Logs bounce after scroll to top

agericke · May 15, 2026, 10:41am

When viewing logs, if you scroll to the top, the logs keep bouncing back to the top when you try and scroll down.

This makes checking logs impossible.

To stop the “bouncing/autoscrolling to top” you have to close the logs view, and re-open. But again if you scroll reaches the top you cannot scroll down again without the bouncing back to the top. this also happens on pods which new logs are not generated so it’s not a refresh of the log lines at the bottom.

This is extremely frustrating. So much so that team members are looking at alternatives.

It’s been like this for quite a while, only similar issue I see logged is a user on github:

github.com/lensapp/lens

Unable to scroll to the bottom of the logs, it keeps scrolling back to the top

opened 10:37PM - 30 Apr 26 UTC

kalianto

bug

**Describe the bug** I'd like to double check if you guys are also experiencing …the same issue, when I scroll down the logs, it keeps scrolling up. When the scrollbar reaches midway, it will scroll back up, when I scroll really fast, it will go pass the midway, and get to the bottom, but if I scroll up a little bit, it will jump to the top, sometimes I cannot scroll to the bottom as it keeps scrolling to the top. **To Reproduce** Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Click Deployment, 2. Open any logs from a Deployment 3. when the log is open, scroll down, and the it will scroll back to the top 4. Scroll quickly to the bottom (possible when the log is short) and scroll up a little bit, it will scroll back to the top **Expected behavior** Scrolling should work as normal **Environment (please complete the following information):** Lens: 2026.4.151333-latest Electron: 40.6.0 Chrome: 144.0.7559.177 Node: 24.13.1 OS: MacOS Tahoe 26.3.1

I see mention that it is on your radar, any idea when it will be fixed?

crothmann · May 18, 2026, 5:40am

Hi @agericke,

Thanks for the report!

Good news: the scroll-jump and flicker you’re describing is already fixed on our side. It’s been merged and verified internally, and will land in an upcoming stable release. I’ll come back to this thread once the build is public so you can grab it.

Thanks for sticking with us!

crothmann · May 20, 2026, 8:35am

Hi @agericke,

The fix for this just shipped in Lens 2026.5.181248-latest, available now at Lens – Download. Mousewheel scroll in the Logs panel now respects your scroll position, so the bounce-to-top behaviour should be gone. Thanks again for the report – if anything is still off after updating, please reply here and we’ll take another look.