Home Assistant Cookbook - Discussion Thread

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

I’m guessing this one is pretty well cooked with this release. 2025.11
Anyone that understands life without the homeassistant.log file want to suggest changes or an alternative post for the cookbook?

How to get to your log after restart/restore

In a thread recently I was reminded that most HA users operate under the assumption that their log is gone as soon as HA is restarted and if they forget to back it up before fixing whatever problem they encountered they can never get back to it. This actually isn’t true. The file /config/home-assistant.log is wiped clean every restart but that’s not actually your log, that’s just a text file that Home Assistant replicates your log to. In a supervised or HAOS deployment your real log is the syst…

Petro built this for us if it helps…

GitHub - Petro31/a-file-logger: Brings home-assistant.log back in the config...