Enable debug logging - microsoft/copilot-intellij-feedback GitHub Wiki

Enable verbose logs for Rider

  • First of all, set env variable system wide: GITHUB_COPILOT_DEBUG="true"
  • Navigate to Help | Edit Custom Properties
  • Add a line idea.log.trace.categories=#com.github.copilot
    • image
  • Restart Rider

Enable verbose log for non-Rider IDEs

Debug logs can be enabled in the following way:

  • First of all, set env variable system wide: GITHUB_COPILOT_DEBUG="true"
  • Navigate to Help | Diagnostic Tools | Debug Log Settings...
    • image
  • Add log level instructions for Copilot, for example: com.github.copilot:trace
    • image

Log file

Reproduce the issue and collect idea.log (Help | Show Log in Finder/Explorer or Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data)

Logging levels

  • debug (correlates to fine)
  • trace (correlates to finer)
  • all (all messages are logged, so it is a logging level of maximal granularity)

More

From JetBrains.