AA Syslog fills with messages about fluentd buffer overflow messages

  • Document ID:7025078
  • Creation Date:13-Apr-2021
  • Modified Date:13-Apr-2021
    • Micro Focus Products:
      Advanced Authentication

Environment

Advanced Authentication
AA 6.3.3
Risk service not enabled

Situation

System Log  (under the syslog tab) on the AA Admin page, and "Messages" log in downloaded AAF logs show thousands of repeated fluentd buffer full messages:

level=error msg="Failed to log msg \"\" for logger fluentd: fluent#appendBuffer: Buffer full, limit 1048576"

Resolution

Bug report has been entered.

Workaround if Risk Service is not being used is to enter the following commands on the AA server:
systemctl stop docker
systemctl start docker
docker container rm risk_rbahistory_1
docker rmi image -f mfsecurity/rba_history:1.0.0.2
reboot

Status

Reported to Engineering