Hey, weirdly enough I've had none of the issues you described. If you could create a #🤗｜feedback thread about it with videos, that would help a lot.

Also, you can export your logs from Railway to somewhere else by using and, for example, forward them to Axiom.

Thanks for the reply - only had a quick look but that seems to be a realtime log, I really just want to dump the logs really as plaintext, I suppose I could spin up something that calls an api for it, just would love to be able to grab a txt copy when needed as a one-off

There's a button on the interface for a one-time log dump, it won't download everything but should be enough for your use case.

https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1478045644680593438

I noted that it doesn't really work though

Oh sorry, I skipped that. That button only downloads the current logs on the page (if you scroll to the top, you'll see the "Load More" button). A #🤗｜feedback could be created for that, but I doubt Railway would add it (it feels too specific and might be computationally heavy) but worth a try.

Using the API or Locomotive is the way to go if you really need that functionality, you could probably vibecode a CLI for it in a hour, the query is really simple:

{  
  serviceInstance(environmentId:"", serviceId:"") { # environment and service id can be obtained through the dashboard
    latestDeployment {
      id # deployment id to be passed down there
    }
  }
  
  deploymentLogs(deploymentId: "", limit: 5000, startDate: "", endDate: "") {
    message
    attributes {
      key
      value
    }
    severity
    timestamp
  }
}

If you'd rather just work with logs in plaintext we've been building an open-source TUI to do that - recently validated that you can stream in Railway logs to it from the CLI

https://github.com/controltheory/gonzo