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# How can I have better logs ?
Dagger exposes 2 logging format options:
- `--log-format <auto|plain|tty|json>`
The default mode is `auto`. If you want to keep each actions' logs, use the `plain` mode
- `--log-level <panic|fatal|error|warn|info|debug|trace>`
`debug` is useful to check whether an explicit dependency has been found between two actions and see CUE DAG at run time.
You can also export these options as env variables:
```console
export DAGGER_LOG_FORMAT="plain"
export DAGGER_LOG_LEVEL="debug"
```
