kernel log
What is a kernel log?
- Description
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Kernel logs contain detailed information, including boot messages, hardware driver information, kernel status, and other kernel-related events. Kernel logging is initialized from the system startup and is helpful for system auditing and troubleshooting startup and hardware issues.
- In the world of NXLog
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Networks consist of computers, servers, network devices, and other appliances. All of these devices run some operating system, generating kernel logs. Kernel logs are crucial in troubleshooting hardware, driver, and startup issues. NXLog Enterprise Edition supports collecting kernel logs from various platforms, including Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows, and provides the following native modules:
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The Kernel (im_kernel) module for collecting Linux kernel events and BSD kernel logs.
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The macOS ULS (im_maculs) and macOS Endpoint Security (im_maces) modules for collecting macOS kernel logs.
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The Event Tracing for Windows (im_etw) and Event Log for Windows 2008/Vista/later (im_msvistalog) modules for collecting Windows kernel events.
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- Known as
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kernel log, kernel trace, kernel trace log, kernel message, kernel events, linux kernel log, windows kernel log
- Related
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Reading the kernel log
Logs from the kernel log buffer
Kernel (im_kernel)
