.. index:: Logging

.. _enabling_verbose_logging:

Enabling Verbose Logging
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DPBuddy prints detailed debug information when it runs in verbose mode. This information includes SOAP/XML generated by DPBuddy and responses returned by DataPower.

To simplify the viewing of request/response XML, DPBuddy does not print Base64-encoded strings used by DataPower to transfer files.

To run DPBuddy in verbose mode, provide the ``-v`` option to a DPBuddy command or to Ant, e.g.,

.. code-block:: bat

   dpbuddy import -file domain.zip -v

If you're using the :ref:`environment task <environment_task>` or environment prefixes, you could also set the property ``dpbuddy.trace.properties`` to ``true`` in the configuration file or in an Ant properties file/build file. When this property is set, DPBuddy will print information explaining how a property was resolved.