User guide / Diagnostics and logging

Reading the log

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:log-open opens the log of the process that owns this workspace as a read-only [log] buffer, searchable, splittable, and scrollable as usual.

  • In mux mode that is the host’s host.log. No client-side trace is opened or merged.
  • :service-health names the owner role, active level, resolved path, and any logger failure.

Each record is one line: an RFC 3339 timestamp, the level, the owning role and PID, the abbreviated workspace ID, the subsystem, the message, and any structured key=value context.

2026-08-27T12:34:56.789+02:00 WARN  host[8123] ws=a1b2c3d4 lsp: language server stopped: exited with 1 language=rust