Monitoring and logs

Health checks

Endpoint	Meaning
GET /healthz	the process is alive
GET /readyz	the database is reachable and migrations are up to date

The Docker image has no shell: checks are made from outside (proxy, platform or monitoring system).

Logs

Porto writes logs to standard error, as JSON (PORTO_LOG_FORMAT=json, default) or text, at the PORTO_LOG_LEVEL level. With Docker read them with docker compose logs porto.

Logs never contain personal data or secrets: no emails, phone numbers, documents, tokens, passwords or keys, not even in the request log.

Activity log

Every write from the panel, the API or the jobs leaves a row in the audit log, visible in the panel under Registro attività (Activity log) to users with administration permissions.

Email

Mail leaves from an internal queue: an SMTP error does not block the operation that produced the message, and sending is retried. Without PORTO_SMTP_URL messages are written as .eml files to PORTO_MAIL_DIR when set, otherwise only logged (without the recipient).