Apex Up Logs
Awesome structured log querying
Published: Sunday, Jan 29, 2023 Last modified: Tuesday, Nov 26, 2024
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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"
}