fix(must-gather): honors MUST_GATHER_SINCE/MUST_GATHER_SINCE_TIME from oc adm must-gather by Clee2691 · Pull Request #3565 · openshift/cluster-logging-operator

Clee2691 · 2026-10-30T23:11:12Z

Description

This PR honors the MUST_GATHER_SINCE/MUST_GATHER_SINCE_TIME environment variable passed from the oc adm must-gather binary so that users can limit must-gather pod log collection to a recent time window.

/cc @vparfonov
/assign @jcantrill

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JIRA: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/LOG-10435

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added MUST_GATHER_SINCE and MUST_GATHER_SINCE_TIME settings to limit collected container logs by a relative duration or timestamp. Positive durations are rounded up to whole seconds; a zero duration leaves the time filter unset.
Bug Fixes
- Invalid durations or timestamps, negative durations, and setting both time filters now produce an error.
Tests
- Added coverage for log collection with no time filter, a relative-duration filter, and a timestamp filter.

coderabbitai · 2026-10-30T23:11:23Z

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Walkthrough

The command accepts relative-duration and RFC3339 timestamp filters for pod log collection. It validates and parses the options, then passes them through the collectors to Kubernetes pod log requests.

Changes: Pod Log Time Filters

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse and configure time filters `must-gather/internal/api/types.go`, `must-gather/cmd/main.go`, `must-gather/gather.go`	`Config` stores both optional filters. The command rejects negative durations and simultaneous use of a positive duration and a timestamp. It rounds positive durations up to seconds and parses timestamps as RFC3339 before calling `NewGather`.
Forward filters through collection `must-gather/internal/collection/collection_collector.go`	The collection collector stores both filters and passes them to the namespace collector.
Apply and test pod log filters `must-gather/internal/namespace/collector.go`, `must-gather/internal/namespace/collector_test.go`, `must-gather/internal/namespace/suite_test.go`	The namespace collector sets both filters on `PodLogOptions`. Tests check that absent filters are omitted and that each filter appears in the request query when used alone.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: jcantrill

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 90d1f

Valid time filters are passed to pod-log requests. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: must-gather now honors the MUST_GATHER_SINCE and MUST_GATHER_SINCE_TIME variables passed from oc adm must-gather. The raw summary confirms the CLI reads both variables…
Description check		The description states the intent. It explains that the PR honors MUST_GATHER_SINCE and MUST_GATHER_SINCE_TIME from oc adm must-gather so users can limit pod log collection to a recent window. It incl…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the main change: must-gather now honors the MUST_GATHER_SINCE and MUST_GATHER_SINCE_TIME variables passed from oc adm must-gather. The raw summary confirms the CLI reads both variables, validates them, and passes them through NewGather to the namespace and log collectors, so the title matches the changeset.

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The description states the intent. It explains that the PR honors MUST_GATHER_SINCE and MUST_GATHER_SINCE_TIME from oc adm must-gather so users can limit pod log collection to a recent window. It includes a JIRA link (LOG-10435) and the /cc and /assign lines. It omits the required sections for a 1000-foot implementation overview, and it leaves the GitHub issue and dependent PR links unfilled. The template's Links section also lists the enhancement proposal field, which is not addressed. These gaps are non-critical, so the description is mostly complete.

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Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 2 functions across 7 files.

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qodo-for-rh-openshift · 2026-10-30T23:11:42Z

PR Summary by Qodo

Honor time filters when collecting must-gather pod logs

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 🕐 20-40 Minutes

AI Description

• Accept --since and --since-time to limit collected pod logs.
• Pass time filters to pod log requests across standard and logging namespaces.
• Test that log requests include the selected filter or omit both by default.

Diagram

graph TD
  CLI["Must-gather CLI"] --> G["Gather config"] --> S["Standard namespaces"] --> N["Namespace collector"] --> K["Kubernetes pod logs"]
  G --> L["Logging collector"] --> N

High-Level Assessment

Passing the selected filter through the existing collectors to Kubernetes PodLogOptions is the direct approach. A separate client-side log filter would add processing without using the API's native time filtering.

Files changed (7) +175 / -26

Bug fix (5) +75 / -26

main.goParse and validate pod log time filters +29/-2

Parse and validate pod log time filters

• Adds mutually exclusive '--since' and '--since-time' flags. Converts a relative duration to seconds or parses an RFC3339 timestamp before creating the gather.

must-gather/cmd/main.go

gather.goPass time filters into both collector paths +6/-3

Pass time filters into both collector paths
• Stores the selected filter in gather configuration and passes it to the standard-namespace and logging collectors.
must-gather/gather.go

types.goAdd pod log filters to gather configuration +9/-0

Add pod log filters to gather configuration
• Adds optional relative-seconds and absolute-timestamp fields for pod log collection.
must-gather/internal/api/types.go

collection_collector.goForward filters to discovered logging namespaces +14/-10

Forward filters to discovered logging namespaces
• Retains the selected filter and passes it to the namespace collector used for logging-related namespaces.
must-gather/internal/collection/collection_collector.go

collector.goApply time filters to container log requests +17/-11

Apply time filters to container log requests
• Sets 'SinceSeconds' or 'SinceTime' on pod log options, covering current and previous logs collected through this collector.
must-gather/internal/namespace/collector.go

