> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.shipways.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Logs

> Reading a machine's logs without SSH.

Both servers and sites have a **Logs** tab. It tails a file on the machine and
follows it as it grows; pause to read back through what has already arrived.

## What is offered

The list is built from what Shipways knows is installed rather than from a
fixed set, so a machine with two PHP versions offers both and one with no
database offers no database log.

On a **server**:

* Nginx access and error
* One PHP-FPM log per installed version
* The database engine's log, if there is one
* Redis
* SSH auth — where a machine being hammered on port 22 shows up first
* Unattended upgrades
* One log per [daemon](/processes/daemons)

On a **site**:

* Nginx access and error, for that site's own vhost
* The application log
* One log per daemon belonging to the site

## The application log

Read from the site's `shared/storage/logs`, not from the current release. That
is on purpose: shared storage survives a deployment, so the file you are
reading is the one the application has been writing to all along rather than
one that started empty at the last deploy.

## Permission

Reading logs needs permission to **change** the server or site, not merely to
view it. A log carries a good deal more than the pages around it — request
paths, parameters, stack traces with values in them — so it sits behind the
higher bar.