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title: "Logger"
description: "Instructions how to enable the logger component for Home Assistant."
date: 2015-11-12 17:00
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The logger component lets you define the level of logging activities in Home Assistant.

To enable the logger in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

By default log all messages and ignore events lower than critical for specified components.

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    homeassistant.components.device_tracker: critical
    homeassistant.components.camera: critical
```

By default ignore all messages lower than critical and log event for specified components.

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
logger:
  default: critical
  logs:
    homeassistant.components: info
    homeassistant.components.rfxtrx: debug
    homeassistant.components.device_tracker: critical
    homeassistant.components.camera: critical
```

Possible log severities are:

- critical
- fatal
- error
- warning
- warn
- info
- debug
- notset