vCenter Server | vCenter Server Appliance | Description |
vmware-vpx\vpxd.log | vpxd/vpxd.log | The main vCenter Server logs. Includes all vSphere Client and web services, connections, and events. |
vmware-vpx\vpxd-profiler.log | vpxd/vpxd-profiler.log | Profiled metrics for operations performed in vCenter Server. Used by the VPX Operational Dashboard (VOD) accessible at https://VCHostnameOrIPAddress/vod/index.html. |
vmware-vpx\vpxd-alert.log | vpxd/vpxd-alert.log | Non-fatal information logged about the vpxd process. |
perfcharts\stats.log | perfcharts/stats.log | Information about the historical performance data collection from the ESXi hosts. |
eam\eam.log | eam/eam.log | Health reports for the ESX agent monitor extension and connectivity logs to vCenter Server. |
invsvc | invsvc | VMware inventory service. |
netdump | netdumper | VMware vSphere ESXi Dump Collector. |
vapi | vapi | VMware vAPI endpoint. The vAPI endpoint provides a single point of access to vAPI services. |
vmdird | vmdird | VMware directory service daemon. |
vmsyslogcollector | syslog | vSphere syslog collector. |
vmware-sps\sps.log | vmware-sps/sps.log | VMware vSphere profile-driven storage service. |
vpostgres | vpostgres | VMware vFabric® Postgres database service. |
vsphere-client | vsphere-client | VMware vSphere Web Client. |
cim-diag.log and vws.log | vws | Common information model monitoring information, including communication between vCenter Server and a managed host’s CIM interface. |
workflow | workflow | VMware vCenter Server workflow manager |
SSO | SSO | VMware vCenter Single Sign-On™. |
ls.log | - | Health reports for the licensing services extension and connectivity logs to vCenter Server. |
sms.log | - | Health reports for the storage monitoring service extension, connectivity logs to vCenter Server, the vCenter Server database, and the xDB database for vCenter Server inventory service. |
eam.log | eam.log | Health reports for the ESX agent monitor extension and connectivity logs to vCenter Server. |
catalina.<date>.log and localhost.<date>.log | - | Connectivity information and status of the VMware web management services. |
jointool.log | - | Health status of the VMware VCMSDS service and individual ADAM database objects, internal tasks and events, and replication logs between linked-mode vCenter Server instances. |
vimtool.log | - | Dump of string used during the installation of vCenter Server with hashed information for DNS, username, and output for JDBC creation. |
drmdump\ | - | Actions proposed and taken by VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS), grouped by the DRS-enabled cluster managed by vCenter Server. These logs are compressed. |