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How to set up Discord server logs Server logs, set up in two minutes.

Discord only keeps an audit log of admin actions, and only for 45 days. To log messages, voice and members you add a logging bot. Here is the whole setup with Quark, start to finish.

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QuarkAPPToday at 11:41 PM
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Logging Channel Changed

@Starman set the Main logging channel to #logs
ID: 301655085954367490 68 | Today at 11:41 PM
Message #staff-chat

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The short answer

How do you set up logs on a Discord server?

To set up logs on a Discord server, create a private text channel for your staff, invite a logging bot such as Quark, and run /logging to choose that channel. Logging starts straight away and the whole setup takes about two minutes. A bot is needed because Discord's own audit log only records administrative actions, and only keeps them for 45 days.

Key facts

  • Discord's audit log covers actions such as bans, role changes and channel edits, and keeps entries for 45 days.
  • Discord does not record deleted or edited messages, or who joined and left voice channels.
  • Setting up Quark takes six steps, and the only command you need is /logging.
  • Quark does not need the Administrator permission.
  • If a log does not appear, the /troubleshoot command explains why.
  • Quark is used in 115,000+ Discord servers.

The setup

Six steps. Most take seconds.

You need the Manage Server permission in the server you are setting up. Everything else is below.

  1. 1

    Create a private log channel

    In Discord, create a text channel and call it something like #logs. Turn on Private Channel and add only your staff roles, so members can't read it.

    # logs
    Private Channel on
    Staff roles only
  2. 2

    Invite Quark

    Open quark.bot/invite, pick your server and click Authorize. You can untick Administrator on the permissions screen. Quark works without it.

  3. 3

    Run /logging

    Type /logging in any channel and choose your new log channel from Quark's reply. Logging starts straight away.

  4. 4

    Choose what gets logged

    Open the dashboard at quark.bot/dashboard, or type /dashboard for a direct link. Turn whole categories of events on or off, and send each kind of log to its own channel if you want them apart.

  5. 5

    Set your ignore rules

    In the dashboard's Ignore tab, add the channels and members you don't want logged, like a bot-commands channel. You can ignore someone as the target of an event, or as the one who carried it out.

  6. 6

    Test it

    Delete a message, then edit another. Both should show up in your log channel. If something is missing, run /troubleshoot and Quark will tell you why.

    Message Deleted
    Message Edited

What you get

What a Discord server log covers.

Once the log channel is set, Quark posts a message there for each of these as it happens. Turn off the ones you don't need.

Messages

Deletes, edits, bulk deletes, pins, removed reactions and deleted polls.

Message Deleted
Message Edited
Attachment Deleted

Members

Joins, leaves, nickname changes, roles given and taken, bots added.

User Joined
User Left
Role Given

Voice

Joins, leaves, moves, streams, server mutes and stage events.

Joined Channel
Moved
Left Channel

Modlogs

Bans, unbans, kicks and timeouts, with the moderator and reason.

Ban
Kick
Timeout

Roles

Roles created, deleted or modified, and permission changes.

Role Created
Role Permissions Updated

Channels

Channels created, deleted or modified, permission changes and webhooks.

Channel Created
Webhook Created

Server

Server settings, the server icon, and boosts.

Server Modified
Server Boosted

Actions

Invites created and deleted, emoji and sticker changes, scheduled events.

Invite Created
Emoji Created
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Web log viewer

Your logs, searchable on the web.

Discord channels are slow to scroll and easy to delete. Quark Pro keeps a copy you can search from the dashboard.

  • Watch your server live as events happen
  • Search 30 days of history by member, channel or content
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  • Export any view as a CSV
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  • Still there if a raid deletes your log channel
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The live view and the last hour of logs are free. Thirty days of history and search, and CSV export, come with Quark Pro. See pricing

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Asked before adding Quark

Discord server logs FAQ

Only partly. Discord's audit log records administrative actions such as bans, role changes and channel edits, and keeps them for 45 days. It does not record deleted or edited messages, or who joined and left voice channels. For those you need a logging bot.

Create a text channel, turn on Private Channel so only your staff roles can see it, then add a logging bot such as Quark and point it at that channel with /logging.

For admin actions, open Server Settings and choose Audit Log. For everything else, open the log channel your bot posts to. With Quark Pro you can also search the last 30 days of logs on the web dashboard.

Logs are a running record of what happens in a server: messages deleted or edited, members joining and leaving, voice activity, and moderation actions. Moderators use them to check what happened after the fact.

Quark does not need the Administrator permission. It needs to see the channels you want logged, post in your log channels, and read the audit log so it can name the moderator behind an action.

Yes. The free plan includes every log type, a channel for each category of log, ignore rules and the live web viewer, and it keeps the content of deleted messages that are up to 12 hours old. Quark Pro extends that to 4 weeks and adds 30 days of searchable log history on the web, CSV export, and the moderator behind server mutes and deafens.

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