kopia/kopia · error

no logs found

Error message

no logs found

What it means

Raised by the logs-show command after all filtering (log criteria and any explicitly listed session IDs) leaves zero log sessions, meaning the repository contains no upload log sessions matching the request, so there is nothing to display.

Solutions

1. Run 'kopia logs list' to see which log sessions actually exist
2. Drop or widen filters (remove --log-session-id, use a broader --since)
3. Confirm logs exist in this repository rather than a different one
4. Enable debug log uploads if sessions are missing

Example fix

// before
kopia logs show --log-session-id abc123
// after
kopia logs list   # find a valid session ID first
kopia logs show --log-session-id <valid-id>

SESSIONS=$(kopia logs list); if [ -z "$SESSIONS" ]; then echo "no logs in repo"; fi

out, err := cmd.Output(); if err != nil && strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no logs found") { // notify user, skip log display }

When it happens

Trigger: Running 'kopia logs show' when the repository contains no log sessions, or with --log-session-id / --since-style filters that exclude all sessions.

Common situations: Requesting a specific log session ID that was deleted or typo'd; logs never uploaded to the repo; filters like 'last-week' on a repo with only older logs.

Understand the failure class

Background: EmptyResultError / "no results found": when an API or scraper succeeds but returns zero rows — this error's family across 9 libraries.

Related errors

• error decrypting log
• error expiring logs
• error getting log
• error getting log sessions
• error listing logs

AI-assisted analysis of kopia/kopia@82495e54b5 (2026-09-07). Data as JSON: /api/errors/eb67abbc3aa36035. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at cli/command_logs_show.go:47

	c.out.setup(svc)
}

func (c *commandLogsShow) run(ctx context.Context, rep repo.DirectRepository) error {
	sessions, err := getLogSessions(ctx, rep.BlobReader())
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	sessions = c.crit.filterLogSessions(sessions)

	if len(c.logSessionIDs) > 0 {
		sessions = filterLogSessions(sessions, func(l *logSessionInfo) bool {
			return slices.Contains(c.logSessionIDs, l.id)
		})
	}

	if len(sessions) == 0 {
		return errors.New("no logs found")
	}

	// by default show latest one
	if !c.crit.any() {
		sessions = sessions[len(sessions)-1:]
		log(ctx).Infof("Showing the latest log (%v)", formatTimestamp(sessions[0].startTime))
	}

	var data gather.WriteBuffer
	defer data.Close()

	var decrypted gather.WriteBuffer
	defer decrypted.Close()

	for _, s := range sessions {
		for _, bm := range s.segments {
			if err := rep.BlobReader().GetBlob(ctx, bm.BlobID, 0, -1, &data); err != nil {
				return errors.Wrap(err, "error getting log")

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