Viewing L7 load balancer logs
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Updated at November 11, 2025
You can configure the delivery of L7 load balancer logs to a Yandex Cloud Logging log group.
To view L7 Load balancer logs:
Management console
- In the management console, select the folder the load balancer is in.
- Select Application Load Balancer.
- Select the load balancer to view logs for.
- Navigate to the Logs tab.
- Select the number of messages per page and the time interval: 1 hour, 3 hours, 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks.
- To see the message details, click the arrow icon on its left.
You can also view logs in Yandex Cloud Logging:
Management console
CLI
API
- In the management console, select the folder with the log group.
- Select Cloud Logging.
- Select the log group receiving your load balancer logs.
- Select the number of messages per page and the time interval: 1 hour, 3 hours, 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks.
- To see the message details, click the arrow icon on its left.
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI installed yet, install and initialize it.
By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.
To view the entries in JSON format, run this command:
yc logging read \
--group-name=<log_group_name> \
--format=json
Where:
--group-name: Name of the log group receiving your load balancer logs.--format: Log output format.
Result:
[
{
"uid": "488ece3c-75b8-4d35-95ac-2b49********",
"resource": {},
"timestamp": "2021-06-22T02:10:40Z",
"ingested_at": "2021-06-22T08:49:15.716Z",
"saved_at": "2021-06-22T08:49:16.176097Z",
"level": "INFO",
"message": "My message",
"json_payload": {
"request_id": "1234"
}
}
]
For more information on how to view logs with CLI, see this article.
To view log group messages, use the LogReadingService/Read gRPC API call.