The system logs on macOS can help diagnose and troubleshoot problems with installed applications and can sometimes give us valuable information that we would otherwise be unable to find from our own amagent.log.
To view your Mac system logs, launch the console app. You can launch it with Spotlight search by pressing Command+Space, typing “Console,” and then pressing Enter. You’ll also find it at Finder > Applications > Utilities > Console.
To view the system log file, click “system.log.” To browse different application-specific logs, look through the other folders here. “~Library/Logs” is your current Mac user account’s user-specific application log folder, “/Library/Logs” is the system-wide application log folder, and “/var/log” generally contains logs for low-level system services. The search bar works to filter these log files, too.
You can also use spotlight search to these locations:
- System log folder: /var/log
- System Log: /var/log/system.log