VMware Cloud Director provides logging information for each cloud cell in your server group. You can view the logs to monitor your cells and to troubleshoot any problems that you encounter during the day-to-day running of VMware Cloud Director.

To generate the logs, log in directly or by using an SSH client to the VMware Cloud Director server as root, and enter the following shortcut.
generate_support_bundle

VMware Cloud Director Logs

Log Name File or Directory Description
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/cell.log Console output from the VMware Cloud Director cell.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/cell-management-tool Cell management tool log messages from the cell.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/cell-runtime Runtime log messages from the cell.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/cloud-proxy Cloud proxy log messages from the cell.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/server-group-communications Server group communications from the cell.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/statsfeeder Virtual machine metric retrieval from vCenter Server and storage information and error messages.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vcloud-container-debug.log Debug-level log messages from the cell.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vcloud-container-info.log Informational log messages from the cell. This log also shows warnings or errors encountered by the cell.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vmware-vcd-watchdog.log Informational log messages from the cell watchdog. It records when the cell stops responding, is restarted, and so on.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/diagnostics.log Cell diagnostics log. This file is empty unless diagnostics logging is enabled in the local logging configuration.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/YYYY_MM_DD.request.log HTTP request logs in the Apache common log format.
opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vclistener.log The VCListener includes the Property collector reader that collects data from vCenter Server and the PCEventProcessors that asynchronously process the updates received from vCenter Server. This log includes all the log statements corresponding to these components.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/activityevent.log For each completed event, a list of local users must receive a completion event from other cells through message bus. You can use the activityevent.log to identify whether there is a completion event in the log.
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/jobscheduler.log You can use the log to identify issues regarding periodical scheduled activities running in VMware Cloud Director.

VMware Cloud Director Appliance Logs

The VMware Cloud Director appliance features some additional log files.

Log file Description
/opt/vmware/var/log/firstboot Contains logging information related to the first boot of the appliance.
/opt/vmware/var/log/vcd Contains logs related to the Replication Manager (repmgr) tool suite setup, reconfiguration, and appliance synchronization.
/opt/vmware/var/log/vcd/pg Contains logs related to the backup of the embedded appliance database.
/opt/vmware/etc/vami/ovfEnv.xml Contains the OVF deployment parameters.
/var/vmware/vpostgres/current/pgdata/log Contains logs related to the embedded PostgreSQL database.
/opt/vmware/var/log/vami/updatecli.log Contains logging related to appliance upgrades.

Use any text editor, text viewer, or third-party tool to view the logs.