Monitoring, Logging & Observability
Keep a production Supabase backend healthy by reading logs, tracking key metrics, instrumenting Edge Functions, and setting up alerts before small issues become outages.
Why Observability Matters
Deploying is only half the job. Once your backend serves real traffic you need to see what it is doing. Observability is the practice of understanding system state from its outputs.
- Logs tell you what happened
- Metrics tell you how much and how fast
- Traces tell you where time was spent
The Supabase Logs Explorer
Supabase exposes logs for every service in the dashboard under Logs: API gateway, Postgres, Auth, Storage, and Edge Functions. Each is queryable with SQL-like syntax.
Filtering by status code and path quickly surfaces failing requests.
All lessons in this course
- Environment Management & CI/CD
- Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery
- Security Auditing and Best Practices
- Monitoring, Logging & Observability