Whenever you’re facing network issues, you probably can find the cause in router logs. Spotting anomalies in the volumes of the ordinary traffic is difficult. But with all this traffic, the volume of events can be overwhelming and hard to manage manually. And because any connection will eventually have to pass the router, managing router logs also helps with forensic security analysis. It’s crucial to identify and fix router-related issues as soon as possible.Įven if the issue is related to another device because routers play such a central role in the network, analyzing router logs can help you spot the problem. So, if you have any issues with your router, you’ll probably completely lose connectivity between the devices in your network and to the internet. While it sounds relatively simple, routers do much of the work in a network and sometimes can even do the job of other devices (for example, switch or firewall).
It can forward packets from one computer to another and from one network to another. Put simply, a router is a network device that manages network traffic. In this post, we’ll walk through how to analyze router logs efficiently.
Router logs can tell you a lot about your network. In smaller networks, routers may even be the only devices managing traffic. If you’re like most network engineers, you usually spend most of the time working with routers (as opposed to other network devices).
