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Logging and advanced configuration

Log levels

Quickstream uses the following log levels:

  • Critical (0) - Only critical errors, the smallest amount of logs.
  • Error (1) - More verbose but less than normal.
  • Warning (2) - Standard verbose.
  • Info (3) - More verbose.
  • Debug (4) - It will produce a large amount of logs. Almost every action is logged.
  • Verbose (5) - It will produce a HUGE amount of logs!! Please be very careful with this log level.

For standard operation, we recommend setting the log level to Warning.

Log level may be changed in system section of Quickstream Node and using the Quickstream setup application.

Changing log level on Linux

Log level may be changed using quickstream5-setup by selecting option number 7. 

using config file: "/opt/quickstream5/etc/quickstream5.ini"
Started quickstream node setup tool.
Config folder: /opt/quickstream5/etc
Trying to connect to node at localhost port: 32123
If you want to use different port for all node connections:
- stop service,
- edit /opt/quickstream5/etc/quickstream5.ini
- restart service

Connection to Node established, logging in.

Log level changed to: Verbose

Menu:

1) Enable Cloud management (currently: disabled)
2) Disable Cloud management
3) Enable or change local management password
4) Change Node name (current: 'LYCANANANAS-PC')
5) Print Hardware ID
6) Update licenses
7) Change log level (current: Verbose)
8) Show path of folder with log files
9) Export activity log to file
10) Update local management tool if available
11) Change access level to local management tool (current: disabled)
12) Try to import DIRECT channels from old version of quickstream
    (cannot automatically import Transcoding configurations)
0) Quit setup
7

Choose log level:

0 - critical
1 - error
2 - warning
3 - info
4 - debug (shouldn't be used in a production environment)
5 - verbose (shouldn't be used in a production environment)
2

request sent

Changing log level on Windows

The log level can be changed using Quickstream Node Setup from the Windows tray.

Quickstream Node Log Level

Log location

Log files

Quickstream Cloud Node keeps its logs in the local database and in compressed text files. New file is created every 24 hours. Logs are compressed using zlib. You can read compressed files using zcat on Linux. On Windows you must decompress file using for example using 7zip.

Additionally crashlogs are saved in the same location as standard logs.

Linux

You can check Quickstream Node logs location using option 8 (Show path of folder with log files) in quickstream5-node-setup. Logs are usually stored in:

  • /opt/quickstream5/log/<channel id> - directory for a particular channel
  • /opt/quickstream5/log/wrapper - other files

Logs are not deleted automatically!

Please delete logs manually or use cron script or logrotate for automated logs rotation to avoid using all free space in your operating system.

Windows

You can open Quickstream Node log folder using Quickstream 5 Setup from the windows tray.

Quickstream Node Log Location

Logs are stored in c:\ProgramData\Quickstream\Quickstream 5\log folder.

Logs are not deleted automatically!

Please delete logs manually or use Task Scheduler for automated logs rotation.