How to change the logging level of dev_appserver

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Do you know how to change the logging level of Google App Engine dev_appserver?
I would like to set it to ERROR removing messages like:

INFO     2011-10-18 17:43:00,806 dev_appserver_multiprocess.py:637] 
         Running application foo on port 8106: http://localhost:8106
INFO     2011-10-18 17:47:12,927 dev_appserver.py:4247] 
         "GET /images/sprite.png HTTP/1.1" 200 -

http://stackoverflow.com/a/27020180/276125 – casey Mar 29 '16 at 18:00 — casey, Mar 29 '16 at 18:00

score 20 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 22 '16 at 01:30

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There are two slightly different arguments which let you control the log level, log_level and dev_appserver_log_level.

log_level {debug,info,warning,critical,error}
dev_appserver.py --log_level=debug

The log level below which logging messages generated by application code will not be displayed on the console (default: info)

dev_appserver_log_level {debug,info,warning,critical,error}
dev_appserver.py --dev_appserver_log_level=debug

The log level below which logging messages generated by the development server will not be displayed on the console (default: info)

edited Mar 22 '16 at 01:30

joshhunt

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answered Jun 27 '13 at 18:39

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Answer is missing an equal sign but is on the right track. Try --log_level=debug. For more info: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/devserver – Corey Burke May 22 '14 at 19:26
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I struggled a bit, it looks in the bottom of `--help` there is another argument you can pass named `--dev_appserver_log_level` which controls the output successfully. – topless Aug 27 '14 at 09:41

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 13 '15 at 22:14

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The accepted answer does not work for me, but the comments to the accepted answer do give a fix. This is a community wiki answer to help avoid confusion.

dev_appserver.py --dev_appserver_log_level=debug sets the log output to debug level.

answered Feb 13 '15 at 22:14

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 18 '11 at 21:02

Looking at the code, there isn't a way to modify the log level from the command line. Your solution is fine (at least until the next update, as you said).

You could pipe it through a GREP if you want, eg.:

~/google_appengine/dev_appserver.py . 2>&1 |egrep "^(WARNING|ERROR|CRITICAL)"

Not ideal but functional.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 19 '12 at 19:26

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In the Google App Engine Launcher select Edit->Application Settings, and add --debug into Extra Command Line Flags.

answered Dec 19 '12 at 19:26

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 18 '11 at 20:09

I have directly modified the source of dev_appserver_main.py in:

ARG_LOG_LEVEL: logging.ERROR

On the next update I will lose this change but it is not a problem; I really wanted this because log console tend to freeze on huge imports from program (I'm on OSX).

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