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Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 705

How do you log systemd service starts,stops,failures as they occur?

We have recently moved to systemd, and it has been quite useful. But I cannot find a way to log the starts and restarts of a given service. I can use journalctl SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=systemd -u some-service.service to see the entries, but there doesn't seem to be a way to log it when it happens.

I know that I could hook into the ExecStartPre= or ExecStartPost= directives, but we have a lot of services. I'm hoping for a more general solution.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 272

Answers (1)

awoz
awoz

Reputation: 24

The only method that I've for logging systemd operations for each service involves embedding "systemd-notify" calls inside your application. Whether this can be used to create an application history/journal of start, stop, exit operations is still TBD. Am currently working on a project to try this method. Gotta love systemd ;)

Upvotes: 0

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