Issue Several Plesk servers 100% full. Sigh.

[HHawk]

Server operating system version

CentOS 7.x / AlmaLinux 8.x

Plesk version and microupdate number

Latest

Seems Plesk is getting more issues by the day. Now we already noticed about 12 servers which are completely full! Without any changes/updates.

--- /var/lib/plesk/task-manager/runtime -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/..
43.0 GiB [#############################################] /126446
22.0 GiB [####################### ] /126453
7.0 GiB [####### ] /126437
932.8 MiB [ ] /125930
932.8 MiB [ ] /125944
917.9 MiB [ ] /126371
903.7 MiB [ ] /126013
903.7 MiB [ ] /125992
903.7 MiB [ ] /126027
896.5 MiB [ ] /126055
896.1 MiB [ ] /126132
889.2 MiB [ ] /126069
889.0 MiB [ ] /126041
889.0 MiB [ ] /126083
889.0 MiB [ ] /126114
888.9 MiB [ ] /126225
888.9 MiB [ ] /126100
888.9 MiB [ ] /126208
881.7 MiB [ ] /126146
881.7 MiB [ ] /126239
881.6 MiB [ ] /126160
874.2 MiB [ ] /126295
874.2 MiB [ ] /126323
866.9 MiB [ ] /126267
859.8 MiB [ ] /126309
859.7 MiB [ ] /126253
852.5 MiB [ ] /126337
852.4 MiB [ ] /126357
852.4 MiB [ ] /126281
610.9 MiB [ ] /125916
427.6 MiB [ ] /126076
427.6 MiB [ ] /126048
427.5 MiB [ ] /126093
427.5 MiB [ ] /126232
427.5 MiB [ ] /126344
427.5 MiB [ ] /126062
427.4 MiB [ ] /126153
420.0 MiB [ ] /126121
420.0 MiB [ ] /126246
420.0 MiB [ ] /126260
420.0 MiB [ ] /126316
420.0 MiB [ ] /126364
419.9 MiB [ ] /126167
419.9 MiB [ ] /126274
419.9 MiB [ ] /126006
419.9 MiB [ ] /125937
419.9 MiB [ ] /126139
419.9 MiB [ ] /125951
419.9 MiB [ ] /126034
419.9 MiB [ ] /125923
419.9 MiB [ ] /126378
419.9 MiB [ ] /126020
419.9 MiB [ ] /126288
419.9 MiB [ ] /126330
419.8 MiB [ ] /126107
419.8 MiB [ ] /126302
419.8 MiB [ ] /126218
8.5 MiB [ ] /126407
2.7 MiB [ ] /126431
2.7 MiB [ ] /126435
2.7 MiB [ ] /126433
2.7 MiB [ ] /126419
1.4 MiB [ ] /126389

Seems to be caused by Browser Log (my best guess). Thanks Plesk. Great work once again!!

 

[HHawk]

More issues with Plesk it seems:
ls -lsh /var/log/plesk/panel.log
73G -rw-r----- 1 psaadm root 73G Nov 27 10:17 /var/log/plesk/panel.log

73 GB panel.log haha.

Output of panel.log is only junk:
tail -n500 /var/log/plesk/panel.log

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Sure let's add more and more junk to Plesk and make it sluggish/slower and with errors like this. We never experienced these kinds of issues in the past 20 years. These kinds of things are happening more frequent, because more stuff and gimmicks are added. What happened to less is more?

Anyways, our technician emptied the log files, uninstalled Browser Log and restarted the servers. Seems to be running again. We will be monitoring this... Let's hope not all servers have these issues.

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

Do you have debug mode enabled? If yes, please consider disabling it as it can contribute to the drastic growth of the panel.log file. Additionally, what else I can recommend is to consider reviewing /etc/logrotate.d/plesk and confirm if /var/log/plesk/panel.log is included. If the issue continues, please consider getting in touch with our technical support team so they can further review the issue.

 

[HHawk]

Apparently that was the cause after Plesk technicians worked on the server a few weeks ago. Apperently it was not disabled afterwards. Ugh....

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

By procedure, If the Plesk debug mode was enabled by our technicians they are disabling it when the investigation is concluded. There is still the human-factor and I would like to apologize if the same was unintentionally left enabled by our members.