Chapter 22 Logs
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## Chapter 22 Logs

Logs are files where history of certain events performed through or detected by WinRoute are recorded and kept. Each log is displayed in a window in the Logs section.

Each event is represented by one record line. Each line starts with a time mark in brackets (date and time when the event took place, in seconds). This mark is followed by an information, depending on the log type. If the record includes a URL, it is displayed as a hypertext link. Follow the link to open the page in your default browser.

Optionally, records of each log may be recorded in files on the local disk[7] and/or on the Syslog server.

Locally, the logs are saved in the files under the `logs` subdirectory where WinRoute is installed. The file names have this pattern:

`file_name.log`

(e.g. `debug.log`). Each log includes an `.idx` file, i.e. an indexing file allowing faster access to the log when displayed in Administration Console.

Individual logs can be rotated — after a certain time period or when a threshold of the file size is reached, log files are stored and new events are logged to a new (empty) file.

Administration Console allows to save a selected log (or its part) in a file as plaintext or in HTML. The log saved can be analyzed by various tools, published on web servers, etc.

[7] Local disk is a disk of the computer where WinRoute is installed, not a computer where Administration Console is running!

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