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<h1>How to troubleshoot logging problems</h1>
<p>If you have trouble getting NLog to work properly you may want to enable some debugging
output to see what may be going wrong. This document describes the available internal debugging
features of NLog.</p>
<h4>Enabling internal logging</h4>
The following variables can be used to control NLog internal debugging:
<p><code>NLOG_INTERNAL_LOG_TO_CONSOLE</code> - if this variable is found in the environment
NLog outputs internal logging information to the console using <code>Console.WriteLine</code>.</p>
<p><code>NLOG_INTERNAL_LOG_FILE</code> - if this variable is found in the environment
NLog outputs internal logging information to the specified file. The file must be writable
by the current user or it will not be created.</p>
<p><code>NLOG_INTERNAL_LOG_LEVEL</code> - sets the internal logging level. The available values
are <code>Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Fatal</code> - the default is <code>Info</code> which should
be appropriate for most cases, to get more detailed logging - set it to <code>Debug</code>.</p>
<h4>Enabling internal logging using the environment variables</h4>
There are two cases here - setting the variables for an interactive process or for a service process.
<h5>Enabling internal logging in the interactive processes</h5>
<p>This case is easy. Just open the command prompt (<code>cmd.exe</code>), set your variables using
the SET command and run your program. Here's the example:
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Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.
C:\MyApp>set NLOG_INTERNAL_LOG_FILE=c:\temp\mylog.txt
C:\MyApp>set NLOG_INTERNAL_LOG_LEVEL=Debug
C:\MyApp>myapp.exe
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<h5>Enabling internal logging in the service processes</h5>
<p>TO BE WRITTEN</p>
<h4>Enabling internal logging programmatically</h4>
<p>TO BE WRITTEN</p>
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