, '\n') return b } // Logf logs to l using the provided fmt-style format and optional arguments. func (l *Logger) Logf(format string, args ...any) { fmt.Fprintf(l, format, args...) } // Write logs an encoded JSON blob. // // If the []byte passed to Write is not an encoded JSON blob, // then contents is fit into a JSON blob and written. // // This is intended as an interface for the stdlib "log" package. func (l *Logger) Write(buf []byte) (int, error) { if len(buf) == 0 { return 0, nil } level, buf := parseAndRemoveLogLevel(buf) if l.stderr != nil && l.stderr != io.Discard && int64(level) <= atomic.LoadInt64(&l.stderrLevel) { if buf[len(buf)-1] == '\n' { l.stderr.Write(buf) } else { // The log package always line-terminates logs, // so this is an uncommon path. withNL := append(buf[:len(buf):len(buf)], '\n') l.stderr.Write(withNL) } } l.writeLock.Lock() defer l.writeLock.Unlock() b := l.encodeLocked(buf, level) _, err := l.sendLocked(b) return len(buf), err } var ( openBracketV = []byte("[v") v1 = []byte("[v1] ") v2 = []byte("[v2] ") vJSON = []byte("[v\x00JSON]") // precedes log level '0'-'9' byte, then JSON value ) // level 0 is normal (or unknown) level; 1+ are increasingly verbose func parseAndRemoveLogLevel(buf []byte) (level int, cleanBuf []byte) { if len(buf) == 0 || buf[0] == '{' || !bytes.Contains(buf, openBracketV) { return 0, buf } if bytes.Contains(buf, v1) { return 1, bytes.ReplaceAll(buf, v1, nil) } if bytes.Contains(buf, v2) { return 2, bytes.ReplaceAll(buf, v2, nil) } if i := bytes.Index(buf, vJSON); i != -1 { rest := buf[i+len(vJSON):] if len(rest) >= 2 { v := rest[0] if v >= '0' && v <= '9' { return int(v - '0'), rest[1:] } } } return 0, buf } var ( tapSetSize atomic.Int32 tapMu sync.Mutex tapSet set.HandleSet[chan<- string] ) // RegisterLogTap registers dst to get a copy of every log write. The caller // must call unregister when done watching. // // This would ideally be a method on Logger, but Logger isn't really available // in most places; many writes go via stderr which filch redirects to the // singleton Logger set up early. For better or worse, there's basically only // one Logger within the program. This mechanism at least works well for // tailscaled. It works less well for a binary with multiple tsnet.Servers. Oh // well. This then subscribes to all of them. func RegisterLogTap(dst chan<- string) (unregister func()) { tapMu.Lock() defer tapMu.Unlock() h := tapSet.Add(dst) tapSetSize.Store(int32(len(tapSet))) return func() { tapMu.Lock() defer tapMu.Unlock() delete(tapSet, h) tapSetSize.Store(int32(len(tapSet))) } } // tapSend relays the JSON blob to any/all registered local debug log watchers // (somebody running "tailscale debug daemon-logs"). func tapSend(jsonBlob []byte) { if tapSetSize.Load() == 0 { return } s := string(jsonBlob) tapMu.Lock() defer tapMu.Unlock() for _, dst := range tapSet { select { case dst <- s: default: } } }