+++
title = "debug"
description = "*debug* disables the automatic recovery upon a crash so that you'll get a nice stack trace."
weight = 6
tags = [ "plugin", "debug" ]
categories = [ "plugin" ]
date = "2018-06-20T06:43:55.264001"
+++

## Description

Normally CoreDNS will recover from panics, using *debug* inhibits this. The main use of *debug* is
to help testing. A side effect of using *debug* is that `log.Debug` and `log.Debugf` will be printed
to standard output.

Note that the *errors* plugin (if loaded) will also set a `recover` negating this setting. 

## Syntax

~~~ txt
debug
~~~

## Examples

Disable the ability to recover from crashes and show debug logging:

~~~ corefile
. {
    debug
}
~~~