{
"meta": {
"title": "ProxMenux Monitor — Dashboard: System Logs tab | ProxMenux Documentation",
"description": "The System Logs tab consolidates three sources into one screen: live journalctl with filters and download, Proxmox task history (UPIDs), and notification log — all searchable, filterable by severity / time range, and downloadable as text bundles."
},
"header": {
"title": "Dashboard: System Logs tab",
"description": "Three sub-tabs under one roof: the system journal (journalctl with filters), Proxmox task history, and the notification log. All three are searchable, filterable and downloadable as text bundles.",
"section": "ProxMenux Monitor · Dashboard"
},
"readOnly": {
"title": "Read-only by design",
"body": "Nothing on this tab modifies log files. Filters live in the URL / state, downloads are server-side bundles. The dashboard never deletes log entries — for housekeeping use the host's own journalctl --vacuum-time=<N> or logrotate."
},
"topRow": {
"heading": "Top row: four counters",
"items": [
"Total Entries — number of log records inside the active filter window.",
"Errors — count of severity ≤ 3 (err / crit / alert / emerg).",
"Warnings — count of severity 4 (warning).",
"Backups — count of vzdump / PBS task entries in the same window."
]
},
"subtabs": {
"heading": "Three sub-tabs",
"logsTitle": "Logs",
"logsIntro": "The system journal, served by journalctl on the backend. Filters available in the toolbar:",
"logsFilters": [
"Severity — emerg / alert / crit / err / warning / notice / info / debug, or any combination.",
"Time range — last 5 min / 15 min / 1 h / 6 h / 24 h / 7 d / custom.",
"Free-text search — substring or regex (journalctl --grep).",
"Unit filter — restrict to a specific systemd unit (pveproxy.service, nginx.service, …)."
],
"logsRowsAfter": "Each row shows timestamp, severity badge, source unit and the message. Long messages collapse with a \"show more\" toggle. The Download action bundles the current filter into a single .txt file via GET /api/logs/download — useful when you want to share a slice of journal with someone.",
"logDetailsModalTitle": "Log Details modal",
"logDetailsBody": "Clicking any row opens a Log Details modal with every structured field journald captured for that single entry — the same view you'd build by hand running journalctl --output=verbose on the host.",
"logDetailsImageAlt": "Log Details modal — single journal entry expanded with Level, Service, Timestamp, Source, Systemd Unit, Process ID, Hostname and the full Message",
"logDetailsImageCaption": "Log Details modal — every structured field journald carries for this entry, with the full untruncated message at the bottom. Useful for cron and service logs where the executed command line matters.",
"fieldsIntro": "Fields shown:",
"fields": [
"Level — coloured severity badge (INFO / WARNING / ERROR / CRITICAL).",
"Service — short name of the unit / process that emitted the entry.",
"Timestamp — full date and time of the log line.",
"Source — origin of the entry (journal, kernel, audit, …).",
"Systemd Unit — the actual .service / .timer / .socket unit if the entry was associated with one.",
"Process ID — PID of the emitting process.",
"Hostname — useful when journals are forwarded across cluster nodes.",
"Message — the full untruncated message in a monospace block, ready to copy."
],
"maxLevelStoreTitle": "Journald MaxLevelStore",
"maxLevelStoreBody": "On a fresh Proxmox install, journald defaults to MaxLevelStore=warning, which silently drops info-level messages. The Monitor detects this on startup and adds a drop-in (/etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/proxmenux-loglevel.conf) raising the threshold to info so the Logs tab actually has something to show across all severities.",
"backupsTitle": "Backups",
"backupsBody": "Proxmox task history filtered to backup-related entries. One row per task (vzdump, PBS transfers, Garbage Collect, Verify) with the status (OK / WARNINGS / ERROR), guest involved, source storage, duration and the UPID. Click a row to load the full task log via GET /api/task-log/<upid> — the same data Proxmox exposes through Datacenter → Tasks, scoped to backups.",
"notificationsTitle": "Notifications",
"notificationsBody1": "Every notification dispatched by the Monitor — Telegram, Discord, Email, Gotify, ntfy, Slack, Teams, webhook. Each row: timestamp, channel, event type, severity, the rendered title, the rendered body, and (if AI is enabled) a toggle to view the AI rewrite next to the original.",
"notificationsBody2": "Use this tab to verify a channel is actually delivering and to compare what the AI rewrite produced vs the template baseline. Channel configuration lives in the Notifications deep page."
},
"dataCollected": {
"heading": "How the data is collected",
"headerSubtab": "Sub-tab",
"headerEndpoint": "Endpoint",
"headerSource": "Source",
"rows": [
{
"subtab": "Logs (live filter)",
"endpoint": "/api/logs",
"source": "journalctl --output json --since <range> with severity / unit / search filters applied server-side."
},
{
"subtab": "Download",
"endpoint": "/api/logs/download",
"source": "Same query, returned as plain text for grep / less."
},
{
"subtab": "Backups",
"endpoint": "/api/backups",
"source": "PVE task history filtered by vzdump, PBS transfers, Garbage Collect, Verify."
},
{
"subtab": "Backup task drill-in",
"endpoint": "/api/task-log/<upid>",
"source": "Plain-text full task log read from /var/log/pve/tasks/<index>/<upid>."
},
{
"subtab": "Notifications history",
"endpoint": "/api/notifications/history",
"source": "SQLite notification_history table fed by the dispatch loop."
}
],
"apiIntro": "Both the live filter and the downloads are also reachable via the API:",
"codeComment1": "# Last hour of errors and worse, with a keyword",
"codeComment2": "# Download the full journal of the last 6 hours as plain text",
"codeComment3": "# Look up the full output of a specific task by UPID"
},
"whereNext": {
"heading": "Where to next",
"items": [
{
"label": "Health Monitor",
"href": "/docs/monitor/health-monitor",
"tail": " — the System Logs category that watches for persistent / spike / cascade patterns."
},
{
"label": "Notifications",
"href": "/docs/monitor/notifications",
"tail": " — the journal watcher reads the same source and turns matches into notifications."
},
{
"label": "API Reference",
"href": "/docs/monitor/api",
"tail": " — the logs and task-log endpoints with their query parameters."
},
{
"label": "Dashboard index",
"href": "/docs/monitor/dashboard",
"tail": " — the other tabs."
}
]
}
}