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title: ZEC Logging
slug: zixi-broadcaster-v18/zec-logging
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createdAt: 2024-12-26T20:01:51.915Z
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The Logging screen defines the logs location and preferences for debugging purposes.
| **Field** | **Description** |
| -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ***Logging*** |
|
| **General Level** | The Severity Level that will be collected in the log, from Info, Warning, Error, to Fatal. Selection of lower severity levels will include all higher-level logs.
Default: None, since Logging is resource-intensive and only enabled when necessary. |
| **Path** | The log file name and path where the collected event information will be stored. |
| **Max log files ** | The maximal number of log files. |
| **Max log file size (MB)** | The maximal size of each log file. |
| **Send crash reports** | Select the checkbox to send a crash report to Zixi Support. |
## Advanced Mode
The fields discussed below are optional and available only in **Advanced Mode**.
To enter Advanced Mode add the URL parameter `?advanced=1` to the Zixi Broadcaster URL in your browser and press Enter/Return to reload the page:
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Note the Advanced Mode settings are generally intended for advanced users and special cases. If you do not understand the settings, you should probably accept the default values.
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Details Logging modes for specific categories as listed below. This is usually used internally by Zixi Engineers for debugging purposes.
| **Logging Type** | **Description** |
| ------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Network Level | Tracks network related components (sockets, reads, writes, etc.) |
| Distributor Level | Tracks the distribution of the inputs to outputs |
| HTTP Level | Tracks HTTP API requests |
| RTMP Level | Tracks RTMP inputs and outputs (connections, disconnection, payload transmissions) |
| Flow Level | Tracks demultiplexer, video and audio parsers, multiplexer and cbr padder |
| Smoother Level | Logs from the PCR smoother which helps reducing bursts coming from the source |
| FEC Level | Logs forward error corrections |
| Transcoder Level | Logs level in transcoder |
| Indexer Level | Log for file indexing (when VOD is enabled on the broadcaster) |
| Adaptive Level | Logs for generation of adaptive group (HLS/MPD) |
| Failover Level | Logs for failover group input |
| Decoder Application Level | Logs for the decoder application helper app. Responsible for thumbnail generation and content analysis (CQA) |
| TR101 Level | Logs TR101 analysis messages |
| Content Analysis Level | Content Analysis Component Level Logging |
| PID Mapping Level | Tracks logs related to PID mapping |
| WebRTC Level | Track logs related to WebRTC streaming |
| API Level | Logs new API functionality |
| HTTP Upload Level | Tracks HTTP file transfers (used when uploading HLS or MPD segments to S3 bucket (or similar) |
| Error Concealment Level | Logs error concealment applied to broken frames |
| Licensing Level | Logs messages related to licensing |
| QUIC Level | Logs everything to do with quic protocol (an experimental Google protocol that can be enabled in settings/live protocols) |
| DRM Level | Logs drm handling in adaptive group settings (in advanced mode) - there is option to encrypt the content using third party drm provider (irdeto drm) |
### Levels of Logging
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- None - No logging
- All - All messages
- Debug - **Highest verbosity, can affect the service. Use with minimal setup needed to reproduce the problem**
- Info - Message that some action was performed successfully
- Warning - Message about a condition or event that was unexpected
- Error - Message that an error occurred in some action
- Fatal - Message of a fatal error preventing delivery of a stream