Viewing log files

About this task

To view the logs in either a Docker™ or Kubernetes™ environment, use commands associated with the environment. In either environment you need to know the names of the HCL™ Accelerate containers.
  • accelerate-consumer
  • accelerate-ui

Viewing logs in a Kubernetes environment

About this task

To view the logs in a Kubernetes environment, you need to know the pod name that the HCL™ Accelerate containers are located in. A pod is a collection of one or more containers that are deployed together, and are started, stopped, and replicated as a group.

The default log level is error. The level of logging can be changed on the log.level configuration property. Other logging levels are: all, debug, info, warn, error, and fatal. Logging can also be turned off on the configuration property.

Procedure

  1. From a command line window, run the following command to obtain the pod names containing the HCL™ Accelerate containers. 
    kubectl get pods
  2. Run the following command to view the logs.

    kubectl logs pod_name

Viewing logs in a Docker Compose environment

About this task

To view the logs in a Docker container, you need to know the container ID for the HCL™ Accelerate containers.

Procedure

  1. From a command line window, run the following command to list containers. 
    docker ps -a
    The command output displays the containers and its ID.
  2. To view the logs, use the docker logs command.
    Run a separate command for each container.

    docker logs accelerate_userinterface_container_id

    docker logs accelerate_consumercontainer_id