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9dc766d631 fix(lab): silence Asterisk noise at the source, keep notice logging
Follow-up to 3150f78, which over-corrected. Dropping `notice` from logger.conf
made the log quiet by making the gateway undebuggable: Asterisk reports
rejected SIP requests at notice level via log_failed_request ("No matching
endpoint found", "Failed to authenticate"), and on a box whose entire job is
answering SIP those are the most useful lines it produces. A call was refused
and nothing said so.

`notice` is restored. The noise is dealt with where it originates instead:

- modules.conf, new. The image ships `autoload=yes` and loads every module it
  was built with, including chan_alsa on a container with no sound card:
  ~74 ALSA config errors per restart, plus module-load ERRORs for CDR/CEL
  backends, LDAP/ODBC realtime config, and format_ogg_vorbis — none of which
  can work here. Explicit noload for those; autoload stays on, because an
  allow-list would break quietly the first time a scenario needs a module
  nobody remembered to add.

- The healthcheck reduction from 3150f78 (one CLI connection on a 60s
  interval, rather than the image's ~7 every 30s) does the rest.

Verified on galatea: ALSA lines 74 → 0, all startup ERRORs gone (only one-off
benign WARNINGs remain), steady-state 4 lines per 2 minutes against ~840 per
30 minutes originally — and a refused call still logs 6 diagnostic lines.
Transport bound, both endpoints and dialplan loaded, container healthy.

`verbose` stays excluded: dialplan execution is worth having when tracing a
specific call, not worth shipping to Loki continuously. Raise it at runtime
with `asterisk -rx "core set verbose 3"`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 18:16:30 -04:00
3 changed files with 66 additions and 11 deletions

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@@ -9,16 +9,22 @@ dateformat = %F %T
; mounted for the setting to take effect. ; mounted for the setting to take effect.
[logfiles] [logfiles]
; Warnings and errors only. That covers what matters when a lab call ; `notice` is KEPT, deliberately. Asterisk logs rejected SIP requests at
; misbehaves: failed authentication, no-matching-endpoint, playback failures. ; notice level via log_failed_request ("No matching endpoint found",
; "Failed to authenticate"), and on a box whose whole job is answering SIP
; those are the single most useful diagnostic. Dropping notice made the log
; quieter and the gateway undebuggable — a call was refused and nothing said
; so.
; ;
; `notice` and `verbose` are both excluded because the "Remote UNIX ; `verbose` is excluded: dialplan execution ("Executing [1001@...]") is
; connection" pairs the healthcheck generates arrive on those channels, and ; useful when tracing a specific call, but it is not worth shipping to Loki
; they swamped everything else (the Loki stream measured 100% healthcheck ; continuously. Raise it at runtime instead:
; noise before this). The healthcheck itself is also reduced to one CLI call
; on a 60s interval in docker-compose — the two changes work together.
;
; To trace a call's dialplan execution, raise verbosity at runtime rather than
; leaving it on:
; asterisk -rx "core set verbose 3" ; asterisk -rx "core set verbose 3"
console => warning,error ;
; The healthcheck's "Remote UNIX connection" pairs also arrive on notice.
; They are dealt with at the source rather than by silencing the channel:
; docker-compose replaces the image's ~7-connections-per-30s healthcheck with
; a single check on a 60s interval, and modules.conf stops the container
; loading hardware and database modules it has no use for (~74 ALSA lines per
; restart). Those two together cut the noise without costing visibility.
console => notice,warning,error

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@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
; Module loading for the lab.
;
; The image ships `autoload=yes`, which loads every module Asterisk was built
; with. On a headless container that produces a lot of startup noise for
; hardware and backends that do not exist here — measured at ~74 ALSA lines
; plus a dozen module-load ERRORs per restart, all of it in Loki. None of it
; was harmful; all of it made the log harder to read.
;
; autoload stays on: this is a lab, and an explicit allow-list would break
; quietly every time a scenario needs a module nobody remembered to add. The
; noload lines below are only for modules that *cannot* work in this container.
[modules]
autoload=yes
; --- Audio hardware -------------------------------------------------------
; No sound card in a container. chan_alsa/chan_oss probe for one and emit
; ~74 lines of ALSA config errors on every start. The media path is RTP via
; PJSIP, never a local device.
noload => chan_alsa.so
noload => chan_oss.so
noload => chan_console.so
; --- CDR/CEL backends for databases we do not run -------------------------
; Each logs "declined to load" or a config error at startup. Call records live
; in Hold Slayer's own Postgres, written by the gateway, not by Asterisk.
noload => cdr_pgsql.so
noload => cdr_sqlite3_custom.so
noload => cdr_custom.so
noload => cdr_csv.so
noload => cel_pgsql.so
noload => cel_sqlite3_custom.so
noload => cel_custom.so
; --- Realtime config backends we do not use -------------------------------
; The lab's configuration is the mounted .conf files. LDAP/ODBC/PgSQL realtime
; each complain about missing connection details on every start.
noload => res_config_ldap.so
noload => res_config_odbc.so
noload => res_config_pgsql.so
noload => res_config_sqlite3.so
; --- Codecs and formats that fail to initialise ----------------------------
; format_ogg_vorbis errors on load. The lab plays .sln (signed linear) and
; negotiates ulaw/alaw, so nothing here needs Vorbis.
noload => format_ogg_vorbis.so
noload => format_ogg_speex.so

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@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ services:
# Carries `nocolor = yes`: without it every log line reaches Loki # Carries `nocolor = yes`: without it every log line reaches Loki
# wrapped in ANSI escape codes. # wrapped in ANSI escape codes.
- ./dialplan/asterisk.conf:/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf:ro - ./dialplan/asterisk.conf:/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf:ro
# noload for hardware/DB modules this container cannot use — the image
# autoloads everything, which costs ~74 ALSA lines per restart.
- ./dialplan/modules.conf:/etc/asterisk/modules.conf:ro
# The image ships no sound files at all. These are generated by # The image ships no sound files at all. These are generated by
# sounds/generate.py; Asterisk resolves Playback(lab-music) to # sounds/generate.py; Asterisk resolves Playback(lab-music) to
# lab-music.sln here (8kHz signed-linear, no transcoding). # lab-music.sln here (8kHz signed-linear, no transcoding).