The GeoServer Logs section

The GeoServer Logs section lets you read the messages, warnings, and errors contained in the log file. According to the current logging settings, we will tune them further in this chapter, where you can find more information about the requests clients send to GeoServer and how it processes them. This is shown in the following screenshot:

You can only read the last 1,000 lines by default from the console. You can change this setting, but if you really need to access the entire log content, we would strongly suggest accessing it with a text editor. You can use the Download the full log file link placed just under the text console, or you can access the log file directly. On a Linux machine, you can use the console utility more, as shown in the following example:

    $ more /opt/geoserver_data_dir/logs/geoserver.log