Architecting a vCloud Director Solution : Operational Considerations : 11.1 vCloud Director Monitoring : 11.1.2 vCloud Log Monitoring
   
11.1.2 vCloud Log Monitoring
By default, vCloud Director cell logs are located in $VCLOUD_HOME/logs. The configuration of loggers that produce some of the log files is stored in $VCLOUD_HOME/etc/log4j.properties file. It is possible to set up additional loggers in order to redirect logs to external logging solutions – the VMware Knowledge Base article Enabling Centralized Logging in VMware vCloud Director at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2004564.
Table 17. vCloud Director Logs
Log Name
Description
cell.log
Console output from the vCloud Director cells.
cell-runtime.log
Runtime log messages from the cell.
vcloud-container-debug.log
Debug-level log messages from the cell.
vcloud-container.info.log
Informational log messages from the cell. This log also shows warning on errors encountered by the cell.
vcloud-console-debug.log
Debug-level log messages from the cell remote console proxy process.
statsfeeder.log
VM metric retrieval (from vCenter Server) and storage (KairosDB) informational and error messages.
cell-management-tool.log
Cell Management Tool log messages from the cell.
vmware-vcd-watchdog.log
Informational log messages from the cell watchdog. It records when the cell crashes, is restarted, and so on.
diagnostics.log
Cell diagnostics log. This file is empty unless diagnostics logging is enabled in the local logging configuration.
YYYY_MM_DD.request.log
vCloud API request log.
cloud-proxy.log
vCloud Availability Cloud proxy log messages from the cell.
console-proxy.log
Remote console proxy log messages from the cell.
server-group-communications
Server group communications from the cell.
 
Each vCloud Director cell exposes a number of Mbeans through Java Management Extension (JMX) to allow for operational management of the server and to provide access to internal statistics. Any JMX client can be used to access the vCloud Director JMX service (for example, JConsole). For more information about the exposed MBeans, see the VMware Knowledge Base article vCloud Director MBeans at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026065.