GitHub Actions Logs 🎥

Did you know that GitHub Actions offers raw logs? Who cares? lolz; I do. 🧖

In truth, most of the time, I don't care, but sometimes when the logs are long 🖖🏾, the GitHub web interface has a tough time displaying and searching them and crashes the browser. 😱

In this case, I very much care about the raw logs.

Crash and Burn 🔥

When the logs are too long, the GitHub web interface will crash. 😭 If you find yourself in this situation you can use the raw logs in the browser or downloadable to analyze them 🧑🏿‍🔬. Navigate to the settings gear ⚙️ icon:

From there you can either view or download the raw logs. Here is an example of viewing in the browser:

This raw text view is much simpler for the browser to render and you can search and analyze; woot 🎉

Conclusion ✔️

If the logs from your GitHub Actions runs are too big and crash the browser you can access the raw logs. 🪵 This has been a lifesaver for me to continue debugging when the web interface crashes. 🚑 I hope you get some mileage out of this too. 🚗

thanks for reading 📖