April 24, 2024

How to enable logging in Mosquitto

Mosquitto is a popular open source MQTT broker.

It has two different log types:

  • System status logs
  • Informational and debugging logs

In this post I will only detail how to enable logging for debug purposes only.

You can configure logging in the Logging Section of the mosquitto.conf file.

#log_type error
#log_type warning
#log_type notice
#log_type information

# Use log_type all for verbose logging
log_type all

To tell mosquitto to output logs to a file specify the following in the mosquitto.conf file:

log_dest file <full_file_path>