Command Palette

The Command Palette provides access to commands for Salesforce development.

To see commands relevant to Salesforce development, press Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows or Linux) or ⇧⌘P (macOS), and search for a command. In this example, SFDX commands are shown.

Command Palette, filtered to show developer commands

When a command finishes running (due to success, failure, or cancellation), a notification shows in the Output tab. For example, if you select SFDX: Create Apex Class command to create a class, the Output tab shows the command status. Notification that shown the logs

In the Output tab you can:

Set a filter on the output data. For example, you can set a filter to show log record that contains a certain text.
Select the type of output, such as output of configured tasks and extension-specific logs.
Clear the output window ().
Turn auto-scrolling off ().
Set log levels.
View more actions you can perform, by clicking the ellipsis.