Diagnostics

The Diagnostics integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] provides a way to download diagnostic data from a deviceA device is a model representing a physical or logical unit that contains entities. or integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] for sharing in issue reports. Sharing diagnostics data when reporting an issue allows developers to diagnose and fix your reported problem quicker.

Screenshot of the download diagnostics button on the device page

Diagnostics data is provided by an integration, and can be downloaded as a text file on the device page, and from the integrations dashboard.

Integrations are required to redact sensitive information from the diagnostics data, you can always open the text file and check it, before you send it in a public issue.

The diagnostics integration is by default enabled, no action is required to enable it. However, not all integrations provide the possibility to download diagnostic data.