Vague error with Azure DevOps web app deploy

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I am attempting to use an Azure App Service Deploy task in Azure DevOps to deploy a file to an app service in Azure. I have been able to use this release pipeline to deploy to the same app service in the past. Two things have changed: I had to re-make the build machine (which exists in Azure), and the source code moved from Azure DevOps to GitLab.

The error I am running into is: 

Error: (3/21/2019 4:34:45 PM) An error occurred when the request was processed on the remote computer.  
Error: The server experienced an issue processing the request. Contact the server administrator for more information.

Well, I'm the server admin, and I don't have a clue.
Is there some log file I can look at for more information? Can someone please offer some suggestions?
I'm happy to provide additional information, I'm just not sure what would help at this point.

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Have you tried to set system.debug true to get the detail logs? – Tom Sun - MSFT

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Thank you Tom Sun for directing me to the system.debug variable. That was very helpful. When I turned on the debugging the release worked, witch really doesn't make sense. I started the build machine after it had automatically shut down the day before, but then I had also rebooted the machine eight or nine times before that.
I removed the debug variable and the release still works.
I have no satisfying answer to how this issue was resolved and I don't know how to get the system in a state to reproduce the error.
An additional finding I have is that the artifact produced by the original build was a corrupt war file. Perhaps that had something to do with it?