---
title: "View logs and monitoring"
description: "Read a Functions function's runtime and build logs, its details on the Info tab, and its memory usage and invocation count charts."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "functions"
platform: "MyAccount"
url: "/myaccount/functions/how-to/view-logs-and-monitoring/"
topic: ["monitor"]
relationships: {"requires":["/myaccount/functions/how-to/create-a-function/"]}
---

# View logs and monitoring

A function's **Logs** and **Monitoring** tabs show what it printed, how its build went, how much
memory it uses, and how often it is called. Use them to debug a function and to follow it in
production.

## Before you begin

You need a function to inspect, as in
[Create a function](/myaccount/functions/how-to/create-a-function/).

The **Info**, **Logs**, and **Monitoring** tabs below the Functions list show the function you
select. When the page opens, they show the first function in the list. To see another function,
click its row.

## View the logs

1. In **Compute > Functions**, select the function in the list.
2. Below the list, open the **Logs** tab.
3. Choose a **Duration**: 5, 15, or 30 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hours, or 1 day. The default is 5
   minutes.
4. To load the latest lines, click the circular-arrow refresh button beside **Duration**.

The logs include the function's own output, and a start line that shows the settings the
function started with, such as the body limit.

When a function has failed, the **Logs** tab combines its runtime logs with its build logs. The
function's own page also has a **Build Logs** tab with the build output. See
[Troubleshooting Functions](/myaccount/functions/troubleshooting/functions/) for what to check.

When you call a function with **Post Request** on its own page, **Runtime Logs** sits beside
**Output**. See [Call a function](/myaccount/functions/how-to/call-a-function/).

## Read the function's details

The **Info** tab shows the selected function's details, including its **URL**, **Version**,
**Memory**, **Execution Timeout**, **Invocation Count**, and **Outbound IP**.

- **Ephemeral Storage** is 5 GB.
- **Version** goes up by one each time you save a change to the function.
- **Invocation Count** is the total number of requests the function has processed.

## View the monitoring charts

Open the **Monitoring** tab. Choose a **Duration** of 1, 5, 15, or 30 minutes. The charts cover
that much time, up to now. The default is 1 minute.

- **Memory Usage**: each point is the highest memory, in MB, the function used in the day before
  that point.
- **Invocation Count**: each point is the total number of calls up to that moment.

## What you have now

You can read a function's logs and details and follow its memory and invocation charts. If a log
or a chart points to a problem, see
[Troubleshooting Functions](/myaccount/functions/troubleshooting/functions/). To fix what you
find, edit the function. See [Edit a function](/myaccount/functions/how-to/edit-a-function/).