System Freaking Out - Exporting Logs and other questions

Woke up this morning to things all over the house clicking on and off. Among other things, the system was flipping between awake and asleep modes. I have a C5 controlling zigbee as well as most of my automations, Philips Hue and Ecobee, and a C7 controlling all my zwave devices. Those are connected with Hub Mesh. I also have an older system that controls X10, Insteon and UPB linked to hubitat via an app and Maker API.
So it's going to take some time to figure out what is happening and where it originates.

I had to shut down the C5 to maintain household sanity but this means I have no access to the Log. Is there a way to start it up, export the log for analysis offline and then shut down the hub again?

As far as figuring out the cause, the only obvious alerts I was getting from the hub itself were that there was severe load from a few sengled bulbs in one room, all controlled by a Zooz switch in smartbulb mode. I found that odd - not sure why a zigbee bulb would cause a severe load on the system. The only obvious connection to the other issues is that when the system goes into sleep mode, those bulbs are set to a nightlight color.

It is hard to figure out what is going on without more specific details and logs. You could bring your hub online in Safe Mode from the Diagnostic Tool, so you can review the logs. You could also bring it back online and disable any suspicious apps that may be misbehaving.

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Hi Bobby - Thanks for the reply. I definitely wasn't expecting any specific help yet. I need to dig through the logs. However, because of the connection with my other software, I'm wondering if there's a way to disable Maker API without removing the entire configuration. That will allow me to decouple hubitat from my other software to start tracking down where this started.

If one exposes the Disable toggle on Devices or Apps - does that actually disable the device or app function?

Yes

If you need help, I'd say bring your C5 online and send me a private message along with your hub's MAC address. I'd be happy to help.

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Also, you could disable Zigbee on the C5 hub, and it will stop talking to physical devices while being functional in every other way.

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