This needs the `cysystemd` python package installed as dependency (`pip install cysystemd`), which is not available on Windows. Hence, the whole journald logging functionality is not available for a bot running on Windows.
To send Freqtrade log messages to `journald` system service use the `--logfile` command line option with the value in the following format:
* `--logfile journald` -- send log messages to `journald`.
To send Freqtrade log messages to `journald` system service, add the following configuration snippet to your configuration.
Log messages are send to `journald` with the `user` facility. So you can see them with the following commands:
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There are many other options in the `journalctl` utility to filter the messages, see manual pages for this utility.
On many systems `syslog` (`rsyslog`) fetches data from `journald` (and vice versa), so both `--logfile syslog` or `--logfile journald` can be used and the messages be viewed with both `journalctl` and a syslog viewer utility. You can combine this in any way which suites you better.
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To send Freqtrade log messages to `journald` system service use the `--logfile` command line option with the value in the following format:
* `--logfile journald` -- send log messages to `journald`.