# How to show the logs of Appium server programmatically? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [February 4, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547 "2020-02-04T12:55:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fgh](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@fgh](https://discuss.appium.io/u/fgh)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547/1 "2020-02-04T12:55:54Z")
Hi guys, I am using Python 3.7. I finally managed to launch Appium programmatically. But I can’t see the log anymore. I was used to see the log from Appium view. Now I get lost. I need your help please. I found this doc: [http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/session/logs/get-log/#get-logs](http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/session/logs/get-log/#get-logs) Which says to add this line: logs = driver.get\_log(‘driver’); It looks weird for me to add a “;” at the end of a python line (but I am newbie, so I did as it said). But it didn’ show anything. So I added this line: print(f"Logs : {logs}") And it didn’t show anything again. Does any Python expert can tell me the lines of code to store or display the logs of Appium server. Thanks. Kind regards ---
**Author:** ![Cory-Berg](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Cory-Berg](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Cory-Berg)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547/2 "2020-02-04T15:57:31Z")
First I would try: log\_types = driver.log\_types(); Then I would try: logs = driver.get\_log(‘server’); You should be able to request any of the log types returned from the first call. Cory ---
**Author:** ![fgh](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@fgh](https://discuss.appium.io/u/fgh)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547/3 "2020-02-04T17:36:15Z")
Sorry, what do you mean by ‘server’ I have only these lines to start server: appium\_service = AppiumService() appium\_service.start() Do you mean the ip:port Example: logs = driver.get\_log(‘127.0.0.1:4723’) ? Thanks for your help ---
**Author:** ![Cory-Berg](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Cory-Berg](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Cory-Berg)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547/4 "2020-02-05T16:00:35Z")
When requesting the logs you specify which ‘type’ of logs you want. You can get a list of what type of logs are available with the log\_types(); but it is likely you are interested in requesting the ‘server’ type logs if that makes sense? Thus the call driver.get\_log(‘server’); would return the logs your appium server you launched programmatically and created a session with. ---
**Author:** ![Conrad\_Braam](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/conrad_braam/32/7031_2.png) [@Conrad\_Braam](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Conrad_Braam)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547/5 "2020-02-06T10:51:50Z")
The logs are only available if you have the security settings to allow this. It seems you have to start the server with a few flags --relaxed-security , or be more specific about it by reading this link. [https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/security.md](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/security.md) ---
**Author:** ![fgh](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@fgh](https://discuss.appium.io/u/fgh)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547/6 "2020-02-06T17:02:35Z")
Thank you for your help. I educated myself more about python logs And I made some experiments with 3 ways to sart Appium server before to come back to you. I tried by this way: appium\_service = AppiumService() appium\_service.start() But I don’t see any log. I guess I need to modify the python file of appium\_service method. So I tried to start appium server with command (I added the flag of scurity you suggested): `os.system("start /B start cmd.exe @cmd /k appium --relaxed-security --log-timestamp --log appium.log -a 127.0.0.1 -p 4728")` I could see some logs in terminal but not so much than Appium GUI server. ![appium_log](https://discuss.appium.io/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d91c491139e4ce546c8ca1e951c66bb2a7d2f71e.jpeg) To show you the difference, I commented the lines of code which start Appium server, and I start it by hand with Appium GUI. ![appium_logs_gui](https://discuss.appium.io/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f1d9d9709a1422fb8280315be487180863b4a1d6.jpeg) As you can see Appium GUI logs give more information to debug my code. What should I do to display same info in Appium terminal than Appium GUI? What should I do to display same info in ‘appium\_service.start()’ than Appium GUI? Thanks a lot again for your help. ---
**Author:** ![Cory-Berg](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Cory-Berg](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Cory-Berg)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547/7 "2020-02-10T20:13:12Z")
–log-level debug:debug --debug-log-spacing ---
**Author:** ![fgh](https://discuss.appium.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@fgh](https://discuss.appium.io/u/fgh)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547/8 "2020-02-11T06:52:13Z")
Thank you. I should add these flags in the windows command or sOmewhere in the code of appium\_service? ---
**Author:** ![Conrad\_Braam](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/conrad_braam/32/7031_2.png) [@Conrad\_Braam](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Conrad_Braam)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547/9 "2020-03-16T11:46:18Z")
Gautier It looks like you run appium inside your test tool, so just adding those 2 flags should do what you want. What worries me, is that you probably tried that already and did not get joy the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Delgado](https://discuss.appium.io/user_avatar/discuss.appium.io/alejandro_delgado/32/10907_2.png) [@Alejandro\_Delgado](https://discuss.appium.io/u/Alejandro_Delgado)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/how-to-show-the-logs-of-appium-server-programmatically/29547/10 "2022-12-30T21:08:19Z")
hello fgh try adding arguments to your code option 1 import os os.system(“start /B start cmd.exe @cmd /k appium -a 0.0.0.0 -p 4723 -pa /wd/hub”) still don’t know how to stop appium option 2 from appium.webdriver.appium\_service import AppiumService appium\_service = AppiumService() appium\_service.start(args=[’–automation-name’, ‘Appium’, ‘-a’, ‘localhost’, ‘-p’, ‘4723’, ‘-pa’, ‘/wd/hub’, ‘-bp’, ‘4723’]) appium\_service.stop()