How to understand the loginformation in console

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There is a FAQ article that covers exactly this.

How do I watch and interpret the pihole.log file?

Use this command to watch the log file in real time: pihole -t which is just a short version of sudo tail -F /var/log/pihole.log You can also do it on the web interface: [image] When your Pi-hole first starts up, it will read your hosts file as well as /etc/pihole/gravity.list, which is where your list of ad-serving domains is. So one of the first log entries will read like this: Nov 13 07:45:04 dnsmasq[1055]: read /etc/hosts - 5 addresses Nov 13 07:45:06 dnsmasq[1055]: read /etc/pihole/g…

Feel free to ask if you still have additional questions after going through this article.