From the course: Database Foundations: Administration
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Reading system logs
From the course: Database Foundations: Administration
Reading system logs
- [Instructor] Every application running on your computer sends information about its health and activities to the operating system's log files. Your RDBMS servers are no different. It can be helpful to periodically review the logs for status updates and for troubleshooting errors. Since the logs are kept outside of the relational database management system, the procedure for reviewing them will be different on each operating system. Since our two databases run inside of Docker containers, we can use the Docker Logs command to review them. To do this, you'll want to return to your terminal or PowerShell window that you've used previously for working with Docker or you can use the terminal that's built into Azure Data Studio. Now, if yours isn't open on the screen right now, you can go up to the View menu and turn it on here. To review the log's contents, all you need is the command Docker Logs followed by the name of the…
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