Log agent behavior

This page describes the process to output a log of the Consul agent's behavior.

Overview

First, make sure your user has write permissions in the Consul data directory.

$ sudo chmod g+w /opt/consul/

Then start the Consul process. By default the Consul agent outputs logs to the open terminal. To start the agent without locking the terminal and output to a log instead, run the following command.

$ consul agent -config-dir=/etc/consul.d/ > /tmp/consul-server.log 2>&1 &