Excessive logging

Linux
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Just noticed that pretty much all my system logs are tailscaled logs, e.g. yesterday out of 17688 lines in /var/log/syslog there were 13512 lines written by tailscaled.

Is there any way to configure it to log only important events?

Pretty much all those lines follow this pattern (pretty much same three lines every 30 seconds or so):

Dec 15 03:06:07 jozinko tailscaled[1060210]: magicsock: starting endpoint update (periodic)
Dec 15 03:06:07 jozinko tailscaled[1060210]: netcheck: probePortMapServices: me 192.168.1.185 -> gw 192.168.229.1
Dec 15 03:06:07 jozinko tailscaled[1060210]: netcheck: udp=true v6=false mapvarydest=false hair=false portmap= v4a=108.233.206.37:1052 derp=2 derpdist=2v4:24ms,9v4:58ms,10v4:38ms
Dec 15 03:06:33 jozinko tailscaled[1060210]: magicsock: starting endpoint update (periodic)
Dec 15 03:06:33 jozinko tailscaled[1060210]: netcheck: probePortMapServices: me 192.168.1.185 -> gw 192.168.229.1
Dec 15 03:06:33 jozinko tailscaled[1060210]: netcheck: udp=true v6=false mapvarydest=false hair=false portmap= v4a=108.233.206.37:1052 derp=2 derpdist=2v4:24ms,9v4:58ms,10v4:38ms
Dec 15 03:06:59 jozinko tailscaled[1060210]: magicsock: starting endpoint update (periodic)
Dec 15 03:06:59 jozinko tailscaled[1060210]: netcheck: probePortMapServices: me 192.168.1.185 -> gw 192.168.229.1
Dec 15 03:06:59 jozinko tailscaled[1060210]: netcheck: udp=true v6=false mapvarydest=false hair=false portmap= v4a=108.233.206.37:1052 derp=2 derpdist=2v4:24ms,9v4:58ms,10v4:38ms

thanks!

    erik
2

Hi Zasran,

We do not have any log level configuration for reducing logs captured yet. But you can create the feature request on the Tailscale GitHub repository and this way you will get updates.

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Created feature request per darshinimashar’s suggestion, thanks! Forum does not let me post a link, it’s issue 1041 in Github tailscale repository.

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Thank you for creating the feature request.