show logging count
CF-698
Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference
July 2008
show logging count
To display a summary of the number of times certain system error messages are occuring, use the show
logging command in privileged EXEC mode.
show logging count
Syntax Description This command has no arguements or keywords.
Command Modes Privileged EXEC
Command History
Usage Guidelines To enable the error log count capability (syslog counting feature), use the logging count command in
global configuration mode.
This feature works independently of the various settings of the other logging commands (such as [no]
logging on, [no] logging buffered, and so on). In other words, turning off logging by other means does
not stop the counting and timestamping from occuring.
This command displays information such as the number of times a particular system error message
occurs and the time stamp of the last occurrence of the specified message. System error messages are
grouped into logical units called “Facilities” based on Cisco IOS software components.
To determine if system error message counting is enabled, use the show logging command.
The service timestamps command configuration determines the timestamp format (shown in the “Last
Time” column) of show logging count command output. There is not quite enough space for all options
of the possible options (datetime, milliseconds, and timezone) of the service timestamps datetime
command to be displayed at the same time. As a result, if msec is selected, timezone will not be
displayed. If show-timezone is selected but not msec, then the time zone will be displayed.
Occasionally, the length of the message name plus the facility name contains too many characters to be
printed on one line. The CLI attempts to keep the name and facility name on one line but, if necessary,
the line will be wrapped, so that the first line contains the facility name and the second line contains the
message name and the rest of the columns.
Examples The following example shows the number of times syslog messages have occurred and the most recent
time that each error message occurred. In this example, the show logging command is used to determine
if the syslog counting feature is enabled:
Router# show logging | include count
Count and timestamp logging messages: enabled
Router# show logging count
Facility Message Name Sev Occur Last Time
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Release Modification
12.2(8)T This command was introduced.