HTTP tracing can be enabled by using [`mc admin trace`](https://github.com/minio/mc/blob/master/docs/minio-admin-complete-guide.md#command-trace---display-minio-server-http-trace) command.
Subnet Health diagnostics help ensure that the underlying infrastructure that runs MinIO is configured correctly, and is functioning properly. This test is one-shot long running one, that is recommended to be run as soon as the cluster is first provisioned, and each time a failure scenario is encountered. Note that the test incurs majority of the available resources on the system. Care must be taken when using this to debug failure scenario, so as to prevent larger outages. Health tests can be triggered using `mc admin subnet health` command.
Metadata is stored in `xl.meta` files for erasure coded objects. Each disk in the set containing the object has this file. The file format is a binary format and therefore requires tools to view values.
Executing `xl-meta` will look for an `xl.meta` in the current folder and decode it to JSON. It is also possible to specify multiple files or wildcards, for example `xl-meta ./**/xl.meta` will output decoded metadata recursively. It is possible to view what inline data is stored inline in the metadata using `--data` parameter `xl-meta -data xl.json` will display an id -> data size. To export inline data to a file use the `--export` option.
`mc admin inspect` allows collecting files based on *path* from all backend drives. Matching files will be collected in a zip file with their respective host+drive+path. A MinIO host from October 2021 or later is required for full functionality. Syntax is `mc admin inspect ALIAS/path/to/files`. This can for example be used to collect `xl.meta` from objects that are misbehaving. To collect `xl.meta` from a specific object, for example placed at `ALIAS/bucket/path/to/file.txt` append `/xl.meta`, for instance `mc admin inspect ALIAS/bucket/path/to/file.txt/xl.meta`. All files can be collected, so this can also be used to retrieve `part.*` files, etc.
Wildcards can be used, for example `mc admin inspect ALIAS/bucket/path/**/xl.meta` will collect all `xl.meta` recursively. `mc admin inspect ALIAS/bucket/path/to/file.txt/*/part.*` will collect parts for all versions for the object located at `bucket/path/to/file.txt`.
If `--key` is not specified an interactive prompt will ask for it. The file name will contain the beginning of the key. This can be used to verify that the key is for the encrypted file.
