Viewing Error Logs

RDS log management allows you to view database-level logs, including error logs and slow SQL query logs.

Error logs contain warning- and error-level 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 image1 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 Error Logs page, view details about error logs.

    • You can select a log level in the upper right corner to view logs of the selected level.

      Note

      For MySQL DB instances, the following levels of logs are displayed:

      • ERROR

      • WARNING

      • NOTE

    • You can click image2 in the upper right corner to view error 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.