---
title: "Viewing Session Logs"
description: "You can monitor the backup process by viewing the backup job session logs in the following ways: Using Veeam Agent control panel In the Veeam Agent command line interface To view the logs of a specific backup job session using the Veeam Agent..."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforaix/userguide/session_logs.html"
breadcrumb: "User Guide > Reporting > Viewing Session Logs"
dateModified: "2026-11-03"
---

# Viewing Session Logs

You can monitor the backup process by viewing the backup job session logs in the following ways:

- [Using Veeam Agent control panel](#gui)
- [In the Veeam Agent command line interface](#cmd)

## Viewing Session Logs in Control Panel {#gui}

To view the logs of a specific backup job session using the Veeam Agent control panel, do the following:

1. Launch the Veeam Agent control panel with the `veeam` or `veeamconfig ui` command.
2. In the Veeam Agent control panel, in the **Latest backup sessions** list, select the necessary backup job session with [Up] and [Down] keys and press [Enter].

   Veeam Agent will display the statistics and logs of the selected session.


   ![](images/gui_session_log_aix.png)



## Viewing Session Logs in Command Line Interface {#cmd}

To view a session log in the Veeam Agent command line interface, use the following command:

```
veeamconfig session log --id <session_id>
```

where `<session_id>` is an ID of the backup job or restore session.

For example:

```
user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig session log --id fb9104a7-b507-46f8-90ea-10601863e8d7
2020-03-16 10:49:47 UTC {87da2cfc-d6d3-410e-b08f-d723e29e3ed8} [info] Job system backup started at 2020-03-16 11:49:47 CET
2020-03-16 10:49:49 UTC {0d0ec3b2-3e4b-46f2-81e0-db355e888607} [info] Preparing to backup
2020-03-16 10:49:55 UTC {30657591-e968-40bd-ba28-07eafe07bab6} [processing] Waiting for backup infrastructure resources availability
2020-03-16 10:49:57 UTC {30657591-e968-40bd-ba28-07eafe07bab6} [info]
2020-03-16 10:50:05 UTC {d9a40968-5f89-44de-ad88-a550f0da4315} [info] Starting full backup to [srv14] Default Backup Repository
2020-03-16 10:50:06 UTC {bcb20912-b95d-4ef7-893e-2eaa4f8bc3cc} [info] File system indexing is disabled
2020-03-16 10:50:06 UTC {d98e15f8-994c-4375-91c9-1cade3b5410c} [processing] Backing up files /
```