# I need to display a program event log in dashboard

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**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [19 July 2018 14:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/i-need-to-display-a-program-event-log-in-dashboard/1695 "2018-07-19T14:16:23Z")\
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dceejay,  
First, Thank you for your input. I'm attempting this project through Node-Red and I seem to be coming from the other side of the fence... Windows.

I am writing Warning and Error events to a Status Log File. I need to record the events anyway. The file reading was pursued to manage the lines. I was looking for any kind of NODE, or grouping of Nodes to do this kind of thing. I found something, it used the console output. I hadn't understood how to save it to file, or if was already stored to file as a log. How would I do that?

because I cannot read only the last say... 200 entries in the file, I may do as you suggest and keep the log array limited and post it directly. Then just update the file as necessary. I think I need some kind of message text box and it appears I have to construct it in a template with CSS and HTML. I can push it to another tab on the main page and display as wide as I need.

I was hoping someone had a need for what I'm looking at doing (generic for Windows or Linux).

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