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# Algorand Specifications

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `BaseLoggerDebugLevel` | `4` | 0 (default was `1`) | 1 |

**Description:**

Specifies the logging level for [`algod`](https://specs.algorand.co/node/non-normative/node-nn-algod) (`node.log`).

The levels are:

- `0`: _Panic_: Highest level of severity. Logs and then calls `panic()`.

- `1`: _Fatal_: Logs and then calls `os.Exit(1)`. It will exit even if the logging level is set to _Panic_.

- `2`: _Error_: Used for errors that should definitely be noted. Commonly used for hooks to send errors to an error tracking service.

- `3`: _Warn_: Non-critical entries that deserve attention.

- `4`: _Info_: General operational entries.

- `5`: _Debug_: Verbose logging, usually only enabled when debugging.

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `CadaverSizeTarget` | `0` | 0 (default was `1073741824`) | 24 |

**Description:**

Specifies the maximum size of the `agreement.cdv` file in bytes. Once full, the file will be renamed to `agreement.archive.log` and a new `agreement.cdv` will be created.

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `CadaverDirectory` | Empty string | 27 | 27 |

**Description:**

If not set, `MakeService` will attempt to use `ColdDataDir` instead.

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `LogFileDir` | Empty string | 31 | 31 |

**Description:**

An optional directory to store the log file, `node.log`. If not set, the node will use the `HotDataDir`. The `-o` GOAL CLI option can override this output location.

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `LogArchiveDir` | Empty string | 31 | 31 |

**Description:**

An optional directory to store the log archive. If not specified, the node will use the `ColdDataDir`.

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `LogSizeLimit` | `1073741824` | 0 | 0 |

**Description:**

Sets the node log file size limit in bytes. When set to `0`, logs will be written to _stdout_.

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `LogArchiveName` | `node.archive.log` | 4 | 4 |

**Description:**

Text template for creating the log archive filename. If the filename ends with `.gz` or `.bz2` it will be compressed.

Available template variables:

- Time at the start of log:
  - {{.Year}}
  - {{.Month}}
  - {{.Day}}
  - {{.Hour}}
  - {{.Minute}}
  - {{.Second}}
- Time at the end of log:
  - {{.EndYear}}
  - {{.EndMonth}}
  - {{.EndDay}}
  - {{.EndHour}}
  - {{.EndMinute}}
  - {{.EndSecond}}

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `LogArchiveMaxAge` | Empty string | 4 | 4 |

**Description:**

Specifies the maximum age for a node log. Valid units are `s` seconds, `m` minutes, `h` hours.

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `EnableRequestLogger` | `false` | 4 | 4 |

**Description:**

Enables the logging of the incoming requests to the telemetry server.

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `TelemetryToLog` | `true` | 5 | 5 |

**Description:**

Configures whether to record messages to `node.log` that are usually only sent to remote event monitoring.

| Parameter Name | Default Value | Introduced in Version | Last Updated in Version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `EnableVerbosedTransactionSyncLogging` | `false` | 17 | 17 |

**Description:**

Allows the _Transaction Sync_ to write extensive message exchange information to the log file. This option is disabled by default to prevent the rapid growth of logs.