Logs

All Coder services log to standard output, which can be critical for identifying errors and monitoring Coder's deployment health. Like any service, logs can be captured via Splunk, Datadog, Grafana Loki, or other ingestion tools.

coderd Logs

By default, the Coder server exports human-readable logs to standard output. You can access these logs via kubectl logs deployment/coder -n <coder-namespace> on Kubernetes or journalctl -u coder if you deployed Coder on a host machine/VM.

• To change the log format/location, you can set CODER_LOGGING_HUMAN and CODER_LOGGING_JSON server config. options.
• To only display certain types of logs, use theCODER_LOG_FILTER server config. Using .* will result in the DEBUG log level being used.

Events such as server errors, audit logs, user activities, and SSO & OpenID Connect logs are all captured in the coderd logs.

provisionerd Logs

Logs for external provisioners are structured and configured similarly to coderd logs. Use these logs to troubleshoot and monitor the Terraform operations behind workspaces and templates.

Workspace Logs

The Coder agent inside workspaces provides useful logs around workspace-to-server and client-to-workspace connections. For Kubernetes workspaces, these are typically the pod logs as the agent runs via the container entrypoint.

Agent logs are also stored in the workspace filesystem by default:

• macOS/Linux: /tmp/coder-agent.log
• Windows: Refer to the template code (e.g. azure-windows) to see where logs are stored.

Startup script logs are also stored in the temporary directory of macOS and Linux workspaces.

Kubernetes Event Logs

Sometimes, a workspace may take a while to start or even fail to start due to underlying events on the Kubernetes cluster such as a node being out of resources or a missing image. You can install coder-logstream-kube to stream Kubernetes events to the Coder UI.