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Debugging

You can enable debugging output in Prisma Client and Prisma CLI via the DEBUG environment variable. It accepts two namespaces to print debugging output:

  • prisma:engine: Prints relevant debug messages happening in a Prisma ORM engine
  • prisma:client: Prints relevant debug messages happening in the Prisma Client runtime
  • prisma*: Prints all debug messages from Prisma Client or CLI
  • *: Prints all debug messages
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Prisma Client can be configured to log warnings, errors and information related to queries sent to the database. See Configuring logging for more information.

Setting the DEBUG environment variable​

Here are examples for setting these debugging options in bash:

# enable only `prisma:engine`-level debugging output
export DEBUG="prisma:engine"

# enable only `prisma:client`-level debugging output
export DEBUG="prisma:client"

# enable both `prisma-client`- and `engine`-level debugging output
export DEBUG="prisma:client,prisma:engine"

To enable all prisma debugging options, set DEBUG to prisma*:

export DEBUG="prisma*"

On Windows, use set instead of export:

set DEBUG="prisma*"

To enable all debugging options, set DEBUG to *:

export DEBUG="*"