# What do the verbose levels enable in Ansible?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-do-the-verbose-levels-enable-in-ansible/25054>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 21, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-do-the-verbose-levels-enable-in-ansible/25054 "2017-07-21T21:58:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nick\_Kakouros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nick\_Kakouros](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nick_Kakouros)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-do-the-verbose-levels-enable-in-ansible/25054/1 "2017-07-21T21:58:38Z")

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I am asking mainly the difference among -v, -vv and -vvv. I know -vvvv enables connection output.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-do-the-verbose-levels-enable-in-ansible/25054/2 "2017-07-21T23:50:57Z")

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There are really no specific names or thresholds, they just give  
increasing information as you add v's, for example tracebacks are  
shown with 3, but there is no formal list as each subsystem adds what  
made sense to the programmer at the time.

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**Author:** ![Nick\_Kakouros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nick\_Kakouros](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nick_Kakouros)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-do-the-verbose-levels-enable-in-ansible/25054/3 "2017-07-23T15:23:26Z")

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OK, thanks.