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Please see [[Standard log files]], [[Extra Sensor Files]], [Air_Link_Log.txt]], [[Month.ini]], or [[Monthlyalltime.ini]], as relevant.
Please be aware that all of the above links lead to documentation about files that may be described as ''monthly log files'' when reading individual Cumulus forum and wiki references
For the original Cumulus software (Cumulus 1 and 2), the name "monthly log" was most frequently used as a collective term for the last two files linked above.
The original Steve Loft terminology for each of the log files, when they were first introduced in Cumulus 1 has been adopted here to avoid possible future confusion for those looking at older articles in this wiki or oldest posts on the forum. It is hoped that people will return to this terminology, where files are named based on their content, the last two links contain monthly data in each line, just like the daily summary log file contains daily data in each line.▼
When Steve Loft was working on his [[Cumulus_3_(MX)_beta_documentation|MX Beta]], he decided to implement within MX functionality the database schema that Mark Crossley had designed on [[ImportCumulusFile#Monthly_table_.28old.29|this]] page, where Mark selected the name '''Monthly''' for the table. David A Jamieson created versions 1.0 and 1.1 of ImportCumulusFile for creating a single table called '''dayfile''', but Mark extended it to cover ''realtime'' and what he called ''monthly log files''. That means the standard log can in MX optionally feed data into a database table called '''Monthly''' by default in MX. The terminology is misleading as that database table is not organised by month in any way, a single table contains every logged line that has been inserted into it by '''ExportMySQL.exe''' or '''CumulusMX.exe'''.
Anyway, as Mark Crossley has taken over development of MX, the terminology "monthly log" is now being used for the first linked file (standard logs) instead of for '''month.ini' the file that is truly logging monthly extremes. This MX practice is a misleading naming for novices as a line does not represent a month (in the way each dayfile line represents a day), the name has been adopted because a new log file is started for each month. Further more the practice leaves "month.ini" without a descriptive name.
As already pointed out, there is possible confusion because the last two links do contain monthly data in each line, just like the daily summary log file contains daily data in each line.
▲The original Steve Loft terminology for each of the log files, when they were first introduced in his original Cumulus
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