Summary: View a deployed function's logs in the Neon Console: standard output and standard error from your handler, plus a platform-emitted invoke begin / invoke end line around each request. Covers the console-method-to-level mapping, common log entries that look like a problem but aren't, and wiring up application instrumentation like Sentry or OpenTelemetry.

View, search, and download logs for a deployed function.

Every deployed function streams its logs to the Neon Console: standard output and standard error from your handler, plus a platform-emitted invoke begin / invoke end line around each request:

2026-07-09T19:31:43.902476000Z    INFO    invoke end
2026-07-09T19:31:43.831541000Z    INFO    invoke begin

Function logs live on the branch's Monitoring page, in the Functions tab. To jump straight to one function's logs, open the Functions list, open that function's menu, and select View logs. Or go to Monitoring and open the Functions tab to see every function's logs together.

Expand a row to see its full context: timestamp, severity, entity_type, scope_name, and service_name.

scope_name distinguishes platform-emitted lines from your own output:

• neon.function.request: the invoke begin / invoke end line the platform emits around each request.
• Your own console.log/console.error output is scoped to the function's app logs, alongside whatever your handler or dependencies print.

A function's log level comes from the console method used to emit it:

NOTICE and FATAL also appear as filters in the log viewer but aren't currently emitted by Functions; they're part of the console's shared log-level set.

Most of what shows up in your logs is your own console.log/console.error output. A few entries look like something's wrong when it isn't, or point you somewhere other than the log itself. Here's what to do when you see them.

Seeing this SSL warning on cold start? Ignore it, or set sslmode=verify-full to silence it.

(node:95) Warning: SECURITY WARNING: The SSL modes 'prefer', 'require', and 'verify-ca' are treated as aliases for 'verify-full'.

It's a pg (node-postgres) deprecation warning, not a connection problem: the injected DATABASE_URL uses sslmode=require, and pg warns on that mode regardless of whether anything is wrong. It logs at ERROR because Functions maps all stderr output to ERROR, not because the severity was assessed. If you'd rather not see it, connect with sslmode=verify-full explicitly instead of relying on the default.

Seeing an ERROR invoke end with no other detail? It's not your code, don't debug your handler for it. The platform never puts internal failure detail (no execution node reachable, a launch or scheduler failure) into customer-facing logs, so this line won't tell you more than "the platform failed to complete this request." Retry; if it keeps happening, contact support rather than searching your own code for the cause. (Your own handler returning an error response is a different case and logs as INFO, since the platform still successfully invoked your function.)

Requests not showing up in your logs at all? Check the invocation URL and branch, not the logs. A wrong branch, a typo'd slug, or a momentary control-plane hiccup returns a 404 or 503 straight to the caller and never reaches your function's log stream, because the platform hasn't resolved which function to attribute logs to yet. If you expect traffic and see nothing, the request likely never reached your function.

Function not starting after a deploy? Read the response body, not the logs. A missing entry point, an import that throws at load time, or a default export of the wrong shape returns a function_load_failed error with your actual error message in the response body of the failed request, not as a log line. Check the response you got back from calling the function, not the Functions tab.

A function is a long-lived Node.js process, so standard Node monitoring SDKs like Sentry and OpenTelemetry work unchanged. Initialize the SDK once at module load, before your handler starts serving requests, so the whole isolate is instrumented. Gate it on an environment variable (the SDK's DSN or endpoint) so local neon dev runs and branches without the secret configured stay a no-op, then pass the SDK's secret at deploy time as a user-defined variable.

Neon sends SIGINT/SIGTERM before evicting an idle isolate, so flush buffered telemetry in a shutdown handler or the last events are lost:

process.on('SIGINT', () => void Sentry.flush(2000));

To send unexpected database pool errors to your monitoring SDK, pass onUnexpectedError when you call attachDatabasePool. Expected idle disconnects are still swallowed; only unexpected errors reach the handler:

import { attachDatabasePool } from '@neon/functions';
import { Pool } from 'pg';
import { Sentry } from './instrument';

const pool = new Pool({ connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL, max: 5 });
attachDatabasePool(pool, {
  onUnexpectedError: (err) => Sentry.captureException(err),
});

neon deploy bundles your code with esbuild, which defeats auto-instrumentation that patches modules at import time. If a library's spans are missing from a deployed function, that's the first thing to check.

For details on filtering by level or service name, searching log bodies, live tail, downloading logs, and the 3-day retention window, see Monitor logs.

You can also read function logs from the terminal with neon logs query, scoped with --source function:

neon logs query --source function --since 1h

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