Guide: How to retrieve logs from your device

[Malte]

To retrieve the primary log from the device, we have some terminal commands that can be executed (on my.autopi.io and local.autopi.io) to view the main log file:

minionutil.last_logs
minionutil.last_errors
minionutil.last_startup

These functions can also take various parameters. To see the documentation run:

minionutil.help

If logged onto the system using SSH (See guide) you can view the log file by running:

less /var/log/salt/minion

Note
The full log file is almost always preferred, but a partial view of the log or the last errors are also very helpful, and a bit easier to retrieve due via the above commands.
Remember that the timestamps in the log files is UTC

You can upload the full file by using this guide.

Tip: Send device logfile to dropbox with one command

You can retrieve logs from the device in different ways, but usually to retrieve the full log, you will need to SSH to the device, move some files around and then use SCP to retrieve the file. A much faster way is to push the logfile directly to your own dropbox, with a single command. To do this, you will need to do the following. Create a Dropbox app by going here and input like so: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create [01] Now click the “Generate” button under Generated ac…

[Dima]

Hi Malte,
please explain how to handle logging for own custom code service. /var/log/salt/minion file is enormously large and contains all messages of autoPi system.
thanks.