Logs and server health¶

Everything PhValheim does is recorded as an event with the world it concerns and the operation it belongs to (a start, stop, update, create, delete or repackage, each with an outcome). A world's Logs button opens three tabs: Activity (PhValheim's actions on that world, grouped by operation), Valheim (the game's own log, this boot only by default) and Both, merged by time. The sidebar's Logs page is the server-wide stream, with filters for world, source and level, and a Files tab listing every raw log on disk. Logs pulses while there are warnings or errors you have not looked at; a world's Logs button pulses while PhValheim is working on it. Hugin reads the same record. Events are kept for 30 days (at most 100,000); the raw files rotate at 1 MB as before.

Server Health¶

The dashboard checks the things that used to fail silently and shows anything that needs attention at the top of the page, in plain words, with a button for what to do: whether GitHub is answering client download lookups, whether Steam still accepts your API key, whether the data volume can be written, whether each mod catalogue's last sync and the last backup run succeeded, whether the required settings are set, and whether the daily analytics push went through (if enabled). Server Health in the sidebar lists every check, including the ones that are fine. Nothing here is a heartbeat: the checks run when the dashboard asks, and the two that touch the network (GitHub, Steam) are cached so a dead network costs one short wait every five minutes, never one per page load.