# Operate your app: logs, rollbacks, backups, domains

Run your app after its first deploy: read logs, roll back a release, back up and restore data, set variables, add domains with HTTPS, staging and previews.

After the first deploy, you run your app from the dashboard or the [ox CLI](https://deploywithox.com/docs/cli): read its logs, roll back a bad release, restore a backup, change a variable, add a domain, or try a change on staging first. Each page below is one of those jobs.

## Running an app

These pages cover a project after its first deploy. Each one is a short recipe: what you want, how to do it in the dashboard and with the CLI, what you will see, and what to do when it does not work.

- [**Logs**View your app's logs live in the dashboard or with ox logs: filter by severity and process, search with a regex, pick a time range, and download them.](https://deploywithox.com/docs/operate/logs)
- [**Roll back**Roll back a deployment to a kept release without a rebuild. The live release serves until the old one passes its health check. What happens to your data.](https://deploywithox.com/docs/operate/rollback)
- [**Backups and restore**ox backs up your app's databases every day with nothing to turn on. Back up now, keep copies in your S3 bucket, download a backup, and restore it safely.](https://deploywithox.com/docs/operate/backups)
- [**Variables**Set environment variables and secrets in the dashboard or with ox vars, reference one in another, see the keys ox provides and hides, restore old ones.](https://deploywithox.com/docs/operate/variables)
- [**Staging and previews**Turn on a preview deployment per branch and a staging copy, each with its own database, on your own server. Limits, passwords and promote to production.](https://deploywithox.com/docs/operate/previews)
- [**Domains and HTTPS**Add a custom domain to your app: create the A record, add the name in ox, and Caddy gets and renews the HTTPS certificate. What each domain status means.](https://deploywithox.com/docs/operate/domains)

When something fails, [Troubleshooting](https://deploywithox.com/docs/troubleshooting) lists the messages ox prints and their fixes.

Last updated 2026-10-08. The page as HTML: https://deploywithox.com/docs/operate