Retrieving Logs

After submitting a job to Bacalhau, you'll typically need to inspect its execution logs to monitor progress and troubleshoot issues. This guide explains how to access and manage logs from your Bacalhau jobs.

What You'll Learn

• How to view job execution logs

• How to stream logs in real-time during job execution

• How to filter logs for specific executions

Execution Logs

Execution logs contain the standard output (stdout) and standard error (stderr) from your job, which are invaluable for monitoring and debugging.

Basic Log Retrieval

To view the logs for a completed or running job:

bacalhau job logs <jobID>

This displays stdout/stderr from the container execution, showing you exactly what your job printed during its run.

Real-Time Log Streaming

For long-running jobs, you can stream logs as they're generated:

bacalhau job logs --follow <jobID>

This is similar to tail -f and will continuously show new log entries until you press Ctrl+C or the job completes.

Filtering Logs

If your job has multiple parallel executions, you can focus on a specific one:

bacalhau job logs --execution-id <execID> <jobID>

You can find execution IDs by running bacalhau job describe <jobID>.

Tailing Logs

To view only the most recent log entries:

bacalhau job logs --tail <jobID>

Following Logs During Job Submission

When submitting a new job, you can immediately follow the logs by adding the --follow flag to your job run command:

bacalhau job run ./job.yaml --follow

This is convenient as it combines job submission and log following into a single command, eliminating the need to run a separate job logs command.

For docker run commands, you can similarly use:

bacalhau docker run --follow ubuntu:latest -- echo "Hello World"