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I accessed my droplet using the API and ran some commands. Some of them failed. Are there any logs for API access?

Posted on January 17, 2018

Ubuntu 14.04 image Used V2 of API I have access to the machine but I don’t know why the commands I sent failed. Is there any way to see the console output or any other logging for it?



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Take a look in /var/log. There may be something in the syslog.

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