Where to find your Agent Logs

Agent logs in LiveKit can be managed and accessed in various ways to assist with debugging build-time and runtime issues. During development, logs are displayed in the terminal, but once deployed, logs can be accessed through the cloud dashboard or LiveKit CLI for cloud-hosted agents, or from the hosting platform for self-hosted deployments. Runtime logs can be customized with different log levels, either through command line arguments or within Dockerfiles, using the standard logging modules in Python or Node.js. Logs can be forwarded to external monitoring services like Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry, or New Relic, which is recommended for scalability and comprehensive monitoring. The LiveKit CLI allows viewing of live logs for specific agents, although it does not support historical log viewing. Agent observability provides another approach to monitoring, offering insights through traces, audio recordings, and logs, though it has limitations such as a 30-day data retention policy and no current capability to export data to external providers. Despite the availability of observability logs, it is advised not to rely solely on this feature as a replacement for external log forwarding for a complete understanding of agent behavior.

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