Labs 2.0: logs in your terminal, a Labs test command, and 150+ improvements from your feedback
🪵 Logs: stream them in the CLI, export them for debugging
The Logs page already shows everything that happens while your content runs – provisioning, setup scripts, task checks, warnings and errors. Two additions:
Logs in the CLI. instruqt lab logs my-team/my-lab streams events live in your terminal. Filter with --severity, --since, --session, --search, or --ref to watch a specific branch. For example: instruqt lab logs my-team/my-lab --ref feature-branch --severity ERROR.
Export what you see. Download the current view as JSON or copy it to the clipboard – filters apply, so you export exactly what's on screen. Each event has a copy icon too. This is useful when you want to paste a failing run into an AI assistant and ask what went wrong.
✅ Test your content from the command line
instruqt lab test simulates a participant going through your content end to end: it starts a sandbox and runs the setup, check and solve scripts for every task, so you know it works before anyone opens it. It's the same idea as instruqt track test, now for Labs 2.0. Read more
🛠️ Improvements and fixes from your feedback
Some highlights from the recent 2.0 changes that have been delivered:
- Service tabs can be opened in a new window
- Tab titles and tab order are respected when content plays
- The terminal uses the full tab width and reflows when you resize
- The integrated editor saves your edits automatically
- Changes pushed through git are played straight away, without a manual publish
- Terraform resources in the sandbox can reach the registry
- Insert Google Slides and PDFs in your instructions, and use code groups in the visual editor
- A "Recent changes" timeline and a conflict resolution flow for git-connected content
- All repository branches available in the ref pickers
- Validation errors now lead straight to the identified issue
- Warning for unsaved changes before you publish
- Faster concurrent starts on AWS
Thank you for the feedback.
We are actively working on more updates based on feedback and releasing new features for 2.0.
