JetBrains Rider 2025.3 Help

Troubleshooting materials

Consider attaching some troubleshooting materials for a more precise and quick answer. The following materials might be helpful for our investigation: log files, screenshots, animations, videos, database dumps.

Locate log files

Locate JetBrains Rider log

  • Click Help | Show Log in <file_browser>. The idea.log file contains recent log information about your IDE performance.

Change location of the SQL log

To change location of the SQL log, add the -Didea.system.path property to the custom VM options. This change affects all logs.

  1. Click Help | Edit Custom VM Options….

  2. At the end of the option list, add the following line: -Didea.system.path=/path/to/your_log_directory.

Change location of the SQL log

Configure JetBrains Rider log settings

To avoid editing the log.xml file itself, JetBrains Rider suggests a handy dialog to change logging level for a category. This file resides under the bin directory of JetBrains Rider installation.

  1. Click Help | Diagnostic Tools | Debug Log Settings.

  2. In the Custom Debug Log Configuration dialog, type the log categories names, separated with new lines.

26 November 2025