# How To Get The Startup Log

> **Difficulty:&#x20;**<mark style="color:green;">**Easy**</mark>

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**What is a startup log?**

The startup log contains all the console messages that appear when your server starts. Providing this log is very useful for us, as it helps identify and resolve problems quickly.
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## 1. Restart your server

First you have to restart your server which will generate the startup log. To do this, you just have to restart the server.

When you restart your server, you will see that the console starts sending log messages.

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## 2. Send your startup log

When you have restarted your server, the server will automically save the startup log in the logs folder in a file named *latest.log*. You can find the startup log at this filepath: *server > logs > latest.log*

<mark style="color:green;">To send us the startup log, you just have to send the</mark> <mark style="color:green;"></mark>*<mark style="color:green;">latest.log</mark>* <mark style="color:green;"></mark><mark style="color:green;">file to us on discord.</mark>

You can see how to find and download the *latest.log* file in the video below:

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