How to Access the Console for an App Platform Component

Validated on 27 Nov 2024 • Last edited on 6 Dec 2024 console

App Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that allows developers to publish code directly to DigitalOcean servers without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.

You can connect to the console of your app’s components (services and workers) to run commands in the component’s container. This lets you troubleshoot issues, perform maintenance tasks, and run other one-off commands.

You can access the console for a component using the DigitalOcean Control Panel or doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI.

Access a Component’s Console Using the CLI

How to Access the Console Using the DigitalOcean CLI

  1. Install doctl, the DigitalOcean command-line tool.

  2. Create a personal access token and save it for use with doctl.

  3. Use the token to grant doctl access to your DigitalOcean account.

              doctl auth init

  4. Finally, run doctl apps console. Basic usage looks like this, but you can read the usage docs for more details:

                doctl apps console <app id> <component name> [flags]

    The following example initiates a console session for the app with the ID f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6 and the component web:

                  doctl apps console f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6 web

Access a Component’s Console Using the Control Panel

To access a component’s console from the control panel, click your app, then click the Console tab. In the Console tab, select the component that you want access to open its console.

A screenshot of a console open for an app component named sample-nodejs.
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