Collector pod exceeds the memory limits in RHOCP 4

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The collector pod is consuming more memory than the defined in the clusterLogging CR instance
  • Fluentd pod consumes a lot of CPU/Memory exhausting the nodes
  • the process log-file-metric-exporter is using most of the memory in the RHOCP node

    Top MEM-using processes: 
    USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ-MiB RSS-MiB TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND 
    root 7047 8.1 41.3 9616 8295 ? - Mar10 28603:18 /usr/local/bin/log-file-metric-exporter -verbosity=2 -dir=/var/log/containers 
    

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
    • 4
  • Red Hat OpenShift Logging (RHOL)
    • 5.3

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