title: 'Configuring Trace Levels' sidebar_label: 'Trace Levels' description: 'Configuring Spice.ai OSS trace output verbosity levels' pagination_prev: null tags:
Trace output verbosity is determined by the following sources, listed in order of precedence:
-v/--verbose, -vv/--very-verbose). If these flags are provided, they override all other settings.SPICED_LOG environment variable. This is used only if verbosity flags are not setruntime.output_level YAML configuration file. This is used only if neither verbosity flags nor the environment variable are set.The default trace level is INFO, suitable for general information about the system.
The equivalent runtime.output_level configuration is info:
Use the -v/--verbose CLI flags to enable detailed logs, useful for debugging.
Alternatively you can use runtime.output_level yaml configuration:
This sets SPICED_LOG to DEBUG level:
Use the -vv/--very-verbose CLI flag to enable the most detailed logs, typically for in-depth troubleshooting.
Alternatively you can use runtime.output_level yaml configuration:
This sets SPICED_LOG to TRACE level:
For specific component trace configuration, adjust the trace levels as needed: