Log Usage

The Settings Log Usage page gives you insight into the log size per component and log directory.

This is your total Log Size (of all components combined) and the location of your logs.

Look at the way logs are stored on the disk

You can physically examine how Iguana stores the log files. In Mac OS X:

Copy the location
Open the Finder application
Use the Shift + ⌘ + G to open a window which you can copy & paste the logs location into:

In this way you can see how Iguana stores the logs for each component:

Each component has its own directory.

Each directory represents hexadecimal digits in Unix epoch time. Unix epoch time is the number of seconds since January 1st 1970. The structure of logs is design to facilitate fast random access to the data and makes it fast to dequeue and search the log data.

See how much space remains on your disk.
This table is a comprehensive list of all components and their log sizes.
Click the trash symbol to delete the log.

In IguanaX, you can clear the logs of each component individually

You can choose to get rid of test channel data or ‘chatty’ interfaces, while keeping important production data for decades.

Click Delete to have the logs of the component deleted. This can also be done in the

Here are some Best practices for managing log space (link to admin) and Different Log Directories (link to admin).