Blobstore debugging tips

If you recently updated to Sourcegraph v4.2.1+, please be sure to look at the blobstore update notes

This page provides more tips on debugging why blobstore may not be working properly.

Please feel free to contact support@sourcegraph.com if you are encountering any issues and we can help you work through debugging steps.

Can I disable blobstore?

Today, Sourcegraph uses blobstore for storing precise code intel (LSIF/SCIP) uploads. You can also configure Sourcegraph to use S3 or GCS for object storage if you prefer.

In the near future, other Sourcegraph features like Batch Changes may also rely on object storage and so, if possible, it's best to make sure it is working.

How to check blobstore is working as expected

First, grab a root shell into the container, for example in a Docker Compose deployment:

SHELL
docker exec -u 0 -it blobstore sh

or in a Kubernetes deployment:

SHELL
kubectl exec -it deployment/blobstore -- sh

Then, try manually creating a bucket by running a curl request like this:

SHELL
curl -i -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:9000/create-bucket-test-attempt1

You should see a 200 OK success like this:

SHELL
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:41:49 GMT
x-amz-request-id: 4442587FB7D0A2F9
Location: /create-bucket-test-attempt1
Content-Length: 0
Server: Jetty(11.0.11)
  • If that succeeds -> you are good to go and blobstore is working as expected!
  • If that fails, check file permissions using the following steps.

Checking file permissions

From a shell inside the container, you can run ls -lah /data to check the file permissions, look for the lsif-uploads line:

SHELL
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x    4 sourcegr sourcegr    4.0K Jan  9 20:41 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        4.0K Jan  9 20:29 ..
drwxr-x--x    2 sourcegr sourcegr    4.0K Jan  9 20:41 create-bucket-test-attempt1
drwxr-x--x    2 sourcegr sourcegr    4.0K Dec  5 22:36 lsif-uploads

Notice how the owner and group are sourcegraph - if this is shown on the lsif-uploads folder then you are good to go! Otherwise, you may need to correct the file permissions manually:

SH
sudo chown -R 100:101 /data

Checking frontend -> blobstore connectivity

If blobstore appears to be working fine according to all of the above, but you are still experiencing some issue, you may also check that the frontend container is able to talk to blobstore over the network. For example, by acquiring a root shell in a sourcegraph-frontend container and using curl:

SHELL
docker exec -u 0 -it sourcegraph-frontend-internal sh

or

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kubectl exec -it -u 0 sourcegraph-frontend-internal sh
SHELL
curl -i http://blobstore:9000/

You should see a 200 response like:

SHELL
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:47:32 GMT
x-amz-request-id: 4442587FB7D0A2F9
Content-Type: application/xml;charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Server: Jetty(11.0.11)