Andy Konecny said:

When you go to pull down the SMG logs via the web admin, is there a way to sort the logs?

Not as far as I know. That is why I created the Idea.

Andy Konecny said:

Now that I've found them in /vastorage/smg/services/logs/

I find it easier to view/download the logs from there using WinSCP.

Kevin Boyle said:

I find it easier to view/download the logs from there using WinSCP.

Yes, done exactly that already, as well as just SCP them to an NSS volume where I can also do a few select greps while diving in with tools like Notepad++ and  evanevery's tools
I went from no SMGs to play with, to having two in the past week. Fun learning.

Still wanted to point some interest at your Idea.  If I hadn't found it, would have created my own.

Filr also has bad/basic log management so it may be an appliance-wide idea not just SMG.

All the more reason for getting those votes in on the idea.  I'll be looking for yours.

You can export all SMG logs via the syslog interface, under Manage Server --> "Enable Syslog logging". The SMG copy the events to the syslog subsystem and you can use here a export function, topics rsyslog service and centralized logs like Splunk/graylog etc..

All logs are time sorted and searchable inside the central log system. 

Kind regards from Potsdam/Germany

Michael

michaelkuerschn said:

All logs are time sorted and searchable inside the central log system.

A whole other system to set up and manage, great for large organizations, but a big enough hit on resources for most smaller shops, that they don't get around to it.
Also doesn't help too much for living off the land.

SMG is for small enviroments?

Define size
in many cases, it can be very relative.

I know of a one-person shop running SMG.

In the small to large scale, email and its necessary parts, typically come well before big shop things like centralized log management, SIEM, SOAR, and all that fun stuff.   Also in some shops where such things do exist, the email admins aren't allowed access to those advanced tools, therefor the basic parts still have reasons to be fixed up even in larger shops.

Kevin Boyle said:

Andy Konecny said:

Now that I've found them in /vastorage/smg/services/logs/

I find it easier to view/download the logs from there using WinSCP.

And I have found an even easier way to download all the SMG logs:

Do it from the 9443 interface.

When I click on Download on the SMG row I get all the logs in the various subfolders under the link you provided in one .zip file. 

Very convenient!