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Commands

Source: https://apex.sh/docs/up/commands/#logs

Show logs from the past day.

$ up logs

Show logs from the past 45 minutes.

$ up -S 45m logs

Show logs from the past 12 hours.

$ up -S 12h logs

Show live log output.

$ up logs -f

Show live logs from production only.

$ up logs -f production

Show live error logs from production only.

$ up logs -f 'production error'

Show error logs, which include 5xx responses.

$ up logs error

Show error and warning logs, which include 4xx and 5xx responses.

$ up logs 'warn or error'

Show logs with a specific message.

$ up logs 'message = "user login" method = "GET"'

Show logs with a specific message with implicit =:

$ up logs '"user login" method = "GET"'

Show responses with latency above 15ms.

$ up logs 'duration > 15'

Show 4xx and 5xx responses in production

$ up logs 'production (warn or error)'

Show production 5xx responses with a POST, PUT, or DELETE method.

$ up logs 'production error method in ("POST", "PUT", "DELETE")

Show 200 responses with latency above 1500ms.

$ up logs 'status = 200 duration > 1.5s'

Show responses with bodies larger than 100kb.

$ up logs 'size > 100kb'

Show 4xx and 5xx responses.

$ up logs 'status >= 400'

Show emails containing @apex.sh.

$ up logs 'user.email contains "@apex.sh"'

Show emails ending with @apex.sh.

$ up logs 'user.email = "*@apex.sh"'

Show emails starting with tj@.

$ up logs 'user.email = "tj@*"'

Show logs with a more complex query.

$ up logs 'method in ("POST", "PUT") ip = "207.*" status = 200 duration >= 50'

The source of the structured logs

Retrieved via Cloudwatch.

The request:

{
	"fields": {
		"app": "count",
		"commit": "cae48d1",
		"id": "3a9b4760-036a-4a53-952e-d284877d1c3c",
		"ip": "185.191.171.38",
		"method": "GET",
		"path": "/sitemap.xml",
		"plugin": "logs",
		"query": "",
		"region": "ap-southeast-1",
		"stage": "staging",
		"version": "27"
	},
	"level": "info",
	"timestamp": "2023-01-22T15:11:52.789537324Z",
	"message": "request"
}

The response:

{
	"fields": {
		"app": "count",
		"commit": "cae48d1",
		"duration": 1,
		"id": "3a9b4760-036a-4a53-952e-d284877d1c3c",
		"ip": "185.191.171.38",
		"method": "GET",
		"path": "/sitemap.xml",
		"plugin": "logs",
		"query": "",
		"region": "ap-southeast-1",
		"size": 1777,
		"stage": "staging",
		"status": 200,
		"version": "27"
	},
	"level": "info",
	"timestamp": "2023-01-22T15:11:52.791299457Z",
	"message": "response"
}