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# Logging

Use your Nextcloud log to review system status, or to help debug problems. You may adjust logging levels, and choose between using the Nextcloud log or your syslog.

## Log level

Logging levels range from DEBUG, which logs all activity, to FATAL, which logs only fatal errors.

- 0: DEBUG: All activity; the most detailed logging.
- 1: INFO: Activity such as user logins and file activities, plus warnings, errors, and fatal errors.
- 2: WARN: Operations succeed, but with warnings of potential problems, plus errors and fatal errors.
- 3: ERROR: An operation fails, but other services and operations continue, plus fatal errors.
- 4: FATAL: The server stops.

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.

## Log type

### file

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 nextcloud.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" => "file",
    "logfile" => "nextcloud.log",
    "loglevel" => "3",
    "logdateformat" => "F d, Y H:i:s",

### syslog

All log information will be sent to your default syslog daemon.

    "log_type" => "syslog",
    "logfile" => "",
    "loglevel" => "3",

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