Zixi Broadcaster/ZEC v18 Docum...
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Zixi Broadcaster User Guide
Server Settings
Logging
5min
the logging screen defines the logs location and preferences for debugging purposes note logs, particularly debug level logs, can grow large in size very quickly and take harddrive space we recommend only enabling these as requested by support logging settings 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 in the table 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 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 logging menu part 1 logging menu part 2 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 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