Want your log queries to be more precise? Is your vibe code flooding you with logs and need a helping hand to make sense of it all?

Good news! We've upgraded our log query language to be more powerful, flexible, and intuitive, letting you focus on finding answers fast rather than endlessly scrolling through your logs.

And that's not all: We've revamped our logging interface, making it easier than ever to manage logs, customize views, and leverage log attributes.

Querying That Answers Critical Questions Quickly

We've streamlined our query syntax to speed up your workflow. You no longer need to worry about technical overhead, such as prepending attributes or remembering type suffixes like _string or _int.

Our entire log query experience is designed to make troubleshooting a breeze, helping you get to the root cause of a problem fast, which is critical when investigating issues and outages.

What's New in Log Querying

• Advanced Logic: Build precise filters with native AND, OR, and nested grouping.
• Deep JSON Integration: Effortlessly navigate complex data with simple dot notation (user.id=12345), array indexing (user.roles.0=admin), and escaped characters.
• Versatile Operators: While our previous system excelled at exact matches, the new engine opens the door to any operator—like greater-than or less-than—even within complex logical blocks.

How to Query Your Logs with AppSignal

• Find production errors fast: severity=error environment=production
• Zoom in on a specific user or account: severity=error environment=production user.id=12345
• Spot noisy endpoints: severity=warning OR severity=error path="/checkout"
• Investigate performance-related incidents: severity=error duration_ms>2000

With nested AND / OR blocks and JSON-aware filters you can move from "something went wrong" to "this is exactly where and why it went wrong" in a couple of keystrokes:

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Log Views Tailored to Your Needs

We've listened hard to your feedback and improved the in-product view for logs with additional customization tools, so your saved views are even more purpose-built for your needs.

Inspect Logs without Losing Your Place

Click on a log line and our handy side menu will appear, giving you a glanceable overview of your log data.

One-Click Query Shortcuts

Hover over a log attribute, like severity, and within one click, you can start querying your logs.

Automatic Attributes

AppSignal now scans your logs for attributes and automatically detects them, making it easy to customize your log views to add critical context to your flows, like UUIDs or order status.

Utilize Every Pixel

You can now click and drag any column to adjust its width so it works with you, whether you're on an iPad, an iMac, or a fancy Cinema Display.

What's Next?

Understanding the "why" behind your code is more important than ever as AI coding agents contribute more code to every deployment. At AppSignal, we want to empower you with insights that speed up development without falling into the trap of flaky code that leaves developers debugging for hours.

Our customers have trusted AppSignal with their logs since we launched Log Management in 2023. As AI reshapes development, we're making logs central to our approach, helping teams understand their code and adapt to AI-enhanced workflows.

And we're just getting started. Future enhancements include:

Get Started for Free Today

New users can access the new query syntax today, with their 30-day free trial, free, and paid plans.

Existing users still have access to the legacy query syntax, and over time, AppSignal will migrate your saved views / alert triggers to be compatible with the new query syntax. If you're eager to get started with the new query today, reach out to our team of support experts, and we can get you started.

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Got feedback? We're always listening! Share your feedback in our community Discord or email us at support@appsignal.com