Why is /admin/taillog.ph log empty?

If I go to

/admin/taillog-FTL.php

I don not see anything. The other log, /admin/taillog.php works well.

On the server disk, /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.log is NOT empty

Debug Log: x6pru79z3m

Why this log is empty? Must I enable the log as documented in the following link?

Debugging FTLDNS - Pi-hole documentation

Thats easy :wink: its a live tail.
Tailing starts when you browse to that link and you will only see new log entries appear.
Older log entries from before browsing to that link wont show.

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I was thinking that FTL was logging requests and anme resolutions like the standard logger does.

FTL is intentionally logging into two files for historic reasons:

  • /var/log/pihole.log - DNS/DHCP related logs
  • /var/log/pihole-FTL.log - statistics daemon related logs

The fact that you don't see anything in the tail log of pihole-FTL.log is a good thing.

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