Logs generally come in very handy when trying to troubleshoot issues within your account. An FTP log is a log that is within your web hosting account, that stores a record of all the data uploaded and downloaded from your web hosting account.
Below, we’ve outlined the instructions on how to get to the FTP log from your web hosting account within the recommended FTP clients.
CyberDuck – Being one of the most popular FTP clients for Apple, you will need to do a few things to be able to see the log in real-time. To do this, simply follow the below mentioned instructions:
- Open your CyberDuck FTP Client
- Then within the menu click on "View"
- Once within the "View" dropdown click "Toggle Log Drawer"
- Once you reconnect, you will be able to see all of the logs that are happening while you are transferring data between your web hosting account and your local computer.
FileZilla – One of the most popular FTP clients to be used by Windows users. Being a free and open source project, users may enjoy FileZilla within Windows, Linux and Apple operating systems. To learn how to view messages, please follow the below-mentioned instructions:
- Open your FileZilla FTP Client
- Then click on the "View" button within the menu
- Upon completion, click on the "Message Log" option
If you have any further questions pertaining to the above-mentioned cPanel/WHM FTP clients, please feel free to get in contact with our web hosting support team for further assistance.