[Backport 2025.1] improvement(logging): added 'actions' log #10905
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Introducing
actions
log for tracking testing process: what actions SCT does to cluster. This will help to quickly find out test steps taken by SCT e.g. restarting, corrupting data, aborting etc.. It will also log all error/critical events (basic details only: event type, severity, event_id and node). This log should contain only the most important actions, not to blurry test flow with too much information.It works by appending JSON lines to
actions.log
and also tosct.log
(in simpler, textual form). Intention of JSON lines is to be easily parsable for further visualisation, AI integration and still keeping human-readable form.This commit introduces it only in limited scope - with intention to expand it to other test cases and threads (like Nemesis, full scan thread etc.)
refs: #8909
Testing
PR pre-checks (self review)
backport
labelsReminders
Add New configuration option and document them (in
sdcm/sct_config.py
)Add unit tests to cover my changes (under
unit-test/
folder)Update the Readme/doc folder relevant to this change (if needed)
(cherry picked from commit 0576cdf)
Parent PR: #10841