Viewing System Logs

Scenarios

System logs contain logs generated during the database running. These can help you analyze problems with the database.

Viewing Log Details

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
3. Click Service List. Under Database, click Relational Database Service. The RDS console is displayed.
4. On the Instances page, click the target DB instance.
5. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Logs. On the System Logs page, view details about system logs.
   • You can select a log level in the upper right corner to view logs of the selected level.
     

     For Microsoft SQL Server DB instances, only info-level logs are displayed currently.

   • You can click in the upper right corner to view logs generated in different time segments.
   • If the description of a log is truncated, locate the log and move your pointer over the description in the Description column to view details.