cPanel Logs

How to view the logs

There are multiple ways to view log files, here are some common ways.

tail the log, shows the 10 most recent log entries.

tail /var/log/messages

tail the log and keep monitoring it for new entries.

tail -f /var/log/messages

Find specific info in log file

cat /var/log/messages | grep texttosearch

cPanel Log Paths

Main log

/var/log/messages

Access logs

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log

Access logs for a specific domain

/home/user/access-logs/domainname.com

Account Transfers/miscellaneous logs

/var/cpanel/logs

Auditing Log (Account creation and deletions)

/var/cpanel/accounting.log

Backup Logs

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup

CPHULKD Log

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/cphulkd.log

DNSAdmin, DNS Clustering

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/dnsadmin_log

Task Queue Processing Daemon

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/queueprocd.log

DBMapping

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/setupdbmap_log

Easy Apache Build logs

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/easy/apache/

Error logs

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log
/var/log/cpanel

License log

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/license_log

local database modifications

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/build_locale_database_log

Login errors CPSRVD

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/login_log

Bandwidth History

/var/cpanel/bandwidth/{USERNAME}

Service Status Logs

/var/log/chkservd.log

Tailwatch log

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/tailwatch_log

Update Analysis Reporting

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/updated_analysis/{TIMESTAMP}.log

Update log UPCP

/var/cpanel/updatelogs/updated.{TIMESTAMP}.log

cPanel Email Logs

 

Horde log

/var/cpanel/horde/log/

RoundCube

/var/cpanel/roundcube/log/

Squirrel Mail

/var/cpanel/squirrelmail/

Panic log

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/panic_log

Delivery and receipt log

/var/log/exim_mainlog

Incoming mail queue

/var/spool/exim/input/

Log of messages rejected based on ACLS or other policies

/var/log/exim_rejectlog

Unexpected/Fatal error log

/var/log/exim_paniclog

IMAP, POP login attempts, transactions, fatal errors and spam scoring

/var/log/maillog

Mailman

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailmain/logs

MySQL

MySQL error log

/var/lib/mysql/{SERVER_NAME}.err

MySQL slow query log (if enabled in my.cnf)

/var/log/slowqueries