diff --git a/apps/dashboard/src/features/operations/live-console-model.ts b/apps/dashboard/src/features/operations/live-console-model.ts
index cc5a1ff..f1ccc25 100644
--- a/apps/dashboard/src/features/operations/live-console-model.ts
+++ b/apps/dashboard/src/features/operations/live-console-model.ts
@@ -31,10 +31,19 @@ function boundedAppend(
   entry: ConsoleEntry,
   capacity: number,
 ): readonly ConsoleEntry[] {
-  if (entries.some(({ id }) => id === entry.id)) return entries;
+  if (entries.some((candidate) => isSameEntry(candidate, entry))) return entries;
   return [...entries, entry].slice(-capacity);
 }
 
+function isSameEntry(left: ConsoleEntry, right: ConsoleEntry): boolean {
+  return left.id === right.id || (
+    left.occurredAt === right.occurredAt &&
+    left.level === right.level &&
+    left.message === right.message &&
+    searchableData(left.data) === searchableData(right.data)
+  );
+}
+
 export function createLiveConsoleState(capacity = 500): LiveConsoleState {
   if (!Number.isInteger(capacity) || capacity <= 0) {
     throw new RangeError('capacity must be a positive integer');
@@ -57,8 +66,8 @@ export function reduceLiveConsoleState(
   switch (action.type) {
     case 'append': {
       if (
-        state.entries.some(({ id }) => id === action.entry.id) ||
-        state.pendingEntries.some(({ id }) => id === action.entry.id)
+        state.entries.some((entry) => isSameEntry(entry, action.entry)) ||
+        state.pendingEntries.some((entry) => isSameEntry(entry, action.entry))
       ) return state;
       return state.isPaused
         ? { ...state, pendingEntries: boundedAppend(state.pendingEntries, action.entry, state.capacity) }
diff --git a/src/web/log-broadcaster.ts b/src/web/log-broadcaster.ts
index 034210f..ceeff95 100644
--- a/src/web/log-broadcaster.ts
+++ b/src/web/log-broadcaster.ts
@@ -22,16 +22,20 @@ export class LogBroadcaster {
   }
 
   push(level: LogEntry['level'], message: string, data?: unknown): void {
-    const entry: LogEntry = { timestamp: Date.now(), level, message, data };
+    const realtimeEvent = this.eventHub.closed
+      ? undefined
+      : this.eventHub.publish('log.created', { level, message, data });
+    const entry: LogEntry = {
+      timestamp: realtimeEvent ? Date.parse(realtimeEvent.occurredAt) : Date.now(),
+      level,
+      message,
+      data,
+    };
     this.entries.push(entry);
     if (this.entries.length > MAX_LOGS) {
       this.entries = this.entries.slice(-MAX_LOGS);
     }
 
-    if (!this.eventHub.closed) {
-      this.eventHub.publish('log.created', { level, message, data });
-    }
-
     this.fanout(JSON.stringify({ type: 'log', ...entry }));
   }
 
diff --git a/tests/dashboard/live-console-model.test.ts b/tests/dashboard/live-console-model.test.ts
index b2630a1..22087d2 100644
--- a/tests/dashboard/live-console-model.test.ts
+++ b/tests/dashboard/live-console-model.test.ts
@@ -38,4 +38,19 @@ describe('live console state', () => {
     expect(state.entries.map(({ id }) => id)).toEqual(['3', '4']);
     expect(state.pendingEntries).toEqual([]);
   });
+
+  it('deduplicates the same log delivered by the initial snapshot and SSE replay', () => {
+    let state = createLiveConsoleState();
+    state = reduceLiveConsoleState(state, {
+      type: 'append',
+      entry: entry('initial-1', 'info', 'Database initialized'),
+    });
+    state = reduceLiveConsoleState(state, {
+      type: 'append',
+      entry: entry('realtime-1', 'info', 'Database initialized'),
+    });
+
+    expect(state.entries).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(state.entries[0]?.id).toBe('initial-1');
+  });
 });
diff --git a/tests/log-broadcaster.test.ts b/tests/log-broadcaster.test.ts
index 4d914c5..16225d8 100644
--- a/tests/log-broadcaster.test.ts
+++ b/tests/log-broadcaster.test.ts
@@ -4,12 +4,21 @@ import { LogBroadcaster } from '../src/web/log-broadcaster.js';
 
 describe('LogBroadcaster realtime bridge', () => {
   it('publishes each log through the typed event hub', () => {
-    const hub = new RealtimeEventHub({ capacity: 10 });
+    const occurredAt = new Date('2026-08-08T15:00:00.000Z');
+    const hub = new RealtimeEventHub({
+      capacity: 10,
+      clock: { now: () => occurredAt },
+    });
     const received: RealtimeEvent[] = [];
+    let recent: unknown;
     hub.subscribe((event) => received.push(event));
     const broadcaster = new LogBroadcaster(hub);
 
     broadcaster.push('warn', 'Connection is stale', { attempts: 2 });
+    broadcaster.recent(
+      { query: {} } as never,
+      { json: (value: unknown) => { recent = value; } } as never,
+    );
 
     expect(received).toEqual([
       expect.objectContaining({
@@ -21,5 +30,8 @@ describe('LogBroadcaster realtime bridge', () => {
         },
       }),
     ]);
+    expect(recent).toEqual([
+      expect.objectContaining({ timestamp: occurredAt.getTime() }),
+    ]);
   });
 });