Log file missing?

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hi
after upgrading to HA 2025.11.1 2 days ago and 2025.11.2 now,
i dont see the log file of HA under /config anymore in the ssh shell
in the UI, settings → system → logs i can see logs
HA is working all OK otherwise
but the file simply does not exist …
did it move elsewhere ?
i only see old log files before the upgrade

the logger config in my config yaml was not changed

logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    custom_components.multiscrape: debug
    homeassistant.components.bluetooth: debug
    pyscript: debug

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2

ok, i see 2025.11.1 removed the actual file
you can only see it now in UI for some reason …

3

Petro was good enough to come up with an integration that replaces/recreates the log file functionality if you still want that, a-file-logger.

Just be sure to place the configuration.yaml entry at the top (or close to the top) of the file so that it loads as early as possible on start up.

4

Why do they dumb it down? its a Smart Home, Z2M creates 26mb of log files each day, HA is logging everything, why the hell did they have to remove it?
There is an UI? Good thing! But why remove something thats already there?
Why do I need to install an addon for a PRIMARY functionality?

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5

I am using that custom integration and i am seeing it creates an home-assistant.log, an home-assistant.log_1 and an home-assistant.log_old.
Is this behaviour correct?

6

I’ve home-assistant.log, an home-assistant.log.1 and an home-assistant.log.old… no underscores. The important thing would be if the logs within the files are actually up to date.

7

Just got caught out by this. My experience of maintaining customer systems is that that a basic persistent rotating file logger as a fall back has saved my bacon many times, despite all the other “sexier” methods.

Anyway, a method to add back in the log file has been included, documentation for it is here:

ha core options --duplicate-log-file=true
ha core rebuild
ha core restart

8

Do I need to do this every time I update home assistant core? That is silly! My system rebooted for no reason last night and not having the log is a pain! This did work for HAOS install.

I see logs are available in the UI, but this should not have been an automatic change or at least have a UI options to turn logs on/off.