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## Warnings

    [
      "Historical editorial synthesis based on a same-operator execution; identifying details were removed and no independent reproduction is claimed."
    ]

## Title

    Wrangler tail targets the wrong environment-specific Worker

## Body

    ## Problem
    
    - Wrangler tail targets the wrong environment-specific Worker
    
    ## Observed symptom
    
    - A log-tail command supplied both a positional script name and an environment, causing Wrangler to target a different generated Worker name and return Worker not found.
    - The historical observation is same-operator evidence and does not establish general prevalence.
    
    ## Exact error or signature
    
    - Worker not found
    
    ## What the operator was trying to do
    
    - Complete tail an environment-specific Worker without mistaking process success for product acceptance.
    
    ## Affected or observed environments
    
    - Wrangler; environment-specific tail command.
    
    ## Current understanding
    
    - A log-tail command supplied both a positional script name and an environment, causing Wrangler to target a different generated Worker name and return Worker not found.
    - Current primary material was reviewed on 2026-09-11; historical behavior remains bounded to Observed with Wrangler 4.131.0 on 2026-09-10.
    
    ## Distinct cause hypotheses
    
    - The deployed Worker emitted no events.
    - The tail command resolved a different script name than the deployment command.
    
    ## How to distinguish them
    
    - Tail attaches to the exact deployed Worker identity and observes intentionally generated traffic before any runtime conclusion is drawn.
    - Check literal Worker-not-found output against the same bounded execution window.
    - Check deployment identity readback against the same bounded execution window.
    - Check corrected bounded tail against the same bounded execution window.
    - Check concurrent smoke traffic against the same bounded execution window.
    
    ## Candidate solutions
    
    - Resolve the tail target from the committed environment configuration (solution-wrangler-tail-environment-name, revision 1).
    
    ## Known limitations
    
    - The observed result applies to one sanitized same-operator execution and the stated version boundary, not every environment.
    - Recheck product documentation and preserve the variable changed before generalizing the diagnosis.
    
    ## Known obsolete approaches
    
    - Do not copy a historical workaround across versions without checking current product behavior.
    - Do not bypass permissions, security controls, or ownership boundaries merely to suppress the symptom.
    
    ## Known negative results
    
    - Tail with a positional script name plus the production environment. Result: Wrangler targeted a different name and returned Worker not found; this produced no runtime evidence.
    - No same-operator execution in this release counts as an independent reproduction.
    
    ## Version and freshness boundary
    
    - Observed with Wrangler 4.131.0 on 2026-09-10
    - Editorial and primary-source review date: 2026-09-11.
    
    ## What remains unknown
    
    - Behavior outside the stated products, versions, and environments remains unknown.
    - Independent reproduction by a different operator has not been established.

## Attribution and provenance

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          "The historical observation is same-operator evidence and does not establish general prevalence."
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          "The tail command resolved a different script name than the deployment command."
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          "Tail attaches to the exact deployed Worker identity and observes intentionally generated traffic before any runtime conclusion is drawn.",
          "Check literal Worker-not-found output against the same bounded execution window.",
          "Check deployment identity readback against the same bounded execution window.",
          "Check corrected bounded tail against the same bounded execution window.",
          "Check concurrent smoke traffic against the same bounded execution window."
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          "Resolve the tail target from the committed environment configuration (solution-wrangler-tail-environment-name, revision 1)."
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        "known_limitations": [
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          "Recheck product documentation and preserve the variable changed before generalizing the diagnosis."
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        "known_obsolete_approaches": [
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          "No same-operator execution in this release counts as an independent reproduction."
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## Primary and recurrence sources

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        "source_id": "src-cloudflare-wrangler-environments-current",
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        "title": "Wrangler environments documentation",
        "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/environments/",
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        "summary": "Current primary material reviewed for Historical Corpus 1: Wrangler environments documentation."
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        "source_id": "src-cloudflare-wrangler-tail-current",
        "source_kind": "primary_documentation",
        "title": "Wrangler tail command documentation",
        "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/commands/#tail",
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[Wrangler environments documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/environments/)

[Wrangler tail command documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler/commands/#tail)



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[solution revision 1](/solutions/solution-wrangler-tail-environment-name/revisions/1)

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