# Can anyone think of a way to get the BALENA LOGS output to output to the tty?

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**Category:** balenaOS\
**Created:** [November 23, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/can-anyone-think-of-a-way-to-get-the-balena-logs-output-to-output-to-the-tty/46276 "2019-11-23T11:09:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![matthewcroughan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/matthewcroughan/32/9424_2.png) [@matthewcroughan](https://forums.balena.io/u/matthewcroughan)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/can-anyone-think-of-a-way-to-get-the-balena-logs-output-to-output-to-the-tty/46276/1 "2019-11-23T11:09:49Z")

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I’d like to do this, perhaps without installing the balena cli inside of a container and using `balena logs 127.0.0.1` What I’m after is the ability to provision a pi with this output to the framebuffer, as it would look quite nice, and is good for debugging things that may not necessarily have network connectivity.

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**Author:** ![mbalamat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/mbalamat/32/1245_2.png) [@mbalamat](https://forums.balena.io/u/mbalamat)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/can-anyone-think-of-a-way-to-get-the-balena-logs-output-to-output-to-the-tty/46276/3 "2019-11-25T12:26:38Z")

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Hi @matthewcroughan you can use the balena nodejs sdk to get the logs here is a reference [https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/sdk/node-sdk/#balena.logs](https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/sdk/node-sdk/#balena.logs)