Manage Debug Bundles in Redpanda Console

This section pertains to Redpanda Console in a self-managed deployment, and this feature requires an Enterprise license. To upgrade, contact Redpanda sales.

If Redpanda Console has enterprise features enabled and it cannot find a valid license either in its local configuration or in the connected Redpanda cluster, it shuts down.

Learn how to generate, download, and delete debug bundles in Redpanda Console for comprehensive cluster diagnostics.

Prerequisites

Generate a debug bundle

You can generate a debug bundle for all brokers in the cluster using Redpanda Console. After generating the bundle, download it onto your local computer for inspection.

  1. Log in as an admin user.

  2. Click Admin in the sidebar.

    This option is visible only when you are logged in as an admin user.

  3. Go to Debug bundle.

  4. Click Generate new.

  5. Wait until the process is complete.

  6. Click debug-bundle.zip to download the bundle on your local computer.

  7. Unzip the file to inspect the contents.

Inspect the debug bundle

After downloading the debug bundle files, you can inspect the contents to debug your cluster. This section provides some useful data points to check while troubleshooting.

Most files in the debug bundle are JSON files. To make it easier to read these files, this section uses jq. To install jq, see the jq downloads page.

View the version of Redpanda on all brokers

cat admin/brokers.json | jq '.[] | .version'

Example output:

"v24.3.1"
"v24.3.1"
"v24.3.1"

View the maintenance status of all brokers

cat admin/brokers.json | jq '.[] | .node_id, .maintenance_status'
Example output
0
{
  "draining": false,
  "finished": false,
  "errors": false,
  "partitions": 0,
  "eligible": 0,
  "transferring": 0,
  "failed": 0
}
1
{
  "draining": false,
  "finished": false,
  "errors": false,
  "partitions": 0,
  "eligible": 0,
  "transferring": 0,
  "failed": 0
}
2
{
  "draining": false,
  "finished": false,
  "errors": false,
  "partitions": 0,
  "eligible": 0,
  "transferring": 0,
  "failed": 0
}

View the cluster configuration

cat admin/cluster_config.json | jq
Example output
{
  "abort_index_segment_size": 50000,
  "abort_timed_out_transactions_interval_ms": 10000,
  "admin_api_require_auth": false,
  "aggregate_metrics": false,
  "alter_topic_cfg_timeout_ms": 5000,
  "append_chunk_size": 16384,
  "auto_create_topics_enabled": false,
  "cloud_storage_access_key": null,
  "cloud_storage_api_endpoint": null,
  "cloud_storage_api_endpoint_port": 443,
  "cloud_storage_azure_container": null,
  "cloud_storage_azure_shared_key": null,
  "cloud_storage_azure_storage_account": null,
  "cloud_storage_bucket": null,
  ...
  "target_quota_byte_rate": 2147483648,
  "tm_sync_timeout_ms": 10000,
  "topic_fds_per_partition": 5,
  "topic_memory_per_partition": 1048576,
  "topic_partitions_per_shard": 1000,
  "topic_partitions_reserve_shard0": 2,
  "transaction_coordinator_cleanup_policy": "delete",
  "transaction_coordinator_delete_retention_ms": 604800000,
  "transaction_coordinator_log_segment_size": 1073741824,
  "transactional_id_expiration_ms": 604800000,
  "tx_log_stats_interval_s": 10,
  "tx_timeout_delay_ms": 1000,
  "wait_for_leader_timeout_ms": 5000,
  "zstd_decompress_workspace_bytes": 8388608
}

Check Enterprise Edition license keys

cat admin/license.json | jq
Example output
{
  "loaded": false,
  "license": {
    "format_version": 0,
    "org": "",
    "type": "",
    "expires": 0,
    "sha256": ""
  }
}

View metadata about the Redpanda data directory

To check the size of the directories and look for anomalies:

cat utils/du.txt
Example output
33M	/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/kvstore/0_0
33M	/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/kvstore
33M	/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/controller/0_0
33M	/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/controller
65M	/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda
65M	/var/lib/redpanda/data

To check the file permissions, file size, and last modification date of the files:

cat data-dir.txt | jq
Example output
{
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data": {
    "size": "4.096kB",
    "mode": "dgrwxrwxrwx",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:12.430878371 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  },
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data/config_cache.yaml": {
    "size": "340B",
    "mode": "-rw-r--r--",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:22.434878593 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  },
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data/pid.lock": {
    "size": "2B",
    "mode": "-rw-r--r--",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:10.502878322 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  },
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda": {
    "size": "4.096kB",
    "mode": "dgrwxr-xr-x",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:10.650878326 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  },
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/controller": {
    "size": "4.096kB",
    "mode": "dgrwxr-xr-x",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:10.650878326 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  },
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/controller/0_0": {
    "size": "4.096kB",
    "mode": "dgrwxr-xr-x",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:12.346878368 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  },
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/controller/0_0/0-1-v1.log": {
    "size": "4.096kB",
    "mode": "-rw-r--r--",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:32.450878771 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  },
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/kvstore": {
    "size": "4.096kB",
    "mode": "dgrwxr-xr-x",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:10.590878324 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  },
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/kvstore/0_0": {
    "size": "4.096kB",
    "mode": "dgrwxr-xr-x",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:10.602878325 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  },
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data/redpanda/kvstore/0_0/0-0-v1.log": {
    "size": "8.192kB",
    "mode": "-rw-r--r--",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:32.458878772 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  },
  "/var/lib/redpanda/data/startup_log": {
    "size": "26B",
    "mode": "-rw-r--r--",
    "modified": "2023-02-02 15:21:10.510878323 +0000 UTC",
    "user": "",
    "group": "redpanda"
  }
}

