Diagnostics

From Pengwings

List all system power on/off and uptime for each boot

last -x | grep -E 'shutdown|reboot'

Show system logs

From current boot

journalctl -b

From a specific boot

journalctl -b <entry>

Boot entry can be an offset, e.g. -1 will give you 1 boot earlier

journalctl -b -1

Same command, but limited to only showing kernel logs, add -k

journalctl -k -b -1

Time filtering

journalctl --since "2026-08-01 08:00:00" --until "2026-08-01 12:00:00"

Show logs of specific systemd service

journalctl -u containerd.service