WTH is Logs hidden in Settings - System

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
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Logs is among top most useful screen in settings menu. Can we bring it out to top level Settings page please?

About, People and to some extend Tags can go into Systems submenu because they are usually not useful after setting up.

I know we can make sidebar menu items for logs, but it doesn’t solve the problem that novice may never read the log file. I fixed MQTT auth problem for my Dad’s HA instance because the errors were not displayed anywhere other than in logs. Logs wasn’t needed until problem solving so novice may not realise needing to read it if it’s not imminently obvious.

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I didn’t know that, how can you add logs to the sidebar?

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panel_custom:
   - name: ha_logs
      sidebar_title: Logs
      sidebar_icon: mdi:book-cog
      js_url: /api/hassio/app/entrypoint.js
      url_path: "config/logs"
      embed_iframe: true
      require_admin: true
      config:
        ingress: core_configurator

Name should be inline with sidebar and needs the -

Not sure if the format stuck.

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