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How to enable Trident debug and debugTraceFlag for more verbose logging

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Applies to

  • NetApp Astra Trident 

Description

  • For Trident installed with the operator, enabling Trident debug requires setting 2 flags:

1. Set the 'debug' flag for the Trident pods in the deployment

2. Set the 'debugTraceFlag' on a specific trident backend.

    When debug is not enabled, you will see mostly 'level=info' messages.  With debugging enabled, you will see 'level=debug' msg messages.

  • For Trident installed using helm , you need to  use the flag --set tridentDebug=true
  • For Trident installed using "tridentctl install ... " command, you will need to uninstall trident and then install it again, with the -d flag:

 

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