System Log overview

The System Log window

System Log is a log viewer developed for beginners, who may not know how to find information about their system or where the log files are. The System Log page describes it in full.

System Log has the following features:

Shows all the logs of your system, grouped into general ones (the default system log, authentication, kernel, X.org and so on) and optional services (Apache, CUPS and so on)
Colors log lines according to their severity
Tabs, to display several logs at the same time
Shows new lines automatically as they are logged
Fast parsing and reading (more than 10,000 lines every 5 seconds)
Detailed information for each log line
A quick filter
Sends a log message to the system by hand
Saving, copying to the clipboard and printing

It can read these logs on your system: Acpid, Apache, Audit, authentication, Cron, CUPS, daemon, Journald, kernel, Postfix, Samba, system, X.org and X session logs.

Adapted for SonicDE from userbase.kde.org/KSystemLog by KDE UserBase contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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