Using workflow run logs

You can see whether a workflow run is in progress or complete from the workflow run page. You must be logged in to a GitHub account to view workflow run information, including for public repositories. For more information, see "Zugriffsberechtigungen auf GitHub."

If the run is complete, you can see whether the result was a success, failure, canceled, or neutral. If the run failed, you can view and search the build logs to diagnose the failure and re-run the workflow. You can also view billable job execution minutes, or download logs and build artifacts.

GitHub Actions use the Checks API to output statuses, results, and logs for a workflow. GitHub creates a new check suite for each workflow run. The check suite contains a check run for each job in the workflow, and each job includes steps. GitHub Actions are run as a step in a workflow. For more information about the Checks API, see "REST-API-Endpunkte für Prüfungen."

Viewing logs to diagnose failures

If your workflow run fails, you can see which step caused the failure and review the failed step's build logs to troubleshoot. You can see the time it took for each step to run. You can also copy a permalink to a specific line in the log file to share with your team. Um diese Schritte auszuführen, ist Lesezugriff auf das Repository erforderlich.

In addition to the steps configured in the workflow file, GitHub adds two additional steps to each job to set up and complete the job's execution. These steps are logged in the workflow run with the names "Set up job" and "Complete job".

For jobs run on GitHub-hosted runners, "Set up job" records details of the runner image, and includes a link to the list of preinstalled tools that were present on the runner machine.

1. Navigiere auf GitHub.com zur Hauptseite des Repositorys.

2. Klicke unter dem Namen deines Repositorys auf Aktionen.

   

3. Klicke in der linken Seitenleiste auf den Workflow, den Du sehen willst.

   

4. Klicke in der Liste der Workflowausführungen auf den Namen der Ausführung, um die Zusammenfassung der Workflowausführung anzuzeigen.

5. Wähle unter Aufträge oder im Visualisierungsdiagramm den Auftrag aus, den du anzeigen möchtest.

6. Alle fehlerhaften Schritte werden automatisch erweitert, um die Ergebnisse anzuzeigen.

7. Klicke bei Bedarf auf die Zeilennummer des Schritts, um einen Link zu einer bestimmten Zeile in den Logs zu erhalten. Den Link kannst du anschließend aus der Adressleiste deines Webbrowsers kopieren.

   

Searching logs

You can search the build logs for a particular step. When you search logs, only expanded steps are included in the results. Um diese Schritte auszuführen, ist Lesezugriff auf das Repository erforderlich.

1. Navigiere auf GitHub.com zur Hauptseite des Repositorys.

2. Klicke unter dem Namen deines Repositorys auf Aktionen.

   

3. Klicke in der linken Seitenleiste auf den Workflow, den Du sehen willst.

   

4. Klicke in der Liste der Workflowausführungen auf den Namen der Ausführung, um die Zusammenfassung der Workflowausführung anzuzeigen.

5. Wähle unter Aufträge oder im Visualisierungsdiagramm den Auftrag aus, den du anzeigen möchtest.

6. In the upper-right corner of the log output, in the Search logs search box, type a search query.

Downloading logs

You can download the log files from your workflow run. You can also download a workflow's artifacts. For more information, see "Speichern von Workflowdaten als Artefakte." Um diese Schritte auszuführen, ist Lesezugriff auf das Repository erforderlich.

1. Navigiere auf GitHub.com zur Hauptseite des Repositorys.

2. Klicke unter dem Namen deines Repositorys auf Aktionen.

   

3. Klicke in der linken Seitenleiste auf den Workflow, den Du sehen willst.

   

4. Klicke in der Liste der Workflowausführungen auf den Namen der Ausführung, um die Zusammenfassung der Workflowausführung anzuzeigen.

5. Wähle unter Aufträge oder im Visualisierungsdiagramm den Auftrag aus, den du anzeigen möchtest.

6. In the upper right corner of the log, select the dropdown menu, then click Download log archive.

   

Deleting logs

You can delete the log files from your workflow runs through the GitHub web interface or programmatically. Um diese Schritte auszuführen, ist Schreibzugriff auf das Repository erforderlich.

Deleting logs via the GitHub web interface

1. Navigiere auf GitHub.com zur Hauptseite des Repositorys.

2. Klicke unter dem Namen deines Repositorys auf Aktionen.

   

3. Klicke in der linken Seitenleiste auf den Workflow, den Du sehen willst.

   

4. Klicke in der Liste der Workflowausführungen auf den Namen der Ausführung, um die Zusammenfassung der Workflowausführung anzuzeigen.

