Accessing system and component logs

ENTERPRISE

You can restrict user access to system and component logs.

Here is the permission that is required to view the system and component logs:

Permission string	full	C	R	U	D
`dcos:adminrouter:ops:system-logs` Controls access to System logs API.	x

Prerequisites:

Via the DC/OS web interface

Select Organization and choose Users. Select an existing or create a new user.

Figure 1. New user screen
From the Permissions tab, select ADD PERMISSION.

Figure 2. Add Permission button
Click INSERT PERMISSION STRING to toggle the dialog and paste in the following permissions and click ADD PERMISSIONS.
```
dcos:adminrouter:ops:system-logs full
```
Figure 3. Permission string dialog

The Permissions tab should now look like this:

Figure 4. Permissions have been added

Prerequisite: You must get the root cert before issuing the curl commands in this section.

Service resources often include / characters that must be replaced with %252F in curl requests, as shown in the examples below.
When using the API to manage permissions, you must create the permission before granting it. If the permission already exists, the API will return an informative message and you can continue to assign the permission.

Grant the permission to the user (<username>).

dcos security org users grant <username> dcos:adminrouter:ops:system-logs full --description "Grants access to system and component logs."