Where to find the logs?

[Schultze]

Hello,
I’m running nc28.0.0 on an Debian Bookworm. Webserver is Nginx 1.22.1.
Have some problems since updating. But to find out more, I want to look at the logs.

If I go to the settings page, ther is shown this:

Es gibt einige Warnungen bei deiner Systemkonfiguration.
21 errors in the logs since 13. Dezember 2023

But where can I find the logs to look at the warnings?

Thanks,
Schultze

[rakekniven]

Hell ,

welcome to the community of Nextcloud.

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rakekniven

[wwe]

it always good ide to start reading official docs:

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_server/logging_configuration.html

usually you find the logs where you find this warning. but unfortunately there is an issue with nc28

Bug: Nextcloud Hub 7 (NC28) logs page blank

Just updated to Nextcloud Hub 7. In overview, I’m seeing a message: 625 errors in the logs since December 5, 2023 When I go to Logging on left pane, it should show the logs, but instead it’s a blank page. Nothing, nada.

you can look at the nextcloud.log in the data folder of your server.

[Schultze]

@wwe

it always good ide to start reading official docs:

Yes, sorry. I forgot to write, that I already searched for the logs where ever I thought to find.
There is no logfile in /var/www/html/nextcloud/dtata/. A folder /var/log/nextcloud/ does not exist.

But, when NC list 21 warnings since 13. of December, there need to be a logfile.

Schultze

[wwe]

• usually it is named nextcloud.log
• the files usually lives in you data directory
• search the place where you installed Nextcloud for this file… likely you find it.
• read the docs I provided you find how the log is configured…

[DarkSteve]

@wwe

you can look at the nextcloud.log in the data folder of your server.

Oh, wonderful, thank you!

I couldn’t find it the log anywhere. I’m on FreeBSD, so I searched the standard places (/var/log/) and I even found a /var/log/nextcloud/ directory, but it was empty.

I searched /usr/local/www/nextcloud/config and lib and dist and resources, but I didn’t think to check data. I assumed data was where my data was! Why would anybody mix application logs and user data?!?! (Oh, a linux dev probably would.)

The update to Nextcloud 28 caused a lot of logging. I had a few apps that didn’t like the change, and spewed hundreds of errors every minute (bookmarks being the biggest offender).

I had 196MB of logs (108MB log.1 and an 88MB active log). No wonder Nextcloud kept throwing an error “Could not load log entries”. It was all too much for it.