5. In the upper-right corner, select the dropdown menu, then click Delete all logs.

   

6. Review the confirmation prompt.

After deleting logs, the Delete all logs button is removed to indicate that no log files remain in the workflow run.

Deleting logs programmatically

You can use the following script to automatically delete all logs for a workflow. This can be a useful way to clean up logs for multiple workflow runs.

To run the example script below:

1. Copy the code example and save it to a file called delete-logs.sh.

2. Grant it the execute permission with chmod +x delete-logs.sh.

3. Run the following command, where REPOSITORY_NAME is the name of your repository and WORKFLOW_NAME is the file name of your workflow.

   Shell

   ./delete-logs.sh REPOSITORY_NAME WORKFLOW_NAME
   

   For example, to delete all of the logs in the monalisa/octocat repository for the .github/workflows/ci.yaml workflow, you would run ./delete-logs.sh monalisa/octocat ci.yaml.

Example script

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Delete all logs for a given workflow
# Usage: delete-logs.sh <repository> <workflow-name>

set -oe pipefail

REPOSITORY=$1
WORKFLOW_NAME=$2

# Validate arguments
if [[ -z "$REPOSITORY" ]]; then
  echo "Repository is required"
  exit 1
fi

if [[ -z "$WORKFLOW_NAME" ]]; then
  echo "Workflow name is required"
  exit 1
fi

echo "Getting all completed runs for workflow $WORKFLOW_NAME in $REPOSITORY"

RUNS=$(
  gh api \
    -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
    -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
    "/repos/$REPOSITORY/actions/workflows/$WORKFLOW_NAME/runs" \
    --paginate \
    --jq '.workflow_runs[] | select(.conclusion != "") | .id'
)

echo "Found $(echo "$RUNS" | wc -l) completed runs for workflow $WORKFLOW_NAME"

# Delete logs for each run
for RUN in $RUNS; do
  echo "Deleting logs for run $RUN"
  gh api \
    --silent \
    --method DELETE \
    -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
    -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
    "/repos/$REPOSITORY/actions/runs/$RUN/logs" || echo "Failed to delete logs for run $RUN"

  # Sleep for 100ms to avoid rate limiting
  sleep 0.1
done

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Delete all logs for a given workflow
# Usage: delete-logs.sh <repository> <workflow-name>

set -oe pipefail

REPOSITORY=$1
WORKFLOW_NAME=$2

# Validate arguments
if [[ -z "$REPOSITORY" ]]; then
  echo "Repository is required"
  exit 1
fi

if [[ -z "$WORKFLOW_NAME" ]]; then
  echo "Workflow name is required"
  exit 1
fi

echo "Getting all completed runs for workflow $WORKFLOW_NAME in $REPOSITORY"

RUNS=$(
  gh api \
    -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
    -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
    "/repos/$REPOSITORY/actions/workflows/$WORKFLOW_NAME/runs" \
    --paginate \
    --jq '.workflow_runs[] | select(.conclusion != "") | .id'
)

echo "Found $(echo "$RUNS" | wc -l) completed runs for workflow $WORKFLOW_NAME"

# Delete logs for each run
for RUN in $RUNS; do
  echo "Deleting logs for run $RUN"
  gh api \
    --silent \
    --method DELETE \
    -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
    -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
    "/repos/$REPOSITORY/actions/runs/$RUN/logs" || echo "Failed to delete logs for run $RUN"

  # Sleep for 100ms to avoid rate limiting
  sleep 0.1
done

Viewing logs with GitHub CLI

To view the log for a specific job, use the run view subcommand. Replace run-id with the ID of run that you want to view logs for. GitHub CLI returns an interactive menu for you to choose a job from the run. If you don't specify run-id, GitHub CLI returns an interactive menu for you to choose a recent run, and then returns another interactive menu for you to choose a job from the run.

gh run view RUN_ID --log

You can also use the --job flag to specify a job ID. Replace job-id with the ID of the job that you want to view logs for.

gh run view --job JOB_ID --log

You can use grep to search the log. For example, this command will return all log entries that contain the word error.

gh run view --job JOB_ID --log | grep error

To filter the logs for any failed steps, use --log-failed instead of --log.

gh run view --job JOB_ID --log-failed