Logs location on Linux based Cloud VM platforms.

The location of logs will vary dependant on if the template used had a Parallels Plesk control panel included or not.

With Plesk control panel:

The following can help locate logs in Plesk:

Without Plesk:

All the logs are located under /var/log/, brief description of the logs available:

maillog - mail server logs

messages or dmesg (depends on the linux distribution) - holds the main server log

mysql - holds mysql logs

The apache2 directory holds error and access logs for the apache server, named error_log; access_log respecitvely.