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NetworkPolicy Logging

NetworkPolicy is a interface provided by Kubernetes and implemented by Kube-OVN through OVN's ACLs. With NetworkPolicy, if the networks are down, it is difficult to determine whether it is caused by a network failure or a NetworkPolicy rule problem. Kube-OVN provides NetworkPolicy logging to help administrators quickly locate whether a NetworkPolicy drop rule has been hit, and to record the illegal accesses.

Once NetworkPolicy logging is turned on, logs need to be printed for every packet that hits a Drop rule, which introduces additional performance overhead. Under a malicious attack, a large number of logs in a short period of time may exhaust the CPU. We recommend turning off logging by default in production environments and dynamically turning it on when you need to troubleshoot problems.

Enable NetworkPolicy Logging

Add the annotation ovn.kubernetes.io/enable_log to the NetworkPolicy where logging needs to be enabled, as follows:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
  name: default-deny-ingress
  namespace: kube-system
  annotations:
    ovn.kubernetes.io/enable_log: "true"
spec:
  podSelector: {}
  policyTypes:
  - Ingress

Next, you can observe the log of dropped packets in /var/log/ovn/ovn-controller.log on the host of the corresponding Pod:

# tail -f /var/log/ovn/ovn-controller.log
2022-07-20T05:55:03.229Z|00394|acl_log(ovn_pinctrl0)|INFO|name="<unnamed>", verdict=drop, severity=warning, direction=to-lport: udp,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=00:00:00:21:b7:d1,dl_dst=00:00:00:8d:0b:86,nw_src=10.16.0.10,nw_dst=10.16.0.7,nw_tos=0,nw_ecn=0,nw_ttl=63,tp_src=54343,tp_dst=53
2022-07-20T05:55:06.229Z|00395|acl_log(ovn_pinctrl0)|INFO|name="<unnamed>", verdict=drop, severity=warning, direction=to-lport: udp,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=00:00:00:21:b7:d1,dl_dst=00:00:00:8d:0b:86,nw_src=10.16.0.9,nw_dst=10.16.0.7,nw_tos=0,nw_ecn=0,nw_ttl=63,tp_src=44187,tp_dst=53
2022-07-20T05:55:08.230Z|00396|acl_log(ovn_pinctrl0)|INFO|name="<unnamed>", verdict=drop, severity=warning, direction=to-lport: udp,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=00:00:00:21:b7:d1,dl_dst=00:00:00:8d:0b:86,nw_src=10.16.0.10,nw_dst=10.16.0.7,nw_tos=0,nw_ecn=0,nw_ttl=63,tp_src=54274,tp_dst=53
2022-07-20T05:55:11.231Z|00397|acl_log(ovn_pinctrl0)|INFO|name="<unnamed>", verdict=drop, severity=warning, direction=to-lport: udp,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=00:00:00:21:b7:d1,dl_dst=00:00:00:8d:0b:86,nw_src=10.16.0.9,nw_dst=10.16.0.7,nw_tos=0,nw_ecn=0,nw_ttl=63,tp_src=32778,tp_dst=53
2022-07-20T05:55:11.231Z|00398|acl_log(ovn_pinctrl0)|INFO|name="<unnamed>", verdict=drop, severity=warning, direction=to-lport: udp,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=00:00:00:21:b7:d1,dl_dst=00:00:00:8d:0b:86,nw_src=10.16.0.9,nw_dst=10.16.0.7,nw_tos=0,nw_ecn=0,nw_ttl=63,tp_src=34188,tp_dst=53
2022-07-20T05:55:13.231Z|00399|acl_log(ovn_pinctrl0)|INFO|name="<unnamed>", verdict=drop, severity=warning, direction=to-lport: udp,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=00:00:00:21:b7:d1,dl_dst=00:00:00:8d:0b:86,nw_src=10.16.0.10,nw_dst=10.16.0.7,nw_tos=0,nw_ecn=0,nw_ttl=63,tp_src=43290,tp_dst=53
2022-07-20T05:55:22.096Z|00400|acl_log(ovn_pinctrl0)|INFO|name="<unnamed>", verdict=drop, severity=warning, direction=to-lport: icmp,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=00:00:00:6c:42:91,dl_dst=00:00:00:a5:d7:63,nw_src=10.16.0.9,nw_dst=10.16.0.10,nw_tos=0,nw_ecn=0,nw_ttl=64,icmp_type=8,icmp_code=0
2022-07-20T05:55:22.097Z|00401|acl_log(ovn_pinctrl0)|INFO|name="<unnamed>", verdict=drop, severity=warning, direction=to-lport: icmp,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=00:00:00:6c:42:91,dl_dst=00:00:00:a5:d7:63,nw_src=10.16.0.9,nw_dst=10.16.0.10,nw_tos=0,nw_ecn=0,nw_ttl=64,icmp_type=8,icmp_code=0
2022-07-20T05:55:22.098Z|00402|acl_log(ovn_pinctrl0)|INFO|name="<unnamed>", verdict=drop, severity=warning, direction=to-lport: icmp,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=00:00:00:6c:42:91,dl_dst=00:00:00:a5:d7:63,nw_src=10.16.0.9,nw_dst=10.16.0.10,nw_tos=0,nw_ecn=0,nw_ttl=64,icmp_type=8,icmp_code=0

Disable NetworkPolicy Logging

Set annotation ovn.kubernetes.io/enable_log in the corresponding NetworkPolicy to false to disable NetworkPolicy logging:

kubectl annotate networkpolicy -n kube-system default-deny-ingress ovn.kubernetes.io/enable_log=false --overwrite

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Last update: May 8, 2023
Created: July 20, 2022

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