# Advanced logging with Amazon Braket
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You can record the whole task-processing process using a logger. These advanced logging techniques allow you to see the background polling and create a record for later debugging.

To use the logger, we recommend changing the `poll_timeout_seconds` and `poll_interval_seconds` parameters, so that a quantum task can be long-running and the quantum task status is logged continuously, with results saved to a file. You can transfer this code to a Python script instead of a Jupyter notebook, so that the script can run as a process in the background.

 **Configure the logger** 

First, configure the logger so that all logs are written into a text file automatically, as shown in the following example lines.

```
# import the module
import logging
from datetime import datetime

# set filename for logs
log_file = 'device_logs-'+datetime.strftime(datetime.now(), '%Y%m%d%H%M%S')+'.txt'
print('Task info will be logged in:', log_file)

# create new logger object
logger = logging.getLogger("newLogger")

# configure to log to file device_logs.txt in the appending mode
logger.addHandler(logging.FileHandler(filename=log_file, mode='a'))

# add to file all log messages with level DEBUG or above
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
```

```
Task info will be logged in: device_logs-20200803203309.txt
```

 **Create and run the circuit** 

Now you can create a circuit, submit it to a device to run, and see what happens as shown in this example.

```
# define circuit
circ_log = Circuit().rx(0, 0.15).ry(1, 0.2).rz(2, 0.25).h(3).cnot(control=0, target=2).zz(1, 3, 0.15).x(4)
print(circ_log)
# define backend
device = AwsDevice("arn:aws:braket:::device/quantum-simulator/amazon/sv1")
# define what info to log
logger.info(
    device.run(circ_log, s3_location,
               poll_timeout_seconds=1200, poll_interval_seconds=0.25, logger=logger, shots=1000)
    .result().measurement_counts
)
```

 **Check the log file** 

You can check what is written into the file by entering the following command.

```
# print logs
! cat {log_file}
```

```
Task arn:aws:braket:us-west-2:123412341234:quantum-task/5088ec6c-89cf-4338-9750-9f5bb12a0dc4: start polling for completion
Task arn:aws:braket:us-west-2:123412341234:quantum-task/5088ec6c-89cf-4338-9750-9f5bb12a0dc4: task status CREATED
Task arn:aws:braket:us-west-2:123412341234:quantum-task/5088ec6c-89cf-4338-9750-9f5bb12a0dc4: task status CREATED
Task arn:aws:braket:us-west-2:123412341234:quantum-task/5088ec6c-89cf-4338-9750-9f5bb12a0dc4: task status QUEUED
Task arn:aws:braket:us-west-2:123412341234:quantum-task/5088ec6c-89cf-4338-9750-9f5bb12a0dc4: task status RUNNING
Task arn:aws:braket:us-west-2:123412341234:quantum-task/5088ec6c-89cf-4338-9750-9f5bb12a0dc4: task status RUNNING
Task arn:aws:braket:us-west-2:123412341234:quantum-task/5088ec6c-89cf-4338-9750-9f5bb12a0dc4: task status COMPLETED
Counter({'00001': 493, '00011': 493, '01001': 5, '10111': 4, '01011': 3, '10101': 2})
```

 **Get the ARN from the log file** 

From the log file output that's returned, as shown in the previous example, you can obtain the ARN information. With the ARN ID, you can retrieve the result of the completed quantum task.

```
# parse log file for arn
with open(log_file) as openfile:
    for line in openfile:
        for part in line.split():
            if "arn:" in part:
                arn = part
                break
# remove final semicolon in logs
arn = arn[:-1]

# with this arn you can restore again task from unique arn
task_load = AwsQuantumTask(arn=arn, aws_session=AwsSession())

# get results of task
result = task_load.result()
```