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I have a custom PHP app that logs some data to the /logs folder - it contains many files - one file for each type of log request which stores log info using PHP’s file_put_contents command.
This log folder is not getting pushed to the GitHub repo. But I understand that any change in the girhub repo will re-deploy to the App Platform and will overwrite all files in the filesystem ?
Will be log files be retained or erased ?
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Hey there,
The local storage in App Platform is ephemeral. As such those logs would be erased on each deploy. I’d recommend saving those logs to an external file storage service like our Spaces product. Spaces :: How to Store Data in App Platform
Hope that helps! Nate
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