View cluster metadata

cat kafka.json | jq '.[0]'
Example output
{
  "Name": "metadata",
  "Response": {
    "Cluster": "redpanda.14a3f9b6-1c74-4ffd-806a-4ab48db78120",
    "Controller": 0,
    "Brokers": [
      {
        "NodeID": 0,
        "Port": 9093,
        "Host": "redpanda-0.redpanda.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local.",
        "Rack": null
      },
      {
        "NodeID": 1,
        "Port": 9093,
        "Host": "redpanda-1.redpanda.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local.",
        "Rack": null
      },
      {
        "NodeID": 2,
        "Port": 9093,
        "Host": "redpanda-2.redpanda.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local.",
        "Rack": null
      }
    ],
    "Topics": {}
  },
  "Error": null
}

View topic and broker configurations

cat kafka.json | jq '.[1:]'
Example output
[
  {
    "Name": "topic_configs",
    "Response": null,
    "Error": null
  },
  {
    "Name": "broker_configs",
    "Response": [
      {
        "Name": "0",
        "Configs": [
          {
            "Key": "listeners",
            "Value": "internal://0.0.0.0:9093,default://0.0.0.0:9094",
            "Sensitive": false,
            "Source": "STATIC_BROKER_CONFIG",
            "Synonyms": [
              {
                "Key": "kafka_api",
                "Value": "internal://0.0.0.0:9093,default://0.0.0.0:9094",
                "Source": "STATIC_BROKER_CONFIG"
              },
              {
                "Key": "kafka_api",
                "Value": "plain://127.0.0.1:9092",
                "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "Key": "advertised.listeners",
            "Value": "internal://redpanda-0.redpanda.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local.:9093,default://203.0.113.3:31092",
            "Sensitive": false,
            "Source": "STATIC_BROKER_CONFIG",
            "Synonyms": [
              {
                "Key": "advertised_kafka_api",
                "Value": "internal://redpanda-0.redpanda.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local.:9093,default://203.0.113.3:31092",
                "Source": "STATIC_BROKER_CONFIG"
              },
              {
                "Key": "advertised_kafka_api",
                "Value": "",
                "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "Key": "log.segment.bytes",
            "Value": "134217728",
            "Sensitive": false,
            "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG",
            "Synonyms": [
              {
                "Key": "log_segment_size",
                "Value": "134217728",
                "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "Key": "log.retention.bytes",
            "Value": "18446744073709551615",
            "Sensitive": false,
            "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG",
            "Synonyms": [
              {
                "Key": "retention_bytes",
                "Value": "18446744073709551615",
                "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "Key": "log.retention.ms",
            "Value": "604800000",
            "Sensitive": false,
            "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG",
            "Synonyms": [
              {
                "Key": "delete_retention_ms",
                "Value": "604800000",
                "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "Key": "num.partitions",
            "Value": "1",
            "Sensitive": false,
            "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG",
            "Synonyms": [
              {
                "Key": "default_topic_partitions",
                "Value": "1",
                "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "Key": "default.replication.factor",
            "Value": "1",
            "Sensitive": false,
            "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG",
            "Synonyms": [
              {
                "Key": "default_topic_replications",
                "Value": "1",
                "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "Key": "log.dirs",
            "Value": "/var/lib/redpanda/data",
            "Sensitive": false,
            "Source": "STATIC_BROKER_CONFIG",
            "Synonyms": [
              {
                "Key": "data_directory",
                "Value": "/var/lib/redpanda/data",
                "Source": "STATIC_BROKER_CONFIG"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "Key": "auto.create.topics.enable",
            "Value": "false",
            "Sensitive": false,
            "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG",
            "Synonyms": [
              {
                "Key": "auto_create_topics_enabled",
                "Value": "false",
                "Source": "DEFAULT_CONFIG"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "Err": null
      },
      {
        "Name": "1",
        "Configs": [
          ...
        ]
        ...
      },
      {
        "Name": "1",
        "Configs": [
          ...
        ]
        ...
      },
    ],
    "Error": null
  },
  {
    "Name": "log_start_offsets",
    "Response": {},
    "Error": null
  },
  {
    "Name": "last_stable_offsets",
    "Response": {},
    "Error": null
  },
  {
    "Name": "high_watermarks",
    "Response": {},
    "Error": null
  },
  {
    "Name": "groups",
    "Response": null,
    "Error": null
  }
]

View the Redpanda logs

cat redpanda.log

Check for clock drift

cat utils/ntp.txt | jq

Use the output to check for clock drift. For details about how NTP works, see the NTP documentation.

Example output
{
  "host": "pool.ntp.org",
  "roundTripTimeMs": 3,
  "remoteTimeUTC": "2023-02-02T15:22:51.763175934Z",
  "localTimeUTC": "2023-02-02T15:22:51.698044603Z",
  "precisionMs": 0,
  "offset": -458273
}

Delete a debug bundle

To generate a new debug bundle, you must delete the existing one.

  1. Log in as an admin user.

  2. Click Admin in the sidebar.

    This option is visible only when you are logged in as an admin user.

  3. Go to Debug bundle.

  4. Click the trash icon next to debug-bundle.zip to delete the bundle.