Icecast troubleshooting - How to enable Icecast debugging logs

When hitting issues with Icecast it can be very helpful to increase the log level to get more information. You can follow these steps to increase log level for your station:

  1. Navigate to the intended station
  2. Select Configure
  3. Select Advanced
  4. Set the Log Level to one of the four options: 

1 - Error messages only

2 - Warn, Error messages

3 - Info, Warn, Error messages

4 - Debug, Info, Warn, Error messages

You can find your log files in Log Manager section as the error.log file.

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