# Increasing level of debug

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-level-of-debug/158783>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 29, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-level-of-debug/158783 "2018-11-29T14:49:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Magalhaes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carlos_magalhaes/32/74604_2.png) [@Carlos\_Magalhaes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Carlos_Magalhaes)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-level-of-debug/158783/1 "2018-11-29T14:49:04Z")

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Hi all,

Trying to debug a issue I think I have on my pipeline config, usually using

```
[2018-11-29T16:22:20,520][DEBUG][logstash.runner] *config.debug: true (default: false)
[2018-11-29T16:22:20,521][DEBUG][logstash.runner] *log.level: "debug" (default: "info")

```

Give good enough info to point you in the right direction. However in this case all I get is below.

```
[2018-11-29T16:22:20,527][DEBUG][logstash.runner] --------------- Logstash Settings -------------------
[2018-11-29T16:22:20,598][DEBUG][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Reading pipeline configurations from YAML {:location=>"/etc/logstash/pipelines.yml"}
[2018-11-29T16:22:20,655][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit

```

The last line is:

`[2018-11-29T16:22:20,655][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit`

Whilst I know this means a catastrophic failure usually it will give you a stack dump or something afterwards allowing you to figure out what is happening. In this case it just stops there nothing else. Is this normal behaviour or is there a way to increase the debug level past debug to get more info?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-level-of-debug/158783/2 "2018-12-27T14:49:04Z")

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