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Review logs and history

Open Logs and select Historical Logs. Entries are newest first and initially paginate in groups of 25. Each has an operation type, status, target, timestamp, duration, summary, and full output.

Work with records

Section titled “Work with records”

Select an entry to copy it or export it as text, CSV, or JSON. Export all writes only the currently loaded entries, so choose Show All before an archive export. clean, infected, error, and update outcomes describe the recorded ClamAV operation; scheduled scans can be inferred from their regular timestamps.

Use the CLI for scripts:

Terminal window
clamui history --help
clamui history --json

Native logs are JSON files under ~/.local/share/clamui/logs/; Flatpak logs are under ~/.var/app/io.github.linx_systems.ClamUI/data/clamui/logs/.

Daemon output

Section titled “Daemon output”

The ClamAV Daemon tab displays live clamd log output when it is accessible. Missing or permission-denied logs can mean that the daemon is not running, logs only to journald, or your user cannot read its log group. ClamUI checks common /var/log/clamav/ locations.

Retention

Section titled “Retention”

Clear All permanently removes log history. Export incident evidence or records needed for compliance first. Manually deleting JSON files bypasses the UI confirmation and should be reserved for recovery.