Viewing Logs

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Accessing Logs

Ploi Cloud provides comprehensive logging capabilities to help you monitor and debug your applications and services.

Types of Logs

Ploi Cloud offers several types of logs:

  • Application Logs: Real-time output from your running application
  • Build Logs: Complete build process output showing image construction progress
  • Deployment Logs: Historical deployment records preserved even after completion
  • Service Logs: Real-time logs from databases, caches, and other services

Viewing Application Logs

  1. Navigate to your application in the dashboard
  2. Click the "Logs" tab
  3. View logs from different sources using the tabs at the top

The log viewer displays real-time logs with status information and restart counts when applicable.

Log Search and Navigation

The built-in log viewer provides:

  • Search: Real-time search with highlighting
  • Auto-scroll: Automatically follows new log entries
  • Download: Export logs as text files
  • Color coding: Automatic highlighting of errors (red), warnings (yellow), success (green), and info (blue)

Search is case-insensitive and highlights matching text in yellow.

Build and Deployment Logs

Build logs are automatically saved and remain accessible after builds complete:

  1. Go to your application
  2. Navigate to the "Deployments" section
  3. Click on any deployment to view its build logs

Service Logs

View real-time logs for individual services:

  1. From your application dashboard
  2. Find the service in the Services section
  3. Click "View Logs" to open the service log viewer

The viewer displays service status information and real-time log streaming.

Technical Details

  • Logs stream in real-time with updates every 2-4 seconds
  • Build logs are preserved in deployment history
  • Application and service logs show live output
  • Log data is automatically sanitized for security
  • Logs are available as long as services are running

Best Practices

  • Monitor restart counts to identify stability issues
  • Check build logs when deployments fail
  • Review service logs for database or cache connection issues
  • Consider external log aggregation services for long-term retention and advanced analytics