diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 876940668c..96be0e980a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -463,7 +463,12 @@ jobs:
         if: failure()
         with:
           name: ${{ matrix.chain }}-ts-tests-artifact
-          path: /tmp/parachain_dev/
+          # Only log/spec files, NOT the downloaded relay binaries: the `polkadot` binary
+          # has no owner read bit, so archiving the whole dir fails the zip with EACCES and
+          # loses all logs. Globs below match readable text only.
+          path: |
+            /tmp/parachain_dev/**/*.log
+            /tmp/parachain_dev/**/*.json
           if-no-files-found: ignore
           retention-days: 3
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/create-release-draft.yml b/.github/workflows/create-release-draft.yml
index 0180856cfe..fa915bb944 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/create-release-draft.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/create-release-draft.yml
@@ -249,8 +249,14 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ failure() }}
         with:
           name: ${{ matrix.chain }}-ts-tests-artifacts
-          path: /tmp/parachain_dev/
+          # Only the log/spec files, NOT the downloaded relay binaries: the `polkadot`
+          # binary is written without an owner read bit, so archiving the whole dir fails
+          # the zip with EACCES and we lose all logs. Globs below are readable text only.
+          path: |
+            /tmp/parachain_dev/**/*.log
+            /tmp/parachain_dev/**/*.json
           retention-days: 3
+          if-no-files-found: warn
 
       - name: Dockerhub login
         uses: docker/login-action@v4
diff --git a/parachain/scripts/launch-network.sh b/parachain/scripts/launch-network.sh
index d27a1ba1a4..dbee610feb 100755
--- a/parachain/scripts/launch-network.sh
+++ b/parachain/scripts/launch-network.sh
@@ -80,7 +80,12 @@ fi
 print_divider
 
 echo "launching zombienet network (in background), dir = $ZOMBIENET_DIR ..."
-nohup $ZOMBIENET_BIN -d $ZOMBIENET_DIR -l silent spawn config.toml > /dev/null 2>&1 &
+# Log at `text` (not `silent`) and keep the orchestrator output in a file so it is captured
+# by CI's "Archive logs if test fails" step. Write it as a sibling of the zombienet dir
+# (NOT inside it — zombienet requires `-d` to be a fresh/absent directory and pre-creating
+# it breaks spawn). Per-node logs still land in $ZOMBIENET_DIR/*.log.
+# (`-l` accepts only table|text|silent; `text` is the plain-text verbose mode.)
+nohup $ZOMBIENET_BIN -d $ZOMBIENET_DIR -l text spawn config.toml > "$HEIMA_DIR/zombienet-$ZOMBIENET_DIR.log" 2>&1 &
 
 cd "$ROOTDIR/parachain/ts-tests"