Episode #345

Private Data and the log Utility

Series: Unified Logging and Activity Tracing

6 minutes
Published on July 6, 2018

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In this episode we talk about public versus private data (and how to change the defaults). We also look at using the log command line tool for a deeper understanding of the unified logging system and how we can tweak it for our needs.

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Using the log Utility to Set Log Levels

Check the status of the logging system:

sudo log config --status

Set the log level to debug:

sudo log config --mode "level:debug"

Tell the system to persist info messages to disk, and show debug messages, only for our subsystem:

sudo log config --mode "level:debug,persist:info" --subsystem com.ficklebits.UnifiedLoggingDemo

Turn on (or off) private data:

sudo log config --mode "private_data:on"

Reset settings back to the default:

sudo log config --reset

This episode uses Xcode 10.0-beta2.