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Monitoring Your Services

This tutorial will show you how to monitor your service status and logs in Defang.

Status​

When deploying to Playground, you can monitor your service status from the Defang Portal.

When deploying to your own cloud, the primary way to monitor your services is through your cloud provider's dashboard. However, Defang does provide some tools for monitoring your service logs.

Logs​

When deploying to Playground, your service's logs may be viewed in the Defang Portal.

By default when deploying, including to your own cloud, all output (stdout and stderr) from your app is logged and accessible via the Defang CLI. You can view these logs in real-time or for a time in the past. You can view logs for all your services, one service, or even one specific deployment of a service.

Tailing Live Logs For All Services​

$ defang tail

Tailing Logs Since a Specific Time​

$ defang tail --since 1h

Tailing Logs For a Service​

$ defang tail --name service-name

Build Time Logs​

$ defang logs --type=build

All of the above flags can be combined to get the exact logs you need. See the CLI reference for defang tail for more information.

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  • To learn more about observability in Defang, check out the observability page.
  • Note that the Defang Portal only displays services deployed to Defang Playground.