Current situation
Debugging early boot issues and kernel crashes is hard as vital information is missing from the mayday tarball.

Impact
Automated retrieval of kernel crash logs and early boot logs is not possible. Users need to manually capture the respective information.

Impact is particularly high for large, automated fleets.

Ideal future situation
The output of journalctl -b -1 and the contents of /sys/fs/pstore/, and possibly the contents of any directory specified in the mayday configuration, is delivered via the mayday tarball.

Additional information

• Mayday repo: https://github.com/flatcar-linux/mayday
• Mayday issues:
  • https://github.com/flatcar-linux/mayday/issues/2 Include boot logs with mayday
  • https://github.com/flatcar-linux/mayday/issues/3 Add the contents of /sys/fs/pstore to mayday tarballs
  • https://github.com/flatcar-linux/mayday/issues/1 Add ability to include contents of a directory with mayday