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Managing Backend Processes & Logs

Understand how to start, stop, or restart processes and read server console logs.

Your applications are isolated within secure sandboxes on our cluster node architecture. You have full process control over starting, stopping, restarting, and inspecting logs directly from the control panel in the console dashboard.

Node Action Commands

Each application details page has a top action control bar containing the following commands:

Start Node

Spins up the application process and binds it to the designated port. Once active, the ingress gateway starts routing public domain requests to your application container instantly.

Status changes to Running
Stop Node

Gracefully terminates the app instance. The process is taken offline, releasing port bindings. Visitors will receive a 503 screen. Stopped apps consume 0 billing credits.

Status changes to Stopped
Restart Node

Performs a quick stop-and-start cycle. This is the fastest way to clear runtime memory leaks, force cache updates, or apply newly saved .env environmental variables.

Hot swap cycle (1-3s)

Reading Application Logs

Our process monitor splits application output logs into two distinct streams to help you debug errors faster:

stdout.log Standard Output
[INFO] Database connected successfully.
[HTTP] GET /home - 200 OK (12ms)
[HTTP] POST /profile/update - 200 OK (28ms)
[LOG] Cron task executed successfully.

Stores successful connections, HTTP routing transactions, and manual console.log() statements.

stderr.log Errors
MongoServerError: authentication failed
    at connection.js:125:12
ReferenceError: activeUser is not defined
    at dashboard.js:52:19

Stores runtime exceptions, script crash trace stacks, unhandled promise rejections, and server load warnings.

Process Stabilization Cooldown: Rapidly toggling process states (e.g. clicking start/stop repeatedly within a few seconds) triggers network safety blocks. Please wait at least 5-10 seconds between commands to allow the server process to fully bind ports and register gateway routes.