FTL keeps crashing

[Falling]

Expected Behaviour:

Api should work normally, Windows Docker.

Actual Behaviour:

Crashing randomly, and hundreds of thousands of requests for the API.
(screenshot before it crashes)

Debug Token:

Debug https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/l3pEa1zG/

[Falling]

It was 700k for 30minutes!

[Bucking_Horn]

Your debug log shows that you have configured Pi-hole to use a loopback address as one of its upstreams:

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Setup variables
    (...)
    PIHOLE_DNS_1=127.17.0.1
    PIHOLE_DNS_2=1.1.1.1

In doing so, you've instructed Pi-hole to ask itself for DNS, i.e. you have configured an endless DNS loop.

Remove 127.17.0.1 from your Pi-hole's custom upstream DNS servers.

In addition, you should remove the custom LocaL DNS records for pi.hole and 0.0.0.0.

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: contents of /etc/pihole
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Sep 22 12:11 /etc/pihole/custom.list
   192.168.86.190 pi.hole
   192.168.86.190 0.0.0.0

Pi-hole manages ist own name autonomically, and 0.0.0.0 is not a domain (it is an IP address).

[Falling]

Thanks, is there any way to remove the spam in logs without reinstalling pi-hole

[Bucking_Horn]

You could consider to delete Pi-hole's long term query database:

Stop your Docker container

sudo rm </path/to>/pihole-FTL.db

(edit: substitute </path/to> with the actual path on your host.)

Restart your Docker container.

[Falling]

How on docker windows

[Bucking_Horn]

It seems you've shared your docker run command in another post:

@Falling

docker run -d --name pihole -e ServerIP=192.168.86.190 -e WEBPASSWORD=************* -e TZ=America/Chicago -e DNS1=104.238.130.180 -e DNS2=1.1.1.1 -e DNS3=1.0.0.1 -p 80:80 -p 53:53/tcp -p 53:53/udp -p 443:443 --restart=unless-stopped pihole/pihole:latest

That command does not create any volumes or bind mounts, so your Pi-hole's data won't survive a restart.

If that is still current, stopping, removing and starting your Pi-hole container would be enough.

You can do that now, but after that, I'd recommend to line-up your installation with Pi-hole's Docker example template.