All nodes provisioned by Syself Autopilot come with the `log collector' utility. It automatically fetches logs from components, services, and the operating system, and bundles them into a tarball. This can be useful for our support team to help you debug a problem in your cluster.

This guide will help you run it and retrieve the log bundle.

## Running the log collector

Access your node shell (more information [here](/docs/hetzner/apalla/servers-and-nodes/access/emergency-ssh-access)) and execute the command below:

```console
$ /opt/log-collector.sh
```

After the command runs, you'll see the directory where the log bundle was sent to, for example `/var/log/syself_mycluster-4fqrz-b7mzj_2024-06-10_1712-UTC_2.0.0.tar.gz`.

## Collecting System Logs

You can use `scp` to copy the files from the server to your local machine. For that, go back to your local machine terminal and run the command below, replacing `<path-to/ssh-key>` with your ssh key, `<node-ip-address>` with your node's IP and `<where-to/save-in-your-machine>` with the directory you want to copy the log bundle to, in your local machine:

```console
$ scp -P 100 -i <path-to/ssh-key> root@<node-ip-address>:/var/log/syself_mycluster-4fqrz-b7mzj_2024-06-10_1712-UTC_2.0.0.tar.gz <where-to/save-in-your-machine>
```

> [!TIP]
> If you are unsure how to find your node's IP address, you can refer to the [SSH into nodes](/docs/hetzner/apalla/servers-and-nodes/access/emergency-ssh-access#option-1-using-ssh) guide.