Diagnostics and logs
Daisy writes a quiet log file as it runs, so when something looks off — a slow finalize, a misbehaving mic, a provider call that didn't return — there's enough on disk to figure out what happened. Logs stay on your machine; nothing is shipped anywhere automatically.
Where the logs live
Logs live in a logs folder inside your profile folder, one file per day named daisy-<computer>-YYYY-MM-DD.log. Daisy rotates to a new file each day and keeps the last 7 days; older files are deleted the next time it launches.
The files are plain text. You can open them in any editor.
Open the logs folder
Open Settings → Recordings, find Diagnostics, and select Open logs folder. Daisy opens your file manager at the right path so you don't have to hunt for it.
Debug logging levels
Under Settings → Recordings → Diagnostics, the Debug logging dropdown controls how much detail the file captures:
- Off (default) — the quiet level: stage timings, warnings, and errors, without flooding the file with every backend init line.
- Basic — adds debug-level detail: model loads, provider calls, and the finer-grained context that helps pin down a real problem.
- Full — everything Basic captures, plus live-Whisper decode and audio gain/clip tracing. Use this only when chasing an audio or live-caption issue; it's noisy.
Changing the level takes effect after you restart Daisy, because logging is set up when the app starts. Turn it back to Off when you're done so the files stay small.
When to share a log
If you reach out for help and we ask for a log:
- Set Debug logging to Basic (or Full if we ask), restart Daisy, and reproduce the issue once.
- Open the logs folder.
- Send today's
daisy-…-YYYY-MM-DD.log(or the right day's file if it happened earlier in the week).
Scrub anything sensitive before sending. Daisy never writes audio or your saved transcript files into the log, but titles or notes you typed can appear in error context, and at the Full level decoded live-caption text may show up.