Technical Tip: How to get console logs from AWS console

Description
This article describes how to retrieve the latest console output after an instance transition state (start, stop, reboot, and terminate). This is useful when the Fortigate-VM experienced an unexpected reboot and you need to get the output of the console to investigate what triggers the reboot.
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Solution
Here is a step by step guide: 

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

2. In the left navigation pane, choose Instances, and select the instance.

 

 

3. Choose Actions > Instance Settings > Get System Log.

 

This will open another window where you can highlight all the log output and paste it to a notepad.

4. Choose Actions > Instance Settings > Get Instance Screenshot.

This will open another window where it showed the screenshot of your instance. This is useful  to have a visibility of the status of the instance when it is not accessible