Logs¶
The Logs page corresponds to the /logs sidebar destination.
It has two main modes:
- application log files stored on disk
- live process logs polled from running services

What you can do on the page¶
- choose a log file
- filter by level and source
- search with plain text or regex
- move between search matches
- export the current view as text, CSV, or JSON
- open the log directory in the OS file browser
- clean up old log files
Process view¶
When you switch to process view, the page polls live process logs while the page is visible.
This is useful for:
- engine startup failures
- container-engine diagnostics
- runtime crashes
- health-check debugging
Current log locations¶
The app-data root is currently:
| Platform | App data root | Logs directory |
|---|---|---|
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/ai.backend.go/ |
~/Library/Application Support/ai.backend.go/logs/ |
| Windows | %APPDATA%\ai.backend.go\ |
%APPDATA%\ai.backend.go\logs\ |
| Linux | ~/.local/share/ai.backend.go/ |
~/.local/share/ai.backend.go/logs/ |
The older ~/.backend-ai-go/ location is legacy-only. Current desktop log files live under the ai.backend.go app-data root.