DmesgLog - file /var/log/dmesg

This module provides access to the messages from the kernel ring buffer gathered from the /var/log/dmesg file.

Typical output of the /var/log/dmesg file is:

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64 (mockbuild@x86-034.build.eng.bos.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Mar 21 18:14:51 EDT 2018
[    2.090905] SELinux:  Completing initialization.
[    2.090907] SELinux:  Setting up existing superblocks.
[    2.099684] systemd[1]: Successfully loaded SELinux policy in 82.788ms.
[    2.117410] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[    2.117429] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'ip_tables'
[    2.376551] systemd-journald[441]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[    2.716874] cryptd: max_cpu_qlen set to 100
[    2.804152] AES CTR mode by8 optimization enabled

Examples

>>> "SELinux" in dmesg_log
True
>>> "ip6_tables" in dmesg_log
False
>>> dmesg_log.get("SELinux")[0]["raw_message"]
"[    2.090905] SELinux:  Completing initialization."
>>> len(dmesg_log.get("SELinux"))
2
class insights.parsers.dmesg_log.DmesgLog(context, extra_bad_lines=None)[source]

Bases: DmesgLineList

Class for parsing the /var/log/dmesg file using the DmesgLineList class.