🪵 Logs

📘 Manual

One of the most useful artifacts when properly configured and maintained, are log files. All devices keep some sort of logs, even mobile devices.

Logs Collection

macOS syslog. Since macOS Sierra (10.12, 2016) Apple has redesigned its log system. Unix logs were replaced (syslog, for example).

AWS Logs

This document is devoted to AWS logs. Several examples are analysed and useful fields are marked.

FSEvents

Intro Directory events only 10.5-10.6. File events since 10.7. Each record is assigned a name which is constucted the following way: hex(last_event_id + 1).

Git

Git is a version control tool. I am putting it in this section since it’s basically logging all that happens within the repo.

Other Logs

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Windows Logs

Linux Logs

/var/log 🐧 /etc/rsyslog.conf - see the log owners, what specific logs are logging and where the additional configurations are stored.