Logging Configuration¶
Use your ownCloud log to review system status, or to help debug problems. You may adjust logging levels, and choose between using the ownCloud log or your syslog.
Parameters¶
Logging levels range from DEBUG, which logs all activity, to FATAL, which logs only fatal errors.
- 0: DEBUG: Debug, informational, warning, and error messages, and fatal issues.
- 1: INFO: Informational, warning, and error messages, and fatal issues.
- 2: WARN: Warning, and error messages, and fatal issues.
- 3: ERROR: Error messages and fatal issues.
- 4: FATAL: Fatal issues only.
By default the log level is set to 2 (WARN). Use DEBUG when you have a problem to diagnose, and then reset your log level to a less-verbose level, as DEBUG outputs a lot of information, and can affect your server performance.
Logging level parameters are set in the config/config.php
file, or on the Admin page of your ownCloud Web GUI.
ownCloud¶
All log information will be written to a separate log file which can be
viewed using the log viewer on your Admin page. By default, a log
file named owncloud.log will be created in the directory which has
been configured by the datadirectory parameter in config/config.php
.
The desired date format can optionally be defined using the logdateformat parameter in config/config.php
.
By default the PHP date function parameter “c” is used, and therefore the
date/time is written in the format “2013-01-10T15:20:25+02:00”. By using the
date format in the example below, the date/time format will be written in the format
“January 10, 2013 15:20:25”.
'log_type' => 'owncloud',
'logfile' => 'owncloud.log',
'loglevel' => 2,
'logdateformat' => 'F d, Y H:i:s',
Log rotation:
To rotate this log file, use the following key:
'log_rotate_size' => false,
The file name of the rotated logfile is defined by the key logfile
and a number as extension.
Example:
owncloud.1
In case you want to implement more sophisticated log rotation, you can use the log rotation
mechanism of your Linux operating system, see the following example. Please adopt or customize
the configuration by your needs. The script assumes that the folder /etc/logrotate.d/
is included in your Linux log rotate configuration. More information on Linux log rotation
can be found in the logrotate documentation.
# Use an editor of your choice like vim
vim /etc/logrotate.d/owncloud
# Copy and paste the following into the file
/var/www/owncloud/data/owncloud.log {
size 10M # Logfile Size Limit
rotate 12 # Amount of rotated logs to keeps
missingok # If it's not there, no error will occur
compress # after rotation, compress the copy of the log file
compresscmd /bin/gzip # use this compression command
}
syslog¶
All log information will be sent to your default syslog daemon.
'log_type' => 'syslog',
'logfile' => '',
'loglevel' => 2,
The syslog format can be changed to remove or add information.
In addition to the %replacements%
below %level%
can be used, but it is used
as a dedicated parameter to the syslog logging facility anyway.
'log.syslog.format' => '[%reqId%][%remoteAddr%][%user%][%app%][%method%][%url%] %message%',
For the old syslog message format use:
'log.syslog.format' => '{%app%} %message%',
Conditional Logging Level Increase¶
You can configure the logging level to automatically increase to debug
when the first condition inside a condition block is met.
All conditions are optional !
shared_secret
: A unique token. If a http(s) request parameter namedlog_secret
is added- to the request and set to this token, the condition is met.
users
: If the current request is done by one of the specified users,- this condition is met.
apps
: If the log message is invoked by one of the specified apps,- this condition is met.
logfile
: The log message invoked gets redirected to this logfile- when a condition above is met.
Notes regarding the logfile key:
- If no logfile is defined, the standard logfile is used.
- Not applicable when using syslog.
'log.conditions' => [
[
'shared_secret' => '57b58edb6637fe3059b3595cf9c41b9',
'users' => ['user1', 'user2'],
'apps' => ['gallery'],
'logfile' => '/tmp/test2.log'
]
],
Based on the conditional log settings above, following logs are written to the same logfile defined:
- Requests matching
log_secret
are debug logged.
curl -X PROPFIND -u sample-user:password \
https://your_domain/remote.php/webdav/?log_secret=57b58edb6637fe3059b3595cf9c41b9
user1
anduser2
gets debug logged.- Access to app
gallery
gets debug logged.