I’d already picked up a bit of it at the release party, but I still had to search for the homeassistant.log now that it’s gone in 2025.11.
Indeed, it’s a logical decision to collect the logging via Settings > System > Logs.
For those who want to see the “familiar log”, select the Home Assistant Core in the top right corner and then select the overflow menu (the three dots above each other). Then select “Show raw logs.”
I especially like that you now have a Live view of the log. I don’t really need the File Editor add-on anymore…
Those logs are nice in a way, and they have been there for quite some time. So that was not added, but the alternative file version was removed.
The downside of the removal is that HA needs to run for you to look at the GUI version. If it crashes, you’ll need linux knowledge to get to the logs. The GUI logs are also harder to share with tech support, harder to analyse and it is not really possible to construct a timeline of events when the individual, related events occur more often. A technical discussion about the removal is here:
There is however a new custom integration for those who want to have the text logs as a backup, and who use proper storage such as an SSD that is not going to notice the wear from the writes to the file (which was the main reason given for removing the file).
There are HA CLI commands that can help with this. e.g.
ha core logs
ha supervisor logs
but that’s assuming the HA CLI is running…
I had a look in the /var/log/journal folder, it is not easy to read and either I’m using it wrong or the journalctl command is not supported.
A community guide or actual documentation on this is needed.
The issue with using petro’s integration is that it may miss some important debug info after start up. Not knocking it btw, it is still a useful tool if you want the copied log files back.
