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Configuring Butler SOS logging

Butler SOS can log its activities to console and disk files.
Log files can be useful for retrospective troubleshooting of Butler SOS.

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Butler SOS continuously logs what its doing.
Logging is always done to console and optionally also to disk files.

The top level section Butler-SOS in the config file has a set of settings that control logging.

Log level (verbosity) can be set, logging to disk can be enabled/disabled and the directory where log files are stored can be set.
Log level can also be set on the command line when starting Butler SOS, using the --loglevel option.

Log files are kept for 30 days, after which they are automatically deleted.

Settings in main config file

Butler-SOS:
  ...
  ...
  # Logging configuration
  logLevel: info          # Log level. Possible log levels are silly, debug, verbose, info, warn, error
  fileLogging: true       # true/false to enable/disable logging to disk file
  logDirectory: log       # Subdirectory where log files are stored
  ...
  ...