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Magnolia home persistent volume is almost full

Symptom

A CustomerMagnoliaHomePersistentVolumeAlmostFull alert is firing.

Observations

Here are the details on the alerts:

Alert: CustomerMagnoliaHomePersistentVolumeAlmostFull

PropertyValue
Expression(kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes{persistentvolumeclaim=~"magnolia-home.*"} / kubelet_volume_stats_capacity_bytes{persistentvolumeclaim=~"magnolia-home.*"}) * 100 < 10
Delay10 minutes
Labelsteam: customer

Annotations:

  • summary
  • description
  • tenant
  • cluster_id
  • cluster_name
  • namespace
  • pvc

Determine current size of Magnolia home persistent volume

The name of the persistent volume claim and its namespace are contained in the alert, for example “database-prod-magnolia-helm-public-db-0”.

You can find the details on the persistent volume by displaying the persistent volume claim using kubectl:

kubectl -n <namespace from alert> get pvc <persistent volume claim from alert>

Executing the above will list the size of the persistent volume:

$ kubectl -n prod get pvc magnolia-home-prod-magnolia-helm-public-0
NAME                                        STATUS   VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
magnolia-home-prod-magnolia-helm-public-0   Bound    pvc-30bb25b4-289f-4029-946e-29197a5aea44   10Gi       RWO            gp2            228d

Solutions

This section provides a solution that should help resolve the issue in most cases.

  1. Increase the capacity of the persistent volume
  2. Increase capacity via Helm chart
  3. Delete the StatefulSet

Increase the capacity of the persistent volume

The space allocated to the persistent volume can be increased by editing the persistent volume in Rancher and by modifying the values of the Helm chart deploying Magnolia.

You can edit the persistent volume claim and increase the capacity in Rancher or with kubectl.

Edit the persistent volume claim or the persistent volume associated with the claim and increase the size of the storage resource.

  1. Get your desired namespace.
kubectl -n <namespace> get pvc <pvc-name>
  1. Edit the PVC.
kubectl -n <namespace> edit pvc <pvc-name>
  1. In the editor, adjust the storage.
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 10Gi <1>

Increase the storage property.

Increase capacity via Helm chart

  1. Set the Helm chart value magnoliaPublic.persistence.size to an appropriate value.

    The default value of magnoliaPublic.persistence.size is 10Gi.

  2. Redeploy Magnolia.

Delete the StatefulSet

Because StatefulSet volume definitions cannot be updated in place, you must manually update them.

  1. Run the kubectl command to delete the statefulset.
kubectl delete statefulset <name> --cascade=orphan <1>

Important: The --cascade=orphan flag ensures running pods are not deleted.

  1. Redeploy Magnolia.