De man systemctl
Show terse runtime status information about one or more units, followed by most recent log data from the journal.
If no units are specified, show system status. If combined with --all, also show the status of all units (subject
to limitations specified with -t). If a PID is passed, show information about the unit the process belongs to.
This function is intended to generate human-readable output. If you are looking for computer-parsable output, use
show instead. By default this function only shows 10 lines of output and ellipsizes lines to fit in the terminal
window. This can be changes with --lines and --full, see above. In addition, journalctl --unit=NAME use a similar
filter for messages and might be more convenient.
Basicamente, systemctl status
mostrará se o serviço está em execução, se está habilitado, e mostrará as últimas 10 linhas dos logs do systemd.
Você pode obter a mesma saída de log fazendo journalctl --unit=servicename | tail -10
, como por exemplo journalctl --unit=sshd | tail -10