How to make neo-cli more verbose

[ksemaev]

Hi! Please advice - is there a way to get some logs from neo-cli? Right now it just starts and there's no information on what's going on there. Maybe there's some cli option that I couldn't find?

[ksemaev]

@erikzhang it is very needed, as sometimes neo-cli just hangs, and there's no info in logs to check what happened.

[lock9]

Hi @ksemaev did you try the ApplicationLogs plugin? It is not "the best" logging tool, but it does help.

[ksemaev]

@lock9 cam you please explain how ApplicationLogs plugin works? Should I pass --log or --logs? Where would the logs be outputed to?

[lock9]

Hello @ksemaev , I believe it is '--log'. It is output is in ApplicationLogs folder, inside neo-cli executable folder.
There is more information here:
https://github.com/neo-project/neo-plugins

@ksemaev once you try it, can you give us some feedback to know if this solved your problem?

[ksemaev]

@lock9 when I installed logs plugin with:

wget -q https://github.com/neo-project/neo-plugins/releases/download/$VERSION/ApplicationLogs.zip && \
unzip -o ApplicationLogs.zip -d /home/neo

And tried to start neo-cli with neo-cli --rpc --log I get:

neo> [ERROR][07/18/2019 05:59:34][Thread 0010][akka://NeoSystem/system/IO-TCP/$a] Monitored actor [[akka://NeoSystem/user/$b#2050724388]] terminated
Cause: Akka.Actor.DeathPactException: Monitored actor [[akka://NeoSystem/user/$b#2050724388]] terminated
at Akka.Actor.ActorBase.Unhandled(Object message)
at Akka.Actor.ActorBase.AroundReceive(Receive receive, Object message)
at Akka.Actor.ActorCell.ReceiveMessage(Object message)
at Akka.Actor.ActorCell.AutoReceiveMessage(Envelope envelope)
at Akka.Actor.ActorCell.Invoke(Envelope envelope)

Still there's not much help for me from logs in filesystem, I need them to be passed to stdout.