"skipping update of position for a file which does not currently exist" grafana agent consuming lot of memory

[divyn10]

What's wrong?

I have deployed Static mode Kubernetes operator. And I am using this for pushing the pod logs to loki.

Recently I found out that grafana-agent-logs pod is taking a lot of memory and it is also not able to push the logs.

After checking the logs of the config-reloader container I found some error messages.

level=error ts=2024-03-26T06:33:34.799302016Z caller=runutil.go:100 msg="function failed. Retrying in next tick" err="trigger reload: reload request failed: Post \"http://127.0.0.1:8080/-/reload\": context deadline exceeded"
level=error ts=2024-03-26T06:33:34.799311483Z caller=reloader.go:384 msg="Failed to trigger reload. Retrying." err="trigger reload: reload request failed: Post \"http://127.0.0.1:8080/-/reload\": context deadline exceeded" 
level=error ts=2024-03-26T06:34:04.803619827Z caller=runutil.go:100 msg="function failed. Retrying in next tick" err="trigger reload: reload request failed: Post \"http://127.0.0.1:8080/-/reload\": context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)"  

After force deleting this pod the error msg in the config-reloader container is gone and grafana-agent-logs pod’s memory also comes down, it also starts pushing logs to loki.

Can you help me with the reason for the issue and with a better solution, as the current solution is not very optimal

Steps to reproduce

didn't find the reason of this bug

System information

No response

Software version

grafana agent v0.39.0

Configuration

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Logs

level=error ts=2024-03-26T06:33:34.799302016Z caller=runutil.go:100 msg="function failed. Retrying in next tick" err="trigger reload: reload request failed: Post \"http://127.0.0.1:8080/-/reload\": context deadline exceeded"
level=error ts=2024-03-26T06:33:34.799311483Z caller=reloader.go:384 msg="Failed to trigger reload. Retrying." err="trigger reload: reload request failed: Post \"http://127.0.0.1:8080/-/reload\": context deadline exceeded" 
level=error ts=2024-03-26T06:34:04.803619827Z caller=runutil.go:100 msg="function failed. Retrying in next tick" err="trigger reload: reload request failed: Post \"http://127.0.0.1:8080/-/reload\": context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)"

[divyn10]

observed the same issue once again. on checking grafana agent logs getting

ts=2024-04-02T06:49:12.155205805Z caller=tailer.go:207 level=info component=logs logs_config=namespace/kubernetes-pod-logs component=tailer msg="skipping update of position for a file which does not currently exist" path=/var/log/pods/0.log                                          
ts=2024-04-02T06:49:18.380674964Z caller=entrypoint.go:339 level=info msg="reload of config file requested"                         
ts=2024-04-02T06:49:18.988442727Z caller=tailer.go:207 level=info component=logs logs_config=namespace/kubernetes-pod-logs component=tailer msg="skipping update of position for a file which does not currently exist" path=/var/log/pods/6.log 

It seems the issue is same as issue 3884

I have grafana agent version v0.39.0

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