# Claude Logs

> Independent field guide to Claude Code session logs, transcript artifacts, hook audit trails, OpenTelemetry, retention, privacy, and incident review. Not affiliated with Anthropic.

Primary pages:

- https://claudelogs.com/session-logs - What Claude session logs are, what they contain, and what they do not prove.
- https://claudelogs.com/transcript-anatomy - How to read JSONL transcripts, hook transcript paths, subagent paths, and stream-json output.
- https://claudelogs.com/observability - Claude Code and Agent SDK observability with OpenTelemetry.
- https://claudelogs.com/hook-audit-trails - Hook lifecycle events as audit capture points.
- https://claudelogs.com/session-storage-retention - Local JSONL storage, SessionStore mirroring, retention, and deletion boundaries.
- https://claudelogs.com/privacy-redaction - Redaction guidance before sharing transcripts, telemetry, hook logs, screenshots, or summaries.
- https://claudelogs.com/incident-review-playbook - Review path for failed, stalled, expensive, surprising, or security-sensitive agent sessions.
- https://claudelogs.com/dashboards - Dashboard and alert ideas for Claude agent work.
- https://claudelogs.com/updates - Weekly-extensible freshness register for Claude logging and observability changes.
- https://claudelogs.com/sources - Annotated primary-source bibliography.

Source policy: product-behavior claims cite Anthropic documentation or the official Claude Code changelog. General log-management claims cite OpenTelemetry, NIST, or OWASP guidance.

Full crawler file: https://claudelogs.com/llms-full.txt