Console
Console shows the output of running your Replit App code, informing you of activity and errors.
Console lets you monitor and review logs printed by your running Replit App in real time. You can use information from current and past runs to understand your app’s behavior, troubleshoot errors, and optimize performance.
When debugging using Agent, include console logs in your prompt to provide context.
Features
Console provides the following tools to help you understand your app’s behavior:
- Real time logging: View your app’s output as it happens
- AI assistance: Receive suggestions to fix errors reported in the logs
- Run history: Show logs from prior runs to track changes
Usage
You can access the Console tool directly in your Replit App workspace.
How to access Console
How to access Console
From the left Tool dock:
- Select
All tools to see a list of workspace tools. - Select
Console.
From the Search bar:
- Select the
magnifying glass at the top to open the search tool - Type “Console” to locate the tool and select it from the results.
Each time you use the Run button in your Replit App, Console displays a new entry that includes the following information:
- The Command that executed your code
- Timestamp information
- Standard output and error logs
The following screenshot shows the npm run dev command used to start the app and log messages from the run:
Client-side logs, such as those generated from HTML, CSS, and JS code, appear only in the Developer tools in the Preview tool.
AI-powered debugging
When you encounter errors or other information in the logs that you want to understand, select the Ask Assistant button at the top of the entry. This automatically opens the Assistant tab and submits the log content to Assistant for analysis.
Log entry commands
Console provides the following tools to manage your logs:
- Show Only Latest: Toggle this control to the on position to display only the most recent run.
- Collapse entry: Select the
downward arrow to the left of the command name to hide the logs. - Clear past runs: Select this to delete logs of prior runs. This action is irreversible.
Network availability
You can control the development version of your app’s availability online.
To stop serving requests to the development URL, select the 
globe with slash icon
on the right side of the network information line.
To enable it, select the 
globe icon.
To view your development URL, select the {...}.replit.dev text in the location bar.
Your app remains accessible in the Preview tool even when set to stop serving requests to the development URL.
Stop a workflow command
You can stop a running workflow command from the Console workspace tool.
Select the square button on the right side of the line that contains your Replit App run command to terminate it.
To restart your app, use the workflow Run button at the top of your workspace.
Next steps
To learn more about related Workspace tools see the following resources: