diff --git a/relay/api/console.mjs b/relay/api/console.mjs
index 06275da4..85a7c751 100644
--- a/relay/api/console.mjs
+++ b/relay/api/console.mjs
@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ function parseNodeTail(tail) {
 }
 async function machines(sql) {
   // node logs get a longer tail: the connection-manager (peers) line is rare on a busy node
+  // the app log's tail is wide (400 KB, about three hours on a PC that logs every block) so a stuck update's lines do
+  // not scroll out of the card: on 4 October 2026 PC 1's "installing 0.3.4" left the 60 KB window after 30 minutes
   const rows = await sql(`SELECT DISTINCT ON (label) label, machine, run_id, received_at, left(lines, 300) AS head,
-        right(lines, CASE WHEN label LIKE 'nodelog-%' THEN 80000 WHEN label ~ '^(win|mac)-[0-9a-f]{8}$' THEN 60000 ELSE 20000 END) AS tail
+        right(lines, CASE WHEN label LIKE 'nodelog-%' THEN 80000 WHEN label ~ '^(win|mac)-[0-9a-f]{8}$' THEN 400000 ELSE 20000 END) AS tail
       FROM miner_logs WHERE received_at > now() - interval '36 hours' ORDER BY label, received_at DESC`);
   const groups = new Map();
   for (const r of rows) {