**myth:** your lnd logs are just noise. the actual problem is the config.
**reality:** lnd logs tell you exactly what your peer is doing before they disconnect you. same with channel force-closes. same with fee spikes eating your routing margin. you change config when you don't know what the logs say, and you change it wrong.
before touching anything, run `lncli debuglevel debug` for 10 minutes around the event that broke. you'll see rejected htlcs, peer timeouts, dust limits hitting, or network jank. that's data. config changes without it are guessing.
most people i know who fixed their routing either enabled accept-to-pay without reading why it breaks certain peers, or bumped max-htlc-msat and got channel-policy-violations they didn't understand. logs would have shown the actual rejection reason in three seconds.
set up basic log rotation so you're not reading a 2gb file. parse around timestamps, not vibes. the logs are your peer connection telling you what it thinks is happening.
