Troubleshooting tailscale

See:

• Tailscale Troubleshooting guide
• Troubleshoot device connectivity

General status

To shows the current connection status in table view:

• tailscale status (ref)

To shows the current connection status including additional information:

• tailscale status --json

Some useful filters:

• tailscale status --json | grep Online
• tailscale status --json | jq '.Peer[] | select(.Online==true) | {HostName, TailscaleIPs, Online, Relay}'

DNS status

• tailscale dns status
  • tailscale dns status | grep enabled

Net status

• tailscale ping
• tailscale ping --verbose
• tailscale netcheck
• tailscale netcheck --verbose

Monitoring and debugging

• tailscale debug daemon-logs
• tailscale metrics

Logs

• /var/log/tailscaled.log

Related

• /var/log/tailscaled.log

See also

• Troubleshooting tailscale, Connectivity matrix
• tailscale [ up | ping | login | status | update | dns | --help ], /var/log/tailscaled.log, Troubleshooting tailscale
• Tailscale 41641, SD-WAN, tailscale login, status | tailscale --help ], ts.net, Tailscale SSH, Encrypted TCP relays (DERP), Terraform Tailscale, Headscale, MagicDNS, logtail, Troubleshooting tailscale, Subnet routers, Tailscale coordination server