Logs for the following cPanel services can be found in the following locations.
These log locations will require ‘root’ (administrator access), if you do not have this, please contact your hosting provider
Access Log for cPanel, WHM, Webmail
usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log
Error logs for cPanel Pages
usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log
Login Authentication into cPanel
/usr/local/cpanel/logs/login_log
ModSec Audit Log
/var/log/apache2/modsec_audit.log
Email’s processed through server
/var/log/exim_mainlog
Email IMAP/POP3 Authentication
/var/log/mainlog
FTP authentication and errors
/var/log/messages
SSH
/var/log/secure
Apache HTTP Web Server Log
/usr/local/apache/error_log
Individual Site Logs (Separated by domain)
/usr/local/apache/domlogs/[domain]
/usr/local/apache/domlogs/[domain]-ssl_log
If you do not have access to root, these logs are also located within the users cPanel account
/home/[~username]/logs/[domain]-[mmm]-[yyyy].gz
/home/[~username]/logs/[domain]-ssl_log-[mmm]-[yyyy].gz