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Troubleshoot a task with flowctl

flowctl offers the most advanced views of task logs. If a task has errors or is failing in the web app, you'll be able to troubleshoot more effectively with flowctl.

Prerequisites​

To complete this workflow, you need:

  1. Authorize flowctl.

    1. Go to the CLI-API tab of the web app and copy your access token.

    2. Run flowctl auth token --token <paste-token-here>

  2. Identify the name of the failing task in the web app; for example myOrg/marketing/leads. Use the tables on the Captures or Materializations pages of the web app to do so.

  3. Run flowctl logs --task <task-name>. You have several options to get more specific. For example:

    • flowctl logs --task myOrg/marketing/leads --follow — If the task hasn't failed, continuously print logs as they're generated.

    • flowctl logs --task myOrg/marketing/leads --since 1h — Print logs from approximately the last hour. The actual output window is approximate and may somewhat exceed this time boundary. You may use any time, for example 10m and 1d.

Change log level​

If your logs aren't providing enough detail, you can change the log level.

Flow offers several log levels. From least to most detailed, these are:

  • error
  • warn
  • info (default)
  • debug
  • trace

  1. Follow the guide to edit a specification with flowctl.

    1. Working in your local specification file, add the shards stanza to the capture or materialization specification:
    myOrg/marketing/leads:
      shards:
        logLevel: debug
      endpoint:
        {}
    1. Finish the workflow as described, re-publishing the task.

Learn more about working with logs