Logs

The Logs list shows all past activities and events of your PRTG monitoring setup. This is useful to keep track of all important activities and, for example, to check whether messages were sent, etc. In a typical setup, a huge amount of data is produced here. As the activity of every single object is minuted, you can use this data to check exactly if your setup works as expected.

There are two possibilities to call the logs list: Either you click on the Log tab while viewing an object's details in the Devices menu tab, or you choose the Logs entry from the menu tabs bar.

Logs Menu Tab

The Windows GUI has a tab-like interface. Using the tabs you can navigate through various pages with information about your monitored objects, such as your network's status, monitoring results, etc., as well as access maps, reports, and settings.

There is documentation for the following tabs:

• Devices
• Sensors
• Alarms
• Maps
• Reports
• Logs
• ToDos
• Setup
   

Click the Logs entry in the menu tabs bar to show a list of all log entries in your configuration. The background color of a row indicates the value listed in the Status column. It is shown green for Up, yellow for Warning, red for Down, and white for all other values.

You can enable a filter to only show certain sensors. To do so, choose from two different drop down menus to build a filter. With each filter you can further decrease the number of sensors shown.

• By Object
  The first drop down menu shows the device tree of your monitoring setup. Select a probe, group, or device, in order to only show sensors on this object. The default value is All Sensors.
• By Event
  The second drop down menu shows all possible event types. Select an entry to only show events of the respective event type. Choose between All Events, Up & Down, Warning, Unusual, Up, Paused & Resumed, Probe Related, Auto Discovery, Notifications, and Status Messages. The default value is All Events.

If you have filtered out all sensors and the list below shows no entries, try removing one or both filters by reverting them to the default values.

In the list, one hundred entries are shown at a time. Use the arrow symbols above the list to show other items. You can jump to the beginning of the list, or browse through it hundred by hundred. If the list has more than one entry, you can also sort the items by the contents of a certain column. To sort, simply click once or twice on the header of the column you want to sort by.

 

Continue