CEPH-DEBUGPACK(8) Ceph CEPH-DEBUGPACK(8)

# [NAME](#NAME)

ceph-debugpack - ceph debug packer utility

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
ceph-debugpack [ options ] filename.tar.gz
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

**ceph-debugpack** will build a tarball containing various items that are useful for debugging crashes. The resulting tarball can be shared with Ceph developers when debugging a problem.

The tarball will include the binaries for ceph-mds, ceph-osd, and ceph-mon, radosgw, any log files, the ceph.conf configuration file, any core files we can find, and (if the system is running) dumps of the current cluster state as reported by 'ceph report'.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

[**-c ceph.conf, --conf=ceph.conf**](#c)

Use *ceph.conf* configuration file instead of the default **/etc/ceph/ceph.conf** to determine monitor addresses during startup.

# [AVAILABILITY](#AVAILABILITY)

**ceph-debugpack** is part of Ceph, a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system. Please refer to the Ceph documentation at <https://docs.ceph.com> for more information.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

ceph <>(8) ceph-post-file <>(8)

# [Copyright](#Copyright)

2010-2014, Inktank Storage, Inc. and contributors. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0)

October 14, 2026 dev

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Document: ceph-debugpack(8) from ceph-19 19.2.7-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/ceph/ceph.git