Compute log files

The corresponding log file of each Compute service is stored in the /var/log/nova/ directory of the host on which each service runs.

Log files used by Compute services
Log file	Service name (CentOS/Fedora/openSUSE/Red Hat Enterprise Linux/SUSE Linux Enterprise)	Service name (Ubuntu/Debian)
`nova-api.log`	`openstack-nova-api`	`nova-api`
`nova-cert.log`¹	`openstack-nova-cert`	`nova-cert`
`nova-compute.log`	`openstack-nova-compute`	`nova-compute`
`nova-conductor.log`	`openstack-nova-conductor`	`nova-conductor`
`nova-consoleauth.log`	`openstack-nova-consoleauth`	`nova-consoleauth`
`nova-network.log`²	`openstack-nova-network`	`nova-network`
`nova-manage.log`	`nova-manage`	`nova-manage`
`nova-scheduler.log`	`openstack-nova-scheduler`	`nova-scheduler`

Footnotes

The X509 certificate service (openstack-nova-cert/nova-cert) is only required by the EC2 API to the Compute service.↩︎
The nova network service (openstack-nova-network/ nova-network) only runs in deployments that are not configured to use the Networking service (neutron).↩︎