Create root dir before logging config

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/QuestMetricsDb.java b/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/QuestMetricsDb.java
index 6b6fdcc3e97..e00efa84c3d 100644
--- a/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/QuestMetricsDb.java
+++ b/node-repository/src/main/java/com/yahoo/vespa/hosted/provision/autoscale/QuestMetricsDb.java
@@ -72,12 +72,13 @@ public class QuestMetricsDb extends AbstractComponent implements MetricsDb {
         if (dataDir.startsWith(Defaults.getDefaults().vespaHome())
             && ! new File(Defaults.getDefaults().vespaHome()).exists())
             dataDir = "data"; // We're injected, but not on a node with Vespa installed
-        this.dataDir = dataDir;
-
+        IOUtils.createDirectory(dataDir);
         // silence Questdb's custom logging system
         IOUtils.writeFile(new File(dataDir, "quest-log.conf"), new byte[0]);
         System.setProperty("out", dataDir + "/quest-log.conf");
         CairoConfiguration configuration = new DefaultCairoConfiguration(dataDir);
+
+        this.dataDir = dataDir;
         engine = new CairoEngine(configuration);
         sqlCompiler = ThreadLocal.withInitial(() -> new SqlCompiler(engine));
         nodeTable = new Table(dataDir, "metrics", clock);