Logging was configured correctly and shipping to Loki, but the stream was
useless: measured at 100% healthcheck chatter, with every line wrapped in ANSI
escape codes. The real SIP events were there and completely buried.
Three causes, each masking the next:
- asterisk.conf was written in the first lab commit with `nocolor = yes` and
never mounted, so the setting had no effect. Now mounted. It was also
overriding [directories] and runuser/rungroup, which the image sets up
correctly itself — removed, since overriding them risks breaking the
container for no gain.
- The image's command is `-vvvdddf`: verbosity 3 and debug 3 forced on the
command line, which overrides both asterisk.conf and logger.conf. Overridden
in compose to drop -v and -d; warnings and errors still log, and verbosity
is raisable at runtime when tracing a call.
- The actual source: the image's healthcheck makes ~7 separate `asterisk -rx`
connections every 30s, and Asterisk logs a connect/disconnect pair for each.
Replaced with a single check on a 60s interval, and the check now runs
`pjsip show transports` rather than `core show version` — that fails when
Asterisk is up but unconfigured, which is exactly the state that produced a
"healthy" container with no SIP stack on first deploy.
logger.conf drops both `notice` and `verbose`, which is where those pairs
arrive.
Verified on galatea: noise down from ~48 to 8 lines per two minutes (-83%),
zero ANSI codes in Loki, 90% of the stream now signal, container still
healthy, transport and dialplan intact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Robert Helewka
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