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Viewing Transfer Family log streams

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Viewing Transfer Family log streams - AWS Transfer Family
To view your Transfer Family server logs

  1. Navigate to the details page for a server.

  2. Choose View logs. This opens Amazon CloudWatch.

  3. The log group for your selected server is displayed.

    The log group details page. In addition to the log group, it presents a list the recent log streams.

  4. You can select a log stream to display details and individual entries for the stream.

    • If there is a listing for ERRORS, you can choose it to view details for the latest errors for the server.

      The logging for ERRORS example page. This example shows details for several authentication failures.

    • Choose any other entry to see an example log stream.

      An example logging screen, showing a session where a user connects, and then later disconnects, from the SFTP server.

    • If your server has a managed workflow associated with it, you can view logs for the workflow runs.

      Note

      The format for the log stream for the workflow is username.workflowId.uniqueStreamSuffix. For example, decrypt-user.w-a1111222233334444.aaaa1111bbbb2222 could be the name of a log stream for user decrypt-user and workflow w-a1111222233334444.

      An example logging screen, showing entries for one run through a workflow, with the StepStarted log entry expanded.
Note

For any expanded log entry, you can copy the entry to the clipboard by choosing Copy. For more details about CloudWatch logs, see Viewing log data.

Related resources

AWS Transfer Family API Reference
AWS CLI commands for AWS Transfer Family
SDKs & Tools 

Related resources

AWS Transfer Family API Reference
AWS CLI commands for AWS Transfer Family
SDKs & Tools 
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