ArangoDB - Help diagnosing database corruption after system restart

Question

I've been working with Arango for a few months now within a local, single-node development environment that regularly gets restarted for maintenance reasons. About 5 or 6 times now my development database has become corrupted after a controlled restart of my system. When it occurs, the corruption is subtle in that the Arango daemon seems to start ok and the database structurally appears as expected through the web interface (collections, documents are there). The problems have included the Foxx microservice system failing to upload my validated service code (generic 500 service error) as well as queries using filters not returning expected results (damaged indexes?). When this happens, the only way I've been able to recover is by deleting the database and rebuilding it.

I'm looking for advice on how to debug this issue - such as what to look for in log files, server configuration options that may apply, etc. I've read most of the development documentation, but only skimmed over the deployment docs, so perhaps there's an obvious setting I'm missing somewhere to adjust reliability/resilience? (this is a single-node local instance).

Thanks for any help/advice!

Answer 1

please note that issues like this should rather be discussed on github.