vault: log once per interval if batching revocation #8597
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This log line should be rare since:
batched method. Async revocation only takes place when Vault
connectivity is lost and after leader election so no revocations are
missed.
above conditions should be brief and infrequent.
once every 5 minutes.
What makes this log line rare is also what makes it interesting: due to
a bug prior to Nomad 0.11.2 some tokens may never get revoked. Therefore
Nomad tries to re-revoke them on every leader election. This caused a
massive buildup of old tokens that would never be properly revoked and
purged. Nomad 0.11.3 mostly fixed this but still had a bug in purging
revoked tokens via Raft (fixed in #8553).
The nomad.vault.distributed_tokens_revoked metric is only ticked upon
successful revocation and purging, making any bugs or slowness in the
process difficult to detect.
Logging before a potentially slow revocation+purge operation is
performed will give users much better indications of what activity is
going on should the process fail to make it to the metric.