Sure! Mind letting me know what information gets passed by sending over the token?
I thought we had an explanation of what was in the debug log somewhere.. but I can't find it! Basically copies of your configs, some key information about your system to help us troubleshoot.
If you like, you can run pihole -d and then choose no when prompted to upload it, and you can view the file locally at /var/log/pihole_debug.log to see what it contains yes to upload)
Some more info about how we process the logs here:
https://pi-hole.net/2016/11/07/crack-our-medical-tricorder-win-a-raspberry-pi-3/
Nobody has claimed the prize yet, 4 years on!
Great, can I edit the debug file and then upload the remainder to tricorder?
You sure can! See about halfway down this FAQ post:
Log in to your Pi-hole's Web interface
Navigate to Tools > Generate debug log
Click the Generate debug log button
Send us the debug token
[debug]
Preferred Method
If there is additional information you want to provide us, you can upload any kind of text to our server. You will still get a debug token so your information will remain anonymous.
To do this, you can pipe some shell output into netcat, which will upload it to our secure server .
Here are a few examples of how you can send us this information:
VIa The pihole Command (assuming your install is not broken and the pihole command exists)
echo "hello developers" | pihole tricorder
cat some.log | pihole tricorder
pihole tricorder will always use openssl if it is available. If it’s not, it will revert to using netcat .
Via NetCat (cleartext)
echo "some text" | nc tricorder.pi-hole.net 9999
cat somefile.txt | nc tricorder.pi-hole.net 9999
tail -n4 /var/log/pihole.log | nc tricorder.pi-hole.net 9999
Via SSL (encrypted)
echo "Information to send over SSL" | openssl s_client -quiet -connect tricorder.pi-hole.net:9998 2> /dev/null
Be patient as it can sometime take a moment for it to upload. Once complete, you will receive a debug token such as 3vnm3hqwjs :
root@ubuntu:~$ echo "help me" | nc tricorder.pi-hole.net 9999
3vnm3hqwjs
When you are ready to get some help from us, give us this token and we can look up your information. Please note anything uploaded will self-destruct after 48 hours.
Just to confirm, I can do something like:
/var/log/pihole_debug.log | pihole tricorder
cat /var/log/pihole_debug.log | pihole tricorder or cat <anything> | pihole tricorder.
There are limits on the size of things that will be accepted.
(and then either run it again once you're happy with the contents, this time choosing