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-# Configuration of local logging. Changes will be hot-reloaded.
-# Activate logging of outgoing payloads to local disk by setting a non-empty
-# prefix. The log file will be written to data/log, and the file will have the
-# defined prefix followed by a timestamp.
-# Note: There is no automatic rotation of those files.
-prefix=localtraces_
-
-# The file can be filtered to either "metrics" or "traces".
-# If empty or absent, there will be no filtering.
-type=traces