question: when do we write into /logs?

[freelerobot]

Dumb question: when does cortex actually write into /logs?

v70

I ran the following commands:

• cortex update
• cortex engines uninstall
• cortex engines install

No logs. For some reason, I expected some of these commands to start logging into /logs.

Only server commands made it to logs:

• cortex start
• cortex stop

Question

1. Are logs only meant to capture usage activity during server mode?
2. If something goes wrong during engine install, model download, it's not logged?

[freelerobot]

Ok half way through usage, I see cortex-cli.log, but it doesn't actually output CLI logs. What is this file for?

[nguyenhoangthuan99]

Currently, due to this ticket #1153, we cannot write log from 2 different processes into 1 log file, so we decided to separate the log into 2 file

• cortex.log write log from server's process
• cortex-cli.log write log from CLI's process.

cortex-cli.log is used to output more information when using CLI, and help debug easier.

[freelerobot]

@nguyenhoangthuan99 Ah cool , maybe better naming to make delineation clearer?
cortex-server.log

[freelerobot]

Closing this as won't do. But we need to document this @gabrielle-ong
ppl will be confused about the difference btw the two logs