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+# GlusterFS service Logs and locations
+
+Below lists the component, services, and functionality based logs in the GlusterFS Server. As per the File System Hierarchy Standards (FHS) all the log files are placed in the `/var/log` directory.
+⁠
+
+##glusterd:
+
+glusterd logs are located at `/var/log/glusterfs/etc-glusterfs-glusterd.vol.log`. One glusterd log file per server. This log file also contains the snapshot and user logs.
+
+##gluster cli command:
+gluster cli logs  are located at `/var/log/glusterfs/cmd_history.log`   Gluster commands executed on a node in a GlusterFS Trusted Storage Pool is logged in the `.cmd_log_history` file.
+
+##bricks:
+Bricks logs are located at `/var/log/glusterfs/bricks/<path extraction of brick path>.log` .    One log file per brick on the server
+
+##rebalance:
+rebalance logs are located at `/var/log/glusterfs/VOLNAME-rebalance.log` .    One log file per volume on the server.
+
+##self heal deamon:
+self heal deamon are logged at `/var/log/glusterfs/glustershd.log`.    One log file per server
+
+##quota:
+
+`/var/log/glusterfs/quotad.log` are log of the quota daemons running on each node.
+`/var/log/glusterfs/quota-crawl.log` Whenever quota is enabled, a file system crawl is performed and the corresponding log is stored in this file.
+`/var/log/glusterfs/quota-mount- VOLNAME.log` An auxiliary FUSE client is mounted in <gluster-run-dir>/VOLNAME of the glusterFS and the corresponding client logs found in this file.
+
+        One log file per server (and per volume from quota-mount.
+
+##Gluster NFS:
+
+`/var/log/glusterfs/nfs.log `  One log file per server
+
+##SAMBA Gluster:
+
+`/var/log/samba/glusterfs-VOLNAME-<ClientIP>.log` .     If the client mounts this on a glusterFS server node, the actual log file or the mount point may not be found. In such a case, the mount outputs of all the glusterFS type mount operations need to be considered.
+
+##Ganesha NFS :
+`/var/log/nfs-ganesha.log`
+
+##FUSE Mount:
+`/var/log/glusterfs/<mountpoint path extraction>.log `
+
+##Geo-replication:
+
+`/var/log/glusterfs/geo-replication/<master>`
+`/var/log/glusterfs/geo-replication-slaves `
+
+##gluster volume heal VOLNAME info command:
+`/var/log/glusterfs/glfsheal-VOLNAME.log` . One log file per server on which the command is executed.
+
+##gluster-swift:
+`/var/log/messages`
+
+##SwiftKrbAuth:
+`/var/log/httpd/error_log `