Logs

Logs are a very useful aspect of web server administration and web development. They provide useful debugging information and let you analyze traffic and errors on your website.

The easiest way to view your logs is directly in the Templ Panel using the Logs tab. You can also access the raw log files on the server over SSH, SFTP or the file manager.

View logs in the Templ Panel

To view your logs in the Templ Panel:

Navigate to Websites.
Click on the website you want to view logs for.
Open the Logs tab.

Under Log, choose which log to view:

Traffic log - a list of all requests that visitors and bots have made to your website, including how long the server took to generate each request.
Error log - any errors or warnings that have occurred on your site or server, useful for debugging.

Under Lines, choose how many of the latest entries to fetch (the latest 50, 100 or 500 lines), then click Fetch logs.

Viewing the traffic log in the Logs tab of the Templ Panel

The Logs tab shows a snapshot of the latest log entries at the moment you fetch them, not a live stream. Click Fetch logs again to load the most recent entries, and note that the site must be running to fetch logs.In the Templ Panel, only today's log is currently available. The raw log files on the server are kept for 30 days - see Accessing the raw log files below to access older entries.The Logs tab always shows the logs for the site's main domain name. If your site has multiple domain names (for example a multisite or multilingual setup), the logs for the additional domain names can only be accessed as raw files.

Understanding the traffic log

All requests to your site are written to a single access log, regardless of which PHP pool served them - one of the columns below records the pool for each request. Requests for static files (such as images, CSS, JavaScript, PDFs, text files and videos) are not logged and do not appear in the access log.

Each line in the traffic log represents a single request to your website. A typical row looks like this:

203.0.113.7 0.052 - MISS [11/Aug/2026:06:46:14 +0000] www.example.com "GET / HTTP/2.0" 200 69208 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)" Debug=off 6296593c5f6919b843927f7f142eb985 203.0.113.7 app

The columns, in order, are:

Column	Example	Description
IP address	`203.0.113.7`	The IP the request arrived from (may be an internal Templ proxy address)
Response time	`0.052`	Time in seconds the server took to process the request
Internal	`-`	Internal Templ field
Cache status	`MISS`	Templ Cache result: `HIT`, `MISS`, `BYPASS`, or `-` when not applicable
Timestamp	`[11/Aug/2026:06:46:14 +0000]`	Date and time of the request (UTC)
Domain	`www.example.com`	The domain name that was requested
Request	`"GET / HTTP/2.0"`	HTTP method, path and protocol
Status code	`200`	HTTP response status (e.g. `200`, `404`, `500`)
Response size	`69208`	Number of bytes sent to the client
Referrer	`"-"`	The referring page, `"-"` if none
User agent	`"Mozilla/5.0 ..."`	The visitor's browser or bot identifier
Debug	`Debug=off`	Whether debug mode was enabled for the request
Request ID	`6296593c...`	Unique ID for the request
Client IP	`203.0.113.7`	The visitor's originating IP address
PHP pool	`app`	Which PHP pool served the request: `app`, or `low` for the throttled low-priority pool

The Request ID is useful when contacting our support about a specific request, as it lets us find the exact entry across our systems.

The error log follows the standard nginx and PHP error log format, with a timestamp and severity level for each entry, and contains the errors and warnings generated by your site or server.

Accessing the raw log files

For most debugging, the Logs tab in the Templ Panel is the fastest option - use the raw files for entries older than today, additional domain names, or downloads.

You can access them using any of the following:

SSH - connect to your server and view or follow the files from the command line.
SFTP - open the files directly in your SFTP client, or download them and open them in a text editor.
Templ file manager - browse to the files in the panel's file manager.

Web server logs

The web server logs are located in /var/log/nginx/.

Log files listed in the /var/log/nginx directory

There are two main logs:

<domain>.access.log - the traffic log described above.
<domain>.error.log - the error log described above.

PHP logs

Templ does not create separate per-pool PHP-FPM log files (such as a php-fpm-slow.log). PHP errors and warnings appear in the site's <domain>.error.log. On a WordPress site, if you enable WP_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG_LOG, WordPress additionally captures most PHP notices, warnings and errors to wp-content/debug.log.

Email log

If your website sends email through Templ's SMTP service, the sending is logged in:

/var/log/msmtp/mail.log

Cron and timer logs

/var/log/timers/cron.log - logs each run of your website's server cron, if server cron is enabled.
/var/log/timers/*.log - any additional custom cron jobs configured for your website are logged in their own file here.

Following logs in real time

An effective way to view the log files is to connect to your server with SSH, then use the command:

tail -f /var/log/nginx/<domain>.access.log

This command will show you the log entries in real time.

Viewing nginx access log entries in real time over SSH

tail -f -n 10 /var/log/nginx/<domain>.access.log

This will show the last 10 entries of your access log in real time.

Remember to change <domain> to your actual domain.