View logs

The Logs tab of a Load Balancer shows what the Load Balancer has written, so you can look into a problem from inside the portal. You can narrow the lines, refresh them on a timer, and download them.

Before you begin

• A Load Balancer that has finished creating, because a Load Balancer that is still Initializing shows only its creation progress. See Create a Load Balancer.
• The read permission on the Load Balancer service. See TIR Access Control.

Read the logs

1. In the side menu, under Compute, select Load Balancer, then select the Load Balancer’s name.
2. Select the Logs tab.

The tab holds a snapshot of the logs, taken at the time given. To load the latest lines, select Refresh.

Narrow and refresh the lines

• To find a word in the lines already loaded, type it in Filter lines…. The filter ignores capital letters.
• To load fewer lines, open Filter By and choose Last N Lines or Last N Seconds, then enter a whole number of at least 1 in Value of N.
• To reload on a timer, open Auto Refresh and choose 5 Seconds, 10 Seconds, 30 Seconds, or 1 Minute.

Download the logs

Select Download logs. TIR loads the logs again with your current Filter By choice and saves them as a JSON file named after the Load Balancer, ending in -logs.json.

If the tab says “No logs yet”, the Load Balancer has yet to run and handle traffic; logs appear once it has.

To see traffic as charts instead, read Monitor a Load Balancer. For help with a message, see Troubleshooting TIR Load Balancer.