Logging

Overview

This article covers the various log files used by SFTP Gateway.

Log file locations

These are the logs of interest when troubleshooting SFTP Gateway:

/opt/sftpgw/log/application.log
/opt/sftpgw/log/sftp-audit.log
/var/log/secure
/var/log/sftpgw/cloudinit.log

And this is what these logs do:

• application.log: Java events and errors.
• sftp-audit.log: SFTP actions and authentication.
• secure: SSH authentication events
• cloudinit.log: Server related issues that happen at first launch

Also, you can see the Java logs:

sudo su
journalctl -u sftpgw-admin-api    # opens the log using `less`
journalctl -u sftpgw-admin-api -f # this is to tail or follow the log

The log files are streamed to CloudWatch. At the moment, there is a misconfiguration. We will include an article with details on working around this.