R7800 running 19.07.1: lost ssh and luci access, but routing still going?

This morning I went to check something on my Netgear R7800 running 19.07.1, and I was unable to access the web interface and ssh (both got connection refused).
However, the router seemed to work fine for DNS, NAT, etc. as I could use my in-home devices to access materials out in the Internet.

Does this condition sound at all familiar? Is there something I can do to try and capture logs to diagnose this if it happens again? This time around I had no choice but to power cycle the router.

I generated my 19.07.1 firmware using the image builder download (from https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.1/targets/ipq806x/generic/openwrt-imagebuilder-19.07.1-ipq806x-generic.Linux-x86_64.tar.xz
) and this configuration:

sh

PROFILE=netgear_r7800
PACKAGES="avahi-utils\
 block-mount\
 ca-certificates\
 diffutils\
 e2fsprogs\
 f2fs-tools\
 gdisk\
 iptables-mod-extra\
 iptables-mod-nat-extra\
 iptables-mod-nflog\
 irqbalance\
 kmod-fs-ext4\
 kmod-fs-f2fs\
 kmod-usb-storage\
 kmod-usb-storage-uas\
 luci-app-ddns\
 luci-app-openvpn\
 luci-app-sqm\
 luci-app-uhttpd\
 luci-ssl\
 mdnsd\
 mdnsresponder\
 nano\
 nano\
 netatalk\
 netatalk\
 ntp-utils\
 openssl-util\
 openvpn-openssl\
 shadow-groupadd\
 shadow-groupmod\
 shadow-useradd\
 shadow-usermod\
 strongswan\
 strongswan-full\
 tcpdump\
 usbutils\
 wget\
"
DISABLED_SERVICES="\
 afpd\
 avahi-daemon\
 sqm\
"
make manifest PROFILE=$PROFILE PACKAGES="$PACKAGES" DISABLED_SERVICES="$DISABLED_SERVICES"
make image PROFILE=$PROFILE EXTRA_IMAGE_NAME=jtk PACKAGES="$PACKAGES" DISABLED_SERVICES="$DISABLED_SERVICES"

you can consider setting up syslogd on a machine within LAN

[sorry for the late response] thanks, I did set up a remote log receiver and will see what it shows next time this happens.