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Updated Droplet for Monitoring, now sending a lot of data to syslog

I updated my droplet for the monitoring as a thing on my dashboard suggested it, it’s Monitoring Beta and now it sends a bunch of lines to my syslog every 15 seconds and it’s making it difficult to find the things I actually care about. This is what it looks like, how do I disable this?

Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Transmitting metrics to DigitalOcean.
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram0
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram1
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram2
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram3
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram4
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram5
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram6
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram7
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram8
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram9
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram10
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram11
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram12
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram13
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram14
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk ram15
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk loop0
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk loop1
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk loop2
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk loop3
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk loop4
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk loop5
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk loop6
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk loop7
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Excluding disk vda1
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 meminfo field not recognized: MemAvailable
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 meminfo field not recognized: CmaTotal
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 meminfo field not recognized: CmaFree
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 Posting metrics to: https://nyc2.sonar.digitalocean.com/v1/metrics/droplet_id/21479984
Sep 21 20:12:32 ExternalChat-512mb-nyc2-s1 do-agent[22585]: 2016/09/21 20:12:32 sleeping for 15 seconds
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Marko Mudrinić • September 22, 2016

As end-users, we really don’t know what it does. This is something that appeared this night, I was looking yesterday, there was no any Monitoring BETA. Until DigitalOcean doesn’t say what is it, we can only guess.

We can uninstall, which I would NOT!! recommend. Second option is to clear out log files from it.

  1. grep -v 'do-agent' /var/log/syslog

This will write all output of syslog to your terminal. If you want to write it into some file, you can specify it:

  1. grep -v 'do-agent' /var/log/syslog > ~/syslog-noagent

This will create syslog-noagent file without do-agent logs in your home directory. The only problem with this is that do-agent logs will still remain in original file.

To remove previous logs permanently

  1. sed --in-place '/do-agent/d' /var/log/syslog

New logs will still appear but you will have clean syslog of previous do-agent(s).

Anyways, I’m gonna observe droplet CPU, IO usage and I will write back or report to support if I see something unusual. Writing (min) 31* logs every 15 seconds in syslog is something unacceptable

Eris Castrogivanni • September 22, 2016

Sorry about this. The feature this matches up with is in a closed beta right now. It was publicly viewable for a short time yesterday and this morning, by accident. :(

I’d recommend removing the agent by running one of the following commands depending on which Distro you’re running:

sudo apt-get purge do-agent sudo yum remove do-agent

Alexander Graf • September 22, 2016

Installed as well, I’m seeing the same thing. Interested to know what exactly it does.

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