Where are the logfiles saved?

[thrhymes]

Hello!

Frigate is an amazing tool, but i run intpo problems with missing recordings and since the cameras where available and the stream too i would like to read the logfiles or - better - get the logs sent to a logserver, so i can run ai tools over them to correlate it with

i dont find any information in the documentation....
Where are the logs?
Is there a way to forward them to a network-log-server?

[NickM-27]

Log files are retrievable via api and the webui, they are stored internally in /dev/shm/logs but the api would definitely be the better place to get it

[thrhymes]

Oh, thanks for the answer.
So i could fetch the logs frequently and feed them into a log-server... ?

There is no GET /api/log in the HTTP api Documentation... how would i use the api to retreive the logs?

i would rather put the logservers data into the config to be more responsive but i guess i can make due with the api too...

[NickM-27]

I don't think we'd allow configuring a separate log server, we use the logs internally for a number of things.

Looks like it's not on the docs, you can visit the webUI and look at the logs and see what the api calls are via desktop dev tools

[thrhymes]

ok, thanks
_(O.o)_/

i guess i have to write my own log.py

[blakeblackshear]

I would recommend using a standard log driver designed to collect logs for docker containers. Frigate outputs to stdout just like any normal container. Any off the shelf solutions to collect container logs will work fine.

[thrhymes]

oh, ok, that makes sense,.. was too focused on frigate itself....

will try that then...

[ajbastien]

API: GET /api/logs/frigate?start=[n]
start is the starting log line. WebUI uses this to get all start=-40 and the start=[total lines returned from previous call]

also supports /api/logs/nginx, /api/logs/go2rtc

I posted a documentation update just now.