---
title: "TriggerClient: constructor"
sidebarTitle: "Constructor"
description: "The `TriggerClient()` constructor creates a new [TriggerClient](/sdk/triggerclient) object."
---

## Parameters

<ParamField body="options" type="object" required>
  <Expandable title="properties" defaultOpen>
    <ParamField body="id" type="string" required>
      The `id` property is used to uniquely identify the client.
    </ParamField>

    <ParamField body="apiKey" type="string">
      The `apiKey` property is the API Key for your Trigger.dev environment. We
      recommend using an environment variable to store your API Key.
    </ParamField>

    <ParamField body="apiUrl" type="string">
      The `apiUrl` property is an optional property that specifies the API URL. You
      only need to specify this if you are not using Trigger.dev Cloud and are
      running your own Trigger.dev instance.
    </ParamField>

    <ParamField body="logLevel" type="log | error | warn | info | debug">
      The `logLevel` property is an optional property that specifies the level of
      logging for the TriggerClient. The level is inherited by all Jobs that use this Client, unless they also specify a `logLevel`.
      - `log` - logs only essential messages
      - `error` - logs error messages
      - `warn` - logs errors and warning messages
      - `info` - logs errors, warnings and info messages
      - `debug` - logs everything with full verbosity
    </ParamField>

    <ParamField body="verbose" type="boolean">
    Very verbose log messages, default to false.
    </ParamField>

    <ParamField body="ioLogLocalEnabled" type="boolean">
    Default is false. If set to true it will log to the server's console as well as the Trigger.dev platform
    </ParamField>

  </Expandable>
</ParamField>

## Returns

<ResponseField name="TriggerClient instance" type="TriggerClient" />

<RequestExample>

```ts Example
export const client = new TriggerClient({
  id: "my-webapp",
  apiKey: process.env.TRIGGER_API_KEY!,
  logLevel: "debug",
});
```

</RequestExample>