# How to understand the loginformation in console

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**Created:** [January 2, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-to-understand-the-loginformation-in-console/6318 "2018-01-02T18:29:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-to-understand-the-loginformation-in-console/6318/2 "2018-01-02T20:54:29Z")

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There is a FAQ article that covers exactly this.

> [@How do I watch and interpret the pihole.log file?](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-watch-and-interpret-the-pihole-log-file/276):
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> Use this [command](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/the-pihole-command-with-examples/738) 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.

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