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# Logs

The system produces two sets of logs:

## Application (django) logs

Django emits operational logs to stdout and can be viewed with Docker or via dokku.

To view a snapshot of recent logs with dokku, run:

```
dokku logs APP
```

To view a continuous stream of logs, run:

```
dokku logs APP -t
```

You can view logs for a particular process (`web` or `tasks`), run:

<pre><code># background tasks
dokku logs APP -p tasks -t
<strong>
</strong><strong># web requests
</strong>dokku logs APP -p web -t
</code></pre>

### Viewing logs using docker

The website processes are normal docker containers. You can view the docker logs using standard docker commands, for example:

Find the ID of the docker container you want to check the logs for:

```
docker ps
```

View the logs for that container

```
docker logs -f --since 10m abc123
```

## Nginx access logs

Nginx writes access logs for all requests to `/var/log/nginx/APP-access.log`. View them with a command such as:

```
tail -f /var/log/nginx/APP-access.log
```

These logs are rotated according to your installed nginx log rotation configuration.

## Nginx error logs

Nginx writes error logs to `/var/log/nginx/APP-error.log`. View them with a command such as:

```
tail -f /var/log/nginx/APP-error.log
```

These logs are rotated according to your installed nginx log rotation configuration.