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Analyze server logs
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Throughout its life, a Linux installed server records a very large number of parameters, information and events, which are transcribed into files: These are the logs files of your server.
Under the vast majority of Linux OSes, these log files are stored in the /var/log folder.
root@HelpDesk:/var/log# ls -l
total 2564
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15071 Aug 8 17:24 alternatives.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 9 08:55 apt
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 876834 Aug 9 09:54 auth.log
-rw------- 1 root utmp 1175040 Aug 9 09:54 btmp
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 68367 Aug 9 09:13 daemon.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 320780 Aug 9 08:55 dpkg.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 19690 Aug 9 09:54 fail2ban.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3456 Dec 12 2017 faillog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2907 Jan 24 2018 kern.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292 Aug 9 08:48 lastlog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1100 Aug 8 17:23 mail.info
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1100 Aug 8 17:23 mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3334 May 26 15:58 messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75153 Aug 9 09:39 syslog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 14976 Aug 9 08:48 wtmp
Each file corresponds to a different type of service. Some are very explicit (mail.log corresponds to the mail logs managed by your server), and others are a bit less explicit. Here is a list of the few log files you can find on a Linux server:
auth.log : Corresponds to the authentication logs on your server (usually SSh). You'll find information about login attempts to your VPS, the reasons for their refusal, and the history of established logins.
kern.log : Corresponds to the logs of your kernel. It contains the last event handled by your kernel. It can be various information about its usual operation (network card boot, system boot), as well as the errors encountered (e.g hard-drive or RAM error)
mail.log : As its name indicates, it corresponds to the mail logs processed by your VPS. It is very useful to check it, especially if our support notifies you about SPAM mail going out your server.
apt/history.log : Contains the history of modifications via APT (usually software installation or removal).
fail2ban.log: If you have installed and configured Fail2ban (which we highly recommend), it contains the history of anomalies detections as well as the IP banned from your VPS.
syslog: This is a bit of a "catch-all" file. You will find there the general logs of your system. It contains a lot of essential information, such as the operations performed on the different services, the execution errors encountered, the faults found by the system, etc.
Each log file is different, so there is no universal methodology to deal with them. However, several things are good to know :
- The most recent logs are always added at the end of the file. So the oldest are at the top of the file
- The logging system regularly "cleans" the logs: it creates new empty files, and saves the old ones, in compressed (.gz) format to consume less disk space. These are kept for several days.
- The .log files are not essential to your system (it can work without them). If you run out of disk space on your server, a little cleanup in the logs can help you find some space.
Here are also some commands that may be useful to monitor your log files :
See live the content of a log file (real time)
root@HelpDesk:/var/log# tail -f monfichier.log
Make a search in a log file
root@HelpDesk:/var/log# grep "mot-clef" monfichier.log
List the latest SSH connections
root@HelpDesk:/var/log# grep "Accepted" auth.log