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title: "How can I evaluate log messages in Pipelines?"
date: "2025-05-08T09:19:06+00:00"
summary: "Evaluate Pipelines log messages easily with the 'pipelines logs' command. Get detailed output for specific application and job IDs."
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The `pipelines logs` command returns the log entries for the application ID and job ID that you specify. The log entries include standard output and standard error messages from the job. To run the `logs` command, obtain your application ID and job ID, which can be found in the output of the `start` command.

The logs command has the following format:

    pipelines logs

The log output will appear similar to the following:

    Log messages for build job b33e87f1-1a53-4f29-afad-bc7d3290b603:
    ==============================================================
    2016-08-31 08:03:36                                                    INFO
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    The task has been added.
    ==============================================================
    2016-08-31 08:03:37                                                    INFO
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    The task has started.
    ==============================================================
    2016-08-31 08:05:18                                                    INFO
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Successfully executed the build script. Output:
    Starting local build...
    Build file: /mnt/tmp/local.prod/.decoded.yml
    Source: /mnt/tmp/local.prod/buildsteps
    Target: /mnt/tmp/local.prod/buildsteps
    Beginning to build /mnt/tmp/local.prod/buildsteps/mybuilddir/d7.make.   [ok]
    drupal cloned from http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git.            [ok]
    Checked out tag 7.50.                                                   [ok]
    drupal patched with 872999-9.patch.                                     [ok]
    ==============================================================
    2016-08-31 08:05:19                                                     INFO
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Workspace status:
    AM docroot     R
    d7.make -> mybuilddir/d7.make
    ==============================================================
    2016-08-31 08:05:34                                                        INFO
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Successfully completed the build task.
    ==============================================================