How to get a real temperature graph for your Traeger cook

Updated July 7, 2026 · works with Traeger WiFire grills · not affiliated with Traeger

Open the Traeger app mid-cook and you get a live temperature graph: grill temp, set point, and your meat probe, drawn over time. It's genuinely useful while it's on screen. Then the cook ends, and the curve is gone — the app keeps the number, not the graph. If you've ever wanted to pull up the shape of last month's brisket and couldn't, that's why.

Why the graph, not just the peak, is what matters

A single final temperature tells you almost nothing. The shape of the cook is where the lessons live. The stall — that long flat stretch in the mid-150s°F where a brisket stops climbing — only reads as a plateau on a curve. Your grill's temperature swing around its set point, which changes with pellet brand and hopper level, is a wave you can only see graphed. And when a probe climbs faster than usual, the graph tells you whether it was the meat or the weather. Owners on the Traeger forums notice this constantly: rival apps like Pit Boss keep a saved cook graph, and Traeger's doesn't.

Three ways to keep a permanent graph

1. Screenshot it yourself. Free, and it works — but you have to remember to grab the app mid-cook, you only capture the moment you screenshotted (not the whole run), and a photo of a graph isn't data you can compare cook to cook. 2. Buy logging hardware. Dedicated loggers like FireBoard draw a beautiful, permanent graph and export the data — at $200+ up front plus their own probes, re-measuring temperatures your WiFire grill already reports. 3. Record the stream your grill already sends. A WiFire Traeger broadcasts every reading to Traeger's cloud while it cooks; the app just doesn't save it.

What a good cook graph should show

Grill temp and set point together, so you can see how tightly the grill held. Every wireless probe on its own line, so a two-meat cook doesn't blur into one. The weather at your grill drawn behind it — because a 20 mph gust that made the auger work overtime belongs on the same chart as the temperature dip it caused. And it should stay in an archive you can open a year later, next to your notes. Smokelog records that WiFire stream automatically and draws exactly that graph for every cook, kept forever, for $5 a month — no hardware, no screenshots, no remembering.