Description
This article describes Historical and Realtime Debug Logs for determining RCA.
Scope
FortiGate.
Solution
Historical Logs:
- Stored data about past system events.
- Covers a wide array of incidents to understand general trends about the system health, network, etc.
- Helps establish a baseline for environment normalcy, and also understand any changes to it over time.
- May not contain sufficient or detailed information for specific incidents, and therefore needs to run real-time debugging.
- Logs fetched from Device Disk/FortiAnalyzer, Syslog, etc: System Event logs, HA Event logs, IPS logs, Traffic Logs, etc.
Realtime Debug Logs:
- Captures live data from a running system, application, or service, and helps quickly understand what that is happening in the environment.
- Useful for identifying transient or intermittent problems.
- Records data to capture specific issue(s) in detail.
- Logs may sometimes be too verbose, therefore requiring applicable filters to be set before issuance.
- A few debug logs are fetched from the CLI in realtime:
For effective RCA, the best approach would be to gather a combination of both real-time debug logs and historical logs for analysis.
