Find and Share Your Minecraft Server Logs
When your server crashes, a plugin fails or players cannot join, the answer is almost always in the log. This guide shows where to find it and how to share it with us.
Quick look: the Console tab
- Open your server in the game panel
- Go to the Console tab to see the live output
- To save it, click the Download log button (the download icon above the console)
This saves the most recent console output as a .log file. It covers the last few hundred lines only, so for a crash that happened earlier, or a full startup, use the log files below.
The full log files
Open the Files tab and go to the logs folder:
latest.logis the log of the current (or most recent) server run, from startup to now- Older runs are compressed and named by date, for example
2026-09-24-1.log.gz. A new one is created each time the server starts, so pick the date and number that match when the problem happened - On Forge and NeoForge you also get
debug.log, which is more detailed
Click a file to open it, or download it. To read a .log.gz file on your computer, unpack it with a tool like 7-Zip first.
If the server crashed, also check the crash-reports folder in the server's main folder. Each crash creates a file named after the date and time, such as crash-2026-09-24_18.32.10-server.txt.
Tip: For many or large log files, SFTP is faster than downloading one file at a time in the browser.
Sharing logs with support
- Open the log file and copy all of its content
- Paste it on mclo.gs, a paste service made for Minecraft logs that hides IP addresses, and save it to get a link
- Open a support ticket and include the link, plus roughly what time the problem happened
Good to know
- Share the whole log, from the server starting up to the error. The real cause is often far above the last line
- Do not edit or shorten the log before sharing it
- Logs can contain player names and IP addresses, so only share them with people you trust
Need help reading your log? Open a support ticket and we will take a look.
