diff --git a/core/frontend/src/views/ExtensionManagerView.vue b/core/frontend/src/views/ExtensionManagerView.vue
index 861fa7dfda..8f1364ceed 100644
--- a/core/frontend/src/views/ExtensionManagerView.vue
+++ b/core/frontend/src/views/ExtensionManagerView.vue
@@ -424,25 +424,41 @@ export default Vue.extend({
           notifier.pushBackError('EXTENSIONS_INSTALLED_FETCH_FAIL', error)
         })
     },
-    async showLogs(extension: InstalledExtensionData): Promise<void> {
+    async showLogs(extension: InstalledExtensionData) {
       this.setLoading(extension, true)
-      await back_axios({
+      const ansi = new AnsiUp()
+      this.log_output = ''
+
+      back_axios({
         method: 'get',
         url: `${API_URL}/log`,
         params: {
           container_name: this.getContainerName(extension),
         },
+        onDownloadProgress: (progressEvent) => {
+          const chunk = progressEvent.currentTarget.response
+          this.$set(this, 'log_output', this.log_output + ansi.ansi_to_html(chunk))
+          this.show_log = true
+          this.setLoading(extension, false)
+          this.$nextTick(() => {
+            // TODO: find a better way to scroll to bottom
+            const output = document.querySelector(
+              '#app > div.v-dialog__content.v-dialog__content--active > div',
+            ) as HTMLInputElement
+            output.scrollTop = output.scrollHeight
+          })
+        },
         timeout: 30000,
       })
-        .then((response) => {
-          const ansi = new AnsiUp()
-          this.log_output = ansi.ansi_to_html(response.data.join(''))
-          this.show_log = true
+        .then(() => {
+          this.setLoading(extension, false)
         })
         .catch((error) => {
           notifier.pushBackError('EXTENSIONS_LOG_FETCH_FAIL', error)
         })
-      this.setLoading(extension, false)
+        .finally(() => {
+          this.setLoading(extension, false)
+        })
     },
     showModal(extension: ExtensionData) {
       this.show_dialog = true
diff --git a/core/services/kraken/kraken.py b/core/services/kraken/kraken.py
index e7daf89358..fa44ab1627 100644
--- a/core/services/kraken/kraken.py
+++ b/core/services/kraken/kraken.py
@@ -280,11 +280,16 @@ async def list_containers(self) -> List[DockerContainer]:
         containers: List[DockerContainer] = await self.client.containers.list(filter='{"status": ["running"]}')  # type: ignore
         return containers
 
-    async def load_logs(self, container_name: str) -> List[str]:
+    async def stream_logs(self, container_name: str, timeout: int = 30) -> AsyncGenerator[str, None]:
         containers = await self.client.containers.list(filters={"name": {container_name: True}})  # type: ignore
         if not containers:
             raise RuntimeError(f"Container not found: {container_name}")
-        return cast(List[str], await containers[0].log(stdout=True, stderr=True))
+
+        start_time = asyncio.get_event_loop().time()
+        async for log_line in containers[0].log(stdout=True, stderr=True, follow=True, stream=True):
+            if asyncio.get_event_loop().time() - start_time > timeout:
+                break
+            yield log_line
 
     # pylint: disable=too-many-locals
     async def load_stats(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
diff --git a/core/services/kraken/main.py b/core/services/kraken/main.py
index b05f885c91..72191c99c8 100755
--- a/core/services/kraken/main.py
+++ b/core/services/kraken/main.py
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 import argparse
 import asyncio
 import logging
-from typing import Any, List
+from typing import Any, Iterable
 
 from commonwealth.utils.apis import GenericErrorHandlingRoute
 from commonwealth.utils.general import limit_ram_usage
 from commonwealth.utils.logs import InterceptHandler, init_logger
 from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException, status
-from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse, StreamingResponse
+from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse, PlainTextResponse, StreamingResponse
 from fastapi_versioning import VersionedFastAPI, version
 from loguru import logger
 from pydantic import BaseModel
@@ -129,10 +129,10 @@ async def list_containers() -> Any:
     ]
 
 
-@app.get("/log", status_code=status.HTTP_200_OK)
+@app.get("/log", status_code=status.HTTP_200_OK, response_class=PlainTextResponse)
 @version(1, 0)
-async def log_containers(container_name: str) -> List[str]:
-    return await kraken.load_logs(container_name)
+async def log_containers(container_name: str) -> Iterable[bytes]:
+    return StreamingResponse(kraken.stream_logs(container_name))  # type: ignore
 
 
 @app.get("/stats", status_code=status.HTTP_200_OK)