Is there a way to disable colorized logs?

[idle carbon]

I’m setting up some log aggregation for myself, and I notice that Overseerr’s logs have ANSI color codes in them, which are read literally by my logging software.

Is there any way to disable the winston.colorize functionality via config?

[fickle pond]

Unfortunately no
There's also a JSON log file, maybe you can use that one instead?

[idle carbon]

That would work! I’ll try to find the docs on that

[fickle pond]

There's unfortunately no docs on that since it's only used internally in Overseerr for the log viewer
But it's in the same folder as the log file: /app/config/logs
It's named .machinelogs.json or something similar - emphasis on the leading period in the filename

[idle carbon]

thanks!

[idle carbon]

hmmm:

✖ l local-web-apps/containers/seerr/logs/
total 1.3M
overseerr-2025-10-06.log.gz
overseerr-2025-10-07.log
overseerr.log -> overseerr-2025-10-07.log
seerr-2025-10-07.log
seerr.log -> seerr-2025-10-07.log

🤷🏻‍♂️

[fickle pond]

list hidden files too

ls -la

[idle carbon]

ohhhh hahaha that’s what you mean by “emphasis dot”

thanks @fickle pond

and there they are