The other day while watching Plex it would reliably stop playback 2 minutes before the end. When it did this an error would pop up “Conversion failed. The transcoder exited due to an error.” Helpful. Not a problem. We’ll log onto the log server and see what it spat out. Well much to my dismay, Plex doesn’t seem to log to the typical I/O streams. While I’m not overly surprised it definitely was something I didn’t think about.

Spent a good part of the morning working on writing an Ansible playbook to install and setup promtail on a new server, adding it to the central logging setup. At first I started manually downloading the binary and manually installing it when I remembered I wanted to work on using ansible more. So I stopped where I was and started over again except this time electing to use the power of automation.