Setting Up Historical Logs
This page provides instructions on setting up and accessing historical logs on the PlexTrac server. This process leverages the journald logging driver that uses the Linux logging system as a storage backend and allows access to historical logs after a container has been updated or restarted.
- Command-line access to the server with PlexTrac installed and running
Step 1: As root, enable journald globally by adding this configuration to
/etc/docker/daemon.json
:This file may not exist. If this is the case, it will need to be created.

Step 2: Restart the docker service.

Step 3: Add plextrac user to the systemd-journal group.

Step 4: As the plextrac user, update the system using this command.

As plextrac user, invoke the
journalctl
command in to view logs. Examples:

Available containers to pull logs from:
- plextrac-postgres-1
- plextrac-redis
- plextrac-plextracdb-1
- plextrac-plextracnginx-1
- plextrac-plextracapi-{1,2,3}
- plextrac-couchbase-migrations-1
- plextrac-notification-sender-1
- plextrac-notification-engine-1
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