During an incident response, a security analyst is investigating why an application has stopped writing its usual daily log files. To troubleshoot, the analyst wants the application to record the values passed to each authentication function call and precise timestamps for every step in the workflow. Which logging level should the analyst enable to gather that highly detailed diagnostic information?
Enabling the debug level instructs the application to produce very granular, diagnostic output-such as variable values, function entry and exit points, and fine-grained timestamps. This verbosity is ideal for troubleshooting but is typically disabled in production. Informational, warning, and error levels record progressively less detail and focus on normal operations or fault conditions rather than step-by-step execution.
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