Troubleshooting

This page contains various tips which can help you troubleshoot and debug code with interfaces with libcloud.

Debugging

Note

If you are sharing debug output on any public medium such as our IRC channel or an issue tracker using Pastebin, Github Gists or a similar service, make sure to remove your credentials and any other data you consider private from the output.

Libcloud has a special debug mode which when enabled, logs all the outgoing HTTP requests and all the incoming HTTP responses. Output also includes cURL commands which can be used to re-produce the requests.

When this mode is enabled and paramiko library is installed (used for deployment), paramiko library log level is set to DEBUG which helps with debugging the deployment related issues.

To make the debugging easier, Libcloud will also automatically decompress the response body (if compressed) before logging it.

To enable it, set LIBCLOUD_DEBUG environment variable and make it point to a file where the debug output should be saved.

For example if you want the output to be logged to the standard error (on Linux) you can set it to /dev/stderr:

LIBCLOUD_DEBUG=/dev/stderr python my_script.py

Example output:

# -------- begin 4431824872 request ----------
curl -i -X GET -H 'Host: s3.amazonaws.com' -H 'X-LC-Request-ID: 4431824872' -H 'Content-Length: 0' -H 'User-Agent: libcloud/0.6.0-beta1 (Amazon S3 (standard))' 'https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/?AWSAccessKeyId=foo&Signature=bar'
# -------- begin 4431824872:4431825232 response ----------
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Amz-Id-2: 1234
Server: AmazonS3
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
X-Amz-Request-Id: FFFFFFFFFF
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:29:11 GMT
Content-Type: application/xml

171
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ListAllMyBucketsResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"><Owner><ID>sada8932dsa8d30i</ID><DisplayName>kami</DisplayName></Owner><Buckets><Bucket><Name>test34324323</Name><CreationDate>2011-11-01T22:17:23.000Z</CreationDate></Bucket></Buckets></ListAllMyBucketsResult>
0

# -------- end 4431824872:4431825232 response ----------