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Read Icinga Agent Log/DebugLog

The Icinga PowerShell Framework is shipping wish a bunch of Cmdlets to manage the Icinga Agent in a very easy way. This includes reading the Icinga Agent log/debug log file.

Note: Before using any of the commands below you will have to initialize the Icinga PowerShell Framework inside a new PowerShell instance with icinga -Shell

Read the default Icinga Agent log file

Icinga is writing current events by default in an own log file. The default location is C:\ProgramData\icinga2\var\log\icinga2\icinga2.log. To make it easier to read the log from the command line, we can use the Read-IcingaAgentLogFile Cmdlet which will update the command line for any new log line which is written by the Icinga Agent during the usage of the command:

Read-IcingaAgentLogFile;

[2020-08-12 15:44:20 +0200] information/ConfigObject: Dumping program state to file 'C:\ProgramData\icinga2\var\lib\icinga2/icinga2.state'
[2020-08-12 15:49:20 +0200] information/ConfigObject: Dumping program state to file 'C:\ProgramData\icinga2\var\lib\icinga2/icinga2.state'
[2020-08-12 15:50:08 +0200] information/Application: Received request to shut down.
[2020-08-12 15:50:08 +0200] information/Application: Shutting down...
[2020-08-12 15:50:42 +0200] information/FileLogger: 'main-log' started.
[2020-08-12 15:50:42 +0200] information/ConfigItem: Activated all objects.
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Read Icinga Agent debug log

As for the default log file, the Icinga Agent also writes more detailed entries into an own debug log. This has to be enabled as Icinga Agent Feature with the name debuglog. Once enabled, you can locate it on the default location C:\ProgramData\icinga2\var\log\icinga2\debug.log and access it with the Cmdlet Read-IcingaAgentDebugLogFile:

Read-IcingaAgentDebugLogFile;

[2020-08-12 16:36:53 +0200] information/FileLogger: 'debug-file' started.
[2020-08-12 16:36:53 +0200] information/FileLogger: 'main-log' started.
[2020-08-12 16:36:53 +0200] information/ConfigItem: Activated all objects.
[2020-08-12 16:36:53 +0200] notice/WorkQueue: Stopped WorkQueue threads for 'DaemonCommand::Run'
[2020-08-12 16:36:53 +0200] notice/ApiListener: Updating object authority for local objects.
[2020-08-12 16:36:53 +0200] debug/IcingaApplication: In IcingaApplication::Main()
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