mw dev logs

Collect container stdout/stderr and existing MediaWiki log files into a dedicated OpenSearch instance, with OpenSearch Dashboards for browsing.

mw dev logs create
mw dev logs stop
mw dev logs start

Open /proxy/logs/ on your development gateway. Setup creates the mwcli-logs-* index pattern using @timestamp and a saved “MediaWiki logs” view in Discover. The first visit opens that view, showing MediaWiki file logs, PHP/container output, web requests and jobrunner output. Browse other services by clearing its service filter. Filter by service, container_name, stream, source or path. Existing saved views and user settings are preserved.

Observability → Logs lists saved queries, not incoming log entries. Click Event Explorer, run this PPL query, and select a time range covering your wiki requests:

source = `mwcli-logs-*` | where service = 'mediawiki'

Generate a request by opening your wiki or calling its API. This stack collects MediaWiki and its development containers, not the CLI process running in your host terminal. A running but idle wiki may produce no new entries.

Collection is limited to the current mwcli context and excludes the logging stack itself. Existing Docker logging drivers, stdout/stderr, docker logs and MediaWiki file output remain unchanged at all times. The collector reads copies via the existing Docker API proxy and a read-only log-volume mount.

destroy deletes the search indexes and collector state, preserving original logs. The one-shot logs-setup container prepares the index template and dashboard objects before collection starts; inspect its output if initialization fails. File checkpoints survive restarts; Docker collection is live and does not promise backfill while stopped. See the local log browsing guide for details.

opensearch-dashboards remains an alias for logs.

Commands

• mw dev logs create — Create the containers
• mw dev logs destroy — Destroy the containers
• mw dev logs exec — Execute a command in the main container
• mw dev logs image — Interact with the image used for the service
• mw dev logs rebuild — Build images and recreate the containers
• mw dev logs start — Start the containers
• mw dev logs stop — Stop the containers

Global options

-c, --context <string>

Development context to use (overrides CONTEXT) Default: default.

--help

Help for this command

--no-interaction

Do not ask any interactive questions

-v, --verbose <count>

Increase output verbosity. Example: --verbose=2 or -vv

See also

• mw dev