Tests (2) +100 / -0

collector_test.goVerify pod log request time parameters +87/-0

Verify pod log request time parameters
• Uses an HTTP test server to check that log requests include the selected since parameter and omit both parameters when unset.
must-gather/internal/namespace/collector_test.go

suite_test.goRegister the namespace collector test suite +13/-0

Register the namespace collector test suite
• Adds the Ginkgo/Gomega suite entry point for namespace collector tests.
must-gather/internal/namespace/suite_test.go

qodo-for-rh-openshift · 2026-10-30T23:13:07Z

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1. Extreme windows leave pod logs uncollected 🐞 Bug

Description

In main, adding time.Second - 1 before dividing can overflow a positive time.Duration,
producing a negative sinceSeconds. A valid value such as MUST_GATHER_SINCE=2562047h47m16s then
reaches every pod-log request with that negative filter, while collectPodLogs logs request
failures and continues without those logs.

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## Issue description
Rounding a positive duration by adding almost one second overflows for valid durations near the `time.Duration` maximum, sending a negative pod-log filter.

## Fix Focus Areas
- must-gather/cmd/main.go[52-56]

## Recommended Fix
Divide by `time.Second` first, then increment the seconds count when the duration has a nonzero remainder. Add a test using a valid duration near the maximum.

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- Line 32: Validate the parsed --since duration before creating the gather, and
reject any negative value even when --since-time is also supplied. Keep the
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- Around line 39-40: Update the conversion from since to sinceSeconds so every
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coderabbitai · 2026-10-30T23:15:31Z

+	flag.StringVar(&sinceTimeStr, "since-time", "", "Only return logs after a specific date (RFC3339)")
 	flag.Parse()

+	if since > 0 && sinceTimeStr != "" {


Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Reject negative --since values.

If a user supplies --since=-1h, the positive-duration checks skip both conversion and validation. Must-gather then collects pod logs without a time limit, contrary to the requested limit. Reject negative durations before creating the gather. This also prevents a negative --since from being silently ignored when --since-time is present.

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I'm not certain what the previous behavior is but couldn't you consider this as "collect logs from the range of now - 1 hr"? That would seem like a valid request. We should check what we did prior to removing the scripts

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Script executed:

#!/bin/bash git log -15 --oneline fd -i 'gather|logs' rg -n -C3 --glob '!vendor/**' -- 'since-time|--since|SINCE' git log -12 --format='%h %s' --diff-filter=D --name-only -- '*gather*' '*.sh'

Length of output: 8273

Script executed:

#!/bin/bash for file in common gather gather_cluster_logging_operator_resources gather_collection_resources gather_logstore_resources gather_monitoring monitoring_common.sh; do echo "=== $file before d67aa713 ===" git show "d67aa713^:must-gather/collection-scripts/$file" | nl -ba | grep -E -i -C 8 'since|oc .*logs|oc .*inspect|source|common' done rg -n -C4 -- 'sinceSeconds must|SinceSeconds.*[<>]=? 0|since must be|only one of sinceTime|duration must be greater' fd -i 'logs.go|validation.go' vendor | head -35

Length of output: 14339

web_search executed:

Kubernetes kubectl logs --since negative duration validation "greater than 0" sinceSeconds

Length of output: 23571

@jcantrill Collecting logs from now - 1 hour is a valid request. The standard spelling is --since=1h; the duration specifies how far back to collect. Kubernetes documents that exact example. citeturn859710view0

I checked the scripts immediately before commit d67aa713, which replaced them with Go:

must-gather/collection-scripts/gather, Line 73 and Line 87, called oc adm inspect without either time-filter flag.

The removed collection scripts had no since handling or conversion of negative durations.

That history does not establish support for --since=-1h as a one-hour lookback.

The current issue is that --since=-1h does not produce that range. In must-gather/cmd/main.go, Line 38, the since > 0 check skips the value and leaves log collection unbounded.

Rejecting negative durations is one solution. If we want negative durations to mean a lookback instead, we can define and implement that behavior. Either approach should avoid silently dropping the requested limit.

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jcantrill · 2026-11-02T13:44:24Z

 	flag.StringVar(&loggingNamespace, "logging-namespace", "openshift-logging", "Namespace where cluster logging operator is deployed")
 	flag.StringVar(&logFileName, "log-file", "gather-debug.log", "Name of the debug log file")
+	flag.DurationVar(&since, "since", 0, "Only return logs newer than a relative duration like 5s, 2m, or 3h")
+	flag.StringVar(&sinceTimeStr, "since-time", "", "Only return logs after a specific date (RFC3339)")


Similar to my code review comment, we need to check what we honored in the scripts. I don't recall 'since-time' and per the bug report it almost looks like they are aliases

The bash gather script never explicitly handled --since at all. Pod logs were collected entirely via oc adm inspect:

oc adm inspect natively supports --since/--since-time — it reads them from environment variables (SINCE_SECONDS, SINCE_TIME) that oc adm must-gather sets in the pod environment before running the plugin. So --since "worked for free" as a side-effect of using oc adm inspect. The bash scripts never touched it.

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Clee2691 changed the title ~~fix(must-gather): honor --since / --since-time in pod log collection~~ fix(must-gather): honors MUST_GATHER_SINCE/MUST_GATHER_SINCE_TIME from oc adm must-gather Nov 3, 2026

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