“Unknown” in a log entry
Why fields like Banned By or Deleted By sometimes show Unknown.
Why it happens
Discord doesn’t tell bots who performed an action directly. Logs Bot looks it up in your server’s audit log, and shows Unknown when it can’t find a match. Common reasons:
- Logs Bot doesn’t have the View Audit Log permission.
- Discord didn’t write an audit log entry for it. For example, when someone deletes their own message, Discord records no audit log entry.
- Some details aren’t available to bots at all, so they show Unknown too.
Giving Logs Bot View Audit Log fixes the first case. Log entries already posted are not updated.
Still stuck?
Ask the team in the Logs Bot support server.