PROPOSAL: stop recording 'executing update-status hook'

[Adam Collard]

On Fri, 19 May 2017 at 03:14 Tim Penhey <tim.penhey at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Currently juju will update the status of any hook execution for any unit
> to show that it is busy doing things. This was all well and good until
> we do things based on time.
>
> Every five minutes (or so) each unit will have the update-status hook
> executed to allow the unit to set or update the workload status based on
> what is currently going on with that unit.
>
> Since all hook executions are stored, this means that the
> show-status-log will show the unit jumping from executing update-status
> to ready and back every five minutes.
>
> The proposal is to special case the update-status hook and show in
> status (or the status-log) that the hook is being executed. debug-log
> will continue to show the hook executing if you are looking.
>
> This will reduce noise in the status-log, simplify some of our code
> around dealing with status-log, and reduce load on controllers looking
> after hundreds or thousands of units.
>

+1
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