Troubleshooting

Cannot-find-VM-in-API

Danger

There is not a single recipe to fix this issue, and this involves touching and modifying the DB directly. We reccomend that you ignore these messages, unless you know what you are doing.

In the logs you can see the following warnings (caso version < 1.4.4):

WARNING caso.extract.nova [-] Cannot get server '072e77c0-4295-4a83-9bdf-6afde796a00d' from the Nova API, probably because it is an old VM that whose metadata is wrong in the DB. There will be no record generated for this VM. : NotFound: Instance 072e77c0-4295-4a83-9bdf-6afde796a00d could not be found. (HTTP 404) (Request-ID: req-8eabf5d8-b722-4ee4-b211-aec36fc0499e)

Or the following one (caso version >= 1.4.4 ):

WARNING caso.extract.nova [-] Cannot get server '072e77c0-4295-4a83-9bdf-6afde796a00d' from the Nova API, probably because it is an error in the DB. Please refer to the following page for more details: https://caso.readthedocs.io/en/stable/troubleshooting.html#Cannot-find-VM-in-API

These errors are caused by a VM that is in a bad state on the DB. The os-simple-tenant-usage API is returning instances that cannot be obtained from the API.

This may be caused by any of the following cases:

  1. VMs that have changed their status on a date that enters into the extrating period.

2. VMs that are terminated and deleted, but their status is incorrect (i.e. no value for terminated_at). This can be fixed by setting a terminated_at value that is correct, directly in the DB.