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description: Learn how to enable diagnostic logging and add instrumentation to your application, along with how to access the information logged by Azure.
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ms.assetid: c9da27b2-47d4-4c33-a3cb-1819955ee43b
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ms.topic: how-to
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ms.date: 08/21/2024
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ms.date: 03/19/2025
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ms.author: msangapu
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ms.custom: devx-track-csharp, ai-video-demo, linux-related-content
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#customer intent: As an app developer, I want to understand troubleshooting in Azure App Service to fix issues with my app and make improvements.
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# Enable diagnostic logging for apps in Azure App Service
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[!INCLUDE [regionalization-note](./includes/regionalization-note.md)]
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Azure provides built-in diagnostics to assist with debugging an [Azure App Service app](overview.md). In this article, you learn how to enable diagnostic logging and add instrumentation to your application. You also learn how to access the information that Azure logs.
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[!INCLUDE [regionalization-note](./includes/regionalization-note.md)]
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The following video complements the steps in this article by illustrating how to enable diagnostic logging for apps.
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> [!VIDEO 62f2edbe-1063-4ec3-a76f-faa0bd783f2f]
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This article uses the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com) and the Azure CLI to work with diagnostic logs. For information on working with diagnostic logs by using Visual Studio, see [Troubleshoot an app in Azure App Service by using Visual Studio](troubleshoot-dotnet-visual-studio.md).
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This article uses the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com) and the Azure CLI to work with diagnostic logs. For information on working with diagnostic logs by using Visual Studio, see [Troubleshoot an app in Azure App Service using Visual Studio](troubleshoot-dotnet-visual-studio.md).
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In addition to the logging instructions in this article, you can use the Azure Monitor integrated logging capability. The [Send logs to Azure Monitor](#send-logs-to-azure-monitor) section in this article provides more information about this capability.
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In addition to the logging instructions in this article, you can use the Azure Monitor integrated logging capability. For more information, see [Send logs to Azure Monitor](#send-logs-to-azure-monitor).
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> [!NOTE]
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> App Service provides a dedicated, interactive diagnostic tool to help you troubleshoot your application. For more information, see [Azure App Service diagnostics overview](overview-diagnostics.md).
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## Overview of logging types
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| Application logging | Windows, Linux | App Service file system and/or Azure Storage blobs | Log messages that your application code generates. The messages can be generated by the web framework that you choose, or from your application code directly via the standard logging pattern of your language. Each message is assigned one of the following categories: **Critical**, **Error**, **Warning**, **Info**, **Debug**, or **Trace**. You can select how verbose you want the logging to be by setting the severity level when you enable application logging.|
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| Web server logging| Windows | App Service file system or Azure Storage blobs| Raw HTTP request data in the [W3C extended log file format](/windows/desktop/Http/w3c-logging). Each log message includes data such as the HTTP method, resource URI, client IP, client port, user agent, and response code. |
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| Detailed error messages| Windows | App Service file system | Copies of the .htm error pages that would have been sent to the client browser. For security reasons, detailed error pages shouldn't be sent to clients in production. But App Service can save the error page each time an application error that has HTTP code 400 or higher occurs. The page might contain information that can help determine why the server returns the error code. |
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| Type | Platform | Log storage location | Description |
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| Application logging | Windows, Linux | App Service file system and/or Azure Storage blobs | Log messages that your application code generates. The messages can be generated by the web framework that you choose, or from your application code directly by using the standard logging pattern of your language. Each message is assigned one of the following categories: **Critical**, **Error**, **Warning**, **Info**, **Debug**, or **Trace**. You can select how verbose you want the logging to be by setting the severity level when you enable application logging.|
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| Web server logging | Windows | App Service file system or Azure Storage blobs | Raw HTTP request data in the [W3C extended log file format](/windows/desktop/Http/w3c-logging). Each log message includes data such as the HTTP method, resource URI, client IP, client port, user agent, and response code. |
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| Detailed error messages | Windows | App Service file system | Copies of the .htm error pages that would have been sent to the client browser. For security reasons, detailed error pages shouldn't be sent to clients in production. But App Service can save the error page each time an application error that has HTTP code 400 or higher occurs. The page might contain information that can help determine why the server returns the error code. |
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| Failed request tracing | Windows | App Service file system | Detailed tracing information on failed requests, including a trace of the IIS components used to process the request and the time taken in each component. This information is useful if you want to improve site performance or isolate a specific HTTP error. One folder is generated for each failed request. The folder contains the XML log file and the XSL stylesheet for viewing the log file. |
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| Deployment logging | Windows, Linux | App Service file system | Logs for when you publish content to an app. Deployment logging happens automatically, and there are no configurable settings for deployment logging. It helps you determine why a deployment failed. For example, if you use a [custom deployment script](https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Custom-Deployment-Script), you might use deployment logging to determine why the script is failing. |
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- **Application logging (Filesystem)**: This option is for temporary debugging purposes. It turns itself off in 12 hours.
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- **Application logging (Blob)**: This option is for long-term logging. It needs a blob storage container to write logs to.
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Currently, only .NET application logs can be written to blob storage. Java, PHP, Node.js, and Python application logs can be stored only in the App Service file system without code modifications to write logs to external storage.
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