Redirect log output for games using Unreal

Note: The content on this page pertains to Game Server Hosting (Multiplay) available on the Unity Cloud Dashboard. If you’re using Game Server Hosting (Clanforge), refer to the Game Server Hosting (Clanforge) documentation.

Game Server Hosting expects your game to output logs to a log directory directly using the $$log_dir$$ configuration variable.

However, games using the Unreal Engine and the -Userdir launch parameter output logs to a log directory nested within $$log_dir$$/logs/Saved/Logs/ with Unreal creating the recursive directories.

Game Server Hosting doesn't yet support traversing more than one nested log directory. To work around this, use the -LOG launch parameter to redirect to a specific file:

-LOG=../../../../$$log_dir$$/$$serverid$$.log

This causes the Unreal Engine to write to the correct directory and name the log after the specific server ID.

Note: Game Server Hosting doesn't currently support file extensions other than .log.