Setup & access Node.js logs

Zerops provides 3 different logs for your nodejs service:

• Build log - Output from your build process
• Prepare runtime log - Custom runtime image creation
• Runtime log - Operational output from your running service

Quick access to logs

Build log

• GUI: Service detail → Pipelines & CI/CD settings → Pipeline detail → Build log
• CLI: zcli service log --showBuildLogs

Prepare runtime log

• GUI: Service detail → Pipelines & CI/CD settings → Pipeline detail → Prepare runtime log
• CLI: Not currently supported

Runtime log

• GUI: Service detail → Runtime log
• CLI: zcli service log

Note

For severity levels to work properly in Zerops, your application must log to syslog.

Beyond basic logging

Zerops offers additional observability options to help you monitor and debug your application:

Log Forwarding

Forward logs to external services for advanced analysis and long-term storage, including Better Stack, Papertrail, self-hosted ELK stack with Logstash, or any syslog-ng compatible software.

Full Observability Stack

Deploy self-hosted observability solutions for comprehensive monitoring with ELK Stack (centralized logging with Kibana + application tracing with APM) or Prometheus & Grafana (metrics collection, visualization, and custom dashboards).