Sending n8n's console output to a log on Windows

[King_Samuel_David]

Hello @Neil_Carmichael

See here, you can set these env vars and store to file, I would recommend using the metrics endpoint also.

n8n.log.level	N8N_LOG_LEVEL	The log output level. The available options are (from lowest to highest level) are error, warn, info, and debug. The default value is info. You can learn more about these options here.
n8n.log.output	N8N_LOG_OUTPUT	Where to output logs. The available options are console and file. Multiple values can be used separated by a comma (,). console is used by default.

Logging | n8n Docs

I’d recommend using WSL also if not already, this can help when access dockers on windows machines saves some issues.

Also, I made this which may be useful for you regarding the metrics I mentioned earlier.

N8n + Grafana Full Node.js Metrics Dashboard (JSON Example Included!)

Hey all, I thought I’d share my full working Grafana dashboard for monitoring n8n internals, Node.js process metrics, heap, GC duration, event loop lag, and more. This was built using the Prometheus metrics n8n exposes when you enable it manually link below to official n8n docs. Why? When running n8n in production or self-hosted, especially in high load / enterprise scenarios, it’s important to keep an eye on: Memory leaks Event loop lag GC pauses (major, minor, incremental) Heap…

Hope this helps,

Samuel